Chapter 15 It's only natural to spend your man's money
The separation of the family has come to an end.
Xia Juanjuan asked Li Zhan to move 30% of the food that he was allocated back into the house.
Although the food supply is not much, at least it can last for a while as she has no reason to take supplies out of the space recently.
Later you can use it in the name of using your husband’s allowance to buy it!
In addition, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, pots and pans, and even farm tools were also distributed, which was the beginning of the tools needed to run a small family.
Now we just have to wait for Wang Guixiang and the others to move out in the afternoon and move into the brick and tile house.
As for this room, Xia Juanjuan planned to build a stove at the back and use it as a kitchen.
In addition, this room is very close to the two rooms of the eldest brother of the Li family. In the future, it can be surrounded by a fence to completely separate it from the second room and the room where my mother-in-law lives.
If we divide the family property and still share the kitchen and yard, there will be a lot of arguments in the future!
After sorting out the things, Xia Juanjuanjuan called Li Wen, Li Wu, and Li Beibei over and said:
"You should have heard it all today. From now on, the three of you will be officially registered in the household registration books of me and your fourth uncle. We will be your adoptive parents. The two rooms your father built will also be returned, and we will move in this afternoon."
"In the future, if you three want to call me mom, I will agree. If you can't say it and want to call me 'Fourth Aunt', or don't want to call me anything and just call me 'Xia Juanjuan', I won't be angry. There is one thing, once you enter my house, you have to listen to me before you become adults. You can give me suggestions, but I may not listen. Do you understand?"
As Xia Juanjuan spoke, she mainly looked at Li Wen.
Liwu and Libei were a little younger and ignorant, but they had already been won over by Xia Juanjuan who had beaten the old witch Aunt Er for them in revenge for Beibei in the morning and had given them mixed-wheat steamed buns to eat.
After hearing what Xia Juanjuan said, without thinking, they ran to Xia Juanjuan with their short legs, hugged one of Xia Juanjuan's legs, raised their heads, and shouted happily: "Mom!"
Li Wen's face was filled with grief and anger, and he suddenly shouted heartbreakingly: "Don't call her mom! She is not our mom!"
As he spoke, his eyes turned red with anger and he raised his hand to wipe away his tears.
When Xiaowu and Beibei saw their elder brother crying, they also pouted and wanted to cry too.
Li Zhan squatted down and asked Li Wen: "Xiao Wen, why don't you let your brothers and sisters call Juan Juan mom?"
Li Wen looked at Li Zhan and Xia Juanjuan and said angrily, "You are the same as my second uncle and second aunt! You adopted the three of us just to occupy my house! In the future, you will definitely be like my second aunt and not give us any food!"
Lizhan frowned: "Xiaowen, why do you think so? Juanjuan and I are not such people!"
Li Wen said angrily, "I don't believe it! She didn't agree to adopt us last night because Second Aunt refused to give her the house! She is worse than Second Aunt!"
Xia Juanjuan looked at Li Wen. The reason why this brat was so hostile to her must be because of this.
She squatted down, looked at Li Wen, and said, "Yeah. What you said makes sense. After all, I did occupy your father's house and will move in this afternoon. However, I don't want this house either. The house still belongs to you three siblings, okay? I move in and it's considered as a loan. Every month, I will be responsible for feeding you three siblings and give you two dollars for the loan. How about that?"
"Didn't you say you wanted to earn money by cutting pig grass to support your brothers and sisters? If you agree, you brothers and sisters won't have to go hungry in the future, and you will get money, and you don't have to feel like you owe me anything. It's a good deal, right?"
Li Wen looked at Xia Juanjuan suspiciously. He didn't expect that Xia Juanjuan not only promised not to let them go hungry, but also gave them two yuan every month?
Although Li Wu and Li Beibei didn't understand what they were saying, seeing that their eldest brother was not so angry anymore, they hugged Xia Juanjuan's legs again and called out affectionately, "Mom!"
Then he turned around and said to Li Wen, "Brother! Call mom soon! Mom said we won't have to go hungry anymore!"
Seeing that his younger siblings rebelled so easily, Li Wen felt angry and jealous.
These two heartless kids forgot about their brother so quickly and ran off to get close to Xia Juanjuan!
He turned his face away and said stubbornly, "You can scream if you want! I won't scream!"
Humph! He is not so easily fooled by this woman!
Will you not let them go hungry and give them two dollars a month?
If he wants to believe her, he has to see how she performs in the future!
Xia Juanjuan glanced at Li Wen with the corners of her lips curled up, and she could see clearly what he was thinking in his little head!
She looked at Li Zhan: "Do you have any money?"
Li Zhan watched as Xia Juanjuan easily tamed the brat Li Wen, and he was filled with admiration for his wife.
When he heard Xia Juanjuan asking him, he took out all the money in his pocket without even thinking and handed it to Xia Juanjuan.
Xia Juanjuan counted them and found there were fifty pieces. She looked up at Li Zhan in confusion: "Why are there so many?"
Li Zhan said: "Forty is this month's allowance. The other ten is the newlywed allowance given by the team."
Xia Juanjuan blushed when she heard this. She took out twenty yuan and returned the remaining thirty to Li Zhan: "Take this thirty yuan and spend it in the army. Aren't you going to give the remaining ten yuan to your mother?"
Li Zhan was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that Xia Juanjuan only kept a small half and returned all thirty to him. He felt very complicated.
He had been in the army for so many years, and he only kept one or two or four or five yuan for pocket money every month, and sent the rest back home.
But every time Liu Lan wrote to him, she would complain about not having enough money and ask when he would send her the next allowance. She never once cared about whether he had enough money or asked him to leave a few more dollars for pocket money.
However, his wife, who had just married him for less than a day, gave him 20 yuan as pocket money as it was natural!
Li Zhan's heart was filled with emotion, and his eyes couldn't help but become hot. He pushed the thirty pieces back.
"There are flowers in my army. I won't give my mother the ten yuan this month. The paving mat, farm utensils, pots and pans, and food in this house will only last a few meals, so we need to buy new ones. I can't take care of her this month! You can keep them all!"
Xia Juanjuan declined: "That's too much! Twenty is enough! Besides, you earned your money with your life, how can I spend it?"
Lizhan frowned and said domineeringly: "It's only natural to spend your man's money, take it!"
Xia Juanjuan felt a little embarrassed when she heard Li Zhan say that, but she also felt sweet inside. She had no choice but to take back the twenty yuan and gave Li Zhan ten yuan stubbornly: "Then you take these ten yuan. Giving me forty yuan will be enough for a long time!"
Seeing that his wife cared so much about him, Li Zhan just smiled and accepted it.
Xia Juanjuan took out two yuan each and handed them to Li Wen, saying, "Here, the two yuan I promised you. This is for this month. There will be more for next month."
Li Wen's eyes widened when he looked at the two dollars!
From childhood to adulthood, he has never seen so much money!
Li Wu and Li Beibei also knew that money could be used to buy candy, egg-filled steamed buns, etc. They surrounded Li Wen and shouted excitedly, "Brother! Money! We have money! Let's buy some candy!"
Li Wen still didn't believe it: "This...is this really for us?"
Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Of course it's true! But this money also includes Xiaowu and Beibei's money. You are not allowed to embezzle it. You have to keep it for yourself. Do you understand?"
Li Wen immediately said proudly: "I...I won't embezzle it!"
Li Zhan looked at the happy family and felt a warm feeling in his heart. This was something he had never experienced since he was a child.
He said to Li Wen, "Xiao Wen, take your brothers and sisters out to play for a while. I have something to say to your mother."
Xia Juanjuan looked at Li Zhan in confusion. Do you have something to say?