“Dad, where have you been? Why are you so tired?”
“Your mother said that the food in Nancun Market is cheap. I rode my bicycle for forty minutes and bought a bunch of them. They are all your favorites.”
Jiang Qin put the water cup in front of him: “Isn’t it just a few cents cheaper? It’s not hard enough. Is our family so poor?”
Jiang Zhenghong took a sip of water and said with satisfaction: “This has nothing to do with poverty. You are going to college, and you have to marry a wife after college. There will be more places to spend money in the future, and there will be more places to save. Of course you have to save, but you can’t spend it lavishly!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the door shaft creaked, and the door was pushed open again.
Ms. Yuan Youqin walked in with a shopping bag from a department store, her expression was overjoyed and she was humming a tune.
Seeing this scene, the two men couldn’t help but look at each other.
“What did you buy?”
“Sister Xu from our workplace said that the department store’s woolen coats were on sale for half price, and I got a big deal!”
Jiang Zhenghong’s eyes widened: “Wool coat? How much did you spend on it?”
Ms. Yuan Youqin showed a proud expression: “The original price was 888, but now it’s only 488.”
“Dad, is this what you said about spending money lavishly?” Jiang Qin was shocked.
“You prodigal bitch, it’s the dog days of summer, what kind of wool coat are you buying?”
“What do you know? If it wasn’t the dog days of summer, the price wouldn’t be reduced!”
Jiang Zhenghong showed his majesty as the head of the family: “Jiang Qin has finished the college entrance examination. After his grades are over, he has to buy wine and pay his tuition. There is a lot of money to spend.”
Yuan Youqin changed her shoes and walked to the living room: “Aren’t these my exact words? Also, did you go to the Nancun vegetable market when I asked you to go?”
“Of course I went. I did the math and found that the food at Nancun Market is much cheaper than our salt shop downstairs. I saved more than twenty dollars this time.”
“Then we saved three hundred and two today?”
Jiang Zhenghong’s mind didn’t turn around for a long time: “Where did the three hundred come from?”
Ms. Yuan Youqin picked up the shopping bag in her hand: “I used 488 to buy a coat originally priced at 888. Didn’t I save another 300 yuan here and there?”
“Youqin, I have to say something about you. Your concept of consumption is obviously wrong.”
“Jiang Zhenghong, I’ve been married to you for so many years and I haven’t bought any clothes. It’s just a wool coat and you still blame me?”
Jiang Qin watched happily from the side, feeling that this long-lost family dispute was heartwarming.
Dad is still in his prime, in good health, and his hair has not turned gray at the age of fifty-three, nor has he secretly driven Didi to the point of fainting in the car just to earn a down payment for himself.
My biological mother is still young and loves beauty. She would go shopping in department stores if she had a little money. She didn’t even dare to buy meat because she was saving money.