Chapter 664: Chapter 477: Plans for Home
On the way back, the sky was blue with white clouds.
Through the airplane window, you could also see some bizarrely shaped clouds and the tall buildings of the city, tiny like dots reflected in your eyes.
Uncle didn’t say anything, but he did everything.
Xiao Le was very grateful, and it was the first time she truly experienced her uncle’s strength and his omnipotence.
Just as he always said.
As long as you believe you’re right, then you don’t have to be afraid of anything you do.
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This is what it feels like to have someone to rely on.
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By the time the plane landed, it was already the end of August.
After returning from Sha City, Xiao Le didn’t mention her experiences to anyone.
She didn’t go out of her way to show off either, even when Er Piya asked about it she didn’t say much.
Instead, she focused on studying for her senior year of high school, determined to get into a good university through her own efforts.
In the future, she plans to join her uncle’s company and strive to serve him with loyalty.
Not only did Xiao Le start a new school year.
Chen An’an was now in sixth grade, and Er Piya had started first grade.
Summer vacation was surely lively, but it also passed by quickly.
Er Piya didn’t need any guarantees, she said she would be first, and she definitely would be.
As for the spoiled brat Chen An’an, he was clever in other matters, but a bit less gifted when it came to studying.
This year’s goal was very clear, to be within the top twelve in his class.
Their family moved out of the large villa again and settled into a spacious flat near The Bund.
Living in such an apartment, the family felt warmer and cosier.
New neighbors moved into the unit next door. This time, it was the Five Beauties.
Downstairs, Old Yang’s Bun Shop was said to have encountered a big issue; Mrs. Yang was so angered by her daughter-in-law that she ended up in the hospital.
The cause was her daughter-in-law taking the several hundred thousand yuan of bride price from the family and spending it on two designer bags and a designer watch.
For an ordinary family that carries a handbag worth over a hundred thousand, who does she think she’s showing off to?
Besides, that bride price was scraped together with great difficulty by the old couple, hoping to have it as a safety net for the newlyweds’ initial expenses.
They thought they could use the money to tide them over slowly.
Who knew her daughter-in-law would turn around and spend tens of thousands on her two favorite bags.
So incompetent at managing household affairs, how would she handle a home in the future?
The daughter-in-law just got married and already started demanding a divorce from her son, claiming that her mother-in-law was too annoying.
The bride price was for her, so it was her own money.
Should she spend her own money and still be bossed around by her mother-in-law?
What a situation.
A good daughter-in-law brings prosperity to three generations, a bad one ruins them. This was really something else.
Old Yang’s Family drama had become the talk of the community, so much so that many locals vowed they would never marry a daughter-in-law from out of town.
Liu Fen and Peng Ying were busily gossiping in the community elders’ group every day, thoroughly enjoying themselves.
Old Yang’s issues were just mother-in-law and daughter-in-law problems.
There was another family that was even more outrageous, utterly off the charts.
They were also from this same community, and they were a relocation household.
Their son had finally graduated from college, didn’t want to do anything, not even looking for a job.
All he thought about was using money to open a billiard hall.
With no other choice, his parents gathered up a million yuan for him.
Opening a billiard hall wasn’t exactly a bad business.
But this son went too far in trying to expand the area for the billiards hall—he knocked down a load-bearing wall in the rented property.
With that one knock, he nearly ended his parents’ lives.
They had thought, even if they lost the entire million in this venture, they could begrudgingly accept it, chalking it up to their son gaining experience.
But that one act of his knocked their family back to before liberation.
Just the compensation for the affected residents above them was astronomical.
They gave back all they got from the old house’s demolition money with that one hammer blow.
And it still wasn’t enough.
Liu Fen was quite animated when talking about this.
She finally found someone worse than her eldest sister’s son who jumped off the building.
An even dumber fool.
Entrepreneurship dooming a generation, the ancients did not deceive me, old lady!
In such a large community, you never hear about any success stories.
It’s either squandering fortunes or angering their parents to death.
“My daughter, with your family’s situation, just as long as An’an and the others don’t start a business when they grow up, they could never run out of money in ten lifetimes.”
Liu Fen said earnestly.
Of course, Song Yanxi was clear on that matter, and she gave her mother a side glance.
“Mom, you don’t need to worry about these things. Whatever An’an and the others do when they grow up, Pingsheng will take care of it.”
“I’m just saying!”
Liu Fen continued, then shifted to talking about her sister, Song Wu.
Song Wu’s son, Yang Chaoqun, was almost two years old.
Liu Fen had a small selfish wish; she hoped Song Yanxi would talk to her sister about having another child.
The child must take the surname Song.
With the conditions of their family, Song Wu’s son can certainly take her own surname.
Liu Fen is also smart; she knows that if she mentions it to Yang Changwen, he definitely won’t agree.
He’d even have quite a few objections.
If her son-in-law could speak up, let alone the second child.
Now, changing to the surname Song shouldn’t be a big problem.
Song Yanxi really didn’t want to bring this up, but seeing the earnest look in Liu Fen’s eyes, she knew.
She really wanted Song Wu to have another child carrying their family name.
That would be impossible on her side.
Firstly, she wouldn’t have another child, and secondly, considering Chen Pingsheng’s current business status.
Who would dare have his son take someone else’s surname?
Actually, it’s not a big issue for Song Wu; she’s definitely planning on having another child.
Having her son take her surname would make her, as a mother, too happy to object.
The ones who would object would only be Yang Changwen and the Yang family parents.
“This matter should wait until Song Wu is pregnant to discuss.”
“Then fine, I’ll take it as you’ve agreed.”
Liu Fen earnestly said, “Mom hasn’t asked for your help in so many years, you must take this to heart.”
“You have the nerve to say you’ve never asked me for anything?”
Song Yanxi counted on her fingers as she itemized, “Previously when Song Wu was still doing extra work, weren’t you the one coming to me every day to give her a lift? And when the house was clearly big enough, you clamored for a bigger one.
“Who bought one for you in Capital City, and then another in Magic City and Guangzhou?
“When you saw those old ladies in their fancy cars, you sneakily came to me asking for one. Over the years, you’ve changed cars no less than seven or eight, or at least four or five, right?”
“Heh… You really have become something, Song Yanxi, keeping such a detailed account for what you’ve done for your mom.”
Liu Fen, feeling guilty, took Little Third, Chen Lu, who was asleep, for a walk.
Now, the life she and Peng Ying, the two old ladies, lead is indescribably carefree.
If she doesn’t leave now, Peng Ying will start having opinions about her.
Besides, do families like theirs lack money?
The least of their concerns is probably spending money.
When Peng Ying first came to Capital City, she was so frugal!
Now, facing those fur coats worth a few hundred thousand, she doesn’t even blink, saying buy it if she likes it.
Isn’t it all because her son is too rich?
After their parents grow old, their glory relies entirely on their sons and daughters.
In a year at most, she spends just a few million, which is nothing compared to her granddaughter’s casual splurge on a watch.
Although such consumption is extravagant, Liu Fen thinks she’s still quite frugal.
At least more so than Peng Ying.
It’s easy to switch from frugality to luxury – this saying is true. Old Mrs. Peng was as frugal as one could be.
Now, she has become the type of customer that luxury stores love most.
Song Yanxi wasn’t trying to dredge up old scores.
Just a reminder not to be ungrateful, and not to forget who brought her this dignified elder lifestyle.
Their kind of family definitely does not fuss over spending money.
Because no matter how they spend it, they cannot spend it all; she herself now has a few billion in savings.
Although not worried about spending, if you spend their family’s money and don’t acknowledge their goodness,
Then she, Song Yanxi, won’t play the fool, not even for her own mother.
Now, she also has her own way of managing finances, which is speculating in gold.
This is what she likes best.
After all, gold is hard currency globally.
Far more tangible than those incomprehensible antiques.
Every time she spends money, she invests ten times that amount in stockpiling gold.
Striving not to waste her expenditure.
Now she is not the only one fond of speculating in gold; many top rich women enjoy doing it too.
As the saying goes, antiques are prized in prosperous times, gold in chaotic times.
The overseas situation is becoming increasingly unclear, a prelude to turbulent times!
Gold will only continue to appreciate.
As for antiques, her family doesn’t play with such things at all.
They only buy one or two pieces occasionally when they come across something they like.
In the current situation, depending on antiques to make money is no different from becoming a traitor during the war years.
Song Yanxi herself has her own ways of making money, buying overseas tech stocks in addition to gold.
Like Apple, NVIDIA, etc.
She started buying Apple slowly from 2014 and NVIDIA because of the tech boom in chips in recent years.
She began investing in 2015.
Investing the family’s major funds in these Big Bull tech stocks is also the best risk resistance method her husband talked about.
Both of them prefer speculating in major stocks.
As for those small, domestic stocks with too much deception, they unanimously chose to avoid them.
Big stocks, even if rising slowly, are long-term bullish.
But small stocks, even if they soar mightily, can collapse out of nowhere.
Money can continue to make money.
That’s why their family has the confidence to spend freely.