When he returned home and opened the door, Yu Bai saw his mother Zhou Fengxia sitting at the big round table in the living room with her back to the door.
In front of her, a large black leather bag was particularly conspicuous.
The leather bag was open, and the warm luster of gold, silver and jade inside was intertwined and shimmering. It was exactly the good stuff Han Yi had gotten last time.
Zhou Fengxia was lowering her head, wiping a gold bracelet inlaid with gems with a soft cloth. She was so focused that she didn't notice Yu Bai coming back.
"mom."
Yu Bai called out softly and walked over to sit next to Zhou Fengxia.
Zhou Fengxia looked up when she heard the voice, and when she saw that it was Yu Bai, the vigilance on her face dropped.
"Xiaobai is back? What happened to your third brother? He looks like he has lost his soul." She glanced at Yu Nian who was still standing stupidly at the door.
Yu Bai didn't look back, his eyes fell on the shining jewelry.
"Mom, our old house is too crowded. Should we go buy a house in the county?"
Zhou Fengxia's hand holding the gold bracelet suddenly stopped. She looked at Yu Bai, her eyes flashing with great surprise, surprisingly bright.
"Okay! It's time for your brothers to get married, and it would be nice to have a decent house."
Yu Bai smiled.
"I want to buy a house in the county for each of my brothers. And for my younger brothers, one each!"
"I heard the newly opened 'Yujing Hua Ting' in the county is a new style, with small villas with courtyards."
"Don't...Villa?!"
After hearing Yu Bai's words, Zhou Fengxia's surprise turned into worry.
One set for each person, although she had thought about it, but the villa...
"Xiaobai..."
Zhou Fengxia's voice suddenly dropped eight octaves and her brows were tightly furrowed.
"So...how much does that thing cost? A villa...isn't that something only rich people can afford?"
She subconsciously lowered her head to glance at the gold, silver and jewelry on the table. Although these things looked dazzling, were they enough to buy six villas?
Zhou Fengxia's heart seemed to be gripped by an invisible hand.
The joy was real, but the inertia of thinking that had been trapped by money for many years made her feel fear instinctively.
Are we going to spend such a huge fortune like this before we even have time to enjoy it?
What if...what if it's not enough?
What if you need money again in the future?
At this moment, Yu Nian, who had been standing at the door, seemed to be finally brought back to reality by Zhou Fengxia's words "How much?"
He shuddered suddenly, his eyes focused, and he strode to the faucet in the yard, scooped up the cold well water and splashed it on his face.
Drops of water rolled down his dark cheeks, taking away the last trace of dizziness.
With a "rustle", Yu Nian walked into the living room in wet slippers. He grabbed the half-eaten iced watermelon on the table.
He took a big bite, and the cool, sweet juice slid down his throat, finally completely extinguishing the anger in his heart.
He was chewing the watermelon with a "crunch, crunch" sound while speaking incoherently to Zhou Fengxia.
"Mom! I know what Xiaobai is talking about. 'Yujing Hua Ting', they just handed over the property last month."
He swallowed the watermelon in a few bites and wiped his mouth.
"I went in there last time when I was delivering putty powder to Lao Wang's renovation team!"
"Wow, the environment is really nice! The landscaping is like a park, with rows of small buildings, all with small courtyards!"
"I've inquired about the price!"
"Our small county relies on farming and agritourism, so housing prices have always been low."
"I heard that villa is just over 4,000 yuan per square meter, and the smallest unit is only about a million yuan for the whole building! It's really not expensive!"
He added, "And from what I've seen, there aren't many people living there. I guess they're just waiting and watching. At night, most of the buildings are dark and quiet!"
Having said that, Yu Nian looked at Yu Bai and Zhou Fengxia and put forward his own ideas.
"Let me see, why not just buy the biggest set!"
"A place with five or six bedrooms like that would be spacious and lively for our family of seven, and we could take care of each other. How great!"
"not good."
Yu Bai interrupted Yu Nian's fantasy decisively.
She stood up, her eyes determined.
"Third brother, if you want to buy one, you must buy one set for each person."
She looked at her mother and her third brother Yu Nian.
"My brothers are all grown up now. They will all get married and start their own families in the future."
“Only when you have your own house can you stand tall and truly have your own ‘home’.”
"This house is the confidence I prepared for them in advance, and it will also be their future wedding house."
Yu Bai's words were very grand, and Yu Nian and Zhou Fengxia also found them to make sense.
only......
"However, I'm not sure whether my eldest, second, and fourth brothers are willing to settle down in the county town."
Zhou Fengxia also came back to her senses: "That's a problem. Is the villa far from your second brother's school? And the fourth brother..."
"So," Yu Bai made a quick decision, "Mom, Third Brother, let's do this. I'll have Second Brother come back from school tomorrow."
"When the time comes, I'll directly video call my eldest brother who's in the city, and my fourth brother who's out of town. We'll have a family meeting, discuss it together, and listen to their own ideas."
This proposal was reasonable, and Zhou Fengxia and Yu Nian both nodded.
Yu Bai took out his mobile phone immediately, tapped the screen quickly, and found the WeChat group named "A Loving Family".
She quickly edited her thoughts into a message and sent it out.
In the quiet night, the phone notification sound is particularly clear.
“Ding Dong!”
“Ding Dong!”
Almost at the same time, two message replies popped up.
They are the eldest brother Yu Sheng and the fourth brother Yu Cheng.
Yu Sheng: [Xiaobai, I'll listen to you.]
Yu Cheng: [Just let me arrange it, I have no objection.]
Between the lines, there is complete trust and dependence.
After a while, probably around the end of evening self-study at school, the message from my second brother, Yu Xia, finally arrived. It was equally concise:
[Received. I'll be back tomorrow morning.]
Looking at the brothers' concise yet powerful replies on the screen, Yu Bai couldn't help but smile slightly.
The blueprint of a brand new "home" that belongs to every member of the Yu family is in her hands.
As the numbers in the account kept jumping, each stroke gradually became clearer and more solid.
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