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The ideal is rich

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By ximengPublished 3 years ago 5 min read

In the morning, I went to the office.

I took the lift from minus two to the ground floor, and when I got to the ground floor, I got out of the lift, and before I got out, there was an older man with a basin going in, because we are a county and not everyone knows to go down first and then up.

It was all a race to be first.

I got out and he got in, and in that moment, the couplets at the top of his basin spilled all over the floor.

I hastily apologised and helped pick them up.

The uncle didn't give me a good look either, and gave me a "warning" that I should watch where I was going and not to rush.

I ignored him.

I walked away.

When I got to the door, I noticed that there was a big inflatable arch for the wedding.

The uncle was supposed to go to the new house to put up the couplets.

At noon, I went out and found an even stranger thing, the windproof rope of the arch was actually tied to our door and I couldn't open it. Another thing is that they covered the stones at our door with red paper and stuck a lot of paste on them, which is also a local rural custom, where all the well covers and stones are covered with red paper wherever the wedding car passes.

However, it's rare to get this done in town.

Pollution.

I called the property, meaning I couldn't get out and if I opened it hard I would give it a tug down.

The property owner sent the security uncle.

Untied the rope.

I asked, "Who is getting married here? So domineering.

The security guard said, grass, yesterday has fought a battle, we do not allow to stick red paper, but must stick, get a second marriage as a treasure.

I asked, "Is it a second marriage for a man or a woman?

He said, female, male first marriage, although it is a second marriage, but the female bride price is no less.

I asked, how old is the woman?

He said, thirty-five or six.

I asked, how much can it be worth?

He said, now the bride price + buy things, less than 200,000.

I said, "That's too expensive.

He said, "Expensive? Nowadays, you can't even find expensive ones. Which village doesn't have seven or eight bachelors?

The wedding car is a horse 6 series, and the new house is a 40 square foot flat. The main thing is that it's cheap, now you don't have a house in the county even the possibility of getting a daughter-in-law.

Because I look ugly, my father my mother also once very worried that I grow up to marry a wife, so my second sister after graduation to fall in love, parents strongly opposed, my second sister 19 years old to teach high school, she is skipping a grade to read, why opposed? is thinking of the most extreme problem, if your brother can't find a date? Don't you need to change your brother's daughter-in-law?

Changing daughters-in-law means that your family has daughters and children and you can't afford to get a daughter-in-law.

Two families are exchanged.

What if you have a matchmaker?

It is called a change of marriage.

I met a local writer tonight, when Mr. Zhao Defa came to pick up a story, looking for rural material, and I took him with me to the mountains for an interview, in which this local writer was also present, and he also had plans to write about this subject.

Just ......

The first time I saw it, it was a good time to see it.

His is still holding out.

There are too many worries.

Just as my father worries too much about me is the same, how could I not get a daughter-in-law?

In fact, my father adopted my sister, is another ultimate insurance, if really can not get a daughter-in-law, let my sister as a child bride.

So, my father did not allow my sister to get married either, and it was only after I got married that these restrictions were lifted one by one.

Feudal or not?

Why worry so much?

I am the only child.

Having no offspring is a big problem.

Worrying about nothing.

Look, today, the baby's birthday.

It's twelve years old.

I ordered a cake in advance. Every year, our family orders a cake that is very personal, we think of a concept and then commission a private bakery to make it.

It's also important to choose a private bakery.

The one we have chosen now is basically the local No.1, she has beaten all the brands on her own.

To sum it up, there are just four words: obsession and dedication.

No one has been able to fuck her up.

The reason is simple, no one is as obsessed and committed as she is.

One year, we chose another brand and made a Qiaohu theme, but the colours were just like shit, and the Qiaohu looked like it was made of shit.

There was no aesthetic appeal, so we just didn't eat it.

The baby made a wish.

He said that his wish was to be an old man.

I said, this wish is actually very beautiful and realistic, but then, in the process of studying history, my father concluded that one thing is that when life is viewed in a long line, for example, in 50 years, then the probability is that the family will have changes.

Rarely does it all go smoothly.

History, I'm an average writer, but I think I've studied it well.

I put a lot of effort into it.

I study for ten hours a day.

I was just lamenting to my correcting teacher: another thing I feel particularly strongly about studying history is that I have learned profoundly that no matter what organisation is in place for long enough, it is bound to get an old age disease, and that old age disease is a slow metabolism. This is why reformers emerged late in the dynasty, such as Wang Anshi and Zhang Juzheng. In the past, I never doubted that Alibaba could be a 100-year enterprise. But I doubt it now. Because I hold Alibaba shares myself, I have seen the whole market change its attitude towards it. From darling to pariah.

My teacher's advice to me was to be an ardor, don't do any business, don't make any money, study in peace and don't think about anything, and this node should last until at least 2025.

I approve.

Just look at history, all reforms are actually tax reforms, Wang Anshi was, so was Zhang Juzheng.

It's about how to get some money when the country has no more money.

I also hope that my child is a nibbler, do not need to think about earning money, travel the mountains, enjoy the whole life, married or not, it does not matter whether there are children and grandchildren.

It's just that the ideal is very rich.

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