"What do you mean by your home?" Niu Bi suddenly became very unhappy: "What do you mean by your home? Ah!"
Seeing Niu Bi angry, Wu Nan was a little flustered, but more moved, and hurriedly said: "Bibi, Aunt Wu said something wrong, Aunt Wu apologizes to you."
Wu Yuyan also gestured repeatedly, with an anxious look on her face.
"Okay! I'm not angry again." Niu Bi smiled again, holding Wu Yuyan's hand: "Wife, let's go home and have dinner with my husband."
Wu Yuyan blushed and let Niu Bi pull her out of the house. Wu Nan wiped her tears, with a happy smile on her face, and followed her.
When Ma Min returned home with Wu Nan and Wu Yuyan, she had already wrapped the dumplings and cut the mutton, waiting to put them in the pot. Seeing Niu Bi coming back with Wu Nan and Wu Yuyan, Ma Min smiled and said, "Bibi, you came just in time. Mom just finished wrapping the dumplings. Are you hungry?"
"I'm hungry, Mom, hurry up and make the dumplings!" Niu Bi said, turning her head to look at Niu Xin who was drinking wine with fried peanuts, and smiled, "Dad, it's so nourishing!"
"Stinky boy." Niu Xin cursed with a smile, looking at Wu Nan and Wu Yuyan: "Sister Wu, Yuyan, you're all here!"
Wu Nan nodded with a smile: "Brother Niu drank so quickly!"
"Haha, business is good today, I'm happy, so I drank a little, do you want some, Sister Wu?" Niu Xin smiled.
"No, I'm going to help Sister Ma make dumplings, Yuyan, come and help." Wu Nan took Wu Yuyan to help Ma Min.
Niu Bi walked to Niu Xin and sat down. He also poured himself a glass of wine, grabbed a few peanuts and threw them into his mouth: "Dad, I want to ask you something."
"Go ahead!" Niu Bi is not young anymore, and has become the economic pillar of the family, so he also has the right to speak in front of Niu Xin. Niu Xin treats Niu Bi no longer as autocratic as before.
"I just want to ask you, do we have any distant relatives?"
"Huh?" Niu Xin was stunned: "Why ask this?"
"Dad, think about it!" Niu Bi expressed his thoughts: "In the past, our family was so poor, and we had no relatives for many years. When I was a child, I asked you why we had no relatives. You always told my mother that you were orphans and had no relatives. I believed it before, but now I feel something is wrong. If you were really orphans, why did you sigh and groan during the holidays? So I think you and my mother must have some relatives, but we have not been in contact for many years."
After listening to Niu Bi's analysis, Niu Xin was silent.
"Did I get it right?" Niu Bi looked at Niu Xin, feeling a little angry.
Niu Xin sighed and drank a sip of wine: "Yes, our family has a few poor relatives in the countryside, but they are also five generations apart. When Dad didn't know your mother, he still had some contact with them, but since he married your mother and moved to Haitian, he gradually stopped contacting them. But your mother is indeed an orphan. She grew up in an orphanage and has few relatives."
"That means we haven't had contact for 17 or 18 years?" Niu Bi asked.
Niu Xin nodded: "About the same! Your mother and I moved to Haitian less than a year before I got pregnant with you. At that time, we didn't have any contact."
"Will not in the future?" Niu Bi confirmed.
"This..." Niu Xin thought for a while: "It shouldn't be. After all, we are five generations apart and haven't had any contact for so many years. Even if there is any contact in the future, it is probably just like the relationship between neighbors..." At this point, Niu Xin seemed to understand what Niu Bi meant: "Bibi, you don't want to..."
Niu Bi sneered: "If you are poor in the downtown, no one will care about you. If you are rich in the mountains, you will have distant relatives. I am afraid that when our family becomes rich in the future, some distant relatives will come to us shamelessly. You and my mother are soft-hearted. At that time, they may wipe their tears and cheat the money away. I have to prevent this in advance."
Looking at Niu Bi's expression, Niu Xin sighed. His son is really a person who has a clear distinction between love and hate. He remembers who treats him well and will repay him double in the future. He also remembers who treats him badly and will return it with interest sooner or later. Although there is nothing wrong with clear love and hate, sometimes it is easy to offend people.
Niu Xin and Ma Min are both honest and traditional men and women. They are warm-hearted, but soft-hearted and easily moved. In fact, the couple had been "borrowed money" from others for emergency purposes many times before, but after the money was lent, it was never returned. Niu Bi had seen many such situations over the years, so he hated it.
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However, the year when Niu Bi just dropped out of school, he went to ask for money from those who borrowed money and didn't pay it back. As a result, they all had many excuses, in short, they had no money. Niu Bi was angry and would take out a bucket of manure every night and pour it on the doors and windows of these people. After several times, those people who had no money all paid back the money, but Niu Bi didn't forgive them and asked them to add a lot of interest. Before buying the car, the deposit of 100,000 yuan in the passbook that Niu Xin gave to Niu Bi was actually 60,000 to 70,000 yuan that Niu Bi wanted to get back.
Although Niu Bi is passionate and impulsive, he is very flexible and likes to plan ahead. Now that Niu Bi feels that he has some money, he has begun to guard against a series of problems that may arise after he becomes rich. The biggest worry of rich people is probably "too many relatives", and Niu Bi does not want to be a sucker.
Hearing Niu Bi's words of defense, Niu Xin also felt that it made sense. This person is like this. When you are poor, no one cares about you, but once you have money, all the relatives who are not related to you will come. Facing such a person is really a headache. With the soft-hearted nature of Niu Xin and Ma Min, they may be soft-hearted when the "relatives" cry poor, and lend 30,000 or 50,000 yuan, but whether they can get it back is not certain. If this happens once, there will definitely be a second time. How can Niu Bi bear this?
"This... Bibi, after all, our family has not been in contact with those relatives for so long, and we don't even know their phone calls. What you are worried about should not happen." Niu Xin said uncertainly.
"Hehe, dad, you are already over 40, but you are more naive than a teenager like me. Not to mention that money is the most important thing in today's society, from ancient times to now, which dynasty did not covet money and enjoyment? You have also watched a lot of TV novels, right? In the plots, there are often some poor people who run to "where" to seek refuge with "where" relatives. If the news that our family is rich is known to your poor relatives in the countryside, will they come to "seek refuge"? "
Niu Bi's words left Niu Xin speechless.
As Niu Bi said, despising the poor and loving the rich has existed since ancient times, and it is not a product of a specific era. Once a person has money, there will definitely be many "relatives" who come to seek refuge with him. They say they come to seek refuge, but in fact they just want to get some benefits. If you ignore them and drive them away, these "relatives" will definitely make up rumors about you, saying that you are heartless and have forgotten family affection when you have money.
Traditional Chinese people always value face and reputation. If you are really ruined by these "relatives", your life will definitely be difficult.
But if you manage it, you must spend money, but this money may be a bottomless pit. If you add it, don't think about getting it back. You may even lose yourself. It is not impossible that your family will be broken up.
Niu Xin and Ma Min are both traditional Chinese, so if they really meet poor relatives who come to seek refuge from the countryside, with their soft-hearted nature, they will definitely spend money to avoid disaster, just to save their face and reputation.
But Niu Bi is not a traditional person. Niu Bi is a rebellious young man with affection and righteousness, and clear likes and dislikes. When I was poor, you didn't associate with me for hundreds of years, but when I was rich, you all came running over. What are you doing? You are looking for death!
Niu Bi doesn't value face and reputation. In his opinion, face is a few cents per pound? Reputation is a few dollars per bowl? What's the use? As long as I am comfortable, I don't care what others say about me. Just live my own life and let others talk!
But Niu Bi also saw the weaknesses of his parents' character, so he gave Niu Xin a shot of prevention in advance. According to Niu Bi's idea, if he lives a wealthy life in the future, it doesn't matter if those poor relatives don't come. If they really dare to come to "take refuge", Niu Bi will let them know what "My Days of Living with Skeletons" means. If you don't make you schizophrenic, you are brave.
Niu Xin was silent for a moment, and finally sighed and shook his head: "Forget it, your mother and I will not care about this matter. If someone really comes to take refuge with us in the future, you can do it!"
"Dad, are you giving up your power?" Niu Bi had a smile on his face.
Niu Xin smiled and said, "You are the economic pillar of our family now. Dad will listen to you in the future. How can I delegate power or not?"
"Hehe, Dad, don't worry. If I had been in charge of the family earlier, I would have let our family live a good life. But it's not too late now. Don't worry about anything with my mom in the future. Just wait to enjoy the good life!" Niu Bi laughed proudly.
The more high-spirited Niu Bi was, the more Niu Xin felt that he was old. In fact, Niu Xin was not old. He was less than 40 years old. It was the prime of a man's life. But with a capable son and no ability of his own, Niu Xin felt that he was getting older and could not bear the heavy responsibility. But it was good this way. At least no matter what decision Niu Bi made in the future, he would not affect the overall situation. This was still very beneficial for Niu Bi to control the power.
"You kid..." Niu Xin smiled and sighed: "Alas! Dad is really old, and our family will rely on you in the future."
"It's too early to take care of him in his old age! In the future, our Niu's Meat Shop will have to rely on you to maintain its reputation!" Niu Bi said with a smile.
Niu Xin smiled, picked up the wine glass and took a sip: "Alas! This kind of life is really good."
Niu Bi had just finished talking to Niu Xin about the poor relatives when he heard a familiar voice outside the door: "Brother Bi, are you home?"
"Huh?" Niu Bi heard who was coming, got up and walked out of the door, and saw two people standing outside. One was the owner of the call, Zhang Yu, and the other petite figure was Zhang Xiaoyu. Who else could it be?
Niu Bi smiled and said: "Why are you here? Have you eaten?"
"Hehe, not yet! Didn't I hear yesterday that Brother Bi had a wife, so Xiaoyu and I came to see my sister-in-law!" Zhang Yu said embarrassedly.
Zhang Xiaoyu said shyly: "Brother Bi, I am sorry to bother you."
Niu Bi laughed: "Why bother? If you haven't eaten yet, just eat here! It just so happens that your sister-in-law is here too, I will introduce her to you."