When my daughter-in-law got up this morning, she kept staring at her phone, and she didn't even put it down when she was eating.
She stared at the screen of her phone and laughed happily.
Looking at my daughter-in-law's strange appearance, I was confused, and I didn't understand what could make her so happy.
"It's finally our family's turn to be rich and rich!"
I looked over and saw the price of gold on my phone's screen!
I can't help but get excited when I think of the gold bars I bought more than ten years ago in the drawer......
Contributor: Anonymous Zhang Tianming (Disclaimer: This article is not my own experience, it is based on the narrator's words)
01
Today is the time for me to raise my eyebrows, thinking of the advice of relatives and friends more than ten years ago, I feel that I am really lucky!
"Housing prices are so expensive now, you can't afford them if you don't hurry up and buy a house!"
In 2008, as soon as my daughter-in-law and I finished receiving the certificate, the seventh and eighth aunts surrounded us and asked about our plans at the same time.
"Have you bought a car or a house, and when are you going to have a wedding?"
My daughter-in-law and I are both in free love, and even getting the certificate was done on a whim and in an ordinary afternoon.
When we told our families the news, both parents were shocked.
Although we have reached the point of talking about marriage, we have suddenly obtained the certificate, and we don't even have time to prepare.
At that time, my mother kept complaining that nothing had been arranged, and I didn't know what the attitude of my in-laws was.
Although my father-in-law and mother-in-law were surprised by our certificate, they didn't stop it too much.
My father-in-law, in particular, patted me on the shoulder and shouted, "Young man, it's impulsive."
Because we were in such a hurry to get the license, we didn't consider the wedding and the bride price.
Among them, the small family that we will live in the future has become an uncertain thing.
The day after we got the certificate, our two families had a meal to discuss our affairs.
At that time, the bride price was 180,000, all of which were handed over to the woman for free distribution, and the three gold were also freely chosen by the woman.
As for the wedding banquet and other messy things, the two families will share the responsibility, and all the gift money collected will be given to us.
My family and my daughter-in-law's family are the right people, although they are not a wealthy family, but they also have no worries about food and clothing.
Before I got married, I took out a loan to buy a car, and I told my parents-in-law that I would repay the car loan by myself and would not ask my daughter-in-law to help.
But the matter of the house has always been deadlocked, and the mother-in-law does not want her daughter to live with her in-laws, so she will definitely move out and find another place to live.
But at that time, the housing prices had reached a staggering number, not to mention that I had a younger brother who was at the age of junior high school.
For the sake of the house, my parents almost lost their gray hair, and they didn't know where the money should come from.
At that time, I thought about not buying a house, but my mother rejected this idea.
"It's all mothers, and the in-laws don't want their daughters to suffer!"
My mother-in-law also knew about the conditions of our family, so she thought that she would also contribute some money for the house, so that we could take out a loan to buy a house.
But my daughter-in-law and I have been going around for several days, and the people in the sales department are almost getting to know us, and we still don't have a suitable choice.
03
At that time, housing prices had reached an astonishing number, even in our second- and third-tier small cities, buying a house for hundreds of thousands was the most basic.
Although there are also cheap houses, those houses are either located in the middle of nowhere, or the lighting and ventilation are not good, and the parents of second-hand houses are also a bit taboo.
After looking around, there is only one 140-square-meter house, and my daughter-in-law and I are very compatible.
At that time, the price of one square meter was about 5,000 yuan, and Lin Lin finally had to spend nearly 800,000 yuan, and he had to take out 160,000 yuan for the down payment alone!
When I heard this price, my daughter-in-law and I couldn't help but be silent, even if our family made up the down payment, there would be a lot of trouble on the way to repay the loan in the future.
"If my mother thinks of a way, I can't let the woman out of this money all the time!"
At that time, after we got married and had a banquet, our parents only had 70,000 yuan left in their hands, and my father-in-law and mother-in-law also took some of it.
But what we were worried about at the time was not the down payment, my parents wanted me to buy the house in full, even if it was to borrow a sum of money from relatives first.
"Who has extra money now, and they won't be able to borrow much when the time comes! Not to mention that the amount of money for decoration in the future has not yet been determined!"
The calculator in the daughter-in-law's hand snapped, and our family could be said to have almost emptied the money for a house.
"Husband, we can afford to buy this money after all, but the key is to ...... it in the future."
I also understand what my daughter-in-law said, the matter of buying a house is too unstable, not to mention that the work of our husband and wife is not an iron rice bowl, once there is no job, it is really impossible to even afford to eat at that time.
Seeing the days go by, on the day of the wedding, the inquiries of the seven or eight aunts made me even more annoying.
"This house should have been prepared as early as possible, who gets married without a house and car, you are too young to be in a hurry!"
"That's right, the house has to have everything, otherwise what will happen in the future!"
When the relatives were toasting, they were outputting a meal at us, and the faces of our parents and fathers-in-law were getting worse and worse.
In the end, my mother hurried to play a round, let the relatives eat and drink well, and pulled us to leave quickly.
But this little episode still made the daughter-in-law sullen, and even the mother-in-law's expression was a little wrong.
When I returned home in the evening, my daughter-in-law pulled me to complain about my bitterness and told me the bitterness of the past few days.
"Don't I want to have a home, I don't have a backache when I stand and talk!"
My daughter-in-law and I are only living in a rented house, which is not big, but the expenses are within the scope of affordability.
It was at this time that my daughter-in-law and I made an important decision, that is, not to buy a house!
03
When I heard the decision, my parents disagreed, and I didn't even have a place to live!
"How can you not have a house! What if you have children then!"
"We don't plan to have children yet, even if we make this decision later, we'll talk about it then!"
My daughter-in-law and I are both on the rise in our work, and neither of us has the energy to focus on our families.
So even if we rent a house, it's enough for us to live, and we can't care so much about whether the house price will rise.
Although the two of us made a decision, our parents complained.
As long as there is a conflict, the words of the quarrel will always turn to the house.
"I'll just say let you buy a house!
To be honest, I don't regret giving up on buying a house, especially after seeing the situation of my friends around me, I was even more determined to make up my mind.
At that time, many of my friends with my daughter-in-law bought houses first and then got married, which led to a very tight life after marriage.
Not to mention going out to travel, I don't even dare to have the idea of quitting my job, once I am also overwhelmed by the mortgage on my shoulders.
My daughter-in-law and I are in the opposite state, we don't have much pressure after getting married, and we even have the time to travel during the holidays.
In the face of our chic and relaxed, many friends began to admire our decision at that time, but if they really had to choose for themselves, they would still choose to buy a house.
As for the down payment, my daughter-in-law and I saved some of it, and the rest went to buy gold bars and a set of gold jewelry for my daughter-in-law.
At that time, the price of gold was only more than 177 grams, even if it added manual costs, it did not cost much, at that time the counter person introduced to us, saying that it was gold value preservation, and now it is very cost-effective to buy.
In fact, the salesman used this set of rhetoric, but I didn't know what was going on at the time, so I spent a full 50,000 to buy gold with a wave of my hand.
My daughter-in-law was shocked by my "wealth" and didn't understand the use of me buying a few hundred grams of gold.
"What are you afraid of, when the time comes, we will have children, and it will be all children's milk powder money. ”
When my daughter-in-law heard my words, she couldn't help blushing and laughing and hammered me twice.
At that time, I didn't think about the rapid rise of gold in the future, but I just thought about it as an asset in the future.
My mom couldn't figure out what I was thinking, and she didn't buy a house to buy gold bars, and gold couldn't be eaten.
The gold bars and gold jewellery were kept by my daughter-in-law, and even though we thought about replacing them later, they were put on hold.
In the years after we got married, we lived a very chic and comfortable life, and I even quit my job to start my own business.
Looking back on the happy times, I feel that I made the right decision, at least my daughter-in-law and I didn't fight for life.
In the seventh year of marriage, my daughter-in-law and I had a child, and by this time the house price had risen to an astronomical amount.
But my daughter-in-law and I were also looking at each other, and my mother was even more like a handle to count us down, complaining that we didn't buy a house.
At this time, our family of three still lived in the rental house we rented back then, although the place was a little smaller, but it was enough to live.
Later, as time went by, the landlord planned to go to live with his children in other places, so he was ready to sell the house.
As soon as my daughter-in-law saw this situation, she quickly took the lead and bought the house we had rented for many years.
At that time, the house price had already shown a downward trend, and it was a second-hand old house, so the price was very cheap, so it can be said that we picked it up.
Now that time has changed, I have opened my own restaurant, and my daughter-in-law has focused most of her energy on her children.
With the deposit, we directly bought a house with the full amount written in the name of the child.
But today, my daughter-in-law stared at the mobile phone screen and smiled happily when I got up, I walked over and found that the gold price displayed above, I didn't expect that after more than ten years, the price of gold has risen to 710 yuan per gram!
Thinking back to the gold I bought when I was young, I couldn't help but get excited, and hurriedly rummaged through all the gold with my daughter-in-law.
After careful counting, we found that the gold we have in our hands is worth at least 200,000!
When I learned the news, my daughter-in-law and I shouted with complete excitement, this is simply "pouring wealth into the sky"!
In the past few years, I have watched the price of gold slowly rise, and I haven't actually felt it, but when I really convert it, the gold I bought for 50,000 yuan is now worth 200,000 yuan, how can such a gap not be exciting.
Until now, my mood has not calmed down......