Chapter 599 From now on, the road ahead will be smooth
As for Lu Shishi's departure, Lu Jinbao and his family of three did not even glance at her. Their eyes were focused on the stack of banknotes on the table.
The brand new 150,000 yuan bill is about the thickness of two fists and feels quite heavy in the hand.
Lu Yiming always carries 20,000 yuan in cash with him in case of emergency, and he puts it in his pocket when he goes out.
Whenever this happens, Lu Yiming especially misses the days when he could pay with his mobile phone.
However, there is a disadvantage of mobile payment, which is that you spend money like water. You may not feel anything when you spend tens of thousands of yuan, and even the hardship of making money is weakened. You will not feel this way when you pay with cash, because a thousand yuan feels heavy in your hand, and you will be more careful when spending money. After all, the money for buying a mobile phone is thicker than the phone itself, and it hurts to spend it.
Lu Wenwen stretched out her hands, held all the money in her hands, and shouted, "I'm going to buy fireworks."
Lu Jinbao and Dou Yufeng saw this scene and did not try to stop it. Dou Yufeng even said worriedly, "Run slower and be careful not to fall."
Soon, Lu Wenwen came to the village store with 150,000 yuan in cash. The stack of money hit the glass counter and almost broke it apart. The store owner had never seen such a scene before and was immediately shocked.
At this time, a ballpoint pen only costs five cents, a serving of pickled spicy radish is only ten cents, and ten-yuan bills are rare in the convenience store, let alone hundred-yuan bills. Here is a pile of hundred-yuan bills.
The boss was an old man in his fifties. When he saw the stack of money on the counter, he immediately joked, "Hey, Wenwen, did your family get rich this year? Where did you get so much money?"
Lu Wenwen said with an indifferent expression: "Lu Yiming, who just returned to the village, fell in love with my sister. He took my sister away for 1,000 yuan a month. This is the salary he paid my sister for twelve years."
This was unheard of and shocked the boss once again. As for the way young people play nowadays, he could only sigh in his heart: It’s great to be rich.
"This is your sister's salary, why are you running around with it?"
Lu Wenwen said impatiently, "My sister's is mine, isn't it? It's only a few hundred thousand, so it's cheaper for Lu Yiming. Okay, stop talking nonsense. I want to play with fireworks. I'll buy all the fireworks you have in your store."
The boss looked back at the fireworks and firecrackers that were specially purchased for the New Year, pointed at a pile of long firecrackers on the ground, and said, "Do you want that too?"
"Of course, I mean everything. Firecrackers, fireworks, fireworks... anything that can be lit, I want it! I have plenty of money now, it's not like I can't afford it."
The boss certainly would not go through the trouble of trying to persuade this troublemaker. While lamenting for Lu Jinbao's family misfortune in his heart, he did not delay at all as he took out boxes of fireworks and firecrackers.
After more than ten minutes, the fireworks and firecrackers piled up into two piles taller than a man. The boss said, "They are all here. Let me count them for you."
He took out his abacus and began to count, muttering to himself, "Ten thousand red bells, twenty yuan each, thirty in total..."
After a long while, he said, "The total is two thousand eight hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents."
The money Lu Yiming took out was all brand new with serial numbers, each thousand yuan was tied with a white paper strip, and each ten thousand yuan was sealed with plastic. Lu Wenwen removed a plastic seal and took out three bundles directly, saying generously: "Here is three thousand yuan, no need to change, the rest is my red envelope for you during the Chinese New Year."
The boss was so happy that he got more than a hundred yuan for free and said hurriedly, "You will be a rich family from now on and make a fortune."
Lu Wenwen was very proud and laughed: "That's right, I will be the richest person here from now on."
The boss said, "How about I use a tricycle to deliver all these to your home?"
"Nonsense, if you don't send it to me, do you want me to take it back myself?"
After a while, Lu Jinbao and Dou Yufeng were stunned when they saw the fireworks covering half of the yard.
Lu Jinbao was a little unhappy and asked, "Why did you buy so much?"
Dou Yufeng felt sorry for the money and asked, "How much will this cost?"
Lu Wenwen waved her hand and said lightly: "It's not expensive, only three thousand yuan."
“…”
Lu Jinbao and Dou Yufeng almost suffered a myocardial infarction.
The family's annual harvest from farming at home was less than 3,000 yuan.
Dou Yufeng was afraid that Lu Wenwen would squander all the money at once, so she quickly said, "Put the remaining money in the cabinet and lock it up. We will go to the county town to deposit it tomorrow and buy you some new clothes for the New Year. We will celebrate the New Year in style!"
With fireworks and firecrackers to play with, money didn't matter anymore. Lu Wenwen just threw all the money on the ground, and then took a match to light the firecrackers.
Dou Yufeng quickly picked up all the money and reminded him as she entered the house: "Be careful when playing, don't get hurt."
Lu Wenwen took a torpedo as thick as a baby's arm, went to a fish pond contracted by a fellow villager, lit it, and threw it in. With a loud bang, the calm fish pond splashed seven or eight meters high. More than a dozen fish were killed instantly.
Seeing this scene, Lu Wenwen couldn't help but burst into laughter.
He threw a large bundle of torpedoes, a total of twenty, into the fish pond one by one. In a short while, the small fish pond was full of dead fish, which was a shocking scene.
The owner of the fish pond was informed by a passing villager. He rushed over and saw a pond full of dead fish. He was immediately heartbroken and screamed, "My fish..."
This is the fish pond that their family borrowed money from the bank to contract, which is also in line with the national call. Unexpectedly, the fish were just fattened up and prepared to be sold for the New Year, but they were blown up by the naughty Lu Wenwen.
At this moment, Lu Wenwen was still having a lot of fun playing nearby.
The owner of the fish pond was furious when he saw this. He rushed over and grabbed Lu Wenwen's neck, gritting his teeth and saying, "Lu Wenwen, I'm going to kill you!"
Lu Wenwen was caught off guard and had her neck grabbed, causing her face to turn red. The two of them started wrestling with each other in shock.
After a while, Lu Jinbao and Dou Yufeng saw this scene from afar and immediately rushed over with hoes and carrying poles.
Lu Jinbao shouted, "Lu Changfu, why did you hit my son?"
The owner of the fish pond became even more furious when he saw Lu Jinbao taking the initiative. He shouted, "Your son blew up all the fish in my pond. I have been raising these fish for a year. How am I going to survive this year? I am going to kill you and take your son with me!"
As he said that, he grabbed Lu Wenwen and dragged her into the fish pond, and it looked like they were going to jump in together.
Lu Jinbao was so scared that he almost lost his soul. After all, he couldn't swim, and for Lu Wenwen's safety, he never allowed Lu Wenwen to get close to water. Lu Wenwen was still a landlubber, and if she jumped in, she would die.
Lu Jinbao said anxiously: "I will compensate you whatever amount you want."
Lu Changfu cried and said, "Lu Jinbao, do you have the money to pay?"
Lu Wenwen quickly said, "Yes, yes, my sister just left with the boss, and the boss gave her hundreds of thousands."
When Lu Changfu heard this, he immediately let go of his hand and asked in doubt, "Is there such a thing?"
Lu Jinbao explained: "It was Lu Yiming who came back to the village yesterday. I don't know what medicine he took, but he insisted that Shishi go to school. He even signed a contract with me, saying that he would pay for the tuition and I would work for him for five years after graduation. He gave me a total of 150,000 yuan."
"Ah? No way?" Lu Changfu said in amazement, "Is he attracted to your daughter? Your daughter is the only beautiful one in this area."
Lu Jinbao smiled and said, "I think so too. Okay, okay, come here quickly, it's dangerous near the water. Bring the scale here and see how many fish there are in total. We will buy them all at the market price."
"Just your words, wait a minute, I'll go back and get the scale."
After several hours of hard work, Lu Changfu calculated with his abacus: "There are 7,653 catties of grass carp here. These are all genuine grass carp. The market price is 1.2 yuan per catty. The total is 9,183.60 yuan."
Dou Yufeng said, "Okay, wait a minute, I'll get the money for you right away."
She took out a plastic bag of money, opened it and slowly counted it. But before she had counted a few bills, Lu Wenwen snatched all the money and stuffed it into Lu Changfu's pockets. She said in a tone of almsgiving, "Here is a total of 10,000 yuan, all unopened. Is that enough to buy your fish? The rest of the money is a red envelope for you."
Dou Yufeng said distressedly: "Wenwen, what are you doing? There are more than 800 yuan here."
Lu Wenwen looked at Dou Yufeng with disdain and said, "Rural women just don't have a vision. My sister is Lu Yiming's wife now. How rich is Lu Yiming? The richest man! If you don't have money, won't you ask him for it?"
Dou Yufeng thought about it, nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "It seems so."
Lu Changfu took the money and left contentedly. Lu Jinbao looked at the dead fish all over the yard and couldn't help falling into deep thought.
There were more than 7,000 kilograms of fish, and even if the family of three ate until they died of stuffiness, they could not eat more than a few kilograms.
Dead fish definitely can’t be sold.
In the end, it was Dou Yufeng who made the final decision to turn all the fish into dried salted fish.
So, Lu Jinbao and Dou Yufeng were processing the fish in the yard, while Lu Wenwen was setting off firecrackers next to them.
On the other side, Lu Yiming brought Lu Shishi back home and said to Lu Ding and Ning Xuehua : "Dad, Mom, I have discussed with Shishi's parents and gave them 150,000 yuan. I will take Shishi to Baiyun City to study, starting from high school. After graduating from college, you can work in any of my companies."
Ning Xuehua was very happy and said with a smile: "Okay, children should study hard. In this society, studying is the best shortcut to success."
Lu Yiming said, "That's it. Shishi will live here from today. Tomorrow we will go to the county town to buy her some daily necessities. After the New Year, we will go back to Baiyun City together. I will talk to the principal of No. 1 Middle School and let her go in to study. But where will she live? How about buying her a house in front of the school?"
Ning Xuehua rolled her eyes at Lu Yiming and said, "Why buy a house? Just live in my house. You don't go home all year round anyway, so just clean up your room. If you go back to Baiyun, live in Bi Hai Long Ting. Hey, Shishi, come here and let your aunt see you."
Lu Yiming joked, "Isn't this bad? Mom, are you kicking me out now?"
Lu Ding smiled and said, "You don't know, your mother has been telling me for more than ten years that she wants a daughter. She said that daughters are sensible, can be dressed up beautifully, and are much cuter than boys. If it weren't for the national policy, you would have been gone a long time ago."
Lu Yiming couldn't help but take a breath and said, "Thank you, country!"
Lu Shishi was very reserved at first, but the happy atmosphere of Lu Yiming's family of three soon infected her. Compared to staying at home, it was obviously more than ten thousand times better here.
"Hello uncle, hello aunt."
Ning Xuehua took Lu Shishi's hand and said with a smile: "Shishi, from now on, you can treat this place as your own home. I will treat you as my daughter. If you encounter any difficulties in study or life, you can tell me, and I will do my best to help you solve them."
Seeing Ning Xuehua speaking softly, Lu Shishi thought of Dou Yufeng who always yelled at her, and was immediately touched. She burst into tears.
Ning Xuehua immediately hugged her in her arms distressedly and comforted her: "Oh, Shishi, be good, don't cry, don't cry, it's so pitiful..."
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Let her cry for a while, just as a farewell to the past. I hope that from now on, her life will be smooth sailing."
That night, Lu Yiming and Lu Shishi set off fireworks in the yard for several hours. Lu Shishi gradually opened up her heart and became the innocent teenage girl again. Lu Yiming felt like he suddenly had a younger sister, and he was very happy.
On the other side of the village, Lu Jinbao and Dou Yufeng were still dealing with the dead fish that were blown up by Lu Wenwen, while Lu Wenwen was setting off fireworks and having a great time.
The next morning, Lu Shishi got up from the guest room, picked up the broom in the yard and started cleaning. The fireworks last night lasted for so long that the yard was now red.
After sweeping all the debris from the fireworks into the corner, Lu Shishi went to find a few bags to put the debris in and threw them into the garbage collection point at the intersection.
When they came back, Ning Xuehua and Lu Ding both got up. Ning Xuehua saw Lu Shishi holding the trash can and immediately understood, and quickly said, "I was wondering why the yard was so clean, it turned out that Shishi cleaned it. Oh, it's so cold in the morning, you can just let your brother Xiaoming do this kind of thing."
Lu Yiming, who had just come out of the bedroom and was still sleepy, became upset when he heard this and shouted, "Mom, I can't let you do this. My family status has dropped rapidly."
Lu Ding gloated: "You have no family status at all. I don't even have one."
Lu Shishi smiled slightly and said softly, "It's okay, I'm used to it. I slept in today and didn't get up until after six. If it were before, I would have finished picking pig grass and returned by this time."
Ning Xuehua said, "Pah, pah, pah, forget about those things. From now on, just study hard and don't worry about anything else."
Lu Shishi was happy to be able to study, and she quickly agreed: "Don't worry, Auntie, I will study hard and live up to everyone's expectations."
With Lu Shishi's arrival, Ning Xuehua showed off her cooking skills in the morning and cooked several delicious dishes, such as steamed swimming crabs and garlic shrimps, all of which filled the table.
Ning Xuehua put a garlic shrimp into Lu Shishi's bowl and said with a smile, "Come, eat."
"Auntie, I can do it myself."
"You're welcome. From now on, just treat this place like your own home."
After finishing a hardcore breakfast, Ning Xuehua excitedly took Lu Shishi's hand and said to Lu Yiming, "Let's go to the city to buy Shishi some new clothes for the New Year. Husband, you can continue frying oil products at home."
Lu Ding was very depressed, and Lu Yiming felt a little more balanced and smiled, "Okay."
Lu Shishi sat in the backstage of the Rolls-Royce, as if Granny Liu had entered the Grand View Garden, her eyes widened: "This sofa is so soft, this car is so beautiful..."
Ning Xuehua sat next to her and asked with a smile, "Do you like it?"
Lu Shishi nodded heavily and said, "I like it."
Ning Xuehua immediately said to Lu Yiming, "Did you hear that? Shishi likes this car. Your dad will drive this car to go to get off work and pick up Shishi every day."
The new car he just bought was about to leave him, and Lu Yiming was suddenly depressed and asked, "Then what should I sit in?"
Ning Xuehua glared at him and said, "Don't you have an Audi?"
“…”
Changing from a Rolls-Royce back to an Audi all of a sudden, this is a huge downgrade in consumption!
Lu Shishi was flattered and quickly said, "Auntie, this is Brother Xiaoming's car..."
Ning Xuehua interrupted her in a tough manner and said, "Boys should strive for success. Don't worry about it. I'll take over the car anyway!"
Facing his mother, Lu Yiming was helpless. But it was just a Rolls-Royce, which could be bought easily, so there was no need to argue with his family. On the contrary, seeing Ning Xuehua like this, Lu Yiming felt more comforted.
With Lu Shishi, Ning Xuehua can have a few more years of fun, which is good.
It’s only 150,000 yuan, and it’s really worth it.
The Rolls-Royce arrived at the county town. The streets were crowded with people. People from big cities had returned to their hometowns. There were laughter and the sounds of bargaining everywhere. Lanterns were hung at the doors of every household, looking bright red and festive, and it seemed like the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year was full of joy.
Lu Yiming hadn't celebrated such a lively Spring Festival for a long time. He completely let go and took Lu Shishi everywhere.
"There are so many people here...Mom, there are dragon and lion dances parading in the streets."
Ning Xuehua shouted, "Let's buy clothes for Shishi first. Let's go to the big mall."
The group finally squeezed into the shopping mall, but unexpectedly they ran into Lu Jinbao, Dou Yufeng and Lu Wenwen.
Suddenly, the two groups of people met at the stairs of the shopping mall and stared at each other.
