“Dad, what can you do with a hundred yuan? Just two rooms and a small kitchen. I can build the yard wall myself later. It will cost at least three hundred yuan. A hundred yuan won’t do it.”
Li Chenyang thought to himself, "Even if you gave me two hundred yuan, I could barely manage to do it. What's the point of one hundred yuan?"
“Your wife has two hundred yuan, right? It’s for building your own house. She won’t live in the house afterward. This is the family’s current situation. Just let her take out that money and use it. This house is for your family to live in, right?”
Liu Juan now had something to say. She had previously complained that the gifts and money she received came from her family and was unwilling to pay for the banquet. Now, she had no reason to say anything else.
"I need to ask her about this; I'm afraid she might not agree."
Don't even mention his wife's unwillingness; he himself is unwilling too. He is indeed the head of the household.
But she had been driving a tractor on the farm since she was sixteen, earning eight work points a day.
If we're talking about who contributed the most to the family, isn't it him? What did he spend? He gave Xiaoxiao two hundred yuan for the wedding.
Xiaoxiao also poured all her hopes into their wedding. To be frank, he wronged Xiaoxiao.
Now they're saying they want all the money from the bride's family to build them a house, and I feel like I'm losing face.
At night, Li Chenyang tossed and turned, not daring to tell Ye Xiaoxiao about the family division. The division was easy to talk about, but the money his parents gave him was too little.
By the time he finally mustered the courage to tell his wife, Ye Xiaoxiao was already asleep. He could only wait until tomorrow.
Ye Xiaoxiao woke up at five or six o'clock the next day. There was nothing she could do; her son had wet himself again. Although they had diapers, she still had to explain where they came from when she took them out.
I changed the baby's diaper and then held him in my arms to start breastfeeding.
"Xiaoxiao, Dad said last night that he... he wants to divide us up!"
Li Chenyang didn't know how to bring it up. He felt that separating from his wife was not a good thing, and his wife would definitely make a fuss.
After all, they just had a baby, and if they were to separate now, there would be no one to take care of the child.
Xiaoxiao is marrying far away, so her parents will definitely only care about her younger brothers and won't have time to care about them anymore.
"Really?" Ye Xiaoxiao was overjoyed when she heard that the family was going to split up. Her eyes sparkled as she looked at Li Chenyang.
Li Chenyang didn't dare look at his wife at that moment. He felt that she was definitely going to scold him.
Cursing at your family is bullying them. They were just born and now they're being forced to separate from the family. How are they supposed to live like this?
When will we separate?
Ye Xiaoxiao was surprised that the surprise came so quickly. She had been worried about the division of the family property every day and thought that it would really have to wait until after the New Year and after the third son got married.
“Last night, Dad said he would give us two bags of grain and a hundred yuan. He told me to… to go out and build our own house.”
Xiaoxiao, stop fooling around. I'll farm hard and earn money from now on so you won't go hungry.
Li Chenyang was still quite uneasy. He said that, but in his heart he was thinking about how to make up for it, maybe he could borrow some more money from his brothers.
"What am I arguing about? They really said they'd separate us out?"
Ye Xiaoxiao pulled Li Chenyang, who had his back to her, towards her. She asked him with great delight.
"Okay, you... don't be sad. It's over now, I'll be very diligent from now on."
Li Chenyang thought his wife was laughing in exasperation.
"Good thing they split up, good thing they split up, finally they're going to separate the family."
Overjoyed, Ye Xiaoxiao gave Li Chenyang a quick kiss on the cheek.
Li Chenyang touched the spot his wife had kissed, somewhat bewildered.
"What's wrong? Are you so happy about the family division?"
But my wife kissed me first; this is the first time.
"You're still unhappy about splitting up the family?" Ye Xiaoxiao retorted.
"What's there to be happy about when the family splits up? No one will take care of us anymore, and we'll have to earn our own food and drink."
Also, what about the children? Now that we've separated, you'll have to take care of them yourself.
Li Chenyang thought to himself that after the family split up, it would just be the two of them doing the farm work.
Ye Xiaoxiao didn't care about any of that:
"Where should we choose for our house? I've got my eye on the one that's close to the elementary school, about 200 meters away."
This side is right next to the east side of the village. I'm thinking of building a house there. Go talk to Dad about it.
The main primary school isn't in their village, it's in the next village. Otherwise, Ye Xiaoxiao would have wanted to build the primary school right across from them.
In two years, Wang Tietou from the next village will open a small shop across from the primary school. Wang Tietou's family will become wealthy by building a house with ten thousand yuan in income through the small shop.
Of course, it's not that elementary school students have any purchasing power, but rather that after Wang Tietou's family had been running the business there for a few years, they turned the backyard into a bathhouse.
They mainly make their money from this. They're the only family in the surrounding villages that owns a bathhouse.
In winter, everyone takes a bath here.
"You have hands and feet, what are you worried about? As long as you're willing to work, you won't starve to death."
But I'm telling you in advance, after we separate the family, you'll be the head of the household, and our food and drink will depend on you.
"If you try to run off and do free work for someone else again, you'd better think twice. I won't let you starve, but if I do, I'll beat you up."
Ye Xiaoxiao thought about Li Chenyang, that lazy bum. The original owner couldn't beat him, but she couldn't bear to let the child always give in to him. She wouldn't do that.
"That's not enough money to build a house, only a hundred yuan. We'll have to call people to help and provide them with meals and such."
Li Chenyang had helped build houses for many people, but they were all brothers and friends, and he was already being generous by providing meals. These days, money was no longer the norm.
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