"Want to block me? Maybe in the next life."
At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Su Xiaofan pressed down the sun hat on his head and walked out of the back door of a shop in the Antique City. He had already spotted Wu Chuanbao and the others blocking the streets in front and behind the Antique City. The antique city not only has two doors, but many shops have opened back doors. If there are not a hundred or eighty people, there is no way to block people here.
After walking through several small alleys, Su Xiaofan came to a vegetable market in a residential area and bought half a catty of meat, an old hen and a few vegetables. After thinking about it, he also weighed half a catty of the chicken feet that the little girl loved to eat. Then he carried it back to where he lived.
The cost of living in Luochuan City is not very high. The place where Su Xiaofan rents is not far from the Antique City and the high school where his little sister goes to school. It is a house built in the old city in the 1980s. The house is older than Su Xiaofan. The rent is naturally not expensive, two bedrooms and one living room only cost 900 yuan a month, and it is fully equipped with electrical appliances and furniture. Although his sister comes back to stay for one day a week, Su Xiaofan still left the room in Xiangyang to his sister.
It costs five yuan to kill a chicken at the vegetable market. Su Xiaofan was reluctant and boiled a pot of water. Su Xiaofan was very skilled in killing chickens and removing their feathers. He cleaned the chickens in a few minutes, then sat in the pot, put in the seasonings and stewed the chicken soup. , Su Xiaofan basically cooks such a meal for his sister every week. In his words, the chicken soup has all the nutrients. The chicken is torn open and mixed with ginger, soy sauce and vinegar, which can satisfy the craving and is just perfect for comforting the little sister. sister.
Turning on the fire on the other stove, Su Xiaofan fried some shredded pork and garlic sprouts, made some cucumber salad, turned down the chicken soup, then returned to the living room and turned on the fan to cool down. He checked the time and guessed that the younger sister would have to wait. It takes half an hour to get home, just in time for dinner.
"The number you dialed is not in the service area. Please call again later."
Listening to the voice of the telecom girl coming from the mobile phone, Su Xiaofan hung up the phone helplessly. During this period, he called his father several times almost every day, but he didn't know what his father was going to do now. No matter which ocean he went to, he always couldn't get through, but it was common to have no signal on the ocean. Su Xiaofan was not worried about his father's safety, but he was a little worried about his sister's school fees.
Although he earned 8,000 yuan from Wu on the sidelines, Su Xiaofan only had 85,000 yuan on hand now, which was 15,000 yuan short of 100,000 yuan. According to Su Xiaofan's idea, in addition to tuition fees, At the very least, he should prepare ten thousand or twenty thousand for his sister in case of emergencies. As the saying goes, a poor family has a rich life. It doesn't matter if Su Xiaofan has a small income, but he must not let his sister who is studying abroad suffer.
"There is nothing valuable in this house." Su Xiaofan looked around in the living room depressedly, but except for some molds for making bronzes, there were no other objects.
"By the way, I wonder if this thing is worth anything?"
Su Xiaofan suddenly untied his collar and pulled out a pendant with a gold chain from his neck. The pendant was oval in shape and dark in color. There was an irregular hole in the middle, which could just fit the gold chain through. The whole pendant looked very... It's inconspicuous. If it were thrown on the ground, only a rag picker would pick it up as scrap metal.
According to my father, this thing was accidentally obtained by my father when he went to the ocean a few years ago.
At that time, when Su Weixuan's cruise ship was passing through the Bermuda waters, it happened to encounter a cruise ship that accidentally ran aground on the rocks and was about to sink. When encountering such a thing, it is natural not to ignore death. Under the command of Su Weixuan, more than 500 people on the cruise ship Everyone was rescued, and this pendant was specially given to Su Weixuan as a gift by one of the rescued guests to thank the captain.
The guest was a very famous meteorite collector with a fortune, but he escaped from the cruise ship and couldn't bring anything with him, so he gave the pendant hanging around his neck to Su Weixuan.
According to the customer, this pendant was obtained from a desert thirty years ago when he was following a meteorite rain that landed on the earth. Strangely enough, the man saw a basketball-sized piece on the sand. A meteorite, but as soon as I touched it with my hand, the entire meteorite turned into sand and scattered into particles finer than sand. In the middle of the meteorite, what was left was this object.
After the meteorite collector took this small piece of meteorite back, he also conducted various tests, but no matter how he analyzed it, he could not detect the properties of the meteorite, and he could not even determine whether it was a metal.
Although this thing is not very good-looking, but considering that it was not easy to get, the collector tied it up with a rope and hung it around his neck. It hung there for decades. If Su Weixuan hadn’t rescued it with nothing else, , that collector may not be willing to give this thing away.
Su Weixuan didn't pay much attention to the gadget and threw it directly to his son after returning home. Su Xiaofan thought it was fashionable to hang a pendant around his neck, so he kept it hanging. Now that he was short of money, he couldn't help but start a fight. The idea of this thing.
"This thing is said to be a meteorite. I'm afraid no one believes it. Dad is most likely deceived." Playing with the pendant in his hand, Su Xiaofan smiled bitterly. This thing is neither gold nor iron, more like a stone. It's not related at all. He once asked someone to look at it in the antique city, and the only comment they gave was "scrap copper and rotten iron".
"Forget it, it really can't be done. Let me open my mouth to Brother Gang in a few days." Su Xiaofan hung the pendant back around his neck. There was nothing he could do about the little girl's tuition. With his friendship with Zheng Dagang, he could borrow tens of thousands of yuan. It would be no problem to turn around the money for a year and a half, but Su Xiaofan was used to being independent and was unwilling to ask others for help unless absolutely necessary.
"Xiaofan, Su Xiaofan, I'm back!" A crisp shout interrupted Su Xiaofan's thinking, and then the door of the room was opened from the outside. A girl about 1.7 meters tall jumped towards Su Xiaofan. rushed over,
"Call me brother, no matter how big or small you are." Su Xiaofan pushed his sister aside and said angrily: "How old are you? You are still jumping around when you walk. You are crazy. What will you do if you can't get married in the future?"
"Hmph, there are so many people chasing me in school, and people write me love letters every day. How can I not get married?" Su Xiaoxiao laughed, hunched her nose, and ran straight to the kitchen, shouting. Said: "The cafeteria in the school is really terrible, but my brother is better. I look forward to going home for this meal every week to replenish my blood."
"Who is so blind as to chase you? I tell you, you have to study hard and don't use those crooked ideas." Su Xiaofan said hard, but his heart trembled. Dad is not here, so he has to take good care of his sister. He must not Puppy love.
"I know, I don't like those little kids." Su Xiaoxiao snorted and started to lift the lid of the pot.
Not to mention, although she doesn't have a perfect figure, Su Xiaoxiao is very beautiful. Not to mention the height of 1.7 meters, her figure has been fully grown. She has an oval face with willow eyebrows and big bright eyes. The bridge of his nose is straight, and he is 50 or 60% similar to Su Xiaofan. The genes of the Su family are really good. If these two brothers and sisters go out on the street together, they will definitely be a sight on the street.
Su Xiaofan sighed. His sister was good at everything. She had followed him up trees in the countryside to dig out bird eggs and go down to the river to catch loaches since she was a child. She had a wild temperament and most men probably couldn't control her.
"The chicken soup is just right. Don't burn it. I haven't mixed the shredded chicken yet. Why are you in a hurry?" Su Xiaofan followed behind and slapped his sister on the head. "You foodie, you can use the motivation to eat." It’ll be just fine in terms of studies.”
Although Su Xiaoxiao's studies were pretty good, he was above average in the class and was not considered a top student. Compared with Su Xiaofan, he was far behind. Su Weixuan felt sorry for his son. With Su Xiaofan's grades, he had to repeat the exam for one year. There is definitely no problem with going to a top university, but Su Xiaofan has always had the right ideas since he was a child, and even Su Weixuan, a father, cannot change what he has decided.
"Hey, I'm lucky. I can get into a prestigious school without studying." Su Xiaoxiao shrank her head, but then she frowned and said, "Brother, one hundred thousand a year, the tuition is too expensive. , otherwise I should just take the college entrance examination normally. With my current grades, I can take the exam without any problem."
Su Xiaoxiao knew the situation at home. Her father was not very reliable. He was on an ocean-going ship all day, and sometimes he didn't see each other for a year or two. She was able to go to the third year of high school safely because it was her grandfather and brother. Credit: Su Xiaoxiao has been living with her brother since her grandfather passed away a few years ago. She still knows a little about her family's financial background.
"You don't have to worry about tuition. I've already prepared 100,000 yuan for you."
Su Xiaofan pulled away from his sister, took the chicken out of the pot and put it on a plate. He also served a bowl of chicken soup to his sister and said, "My business is okay now. I can save 70,000 to 80,000 yuan a year. Plus, I can still pay for it." As for our dad, he earns US dollars. I estimate that dad must have at least 1.8 million on hand. He doesn’t give it to us because he is afraid that we will spend it frivolously."
Although his father never mentioned his income, information is so developed nowadays. Su Xiaofan found out by checking the Internet on his mobile phone that the first mate of an ocean-going ship can earn 20,000 to 300,000 yuan a year. His father has been a captain for several years. , Su Xiaofan's net worth of millions was something he never thought about.
"Well, I'll go first. If dad doesn't have money, I won't study." Su Xiaoxiao was also a little reluctant to take this opportunity. She helped Su Xiaofan bring the dishes to the table and said, "I am the only one in our school. For those who pass the exam, my boss said that the school will also give a bonus, I don’t know how much it will give.”
"You are the only one who passed the exam in your school? That's not right. What did you take the exam for? Your grades are not outstanding in the class." Su Xiaofan was stunned when he heard this. He was happy last time. Didn't ask in detail.
"I took the exams in Chinese, Mathematics, English, Physics, Chemistry, and Politics. I heard that even the first and second grade students in high school took the exam. Your sister is really good at me, so I was admitted." Su Xiaoxiao has always been ambitious, and there is never anything she can't understand. I don’t think too much, so I live happily every day.
"That's not right, Xiaoxiao, tell me what other exams you took?" Su Xiaofan is different from his sister. He spent two years in a place like the antique market where various religions are mixed. Naturally, he understands one truth, that is, the probability of accidental events happening. Just how low.
Just like those old gentlemen who hang out in the antique market all day long, they all come here with the mentality of picking up missing items on Taobao. However, Su Xiaofan has been doing business in the antique market for two years and has never really seen anyone pick up big leaks. Most of them are some "legends" deliberately spread by those who set up stalls in private, to increase the enthusiasm of the old men for "picking up leaks".
