Chapter 27 Section 3

On New Year's Day, he went back to Manjialing to get the money, but she didn't go because the mountain was blocked by heavy snow and the road was difficult to walk.She was a little sorry: "Will I disappoint the two old people if I don't go?" "No, I went back to get money to marry a wife. They must be happy." She thought it was very interesting. When he didn't have a girlfriend before, he had to get one back to pretend to be. Now that he has a girlfriend, it doesn't matter whether he takes it back or not. Maybe this is the difference between lack of confidence.

She bought some gifts for his parents and asked him to take them back, so she didn't go on any adventures with her. When he came back, he looked very embarrassed. He was wearing a pair of high-top rubber shoes, his pants were half wet, his hair was also wet, and he was shivering from the cold.She hurriedly boiled hot water to bathe him, and then brought out dry clothes for him to change. After a long time of tossing, she finally made him look like a man. She asked, "Is it difficult to walk on the road?" "Well. I almost fell off the cliff." "It's a good thing I didn't go, or you'd have to carry me on your back."

"Then I'll definitely fall off the cliff." He handed her a cloth bag, "Here's the money." "Have you left some for your parents?" "I left a thousand dollars." The cloth bags were all wet, as was the money inside, so she had to spread them out one by one on the floor and stick them on the wall to dry.She clicked briefly, and found that it wasn't much. If he took all his wages from these years home and saved them up, except for food and clothing, it would definitely be more than that.She hesitated for a moment and asked, "How much is it in total?"

"I have no idea." "You don't have any?" "No." He asked hopefully, "Is it enough to buy you a ring?" "Rings, there are expensive ones, and there are cheap ones." "I want to buy you the most expensive one." "The most expensive ones are so expensive that you can't afford them all your life." He was shocked: "So expensive?" She quickly said: "I don't want you to buy me the most expensive one, we will do what we can, just buy what we can afford." "I'm too useless to make money."

"It's not that you don't know how to make money, it's that you use all the money to pay medical expenses for your fellow villagers? Why do I think you should save more than this money these years?" "My mother said that she gave some money to the uncle on the mountain to build the ancestral temple." "What's the purpose of repairing the ancestral temple?" "Give all the ancestors of our family a place to live," he boasted. "Now our whole family, starting from the fifteenth generation, has a place to live." "Why start with the fifteenth generation?"

"Is the genealogy only up to the fifteenth generation? We'll build a new ancestral hall when we have more." When she heard it, her heart turned cold, there are still fifteen generations of ancestors!How many times does this ancestral hall have to be rebuilt?Is this over yet? He asked: "Which generation has your Ding family's genealogy reached?" "I don't know, City A is not interested in doing this." He said disdainfully: "Then your Ding family is scattered, and there is no ancestor to help you tie them up." She was also disdainful: "Why do we want our ancestors to hug us? We can live wherever we are comfortable, unlike your people in Manjialing, whose ancestors have been trapped on that ridge for generations."

"We are not trapped on the mountain, but with our ancestors from the fifteenth generation of our Man family." "You like staying with your ancestors so much, why did you come to City A?" He was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "But when I die, I have a place to go, and your Ding family doesn't have one." "Who said no? Cremated, put in an urn, buried in a cemetery, kept at home, whatever." He stopped talking, but there was a look of disdain on his face. She didn't want to continue discussing the issue of ownership after death, and only asked: "How much did you pay to the master on Lingshang?"

He said the number, and she was petrified.God, that's his salary for two years, and it's two years' salary without eating or drinking.She couldn't help it: "How much does it cost to build an ancestral hall? How many people do you have in Manjialing? A family pays so much, and the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall can be built. Is it because the master on the mountain is greedy for money?" He glanced at her: "I forbid you to say that about Master Lingshang!" Ding Yi knew that the money he handed over would definitely not come back, so he didn't bother arguing with "Bao Yazi" anymore, don't hurt the relationship between the two because of the uncle on Lingshang, anyway, "Bao Yazi" has already agreed Just leave the money to her, and she will not let him give money randomly in the future.

Although "Bao Yazi" didn't propose, once she knew that she was willing to marry him, she was confident enough to start "urging the marriage".He was such an ignorant person, yet he got the unmarried certificate from his work unit all at once, and then urged her to do the same all day long so that he could get the marriage certificate.It just so happened that she graduated that semester and stayed in school, so it was easy to get a certificate, and the two ran to get a marriage certificate. Once the marriage certificate was received, Ding Yi was confident enough to become the Minister of Household Finance without any shyness, monopolized the power, and carried out a series of economic reforms.

She took the money he took from home to the bank to deposit for a fixed term, because she planned to get married on May 1st, so she didn't want to deposit it for too long, and only planned to deposit it for three months.But that bank is doing bonus savings. If you deposit regularly for a year, you can get a lottery ticket for every 1,000 yuan you save, and the first prize is 100,000 yuan.It's only been a week since I left the award, and many people are frantically saving money in that bank. She thought about it, and decided to go crazy and save for a year. Even if she didn't get the bonus, the interest would be higher than three months. Anyway, she couldn't use up all her savings when she got married, and she had to save some for later use.

So she deposited "Bao Yazi"'s bag of money for a year, got a lot of lottery tickets, and waited anxiously for the lottery. On the day of the lottery draw, she deliberately didn't go to the bank to check the lottery results, pretending not to care, thinking that it would be easier to win the lottery.It wasn't until the lottery results were published in the newspaper the next day that she ran to the newsstand on the corner to buy a newspaper.When I get home, I lie on the sofa, watch the national news first, then the local news, and then watch the interviews, follow-up reports, missing person notices, marriage announcements, local weather forecasts... and wait until I have read everything before starting Watch the lottery news. When she was saving money, the staff of the bank asked her if she wanted continuous numbers or broken numbers. She chose broken numbers, thinking that it was more likely to win the lottery.But when it came time to check the numbers, I realized that the number-breaking project was much more extensive than the serial numbers, and each lottery ticket had to be checked with all the winning numbers from beginning to end.But it's a pleasant labor, anyway, she never tires of it, and after an hour or so, she almost got cross-eyed. It seems that strategy and tactics are important!Her "play hard to get" tactic and "broken number" strategy succeeded, and she won the lottery!The third prize, five thousand yuan, and several encouragement prizes, two yuan each. She immediately called "Bao Yazi" and immediately said, "Bao Yazi, I've won!" He froze for a while, then asked, "How much heavier?" "Five thousand!" He faltered: "Why did you gain so much weight all at once?" She knew he heard it wrong, so she couldn't help laughing: "Where did you hear it? I mean I won the lottery!" "Win the lottery?" She was going to tell him the ins and outs of winning the prize, but he probably couldn't understand, so she simply said, "Come with me to receive the prize." They made an appointment, and she took him to receive the award. Seeing the "old comrades" pouring into her hands one after another, he stared straight at him: "Daughter-in-law, is this true? The money is really ours." Is it?" She said proudly: "Of course it is true! I said you should put the money in the bank, right? If your money is still in your Manjialing, where will you get the five thousand dollars today?" He said with admiration: "Daughter-in-law, you are really a god! It would be great if we had you in charge of the money in Manjialing." "Yes, if you people from Manjialing entrust me with money, I will be responsible for generating a lot of money for you!" That weekend, the two went to the streets to buy rings. Her budget is to use the 5,000 yuan to buy whatever she can afford.But he can't wait to spend all the money: "Just this money? What about the money I got back last time?" "Isn't that money saved?" "Save it?" "Where can I get the lottery ticket if I don't save it? Where can I get the third prize if I don't have a lottery ticket?" "Oh, why don't you take it out and buy a ring?" "It's not due, how can I get it out? Besides, it's not practical to spend all the money on the ring. We have to decorate the new house, and the wedding also costs money. There are also wedding photos, wedding dresses, etc., which are all expensive. .” She made a rough calculation for him. I don't know if he understood, but at least he was so impressed: "Daughter-in-law, you know so much!" She proudly said: "I know a lot, right? Then you can listen to me." "I'll listen to you." In the end, the two of them bought a pair of ordinary rings, one for each of them, which cost no more than 5,000 yuan.He was reluctant at first because he didn't want to waste money, but she explained to him that he must buy a pair of wedding rings and wear them all the time after marriage, otherwise the marriage will not last long, so he agreed to buy one too.