Text | Wang Peijing
The lover said me, every spring, you are flickering to buy a house, with you here to see the house, there to see the house, from the Liuli River in Fangshan to the Yanjiao in tongzhou east, the house price is rising day by day, I see this life want to live with you on the building, hanging. During the evening walk, she told me this story countless times: a foreign woman, when she was young, took out a loan to buy a house and live in it, and became an old lady in her seventies, and the loan was repaid. We Chinese, saved a lifetime of money, bought a house, and people are old. Even if you buy a house, you can't live for a few years.
However, in the spring, last month, on the day when house prices exceeded the limit of most people's affordability, an off-plan house was found in the West Fifth Ring Road, with an average price of more than 4,000 yuan. After several nights of discussion, I finally made up my mind to buy a house. The sales representative said that now you can spend a thousand yuan to buy a discount card, and then you can top ten thousand yuan of room money. Now there is no card, if there is a refund, call us. That day, my wife received a call from someone to return the card. Because I went to work, my lover went to the sales office and waited for a day, and did not even eat lunch, before getting a card.
Since then, the whole family has entered a state of emergency, and do not pay attention to whether there is meat to eat at night. Teach your son to be mentally prepared, and when he starts to pay his mortgage, it is good to eat meat once a month. Call my brother and uncle and say that we are going to buy a house, I am really embarrassed to open my mouth, the little money you borrowed, such as abundance... The other party replied, no problem, no need to treat you anymore. We even said, no, no.
On the third day after the call, I received a remittance from my uncle and the third brother, who borrowed ten thousand and returned twenty thousand by mail. Busy call to express thanks, you should do business in the spring, it is the time to use money, it is embarrassing to ask for money, and he also lends money. The third brother said on the other end of the phone, I am afraid that you will be difficult. After buying a house, you don't have to decorate, buy some furniture. We thought to ourselves, where is the decoration and the purchase of furniture, at least until the end of next year, our house has not arched off the ground. But we really feel the warmth of family affection in our hearts.
The matter of buying a house is known to our parents and mothers-in-law living in the countryside, and they are more anxious than us, saying, they can't help you, and don't send us a penny of living expenses. In the evening, my brother, wife and sister called again, and we said that we didn't need the money, and we would call again when we needed. At that time, he did not dare to tell his brother, because he had returned to the county town for two years from the army, and he only went to work, only driving more than 100 yuan a month, and it took a lot of money to find a job. Mother called and said that your brother spent so much money to buy a house, and you don't care...
When the third brother's money was sent away, the wife said, you see, the light costs more money, the mail costs fifty more, and the mail costs fifty more. I said, no, it's affection that we mail back and forth.
The next day, I received another thirty thousand yuan from my brother...
Wang Peijing is a member of the China Writers Association and the president of the Beijing Short Fiction Salon. In 2009, "Who Doesn't Want to Be a Flying Bird" won the Bingxin Book Award, in 2012 the essay "Parents' Heart" won the Fifth National Bingxin Prose Award, in 2015 won the 7th Golden Sparrow Award, and from 2006 to 2011, he won the first prize of the fourth annual Chinese miniature novel. His works have won more than 100 awards inside and outside the military. He has been awarded the titles of "New 36 Constellations of Contemporary Small Fiction" and "Contemporary Hundred Houses". More than 100 works have been selected by newspapers and periodicals such as "Selected Novels", "Readers", "Writers' Digest", "Youth Expo", "Reading for Middle School Students", "Selected Small Novels" and so on. More than 100 works have been selected into "100 Readers' Favorite Essays", "Military Prose Annual Selection", "Chinese New Literature Department Miniature Novel Volume", "World Chinese Miniature Novel Selection" (Chinese and English comparison), "My Favorite Chinese Prose 100", "Chinese Small Novel Reader", "Chinese Miniature Novel Reader" and other anthologies. He has published more than 100 works in foreign newspapers and periodicals such as "Australian Rainbow Parrot", "International Daily", "Qiandao Daily", "Good News", "Northern Jiangsu Daily", "World Daily" and so on. His works have been translated into English, Japanese and other foreign languages. His works "I Have a House", "The Magic of Long Kisses", "Military Salute", "Female Soldiers Outside the Staff", etc. were selected as examination papers or high school mock examination questions of more than 100 middle and high schools in Anhui, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei and so on. He is the chief editor and co-editor of more than 200 anthologies of literary works, such as "2005 Annual Selection of Chinese Military Short Stories", "Selected Works of Winning Writers of the Famous Artists and Bingxin Award" (30 books), "Classic Anthologies of Lu Xun Literature Award-winning Writers" (15 books), etc. He has published 21 works, such as "How Can I Not Miss You", "Selected Miniature Novels of Wang Peijing", "Military Soul", "Call Him a Brother for Me", "Looking for a Hero", "Female Soldier From Outside the Compilation", "Who Doesn't Want to Be a Flying Bird", "A Pair of Leather Shoes Running Away from Home", "Time Fished from the Bottom of My Heart" and so on.
[Editor and production: Slippery, real name Liu Jian, senior teacher, founder of Huanpai Literature. On the title page of his book "Slippery", it is impressively written: "Humble is fine, fine is humble." / The one who is humbled is dying, / The spirit is coming to an end because of the essence. / Life is different, / People die together. / Alive, once for a chicken feather red face, / can sacrifice oneself for a girl to forget death; / Dead, not proud of the city full of thousands of beautiful women, / not depressed with dogs for the company of sheep as wives. 】
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