When Lin Guoqing sat down, Liang Shengdi had finished several crab pieces by herself, and Lin Shuchao's mouth was full of oil and he couldn't stop eating at all.
"Today's pot is so rich!" Lin Guoqing picked up half a crab and put it in his mouth.
"Is it tasty?"
"Mmm! Delicious!"
The happiest thing for a cook is when others say that her cooking is delicious.
"Jinzhou came back from Yong City today and brought back another basket of swimming crabs. My elder sister gave me four of them. I thought that I always steamed them with scallion oil or fried them with rice cakes, and I got tired of eating too much, so I changed the taste and made a crab pot.
If you all think it tastes good, I’ll make a bigger portion after Shuying and Shumei come back for the New Year.”
"Yeah, you have to make a bigger portion...zuo~ This amount, um, for the four of us...zuo~ isn't enough!"
Liang Shengdi was addicted to eating again and didn't want to stop and talk.
Chen Chunhua: "...This is a basin, Mom, it's definitely enough for the four of us."
"It's definitely not enough!" Lin Shuchao gnawed on a chicken foot and grabbed another one. "Neither the crab nor the chicken feet are filling. The pork ribs, rice cakes, and potatoes are just side dishes. I can even get another bowl of rice!"
Lin Guoqing quickly snatched a chicken claw from under his son's chopsticks, smacking his mouth as he said, "You can add more if you want, but you definitely can't add milk."
Old Mrs. Liang was in very good health. The only few times she was admitted to the hospital were because she ate too much.
The old Chinese doctor who treats spleen and stomach in the county has seen her friendship. As she has grown older in the past two years, the old Chinese doctor has repeatedly told Lin Guoqing and Shen Chunhua to take good care of your mother and tell her not to eat carelessly as she is old.
How could they not know? Sometimes they would stuff it into their stomachs when they weren't watching.
"Mom, would you like some rice wine? Eating too many crabs will make you cold." Chen Chunhua had just warmed up a pot of rice wine on the stove. Anyway, it was impossible to ask Liang Shengdi not to eat crabs, so she could only try to be more careful.
"Okay! Okay!" Old Mrs. Liang accepted everyone who came.
"You should eat less rice cakes and potatoes, really. Don't overeat. When you eat meat, eat some vegetables with it."
As children grow older, elders age and become children again. The way Lin Guoqing and Shen Chunhua, one on each side, coaxed Liang Shengdi was exactly the same as how they coaxed Lin Shuchao and Lin Shumei back then.
The only difference is probably that the elderly are more talkative and tend to complain.
"I know, I know. You two don't like to eat? Why are you talking so much? If you don't like to eat, let me eat it!"
Okay, shut up and eat.
At night, Chen Chunhua sat by the bed and counted the money in stacks. The total amount was 946,000 yuan. Lin Guoqing took out 99.71 yuan from his trouser pocket.
"And here, these add up to everything we have for this year, hehe~"
Chen Chunhua was amused by his loose change. "Are you really that precise?"
"Of course! It's all hard-earned money, why can't it be counted?"
"Okay, okay, okay!" Who wouldn't be happy to make money? Chen Chunhua began to open her little notebook and write down the details.
"Then I'll put the 900,000 back. After deducting the money I spent on the two houses I bought in Shanghai this year, I'll still have about a million left... This way, our family will have a savings of three million. What are you going to do with the 40,000?"
Lin Guoqing bared his teeth and smiled so hard that his eyes were invisible. "Look, didn't you just say you would leave me a penny?"
Chen Chunhua snorted, "That's it."
"How about we tear down the land where the old house is and rebuild it? I estimate that the third son will only be here for two years. He's thinking about getting married every day. Anyway, he will definitely get married earlier than the second son. We might as well build it for him so that he can get married at any time."
"I think the houses they're building now are much more upscale than ours, with three- or four-story buildings going up one after another. You remember that guy, Qi Caigen? The other day I passed by his village and saw his new house had just been completed. He invited me inside for a look. The facade was tiled from top to bottom. It looked so impressive!"
Lin Guoqing was also tempted by this. "Yes! I heard from my brother-in-law the other day that some rural self-built houses in the county have flush toilets installed directly when they are built. They do have to bury sewage pipes, which is troublesome and expensive, but it is really convenient! You don't even have to empty the toilet."
"Yes!" Chen Chunhua slapped her thigh, "Let's decorate it like the rich families in the city, install wooden floors and suspended ceilings!"
"It's like those in a fancy hotel! The ceiling above is all made of wood!"
"Let's build that one over there first, then we'll have a place to live, and then we can tear this one down and rebuild it!"
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The couple became more and more excited and happy as they talked, and they didn't want to go to bed in the middle of the night. If they continued to talk like this, they would be able to finish the job for 500,000 yuan, not to mention 150,000 yuan.
When Lin Shuchao learned that his parents were planning to move the land and that the house would belong to him in the future, he was also excited. He dug out his passbook, which was less than two years old, from the corner of the closet in his room and handed it to Chen Chunhua with both hands.
"Mom, I've saved some too. Do you think it's enough?"
Chen Chunhua took a look and was shocked! This guy squats in the hardware store every day, seemingly keeping quiet, but actually making a fortune in secret!
"You've saved fifty thousand dollars in the past two years? Business is so good?"
Lin Shuchao blushed for the first time, waved his hand and politely said to his mother, "Hey, it's all thanks to you guys. I'm just standing on the shoulders of giants to climb up."
Chen Chunhua was successfully disgusted by his sudden literary style.
Fifty thousand yuan is definitely enough. With this money, he can build a three-story house directly with other people, and then add simple decoration and furniture.
Plus, his money wasn't even factored into the expenses to begin with, so it was just a huge extra. But Chen Chunhua didn't directly complain to Lin Shuchao that it was too much. If he gave it right in front of him and then gave it back, wouldn't that be idle?
She planned to go directly to exchange some gold and give it all to the third son's wife.
Then, I had to come up with some more money. Shuying was getting married at the end of next year, and the gold and silver that would be in her dowry had to be bought in advance. Whether the Huang family was there or not was their business, and they had to give their daughter a lot: gold bracelets, gold necklaces, gold earrings, and gold rings. If there were more, it would be best to buy a couple of gold bars...
So, what's the current price of gold? 98 per gram seems... well, it's still quite expensive... but it's likely to get even more expensive in the future. As the saying goes, buy now, enjoy now.
Chen Chunhua patted the third brother's shoulder while thinking.
"You still have to work hard on finding a wife. Find one sooner and move into your new home sooner, otherwise your wedding room will just be empty even after you've renovated it."
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