Chapter 242: Unlucky
Hearing the chattering of five children, Li Caiyun quickly pulled her hand back.
Zhou Yong: “…?”
He looked at his empty hands and raised his head to look at the rooftop.
After more than ten years of marriage, Zhou Yong couldn't even show his affection except in bed.
Li Caiyun didn't know how speechless her man was at this moment. The children came into the house, talking about what was on TV, and took off their clothes and shoes one by one, preparing to wash their feet and go to bed.
Li Jing'an was playing on the north kang in a knitted sweater and trousers. He was imitating every move in the TV drama and his movements were very realistic.
"Gang Pao, get into bed quickly, be careful not to catch a cold."
Li Jing'an quickly hid in bed, because catching a cold meant having to get the injections he feared the most, which left an indelible shadow on his young heart.
The five children lay down, and Zhou Yong sat in front of the stove and looked at his children. He said to himself: "The children have grown up, and I should give each of them a separate room..."
Li Caiyun, who was washing her feet, glanced at the northern kang and said, "There are only two rooms in the house. Where can we get them separate rooms?"
Zhou Yong looked at his young wife and said, "Aren't there four empty rooms at home? If we connect the houses together next year, won't the children have rooms?"
The reason why he bought those four houses was that he planned to renovate and live in them in the future. But he didn't tell anyone about this, and his family thought he bought the house for Li Jingchu and his two brothers to get married.
Li Caiyun was stunned. She was washing her feet and asked, "What should we do after the four houses are connected? Are we going to separate the houses when they get married?"
Zhou Yong smiled and said, "They can't get married until more than ten years later. The house can't be left empty like this forever, right? Besides, society is progressing and the times are developing. When they grow up, they will have their own arrangements..."
Entering the 1980s, things changed every year, and by the time the siblings grew up, it was already the 1990s.
Li Caiyun frowned slightly: "Then why did you buy so many houses in the first place?"
"Didn't I want you to live in a big house?"
Li Caiyun curled her lips, thinking that Zhou Yong was just wasting money.
The four houses cost two thousand yuan. Li Caiyun believed that if this money was saved, it would be enough for the children to buy houses when they got married.
Zhou Yong saw through his wife's thoughts and said, "The prices will keep changing every day. In ten or eight years, it will not be the same as it is now..."
At this moment, Li Caiyun still couldn't understand the deep meaning of Zhou Yong's words. After all, that was something she had never experienced.
"No matter how high prices go, there will be a system in place. After all, the state is in control of the economy..."
Zhou Yong just smiled after hearing what Li Caiyun said. In two years, the land would be distributed to each household. The production team would withdraw from the political stage and gradually be submerged in the long river of history...
The couple talked while washing their feet and getting on the kang.
Li Caiyun took off her clothes and said, "It's a waste to connect four houses together. How about connecting two houses? If this house is taken out, there will be exactly three houses left, which is enough for the three brothers Goudan, Gousheng and Gangpao to get married..."
Zhou Yong lifted the quilt and lay down, his tone was somewhat doting: "Okay! Whatever you want is fine."
Li Caiyun was very happy when she heard this. Zhou Yong glanced at her and smiled helplessly.
"When Niuniu and Nannan get married, we will send some dowry as a gift. We can't let the child live insecurely in her husband's family..."
They are all the same children. Although I didn’t prepare a house for the two sisters, the dowry cannot be less.
Li Caiyun said that when Zhou Kexin and Zhou Kerou got married, each sister received a dowry of at least 500 yuan. Zhou Yong just smiled when he heard this.
Five hundred yuan is a lot of money now, but after more than ten years, five hundred yuan as a dowry will not be enough.
But how does Zhou Yong tell Li Caiyun about this?
So no matter how she planned the future for her children, Zhou Yong just listened and didn't easily offer his own suggestions.
Li Caiyun lay down, Zhou Yong turned off the lights, and she said, "I will go to the commune tomorrow and I will probably be back in the afternoon. If you are not busy, go home early at noon..."
Zhou Kerou also went to school, leaving Zhang Guifang and Li Jingan at home.
Zhou Yong could come back earlier to help look after the children, otherwise Zhang Guifang wouldn't be able to cook in peace.
I was afraid that the stove would burn the child, that the child would run outside and get cold, and that the child would play with electricity.
"I see."
Li Caiyun crawled into his arms and yawned: "I'm sleepy."
Zhou Yong tucked the quilt for her: "Go to sleep!!"
Li Caiyun nodded and fell asleep soon after. Zhou Yong kept thinking about all sorts of things until after ten o'clock when he finally fell asleep.
The next day, Zhou Yong went to the brigade after breakfast to deal with the extrusion work. After that, he went to the vegetable greenhouse base.
In more than a month, most of the vegetables will be ripe. Zhou Yong has already talked with the leaders of the commune vegetable cooperative and the county vegetable cooperative. At that time, the two vegetable cooperatives will recycle the vegetables they grow.
"When pollinating, be careful not to step on the seedlings..."
The workers were artificially pollinating some flowering vegetables. One of them was only paying attention to the top and didn't look down, so he stepped on the vegetable seedlings.
"Captain, I know I was wrong."
Zhou Yong smiled and patted the man on the shoulder: "Do a good job."
"Um!"
The temperature in the greenhouse reaches 27 or 28 degrees Celsius, and the vegetables need to be watered every day.
Inspecting each greenhouse is what Zhou Yong does every day.
Zhou Yong checked the time and went to the farm. He asked Miao Jinfeng to choose a pig for him and planned to kill it in a few days and treat the village cadres to a meal.
After finishing this matter, Zhou Yong rushed home without stopping.
What Zhou Yong didn't expect was that Zhang Guifang's nephew Zhang Dalong came.
"Big brother is here."
Looking at Zhang Dalong in the photo hanging on the wall, he heard his brother-in-law's voice and turned to look at Zhou Yong with a smile: "Brother-in-law, are you off work?"
Zhou Yong nodded and saw that Zhang Dalong was alone in the living room. He sniffed a few times and smelled the aroma of food.
At this time, Li Jing'an ran out from the back kitchen with a fire poker, and Zhang Guifang, wearing an apron, chased him from behind.
"Li Jing'an, put the fire stick back."
Li Jing'an glanced at Zhou Yong, who had a fierce look on his face. The boy said "oh". Zhang Guifang took the fire stick away from her little grandson with a helpless look on her face.
"Zhou Yong, look after the kids while I go cook..."
Zhou Yong responded, and Li Jing'an turned around and picked up the stove hook to poke the stove.
Zhang Dalong said with a smile: "This kid is really naughty."
He arrived at around nine o'clock in the morning, but Zhang Guifang never sat down to talk to him. She chased Li Jingan in and out of the house.
The main reason is that the child is young and the adults don't pay enough attention. If the child bumps into something, Zhang Guifang is afraid of being blamed by her daughter and son-in-law.
Zhou Yong picked up Li Jing'an, turned around and sat down on the stool with his son: "Among the five children in my family, he is the most naughty..."
Zhang Dalong took over the conversation and the two of them started chatting.
After talking for a while, Zhang Dalong explained his purpose in a roundabout way.
A few years ago, he wanted to move to Huaixi Village, but the plan ended up being dropped.
Now Huaixi Village is developing rapidly. Every family can not only have enough food to eat, but also live in a red brick house. The children have education to go to, and each family has at least one job. Therefore, he once again thought about moving here.
After listening to Zhang Dalong's words, Zhou Yong felt that his brother-in-law was extremely unlucky.
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