Happiness System

"Brother Zhan, see if you can buy a cake when you come over. Today is Big Brother's birthday and the kids want to eat cake!"

"Really, you're a bit watery, brother!"

Once the call is made, whether the children’s expectations can be realized depends on God’s will!

The food in the kitchen is almost ready, so we just need to wait for everyone to arrive, heat it up in the wok, stir-fry some vegetables and then we can start eating.

The children were a little excited to celebrate their father's birthday for the first time, but it was too late to prepare gifts.

Jing Lili rolled her eyes and asked her aunt to help her lift down her electronic piano. She trained her younger brothers to sing the birthday song and then asked them to take turns to go out and watch outside.

When Jing Shen picked up his wife and opened the door, the sound of the piano rang out...

"Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you..."

At the same time, Jing Zhan, who arrived before them, quietly took out his camera and took pictures of this scene.

The depth of field was so moved that he murmured.

Although both his parents were working when he was young, they were selfish and spent all their earnings on themselves. Most of his brothers and sisters were raised by their grandparents, and their life was not easy.

When I was a child, the happiest thing I looked forward to most in the year was the bowl of birthday noodles with an egg on it that belonged to me on my birthday.

After growing up and their grandparents passed away, it seemed that they and their siblings lost the joy and ritual of celebrating their birthdays.

Later, when they get married and have children, it seems that they will only say a few words when their partner’s birthday is approaching, and then it’s over.

Only when the children have birthdays, they will specially cook braised pork and chicken legs for the children to celebrate simply.

It can be said that by chance, Jing Shen celebrated the most grand birthday in his more than 30 years.

After a big meal, we sat together and had a quiet chat for a while.

At nine o'clock, everyone took out the cake, sang the birthday song again, extinguished the candles, and shared the small cake amid the children's cheers and laughter.

After returning home, Jing Zhanbi seemed happier than Jing Shen, the birthday boy.

He hugged Sheng Yunlan and said, "Thank you, Xiaolan. After growing up, the last time I saw my elder brother so happy was when he married my elder sister-in-law!"

Sheng Yunlan raised her head in his arms and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that today is Big Brother's birthday, it's all a coincidence!

Brother Zhan, we will celebrate your birthday next time too!"

"Okay! My requirements are not high, as long as they are not lower than big brother's standards!" Jing Zhan's eyes lit up.

Sheng Yunlan pinched his waist and said, "Your requirements are a bit high!"

After a while of fussing, she discussed with Jing Zhan the warm-house ceremony for the two families of Jing Shen and Jing Lin.

"Isn't it still early?" Jing Zhan frowned. Can't we just give him a bigger red envelope when the time comes? He still has to give it away?

Sheng Yunlan knew what he was thinking from his expression, and said helplessly: "He's your own brother, isn't that too perfunctory?"

Jing Zhan smiled nonchalantly, "We have been doing this for so many years. We have all been fooling around like this."

"The past is the past. In the past, everyone's conditions were average and the economy was not good. Now that things are better, wouldn't it be more joyful to have some sense of ceremony? Forget it, I'll do it myself!

Are you free the day after tomorrow? I have an appointment with my elder sister and her friends to go to Xicheng to look at houses. Do you want to come with us?"

"Will Brother Hu and Brother-in-law go? If they go, I'll work overtime tomorrow and find some time!"

"You're such a busy man! Forget it, just do your thing, let's go look at the house first, we don't know when we'll actually finalize the decoration!

I don’t know what it looks like there now, so I have to take a look before deciding whether to renovate it.

Then it depends on whether you design it yourself or find a professional decoration team to design it...

There are too many things to do, I'll save them for you to run errands for later!"

"Yes, yes, from now on I'll hit you wherever you point!"

According to his brother's experience, the right thing to do is to admit your mistake and go along with it!

Sheng Yunlan glared at him, but couldn't do anything about him.

The next day, she looked up the information about the West City villa and thought about it. She called the property management and asked if she could go there to officially take possession of the property. Then she made an appointment to go there the next day.

Nowadays, the properties in residential communities are basically managed by the developers’ own people, and professional property management companies have not yet appeared.

After hanging up the phone, Sheng Yunlan called Jingying to arrange a meeting time. Her brother-in-law was also not available, so he said that they women should go first, and they would go later when the decoration plan is confirmed.

Although these families were not people of high status or prestige, they were not people that the developers could easily fool. That was why Jing Zhan and Hao Jiefang were so confident in handing over the house matters to the women in their families.

Sheng Yunlan and his family have decided that they will not live in Jiang City for a long time, but they have not yet decided which house to keep.

The problems with the developer of the West City villa area were resolved as early as the first half of the year. Now the prices there have risen. The worst location has risen to RMB 1,500, which is twice as much as when they first bought it.

When Qiu Hongying received the news, she regretted it so much that her intestines turned green. It is said that she even had a quarrel with Jinglin and his wife about it.

They only decided on their house two months ago. After being picky and choosing, and insisting on paying the full amount as she didn't want to go into debt and pay bank interest, Qiu Hongying didn't save much money.

The house she bought now was also one of the ones she had set her eyes on before. It was not that the house was difficult to sell, but that the person who wanted to sell the house before was the owner's son, but the owner disagreed.

I have no idea what was discovered in the middle, and now she says she wants to live somewhere else with her son and not come back.

However, the current price is more than 10,000 yuan more expensive than when they looked at it last year. A 90-square-meter three-bedroom apartment costs 80,000 yuan.

The current interest rate is not as outrageous as in later generations. The increase of more than 10,000 yuan almost covers the loan interest.

In other words, the second bedroom did not save a penny by living in the small house for an extra year. On the contrary, due to various reasons, the interior of the house became much older over the past year, and they had to spend extra money to redecorate it.

Qiu Hongying is the accountant, and this matter is like a thorn in her side.

Sheng Yunlan didn’t understand why she would choose this set if she had such a knot in her heart. Wouldn’t this just halve her pure happiness?

Now that we have bought this house in full and are renovating it, the second room’s assets have basically been emptied out.

Qiu Hongying, who was used to holding large amounts of money in her hands, would feel anxious every time she stared at her family's passbook. Now that the house has been renovated, she can't wait to move in.

However, she is very proud and wants to buy good furniture but she does not have enough money. It is said that she is now planning to sell the old house.

It was also said that the person who was going to take over her house was her eldest brother from her mother's side. He said that he was going to marry a daughter-in-law and would use the house for her eldest nephew's wedding. The selling price was 20% lower than the market price, and half of the money was paid in the form of a promissory note.

When Sheng Yunlan heard the complaints from her aunt's family, she felt numb all over.

Qiu Hongying took them to see the house before it was renovated. The location is actually quite good. The 90-square-meter three-bedroom apartment with no public area is quite spacious and has good lighting.

However, there is no possibility that that location will be demolished in the next 30 years. It will be an old house in the school district. Although it is still valuable, it is still a little lacking.

Instead, the small house of less than 50 square meters that she gave to her eldest nephew from her mother's side will be demolished within ten years!

But these had nothing to do with her. Her second sister-in-law just wouldn't listen to advice, so Sheng Yunlan didn't say much.

However, during this period of time, I often heard from my elder sister-in-law that Qiu Hongying bought a house. After knowing that the housing prices in Xicheng area had risen sharply, I felt that the relationship between the best friends had suddenly become much weaker.

Sheng Yunlan always pretends to be stupid and doesn't express any opinions.

On the day of taking possession of the property, the trunk of the car was loaded with a lot of things, including snacks, winter clothes and thick quilts that Sister Zhang had prepared for her two sons.

The two children have been studying in that aristocratic school for almost a year and are currently adapting well.

Although they could see their parents every day, they were kind of free-range. They didn’t get along well with their classmates and the kids in the neighborhood, and they were hungry when they got home. After they went to boarding school, the brothers got used to it and were very happy.

"Oh, my two kids have recently been praised by the teacher for their academic progress!

Before, I thought that the two children were not good at studying, and I thought that when they grew up, they could do some small business to get a household registration!

It’s the same for me and their dad. We didn’t go to much education, but we live no worse than others!

I didn’t expect that we were the ones who delayed the child’s development!”

Sister Zhang praised her son again and again. Knowing that her son was doing well in school, she was extremely happy.

Jingying had attended high school. When the college entrance examination was resumed, she had a good job and was already married, so she did not hesitate to take the college entrance examination. However, she did not expect that her iron rice bowl would be destroyed.

In addition, she has seen that the road to promotion and salary increase for men is indeed much more difficult than those college students in the company, so she cares a lot about her children's studies.

It's been the past two years that she's been busy with business and her husband has been busy getting a raise and promotion, so they've neglected their child. Her parents-in-law also spoiled the child, so the child's grades have dropped a lot.

She is now anxious to fix the house and transfer her child to a school to save the situation.

This time she came here because she heard Sister Zhang praise it so much that she wanted to come and see the school.

But it’s a pity that my daughter is about to take the high school entrance exam, but this noble family doesn’t have a high school department now!

When Jingying heard Sister Zhang start praising the child and the school again, she was not impatient at all. Instead, she asked a lot of details.

They first went to the school to deliver the things, registered with the security guard, put the things for Sister Zhang's child in a fixed place, and then said that they were the owners of a villa in West City and wanted to visit the school. The security guard made another phone call.

In less than ten minutes, Zhang's child's homeroom teacher and people from the school admissions office came over.

After a few pleasantries, the head teacher asked a security guard to help deliver the children's belongings to the dormitory, and the admissions office staff began to take them on a tour of various places.

The last time I visited was during the holiday, so I could only look at the school environment and facilities. But this time, I could feel the school’s learning atmosphere very intuitively.

"Your school is really good! It's great. I will transfer my children here next semester. I will let them live here first, and then they can go to school as day students after the house is renovated and moved in!"

Jingying just wanted to investigate at first, and now she decided to transfer the child without even discussing it with her husband.

The person from the admissions office adjusted his glasses and said with a smile, "Thank you very much for the parents' recognition of our school!

It is like this, if you really want to transfer your child here, we need to charge a little place-reservation fee...

You can complete the other information later when the new semester starts."