Autumn and Winter Check-in Challenge
Yesterday I met an old friend I hadn't seen in years. This old friend of mine is a doctor and has only one son.
After an old friend and I had a few drinks, he opened up the conversation and talked to me about his son.
I still know something about his son, he has been excellent in Xi since primary school, successfully admitted to a 985 college in the provincial capital, and stayed in the provincial city to work after graduation, I heard that it is in the provincial branch of a large company, it seems to be a small leader of a certain department, in short, the mix is not bad, the income should not be low. But my old friend couldn't be happy when he talked to me about his son.
The old friend and his family live in a prefecture-level city 200 kilometers away from the provincial capital, and the old friend just retired from a city hospital last year and was hired to work in a nearby private hospital. His son bought a house in the provincial capital three years ago and found a daughter-in-law in the provincial capital, and his grandson is more than two years old. A friend told me that he didn't know how much his son and daughter-in-law's salary was, that he paid more than 1.5 million yuan for the down payment of his son to buy a house in the provincial capital, and that he paid more than 300,000 yuan for the wedding bride price and banquet, and that after his son bought a house, he paid more than 8,000 yuan per month per month, which is also the reason why he went to work in a private hospital immediately after retirement.
An old friend said that he originally planned to work for another 5 years, and all the money from the rehired job would be paid monthly for his son's house. But just last month, he went to his son's house and made him change his mind.
Last month was the grandson's second birthday, the old friend and his family arrived at their son's house early in the morning by high-speed rail, the son's father-in-law and mother-in-law also came, the son and daughter-in-law were in the kitchen to arrange meals, he wanted to take the little grandson downstairs to walk in the community, the little grandson was unwilling, only close to his grandfather. Chatting with the in-laws, the in-laws praised the son, saying that the son has strong work ability, is modest, and every month the daily necessities such as grain and oil, milk and other nutritional products, are bought by the son-in-law and sent to the door, and some are directly purchased online to the door, in short, it is very filial, and the son-in-law's performance is quite satisfied. After a while, the meal is ready, the birthday song is sung, the meal is eaten, the wine is drunk, the son, daughter-in-law, grandson, the in-laws are happy, and the taste of the dishes is also the taste of the in-laws, as if the old friends and the old couple have become guests. After the meal, the son, daughter-in-law, and grandson sent their in-laws back together, and the old couple cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks in the kitchen.
After cleaning up the kitchen, my friend looked at his son's big house, and suddenly felt an inexplicable strangeness, his old couple seemed to be outsiders, and they had a strange sense of strangeness to their son, daughter-in-law, and grandson. Zheng**, the doorbell rang, it turned out to be the property management staff, he said that the property management fee of 15 buildings 903 was not paid last month, I said that here is 3 buildings 1901, are you mistaken, he said that there is no mistake, these two are your house to pay the property management fee, the property manager reported the name to me, it is indeed not wrong, it is the name of the son. The friend instantly understood, so he told the property manager that he had just gone to Room 903 in Building 15, and that you should not go there to find him or leave a note for him to transfer the money to the account later.
After the property manager left, the more my friend and his wife thought about it, the more they didn't feel it, and they checked the high-speed rail ticket and found that there was a return ticket for the same day. So the old couple bought a return ticket and went back. In the evening, the son called ** to a friend and asked why he went back overnight, and the friend said that there was something at home, so he went back, and did not mention that the property manager came to urge the property management fee.
After my friend returned home, he discussed with his wife that the old couple had a pension of almost 10,000 yuan a month, plus the salary of the rehired hospital, deducting living expenses and some personal expenses, almost 10,000 yuan was left every month, and in the past, 8,000 yuan was transferred to his son on the 28th of each month.
On the 28th of the month, my friend did not transfer money to his son as usual. In the afternoon of the next day, my son ** came and asked if he had forgotten to transfer money, and his friend said that he had not forgotten it, but that he had not transferred it now, firstly, because of the performance appraisal of private hospitals, the salary had dropped, and secondly, his old couple was not in good health, and the money he kept was spared. The son was a little upset and hung up**.
At the end of the conversation, the old friend said that his son was very good, filial and proud, but he always felt that he had raised a son for someone else.