1980s: I was reborn after being scumbag to death

Chapter 229 One Thousand Yuan
The Meng family's place was bustling with guests and very lively.

At the Ye family in the upper village, Ye Pingshun was sitting at the gate of his yard with a cigarette in his hand, watching the people who were heading to the lower village. He was squinting his eyes and thinking, and no one knew what he was thinking about.

Inside the courtyard, Ye Ran slowly walked out, glanced at her father, and asked him, "Dad, what do you want to eat tonight? I'll go make it now."

It's only the afternoon, and you're already thinking about the evening?

Ye Pingshun turned to look at his daughter, "What's wrong? Don't you have any money to spend?"

Ye Pingshun knew his family very well. His daughter had something to say and wanted to ask him for something.

Otherwise, it would be unreasonable to suddenly ask someone who has never cooked at home what he wants to eat.

Ye Pingshun is the head of the Ye family. Currently, he controls all the money earned by the family. He usually does not pay his son and daughter a salary, but he will give them some pocket money.

If he earns more, he gives more; if he earns less, he gives less. In short, he is not harsh on his family members, and he will never mistreat his precious daughter Ye Ran.

The pocket money Ye Ran usually gets from her father is basically equivalent to an ordinary worker's monthly salary. Otherwise, how could she have the money to buy clothes and cosmetics?

Normally, if Ye Ran didn't have enough money to spend, she would just tell her father. But this time, it wasn't ten or twenty yuan, but one thousand yuan. How could it be so easy to get it?

Ye Ran smiled and said, "Dad, didn't I tell you before that there's still one fish left from this morning? Why don't we stew it tonight? Aren't you going back to the city tomorrow?"

Ye Pingshun is still the village chief. He usually returns to the village, and the family business is mainly handled by his son and daughter.

When he was in the clothing business, he spent half a day in town and half a day in the village.

Now that his business has expanded to the city, he divides his time between the two, spending a few days in the village and a few days in the city.

When he was in the village, he also had to farm and preside over the work that a village chief should do.

When he was in the city, he just did the accounting, collected money and arranged related matters. He generally didn't have to do anything with sales.

Besides, he can't do those things. There are too many medicines, and he can't make any mistakes in classification. He is old and can't remember those things.

Ye Pingshun has been in the village for four days this time. It's time to go and see the business in the city.

Ye Pingshun nodded, "Let's stew it."

"Okay." Ye Ran smiled, turned around and told her mother about this in the courtyard.

After all this time, I just came here to ask!

Ye Pingshun chuckled, took a puff of his cigarette, and asked his daughter, "Have you heard about Meng Shulan becoming the top scholar in the county?"

When this matter was mentioned, Ye Ran fell silent, with a complicated expression, including jealousy, envy, resentment, hatred, and everything in between.

She knew about this yesterday.

She knew that Meng Shulan had good grades, but she really didn't expect that she would become the top scorer in the county.

Thinking that she had not even passed the preliminary exam, Ye Ran felt very uncomfortable even though she had already given up studying.

Ye Pingshun glanced at his daughter, sighed, and said, "Studying is still more glorious!"

Scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, our ancestors ranked these classes in order.

Ye Ran didn't say anything.

What could she say? She was the one who had wasted several years of study, and she was the one who failed the preliminary exam. She had no face to say anything.

Ye Pingshun didn't insist on dwelling on his daughter's studies; he was just expressing his feelings. So after saying this, he changed the subject and asked about Ye Ran and Han Ning.

"Since he didn't pass the exam either, what are your plans next? Will he repeat his studies or start a business with us?"

Ye Ran had no idea about this; Han Ning had never mentioned it.

"Dad, what do you think?"

Ye Ran was not sure either, but wanted to hear her father's opinion.

Ye Pingshun: "Since he passed the preliminary exam, if he repeats the year, he still has a good chance of getting in. But he's already in his early twenties. Even if he manages to pass the exam after repeating the year, he'll be in his mid-twenties by the time he graduates from university in a few years. He's a university student, so he'll be assigned a job right out of school. It doesn't matter if he has a stable job, but you can't wait."

So, it's better to give up this path and focus on business. If you can make more money, you can still live a good life."

After all, Ye Pingshun has been the village chief for more than ten years, so he should be able to understand some of the interests involved.

Han Ning didn't pass the exam this time, but he didn't feel sorry about it. Instead, he felt a little fortunate.

The Han family lives in the city, and if Han Ning is a college student, he will not be able to control such a son-in-law.

The father and daughter had the same idea.

In Ye Pingshun's mind, he already regarded Han Ning as his son-in-law. Little did he know that his daughter and that man had no chance at all. He just didn't tell the truth, which made them have some illusions.

Misunderstandings have always existed. Ye Ran firmly believed that she could get Han Ning, so she never mentioned those things.

If it were in the past, Ye Ran would have been anxious because she hadn't been able to win over Han Ning for a long time, and she might have told her father the truth and asked him to help her.

Ye Pingshun is the head of the family and also the smartest person in the entire Ye family. The family is united and they like to ask him for advice when they have any problems that cannot be solved.

But this time...

Ye Ran said, "Dad, I think he has given up on going to college. He was telling me yesterday that he was planning to start another business."

"Another business?"

Ye Pingshun threw away the cigarette in his hand, "What business?"

Ye Ran smiled unnaturally. "He's still trying to find connections and make preparations. He didn't tell me. He just said that this business is quite big and it would take some time to find connections and channels in the early stages. He also asked me to prepare a thousand yuan for him."

Ye Ran just told the story about the thousand yuan.

At first, when Ye Pingshun heard that there was a new business, and it was a big business, he was excited, but the last thousand yuan was like cold water poured on his face, making his nerves immediately tense.

"A thousand yuan? What kind of business would cost a thousand yuan to find a way in the early stages?"

In the past two months, their family had opened a drugstore, and they had only spent a little over two hundred on gifts. Ye Pingshun thought that was quite exaggerated, and now they were offering another one thousand...

Ye Pingshun is not a fool. This is not the right approach at all. Han Ning is asking his daughter for money.

If he only asked for one hundred, Ye Pingshun would give it to him, but he wanted one thousand. This was the current working capital of their store. The next time the store purchased goods, it would come from this money, and the external debts also had to be repaid slowly. He couldn't just give Han Ning one thousand casually.

Seeing that her father didn't believe her, Ye Ran pursed her lips and explained, "The matter is urgent, and he didn't explain it clearly, but I think he is serious. If he can get a new business, there is no need for him to repeat his studies. He will work with us in the future. If we open a few more stores, we can make back the money quickly."

Now they have pharmacies in both the town and the city, and they can save 100 to 200 yuan a month after deducting various expenses. Even if they give Han Ning 1,000 yuan, the money will be returned in just half a year.

Although it’s a bit much, we can still afford it.

(End of this chapter)