At that time, people's monthly salary was less than 200 yuan, and her brother borrowed 3,000 yuan from her.

Yang Xiaohui stared: "My brother has no money, what can I do?"

Then Li Honggang was helpless.

The New Year is over and students start school on the eighth day of the first lunar month. Chen Xiaoying has to go out to do business on the sixth day. The second brother Li Hongjian, the third brother Li Hongqiang, and the fourth brother Li Honggang, the three brothers have to go out to work again.

Obviously we can go after the 15th, but we are used to working outside. When we return to the countryside and are asked to work in the fields, either our waists or legs ache.

No one wants to do it.

after all.

You can only see money from farming all year round, and you are not sure how much you can earn.

It would be better for them to go out to work and get paid every month. They are young and full of strength. They can only earn a few dollars if they use this strength on farming, but they can earn more by going out to work.

Of course, they are not willing to farm diligently.

Chen Xiaoying knew that they were getting wild and couldn't control them, so she didn't force them to stay. "At most by June, we will have laid the foundation for the Third Brother's family. Second Brother, what are your plans?"

The eldest and fourth sons have houses, so she doesn't care about them.

When rural people build a house now, they first build two or three western rooms. When the family conditions are better, they will build a large house with five rooms facing north and south. Rural people also need a kitchen, a utility room, two or three bedrooms, etc. If they raise livestock, they also need to build sheds for the livestock in the yard.

It depends on how the individual family plans.

The second son's wife, Wang Xiaoqin, plans to raise a few chickens and follow the example of old lady Chen Xiaoying to raise four or five sheep or two pigs. She can raise them by just cutting some grass in the fields and feeding them some corn.

After the second child passed away, her mother could be brought back home, and the two of them could live together, keep her company, and help her.

"I'm fine with whatever I do, you decide, Mom." The second son, Li Hongjian, was easy to talk to. The money was not earned by him, so he had no objection no matter how it was spent.

Chen Xiaoying nodded. She was not afraid that her son was stupid, but she was afraid that his son would be disobedient, like the third son Li Hongqiang.

After her three sons went out to work, Chen Xiaoying also planned to go to the county town on the sixth day of the New Year to continue her business.

You have to pay the rent. If you don’t do business for a day, it’s like paying a day’s rent for nothing.

The home of the eldest wife, Li Hongwei.

After Li Yutong knew her grandmother Chen Xiaoying's plan, she didn't say anything.

She just cared about living a good life for her family, and she didn't care how her grandmother spent the money she earned.

It's not that she doesn't want to help her uncles, but the lessons from her previous life told her that it was useless.

If you help, they will first complain that you didn't help enough or didn't help well enough. If you don't help, they will be even less of a human being and will harbor resentment towards you.

If you are weak, they look down on you. If you are strong, they say you look down on them.

Anyway, they are always wronged, and the boss deserves what he owes them.

"Buy a house?" Li Hongwei was shocked when he heard what his wife said: "We haven't even built a house yet, and you're so ambitious."

"Where is the money?"

This is the key point.

Li Hongwei doesn’t think it’s necessary to buy a house in the county: “Our house is not even decent, and we still want to buy one in the county. We don’t have a son, so it’s a joke.”

Not having a son is the biggest scar in Liu Lanxiang's heart. It's not that she doesn't want to have another child, but she has already given birth to two children and it coincided with the family planning policy. What else can she do if she doesn't have a son?

She couldn't help wiping away tears.

Li Yutong watched from the side and changed the subject: "Mom, did my aunt tell me how much the house cost?"

"They said it would cost 21,000." Liu Lanxiang said as she wiped her tears with a handkerchief.

"It's so expensive." Upon hearing this, Li Hongwei became even more determined not to buy it.

Li Yutong said, "Dad, it's not expensive, only 20,000 yuan. My grandma opened a fried skewers shop in the county town, and it's only been eight months, and she gave us 20,000 yuan."

The monthly rent for the fried skewers shop is 2,600 yuan, but the shop can earn about 6,000 to 8,000 yuan a month. It is the only fried skewers shop in the county. Someone learned from them to set up a stall, and the price is cheaper, but the food does not taste like hers at all, so the business has not been affected at all.

When Li Hongwei heard that he had earned 20,000 yuan in less than a year, he suddenly felt that 20,000 yuan was not too much to buy a house.

"Dad, the main reason is that I don't want to sleep in the store anymore. It's a bit dangerous. Think about it, our business is getting better and better. There might be some mentally ill people who think that the money we earn is kept in the store at night and want to break into the store and steal from us. What should we do?" Li Yutong analyzed with him.

It's not for money, it's for the personal safety of his mother and his daughter.

"Dad, go take a look. It doesn't cost any money."

"My grandmother and I live in the county town, in the staff quarters of the county education bureau. We no longer have to run around in the wind and rain, and we are safe at night. Besides, we don't want to run the fried skewers shop for the rest of our lives."

"People are so smart nowadays. Two families have already opened fried skewers shops following our example. My grandma still wants to open a breakfast shop. To run a breakfast shop, you have to get up at around 4 in the morning to cook porridge."

"I'll have to spend money then." Li Hongwei thought.

"Dad, I'm not afraid of spending money, I'm afraid of not being able to make money if I don't seize the opportunity." Li Yutong said a lot: "The rent for a year is 20,000 yuan."

At a time when the average wage per capita was only three to five hundred yuan, the monthly rent for this store was two thousand six hundred yuan. This was because the store had a good location, a prime location on Renmin Street, the CBD within the CBD of the county town. In the entire county town, when the northern district had not yet developed, this was the place with the largest flow of people. People who came to the county town came here to go shopping, buy clothes, and eat delicious food.

"If the landlord didn't want to sell it, I would have bought the shop."

Seeing that they are making money, the landlord has said that he will raise the rent for them. If they cannot accept it, they should find a place to move out quickly so as not to delay them from finding another one.

Li Yutong could probably guess that the landlord wanted to follow their example and sell fried skewers in his own shop. With the ready-made popularity and no rent for his own house, it would be a net profit.

Talk about it.

Li Hongwei finally agreed, and Liu Lanxiang also breathed a sigh of relief.

This time, when we sent Chen Xiaoying down to open a store, the family went to look at houses as well.

When Li Yutong looked at the seat, it was exactly what she had imagined, and she smiled even more happily.

This location is not too far from the shop they rented. It’s only a dozen minutes’ walk and is just two intersections away. But, the most important thing is this but.

This housing estate will be demolished in the future and rebuilt into one of the few low-rise elevator buildings in the entire county. It has all five certificates and is the easiest house to buy and sell among houses of the same type.

There are three kindergartens, three primary schools, a third middle school, a city first high school, and an experimental high school within half an hour's walk around the area. It's a ten-minute walk to the shopping mall, which has everything you need. The surrounding transportation is well connected.

The house itself is not one of those old houses with a small living room that can only be used as a corridor. It was built less than ten years ago. It has three bedrooms and a living room. There is a bathroom opposite the door. There are three bedrooms on the left, one of which has an outdoor balcony. On the right are the living room and kitchen. The dining room and the living room are integrated.

Moreover, it is on the second floor, and although the big tree outside blocks some light to one of the bedrooms, the impact is not significant.

The living room is unusually bright, and there is also a coal room.

They live in the north, and they have to burn stoves to keep warm in the winter. In old communities, a row of small houses are generally built against the courtyard walls. Each house has a place to store coal briquettes, which is about five or six square meters. They can store miscellaneous items or coal briquettes.

"Everything is good, except that it's too expensive." Li Hongwei doesn't know what the future will be like, he just thinks it's really expensive now.

In his entire life, he had never spent more than thirty yuan, except for buying fertilizers and seeds. Now, he would have to spend twenty-one thousand yuan!