Chapter 554 To Borrow or Not to Borrow
At almost five o'clock, Chen Feng drove to the Fengshou Supermarket in Yuelou Town to pick up his parents from get off work. Of course, the main thing was to pick up his mom. , Dad wants to ride an electric donkey back by himself.
The business of our small supermarket is still very good. The main reason is that the location is very good. It is located in the center of Yuelou Town. It is densely populated and has a large flow of people, especially at dusk and night. The business is the best, with adults bringing their children to go shopping, basically buying snacks or daily necessities.
Therefore, there must be someone working in the supermarket at night.
However, the night shift usually consists of his brother-in-law Zhao Guozhong and his wife and his mother-in-law.
His parents would only come over to help during the day, especially in the afternoon. Zhao Xiaolan was usually the cashier, which allowed Zhao Guozhong and his wife to rest for an afternoon before coming back to change shifts in the evening.
Otherwise, Zhao Xiaolan would be too tired if she worked day and night, and it would not be safe to go back to Qingpu Town at night.
Because the business of the small supermarket is good, Zhao Guozhong and his wife also have shares. Mao Xiaoling, a second-married mother, can now live a stable life with Zhao Guozhong.
Zhao Guozhong has truly regained his second youth. His energy and energy are much better than before, and he even feels younger.
This time Chen Feng came over, Mao Xiaoling, her mother, and uncle Zhao Guozhong were much more enthusiastic and sincere than before, and even invited Chen Feng to dinner.
But she was immediately rejected by Zhao Xiaolan. The couple had to change shifts at night. If Chen Feng was invited to dinner, the small supermarket would have to close down and the losses would be huge. At least Elaine Chao thinks so.
As for hiring employees, neither Zhao Xiaolan nor Mao Xiaoling would be willing to part with it.
On the way back, Zhao Xiaolan started to nag: "Your uncle is a heartless person. I advised him to hurry up and have another baby, but he said that Xiaoling has already been ringed, and Xiaoling is too old, so it's not good. Regeneration. Just the upper ring, not It's a sterilization. Xiaoling is only thirty-seven now and is not old. She can have another child. The country now advocates having more children. The two children around him are not biological. When he gets old in the future, he will regret it. .”
< br>Chen Feng said: "That woman already has two children. If she and her brother-in-law have another child, she is afraid that her brother-in-law will not treat those two children well. In addition, it is easy to cause family conflicts, which is understandable. But for my uncle-in-law, It's really unfair."
"That is, if he is not his biological child, he is not his biological child. How can he really treat him as his biological child? How can he treat these two non-biological children when he gets older? Him?”
Chen Feng retorted: "That's not necessarily true. People's hearts are made of flesh. If my uncle really treats these two children as his own, maybe the two children will support him as their biological father in the future."
< br>“It’s always not as good as myself "My biological children."
"There are many biological children who are unfilial."
"How can you disagree with me?"
"I'll just talk about it." br>
"Then you think your brother-in-law deserves to have no offspring?"
"Don't you have a daughter?"
"Can that daughter count? Her mother took her away when she was a few months old. , we haven’t seen each other for many years.”
“Mom, please don’t do this. Forget it. My brother-in-law is already an adult, and aren’t he and Mao Xiaoling living well now? You’re not his mother. Even if you are his mother, you’d better not interfere with their relationship.”< br>
"Okay, okay, I just don't care." Zhao Xiaolan said angrily.
Seeing this, Chen Feng was a little amused and could only explain: "Mom, don't think about it, how old is my uncle now? Forty-eight, right? It's very tiring to have a child at such an old age and have to raise him. Besides, , now he has a daughter and son, and a biological daughter. Although he has not seen her in these years, she is his biological daughter after all. Now that he has three children, there is really no need to have another one. If it were me, it is very likely that he would not have another child."
Zhao Xiaolan retorted: "It is impossible to give him his biological daughter. He will be able to live in his old age, but these two cheap children are not safe.” There are more children and grandchildren. What's more, my brother-in-law's situation is quite special. He and Mao Xiaoling have remarried, and Mao Xiaoling already has two ready-made children.
It would be better to have a son. It's great to have offspring, but if you give birth to a daughter, in the eyes of you older generation, it will be a loser, and my brother-in-law is so old. Yes, the possibility of giving birth to a daughter is much higher than that of a son. This is based on science.
Even if a son is born, the only advantage is that he will be able to provide for him in the future. I can't guarantee it 100%. He might just be a prodigal, a cheater. No one can say for sure.
But there are a lot of disadvantages. First of all, she will definitely be separated from Mao Xiaoling's two children. Secondly, in the future life, it is very likely that because of the three children, the family will be disturbed and the conflicts between husband and wife will intensify. Divorce again is not impossible.
Whether his biological children can provide for him in old age depends on the future, at least twenty or thirty years later, when my uncle will be seventy or eighty years old. But now, he and Mao Xiaoling's family have to live together every day.
Mao Xiaoling is opposed to it. Her two children will definitely be opposed to their own mother having a younger sibling. Even her mother-in-law will be opposed to it. If my brother-in-law insists on having a baby, he will only be antagonizing their family. Can he still live his life now?
Besides, even if my uncle is willing to have a baby, but Mao Xiaoling doesn’t agree, there’s nothing he can do. It's even more useless for you to urge him to regenerate. "
After listening to Chen Feng's in-depth analysis, Zhao Xiaolan also knew that this was the case. She couldn't help but feel depressed for a while. After a while, she said in a low voice: "I shouldn't have married this woman in the first place. ”
Chen Feng smiled and said nothing. To put it bluntly, his brother-in-law found someone like Mao Xiaoling, so he really wasn't at a disadvantage.
When I got home, my sister-in-law had already returned with her two children and was busy working in the kitchen. My mother went over to help, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law quickly cooked several dishes.
At about half past six, Chen Rui also came back, and the whole family sat together to eat.
During the dinner, Chen Rui talked about the deer antlers and anchovies that Chen Feng sent last time. Although they were for his parents to eat, Chen Rui and his wife must have benefited from them.
Chen Rui felt very good after eating velvet antler, and Li Guihong felt the same after eating anchovy maw, so he asked Chen Feng where he bought these two supplements and at what price.
Of course Chen Feng understood what his brother meant. He wanted Chen Feng to buy more, or let Chen Feng buy it on his behalf.
Unfortunately, these two items were given by others, and he didn’t know the specific price, let alone where to buy such pure tonics.
After Chen Feng said this, Chen Rui could only express regrets and just told Chen Feng to remind him if he has such good things next time or find a regular and reliable channel to buy them.
And Zhao Xiaolan asked curiously: "Who gave it to you? These two tonics are so effective, so the price must not be cheap."
Of course Chen Feng couldn't tell the truth, so he could only Said: "A guest "They were given to me as a gift." Zhao Xiaolan said, "Then ask the customer where he bought them. These two are very good. Your dad doesn't get up much at night, and your sister-in-law and I feel better after eating them. The skin is also better.”
Chen Feng was speechless and could only say: "That's okay. I'll have a chance to ask another day."
This matter finally passed, but Chen Rui suddenly mentioned buying a house in the county. Because he plans to send Xiaoyu to school in the city. Xiaoyu has just entered the first grade. The elementary school in the town is definitely not as good as the elementary school in the county.
When the elder brother said this, Chen Feng remembered the house he had bought in the county town. But now that the elder brother can afford to buy a house in the county town, there is no need to mention it.
No one in the family objects to my brother going to buy a house in the county. After all, the children’s education is a top priority. Even Elaine Chao, who advocates frugality, has no objection.
Nowadays, rural residents go to the county to buy houses. Many of them do so because their children go to the county to study. Otherwise, they may not necessarily buy houses.
After all, the gap between urban and rural areas is now narrowing, especially in small 18th-tier counties like Linnan County. There is no need to spend one or two times, or even two or three times, the price of a house in the county to buy a house in the county. It is all about children's education and school district housing.
“The second primary school here in Dongcheng is pretty good now. The school was built just two years ago and the teachers are also very strong. Several of my friends used to buy houses nearby and send their children to study there. . I also plan to buy a house in that school district, which was built not long ago. The Jianyang community is very good, the price is more than 9,000. Your sister-in-law and I have visited it twice, and people have moved in there one after another. It is also very close to Qingpu. Ah Feng can come here in a few minutes. What do you think?”
After taking a look at his brother, Chen Feng , and said: "Since you and your wife are interested in it, of course I have no objection. If you can't come up with money, I can lend you some."
Unexpectedly, Chen Feng took the initiative to lend him money. After Rui was stunned for a moment, he realized that his brother had read through his mind at a glance. He smiled awkwardly and said: "It's true that we don't have enough money. Because we plan to buy it outright, and there is a 10% discount on the full payment. If we have to repay the loan, both of us feel it's not worth it and it's very troublesome. No Safety is not as good as paying in full.”
"How much is the difference?"
Chen Rui hesitated for a while, embarrassed, and then slowly said: "One million."
Before Chen Feng said anything, the old man Mother Zhao Xiaolan became a little angry and reprimanded loudly: "You might as well ask your brother to buy it for you in full, one million, you are so embarrassed to talk about it."
Chen Dayong was also a little bit embarrassed. He said unhappily: "If you If you’re really short of money, just sell the new house opposite. It’s probably worth three or four hundred thousand. Besides, if you’re going to move to the county town in the future, it’s useless to leave that house empty.”
< br>Chen Rui said with a grimace: "Dad, we just renovated that house, and we haven't lived in it for long. Wouldn't it be a pity to sell it? The house payment plus decoration will cost 500,000. Now sell it and decorate it." If you can’t make money back, you will lose tens of thousands.”
Zhao Xiaolan then said: "Then don't be so worried. Isn't it good to buy a house with a loan? Everyone buys it this way. You can buy it with a down payment of 30,000 or 40,000 yuan. How many people have bought a house in the county with full payment?"
Chen Rui was a little unhappy and argued: "This 10% off is the internal price. It was the real estate manager who took his own share." I gave it up. There is no such store in this village. One million can be cheaper than one hundred thousand."
Zhao Xiaolan said contemptuously: "You can only believe this, it's just like those shops that sell off the property. , the original price was ninety-eight yuan, but now it’s only fifty-eight yuan. Whoever believes it is stupid.”
Chen Rui’s face suddenly turned red.
Li Guihong could not speak at this time, so she said: "Mom, we are just borrowing, and it is not that we will not pay it back after borrowing it. The business of the car wash shop is very good now, and A Rui has a lot of good things every month The dividend of tens of thousands will be at least five or six hundred thousand a year, which is completely affordable.”
Zhao Xiaolan said angrily: "I'm just making a few bucks. I'm changing my car and buying a house in the county. I don't want to think about who gave me the business of this car wash shop? Don't forget your roots, and don't get carried away and push yourself too far."
This time Li Guihong was so angry that her face turned red, but she still couldn't say anything to refute, mainly because she didn't dare.
Although Chen Rui was a little angry, he was mainly ashamed. Originally, he was hesitant to borrow so much money from Chen Feng, but his wife kept nagging her and said that it’s not like she won’t pay you back. My brother, your brother is not short of one million and so on.
The nagging started last night and continued until this afternoon. Chen Rui had no choice but to speak to his younger brother Chen Feng.
Now he is being criticized by his parents for a while. He is not a ungrateful person. What he did was indeed unethical. The younger brother Chen Feng was already good enough to him. He led him to make a fortune. Before He also generously gave him a car to drive directly.
Now he suddenly asked for one million. What if he wasn't trying to push the envelope?
Even if Chen Feng can easily come up with this million, he can also pay it back in the future, but this is not the reason why Chen Feng has to lend it to him.
Chen Rui immediately raised his hands in a gesture of surrender and said, "It's my fault, my fault, it's my fault. Mom, Dad, Ah Feng, just pretend that I didn't say anything just now. About the house, We will solve it ourselves."
Seeing this, Chen Dayong did not want his eldest son and daughter-in-law to step down, so he quickly said: "Then just pretend that you never said anything about buying a house. There's no need to be too anxious. Xiaoxue is just in the first grade now, so it doesn't matter if it's a year or two later. If you really want to pay the full price, you can afford it. Besides, it's not necessary to pay the full amount to buy a house. "
Zhao Xiaolan also said: "If you are not afraid of trouble, you can repay the loan in advance when you have money in the future."
Chen Rui nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, everything you said is right."
At the beginning, Chen Feng was indeed a little uncomfortable. After all, his brothers were settling the scores, and Chen Feng thought that he was already very fond of his elder brother. That's right, my brother suddenly wants to borrow 1 million, and it's not a very urgent matter. Of course, he is not very willing in his heart.
He is rich, and he just got 90 million today. One million is really not much to him.
But this money belongs to him, not his parents, and it has nothing to do with his brother Chen Rui.
If you have money, do you have to borrow it? There is no such truth.
He originally borrowed it if it was less than 500,000, but asking for 1 million all at once is indeed a bit excessive.
What's more, our ancestors have long left their wise sayings: to help the urgent but not to save the poor, and to promote the benefits of rice and the enemies of rice.
Fortunately, after being punished by his parents, Chen Rui finally woke up and took the initiative to admit his mistake.
Chen Feng finally chose to remain silent and did not intend to borrow it.
If I lend my brother one million easily this time, it can be foreseen that the brotherhood will definitely change in the future. If you don't lend him less, you'll be unhappy with both parties.
If you don't borrow, it may seem a bit unkind, but it may maintain the brotherly relationship for a longer period of time.
As for what his sister-in-law would think, it was beyond Chen Feng's consideration.
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