Chapter 84 Extra 1.1: Shi Hai's Family

There is a legend in Shijia Village that the richest man in the county was born there.

What's even more legendary is that this person was a woman from another village who came from their village, got divorced, and then remarried to a woman from the same village and production team as them.

Puxiang is a name well-known throughout the county, and is especially famous in Shijia Village.

Especially the original Shi family production team, whenever people see Shi Dafu and his current daughter-in-law Lin Meihua, they can't help but think of Pu Xiang.

In the blink of an eye, Shi Dafu is fifty years old and his son Shi Jiajie is 29 years old.

The Shi family's life was not too bad. After all, with Shi Hai as the patriarch, they were considered a well-off family in the village.

Later, when the house was demolished, we were allocated residential land, built our own houses, and moved into the community.

There is no difference between me and the villagers in the same village.

But in reality, only Shi Hai's family knows the gap.

The original 10,000-yuan households in the village were at least among the best families in the village. After several decades, although they have not become the bottom, they are still very far from being among the best.

In recent years, most families have bought houses in the county town, their children and grandchildren have married, and self-built houses in the village are no longer popular.

In order to send their children to school and have a good educational environment, most people flock to cities.

There are not many families like Shi Hai's family, who have two sons but don't even buy a house.

As the father of two sons, Shi Dafu should not go to work.

He couldn't lift a hoe when he was farming, and he couldn't stand being controlled at work. In his words, people are not chickens or ducks, and they can't be locked up in the house every day and do whatever they are told.

He likes freedom, the freedom to play cards, mahjong, eat and drink with others.

No money?

His father has it, just ask his father for it.

child?

Isn't the child also his father's grandson? What kind of expenses does the old man need? Can he just sit there and watch?

Shi Hai was really desperate about his son and wanted to ignore him, but as the saying goes, his son was his biological son and his grandson was also his biological son. He had been worrying about this family all his life, so how could he really be so cruel as to ignore them?

Shi Dafu knew that there was gold in the house, so he had nothing to fear.

But only Shi Hai knew that although there was gold in the house, it was not a gold mountain. After a family of all ages had eaten and consumed the gold mountain, they would have eaten it all.

What’s more, it’s just the things he has at home.

In the countless years that followed, Shi Hai regretted why he did not buy a house in the county when he still had some money.

At that time, Pu Xiang also agreed. She was willing to pay half, so that her eldest grandson would have a house in the county and would not have to worry about finding a wife.

It’s not like now. Because there is no house, it’s hard for my grandson to find a suitable wife. He is still not married at the age of 29.

In a village in a small county town, being unmarried at the age of 29 is definitely considered an older youth.

Seeing that he will be 30 years old in a year, Shi Hai, as a grandfather, is really anxious.

In a panic, he had no choice but to go find the child's biological mother.

His ex-daughter-in-law is really cruel!

Shi Hai had looked for Pu Xiang many times over the years, whether to buy a house, send his children to school, or find a job, but it was never useful.

Pu Xiang never denied that she was the child's biological mother, and she basically agreed to everything he asked her to do, but there was one thing: she only contributed half of the money and effort.

"The child is not mine alone. I will pay as much as the father does."

Pu Xiang wanted Shi Dafu to be the main force in raising and educating the child and take on the responsibility of being a father, but Shi Hai could not refute.

Pu Xiang agreed to let her take care of the child, but on the condition that the child changed his surname and lived with her.

This is something Shi Hai absolutely cannot accept.

This is the eldest grandson of their Shi family.

Shi Jiajie spent his days in such entanglement, hesitation and reluctance, and he stopped going to school after graduating from high school.

His academic performance was not good to begin with, and after no one took care of him, his grades plummeted. It was normal for him to fail to get into university.

After graduating from high school and not continuing to go to school, he was old enough to go to work.

Shi Hai went to find Pu Xiang again and asked the child's mother to arrange a job for him. She had such a big company, so many positions, and earned so much money every year.

Anyway, when the inheritance is divided in the future, Shi Jiajie, the biological son, should also have a share.

Pu Xiang had no objection to her son joining her company. She just said, "If you want to join the company, just go and apply for recruitment. It's up to you. My company doesn't want useless people... Oh, and don't even think about taking my inheritance. When I die, all my money and things will be donated. My ashes will be scattered in the sea. No one needs to take care of my affairs after my death. I've already arranged everything in advance."

Only at this time did Shi Hai realize that his former daughter-in-law was a person who kept her word.

He always thought that she had no children after remarrying, so she was still thinking about her own child.

Unexpectedly, that was not the case at all.

This is a cruel woman!

The only time Shi Hai scolded Pu Xiang harshly was: "You are mentally ill, you are sick!"

Pu Xiang smiled at her and asked the security guard to ask the person to leave.

Later, when Shi Hai wanted to go to the company to look for Pu Xiang again, he could no longer see her.

As for blocking someone at his home, Pu Xiang had moved away a long time ago, and he didn't even know where he lived.

Since the mother's approach was blocked, Shi Jiajie's job search was naturally delayed. As a high school student, it was naturally out of his reach to get an office job.

I was eliminated at the stage of applying for the job.

The only way out is to work in a factory.

There are quite a few factories here, but Shi Jiajie doesn't want to work in the clothing factories, which are the largest. As a boy, how can he operate a sewing machine?

The remaining wood factory was too hard, the electronics factory was too boring, and the food factory had too many requirements... After eliminating all the options, Shi Hai had no choice but to take out his last bit of savings and open a store for his eldest grandson, initially selling computers and later mobile phones.

I drove from the county seat to the town and then to the community, but there was no business at all.

Shi Jiajie has played games from PC to mobile phones, from League of Legends, PUBG to Honor of Kings, and there is not a single one that he is not familiar with.

Shi Hai was so eager to send his child who played games to an Internet addiction treatment school for electric shock education. However, he never expected that his grandson's life-long event would come from something he talked about on the Internet.

Shi Jiajie has never found a date and has been introduced to numerous blind dates, but every time the girls didn't like him.

Shi Hai was very worried and brought up the fact that the child's mother was the richest person in the county. However, as Pu Xiang became famous in the county, his family affairs also became widely known.

"Oh, it's his family. The child's mother divorced a long time ago, and the child doesn't belong to her. Their relationship must be average, otherwise why wouldn't the child go to work in his mother's company?"

"This young man is no good. He said he opened a store, but in fact he doesn't have a proper job and lives on his grandma's pension. I saw him in the store, playing games on his phone every day."

"His family? When the child's mother got divorced, she even took back the betrothal money and the gold jewelry given as a wedding gift. Think about this kind of person."

"Ah? That must have happened decades ago. How could his family be so advanced?"

"That's right. I've been in the village for so many years and I've never seen anything like this. And the story of the kid's father trying to pick up a wife, haven't you heard about it? And the wife he later married, tsk tsk tsk ..."

"Forget about this kind of family. It's not like the girls in the family can't get married."

"In our local area, people don't care about dowry now. They are all only children and hope to live a good life after marriage. The money from both families is for the two children. They are not afraid of being asked to return the dowry in the event of divorce. But this young man's character is really not very good. If he doesn't ask for money from his family, he should at least ask for a good character, right?"

…

So, Shi Jiajie went on blind dates one after another, but in the end, none of them were successful.

Finally, he met a girl while playing games and they became a couple.

The girl is not from this place, her hometown is remote and her economic conditions are not very good. Shi Jiajie at least has a small shop, a residential plot and a house, which are already good conditions.

So, the two of them reached an agreement and headed for marriage.

Shi Hai has an inexplicable sense of superiority as a local. At first, he thought it was shameful to marry a woman from another place. He would only marry a woman from another place if the conditions were not good or he could not find a local woman.

But he had no choice but to accept it as his grandchildren were getting older and the younger ones born to Lin Meihua later found partners and were ready to get married.

However, the marriage was not so smooth.

Although the girl's family is not rich, she has two younger brothers, and the requirement for marriage is a dowry.

The betrothal gift does not go to the newlyweds, but is taken away by their parents.

One hundred and eighty thousand.

Shi Hai was so angry that he didn't think much of giving gifts when he married a wife or when he married a daughter-in-law for his son. But when he got old, he might have no money. In addition, there was a situation in the local area where couples had only one child, so no gifts or dowries were given when they got married. He felt that the money was a waste.

Shi Jiajie's marriage was a long-standing issue before the wedding, as the two families almost had a quarrel over the money.

As a biological father, Shi Dafu would always be present when his son was talking about marriage. Together with his stepmother Lin Meihua, his family and the other family would sit together.

They almost quarreled over the betrothal money and slammed the table.

When the two families sat together, it didn't seem like they were discussing a happy marriage, but more like discussing a business deal. Before the two sides even came to an agreement, Lin Meihua was already rebelling.

"If the eldest grandson has it, the younger grandson must have it too!"

She insisted on this point. The family had two residential plots, one on each side. The old couple took care of their eldest grandson, and the couple took care of their younger son.

Now Shi Jiajie is getting married, and Lin Meihua's son is also getting married. Don't they both need money?

She and Shi Dafu had no money, so they had to rely on the old man for money.

This meeting was so noisy that it ended in a bad mood.

Shi Hai is already an old man in his seventies. His daughter-in-law has always been in poor health, and has been semi-paralyzed in bed in recent years, unable to do anything. He was at a loss and finally thought of his ex-daughter-in-law.

The child's mother is always the child's biological mother, and at times like this, she has an obligation to take the money.

Pu Xiang was not surprised that the Shi family came to her again. She still treated them the same way, saying that they would let her take the money, but only half of it.

The father pays the other half.

Shi Hai also became smart. Pu Xiang used this trick on him, so he also used the same trick on Lin Meihua.

Lin Meihua, however, didn't care. As long as the old man gave her money, she would give her whatever she wanted. It was better than having no money at all.

Besides, she doesn't want a grand wedding for her son. The family of the woman her son finds is also average, so there is no need to give a dowry. The two families can just have a simple wedding banquet without any ostentation. The money the old man got is enough for him to spend.