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Chapter 381 - Chapter 381 381. Wu Leis Plan_1

Chapter 381: 381. Wu Lei’s Plan_1 Chapter 381: 381. Wu Lei’s Plan_1 Auntie talked and talked, not knowing what to say anymore.

She sighed, “You see, even if I don’t look up to that girl named Lili, she understands: marriage isn’t something you can achieve just by talking. Expecting to have a house before marriage is nothing. We had planned to put money down for Leilei to buy a house anyway.”

What upset her was Wu Lei’s immature thinking.

First, he wanted to play the big shot without the capability–wasn’t he clear about what his family could afford? He should have understood long ago that he couldn’t afford a house in Ning City!

If he really wanted to have a good life with Lili, he could completely choose to go back to his hometown. As far as she knew, Lili’s hometown wasn’t Ning City either.

Second, he acted without responsibility or commitment.

First, he demanded full payment; when that didn’t work out, he insisted on a down payment, without any consideration for how he and his parents would live afterward.

Even if you truly loved that Lili, how would you manage to arrange a wedding for her? How much money would it cost? How much dowry… do you have any plan at all?

He had nothing, only pressing the elders in his family step by step… If he didn’t wake up to reality soon, it was truly a waste to have raised such a son.

But Auntie’s painstaking efforts were something Wu Lei could not feel.

He just didn’t want to bow down for these five pecks of rice.

After all, in his view, buying a house was just buying a house. Why make such unreasonable demands?

With how difficult it is for college graduates to find employment these days! He had finally found stable work, but now he was expected to resign and go back to the countryside to do farm work for a year, earning two to three thousand a month… Ouch, even a waiter earns three thousand a month now!

He hadn’t thought about whether he could handle farm work, but was considering that Lili’s career was in a slump. If he weren’t there by her side, how would a frail and helpless girl like her get through it?

And to top it all off, he would be working for Song Tan–

Not to speak ill of his cousin, but Song Tan was really too much. Wasn’t Lili’s career disaster related to her dealings with Song Tan’s family?

All these reasons made him very reluctant to give in to Auntie.

“Mom, your request is really unreasonable. Look around, including in our village, who doesn’t earn money for their children to set up a family and start a business?”

“It’s a good thing to buy a house, but you can’t ask me to resign because of it.”

What he didn’t say was that other people were desperate to borrow money for their son’s house, but his mom? She didn’t bring up borrowing money, and she wouldn’t even give the money they already had…

Really.

He knew he was asking for a bit too much money, but what could he do if the housing prices in Ning City didn’t drop?

Moreover, his sister Wu Ling was still in college, and she would be able to work soon. It wouldn’t cost much money, so was there a need to be so restrictive?

But.

No matter how eloquently he argued his case, Auntie stubbornly stuck to her statement: “You want a house, fine, go to your aunt’s place and work for a year, following Tantan’s lead. Whenever you go, I’ll give you the down payment money the next year.”

“If you don’t go, then struggle on your own–there are families who bankrupt themselves for their son, and there are those that don’t give a penny–I’m okay with both. It’s up to you.”

Wu Lei really had no other option.

He truly didn’t want to return to that small mountain village, and he sincerely wanted to struggle for a future with Lili.

However, when he discussed this with Zhu Li, she wiped away her tears and said softly, “Leilei, maybe you should just listen.”

“Auntie has already had a bad impression of me, she intentionally wants to separate us. If you insist on making trouble with Auntie… Look, I’m not after your family’s house; your family wouldn’t even put my name on it… Staying in the big city, the medical and educational facilities are so much better, it’s for thinking ahead… Auntie misunderstoods me…”

“If you’re unwilling to go back, what about us in the future… in the future… Leilei, marriage is about two families coming together…”

She burst into tears.

After Zhu Li’s earnest persuasion, Wu Lei finally nodded with a heavy heart and then set off for his hometown with a sense of heroic tragedy.

…

Meanwhile, Song Tan was also driving her pickup truck, filled with excitement, as she made her way to the class reunion, the truck bed loaded with straw and watermelons.

The agreed-upon farm restaurant was named Li Zhai Restaurant, a renovated estate on the outskirts of Yun City, which had seen considerable investment. Thus, when everyone heard about the scenic countryside location, complete with hills and water, they went there early.

But to Song Tan, these types of places were a dime a dozen back in her hometown and nothing to fuss over, so she didn’t head out until after 4 o’clock.

Upon arrival–well, look at that!

The class president mentioned that there would be over 20 classmates and fewer than 10 family members. Song Tan had been hoping these 30 or so people could turn into quite a number of clients for her business.

Yet, to her surprise, those additional 10 family members were almost all children. The oldest was 5 years old, the youngest only 18 months…

Song Tan: …

Then, thinking about her own age–she was 23 this year. Even if her classmates weren’t exactly her age, at most they’d be only a year or two older. They sure were proactive about marriage!

And when they saw her, all the students present exclaimed in surprise:

“Song Tan?! Oh my, Song Tan, how did you get so beautiful?”

“Wow! I thought you were pretty in school, but I had no idea you would become this lovely…”

“Song Tan, your skin is really nice. What skincare products do you usually use?”

“Wa Qianqian said you’re selling vegetables at home now, did your skin get so good from your family’s veggies? You know, the no-pollution, pure green kind?”

“Song Tan, Song Tan, do you have a partner? I have a cousin whose prospects are pretty good…”

Everyone crowded around her with lively enthusiasm, chatting excitedly.

Time had passed, and Song Tan couldn’t clearly remember the names of her high school classmates,

Fortunately, the group chat had notes and some profile photos to jog her memory, and she managed to match names to faces.

For those she couldn’t recognize, she graciously smiled, pulled out her phone, and asked around, to which no one seemed to mind.

If the female classmates were like that, the male classmates were even crazier.

They kept lamenting, “You’re so beautiful! I’m too embarrassed to even suggest we should get to know each other better…”

Song Tan smiled openly, “Getting to know each other better is fine by me. I have a very simple standard for choosing a boyfriend: he must be quick and efficient at work.”

“If you genuinely have the intention, why not come over and help me harvest rice so I can assess you?”

The male classmate looked at her with a wistful expression, “After harvesting the rice, do we also have to pull peanuts and pick corn?”

That’s how the jokes on the internet go, who would have thought Song Tan could be so mischievous.

Song Tan: Actually, she was serious, hahaha.

But this way, any barriers between everyone quickly disappeared.

Looking at the classmates holding their fair-skinned, cutely dressed toddlers who smiled sweetly at her, babbling “aba, aba,” Song Tan couldn’t help but return the smile, which made the little kids even more thrilled, cackling with delight.

The female classmates were extremely envious, “Being pretty gets you special treatment. Look how much the kids like you!”

But Song Tan knew very well–it wasn’t her face they liked.