Seeing Hui Ping like this, the few people who had originally intended to avoid suspicion sat back down, and even the children sat obediently on the benches without leaving.
"What's going on? You're making it so formal."
Hui Ping breathed a sigh of relief. In front of her family, she looked like she was ready to die.
"Mom and Dad, I want to go to Shanghai, with our whole family"
"Go... go to Shanghai?" Aunt Xiumei obviously didn't expect Huiping to drop such a bombshell, and her face was incomprehensible. Uncle Sheng also frowned slightly when he heard it. In comparison, Sheng Yanjun had a calm face. He now understood that whether in Shanghai or here, Sheng Yanchuan's shadow has always existed. Instead of this, it doesn't make much difference to him whether he is in Shanghai or here.
"Yes, to Shanghai!" Hui Ping answered firmly. Although this trip was a discussion, it was more of a notification. Hui Ping must go to Shanghai. It was just a matter of going early or late.
"Let's go to Shanghai. How are we going to live in Shanghai?" Aunt Xiumei didn't want to go to Shanghai, but if they went to Shanghai, what would their whole family eat and drink? In a big city, eating, drinking, and going to the toilet all cost money.
"I plan to open a restaurant in Shanghai, a noodle shop. I'm a pretty good cook, I think I can do it."
"Huiping, this is not that easy. Regardless of whether the business is good or bad, where can our family get so much money?" Aunt Xiumei disagreed with this. In her opinion, business is done by smart people. They are honest villagers, how can they do this kind of work?
"As for money, I want to borrow from Nanqiao. I can write an IOU and pay it back with interest within two years." Huiping calculated in the afternoon that she had earned dozens of yuan from selling pancakes in the past few days, so she would definitely earn more than that if she opened a shop. In two years, she believed that she could pay back the thousand yuan.
"This..." Aunt Xiumei listened to Huiping's plan and looked at Nanqiao unnaturally, wondering whose idea it was.
"Mom, don't look at Nanqiao. Let's talk about whether you and Dad want to go with us." Huiping saw her mother-in-law secretly glancing at Nanqiao, and she could probably guess what she was worried about, so she interrupted her and said
"But...what about the land at home?" After all, they are Chinese. The land is their roots. Farming the land for a lifetime will not make them rich, but this is their root.
"We can just rent the land to the villagers to farm, and give us some food every year. I think there will definitely be people willing to do that. That way we can have new food every year, and our family can also make money in the Shanghai market."
After Huiping finished speaking, Aunt Xiumei lowered her head in deep thought. She was tempted to go to Shanghai. Compared with the land, the children were more important to her. Huiping was determined to go to Shanghai. If they left, the children would definitely follow them. It would be so lonely and sad for them to be alone at home.
But if she went to Shanghai, even though she would lose her income, what she really wanted was to have children and grandchildren around her.
But unlike Aunt Xiumei, Uncle Sheng did not want to go to Shanghai. Even though he was looking forward to having his child around him every day, they were still close fathers. Like Sheng Yanjun, he could not bring himself to help in the store, but he was also unwilling to stay here alone. It was a contradiction.
"Mom, you've seen the education here. It's not that it's bad, but if possible, I want to give my children a better life and education. Yanchuan and Qiaoqiao are our family. They are able to help us now. I'm very grateful. I will remember this help, and I will definitely return the money to Qiaoqiao with interest. The current help is only temporary, but if we really insist on staying in the village, then the gap between us and the Yanchuan family will be even greater in the future. By that time, will we have to ask Yanchuan and Nanqiao for help whenever we have difficulties?"
Seeing Aunt Xiumei hesitate, Huiping tried to persuade her earnestly.
The Sheng family hesitated, but they knew that Huiping was right. People can't always stay where they are. Today, they can enjoy the help of Sheng Yanchuan because the gap between the two families has not yet been exposed, and they don't have much demand at the moment. What about the future? Are they really willing to stay in the village and live like this, farming during the day and falling asleep at home? Although they may not be able to catch up with the Yanchuan family even if they work hard, it is better than being useless now.
Aunt Xiumei looked at her husband, then at Nanqiao and Huiping, and after struggling for a long time, she said, "Let's go to Shanghai!"
Whether they are willing or not, they cannot let the two families drift further and further apart because of the old man's selfishness, and ruin the child's future.
Aunt Xiumei made the decision. Uncle Sheng didn't say anything even though he was reluctant. He just hung his head, not knowing what he was thinking.
After hearing Aunt Xiumei's decision, Huiping, Nanqiao and Sheng Yanchuan all breathed a sigh of relief. Who doesn't want to be reunited with their family? Although getting along with their eldest brother's family is not smooth, they are a family after all. Sheng Yanchuan naturally wants his parents to live a good life.
Huiping couldn't believe that Aunt Xiumei could make a decision so quickly. She was stunned for a moment when she heard it, until Xiaoguo happily shook his mother's arm. Huiping came back to her senses and looked at Aunt Xiumei gratefully. At the same time, she said to Nanqiao, "Qiaoqiao, I will write you an IOU now. I may have to trouble you in Shanghai."
Hui Ping took out the IOU she had written in advance from her pocket and gave it to Nan Qiao.
Nanqiao took it, opened it, took a look, and the next moment he tore up the IOU in front of everyone.
“It’s good to have this intention”
Nanqiao paused after speaking, and continued in the puzzled eyes of the crowd, "A long time ago, Yanchuan and I bought a courtyard in Shanghai, thinking that you would live there when you moved there. It has been put aside for all these years and has never been mentioned. Now that you are willing to move to Shanghai, you can just live there. The two courtyards are next to each other, and you can live in one and do business in the other without interfering with each other."
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