Journey 1995:Non-Stop

Chapter 98 Gold Ornaments
The Yan family's first motorcycle was bought by Yan Hui's uncle in 1985. It cost more than 10,000 yuan at the time and was also the first motorcycle in the village.

By 1993, some of the wealthier families in the village had spent over 20,000 yuan to buy a Suzuki 250 motorcycle. During this period, several other villagers had also fallen off their motorcycles.

In the early 90s, several people in the village still owned smuggled motorcycles worth several thousand yuan. Some were caught by the police, and their motorcycles were confiscated. In short, motorcycles were not uncommon in the village, and my grandmother always held them in awe.

Yan Hui is getting a little cocky now, which his grandmother can understand, but it's inevitable that she won't let him ride his bike to the county town.

Qinglan had homework to do when she got home, while Yanhui was busy playing with his cousin. Three days later, the cousin, Yanhui, and Qinglan took a bus to the county town.

"You're going to give that girl a gift?" His cousin knew what Yan Hui wanted. "If you ask me, you should go all out and give her a gold necklace. It costs over a thousand yuan, that'll be presentable!"

"Isn't this a bit too... too direct?" Yan Hui blushed again.

The reason Yan Hui wasn't angry with the second oldest was because Liu Yu was the class's recognized beauty.

In fact, there are at least five or six boys in the class who like Liu Yu, maybe even more. This kind of phenomenon is all too common in junior high school.

As for Yan Hui, as mentioned before, he has never even confessed his feelings, so why can't the second brother get engaged to him?

Of course, Yan Hui would only secretly laugh when some people's engagements failed.

“You’re different from your second brother. Just give her a gift. If she accepts it, it means she cares about you, and things will be much easier. Then, you can go with the flow. Even if your parents don’t help you, I will! If she doesn’t accept it, you can keep the gold; it’s not a loss.” My cousin was clearly very experienced.

Girls these days are generally quite naive. If you want to give them something, just give them the gift directly. If they accept it, you've usually succeeded.

“Brother,” Qinglan spoke up, “although over a thousand is expensive, I think you’re right. If you really like it, then give it a try. You should show some sincerity in these things. Even if you’re not engaged yet, you can still express your attitude.”

Seeing that his younger sister agreed, why would Yan Hui disagree?
Having made their decision, the three of them went to a jewelry store together.

Gold costs a little over 100 yuan per gram. Yan Hui asked his sister to help him choose. After spending a long time and more than 1,000 yuan, he chose a necklace weighing 12 or 13 grams, which was very beautiful.

Once the necklace was packaged, Yan Hui's task was completely completed.

"Hoo," Yan Hui's heart was racing.

From the moment he started preparing to buy until he finished, his heart was pounding, and he didn't know why.

"Let's go, let's go, let's go buy some clothes for Qinglan first." Yan Hui didn't intend for Qinglan to spend any money.

The money given to my sister is for my sister. Buying things for my sister now is a completely different matter!
In recent months, the biggest change in Yan Hui is not that his assets have increased from more than 20,000 to more than 30,000, but that he is really willing to spend money, at least much more than before.

Yan Hui has already decided that the first thing he will do when he goes to Jianye with his cousin is to buy a pager, even a second-hand one.

He absolutely needs something like that now.

Yan Hui bought two pieces of clothing and a pair of shoes for his younger sister, and also some pretty stationery.

My cousin didn't seem to want to buy anything, but he had somewhere to go. If Yan Hui hadn't brought Qing Lan along, he would have gone with my cousin, but they had to part ways now.

My cousin went off to play by himself, while Yan Hui took his sister to the snack street for some delicious food. In the afternoon, he took his sister home by car.

Upon returning home, Yan Hui immediately put the gold necklace away and instructed his sister to keep it a secret.

He didn't plan to tell anyone about giving him the gold necklace.

He didn't want to end up like his second brother, where everyone knew about the rejection.

A few days later, as the twelfth lunar month approached, to Yan Hui's surprise, his second son actually returned!
Just like last year, everyone except the fourth brother came back.

The third child hasn't changed much since last year; he's still studying at a nursing school. The eldest child hasn't changed either; he's a senior in high school this year and will be taking the college entrance exam next year.

The biggest change is in the second son. He's been working in Beijing for almost a year now, and Yan Hui feels that he's become more mature.

The eldest and third oldest students might not have noticed, but Yan Hui saw it at a glance, after all, he had been through the same thing.

You can tell from the second child's condition that he has already adapted to life in Beijing.

"Doing business in the capital isn't so regulated; fights are quite common. Luckily, our shop is small, and our profit margins have never been high, so no one steals our business," the second brother explained.

"Impossible, right? Aren't hardware stores quite profitable?"

"We don't have a store in the hardware market; we have one near a residential area, mainly for the convenience of local residents. We sell water pipes, household tools, and the like, so there's relatively little competition, and things are doing fairly well for now."

"That's really good." Yan Hui's worries lessened a bit upon hearing this.

The second son came back this time because he received a letter from Yan Hui.

Hearing that Yan Hui was going to Jianye, the second brother came back specifically to have a good talk with him. In the second brother's opinion, the timber market in Beijing was also very good, and it was very large. If Yan Hui went, he would try his best to help, and even if there was a fight, he would go and fight along.

Yan Hui felt somewhat ashamed after learning about this. Lately, when he went to town for a haircut and met up with other classmates, they had teased him quite a bit.
"I encountered some unreasonable local thugs in Fengtian. After I beat them up, they targeted my uncle. I suspect Beijing is even more terrifying; who knows how many powerful people there are. My cousin and I have decided to go to Jianye; I think it suits me better there. I won't consider going to Beijing unless I have several million in the future," Yan Hui boasted.

"Several million?" The second son was a little suffocated when he heard this. "I...I don't have such thoughts. I've saved eight or nine thousand yuan this year. I think I can take it slow."

“If you work for your family, you can save eight or nine thousand, which is not bad. Take your time.”

The two brothers were discussing business, and the eldest and youngest couldn't get a word in edgewise. They talked all day about things in Beijing, Jianye, and Fengtian, without feeling tired at all.

It was only at this point that the second son realized how amazing Yan Hui was. When he heard Yan Hui talk about it last year, he couldn't understand it at all; his understanding was simply insufficient.

The guys and I had been hanging out together for several days, and we'd been to town four or five times already. Gradually, the agreed-upon time was approaching.

By the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, all the students who needed to be notified had been notified, and many were planning to stay in town for a day on the eleventh day of the twelfth lunar month! The students in town all had places to sleep, and the weather wasn't cold, so they could stay for a day!
(End of this chapter)