Chen Chunhua also smiled with her eyes curved. "That's the number, thirty-seven dollars and eighty-two cents! I even asked you back then why you only had that little money."
But back then, they didn't have a tricycle, nor enough cotton and cloth for winter clothes, nor an egg per person every day, and couldn't eat dry rice every meal, let alone meat. The two of them toiled day and night, earning work points, while Liang Shengdi sat under a large banyan tree, eating and waiting to die.
In fact, only half a year had passed, seven and a half months to be exact, but Chen Chunhua always felt like many years had passed.
In her previous life, she remembered that even after the land was distributed to each household, it took a long time before she could really afford to kill a chicken and eat it on non-festive days. Unlike now, everyone in the family, young and old, is already looking forward to eating chicken next time.
"We bought a car half a year ago, so we have to build a small house next summer!" Lin Guoqing was thinking about building a room for the children to live in.
Chen Chunhua: "Where is the space left to build a house? Even if we demolish the mushroom house, it will be difficult to build a new one. It's not good for people's health."
"Then go apply for some land from the village and expand the yard!"
"Building a house is only temporary. Once we save some more money, we'll tear it down and rebuild! We'll build a small building!"
"Give every child in the family a bicycle from now on!"
"Eat chicken and meat every day!"
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Dog talk:
After exactly one hundred chapters, my savings returned to the starting point. After a year of hard work, I saved enough money to buy a tricycle.
What do you think our parents' generation had to do to save enough to buy a house?
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