When Wen Ying went to Deng Shangwei’s house in the evening, Deng Shangwei was battling with his eldest son Deng Jie’s Chinese exam paper.
Deng Jie was a senior primary school student. In the Chinese subject, senior exam papers had reading comprehension questions.
Deng Jie finished the Chinese paper and handed it to Deng Shangwei for marking. Deng Jie got the reading comprehension wrong and needed Deng Shangwei to explain it to him.
Deng Shangwei considered himself a smart person. When dealing with those big bosses usually, he knew what to say in what situation. Qin Xianming had praised him more than once for being clever and observant, able to understand the subtext in others’ words.
Clever as Deng Shangwei was, with his eldest son Deng Jie looking at him expectantly, he was stumped and could not summarise the central idea of a passage in the reading comprehension.
A simple sentence, asking what the original author wanted to express. Deng Shangwei’s understanding was completely opposite to the standard answer.
Did the original author really think so much when writing this sentence?!
Deng Shangwei expressed doubt.
Alas, perhaps writers’ minds were more delicate than ordinary people.
“Dad, do you not know how to do it either?”
Deng Jie issued a soul-searching question. Deng Shangwei pretended to be calm. “Of course I know how to do it, but how to make you understand, I need to organise my thoughts. How about this, let’s skip this question for now, okay?”
“Okay.”
Deng Jie, in sixth grade, was much more sensible than before. Deng Shangwei barely passed.
Deng Shangwei was thinking whether to secretly consult his brother-in-law Wen Dongrong while Deng Jie was concentrating on homework, when Wen Ying arrived.
Wen Ying was a bestselling author. Deng Shangwei’s eyes lit up. Writers must understand writers. Heaven sensed his difficulty and sent little Ying to save him, haha.
Unexpectedly, Wen Ying glanced at her big cousin Deng Jie’s paper, then changed the topic and asked if Deng Juan’s family had built a new house.
“Why are you suddenly asking this?”
Deng Shangwei really knew.
Deng Shangwei had been taking his brother-in-law Wen Dongrong around to sponsor students. There was no reason to avoid poor students from his own hometown.
The villagers had been calling him “Big Boss Deng” for so long. Boss Deng always had to do something for the village.
Deng Shangwei not only sponsored two students in his hometown, but also invested hundreds of thousands in the village to engage in aquaculture.
If villagers were willing to follow him in farming, he could sign contracts with them, first help the villagers build fish ponds, then provide them with high-quality fish fry.
Deng Shangwei roughly knew how to farm which fish. If he did not understand, he could help consult aquaculture experts in the provincial capital. As long as not particularly unlucky to encounter major natural or man-made disasters, farming fish with him would not lose money!
Last year, Deng Shangwei’s aquaculture had just started. Almost no villagers were willing to follow him in farming fish. Only the village chief’s family built two mu of fish ponds, which could be considered responding to Big Boss Deng’s hometown revitalisation plan with action.
Deng Shangwei himself was in the aquatic products business and lacked no sales channels. At the end of the year when draining the ponds, Deng Shangwei did not need the village chief’s family to worry. He directly had the cargo trucks drive to the pond side, received all the fish from the village chief’s two mu ponds, and gave a good purchase price.
Seeing the village chief’s family earned from farming fish, this year the villagers wanting to follow Deng Shangwei in farming fish suddenly increased.
Every time Deng Shangwei went back, many people came to build relationships with him. The village chief’s family only built two mu ponds. Some people did not dare last year but this year opened their mouths wanting five or six mu, without considering if the upfront investment and labour costs could keep up. Deng Shangwei did not know whether to laugh or cry.
Refusing outright was not okay, could not dampen the fellow villagers’ enthusiasm.
Deng Shangwei had to bring out the “Boss Deng” facade, more firmly tell everyone that farming too much at once the market could not digest. If someone wanted to farm more it was fine, the share exceeding the contract he would not be responsible for acquiring. When draining the ponds, willing to sell to whom was fine, he could not possibly receive all!
Without sales channel guarantee, most villagers’ reason returned.
There were still a very few people, no matter what Deng Shangwei said they would not listen. Deng Juan’s dad was the most typical representative among them.
Every time going back, Deng Shangwei had to pass Deng Juan’s house.
He might not understand other families’ situations, but could he not understand Deng Juan’s family?
Deng Juan’s family still lived in the original old house, had not built any new house. Not only that, Deng Juan’s dad entangled him every time he saw Deng Shangwei, saying Deng Shangwei had money to sponsor others to school, why not sponsor Deng Juan’s little brother. After all, Deng Juan was a nanny at Deng Shangwei’s house, the two families were closer!
“Why would I sponsor his son? That’s not studying material, grades are rotten! He says every time, I refuse every time. Last time he even stopped me saying he also wanted to farm fish. I said upfront investment he pays half I pay half. He glared with drunk confused eyes and told me no money, he was counting on me to pay the money, he was waiting to earn money. You say infuriating or not?”
“Infuriating, too much.”
Wen Ying’s agreement soothed most of Deng Shangwei’s anger.
There was even more infuriating.
Because Deng Juan now only sent 500 yuan home each person, that drunkard still said bad things about Deng Shangwei in the village, cursing Deng Shangwei the richer the stingier, where was salary getting less and less!
Deng Shangwei completely agreed with Deng Juan not to foolishly send too much money home, helped conceal Deng Juan going to “Shrimp King” to work. The villagers all thought Deng Juan was still a nanny at Deng Shangwei’s house.
Why did the money Deng Juan sent home decrease?
Girls grew up, always had to plan for themselves, at least save some dowry!
Deng Shangwei used this reason to block back many questions. Living in the same village, knowing each other inside out, most villagers agreed Deng Juan needed to keep some money for security.
Speaking of Deng Juan’s family, Deng Shangwei had many complaints. With difficulty he brought the off-topic conversation back. “Why are you asking if her family built a house?”
Based on the information provided by Deng Shangwei, Wen Ying had roughly sorted out the thoughts in her mind. “I guess her family wants to build a house now. The previous money was spent but the house was not built. Now they want to get money from Deng Juan sister again. They don’t know Deng Juan sister went to the capital to work, also don’t know her current salary. Probably want to sell her again.”
Wen Ying always called Deng Juan “youngest sister”, first habit hard to change, second psychologically still treated Deng Juan as a younger sister.
Qin Jiao the boss called Deng Juan sister. Wen Ying followed suit and changed her address. Deng Juan called Deng Shangwei big brother, Wen Ying called the other sister. This generation was messy. Wen Ying comforted herself it was each to their own.
Why was Wen Ying certain the Deng family now wanted to build a house?
The Deng family’s thinking was easy to understand.
Deng Juan’s little brother had poor grades. After the college entrance exam, probably no university to attend.
Little son had no books to read, then should marry a wife.
Moreover, Deng Juan was already 22 years old. Not marrying her off now, waiting a few more years it would be hard to ask for high bride price.
Deng Shangwei slapped the table. “Sell again? I see who dares!”
Feelings were not one-sided.
Deng Juan was a nanny at Deng Shangwei’s house for five years. She was diligent and proper, developed deep feelings with Deng Shangwei’s family.
If not for giving Deng Juan a better future, where would Deng Shangwei be willing to let Deng Juan go.
Deng Jie and Deng Juan had even deeper feelings.
Deng Juan was not a nanny, but the sister who took care of Deng Jie and Deng Hao growing up.
Deng Jie doing homework pricked up his ears to eavesdrop. Hearing halfway he could not help rushing out. “Dad, little Ying sister, you can’t let youngest sister be bullied!”
“You stinky kid, not concentrating on homework. Go go go, adults’ matters kids don’t meddle!”
Deng Shangwei waved his hand.
Deng Jie pursed his mouth, still wanted to say something, lowered his head and “ah”ed.
“What are you ahing?”
Wen Ying could not bear to look directly, pointed at the table. “You split Deng Jie’s paper.”
The poor Chinese paper was split in two by angry Deng Shangwei’s slap. That reading comprehension Deng Shangwei could not understand, now probably also did not understand Deng Shangwei’s idea.
Deng Shangwei laughed awkwardly. “I wasn’t because of doing… alas, glue it won’t affect use ha, dad glue it for you.”
Deng Jie wanted to speak but stopped.
Not knowing how to do was fine, don’t tear the paper.
Deng Shangwei was in a flurry. Wen Ying made a phone contact gesture, did not stay to disturb Deng Shangwei tutoring homework.
On the way back home, Wen Ying called Xie Qian, briefly explained the situation.
Xie Qian was still so incisive. “This is Deng Juan’s own matter. If she can’t stand up, you all can’t help her.”
Compared to Deng Juan’s family affairs, Xie Qian was more interested in Deng Shangwei’s rural revitalisation plan.
Deng Shangwei by strength, refreshed Xie Qian’s impression of him time and again.
At first Xie Qian had no good feeling towards “cheating” people. Later knowing it was a misunderstanding, he treated Deng Shangwei as an ordinary businessman. If the other was not Wen Ying’s uncle, Xie Qian would not pay attention to such a person.
Unexpectedly Deng Shangwei’s business was not big, culture not high, yet could sponsor education while doing “first rich drive later rich” practical things.
When Wen Ying went to Deng Shangwei’s house in the evening, Deng Shangwei was battling with his eldest son Deng Jie’s Chinese exam paper.
Deng Jie was a senior primary school student. In the Chinese subject, senior exam papers had reading comprehension questions.
Deng Jie finished the Chinese paper and handed it to Deng Shangwei for marking. Deng Jie got the reading comprehension wrong and needed Deng Shangwei to explain it to him.
Deng Shangwei considered himself a smart person. When dealing with those big bosses usually, he knew what to say in what situation. Qin Xianming had praised him more than once for being clever and observant, able to understand the subtext in others’ words.
Clever as Deng Shangwei was, with his eldest son Deng Jie looking at him expectantly, he was stumped and could not summarise the central idea of a passage in the reading comprehension.
A simple sentence, asking what the original author wanted to express. Deng Shangwei’s understanding was completely opposite to the standard answer.
Did the original author really think so much when writing this sentence?!
Deng Shangwei expressed doubt.
Alas, perhaps writers’ minds were more delicate than ordinary people.
“Dad, do you not know how to do it either?”
Deng Jie issued a soul-searching question. Deng Shangwei pretended to be calm. “Of course I know how to do it, but how to make you understand, I need to organise my thoughts. How about this, let’s skip this question for now, okay?”
“Okay.”
Deng Jie, in sixth grade, was much more sensible than before. Deng Shangwei barely passed.
Deng Shangwei was thinking whether to secretly consult his brother-in-law Wen Dongrong while Deng Jie was concentrating on homework, when Wen Ying arrived.
Wen Ying was a bestselling author. Deng Shangwei’s eyes lit up. Writers must understand writers. Heaven sensed his difficulty and sent little Ying to save him, haha.
Unexpectedly, Wen Ying glanced at her big cousin Deng Jie’s paper, then changed the topic and asked if Deng Juan’s family had built a new house.
“Why are you suddenly asking this?”
Deng Shangwei really knew.
Deng Shangwei had been taking his brother-in-law Wen Dongrong around to sponsor students. There was no reason to avoid poor students from his own hometown.
The villagers had been calling him “Big Boss Deng” for so long. Boss Deng always had to do something for the village.
Deng Shangwei not only sponsored two students in his hometown, but also invested hundreds of thousands in the village to engage in aquaculture.
If villagers were willing to follow him in farming, he could sign contracts with them, first help the villagers build fish ponds, then provide them with high-quality fish fry.
Deng Shangwei roughly knew how to farm which fish. If he did not understand, he could help consult aquaculture experts in the provincial capital. As long as not particularly unlucky to encounter major natural or man-made disasters, farming fish with him would not lose money!
Last year, Deng Shangwei’s aquaculture had just started. Almost no villagers were willing to follow him in farming fish. Only the village chief’s family built two mu of fish ponds, which could be considered responding to Big Boss Deng’s hometown revitalisation plan with action.
Deng Shangwei himself was in the aquatic products business and lacked no sales channels. At the end of the year when draining the ponds, Deng Shangwei did not need the village chief’s family to worry. He directly had the cargo trucks drive to the pond side, received all the fish from the village chief’s two mu ponds, and gave a good purchase price.
Seeing the village chief’s family earned from farming fish, this year the villagers wanting to follow Deng Shangwei in farming fish suddenly increased.
Every time Deng Shangwei went back, many people came to build relationships with him. The village chief’s family only built two mu ponds. Some people did not dare last year but this year opened their mouths wanting five or six mu, without considering if the upfront investment and labour costs could keep up. Deng Shangwei did not know whether to laugh or cry.
Refusing outright was not okay, could not dampen the fellow villagers’ enthusiasm.
Deng Shangwei had to bring out the “Boss Deng” facade, more firmly tell everyone that farming too much at once the market could not digest. If someone wanted to farm more it was fine, the share exceeding the contract he would not be responsible for acquiring. When draining the ponds, willing to sell to whom was fine, he could not possibly receive all!
Without sales channel guarantee, most villagers’ reason returned.
There were still a very few people, no matter what Deng Shangwei said they would not listen. Deng Juan’s dad was the most typical representative among them.
Every time going back, Deng Shangwei had to pass Deng Juan’s house.
He might not understand other families’ situations, but could he not understand Deng Juan’s family?
Deng Juan’s family still lived in the original old house, had not built any new house. Not only that, Deng Juan’s dad entangled him every time he saw Deng Shangwei, saying Deng Shangwei had money to sponsor others to school, why not sponsor Deng Juan’s little brother. After all, Deng Juan was a nanny at Deng Shangwei’s house, the two families were closer!
“Why would I sponsor his son? That’s not studying material, grades are rotten! He says every time, I refuse every time. Last time he even stopped me saying he also wanted to farm fish. I said upfront investment he pays half I pay half. He glared with drunk confused eyes and told me no money, he was counting on me to pay the money, he was waiting to earn money. You say infuriating or not?”
“Infuriating, too much.”
Wen Ying’s agreement soothed most of Deng Shangwei’s anger.
There was even more infuriating.
Because Deng Juan now only sent 500 yuan home each person, that drunkard still said bad things about Deng Shangwei in the village, cursing Deng Shangwei the richer the stingier, where was salary getting less and less!
Deng Shangwei completely agreed with Deng Juan not to foolishly send too much money home, helped conceal Deng Juan going to “Shrimp King” to work. The villagers all thought Deng Juan was still a nanny at Deng Shangwei’s house.
Why did the money Deng Juan sent home decrease?
Girls grew up, always had to plan for themselves, at least save some dowry!
Deng Shangwei used this reason to block back many questions. Living in the same village, knowing each other inside out, most villagers agreed Deng Juan needed to keep some money for security.
Speaking of Deng Juan’s family, Deng Shangwei had many complaints. With difficulty he brought the off-topic conversation back. “Why are you asking if her family built a house?”
Based on the information provided by Deng Shangwei, Wen Ying had roughly sorted out the thoughts in her mind. “I guess her family wants to build a house now. The previous money was spent but the house was not built. Now they want to get money from Deng Juan sister again. They don’t know Deng Juan sister went to the capital to work, also don’t know her current salary. Probably want to sell her again.”
Wen Ying always called Deng Juan “youngest sister”, first habit hard to change, second psychologically still treated Deng Juan as a younger sister.
Qin Jiao the boss called Deng Juan sister. Wen Ying followed suit and changed her address. Deng Juan called Deng Shangwei big brother, Wen Ying called the other sister. This generation was messy. Wen Ying comforted herself it was each to their own.
Why was Wen Ying certain the Deng family now wanted to build a house?
The Deng family’s thinking was easy to understand.
Deng Juan’s little brother had poor grades. After the college entrance exam, probably no university to attend.
Little son had no books to read, then should marry a wife.
Moreover, Deng Juan was already 22 years old. Not marrying her off now, waiting a few more years it would be hard to ask for high bride price.
Deng Shangwei slapped the table. “Sell again? I see who dares!”
Feelings were not one-sided.
Deng Juan was a nanny at Deng Shangwei’s house for five years. She was diligent and proper, developed deep feelings with Deng Shangwei’s family.
If not for giving Deng Juan a better future, where would Deng Shangwei be willing to let Deng Juan go.
Deng Jie and Deng Juan had even deeper feelings.
Deng Juan was not a nanny, but the sister who took care of Deng Jie and Deng Hao growing up.
Deng Jie doing homework pricked up his ears to eavesdrop. Hearing halfway he could not help rushing out. “Dad, little Ying sister, you can’t let youngest sister be bullied!”
“You stinky kid, not concentrating on homework. Go go go, adults’ matters kids don’t meddle!”
Deng Shangwei waved his hand.
Deng Jie pursed his mouth, still wanted to say something, lowered his head and “ah”ed.
“What are you ahing?”
Wen Ying could not bear to look directly, pointed at the table. “You split Deng Jie’s paper.”
The poor Chinese paper was split in two by angry Deng Shangwei’s slap. That reading comprehension Deng Shangwei could not understand, now probably also did not understand Deng Shangwei’s idea.
Deng Shangwei laughed awkwardly. “I wasn’t because of doing… alas, glue it won’t affect use ha, dad glue it for you.”
Deng Jie wanted to speak but stopped.
Not knowing how to do was fine, don’t tear the paper.
Deng Shangwei was in a flurry. Wen Ying made a phone contact gesture, did not stay to disturb Deng Shangwei tutoring homework.
On the way back home, Wen Ying called Xie Qian, briefly explained the situation.
Xie Qian was still so incisive. “This is Deng Juan’s own matter. If she can’t stand up, you all can’t help her.”
Compared to Deng Juan’s family affairs, Xie Qian was more interested in Deng Shangwei’s rural revitalisation plan.
Deng Shangwei by strength, refreshed Xie Qian’s impression of him time and again.
At first Xie Qian had no good feeling towards “cheating” people. Later knowing it was a misunderstanding, he treated Deng Shangwei as an ordinary businessman. If the other was not Wen Ying’s uncle, Xie Qian would not pay attention to such a person.
Unexpectedly Deng Shangwei’s business was not big, culture not high, yet could sponsor education while doing “first rich drive later rich” practical things.
