Old Han Family
Yang Lanhua counted the banknotes in her hand and said with a sad face, "His father, Zhenmin spent 200 yuan last time he entered the spinning mill. Now the family only has 64 yuan. His wife still wants to buy three big things. Where can we get so much money?"
Thanks to his girlfriend's family connections, Han Zhenmin got a job as a temporary worker in a spinning mill some time ago.
Now that their jobs are stable, the two began to talk about marriage.
Han Baoguo and Yang Lanhua felt very proud that their son was able to marry a city woman, and they felt superior to others in the village.
But the old couple felt a little embarrassed about the conditions proposed by their in-laws.
Han Baoguo lowered his voice and said, "How about taking the two gold bars and selling them on the black market?"
"There are only four gold bars left at home. Zhenmin has been in school for these years, plus the two hundred yuan he got for his job a while ago, so he has used up six gold bars. If he wants to buy the three major items, he will have to sell at least two more."
Yang Lanhua sighed worriedly. Those gold bars were originally meant for her and her old man to use for their retirement, but who knew that going to school in the city would be so expensive.
Zhenmin spent hundreds of dollars in his three years of high school. Although he has a job now, he is still a temporary worker and only earns a dozen yuan a month.
The money was not enough for him to spend himself, let alone bring home.
This time, the in-laws had such high demands for their marriage, which really put a lot of pressure on her and her old man.
When Han Baoguo heard the old woman say that there were only four gold bars left, he felt so heartbroken.
He said dissatisfiedly: "The third brother is really something. He knows the situation at home, so why does he want the three big things? The first and second brothers didn't spend any money to get married, but he just likes to show off and doesn't consider the family at all."
Hearing him talk about his precious son, Yang Lanhua was unhappy, "Old man, why are you talking like that? How can the eldest son compare with our Zhenmin? Zhenmin is a high school student, and the eldest son has not even graduated from elementary school. What can he achieve in the future?"
In Yang Lanhua's heart, Han Zhenyu is just a small-time gangster who is not presentable. How can he be compared with her high school student son?
Han Baoguo wanted to say, even though the eldest son had only been in school for two or three years, wasn't he still a formal worker in the city now?
The third child spent so much money to go to high school, but he is just a temporary worker.
But he didn't dare tell Yang Lanhua this, for fear that she would make a fuss.
Yang Lanhua rolled her eyes at him and suddenly thought of her pension money.
She touched Yang Baoguo and said excitedly, "Old man, when we split up the family business, didn't the eldest brother say that he would give you three yuan a month for your retirement? Why don't we ask him to give it to you in advance?"
Yang Lanhua counted on her fingers and said, "Didn't he say that he would give you money starting from when you are sixty? We won't ask for more from him. We can just ask him to give until you are a hundred."
She had just calculated that if she allowed him to give her for forty years, she would have more than a thousand yuan, which would be enough for their retirement, not to mention the sewing machine and the watch.
Her eldest son bought a bicycle a few years ago, and then bought a sewing machine and a watch, completing his three major items.
When the time comes, I can spend money to buy furniture and bring my wife from the city home.
The more Yang Lanhua thought about it, the better she felt this was a good idea.
Han Baoguo was silent for a while, then hesitantly asked, "Isn't this a bit too much? How can I live to that age?"
Han Baoguo didn't want to sell the gold bars anymore, he wanted to keep them as his retirement fund. But he was afraid that others would laugh at him if he needed forty years of retirement money all at once.
When the family was divided, the eldest son was kicked out of the house with nothing, and many people in the village were talking about him behind his back.
They said he was too ruthless and even worse than his stepfather, which made him unable to hold his head up for a long time.
Yang Lanhua glared at him, "Old man, who said you can't live to be a hundred? There are people in my mother's family who have lived to be over a hundred years old. If that's the case, we still have to ask for a few years of pension from the old man."
Yang Baoguo was still a little hesitant, but after hearing what Yang Lanhua said, he felt that it made some sense.
But he was too embarrassed to ask for the money in person, so he said to Yang Lanhua, "Mom, I can't be involved in this matter either. How about you find a middleman to test the boss's attitude? See if he is willing to give it now?"
The document on the division of the property stated that the money would be given to him only after he turned sixty, and once a month.
This time, the eldest brother would be asked to use up his pension for forty years, and Han Baoguo was afraid that he would not agree.
Yang Lanhua wanted to say that he dared not to give it to her, but when she thought about the fact that the couple still had leverage over her family, she swallowed the words.
She said, "Okay, I'll ask someone to go to his house and ask him tomorrow."
Han Baoguo thought about it and told her, "Find someone who is good at talking and talk to the boss. If he still doesn't agree, forget it. Wait until I'm 60 years old before getting married."
In fact, Han Baoguo is a little afraid of Han Zhenyu and Su Xieqiu, as each one is more powerful than the other.
Especially the eldest son's wife, who is like a shrew, loves to fight and make trouble. He is really scared of her.
Yang Lanhua nodded. She was both afraid and hateful of the sinister couple.
Although they are young, they are very bad and vicious, with minds as cunning as a sieve and very slippery, making it impossible to catch them.
The last time they fought, not only did they get beaten, they also had to pay dozens of dollars and dozens of kilograms of cornmeal.
Her relationship with her eldest sister's family has also become distant. Now, apart from saying hello when they meet, they don't interact much in daily life.
Thinking of this, Yang Lanhua wished she could tear the couple into pieces, eat their flesh, and drink their blood.
She gritted her teeth in her heart and suppressed her anger.
Yang Lanhua discussed Han Zhenmin's marriage with Han Baoguo again before lying down to sleep.
Han Zhenhua and Zhang Qianyun next door were also whispering something.
Zhang Qianyun touched her bulging belly and said with red eyes, "Zhenhua, the third child's schooling and work cost so much money, and the wedding needs three big pieces of furniture, and we also need to buy clothes. But when we got married, my parents didn't give us anything, and I brought all the bedding myself. You and the third child are their biological sons, why are they so partial?"
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