Chapter 201 Let's all go to the capital.
Yang Yuemei rolled her eyes at him: "Why would I be angry?"
"You're not married yet. If you were, your wife would be making a fuss about buying a house."
Getting married is very different for young people today than it was for them back then.
Back then, as long as the husband's family had a house, they could get married even if their circumstances were poor. Even if the whole family had to squeeze together and argue after marriage, everyone was willing to accept it.
Nowadays, many young people are starting to require a house when they get married.
Even if you don't have a big house, you still need a small house.
Basically, I don't want to squeeze in with a large family.
Yang Yuemei now chats with the people in the family compound, especially those with many children, and the most common thing they say is that it will be increasingly difficult to find a wife in the future.
Especially in families with many sons and grandsons.
The sons of the older generation can still get married, while some of the younger ones are already in their late twenties and still single.
There's no other way; my circumstances are too poor. I can't afford a bride price or the three essential items (bride price, wedding gift, and grooming), so I can only remain single.
If even the son is like this, I dare not even think about the future of the grandson.
The three main components, in particular, have been constantly changing.
The three major appliances of today have become television, refrigerator, and washing machine, while watches and bicycles are now considered essential.
I've heard that people with good financial means all have motorcycles when they get married.
Motorcycles.
A motorcycle costs several thousand or even tens of thousands of yuan.
People are reluctant to buy TVs, washing machines, and refrigerators that cost a few hundred yuan, so how can they afford to buy ones that cost several thousand or tens of thousands of yuan? Wouldn't that empty their entire household budget?
When it comes to young people getting married these days, almost everyone laments that they can't afford to.
In the past, many people thought that the more sons the better, but now everyone sighs that it is better to have daughters.
As long as a daughter wants to get married, she can get married no matter what. At worst, the bride price will be reduced.
But even if the son wants to marry her, the girl might not be willing to.
Yang Yuemei felt only relief that although her child lacked formal education, he was still able to earn money.
As long as you have money, you can get married whenever the time is right.
Now that she knows Jiang Haibing bought a house, her first reaction is not anger, but fear that Jiang Haibing is in debt.
With a furrowed brow, she calculated the family's savings while simultaneously figuring out how much money she could withdraw:
"It's best to avoid owing money to the bank if possible."
“Tell me how much you borrowed from the bank, and I’ll check our family’s money to make up for it.”
Jiang Haibing quickly replied, "No, no, I paid in full."
“This house isn’t expensive, and I don’t need those few pennies. I’ll definitely buy it with cash.”
The workers who were helping him move the furniture turned around and looked at him with a complicated expression.
Buying a house costs tens of thousands of yuan, and this is considered a pittance. What about those who work hard for a month and only earn two hundred yuan? Are they going to eat dirt?
Jiang Haibing was immediately embarrassed upon seeing this.
Yang Yuemei was relieved.
He looked at the house again with great interest: "Did you copy your sister's decor?"
“This furniture is exactly the same as the one in Jia Ni’s house.”
Jiang Haibing laughed and said, "This looks better than the large wardrobe."
Yang Yuemei: "It looks nice this way, and the space is large enough to store a lot of things."
"That large wardrobe is not good."
"The cabinet is always dusty. How about this: once the door is closed, it will stay clean no matter what you put inside?"
The Jiang family's house has a large wardrobe, and there's only one.
The room where the four children slept didn't even have a wardrobe; there were just two wooden boxes placed side by side.
When Jiang's parents first got the house, they didn't have much money at all. They didn't even have a wardrobe, and the bed was a makeshift bed made from benches and door panels that they found at a junkyard.
The furniture in the Jiang family's home was acquired little by little over time.
The bed and large wardrobe table were secondhand items bought from a secondhand store, while the boxes, stools, and other items were simply made by Jiang's father himself from some wood he bought from a scrap yard.
It's just a matter of hammering in a nail; it's not difficult to do.
The only piece of furniture in the entire house that was custom-made is the sofa.
When Jiang Jiani went to university, Jiang Haibing earned some money and hired a carpenter to make it.
With many children in the family, Jiang's mother's biggest worry is that she never has enough cabinets and boxes to store things.
When Jiang Jiani and Lu Xiangyang's house was newly renovated and she came to see it, what she envied most was the wall full of cabinets.
She even considered modifying her own home to resemble Jiang Jiani's.
Ultimately, I couldn't bear to spend the money, so I had to give up.
I never expected that Jiang Haibing's newly bought house would be full of these big cabinets.
Yang Yuemei touched him happily, as if it were the first time she had seen her eldest grandson.
Jiang Jianni pursed her lips.
A new house is the best emotional catalyst.
In the following days, Yang Yuemei brought Dudu here almost every day, ostensibly to let Dudu get acquainted with his younger siblings. In reality, whenever Dudu fell asleep, she would take a rag and wipe this and that, making the house, which had only been roughly cleaned after the renovation, shine brightly.
When asked to move in another day, she resolutely refused: "That's your older brother's house, what would I do there?"
"Besides, I still have to stay home to take care of your dad and Ocean Jenny."
She was happy that her son had a new home, but she missed her old home even more.
Jiang Jianni quietly asked Jiang Haibing when he would tell his family about his secret purchase of a house in the capital.
Jiang Haibing frowned: "Sigh, I shouldn't have bought a house there."
"I bought it but don't live in it, and it's just sitting there empty. It breaks my heart every time I think about it."
"I have to go check on the house every few months to see if it's broken. It's such a hassle."
He impulsively bought the house, only to realize later that he would never actually live there.
I'm not there, so I don't dare rent out the house, for fear that some disgusting person will ruin it.
After all that, buying this house is basically a waste of money.
Jiang Jianni: "...Have you never thought about developing your career over there?"
"Although things are alright here, it's still a small city with limited development, and everyone's spending power is also limited."
"It's different in the capital."
"People over there earn over a thousand yuan a month now, so they're more willing to spend money on themselves."
"Anyway, you have a well-established team, so you can definitely consider developing your career over there."
"We can bring Dudu with us in the future."
"The educational conditions over there are much better than here."
She then pulled out her contract for buying a house in the capital: "I went there with Lu Xiangyang before the Lunar New Year and bought a house there as well."
"We plan to go there in a few years when the children are a little older."
Jiang Haibing looked speechless: "Wait, you said you were going to have fun, but you actually went to buy a house? What kind of fun did you go on?"
"Also, it's fine if you're a teacher, since you earn income from writing books and can simply quit teaching. But Lu Xiangyang is in the fire department; can he be transferred to the capital? It's not easy for us to transfer people from here to there."
Jiang Jiani was also unsure: "He said he would figure something out."
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