Chapter 798

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

"Still buying? Housing prices are this high right now, aren't you afraid they'll plummet later?"

Wang Dashan found it a bit hard to understand.

Du Xiaojuan said:

"Housing prices will definitely fall later, but in the short term they're still trending up. Once purchase restriction policies start to loosen, that's when housing prices will begin to drop."

Wang Dashan, puzzled:

"How come I see the news saying purchase restrictions are meant to suppress excessively high housing prices?"

Du Xiaojuan laughed instead:

"Don't look at what people say, look at what they do. Anyone can say anything. Also, don't think the news in those authoritative newspapers possesses unshakable authority and truthfulness. Decades ago, those newspapers were still solemnly reporting rice straw yields of thirty thousand catties per mu. You need your own judgment, understand?"

Hearing this, Wang Dashan seemed to half-understand, but still slowly nodded.

What Du Xiaojuan said seemed to actually have a bit of reason to it.

"Now that the mortgage is paid off, what are your plans next?"

Wang Dashan asked Du Xiaojuan this question at this moment.

His gaze toward Du Xiaojuan carried expectation.

Expecting Du Xiaojuan to say the words he wanted her to say.

"Right now we still have over five million in hand. I want to put all this money into Wanjia Commodities. It's also time to gradually shift our focus to Wanjia Commodities. Although Xiao Du Technology was built up by me single-handedly, many things inside the company now are no longer decided by my word alone."

Hearing this, Wang Dashan couldn't help but feel a bit lost.

He said carefully:

"Wife, didn't you say before that as long as the mortgage was paid off, we would……"

Wang Dashan stopped mid-sentence.

"Would what?" Du Xiaojuan asked questioningly.

"Prepare for pregnancy." Wang Dashan looked into Du Xiaojuan's eyes.

Du Xiaojuan didn't know what to say for a moment.

Wang Dashan was waiting expectantly for her answer.

After a moment of silence, Du Xiaojuan finally spoke:

"I'm afraid now still isn't the time. Xiao Du Technology has just started its Series B financing, and Wanjia Commodities is also at a critical development stage. I'm just afraid that if I get pregnant, I'll miss the window, and it'll be hard to have such an opportunity again later."

Wang Dashan was very disappointed by this.

But he couldn't really blame Du Xiaojuan, because he'd known long ago that Du Xiaojuan's career drive was very strong.

For her career, she could abandon everything, even love.

"I know now is a critical period, but you promised before. Also, getting pregnant doesn't mean you can't work. Lots of people work while pregnant, only taking leave right before delivery."

Wang Dashan felt somewhat disappointed by Du Xiaojuan's behavior of going back on her word and benefiting from it.

Du Xiaojuan, however, said:

"Can you not make pregnancy sound so simple? A woman carries for ten months, then dilates ten fingers to give birth — that requires a trip through the gates of hell. Besides, if we have a baby, who'll raise the child? My parents definitely can't be counted on. I don't trust your parents either. They're rural people, they don't understand anything. And hiring a confinement nanny still needs someone watching on the side, otherwise the nanny could feed the baby sleeping pills and we wouldn't know."

Wang Dashan got somewhat angry at these words from Du Xiaojuan.

"If you put it that way, the two of us will never have the conditions to have a kid in this lifetime. No money — need to make money. Have money — need to buy a house. Bought a house — need to pay the mortgage. Mortgage paid off — still need to build a career. As for raising the kid, that's even more of an unsolvable dead end. Your parents have conflicts with you. My parents you look down on. Hire a nanny and you don't trust them. You have to build a career, I have to work too. So you tell me, what do we do?"

Du Xiaojuan was rendered speechless by the question.

Truthfully, she didn't know what to do either.

Anyway, having her quit work and stay home full-time to raise the kid — that was impossible.

She had a strong lack of security. She had to keep working in the workplace to feel fulfilled, to feel safe.

And asking Wang Dashan, a big man, to stay home full-time raising the kid — she couldn't bring herself to say that either. After all, she knew very well in her heart that Wang Dashan was a bit of a traditional man with male chauvinist tendencies. This kind of man loves face and self-respect. Asking him to quit work and raise the kid full-time — wouldn't that be making him lose face?

So, this really was an unsolvable dead end.

Seeing Du Xiaojuan not speaking, Wang Dashan spoke again:

"If you don't want to have one, just say so directly. Why tell me 'we'll start preparing for pregnancy after the mortgage is paid off'? Please don't give me hope and then let me down, okay?"

Du Xiaojuan's face showed a trace of guilt, but she still spoke to defend herself:

"I didn't say we'd start preparing for pregnancy right after the mortgage is paid off. I said after cleaning up Xiao Du Technology's mess, getting the financing dividends, paying off the mortgage early, and stabilizing Wanjia Commodities' business — then start preparing for pregnancy. That's four conditions here, not just the single condition of 'mortgage paid off'."

Wang Dashan was speechless:

"Whatever you say is right. You're so clever you can justify anything. Not like me, so stupidly honest. You say something and I believe it."

Du Xiaojuan hurriedly comforted:

"Don't be angry, okay? I didn't say I won't have one. But right now really isn't the right timing. Xiao Du Technology is at a critical Series B financing stage. Wanjia Commodities' business isn't completely stable either. I have to be busy, you have to be busy. Having a kid at this time — isn't that making the child come into this world to suffer? You don't want your child to be born and see neither parent all day long either, right?"

Wang Dashan couldn't say anything anymore.

He knew what Du Xiaojuan said made sense.

But inside he just felt stifled and unhappy.

He himself wanted a child. His parents were also urging urgently.

Especially after his second brother's child was lost, he was urged even more urgently by his parents.

Yesterday his mom called him again, telling him some pregnancy preparation knowledge. Saying after being intimate, don't let Xiao Juan get out of bed so fast. Put a pillow under her buttocks, lie for about half an hour, can increase pregnancy probability.

He felt embarrassed just listening.

One reason was that this topic was quite sensitive; he, a big man, being instructed on these matters by his mother, felt rather speechless.

The second was that he and Du Xiaojuan had never been preparing for pregnancy, and had been deceiving his parents all along, which left him feeling guilty.

Seeing Wang Dashan with a dark face and not speaking, Du Xiaojuan comforted him again:

"Husband, I really am willing to have children for you, it's just that the timing really isn't right yet, can we wait a bit longer?"

"Fine, fine, do whatever you want, when you're older later and can't have children, don't blame me."

Wang Dashan finally said this one sentence dejectedly.

This afternoon, Du Xiaojuan returned to the company to be busy.

Wang Dashan also went to work at Wanjia Commodities; now his work focus had already shifted to Wanjia Commodities, as for Shanhai Real Estate, it was almost entirely handed over to Liu Ming to manage.

Actually, he didn't have much workload on the Wanjia Commodities side, because he was unfamiliar with the business, many things were reported up by subordinates, and he would just instruct the corresponding departments to handle them; even if he wanted to do it himself, he couldn't get his hands on it.

He sat alone in the office, his heart still depressed over the matter of having a child.

The more he pondered, the more he felt it was because Du Xiaojuan didn't want to have one in her heart.

Don't look at what is said, look at what is done!

This was the principle Du Xiaojuan taught him.

Du Xiaojuan said she wanted to have children verbally, but had no behavior or actions showing she wanted to have them.

No, he still had to think of a way to make Du Xiaojuan change her mind!

Wang Dashan thought so in his heart.

But his brain was comparatively stupid, how could he out-argue Du Xiaojuan? Let alone reverse Du Xiaojuan's notions.

So he thought, why not ask his Third Brother?

His Third Brother was comparatively clever, maybe he could think of a method.

However, his Third Brother hadn't even married yet, hadn't personally experienced it, could he understand this matter?

If he couldn't understand, how could he talk about solving it?

Forget it, still better not to ask him.

Wang Dashan was conflicted in his heart.

But at this moment, his mobile phone rang.

He took it out to look, and it was surprisingly Wang Xiaohua calling.

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