11. The Farmer and the Snake
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The situation of his own family and second aunt's family reminded Li Yifan of the texts he learned in elementary school, the farmer and the snake.
In 1993, the city's Yimao Wool Spinning Factory was not well-managed and was on the verge of bankruptcy. My father and mother gritted their teeth and decided to go into the sea. In order to open this small restaurant, Li Liqiang and Zhang Shu gritted their teeth to sell the fundraising houses distributed in the factory at that time. Only then did they raise 30,000 yuan and plan to open this seafood store.
The second aunt's family was in a difficult situation at that time, but the second aunt was good at dancing and was very fond of her grandmother and grandfather. So grandma and grandfather showed their parents' majesty at that time and forced their parents to take their second aunt's family when they opened a restaurant.
However, the second aunt did not sell their fundraising house, but took out her own savings, plus the 10,000 yuan she had moved together, so she invested in the hotel.
As an elder sister, Zhang Shu is also a good-looking man in the family. When running this restaurant, she always took good care of her second sister. Even when she was paying dividends every year, she would give her second sister more money, which made her even more dissatisfied with Li Liqiang, who took her second sister to open a hotel.
I didn't agree with your investment, so you had to come. But Zhang Shu and his wife were supporting this small seafood restaurant, holding on, buying vegetables, and preparing vegetables, all of which were Zhang Shu and Li Liqiang and his wife doing the heavy work of Zhang Shu and Li Liqiang. However, the second aunt sat at the counter and did some leisurely jobs to settle accounts every day. If she was so busy, she would help the waiter deliver the dishes in front of the second aunt.
But whenever she paid dividends at the end of the year, she did not get less than Zhang Shu, which of course made Li Liqiang dissatisfied, but he finally endured it because of his wife's attitude and father-in-law's mother-in-law's thoughts.
Usually, my second uncle works at work, but after work, he takes his Wang Guang to the hotel for free and eat and drink. After dinner, he leaves. This situation can be done once or twice, but who is not angry after a long time?
Did they really forget who made the big deal of this restaurant?
Li Liqiang is usually dull and has some shortcomings in his behavior. Whenever he is unhappy, he often writes it on his face. How can he not see his dissatisfaction with his second aunt's family and his second uncle Wang Hu who has been sloppy in the government office for decades?
In addition, Li Liqiang had scolded his second aunt several times, so it is estimated that since then, the family has been holding a grudge and has long planned to go out of their hotel!
As the saying goes, it is a golden belt for murder and arson, repairing bridges and roads without corpses, and good people will be rewarded. This sentence is not always fulfilled.
When the second aunt was shutting down the old store and renovating, she took advantage of her own management of the hotel's accounts and withdrew all the 150,000 yuan of funds from the two public accounts. She had long slandered her parents in front of relatives and friends. At that time, Li Liqiang wanted to go through legal procedures to get the money back, but his mother disagreed and was already slandered by the second aunt's family. She had no arguments in front of relatives. If she was going through legal procedures to ask for money, she wouldn't be scolded by relatives and friends to death?
What kind of face does their family have in the future and gain a foothold in the circle of relatives in Bincheng? In the end, my father could only compromise again helplessly.
My second aunt's family opened a seafood shop on the other end of May Day Street. With years of accumulation of favors and the help of my uncle-in-law and other relatives and friends, their business was doing well and even getting bigger and bigger. A few years later, their family not only bought two new residential buildings themselves, but also accumulated two street-facing stores.
On the other hand, Li Yifan's family had already paid the rent at that time, so they could only wait for half a year. They waited until the landlord completed the new store and renovated it. They could only pay out of their own pocket for redecoration, and the savings from previous years were almost wiped out.
Although the business was not bad later, my parents' hard work in the past ten years was gone, and the family was once again facing a poor and deserted situation.
Although their business was pretty good afterwards, what followed was Li Yifan going to college, his elder brother got married, and other things that required a lot of money, and then the era of soaring housing prices began. In this way, even if her mother finally became ill and died, she could not live in a house of her own again.
Whenever I remembered in my previous life, when my mother died unjustly and her son wanted to be filial but her parents were not waiting for her, Li Yifan would feel the pain as if thousands of snakes were sucking their hearts. The scenes of her mother when she left were often played back in front of him again and again, and after each replay, he would have insomnia. The silent pain was once almost driven him crazy.
In his opinion, his mother was the kind farmer, and his second aunt was the poisonous snake that didn't know how to be grateful. She was destined to kill demons and eliminate demons in this life. If they didn't provoke them, it would be fine if they were honest. If they really dared to plot against their family again, they would definitely make them pay a hundred times the price.
"Mom, is our hotel going to pay the rent?"
The breeze hit, and the night in Bincheng was very cool. At this time, there were not as many cars on the road as in later generations, and the air was still fresh. The family strolled on the streets of Bincheng after drinking. Looking at the ever-changing city, Zhang Shu felt very good, but she didn't expect her son to suddenly ask such a question.
"Yes, it's time to pay the rent at the end of July, but the landlord came here to discuss with us two days ago. You also know that the house in this hotel has been in disrepair and many places on the roof have been leaked. He wants to renovate it during this period. Your dad and your second aunt are also in a dilemma. You should know that this period is the peak tourist season, and the best business in the year. If the business is closed at this time, it will have a great impact on our profit this year."
Feeling that his son had grown up, Zhang Shu didn't hide it and told him about the troubles of the past few days. This matter has been in my heart for several days, and Li Liqiang and his wife are having a headache about this matter.
"That day, I heard my second aunt secretly discuss with her second uncle and said that she wanted to rent a house at the east entrance of May Day Street. What's going on? Are our family moving?"
Li Yifan knew that if he told his mother at this time, his second aunt's family wanted to betray her family, his mother would not believe it anyway, so he might as well remind her indirectly so that she could be mentally prepared.
"How could it be? There are indeed two stores to rent at the east entrance of May Day Street. One of them has a very good environment and a large area. It is closer to the city center, the railway station, and there are many hotels and hotels there, but the rent is not cheap! Our store at the end of the street costs 15,000 yuan a year. I heard that the rent there costs 30,000 yuan a year, and it must be paid for three years and custody for one year. The landlord came to our house for dinner and we also chatted with him. He was very tough and was free of negotiations below this condition. Where can we afford such a expensive rent?"
Zhang Shu obviously didn't think much about it, but talked about a fact that she had changed her place to operate, but she had thought that the location at the east entrance of May Day Street was indeed very good.
There are two stores now for rent. One is a dilapidated bungalow with an environment similar to the restaurant I rent now. The area is not as large as it is now, but the rent is even more expensive.
Another house is a storefront house converted from an original old villa. The environment is quite good and the area is large, but the rent is even more expensive.
Zhang Shu and his wife, who have been running a hotel for a lifetime, are they willing to spend twice the price of renting a house?
"I didn't mean that? I mean, do Aunt Er and others have ideas and want to do it alone?"
Seeing that his mother had never thought that his second aunt would betray him, Li Yifeng was a little anxious and simply reminded him directly that as soon as he said this, the parents next to him immediately changed their faces.
My father's expression was a bit strange, but my mother was angry.
"What are you talking nonsense about, your child? How could your second aunt do this? My two families are doing well now, how could they separate? Besides, do you think it's really that easy to support a restaurant alone?"
Zhang Shu was very angry. Li Yifeng shouldn't say that about his second aunt. He is just a child and it's not his turn to take care of the affairs between elders.
Looking at her mother with anger on her face, Li Yifeng sighed in her heart. She was indeed the same mother who never thought of others. It was her kind mentality in her previous life that harmed herself!
You must know that you should not have the intention to harm others, but you should be wary of others!
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Chapter completed!