030, paint a big pie for your father

030, paint a big pie for your father

Behind closed doors, there were only three of them in this small home.

The small courtyard they had just rented had three rooms and a main room. Although it was called three rooms, one of them was actually a small room for storing miscellaneous items, and the two rooms in the main room were bedrooms. There was also a separate kitchenette and a small bathroom outside.

There was an old well in the yard, and a pomegranate tree planted in the corner. Its leaves had all fallen, leaving only the bare trunk. There was also a small vacant lot nearby, overgrown with weeds. It must have been cleared by the previous residents to grow vegetables.

When he rented this place, Lu Mingfei thought that the small room outside could be used as a workshop for his father. He didn't have any siblings at the moment, so if he had any, his younger brother could share a room with him, while his younger sister would have to move to a larger courtyard. He didn't dare to think about buying a house in Kyoto at the moment because the housing prices here were really high. They wouldn't be able to afford a house here anytime soon.

On the first day of moving into the new house, he had a room of his own, a little world of his own. He no longer had to live in the same room with his parents, which made him feel inexplicably relieved.

His current room is opposite the room where his parents live, but there is a main room in between, so there is a distance between them. This way, even if there is any noise in the room next door at night, he will not be able to hear it.

However, he just moved in today, and there is only a small bed for sleeping in his room, without even a table, chair or cabinet.

But these are not too important things to him. When his father's health improves, his father can make him a wardrobe, a desk and a chair; or when the family's financial situation is better, they can spend money to hire a craftsman to make them for him.

He doesn't need a desk and other things for now. Having a room and a bed to sleep on is enough. He can add other things later. There is still a long way to go, so there is no need to rush.

After taking a look in his room and nodding with satisfaction, Lu Mingfei walked towards the room where his parents lived.

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“Knock knock—”

Although the door to this room was open, he saw his mother packing things in the room and his father lying on the bed from outside, but he still reached out and knocked on the door and asked the person inside: "Dad, Mom, can I come in?"

"Come in, Qilang, if you want to enter our house now, you have to ask your mother and father before you dare to come in." Liu Sanniang, who was packing up, looked back at the child behind her and said with a smile.

Lu Mingfei grinned and walked into the house where his parents lived.

The room his parents lived in was decorated a bit like the one they had lived in at the old Lu family mansion. It had a bed, a wardrobe, a dresser, and two familiar large trunks, all of which his father had made himself. However, the room here was much more spacious than the one they had lived in at the old Lu family mansion. Without a bed at the other end, it looked brighter and more comfortable.

The most important thing is that there are only three of them living here, and there are no other branches of the Lu family and his grandparents watching them.

So being able to separate and live outside may not be a bad thing for their family of three.

"The weather is getting cold, so I have to hurry and make a quilt for your house, and then make you a set of cotton-padded clothes and trousers to wear in winter." Liu Sanniang said this with a smile on her face and a vision of the future.

"Mom, please make the quilt for me smaller. I'm still young and can't use a big one. By making it smaller, we can save some cotton. You and Dad can each use the saved cotton to make a set of cotton-padded clothes and trousers." Lu Mingfei said to his mother.

However, when Liu Sanniang heard what the child said, she paused and said, "If you are too small now, you will not be big enough when you grow up next year or two."

"Then I can make a new one when I grow up. Then I can take the cotton out of the small quilt and add it to the new one, so it won't be wasted. For now, we still have to get through this winter." Lu Mingfei thought it would take several years for him to grow up and use a large quilt. By then, their family should have enough money to make this quilt. But for now, they still had to count their copper coins to make a living.

Hearing this, Liu Sanniang thought the child's idea was a good one, "That's fine."

After discussing the quilt-making matter with his mother, Lu Mingfei sat on the edge of his father's bed and said to his parents in the room, "Father, Mother, I've come to discuss something with you."

"Do you want to say something to us?" Liu Sanniang saw the child's serious face and really didn't know what the child wanted to say to them.

Lu Youtian also looked at his son, waiting for him to speak.

Facing the two pairs of eyes staring at him, Lu Mingfei expressed his thoughts: "I'm afraid that the profit from our small stall in a month is not enough to pay for our rent in the city, so I'm thinking, wouldn't it be better for us to do something else?"

"Well, mother has been thinking about this for the past two days." Liu Sanniang put down the clothes in her hand, walked over, pulled a stool and sat in front of her husband and child, with a little sadness on her face.

Not to mention Lu Youtian, he is now lying on this bed and can't get up. He needs someone to serve him when eating, drinking, defecating and urinating, let alone doing business and making money.

"Dad, Mom, don't look so sad." Facing his parents' sad faces, Lu Mingfei comforted them, "We are out here, and it's better than being at home. We are a family together, and we can live our lives with laughter or tears, so why don't we live our lives with laughter?"

"Qillang, you are right." Liu Sanniang said.

Liu Sanniang and Lu Youtian also knew that what the child said made sense, and they both tried hard to adjust their facial expressions, but no matter how hard they tried, they just couldn't smile at the moment.

Lu Youtian met the child's clear eyes and saw that the child was never in a hurry, so he asked the child: "Qillang, do you have any ideas in your mind?" He knew that his son was smarter than other children since he was young. Maybe he had some ideas, so he came to discuss with them now.

"Yeah, I was thinking, food is the most important thing for people. We could start a food-related business. It would definitely make more money than setting up a small stall and selling small items like this, right?" Lu Mingfei looked at his father and mother with a smile in his eyes and asked, "Dad, Mom, what do you think of this idea I'm suggesting?"

When Lu Youtian and Liu Sanniang heard the child's words, they glanced at each other and their eyes lit up a little.

During the past few days when they were staying at Boss Lu's house, Liu Sanniang had seen how prosperous the pancake shop's business was. It was much better than the business they had with their small stall selling small items outside. So when she heard the child's suggestion, she thought about it carefully and agreed with the child's statement. "Qi Lang, this is a good idea."

"However, what kind of food business can we do?" Liu Sanniang really couldn't think of what kind of food business she could do for a moment.

"When running a food business, the first thing is that it must be delicious," said Lu Mingfei.

"Yes, that's right. It must be delicious for people to buy it." Lu Youtian felt that what the child said made a lot of sense.

Liu Sanniang also looked at the child, waiting for him to continue speaking.

Facing two pairs of expectant eyes, Lu Mingfei continued, "We don't have much money right now, so we can't do big business. Let's do some small business, serving ordinary people, and we have to be cheap and large in volume. Do you think what I said makes sense?"

"Yeah, that makes sense." Lu Youtian thought carefully about what his son said and agreed with him. "But, tell me, what kind of food business is there that offers good food, cheap food, and large quantities?"

"Hehe." Lu Mingfei chuckled and gave his father and mother a confident look. He turned to his mother and said, "Mother, didn't you ask me yesterday what I was going to do with those spices?"

"Oh, yes. I asked you yesterday, but you refused to tell me. Are those tree barks and leaves you bought useful?" Liu Sanniang also remembered that the child had begged her to buy some strange things yesterday.

"About this, you will know later." Lu Mingfei smiled and kept it a secret here, and said to his mother: "Mom, we are going out to buy some meat and vegetables now, and try the dishes in the evening. If you think it is good, we will go buy good things tomorrow and prepare it, and we can set up the stall the day after tomorrow." He planned it in his mind. They will prepare for the next two days and can set up the stall the day after tomorrow.

"You kid, are you still keeping me in suspense?" Liu Sanniang looked at the child and smiled, her eyes showing her doting and trust in the child. She knew that her child, although young, was very capable in doing things. Sometimes she didn't know what was going on in her child's head.

Seeing that the child was unwilling to speak out now, Lu Youtian and Liu Sanniang did not force the child to tell them clearly what his idea was.

But there is one very important thing at the moment, which is to clean the old well in the yard. Lu Mingfei mentioned this to his father and mother, and also mentioned: "We don't have a toilet at home, we need to build a toilet, otherwise our family will not be able to find a place to go to the toilet in the future." He couldn't stand the fact that many people in this era only put a toilet at home, and they pee and defecate in the house. You can imagine the smell.

It’s scary just thinking about it!

"Yes, I do." Liu Sanniang also didn't like to put a toilet in the house and use the toilet inside.

"Also, the roof of our house seems to be leaking a little. It might rain on rainy days, so we have to find someone to help fix it. By the way, let them help clean the well at home. Anyway, the money has been spent, so it doesn't matter if they do one thing or two things. Don't you agree, Dad and Mom?" In fact, Lu Mingfei was afraid that there was something in the well that shouldn't be there, so he might as well take the opportunity of cleaning the well to go down and take a look, so that he could feel at ease.

Although Liu Sanniang felt a little sorry for the money, she also knew that her husband was lying in bed and could not help, so she could only pay someone to help, so she agreed to the child's suggestion.

"If only I could move, I could do this kind of work by myself, and I wouldn't have to spend money to hire someone to do it." Lu Youtian felt like a useless person lying on this bed.

"Dad, don't say that. You should heal your wounds quickly and get better. You still need to pay for your own stall yourself. When our business grows bigger and we have more money, we will open two shops in this city, one for food and one for a wood shop. I have already thought of the names. If we open a big restaurant, we will call it Baiwei Restaurant; if we open a small restaurant, we will call it Baiwei Restaurant. Dad, your wood shop will be called Baibian Wood Shop! Dad, listen to it, isn't it impressive?" Lu Mingfei imagined the future with his father. By then, the father and son would open a restaurant and a wood shop respectively, and make double the money.

As for his mother, once they have funds, she can do whatever business she wants to make money... Even if she loses money, it doesn't matter, the father and son will cover for her!

At this moment, Lu Youtian was eating the pancake his son had drawn, smiling so hard that his teeth were exposed and his eyes were narrowed into slits. "Awesome!"

Liu Sanniang couldn't help but smile as she looked at the father and son. Her heart immediately relaxed. "No matter how bad things get in the future, can they be worse than the days in the Lu family's old house?" she thought. "Of course not!"