fish in the financial tsunami

Chapter 15 Su Xiaoyu Unemployed (1)
What is luxury?Luxury is that you can say what you want to say at any time, you can do what you want to do at any time, and you can see whoever you want to see at any time.

——Chen Sulei
1
On an ordinary night two months later, Su Xiaoyu returned home exhausted as usual, opened the door and smelled the aroma of red dates and lotus heart porridge. fills a small space.

Her whole family is used to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they are addicted to sweets. She thought it was left for her by her mother, and she felt happy. Su Xiaoyu couldn't help laughing, and walked over to drink porridge with a bowl and spoon. I don't like it, so I always skip the red dates when I spoon it, and the bowl is full of transparent and sweet porridge and rice.

It has been more than a month since she moved into the new house. No matter how hard she is every day, as long as she looks up and sees the lights of her own community when she gets off the car, she feels satisfied.

This is her home, with her and her parents. She left the city at the age of three and returned to Shanghai alone with her luggage. She was born but not raised here. She always feels that she is a very marginalized concept for Shanghai. , neither an outsider nor a way to fully integrate into it.

Now it's finally better, with her own house, the family can live together again, and she finally found a sense of rootedness, peace of mind, and happiness in everything.

After drinking the sweet soup with a smile on her face, she went to the bathroom to take a shower and then went to bed. She had been working overtime for almost a month, and it was rare to have a full day of rest tomorrow. Instructing, Su Xiaoyu almost laughed out loud at the thought of having a good night's sleep.

Working more than ten hours a day, she has always slept well, and tonight was no exception. Immediately after going to bed, she began to feel hazy, but suddenly the phone rang in the hall, and the midnight ring was sharp and piercing. She woke up suddenly, wide open in the dark. eyes.

Who is it so late!

Afraid of waking up her parents, she jumped out of bed with bare feet and ran out to pick up the phone. Even though it was summer, it was still cold when she stepped on the floor tiles with her bare feet, and she couldn't help curling up her toes when answering the phone.

There was a hoarse male voice on the other end of the phone, with a very hard tone, "Hey! Avoid answering the phone? It's useless to be a coward. How long do you want to delay?"

Su Xiaoyu was stunned by the endless sentence, and became angry when she answered again, "Sir, did you call the wrong number?"

Unexpectedly, the other end yelled, "Damn it, I just want to get away with another little girl answering the phone, who is Su Guoqiang? Tell him to come over."

The door slammed, and Dad ran out of the bedroom. He didn't turn on the lights at night, and he ran in a hurry. He seemed to have kicked something in the dark. The sound of the collision was dull, so he ignored it. Pressing it off, the other hand snatched the microphone from Su Xiaoyu's hand.

"Father..." Still maintaining the posture just now, Su Xiaoyu stood there staring blankly at her father, speechless.

At two o'clock in the morning, the curtains were not drawn, but there was still no light in the room. Dad was still wearing an old white vest. It took a long time to vaguely see his face, which was covered with sweat.

"I made a wrong number, go to sleep." Dad spoke in a calm tone.

"Wrong number?" Su Xiaoyu murmured and repeated, "But he called your name, Dad, what's going on?"

"It's all right, what time is it, you'd better go to sleep." Dad stretched out his hand to push, Su Xiaoyu was still standing there, at this moment she turned around passively, her mother's cry suddenly came from her ear, and in the dark It was extremely clear, more shocking than the phone ringing just now.

The father and daughter turned their heads together, only to see the mother who had been standing by the bedroom door at some point, with tears streaming down her face and a hoarse voice, "It's okay? What's the matter? Su Guoqiang, you will make both of us mother and daughter live on the street Yes, you still said it's okay!"

She had never seen her mother like this before, Su Xiaoyu was horrified, she stared back at her father with wide eyes, full of doubts.

No one gave her an answer, and her mother kept crying, while her father's face turned ashen for a moment, and he lowered his head silently, holding his hands trembling, his shoulders slumped, and he was endlessly old and helpless.

Suspecting that she was dreaming, Su Xiaoyu bit the tip of her tongue hard, the pain was accompanied by the smell of blood, she took a deep breath, turned around and took two steps, turned on the headlight in the hall with a "snap", and then spoke , "What the hell is going on? Dad, Mom, sit down and talk."

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Things were worse than Su Xiaoyu could have imagined. Dad invested all the money he had on hand at the peak of the stock market, including years of savings from old friends and colleagues. Unexpectedly, the market has been bad since the beginning of the year. The trap got deeper and deeper. When Su Xiaoyu persuaded him to quit, he didn't want to do it anymore, but he felt sorry for his old friends. He always thought that as long as he could save the capital and return them, he couldn't help but buy again when he rebounded. , When it fell, I panicked so much that I not only returned all the little I earned before to the stock market, but also lost so much that I didn’t even know my family.

When Su Guoqiang speculated in the stock market back then, he swore that he would bring his old friends to make money together. He didn’t expect that he didn’t even have pension money, and even killed several old friends who had been with him for decades. He felt sorry even after thinking about it. In the end, they put all their eggs in one basket and mortgaged their newly bought house, hoping to use the money to buy bottoms and gamble for luck.

"Dad, who did you mortgage the house to? Why don't I know anything?" Hearing this, Su Xiaoyu finally couldn't help it, and cried out in a low voice.

"He is already obsessed with ghosts. He didn't even tell me. He found a financial company with a text message on his mobile phone. What kind of good people do you think that kind of company would have? It's a loan shark company! Your father is really stupid. People are cheating."

The mother's voice was still crying, she was used to being calm at home all her life, and she almost collapsed when she heard the news. At first, her husband just said that he owed some money, and he could pay it back as soon as the stock rebounded. I didn't want my daughter to worry, so I helped him hide it from Xiaoyu. After moving here, I found out that he even mortgaged the house.A week ago, other people started to collect debts, saying that they would take over the house if they didn’t pay back the money. Where did they get the money to pay off the debts?The financial company called every day in the middle of the night or early in the morning. They were so frightened that the old couple didn't dare to answer the phone. hear.

"Mom, don't worry." Although he was upset, Su Xiaoyu comforted her mother when she saw her mother's appearance, and then continued, "Dad, since you mortgaged the house for the loan, you and the finance company There should be a contract, show me."

The contract was spread out on the table, and Su Xiaoyu persevered to read it page by page. The more she read it, the colder her heart became. Finally, her fingers trembled, and she couldn't make a sound for a long time after closing it.

"Xiaoyu, Dad will pay back the money. Dad has already gone to find a job. There is a factory in Jinshan that is short of a warehouse manager. Let me go to work next week... I have discussed with them about food and lodging. , A little more every month..." The father, who had been silent by the side all the time, said aloud, not daring to look at his wife and daughter, looking down like a child who did something wrong.

My mother started crying again, and while she was crying, she beat her husband's shoulder with her hand, "You old man, are you planning to leave us alone and flee to that kind of remote place to hide? Such a large sum of money, you can pay for it once a month." The moon is not over until death."

Su Xiaoyu also wanted to cry, but for some reason she couldn't shed a single tear. She bit her lips too hard, but she didn't feel any pain. She had a sore throat and struggled for a long time before she could make a sound again, "Dad, Mom is right, you It's not over, even the interest is not over, and, what age are you and your health is not good, I won't let you see the warehouse."

"Xiaoyu..." The old couple looked up at their daughter together.

"I will find a way for this money, don't worry." Su Xiaoyu stood up in the light of the morning light outside the window, put away the contract on the table, and slowly finished the last sentence.

3
She said she would think of a way, but after Su Xiaoyu returned to her room, she sat down on the edge of the bed, feeling exhausted.

She opened the drawer to find her passbook. After opening it, she stared at it for a long time, and then hung her shoulders wanting to cry without tears. She felt that there was an invisible boulder pressing down on her head, and she couldn't even straighten her neck.

In fact, she has little savings among her peers. BLM is not a stingy company, and the salary is attractive. She works so hard, and the overtime pay is also considerable.But she has just started working for a few months, the most basic sets of suits have just been bought recently, and the mortgage is paid every month, no matter how much she saves, she can't save such a large sum of money.

What to do... I can't find a solution after thinking about it, but let others take the house away like this?Dad was so confused, he just mortgaged the house behind her and mother's backs, and now that things are like this, what should she do? !

But he is her father!No matter how wrong it is, it's her father!

A little desperate, but the father's sad face, gray hair, and mother's sad crying look, want to cry, she has always been a girl who is easy to cry and easy to laugh, but since I heard what my father said just now Until now, the sockets of his eyes have been dry, and he can't shed a single tear.

No, this house cannot be abandoned.She finally gathered her fists and gritted her teeth fiercely to speak to herself.

This is their home, the biggest wish that the whole family has worked so hard to fulfill for so many years.She is still young, and without this house, it would be a big deal to start all over again, but Mom and Dad have worked hard all their lives, and this house is their whole life's painstaking efforts. Is it possible that when they are old, they will be left living on the streets without a fixed place to live?

No, she must not let that happen!
This morning Su Xiaoyu sat on the bed and thought about it for a long time. In summer, it dawned early, and gradually the sun came in through the gaps in the curtains. She stood up and pulled the curtains. I clenched my fists too tightly, my nails sank deeply, and my palms were broken.She didn't care at all, she continued the previous action, pulled the curtains hard, and for a moment, the feeling of steaming heat rushed through the glass, the sun was dazzling, her eyes hurt, she wanted to cry, she wanted to close them, but she stubbornly insisted Not wanting to dodge, just squinting hard.

On a rare rest day, Tang Zhongwen showed mercy and did not give any instructions. Su Xiaoyu originally had many plans. She wanted to sleep beautifully for the first time in more than a month. She wanted to take her parents with her after waking up. Go out shopping, have a meal, and at night, the family can watch TV while drinking sweet soup. She hasn’t watched a variety show for a long time. No matter how old-fashioned games are, she finds them fresh and interesting, and she laughs every time. .

But now all these plans have been thrown into the corner. After a sleepless night, Su Xiaoyu put on her suit again, stood in front of the mirror and organized herself, ready to go back to the company.

Mom didn't come out after entering the room, and Dad sat alone in the living room without saying a word.

There was only the sound of the TV at home, and Su Xiaoyu turned it on after she walked out of the room. She was not in the mood to watch it, but she didn’t want the whole house to have no sound at all. After she turned on the TV, she went to the door of Mom and Dad’s room and knocked on the door, and said softly, "Mom, you Don't worry too much, I'll go back to the company now and discuss with the HR department whether I can advance the salary, there will always be a way."

(End of this chapter)