Chapter 1271

Their family's annual wage income is about fifteen thousand yuan. Plus the rent of those two storefronts, the family's annual income exceeds twenty thousand. This is considered a very high income in Shangjun County now.

This time, they are marrying the daughter of a Vice Governor. Naturally, they cannot be stingy and must hold this wedding grandly.

Suddenly, Guo Suhua remembered another thing, "Xinghui, what about the home appliances for your new house? You can't buy low-grade ones. How much money do you need? Mom will pay."

Guo Suhua had always felt a bit guilty that she didn't pay for Su Xinghui's new house. Her son was too capable; the house was built by himself. Since this money was saved, it must be done best in other aspects, so as not to be looked down upon by the Vice Governor's in-laws.

Su Xinghui laughed, "Mom, I have already talked to the electrical appliance factory in our town. We will buy a set of the best home appliances at the factory price."

Su Wenjun said, "Xinghui, you can't make mistakes. Don't let others gossip for the sake of this small advantage."

Su Xinghui nodded and said, "Dad, I know."

The family considered all the details of the proposal and agreed to go to Jiangcheng to propose marriage next Sunday.

After dinner, Su Xinghui went to Zhuangyuan Lane as usual to see Hou Guangbi. This was his routine homework every time he returned to the Shangjun county seat.

Hou Guangbi had also finished dinner at Hou Dali's house and was sitting in the courtyard of Hou Dali's house, chatting. Seeing Su Xinghui arrive, he pointed to a stone stool next to him happily and said, "Xinghui is here, sit down quickly."

Su Xinghui put some fruits and pastries he was carrying on the stone table and sat down. He called Hou Guangbi "Grandpa Hou" and then asked Hou Dali, "Uncle Hou, your shop has been open for a while, right? How is business now?"

Hou Dali said, "Anyway, I don't expect this shop to earn much money. I just treat this as a pastime. It doesn't matter how the business is, but the business has been really good these days."

Su Xinghui nodded and said, "That's good. With a storefront, you don't have to be exposed to the wind and sun. That would be too hard."

Hou Dali nodded. He remembered the scene of himself sitting on the side of the street setting up a small stall to do business. He felt like a lifetime ago. At that time, in order to support the family, he had suffered so much. Now he had finally come to the end of his suffering and could treat this business as a pastime.

For the sake of making money and for the sake of pastime, the mentality of doing business is different. Now that he is doing business, he also has a lot more fun.

Hou Dali laughed, "Xinghui, I have collected some good things these days, and I have kept them for you. Tell me when you want them."

Su Xinghui said, "Okay, when I have time, I will bring money to find you to buy them."

Hou Guangbi said, "Xinghui, I see you look happy today. Is there any happy event?"

Su Xinghui said, "Grandpa Hou, you are too amazing. I do have a happy event. Our family is preparing to go to Jiangcheng next Sunday to propose marriage at Lu Xiaoya's house."

Hou Guangbi nodded and said, "This is a good thing. A man should get married when he grows up. You are not young anymore. When I was your age, I was already a father, but you haven't even gotten married yet. It is indeed time to set the marriage."

Su Xinghui said, "You may not know much about it. Now the country is engaged in family planning and advocates late marriage and late childbearing. I am a town mayor, and at least I am a leading cadre at one level. Leading cadres should set an example and must marry late. The age for late marriage is twenty-five, so I can only get married next year."

Hou Guangbi frowned, "Then Wenhai doesn't need family planning, right?"

Hou Wenhai is Hou Guangbi's eldest grandson. Hou Guangbi is still counting on him to have more children and spread the branches and leaves. He doesn't want Hou Wenhai to be restricted by this family planning.

Su Xinghui said, "That's not necessary. Brother Wenhai still has French nationality. When we get married, we can only have one child."

Hou Guangbi said, "Can't we have one more?"

Su Xinghui shook his head, "Now the country implements family planning very strictly, especially for national cadres. It is impossible to have two. If you violate the family planning policy, you will be punished, unless you have twins, or the first child has some congenital disease or disability, then you are allowed to have a second one."

Hou Guangbi frowned, "I don't think this is very scientific. By doing this, the children born in the future won't even have brothers and sisters. And with the increase in national life expectancy, won't one child have to support several old people in the future? The pressure is too great!"

Su Xinghui naturally agreed very much with what Hou Guangbi said. In fact, twenty years later, the country would feel the various problems brought about by family planning. As China gradually entered an aging society, China faced serious social problems such as insufficient labor supply and pension deficits.

By that time, the country realized that the family planning policy had problems and corrected it. First, it opened up the second child for single-child families, and later it fully opened up the second child, but the effect was still not obvious in the short term.