After leaving the hotel, Zhou Yuqi and Lan Zhiqiang went to the bank and deposited the red envelopes they received last night into the bank.

After leaving the bank, Zhou Yuqi drove Lan Zhiqiang back to her parents' home.

After greeting each other, Zhou Yuqi went into the kitchen and helped her mother make lunch together.

Zhou's mother asked curiously: "How much did Zhiqiang's rich cousin give him?"

Zhou Yuqi hesitated for a moment and replied: "His aunt's family gave her 580,000 yuan."

"How generous!" Zhou's mother sighed, "I heard you say before that one of your female classmates is dating Zhiqiang's cousin. How is the relationship going now?"

"It was a good conversation."

"When are you going to get married?"

"Not decided yet."

Zhou's mother smiled and said, "It would be interesting if they got married. In one class in high school, three girls married three cousins."

Zhou Yuqi smiled faintly and did not answer the question.

"It's a bit inconvenient for you and Zhiqiang to live in his aunt's house." Zhou's mother said, "How about you come back and live there."

"It's even more inconvenient to live here." Zhou Yuqi said, "Zhiqiang and I plan to rent a house in Baijia Village."

"Can I rent a house?"

"This morning, Zhiqiang called his uncle and told him about renting a house. His uncle said that he could rent an entire house."

"The rent for a whole house is very expensive."

"Just be more expensive. Zhiqiang and I have both low incomes."

Before lunch, Lan Zhiqiang received a call from Bai Guohua.

After ending the call, Lan Zhiqiang said: "After lunch, go to Baijiacun to sign the lease."

After dinner and saying goodbye to his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Lan Zhiqiang drove his wife back to his hometown. After picking up his parents, he went to Baijiacun.

A three-story small foreign-style building, each floor has been renovated, has five bedrooms, and the annual rent is 25,000 yuan.

After viewing the house, Lan Zhiqiang signed a contract to rent the villa without discussing it with his family or thinking too much.

Bai Guohua and Yu Lixian came over to look at the house with them.

After signing the lease, Yu Lixian said to her eldest sister: "Sister, from now on, Binbin and Weiqiang will come to your place for lunch, and I will pay for their food. Zhiqiang, Yuqi, and my eldest brother-in-law will all have it."

Food expenses, the total food expenses for everyone are 10,000 yuan a month. In addition, Bai He said that he will give you a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan."

"That's too much," the aunt said with a smile.

"Not much." Yu Lixian took out her mobile phone and transferred money to Lan Zhiqiang, "Ten thousand yuan for food expenses."

"received."

"Sister, your salary for this month will be paid next month."

"good."

Starting from August, Bai He gave his second uncle a salary increase from 6,000 to 10,000 per month.

That night, Lan Zhiqiang and his family moved to a newly rented house for the night.

After dinner, Bai He and Wang Xiaoya watered the plants in the yard.

"We need to hire a full-time gardener to take care of our yard." Bai He said.

"Tired?"

"It's a bit of fun. It's fun to water the plants occasionally. But if I water the plants every day, it's boring. I might as well use this time to practice calligraphy and painting."

"Can you write in italics?"

"Yes."

"How was the writing?"

"It's just so-so. It doesn't have a lean physique and it can be written well."

"Tomorrow, do you want to go to the house rented by the second aunt's house?" Wang Xiaoya asked.

"You want to go?"

"Asking if you want to go."

"I don't want to go."

"What's going on tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow, I'm going to spend a few hours painting."

"What to draw?"

"Draw our courtyard."

"Painting in the yard?"

"yes."

"I'll stand aside and watch you paint, and bring you tea and water."

"Okay!" Bai He said cheerfully.

"Does this count as red sleeves adding fragrance?" Wang Xiaoya asked.

"Red sleeves add fragrance, describing a beautiful woman reading beside you." Bai He said with a smile.

"You can take that book of Tang poetry and recite a few poems." Wang Xiaoya suggested.

"Tomorrow, your former colleague is getting married, and we are going to attend the wedding banquet."

"Husband, how much is the red envelope?"

"You decide."

"Give me twenty thousand."

"Twenty thousand is too much, so I'll give you ten thousand. When we got married, she gave us sixteen hundred yuan."

"Give me sixteen thousand."

"Okay, ten times."

"Next year, we will have a full moon banquet for our children. Do we want to invite this classmate to participate?"

Wang Xiaoya thought for a moment and said with a wry smile: "If invited, we will also have to attend her child's full moon banquet in the future. This kind of ordinary contact is too close and will waste a lot of time."

"From now on, our family will hold banquets and receive red envelopes, but no matter how much money the guests give, we will only keep one hundred yuan, and prepare a gift for each guest attending the banquet. As for ordinary friends holding various banquets,

As long as you notify us, you can give red envelopes through WeChat transfer, and you don’t have to go there in person.”

"Ordinary friends hold birthday parties every year, and we give red envelopes every year?"

"We can't do this, otherwise we will be taken advantage of." Bai He said with a smile.

"A rich man like Li Chaoren has many relatives and friends, and he is invited to many banquets every year. He is older, and he will not attend too many banquets in person, but I think the red envelopes will definitely be sent. You said

, Haha, how many red envelopes does he give out in a year?"

"have no idea."

"For my mother's fiftieth birthday, she will receive red envelopes as you told her. What do you think would be a good gift for the guests?"

"Zodiac commemorative silver coin, what do you think?"

"The whole set?"

"One."

"How many hundred yuan does a zodiac commemorative silver coin cost?"

"Yes."

“Isn’t it easy to cash out?”

"It's not easy to cash out." Bai He smiled and said, "To be honest, the collection value of the zodiac commemorative silver coins issued this year is not as good as the Yuan Datou silver coins."

"Since the collection value is not big, I won't give it away." Wang Xiaoya said with a smile, "I think we can organize a lottery. Each guest will be assigned a number plate and conduct multiple rounds of lottery. For example, let my mother say a single-digit lucky number.

Number, the number on the number plate the guest holds. If there is one number, a cash red envelope of 50 yuan will be given. If there are two numbers, a cash red envelope of 500 yuan will be given. If there are three numbers, a cash red envelope of 5,000 yuan will be given."

"This is an interesting way to play. It's just that if you set up three tables for a banquet, there are too few guests, so it's not fun."

"A big banquet?"

"I think we can have a big banquet."

Wang Xiaoya smiled and said: "Ask my mother again and see what she thinks. She doesn't want to have a big banquet, so we won't force it."

"Okay!" Bai He said with a smile, "When our child has a full moon banquet next year, we must have a big banquet and make it lively."

"Want to show off?"

"I have shown off very well. Now all the women and children in Baijia Village know that our family is rich."
To be continued...