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Tongdao Xu didn't show the Bai Lanlan family a face.

After all, Bai Lanlan's family came here today in the name of New Year's greetings.

He even stayed with the Bai Lanlan family for dinner.

Both Bai Lanlan and Mi Li agreed.

As far as Xu Tongdao is concerned, he can come to entertaining and unintentional entertainment.

Having been in business for so many years, he can't cope with such a scene, so his business can't be as big as it is now.

It's like an ordinary entertainment in the business field.

...

The eighth day of the new year.

Shazhou County, Shigu Township.

Chen Yi rode a battery car and came to town. He is 28 this year. He is gentle and talented. He graduated from Tianyun Normal University and has been teaching at Shigu Middle School since graduation.

At work, he is conscientious and conscientious, and has been rated as an excellent teacher early on.

At work, he gets awards from the school every year, but...

Emotionally, he has been struggling.

In the final analysis, there is only one reason - the family is poor.

How poor is his family?

When I was young, I didn’t see meat or fish once or twice a year, and the clothes I wore were also eliminated by my brothers and sisters. It really followed an old saying: the new boss, the old second, and the third one after the supplement.

The eldest wears new clothes, wears the old clothes for the second child, and when the second child wears it, the third general will wear it by sewing and replenishing.

And he, Chen Yi, is the fourth child in the family.

It is conceivable that he has been wearing some ragged clothes since he was a child.

To say that in the family planning era, why did his family have four children? In other words, since he already has a brother, why should he be born?

Why bother?

Why bother?

This question, he also asked his parents.

The answer his mother gave him was—your father passed it on for three generations. When it comes to your generation, your brother is just a boy. He is afraid that if it is passed on alone, your family will die if you are single, so you have to be reborn, and you will be born. Your second brother, and later had you by accident, your father still gave birth to you because he had no choice but to want you...

And his father's explanation to him was - I want to be born, I can't control family planning, and it's your boy's turn to take care of it?

have to!

Anyway, he asked for the reason, but no matter which reason it was, it couldn't make him happy.

According to his mother, the birth of his Chen Yi was an accident. Even his name, the word for Yi in Chen Yi, was also because his mother had already given birth to three children. When he was born, it was very smooth. , The midwife didn't even have time to find him, and when his mother went to the toilet, she gave birth to him in the toilet like shit.

Born too easy.

So he named him Chen Yi.

only……

The family planning fine made his family impoverished, and his life has never been easy since he was a child.

When he was in elementary school, if his grandfather didn't feel sorry for him and secretly paid him tuition fees, he would not be able to study.

When he was in junior high school, the school was more than ten kilometers away from his home, and everyone else rode bicycles. He could only walk every day. When it was time to walk with a deep foot and a shallow foot, it was common to slap the foot.

Really go out when the cock crows, go home when the ghost crows.

Waiting for high school...

If it weren't for his excellent grades in the high school entrance examination, exceeding the admission threshold of the county's No. 1 middle school, he deliberately went to the county's No. 2 middle school and received a generous scholarship and three-year tuition waiver from the county's No. 2 middle school. The family could not afford him at all Continue to high school.

the University……

Others were soaking in Internet cafes and beauties. When it was romantic, he was either in the library, or he worked outside to earn money and studied hard work.

For four years in college, he earned tuition and living expenses by himself.

During college, driven by youth hormones, he also had a girl he liked.

but……

The way he pursued her for three years has always been to write love letters.

It's not that he doesn't have the courage to express himself in person, or that he thinks writing a love letter is romantic enough, just because writing a love letter is the cheapest way to pursue it, and by the way, it seems quite romantic.

You don't need to send flowers, you don't need to invite her to dinner, or send gifts. You don't need to buy a piece of scrap paper to write your heartfelt words. You don't even need to buy an envelope. Just fold it and fold it into a heart shape and give it to her. No one will say that he is stingy.

In fact, he just has no money to spend on love.

Not so much time to spend the next month.

In his spare time, he has to go out and earn money.

At that time, he thought very well, let her know my heart, know how long my feelings for her last, and let her not be preempted by others.

When he graduates from college, gets a job, and gets paid, he will compensate her well.

Of course they do!

After graduating from college and before leaving school, on his last date with her, she said, We're not suitable, so don't keep in touch in the future.

Where is it inappropriate?

At that time, he was very sad, but he had to die to understand, not to mention that he wanted to work harder, maybe she would change her mind!

And she said: Because we don't know each other well enough! Look, we were four years in college, starting from the second year of sophomore year, how many times have you made an appointment with me? In three years, you have written dozens of love letters to me, but Can that thing make me really understand you? Besides, you haven't had much contact with me. Do you know what kind of person I am in private? We don't know each other well enough. Now that we have graduated, we will go our separate ways. , is it necessary to continue?

And just like that, his first love fed the dog.

Later, after working in Shigu Middle School, he talked about seven or eight loves.

In recent years, it is not difficult for him to find a love partner.

After all, he is not bad-looking, has a good education, and has a decent job.

but……

In the previous couples, because the woman knew how scary his family's poverty was, they reluctantly cut their love and cut him off.

In the later couples, he had been working for a long time, so he had a little savings, he was not so poor, and the time for each relationship was a little longer.

but……

Still can't get to the point of marriage.

One of the objects, because his brother was getting married, he lent all the money to the eldest brother. After being found out by his girlfriend, after a big quarrel with him, he said bye bye.

Another object, the time to talk about is relatively close to now.

Because of the skyrocketing housing prices, his eldest brother could barely pay a down payment for the money he paid back. As for the expenses for decoration, betrothal gifts, weddings, etc., there were no expenses at all. The girlfriend who learned the truth... Tears fell.

Crying with him came a parting gun.

Afterwards, he received a text message about the breakup.

My heart hurts.

But today, at this moment, he is going to the house of his current girlfriend. For the Chinese New Year, she asked him to visit their house this year for New Year's greetings, and she deliberately made him a few days later, not on the first day of the new year to the fifth day of the new year Go to her house for a few days, so as not to encounter relatives who come to her house for New Year's greetings, which will only be embarrassing.

This girlfriend was introduced to him by the leader of Shigu Middle School. She worked in the magic capital all the year round, but when she went on a blind date a few years ago, she took a fancy to him at first sight.

Chen Yi, who has had several relationships, can see from her eyes that she really likes him.

But for today's visit to the New Year, he was still a little unsure.

Because the house price has risen again recently, he has worked hard to save his salary for more than a year, and he can't keep up with the rise in house prices. He is facing the same problem as the previous relationship.

——If he gets married, he can only pay a down payment for a house at most, and he still has no money for decoration, betrothal gifts, and weddings.