Chapter 21 You Will Have Endless Money in the Future
Chapter 21 You Will Have Endless Money in the Future
"Where are Li Kang's kids? Why haven't they come back yet?"
"I don't know. It seems he has gone out to look for Guo Yixing as well."
"How can you be an uncle? Why don't you follow them? What if they get lost too? These kids are all visiting Shanghai for the first time. If they get lost too, how will we explain to their parents?"
Liu Jun reached out to grab a piece of iced watermelon to cool off.
Liu Guangqing slapped his hand away and said, "What are you eating? You haven't come back yet. There's no place for you to stay at home tonight."
"Dad, you are too partial. Now that my eldest grandson is back, you don't love me anymore."
Liu Guangqing was annoyed and glared at his youngest son, "You are so grown up, yet you are still competing for favors with a child," The old man raised his fist to hit him.
Liu Jun jumped away like a mouse.
"If you don't want to eat it, then don't eat it. It's not necessary to eat it."
Liu Guangqing took his family out to look for the four children, and just as they were about to go out, they ran into them coming back.
"Little red man, where have you been? You just came back now."
Grandma Cai ran over and grabbed Liu Lang, as if she was afraid that he would run away.
"We are also going out to look for Guo Yixing."
"Have you found it?" Liu Jun asked.
Several people shook their heads, still sweating, and the clean clothes they had just changed into were already soaked with sweat.
"Go back to the room and turn on the fan. Lijuan, go cut some watermelon for them."
"Wife, I'll help you too."
Old Liu's family's conditions are a little worse. They only have a refrigerator and an electric rice cooker, not even an air conditioner or a TV.
Usually I have to go to other people's homes to watch TV.
Lijuan brought a plate of watermelon, the whole big watermelon weighed ten kilograms.
"Come and eat watermelon."
Liu Lang and Zhang Yiming saw the sweet and delicious watermelon and ran over to pick up a piece with each hand.
"Eat slowly, it's all yours."
The two of them eat like little pigs.
"Brother Kang, why don't you eat?"
Lin Meixia took the initiative to bring him a piece, and Li Kang took it from her.
"I don't really want to eat it."
Chen Lijuan walked over and said, "Li Kang, there's nothing fun in our house, and we don't even have a TV. If we had a TV, I'd let you watch some shows and have some fun."
Li Kang waved his hands quickly, "No need to watch TV, your family is pretty good. Living in a big city like Shanghai, people from other places envy you."
"Eat something quickly. I'll take you to the neighbor's house to watch TV later."
Grandma Cai said dissatisfiedly: "It's so late, why are you still going to the neighbor's house? Everyone else is going to rest!"
The two old people knew what their young daughter-in-law was thinking, which was to get them to pay for the TV.
Liu Lang asked: "Grandma, how much is a TV?"
Granny Cai stroked Liu Lang's head with a doting look in her eyes, "I'll ask your uncle to buy a TV tomorrow for you to watch."
"Grandma, you haven't told me how much it costs?"
Grandma Cai smiled and said, "It's not that expensive, maybe one or two thousand yuan. Grandpa and grandma still have that much money."
"It's so expensive! Grandma, I have it"
Just as Liu Lang was about to say it, Li Kang quietly poked him from behind.
Although Liu Lang didn't know why Li Kang held him back, he didn't say it out loud. Brother Kang would definitely not harm him.
"Grandma, when I have money, I will help you move into a better home."
When Grandma Cai heard her grandson was so filial, her face was full of smiles, "I am very happy to hear you say this."
"Studying hard in the future will be the best way to repay grandpa and grandma."
"Uncle will take you to buy new clothes and new shoes tomorrow, and Grandpa will help you contact your father at home."
"When you meet them, you need to be pretty. That way you will be liked."
……
Four men squeezed into one room at night.
Lin Meixia slept in the same room with Chen Lijuan.
The last room is left for the two elders.
"This room is usually used to store sundries. Just make do with it tonight." Liu Jun vacated the room to store sundries, a breakfast stall, steamer baskets, etc.
Lao Liu's family usually sells breakfast in the morning, and there are many people living nearby who come to Shanghai to work.
I buy breakfast from them in the morning when I go to work.
"There are two more rooms, so you don't have to feel so wronged."
"But..."
Liu Jun wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "It's rented out now."
"Brother Jun, how much is the rent for outsiders to rent your house?"
"For a room the size of ours, fifty a month."
The rent is quite expensive. An ordinary worker only earns a few hundred yuan a month and still has to pay high water and electricity bills.
The rent, utilities and rent cost nearly a hundred dollars a month.
For example, Liu Guangqing's family only charges a few cents per kilowatt-hour for their own electricity, but charges one cent per kilowatt-hour for selling it to outsiders.
The water bill is the same.
Li Kang thought to himself: "Shanghai Ying is really smart and knows how to do business."
Liu Jun is just an ordinary employee of a nearby factory, and he usually goes to work with people from other places.
But because I am a local, my life is much more comfortable.
The fan was placed on an old red lacquered table and shook its head automatically.
Whenever there is wind, the heat in my body will be relieved a lot.
It's hard for four people to fall asleep in such a small room.
There are only two electric fans in the house, and there is no fan in Lin Meixia's room.
Li Kang couldn't sleep at all. In the 32°C temperature, he couldn't fall asleep even on the floor.
Zhang Yiming slept like a pig.
Liu Jun snores when he sleeps.
He quietly got up and went to the backyard.
Li Kang drew a basin of ice-cold well water and put his hands into it. A cool feeling spread from his arms to his brain, and then from his brain to all parts of his body.
He scooped up a handful of cold water and splashed it on his face.
"Ah~ huh~ so cool!"
A basin of cold water temporarily suppressed the heat in my heart.
After both arms had been in it for less than a minute, the water temperature rose.
I filled another basin with cold water to refresh my feet.
Soak your feet and smoke a cigarette.
"Brother Kang, you are here. I thought you went to the bathroom?" Liu Lang also came to the backyard.
"It's too hot, come out and soak your feet in cold water. Are you getting up to go to the bathroom?"
"Like Kang Ge, I was also woken up by the heat."
Liu Lang leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Brother Kang, the place they live in Shanghai is so small. My home in Yunnan has one room that is equivalent to two of theirs."
"Greater Shanghai is like this. Housing prices here are very expensive. Most Shanghai people can't afford it."
"It's good enough to have a place for us to live for free. People from our area who come here to work have to spend a lot of money to live in a house like this."
Li Kang didn't bother him about this little thing anymore. "If you feel hot, just do what I did and get some well water. You'll feel better after a bath."
Liu Lang did as Li Kang said and filled himself with a basin of water. The two of them sat side by side against the wall, bathing in the moonlight, with wisps of green smoke rising.
"Brother Kang, why didn't you let me finish what I was saying? I have three thousand dollars. I can buy a TV for my grandmother with it."
Li Kang exhaled a puff of smoke and said, "Now that you have used up all your money, what are you going to do in the future?"
"Didn't you see your uncle and sister-in-law? They live and eat at your grandparents' house. Even buying a TV requires the old people to pay for it."
At this point, Li Kang stopped talking and left it to himself to think about it.
"Keep the money you have with you for now. When you find an opportunity in the future, start some business and make more money."
"This three thousand dollars is your capital."
"But I don't know what to do?"
Li Kang suddenly felt refreshed and energetic, and said seriously: "Follow your brother Kang, are you still worried about not knowing how to make money? You will have endless money in the future."
(End of this chapter)