As it turned out, after this word spread for a few days, there were obviously fewer people coming to the courtyard to join in the fun at night.
Although Chen Chunhua occasionally heard some gossip about her family from other families, such as Wang Jingui and Youqing's wife, the general meaning was that her family was stingy, petty, and looked down on others because they had money.
Chen Chunhua didn't care. People who could say such things were basically not on the same page. If they were not on the same page, they should reduce their contact if possible. They could say whatever they wanted.
As for those who are thick-skinned, her family’s solution is very simple: turn off the TV at a certain time, move the TV into the living room, and finish his work for the day.
It was fine when Chen Chunhua and Lin Guoqing were around, but the main thing was that when they were not around, although Liang Shengdi was not a pushover, she was just an old lady after all. If any rogue came up and attacked her, she would definitely suffer.
So Lin Guoqing specially asked a few good friends to help keep an eye on it when the time comes.
If there really is someone who shouts without thinking, there is no need to come to their house in the future.
In this way, this newly built two-story courtyard finally returned to normal life.
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Life at home finally became comfortable, and Chen Chunhua started thinking about expanding the farm again.
The night Lin Guoqing came back with the TV, he discussed with her whether to buy this or that, but she rejected all of them.
"Buy, buy, buy, that's all you know how to do! You're such a spendthrift! There are so many places we need money for! The farm needs to be expanded! The mushroom house needs to be bigger too! And there are four kids to raise! Last time you were thinking about buying a car, and now you're thinking about buying a refrigerator and a washing machine. Do you think we run a bank?"
Lin Guoqing always felt that these words sounded awkward, and vaguely seemed to be back in his childhood, when his grandmother was scolding his mother.
But what could be done? Shen Chunhua was in charge of the family finances, and if she said no, it was no.
Lin Guoqing could only mutter aggrievedly, "I just want you to feel better..."
Chen Chunhu sighed helplessly. She also wanted to live a comfortable life, but she was not rich enough yet.
She discussed it with Liu Ni, and decided to build a 15-meter-long, 7-meter-wide, and 3-meter-high enclosed high-bed, fully stepped cage laying hen house based on the experience she remembered from the large chicken farmer in Beijing.
Combining what she learned in the mushroom class, Teacher Qian said that mushroom houses should be built on high and dry land with convenient drainage, a clean and open environment, away from chicken coops, warehouses and feed rooms, close to water sources, and with a place to store materials.
She had no experience before and did everything blindly, but now that she has learned systematic knowledge, her mushroom house and farm have to be divided into two places.
Forget about the cost of building both sides. Even the land itself needs some thought. The current plot of land is perfect for either a farm or a mushroom house. If we want to split it up, we'll have to find another piece. I wonder if we can find another piece of land like this in the village that has water, space, and is far enough away from the people.
Once they found it, they had to pay the village a real rent no matter what. Otherwise, they would implicate Ma Dexiang, the village party secretary, and accuse him of giving benefits to his relatives.
Then it’s time to build the house. The chicken coop doesn’t need to be so good. It only costs 300 yuan to buy 10,000 red bricks, and a row of them can be built for a few hundred yuan. The main thing is the double-row high-bed cages inside.
Liu Ni said they could continue raising ducks on the small riverbank outside. Without chickens, they could raise a few more ducks. And in the chicken coop, if they bought 150 to 160 cages, they could raise 1,200 to 1,300 chickens, more than three times the size of their current chicken farm!
It is undeniable that Chen Chunhua was deeply moved.
But that all costs money! Chicken coops cost money! Chicks cost money! And all the feed and technology required for professional chicken farming also cost money!
If we move the mushroom house to a new location, we’ll have to rebuild it, and that costs money! Money! Money!
She was having a headache counting the money while Lin Guoqing was clamoring to buy everything. How could she not be angry!
Chen Chunhua was too lazy to pay attention to him. She had been looking for the village committee to rent land these two days. Whenever she had time, she would catch Liu Ni to talk about business.
Comrade Ma Liuni was determined not to continue her studies and even planned to give up the high school entrance exam. However, she was not the only one who did not take the exam. Especially with the spring plowing season approaching, people were asking for leave in droves.
As long as they don't affect other students who are trying to make progress, the teachers won't bother them much.
After receiving several cold stares from her fifth sister, Liu Ni still ran back home with a stubborn head, and chose a location with Chen Chunhua to plan the future of their career.
They did find land, but it was a bit far from where they were now. The farm was at the easternmost part of the village, beyond which was the neighboring Hexia Village.
The new vacant lot is at the west end of the village, not far from the main road at the west entrance of the village where Qi Jinzhou drove out before. The land is not very flat, it is ups and downs, and has been abandoned for a long time. There are many large stones and tree roots. If you really want to build a house, you have to level it.
It takes more than ten minutes to get there by tricycle, but it is more convenient than walking out of the village.
Chen Chunhua is not picky at all. You have to know how tight the land resources were later. Now this land is still barren, so she can be picky. Next year, if there are people in the village and outside who have saved enough money and want to start their own factory, they will not mind whether the land is flat or not.
She actually wanted to buy the land outright, resell it 20 or 30 years from now, and have enough to feed three generations. But Ma Dexiang said that wasn't allowed yet; the land belonged solely to the village. If it could be sold in the future, he told her to let her know immediately.
So Chen Chunhua readily signed a ten-year land lease. Forget it, she didn't have that much money.
After the land lease was secured, she went to order bricks with ease, and then had to put them aside for the time being. Spring plowing was the most important thing, and no one would come to help her build a house until the spring plowing was finished.
Qi Jinzhou was also waiting for the spring plowing to be over. He told Sanni that he wanted to build the agreed house while everyone was busy with the work in the fields, and he would pay for it.
"It's my dowry."
Comrade Xiao Qi, using the excuse of a major life event, left his work to his master and rushed to Sihe Village to plant rice for his girlfriend's family. However, this man had never worked in the fields before, and the rice seedlings he planted were all over the place, which made Sanni so angry that she chased him away from the field.
As soon as the dowry was mentioned, all the anger was only half gone.
Sanni's curse words were stuck in her throat, and she held it in for a long time before she finally uttered a word.
"...Whose dowry is enough for a whole room?"
"Me!" Qi Jinzhou happily showed off his wealth. "When the time comes, I'll move the TV over here so my sisters don't have to go to my aunt's house to watch TV. I also have a radio... Hey, how about buying a bicycle for our dad? He's the village party secretary after all, how can he walk around all day..."
"Who is your father? You shameless bastard!"
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