Chapter 163: Put Yourself in Others’ Situations
At this time, Li Lei was standing at the door of Meng Xiaoning's house and said to Meng Xiaoning: "Go in."
Meng Xiaoning nodded, a little hesitant.
"Thank you for the clothes and the movie. How about I treat you to dinner next weekend?" Meng Xiaoning asked tentatively.
Hearing this, Li Lei nodded readily: "Okay, then we will meet at the market entrance at ten o'clock next weekend morning."
Meng Xiaoning breathed a sigh of relief and returned home happily.
After Meng Xiaoning returned home, Li Lei raised his wrist and took a look. It was already 7:30 in the evening.
He hesitated for a moment, then walked towards home.
Even if I go back to my eldest sister's place, I have to go home early tomorrow morning. There is no point in staying here for the night.
Besides, if I go to my eldest sister, I will definitely be questioned.
He didn't want to be questioned by his elder sister.
When he got home, the grocery store was still open, so Li Lei called Li Xu.
If I don't tell her, my elder sister will definitely worry.
Li Xu, who was still waiting in the store for Li Lei to come back and ask what happened, was completely dumbfounded when she received the call: "He went back? How are you and Xiaoning? Did you chat well today?"
Li Lei said: "Fortunately, we have an appointment to have dinner together next weekend. I will go there next Saturday morning!"
"Really? What's Xiaoning's attitude?" Li Xu became a little excited when he heard that.
Li Lei didn't want to say anything more, so he just said, "Okay, sister, the phone bill is too expensive, I won't talk to you anymore, bye."
Having said that, he hung up the phone directly.
"Hey, don't hang up yet..." Li Xu shouted at Li Lei no matter how hard he tried.
Looking at the hung up call, Li Xu shook his head helplessly and put down the phone.
"Xiao Lei is also..."
Zhang Kun watched from the side and whispered to her: "Now that you know that the two of them have a chance, don't ask too many questions. Xiaolei is almost 30 years old, don't always control him. If it were you, would you be willing to tell your parents every detail of your relationship? You have to learn to put yourself in other people's shoes!"
Li Xu listened to Zhang Kun's words and didn't say anything for a long time.
After a long time, she finally sighed: "You are right, I worry too much. Xiaolei is five years younger than me. When he was a child, his parents were busy and had to work in the fields every day. Xiaolei grew up on my back, and then he joined the army and was gone for eight years. In my heart, he is still like a child, who doesn't understand the ways of the world. I am afraid that he will do something wrong!"
But in fact, Li Lei is almost thirty years old and is already a mature adult.
He has his own judgment and others should not influence his decision.
"It's good that you've figured it out. Why worry so much and make yourself exhausted?" Zhang Kun said with a smile, and then talked to Li Xu about other things. "By the way, the owner of the house opposite yours is back and asked me to go and handle the formalities another day. It's just right for me to renovate it before the New Year so that I can move in after the New Year."
Li Xu was also very happy listening to this.
"Do you have enough money? If not..."
Before Li Xu finished speaking, she was interrupted by Zhang Kun, "It's not enough. I borrowed some from my brother and sister. You don't have to worry about it."
Although the house price had dropped, it wasn't much. He was still short of 1,000 yuan, so he borrowed 500 yuan from each of his brothers and sisters.
"It's not easy for your brother and sister either. Go and pay them back someday. I have some money here. You can use it first." Li Xu whispered.
When she went back that time, she noticed that Zhang Kun's younger brothers and sisters all had average living conditions at home.
Especially his sister, although she is very young, her hands are as white as old tree bark, and you can tell at a glance that she has done a lot of work at home.
For her, a thousand yuan is half a month's income, but for her younger brothers and sisters, it may take them half a year to earn this much money.
"We haven't even gotten married yet, but you're already eager to give me your money? If I were a bad guy, wouldn't it be easy for me to cheat some money from you?" Zhang Kun joked after hearing this.
Li Xu listened with an embarrassed expression on her face, and her face turned red: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
She naturally knew that Zhang Kun was not that kind of person, so she offered to lend him money.
"It's ok, it's not much money, I'll pay them back when I get my salary. Don't worry, they are my brothers and sisters, how can I make things difficult for them?" Zhang Kun said, "You can keep the money yourself. Business here is good. When we save up some money, we can open a branch."
Li Xu nodded: "I have this plan too."
"By the way, have you ever thought about our sign? It's actually very easy for someone to imitate it. If someone puts up a sign exactly like ours, who would know if it's our branch? If the business is good, it won't have much impact on us. At most, we'll just take some business away. But if the other party doesn't run the business well and uses some tricks, it will directly affect our reputation!"
Li Xu nodded thoughtfully, "So what you mean is..."
Zhang Kun was silent for a moment. He had been thinking about this problem for the past few days, but he couldn't think of a good way to solve it.
"Mom, Uncle Zhang, we can register a trademark." Ji Yuanyuan, who had been doing homework nearby, heard the conversation between the two, put her pen on the table, and suggested.
"Registered trademark?" Li Xu murmured.
People of this generation are not that sensitive about trademarks, and some people don’t even know what a trademark is.
"Yes, we design a pattern ourselves, which is our trademark. Just like the two naked little boys on the washing machine at home, right? That is the trademark." Ji Yuanyuan explained seriously.
"After we register, if someone dares to use the same trademark as ours, that would be infringement and we can sue them in court. And with a trademark, we have a brand. Although we only have one store now and it's not very useful, we will definitely use it in the future."
Listening to Ji Yuanyuan's words, Li Xu's eyes lit up.
After a moment, she discussed with Zhang Kun: "I'll go and find out about this matter some other day."
Zhang Kun nodded and looked at Ji Yuanyuan, "Then what we need to do now is to find someone to design a pattern for us as our trademark, right?"
Ji Yuanyuan looked at Zhang Kun with great appreciation: "Yes, there are many people who specialize in designing this."
Zhang Kun was a little surprised, "Yuanyuan, where did you know all this?"
"From books and on TV." Ji Yuanyuan lowered his head and muttered.
Li Xu and Zhang Kun looked at each other.
Ji Yuanyuan was afraid that Li Xu and Zhang Kun would continue to ask questions, so she yawned and said, "Mom, I'm sleepy."
Li Xu quickly said, "Okay, wait for mom to clean up, then we can go home and sleep!"
(End of this chapter)
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