The news that educated youth were coming to the village sparked a heated discussion in the village.
In winter, people who have nothing to do go to various restaurants to eat skewers.
Especially those families who took on the food and accommodation problems of the educated youth had a constant stream of people coming and going.
In the Shen family's house, everyone in the room said all kinds of things.
Some people were curious about what the educated youth from the city looked like, some people envied the Shen family for being able to live with the educated youth, but some people felt a little jealous and their words had a distorted meaning.
The famous gossiper in the village is Liu Guiyou's wife. She is asking Wang Huilian: "The educated youth living in your house is useless and wastes water. Don't you have to give her something? Why are you just letting her live here for free?"
Wang Huilian smiled. Although everyone was thinking of withholding food, this could not be said openly.
"Look at what you said. The educated youth came to live in our house because of our old man's face. You also know that my father-in-law is a first-class person, both in terms of work and in his conduct."
Liu Guiyou's wife pursed her lips and smiled, thinking to herself that Wang Huilian was really good at flattering Shen Zhifu!
Everyone knows that the Shen family married the second son's daughter to the old man in exchange for a dowry to find a wife for the third son Shen, but somehow the daughter was replaced by Wang Huilian's girl.
I don’t know how Wang Huilian, who is in front of her, can face Zhao Changgui, who may be older than her, and call him brother-in-law?
However, her current focus was not on this, but on constantly urging Wang Huilian: "We can't let them live here for free, they have to pay a little bit every month, right?"
As she spoke, she stretched out her right hand and twisted her thumb and index finger together. The meaning was self-evident.
You know what, after she reminded her, Wang Huilian actually felt that it made sense.
After all, the withholding of food has to be done secretly, so on the whole it is their family that suffers the loss.
When the educated youth came, they provided them with houses, kangs, and firewood. They had no relatives or friends, so weren't they being taken advantage of?
Thinking of this, Wang Huilian became a little restless and wanted to go find Shen Chunshu to discuss it.
In Wang Huilian’s mind, the educated youth should at least pay for rent when living at home, right?
I heard that those who travel far away have to stay in something called a "guesthouse", don't they also have to pay room fees?
After dealing with the person in front of her, Wang Huilian secretly called Chen Chunshu out of the house.
I told Shen Chunshu about the idea that Liu Guiyou's wife had just proposed.
"Dad, I think what she said makes sense. We should get some money, what do you think?"
Shen Chunshu frowned and thought about it, and finally nodded, but he said to Wang Huilian: "We can't do this alone, we have to let the other four get involved."
Shen Chunshu thought more about it. He felt that if the Shen family accepted the money and then exposed it, they might be scolded.
But if every family collects money, even the village chief can't say anything.
"Go and call the other four heads of the families to our house so we can discuss this together." Shen Chunshu urged Wang Huilian to go out right away.
Wang Huilian nodded repeatedly: "Okay, I'll go right away."
After Chen Chunshu returned to the house, he chatted with the people in the house for a while, and then found an excuse to ask everyone in the house to leave.
Old Man Shen was a little puzzled when he saw this: "What's wrong? I think you seem to have something wrong?"
Shen Chunshu said to Old Man Shen, "Hui Lian went to call for help. I estimate that people from the other four families will be here soon. It's hard to talk with so many people here."
Then Shen Chunshu mentioned that he wanted to collect housing fees from the educated youth.
Old man Shen smoked his pipe and thought for a while: "This is a serious matter, we need to get together to discuss it."
Sure enough, not long after Wang Huilian came back, the other four families arrived one after another.
Someone came into the room and asked Old Man Shen, "Old Shen, why did you ask the eldest brother's wife to call us here?"
When Wang Huilian went to call people, she told them that her father-in-law asked them to come over and said that he wanted to discuss something about the educated youth with a few people.
Old man Shen didn't beat around the bush: "When the educated youth move in, I plan to ask for some accommodation fees, what about you?"
The other families looked at each other in bewilderment, and then asked in a low voice, somewhat excited but also a little scared: "Is this... okay?"
Didn't they clear out a space on their own kang just to take advantage of the situation?
At this time, Old Man Shen's proposal really made them excited.
Old man Shen said with a smile: "What's wrong with this? They live in our house, and we can let them use firewood and water as they please. Why can't we charge them a little money?"
But some people are worried that the village chief will not allow it.
Old man Shen looked calm and composed: "So I called you all here. As long as we discuss it, there is an old saying. Oh, yes, the law cannot punish the masses."
"Do you know what 'the law cannot punish the masses' means? It means that if everyone does this, we cannot be punished!"
The other person had already agreed with Old Man Shen's proposal from the bottom of his heart: "Then what do you think is the right amount for us to charge?"
Someone suggested: "How about charging 10 cents a month?"
Old Man Shen rolled his eyes at him and said, "Hey, do you look down on a kid from the city? You should charge him at least 1 yuan a month, right?"
An old man frowned and disagreed: "One dollar is too much. Isn't this bullying people who came from far away?"
Several other people also felt that $1 was too much.
It’s okay to collect money, but you can’t go too far, right?
If a real commotion breaks out and the village chief arranges for the people to live in someone else's home, they won't have a penny left.
Old Man Shen thought for a while and said, "Then 50 cents should be fine, right? Any less would be uneconomical."
Others don’t know where the calculation of “not cost-effective” comes from.
After all, even if the educated youth did not live in the village, they still had to heat the kang and the water in the countryside was all well water, so it was free.
However, the others thought about 5 Mao's proposal for a moment and agreed.
"Okay, then we'll charge them 50 cents a month."
After discussing this matter, Old Man Shen was so happy that his heart was filled with joy.
50 cents a month, that's 1 yuan for two months. If the educated youth lived in the Shen family for a year or two, wouldn't they get a lot of money?
When Old Man Shen was happy, he asked Wang Huilian to take Li Xiang and Li Xiaoqin to cook a meal in the evening.
I can hardly stand up after drinking that watery porridge every day.
While the Shen family was having lunch, Shen Siyue and Shi Tou were still on their way back.
They harvested another roe deer and two rabbits today.
The most important thing is that we finally caught a live rabbit.
It can form a perfect pair with the original one.
So Shen Siyue was particularly happy.
Rabbits reproduce very quickly. As long as you raise them well, you will be able to make money easily in the future, right?
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