Jiang Xia: "Isn't it also business for Second Uncle to sell baskets? Isn't it also business for you to sell the chickens, peanuts, sweet potatoes, etc. that you raise at home at ordinary times at the market? It's the same when you sell seafood at the market."
"That's different. How can what I do be considered doing business? Besides, if my second uncle goes out, who will farm the fields at home? We have to farm. We have to pay a lot of public grain every year. If we don't farm, we won't have grain to pay the public grain." My second uncle was afraid that if he went out to do business and didn't make any money, he wouldn't even be able to pay the public grain.
He knew that doing business was risky.
Jiang Xia: "You can hire someone else to farm your family's land or let the villagers farm it. I believe many people are willing to farm it if they help pay the public taxes. If your second uncle dares to give it a try, you can work with your cousins or with your eldest uncle. You two families can share one stall, or each can have one stall."
Jiang Xia explained it to them in detail and it was up to them whether to listen or not.
My second aunt now has a different perspective. She used to worry that no one would farm the family’s fields, because she couldn’t pay the public grain tax without farming.
She never thought that she could ask someone else to farm the land or give it to someone else to farm, and just ask them to pay the tax revenue for her.
She immediately said, "Old man, go! Go do business! Xiao Xia is right. Farming doesn't make much money. It just keeps you from starving. We have been farming for a lifetime, but now we can't even afford to build a house. Business is different. You can make more money. Go to the city to do business. When you make money, you can buy a house in the city and transfer your household registration to the city. Then you don't have to pay for commercial grain or public grain."
The more the second aunt thought about it, the more she felt it was right: "Go! You and your two sons can go and work together. You can hire someone else to farm the fields at home or let someone else farm them. Don't worry, you will make enough money to pay the public tax. Look at how much money Xiaofeng and I have made from selling clothes."
The second uncle thought for a while before saying, "Xiao Xia, thank you for thinking highly of me. I will discuss this with your second aunt and the eldest uncle. I also need to think about whether I can do it."
Jiang Xia smiled and said, "Okay, you guys discuss it, and my second uncle will also think about it slowly. It won't be too late to reply to me in a few days. I'll keep the stall for you now. If you don't want to do it, I won't keep it after the Lantern Festival and rent it out. My stalls are all in the front row. When the market is prosperous in the future, I can't say how much money I can make, but I will definitely make more than enough to make a living. If you are not used to killing fish, you can buy dried goods. There are also stalls selling dried goods, but they are not in the front row."
"Okay. Xiaoxia, I'll discuss with your second uncle what to sell." After the second aunt said this, she immediately pulled the second uncle into the room.
Although her eldest brother and sister-in-law are both good people, she doesn't want to cooperate with the first wife because of Tan Yudai.
Everyone should do their own thing, so there is no need to complain about who does more and who does less.
The second aunt thought about how Tan Yudai and Li Qiuying were lazy and gluttonous before the family split up, and she was afraid of them.
The couple discussed it carefully, analyzed the risks, and then went to discuss it with their son and daughter-in-law.
Finally, the three fathers and sons decided to do it, and the two daughters-in-law took the children to stay in the village to farm temporarily, after all, the children still had to go to school.
During the busy farming season, we hire people to do the work, and only stop farming when we start making real money from selling seafood.
This way, you don’t have to worry about not making money or even not being able to pay the public grain tax.
After the family had discussed it, the second uncle and aunt quickly went to discuss with their eldest brother and sister-in-law, and told them the family plan: "Brother, I have decided to rent A Lei's seafood stall to sell seafood. Do you want to sell seafood with us? Xiao Xia said that she reserved one or two stalls for our family."
After hearing this, Tan Yudai said, "She doesn't want to take Qiuying and me to Beijing City, so she just uses a seafood stall to get rid of us? Last time when my second cousin moved into a new house, didn't we pass by that seafood market on our way home? There wasn't even a fly. She can't rent out the stall, so she's cheating her own family!"
Aunt: "Don't talk nonsense. If you don't know how to speak, don't speak! A Lei and Xiao Xia are not that kind of people."
The uncle also believed in his nephew: "Since you let us do it, there must be money to be made."
Tan Yudai: "It doesn't matter if my parents don't listen to my advice and don't believe me. Anyway, we two won't do it, so don't blame us."
The second wife's people went to sell clothes? They went to sell fish? And they left her at home to take care of the children and farm?
Whoever wants to go can go, she doesn’t mind!
The eldest aunt said to the eldest daughter-in-law, "If you don't want to do it, we will do it with the second son's family. Don't regret it when you make money in the future! And don't accuse us two old people of being biased."
"Don't worry, Mom. It won't happen." Tan Yudai thought to himself: There isn't even a fly in that market. If the fish can't be sold and become rotten, won't I lose a lot of money?
After discussing for more than an hour, my eldest uncle and my second uncle replied to Jiangxia. The two families rented three stalls in total, two selling seafood and one selling dried goods.
The second uncle worked with his two sons and rented two stalls. The eldest uncle worked with his youngest son and rented only one stall.
Jiang Xia was not surprised that his eldest cousin and his wife refused to do so.
My eldest cousin is a man who listens to his wife very much.
*Around three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Chenglei and Zhang Rui came back.
Zhou Chenglei took out a thick stack of red envelopes and gave them to Jiang Xia, all of which were from his brothers to the triplets.
When Zhang Rui saw this, he also wanted to be someone who could help the children collect their New Year’s money.
But he is probably not as amazing as his fourth brother, having three children at once.
He said to Li Qiufeng, "We can only have one child in the future. Do you mind?"
Due to work reasons, they can only have one child, regardless of whether it is a boy or a girl.
Li Qiufeng was stunned for a moment. She had never thought about this question.
Seeing that she hadn't thought about this question, Zhang Rui continued, "Not necessarily. I'll ask Fourth Brother for advice. Who knows, maybe we'll have four babies in one pregnancy."
“…”
Li Qiufeng's face turned red again, and she glared at him, her eyes full of "Are you crazy?" Li Qiufeng couldn't help but said, "Do you think I'm a sow?"
Zhang Rui laughed: "Just kidding, one is also good."
Li Qiufeng: "What if the baby is a girl?"
Zhang Rui: "That's great! Our daughter will definitely be the little princess of the family. Our Zhang family hasn't had a girl for several generations, and my brother and my cousin all wanted a girl. When my sisters-in-law were pregnant, my grandmother and my cousin went to pray to the gods and Buddhas, hoping to have a granddaughter, but in the end they were all boys."
Li Qiufeng: “…”
I have always seen women in the village praying to gods and Buddhas for a boy, but I have never seen anyone praying to gods and Buddhas for a girl.
Zhang Rui: "But don't worry, it doesn't matter whether it's a boy or a girl, you don't have to feel pressured, as long as you give birth to the child, I'll like it. My family doesn't have the idea of favoring boys over girls, they are very open-minded. My mother has always hoped to have a daughter, and she treats my two sisters-in-law as daughters. They also like the person I like."
Li Qiufeng blushed: "I'm not under pressure! Hurry up and move your things to the car. If you don't leave now, it will be dark!"
Zhang Rui smiled and went to help load the things into the car. They were all local specialties prepared by his grandparents and second aunt. The bamboo shoots dug in the morning were also packed into sacks and taken to the car.
Jiang Xia helped grandpa and grandma get on the passenger seats of the two cars respectively.
Last night, my eldest cousin's wife went to see my grandparents and said that their family had no money to build a house, and that the second branch was preparing to build a house. She also said that she wanted Li Qiuying to go to Beijing to find a partner.
He said a lot to gain sympathy from the two elders, hoping that they would take the initiative to ask Jiang Xia not to go to Beijing and let her go with Li Qiuying.
But grandma refused outright.
Grandma is not stupid. Both of them know the character of all the children in the family.
Tan Yudai and Li Qiuying don’t want to take care of children, they want to make money and get married. How can they have the time to take care of children?
Don't bring hatred. (End of this chapter)
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