Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

"Okay, I know you think your brother Tian is just a freeloader. Don't worry, the origins of these things are very normal, nothing will happen!"

Zhou Tian didn't expect that he would be suspected by Liu Ruyan just because he invited her to have a meal with him, which made him feel a little depressed.

But after thinking about it, he also felt that he might have been negligent. After all, just today's meal, if he had money to buy it, would cost at least ten yuan, and his salary was only more than two hundred yuan. If he ate like this every day, he would not be able to bring enough food. No wonder the girl would be suspicious.

"Brother, can you tell me how much your monthly salary was that day?"

When Liu Ruyan heard Brother Tian say this, she couldn't help but become curious. After all, she was also a public security officer, and she didn't want her brother Tian to go down the path of crime.

"You, you're just worrying about nothing!"

Zhou Tian looked at Liu Ruyan's clear eyes. Although he didn't want to say it, he couldn't help it in the end and told her his salary and other sources of funds.

Even after Zhou Tian finished speaking, Liu Ruyan still looked dazed and asked, "Brother Tian, ​​you said that your salary plus subsidies, allowances, and bonuses are nearly three hundred a month?"

It’s no wonder that Liu Ruyan asked this question. Zhou Tian’s salary was really a bit too exaggerated.

"What do you think? I'm a department-level cadre, administrative level 11, basic salary is 200 a month, administrative allowance is 67 a month, plus bonuses, more than a month is not too much, right?"

Zhou Tian rolled his eyes speechlessly. In fact, he had already said a lot less. You know, he also received various invention awards from above. Seriously speaking, the various award funds he received last year alone were no less than 10,000 RMB.

Liu Ruyan never asked again, nor did she dare to ask. She really could not have imagined that Brother Tian’s salary plus bonus would be so much.

Even until Zhou Tian sent her back to the Liu family, she still looked absent-minded, which made Liu Quan and his wife very worried.

"Boss, what happened to this girl? Why did she become like this after a visit to the Zhou family?"

"How should I know? Do you think this girl might have been shocked after seeing Xiaotian's wife?"

Liuquan shook his head at first, then suddenly guessed.

After all, he had been to Zhou's house, and he knew how beautiful Xiaotian's wife, Shen Yulin, was. Even if he admitted that his daughter was also beautiful, Shen Yulin was no less beautiful.

"Is Xiaotian's wife really that beautiful?"

Aunt Liu was a little bit unconvinced when she heard that. She was not bragging. She knew how beautiful her daughter was as she grew up. Before she was transferred to Sijiu City, her daughter was the most beautiful girl within a hundred miles.

People who wanted to propose marriage could always knock on the threshold of her house.

"So what do you think is going on? Forget it, let's just ask!"

Liu Quan couldn't help but roll his eyes at Aunt Liu. After that, he stood up and walked to Liu Ruyan's side, saying gently, "Ruyan, come and tell daddy, what's wrong with you? Why do you become so absent-minded after coming back?"

Aunt Liu didn't say anything, but her ears perked up.

When Liu Ruyan was asked this by her father, she came to her senses instantly and looked at her father strangely.

"Dad, you know what? The food at Xiaotian's house is much better than what we eat at home!"

"So that's how it is. I thought it was something else. Isn't this normal?"

After hearing what his daughter said, Liu Quan was immediately relieved. He thought his daughter was upset, but he didn't expect it was just for a bite of food. In his opinion, it was no big deal for the Zhou family to prepare a delicious meal for his daughter when she went to the Zhou family.

When Xiaotian came to their house, didn’t they treat him with fish and meat?

"But what if I eat like this every day?"

Then Liu Ruyan's words almost made him jump up: "What, eat it every day, Ruyan, you are too proud, what kind of family can afford to eat like that every day? Even the landlords wouldn't dare to eat like that!"

Now, not to mention Liu Quan, even Aunt Liu felt something was wrong.

"Ruyan, you are talking nonsense, right?"

"Mom and Dad, I'm not kidding. I saw it with my own eyes. And according to Little Mouse, his family eats that kind of food almost every day now!"

When Liu Ruyan saw that her parents began to look at her with idiotic eyes, she suddenly became anxious and argued.

"But can Xiaotian afford to eat like this with his salary? Is that right, Xiaotian..."

As Aunt Liu spoke, she suddenly looked at her husband, and the expressions of both of them suddenly became serious.

"Mom and Dad, you're overthinking it. Brother Tian can afford it, but I think he's a bit of a spendthrift!"

As soon as Liu Ruyan saw the expressions of her parents, she knew that they had the same idea as she had at the beginning, so she could only explain.

As she spoke, she introduced Zhou Tian's salary situation to the two of them. It was not until she finished that they realized something was wrong.

I saw my mother looking at my father with strange eyes, while my father looked guilty, looking around, not daring to look at them.

At this moment, his only thought was: "Oh no, my position as the head of the family is in jeopardy, Xiaotian has let me down!"

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However, after Zhou Tian sent Liu Ruyan home, he rushed all the way home.

After returning home, he began to discuss with his grandparents and parents-in-law about what to prepare for tomorrow. It should have been prepared today, but who knew that he would meet Liu Ruyan, which delayed him a lot of time. Therefore, he could only arrange things for tomorrow.

Although engagement in the city today is not as grand as marriage, the necessary procedures must be followed.

Moreover, the Chen family is not an ordinary family. If they prepare shabby things, then even if the other party doesn't say anything, they will not be able to hold their heads up in front of the other party. But if they prepare too high-profile, it will not be appropriate.

It might even cause some trouble. Although Zhou Tian has enough of these, he does not want to attract attention, which is inconsistent with his original development goal.

After discussion, everyone finally decided not to prepare anything else for the time being and just prepare as a normal family would, except that they could prepare more red envelopes for the engagement.

After the discussion, Zhou Tian and Shen Yulin returned to the west wing.

"Boss, do you think it would be a bit inappropriate for us to only prepare these little things?"

Lying on the bed, Shen Yulin felt a little uneasy for some reason. In fact, she also felt that considering the other party's family conditions, such things were not worth giving away.

"Okay. Don't think too much. You don't want to think about it. It is precisely because the other party's family conditions are not simple that we can't be too high-profile. If you prepare too high-profile, the other party will not dare to accept it!"

Zhou Tian held Shen Yulin in his arms and tried to persuade her.

"OK then!"

Shen Yulin listened to her husband's words. Although she wanted to say something, she thought about it and agreed, so she nodded and said no more.

The next morning, Zhou Tian got up early, did some exercises in the yard as usual, and practiced a set of Xingyiquan. Then he went upstairs early to wake Zhou Hao up, and then the two of them rode their bikes to the market early.

After all, today is Zhou Hao's engagement day, and he can't let his second brother go to Chen's house wearing such clothes. The two of them first went to the department store and bought two Zhongshan suits and two pairs of leather shoes. Not to mention anything else, just the two Zhongshan suits and two pairs of leather shoes cost Zhou Tian a full two hundred yuan.

Although Zhou Tian knew that ready-made clothes and leather shoes were very expensive, he didn't expect them to be so expensive.