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  Chen Haotian brought a man home for the first time in his life.

  Generally speaking, the person who brings the bride back home is almost certainly the son-in-law. So Chen's parents invited several relatives and friends who are close to them, a group of middle-aged and elderly people, to book a private room two days before New Year's Eve at noon, to have lunch together and "surround" Chen Huasheng's lawyer's hairy-legged son-in-law.

  Pang Hua started teaching from his master's degree and is now a formal lecturer. When facing a group of aunties, uncles, and grandpas, he feels somewhat nervous in his heart but basically doesn't show it on his face. As for Chen Huacheng, if she gets nervous, then she shouldn't be doing this job at all.

  Locals who claim to be intellectuals actually dislike forming close relationships with government or business families. However, Pang Hua has been Chen Huai's classmate since high school, and he himself is a Ph.D., teaching at F University, with impeccable appearance, speech, education, and career - a perfect candidate for a son-in-law who will not make people jealous or look down on him.

  In short, including Dad and Mom, they are very satisfied with Chen Huasheng's choice and Pang Hua's understanding. Well, even if they are not satisfied... Chen Huasheng wouldn't really care anyway.

  From the beginning, everyone was actually very cautious. Firstly, the dishes at Dian were sumptuous but not expensive. Secondly, when speaking, they also had a sense of propriety and wouldn't speak out of turn.

  When Chen Huasheng went to pay the bill with a big smile, female elders congratulated him one after another, especially since the couple already had a house and didn't need the elderly to spend money, which was rare enough to make people with unmarried children drool.

  Chen Hua Sheng couldn't recall if she had experienced such a thing in her past life, but everyone's teasing was also hard to make her show a shy or similar expression. She was calm and didn't look like a young woman at all.

  "Xiao Shengsheng, when are you inviting everyone to drink at your wedding?"

  "We don't plan on having a wedding banquet, we want to take a cruise ship to Greece for our honeymoon."

  "Cruise ship? The big one with a restaurant. And also shops and a swimming pool?"

  Yes, this way is more relaxing. Within 7-8 days, it's either a plane or a big cruise ship, no need to rush on the road and change hotels every day, and when you land, it's just for one day.

  The car tour guide is also arranged. It's just that the cost of going ashore is not cheap.

  "Oh dear, honeymoon is supposed to be a week long after all."

  "Not bad, not bad."

  Dad and mom didn't even have the chance to express their opinions, actually they still wanted to go on stage to share their thoughts. But, well, it's true. Instead of spending that money to show off to others, it's better to spend it on themselves, maybe it'll be more worthwhile.

  Pang Hua returned to his seat.

  When everyone had eaten almost enough, New Hair followed his future father-in-law and mother-in-law back home to drink tea, while the others went back home to gossip.

  Pang Hua took the train back home on New Year's Eve. He didn't hide that there was no room for him to live in at his family home. The Chen family wasn't opposed to this situation either, after all, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law problems were often hidden dangers in marriage. If Pang Hua didn't need to spend every day under the watchful eyes of his parents, did it mean that the Chen family had gained an extra half son?

  What's more, cough, what makes the bride's parents proud is that the financial power of the future son-in-law is absolutely in their daughter's hands. Moreover, the daughter doesn't need her parents to prepare any dowry for her marriage. The money in the elderly people's hands and the house in the family will not be touched at all! Although it's unnecessary for parents and children to talk about money, who doesn't hope that they can enjoy their old age without burden? Well, taking care of grandchildren is another matter. That's not a burden at all.

  ……

  "I support him staying in school as a teacher, university teachers have a good social status and it won't affect our doing some small business on the side, I'm also a lawyer who opened an online store."

  "I heard opening an online store is very profitable?!" My dad asked this as soon as he opened his mouth.

  "Dad, I spend four or five hours every day in the store, including Sundays! The money I actually earn is not as much as when I was an assistant manager and had a fixed salary. However, most of the things I use and wear are products that I made myself, which saves me a lot on living expenses. Don't be envious, Dad. About half of the people who open stores end up losing money. Several of my suppliers were initially very confident about 'getting electrified' and doing e-commerce, but in the end they all went back to their old ways. As for companies that have their own ideas and might stab me in the back one day, there's only one solution: I register the trademark and let them produce it, no way am I going to help them with marketing!"

  Chen Haotian and his family of three were eating the takeout from noon, drinking some wine, and under the influence of various emotions, she talked a bit more than usual.

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  Dad didn't notice this matter, he was just a bit down: people around him weren't all saying that using the internet and e-commerce could make a lot of money? Why is it so hard?!

  "If money was that easy to make, everyone would be rich by now! I told you not to hang out with those old men who loaf around downstairs and brag all day. You didn't listen, look at the kind of people they are! They pretend to know what they're talking about, but they don't!" His mom scolded him thoroughly, apparently having accumulated a lot of pent-up anger.

  "Mom, many people really think so. The factories I've been in touch with also thought so before they lost money." Chen Huaicheng was not speaking for his father, but seeking truth from facts.

  ...when he became a father, he immediately became dispirited.

  Then, mom started "interrogating" the details.

  "Baby, is his money really all managed by you?"

  "He only has a lecturer's salary, because he only teaches four or five classes a week and doesn't do any administrative work, so it's not very high; his other income is the housing allowance I give him in the name of the company, as well as the company's net profit distribution. Hmm, just gave him less than 5,000 yuan in dividends, which should cover the expenses for Chinese New Year; but the housing allowance hasn't been given yet."

  "A 30% dividend and it's only five thousand?" Dad was even more speechless.

  "Not even one."

  "So what's the point of starting this company? You're making yourself so busy!"

  "Dad, that's also money!" Chen Huai Sheng retorted, "Can you just go out and easily earn 10,000 yuan? Our family isn't some kind of aristocratic family! And the place I live in, the car I drive, are all mortgaged under the company's name. How much is the rent and interest?! Aren't these also money?!"

  What a lot of nonsense.

  Dad grumbled and complained everywhere, including the house being too small, the car being too cheap, the location not being good, the name not being good and so on... Actually, it was just that he couldn't understand, wasn't satisfied with, and wasn't happy about her earning so little money after starting her own business.

  The mother and daughter completely ignored him, leaving him aside to be cold-shouldered.

  Mom is more concerned about post-marriage matters; while Dad was ignored for a long time before he finally remembered.

  The daughter actually didn't set up a wine table...

  "…They like to make a show, the whole family, old and young, all go to occupy seats and eat, I'm not losing out! And then there's venue setup, makeup, emcee, attire, it's basically impossible to make a profit! It's better to take that money to travel! The money I work hard for is not easy to come by!"

  "Which of you two is going to pay?" Dad asked gruffly.

  My mom almost beat him up! Listen, what kind of crap questions are these?!

  "I pay his rent, he pays for the cruise, isn't that fair?!" Chen Huasheng very bluntly blocked all decent and indecent topics, or rather, she was too familiar with her parents' vastly different temperaments.

  "Hmm... how about sending out some wedding candies?" Mom asked.

  Now this is more like it!

  "No need to send it separately. I'll just give it when we meet. I'll prepare a few boxes at home and send them to my colleagues, it won't cost much."

  Several boxes! Dad is at ease now and doesn't need to spend an extra sum of money; Mom is also relieved, daughter has taken everything into consideration.

  "Okay, you go this time. Where was it? Greece? Right, go there and take a look, if it's good, your mom and I will also go have some fun."

  "Alright."

  "Is Greece very expensive?"

  "It's cheaper than buying an inlaid ring. That kind of ring isn't worth that price."

  "Exactly! It's not even worth buying a gold ring. " My dad suddenly realized this and didn't think it would be embarrassing to not have a wedding banquet. "I heard last time that someone spent tens of thousands of yuan on an imported diamond ring, but when they received it, it was a fake diamond, only worth a few thousand yuan. The gold is only 18k, and the tens of thousands of yuan are gone, and it's hard to sue because it's indeed imported and indeed a diamond, so they sell it to this fool! ... What a sin, just getting married, and that much money is gone!"

  The old lady turned her head away and ignored him. Chen Huai Cheng didn't even have a hint of annoyance.

  However, in the evening, Pang Hua called and asked her to go home together on New Year's Day.

  He won't go back for New Year's Eve dinner? Chen Xiao didn't ask further.

  Just tell him it's fine and remind him what he has to eat. Also, I heard that several restaurants have good food, you can go try them out.

  "By the way, didn't this kid have a lot of acne on his face before?" The old mom suddenly remembered after dinner, when her excitement had not yet passed.

  "Yes, and at the beginning, he was never cured, his mother had no patience, he was a bit inferior in those years, and didn't like to make friends, so his family actually gave up on him."

  "His face can't be seen now!"

  "His face is a living advertisement for my store, I've taken photos and archived them, especially those pockmarks after the acne healed, they're very troublesome to deal with."

  "Hmm... his family's living conditions are quite good?"

  "It has nothing to do with him or me." Chen Huan said coldly. "He has an older brother, though."

  As for the troubles or wealth of the Pong family, Dad was completely uninterested - he was very clear-headed about this.

  "When are you going to register? Nangnang, we need to go back to our hometown to handle the formalities."

  Chen Hua furrowed his brow, right, household registration. "Hmm, I'm a collective household registration... Sigh, let's talk about this later, mom, I don't want to have kids yet, I'm really busy now and don't have the energy."

  "Hahaha..."

  "Haha——"

  Two old men laughed together.

  "Ah, wait until you have it, mom will come over, don't worry."

  "However, it's true that your place is a bit small. Dear, why don't you wait until you've got a bigger house before having kids? That way, we can come over and stay too... Ah, what a pity, now the housing prices seem to be recovering again, our original one was actually not bad at all... Dear, you can consider it, buying a bigger house, so your mom and I can come take care of the grandchild."

  "It's not that one side is an only child, can't they have two? Nangnang, why don't we have two then? After all, medicine is getting better and better now, and there are also month-long nurses, huh, one with the surname Pang, one with the surname Chen, how great! This way the kids won't be too lonely either."

  "Mom, I'm not married yet!"

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