Chapter 1171: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 1171: How About I Introduce a Partner for Your Cousin?

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

In the blink of an eye, the next day arrived. Today was the important day for the grave relocation. Wang Zhangtian, bringing along his son Wang Yaohua and his wife Zhao Lifen, returned early from the county town.

This time they didn't come back by bus.

Instead, they drove back in a Toyota Corolla sedan.

However, judging by the exterior, it didn't look very new; it should be a used car.

Upon asking, it turned out Wang Yaohua, gritting his teeth, spent nearly a hundred thousand yuan to buy this used Corolla for the sake of finding a partner.

Recently, Wang Yaohua had gone on quite a few blind dates, but none succeeded. He thought it was because he lacked a car; after all, he figured he already had a house.

Although that was a small-property-rights old house his father had bought in the county town long ago, if he didn't tell the blind date partners, who would know it was small-property-rights?

Without a car, taking girls out to eat, go shopping, and such was indeed inconvenient, so Wang Zhangtian and Zhao Lifen, the couple, agreed to Wang Yaohua buying a car and even helped pool some money to make up the down payment for Wang Yaohua's car purchase.

However, it was very obvious Wang Yaohua got ripped off; the used car market has always been deep waters.

At that time, the Corolla's market price for the lowest configuration was just over a hundred thousand, and the highest configuration was only around 160,000.

This used car of his had already run 50,000 kilometers when he bought it, so on the used market it was worth at most forty to fifty thousand.

But as long as he drives it happily, that's fine; the main point of buying a car is just to drive it happily.

It just so happened that today they had to return for the grave relocation, so Wang Yaohua drove the car back, conveniently able to show it off a bit.

But as soon as he drove back to Shanggou Village, he discovered Wang Erhai had also driven back. Wang Erhai's current car was also a Toyota, but a Toyota Prado 3.5L, with an on-the-road price of around five hundred thousand.

This invisibly compared Wang Yaohua's car down, making Wang Yaohua feel very lost face, and naturally he wasn't very happy inside.

Seeing his only son so cruelly compared down by his younger brother's second son, Wang Zhangtian was also filled with depression.

While drinking tea and waiting for Wu Banxian in Wang Zhanggen's living room, he would sigh from time to time, saying his son had the ability, just bad luck; between the lines was a sour tone.

It was Zhao Lifen who became more agreeable. She smiled and asked Wang Erhai:

"Erhai, I heard you recently opened a renovation company in the county town, and it's doing very big. Why not pull your cousin in to work there?"

Wang Erhai's heart gave a thump; subconsciously, he was full of resistance.

After all, back when he and his eldest brother ran Shanhai Real Estate in Guangzhou, they had recruited Wang Yaohua once. That time, because Wang Yaohua stabbed them in the back, Shanhai Real Estate nearly went bankrupt because of it.

As the saying goes, once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of a well rope; Wang Erhai naturally didn't want to recruit Wang Yaohua again.

When Liguo Mountain was first established, they really needed a foreman, but he didn't think of recruiting Wang Yaohua; instead, he recruited Liang Xinghua, Zhou Hongwei, and other acquaintances.

But this time he didn't have to be embarrassed to refuse due to face, because he had already resigned from Liguo Mountain.

So Wang Erhai said:

"Auntie, I'd also like to give Cousin a hand, but unfortunately I'm no longer employed at that renovation company in the county town."

Wang Zhangtian was stunned, subconsciously distrustful:

"No way, wasn't that company founded by you? And it hasn't gone bankrupt either!"

Wang Erhai smiled politely:

"Initially, someone else pulled me to partner and found it. But later I was squeezed out of management. Now I've returned to Shanggou Village, preparing to start an agricultural products entrepreneurship. If Cousin isn't afraid of hardship, coming back to farm the fields with me is also possible."

As soon as farming the fields was mentioned, Wang Zhangtian became somewhat unhappy.

He spent a lifetime's time, only with great difficulty sending his son out of the rural area; how could he possibly easily let his son come back?

Wang Yaohua was also unwilling to return to the rural area. He grew up in the county town from childhood. Shanggou Village was a strange place to him; he had not a single friend here, and he also didn't know how to farm.

"Cousin, let's forget about returning to the village to farm. To speak frankly, if you want me to return to the rural area to farm, I'd rather go work in a factory!"

After so many years, Wang Yaohua still maintained his lofty pride.

Too high for the low, too low for the high.

Resulting in him still not having found a stable job to this day.

This is also why, when he purchased that used car, the down payment still required his parents' help to pool together.

He thought the reason he couldn't find a partner was the lack of a car.

Little did he know that, for him not finding a partner, lacking a car was the smallest problem.

"Alright then, Cousin, if you don't want to come back and farm, I won't force it."

Upon learning Wang Erhai had been squeezed out of the company and could only return dejectedly to Shanggou Village to farm, Wang Zhangtian's heart finally balanced a bit.

He said, how come his younger brother suddenly went to check the ancestral grave?

Turns out it was because his second son wasn't doing well, so he went to take a look!

Zhao Lifen asked at this time:

"Xiao Hua, have you graduated and started working?"

Wang Xiaohua smiled politely:

"Auntie, not yet. I'll graduate next year."

Zhao Lifen then said with a smile:

"Xiao Hua, I know you're a top student. You'll definitely be very capable in the future. If you enter a government agency after graduation, remember to pull our Yaohua up. Arranging a public institution position for him would be good too!"

Hearing this, Wang Xiaohua was instantly speechless.

Of course, Wang Xiaohua is a smart person; he wouldn't go argue with Zhao Lifen.

One, directly refuting would make Zhao Lifen feel he disrespected elders.

Two, even if he refuted, it would be chicken talking to duck — they simply wouldn't be on the same page.

So Wang Xiaohua just smiled politely:

"We'll talk about it when the time comes, we'll see then — it's a matter that hasn't even taken shape yet."

Zhao Lifen said with a smile:

"Alright, alright, then we'll talk about it when the time comes!"

She thought Wang Xiaohua had agreed to this matter.

Little did she know Wang Xiaohua's polite words were merely a tactful refusal.

At this moment Zhao Lifen brought up her son's search for a wife again:

"Our Yaohua still can't find a wife, it's worrying us parents to death! Erhai, do you have anyone to introduce?"

Wang Erhai let out a dry laugh:

"I've fallen so low I'm back in the countryside farming, Auntie, do you think I can still introduce a match for Cousin?"

Zhao Lifen hurriedly said:

"But you're still driving such a nice car, I thought you still had some capital."

Wang Erhai directly spouted nonsense:

"I'm planning to sell it off lately, just haven't found anyone to take it over!"

Then he added: "I'm a bit tight on cash lately, Auntie, why don't you lend me some? Once I make a comeback, I'll definitely recruit Cousin in!"

Zhao Lifen dry-laughed: "My family's poor too."

Then she looked at Wang Xiaohua:

"Xiaohua, why don't you introduce a match for your cousin? I heard female university students are easy to deceive these days!"

Hearing this, the corner of Wang Xiaohua's mouth twitched slightly, he simply had no words to retort:

"Auntie, where did you hear that from?"

Zhao Lifen replied to Wang Xiaohua quite naturally with a sentence:

"Didn't you also deceive a girlfriend back? Only female university students are stupid; anyone else definitely wouldn't be willing to be with you, after all you're that short! I heard you two even got married, just didn't hold a banquet. Right, where's your wife? How come she's not to be seen?"

Wang Xiaohua really didn't like hearing Zhao Lifen's words, but he still endured it.

"My wife hasn't started her break yet, she's still at school studying."

After all, today was the grave relocation day, he didn't want to make Wang Changgen unhappy over this trivial matter.

Unexpectedly, he didn't say anything to Zhao Lifen, but Wang Changgen spoke up instead:

"Zhao Lifen, what kind of talk is that? I respect you so I call you Eldest Sister-in-law, yet you actually dare to speak ill of my son to my face? Xiaohua is a bit short, true, but he's the Gaokao Top Scorer — can you uneducated people even compare?"

Zhao Lifen criticizing his youngest son — wasn't that just not giving Wang Changgen face?

Wang Changgen's temper was already unstable because of the cancer, so naturally he wouldn't put up with Zhao Lifen at a time like this, and he directly snapped back!

Zhao Lifen had originally been smiling cheerfully, but after being snapped at by Wang Changgen like this, her expression immediately froze.