Chapter 1997 - 1997: Disposing of the Huge Sum 3
Feng Qingxue noticed Guan Yu's thoughts and couldn't help but smile, "Of course. Even now, there are people privately buying and selling houses. If you want to buy one, I can find someone to ask around for you."
Guan Yu straightforwardly replied, "Then I'll trouble you, auntie, to help us out. We want to buy a house."
He had the ten thousand yuan given by Lu Jiang's father, and Zhou Zhou had some Gold on hand, enough to buy one together.
Lu Jiang's father picked up a chopstick full of bean sprouts and ate them, nodding in agreement, "In this matter, you can't go wrong listening to your aunt. It's a good thing to leave something valuable for future generations, much more practical than paper bills. When the economy improves, it's obvious that prices will rise. I guess within ten years, money will lose its value. I've experienced inflation and currency devaluation where many people's savings vanished."
Wang Xinsheng also agreed, "Although our country can't maliciously implement inflation policies like before, inflation is an inevitable result of economic development. Zhiyuan, although I've told you this many times, I still have to say it again now. You've married a good daughter-in-law, capable of benefiting three generations!"
Regarding this matter, Lu Jiang's father felt very proud.
"A wise wife means fewer troubles for the husband, a filial son brings peace to the father — a timeless saying. Even though we are in a new era that has discarded some of the feudal society's biases against women, this saying still holds meaningful value." Lu Jiang's father raised his wine glass to toast with the old friend, "If you marry the wrong daughter-in-law, even ruining three generations would be an understatement."
That's why he immediately chose Feng Qingxue, rather than Wang Jiao, who later wanted to marry Lu Jiang.
Feng Qingxue was praised so often that she grew thick-skinned, laughing, "Dad, uncle, if you keep praising me like this, I'm going to float away. Am I really that good?"
"Very good, very good, very good." Lu Jiang's father said three times.
Wang Xinsheng laughed heartily, "Did you hear that? Your father-in-law said you're very good. I'm sure Ajiang thinks the same, right?"
"Correct! Every word you say is a gem!" Lu Jiang got up to pour him some wine.
Wang Xinsheng took a sip, put down his wine glass, "Zhiyuan, I truly envy your family, raising such outstanding kids, and the most precious part is their unity and love. Brothers united, their power is undefeatable — each and every one of them will be remarkable in the future."
"Are your sons not good then? Don't always think other people's kids are better." Lu Jiang's father said without hesitation.
Even though Wang Xinsheng's son's were born to different wives and not the same mother, the children from the first wife were raised by Guo Yan, and the eldest son's firstborn grandson was also brought up by her. While their affection may not match these kids of their own family's, it was still quite good.
Wang Zhonghua often corresponded with Xibao, and through those letters, Lu Jiang's father learned a lot about their family affairs. If Wang Qingping and Zhonghua's uncle and brotherly relationships weren't good, their cousins wouldn't appear in the letters to Xibao so often, which demonstrated that Wang Xinsheng didn't slack in educating his sons and grandsons.
Zhou Fengchun also said, "Exactly, Old Wang, don't be ungrateful while still complaining. For a family with bad sibling relationships or unworthy descendants, yours wouldn't be in that list even if you rotated a hundred times."
Furthermore, Wang Xinsheng always held important positions, so his children's starting point had long surpassed ninety-nine percent of people.
For kids from the Lu family, especially Lu Tianjun and the older ones, who among them didn't rely on their own efforts to have what they have today? Lu Jiang was young, with shallow roots, and didn't bring too much privilege to the family's children.