Chapter 123 Chapter 123 Selling the House
The day Huang Xiuhua was discharged from the hospital was two days before the elementary school students started school.
The payment period is three days before school starts. There is no tuition fee for elementary school students, but there are still fees for books, workbooks, class fees, insurance, etc.
On the first day of paying tuition, Zhao Ruyue went to pay for her two children.
After paying the fee, she returned home and saw her sister and brother-in-law waiting in the store.
Zhao Ruyue asked them to follow her back: "Why didn't you call me in advance? If you had called and told me in advance, I wouldn't have gone out."
Zhao Ruyuan said, "How can I delay your work? We are leaving in the afternoon, so it's okay to wait for a while. Besides, you came back not long after waiting."
"It's not a big deal. I just go to the school to register Xiaoqiu and Xiaoxia. It will be the same if I go again tomorrow. There are fruits, snacks, drinks and tea on the table. You can help yourself. Don't be polite." Zhao Ruyue said as she poured them tea.
"Okay." Zhao Ruyuan responded and took an orange and peeled it slowly. Lin Guohao took the teacup with both hands and drank it. The weather was relatively dry today and they were indeed a little thirsty.
Zhao Ruyue knew that they came back today to pick up Lin Cairou and to get the remaining 30,000 yuan.
Since they had agreed to lend it, Zhao Ruyue did not delay. After exchanging a few pleasantries, she went into the room and took out the money without them mentioning it again.
The money was neatly packed in a large envelope given by the bank. Zhao Ruyue withdrew it from the bank on her way back from accompanying her baby yesterday.
Zhao Ruyuan gave half of the peeled orange to her sister and asked her mother-in-law during the chat: "I heard from mom that Xiaoqiu's grandmother will be discharged from the hospital in the next few days?"
"I will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow. I registered the two children today. When I go to the hospital tomorrow, I can take them to the city and buy them new school bags and stationery. It's a pity that you have to leave this afternoon. Otherwise, I can take you there when I go tomorrow."
"Cai Rou's school starts one day earlier than here, so I want to stay at my parents' house for one more day. Since I gave birth to my third child, I can come back less often."
Zhao Ruyue said, "After a few years, your youngest child can go to preschool, but the prerequisite is that you don't have any more children."
“No, no, no,” Zhao Ruyuan waved her hands hurriedly. “Raising three is already hard enough. The first two are fine, but the youngest one is very troublesome. He is not as well-behaved as his older sister and brother.”
Zhao Ruyue laughed. Some people have very well-behaved children first, so parents think that their children are easy to take care of. They also think that they have experience in taking care of children. If they get used to it, then it will be easy for them to take care of the next ones, right?
As a result, the younger one was a high-needs baby when he was born, and his parents were dumbfounded. This was the case with Zhao Ruyuan's child.
After talking about the children, Zhao Ruyuan talked about their crayfish business: "The procedures for renting the pond have been completed. We are now repairing and planting aquatic plants. We have also ordered shrimp fry from others. The shrimp fry will be shipped back in March and put into the pond.
It is expected that by mid-April, when the weather is warmer and the night market snack stalls in the provincial capital become bustling, the first batch of products can be sold.
After selling the first batch, it will take about a month to dry the pond and disinfect it, and plant aquatic plants. The second batch of shrimp fry can be released at the end of May. When the second batch grows up, it happens to be the hottest time in July and August when the night market snack stalls are the busiest. If all goes well, another batch can be raised in August and September and sold around November. ”
Zhao Ruyue listened to her sister's words and felt relieved knowing that they knew something about breeding.
It's no wonder that she was willing to lend money to this little sister. He told her everything he wanted to do with the money, and he really did it. He did things in an orderly manner. He was not the kind of person who boasted a lot but then disappeared without a word after taking the money.
However, Zhao Ruyue has done business before. Although she has never sold fresh seafood, because she opened her own shop, she met many people who did other businesses, including these ones, and she heard a lot of their business experiences.
Of course, if it’s about making money, others must be so kind-hearted. If there’s no benefit, just tell her the truth. Most of the time it’s just nonsense during small talk, but when they brag, there will be some real stuff mixed in, you just need to distinguish it yourself.
Zhao Ruyue didn't hear her younger sister talk about sales, so she asked her, "Have you found a buyer?"
Zhao Ruyuan was doing business for the first time and had no experience. She was puzzled and said, "Our shrimps haven't been raised yet. Can't we find buyers? Isn't it only after we raise them that people will see the real goods and know that our products are good that they will buy them?"
"You are wrong. When your shrimps are grown, you will have no market to sell them. The shrimps have grown big, so it is not cost-effective to continue raising them. Will you be impatient? This is your first time doing business, and the person receiving the goods is not like that. He may be more experienced than you. He can see that you are anxious and will definitely lower the price."
Zhao Ruyuan and Lin Guohao listened to her words and seemed to be thinking about something.
"Then when our shrimps are almost grown, we will look for buyers."
“No, after you put your shrimps into the pond, you should immediately look for markets to sell them. Don’t worry that people won’t place orders if they don’t see the shrimps. The pond where you raise shrimps is right there and they won’t run away. The shrimp seedlings and feed are also real investments, and these things are also tangible. With these, you can find markets to sell them.
If people are willing to place orders in advance, you can give them a more affordable price. By the time the shrimps grow big, all of your products have been sold or part of them have been bought, and you don’t have to worry so much.
However, doing so is also risky. You have to pay more attention to the price of crayfish and have an idea of the number of crayfish produced in your pond. I just say this to give you one more option.
Of course, you have to decide what to do based on the actual situation. ”
"I know, sister, thank you for telling me this." Zhao Ruyuan and Lin Guohao expressed their gratitude to Zhao Ruyue sincerely.
They knew that only their elder sister, who truly cared about their well-being, would risk being blamed and speak so earnestly to them.
If she hadn't said it, they might have really waited until the shrimps grew big before looking for a market for them.
Although the method she mentioned may or may not be used in the future, at least there is one more option, and you never know when it may be used.
As they chatted, it was noon. Zhao Ruyue invited them to have lunch before letting them go.
After they went back, Zhao Ruyue didn't have time to rest. She changed into her old clothes and went to the old house.
On her way back, she met her sister-in-law from her mother's side.
Seeing that she was wearing old clothes, Chen Fangni asked, "Where are you going? Do you need my help?"
Zhao Ruyue smiled and said, "No, I have to go back to the old house to help my parents-in-law pack up their things."
Chen Fangni asked in confusion, "Your mother-in-law will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow, so why are you packing up? Are they going to move in with you?"
When Chen Fangni said these words, she felt that it was unlikely.
Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming have business to take care of and have to take care of two children. They are almost busy every day. How can they have so much time to take care of patients?
"Yes, she will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow, but she will not move to my place. My father-in-law still wants to live with my mother-in-law, but they have been sleeping in separate rooms before, so this time we have to move the beds into the same room to make it easier for him to take care of her."
"Why isn't it Boss Ning's wife who's taking care of her? Didn't you say you'd pay for the care and let her take care of her?"
Zhao Ruyue said: "We originally planned to do so, but my father-in-law was not happy about it. We couldn't persuade the old man, so we had to follow his wishes."
They had originally advised him to take the old lady to live with Wang Haiyan, let Wang Haiyan be the main caregiver, and the care expenses would be shared equally by Ning Shaoming and Ning Shaode.
As for food expenses, the little land and vegetable plots that her parents-in-law used to farm were no longer available for them, so they were all transferred to Wang Haiyan's name to be used as food expenses.
Part of the grain and vegetables grown is used as food for the old couple, and the rest belongs to Wang Haiyan.
As for meat, Ning Shaoming would buy some extra when he bought meat for his family and send it to the old house.
But Ningda didn't want to, he still wanted to live alone.
After hearing the doctor say that the old woman would need someone to take care of her in the future, he had long thought about taking care of her himself.
The doctor said that to care for such a patient, it would take a few months or years at the shortest, or even more than ten years at the longest. Maybe the sick person will outlive the caregivers.
As the saying goes, there will be no filial son by the bedside of a long-term patient. There is some truth to this saying, and it does not mean that children are unfilial.
But Ningda was worried that if he asked the children to take care of the child from the beginning, they would be exhausted. It would be better for him to come first. In case he died before the old woman, the children could take over and continue to take care of the child. They would be more dedicated than asking them to take care of the child from the beginning.
So Ningda said to his children, "While I am still able to move, it is better for me to take care of your mother myself. Your eldest sister-in-law has a lot of land, and she is not willing to rent it out to others to farm. The farming season cannot be delayed. When the time comes to work in the fields, won't I be the main person to take care of her?"
Ning Da was unwilling to earn the nursing fees, and Wang Haiyan was very unhappy about it.
But she felt a little guilty because her little thoughts were exposed so blatantly.
Because Ning Da was right, that's what Wang Haiyan thought.
This is not the old society. Now when people rent out their land to others for cultivation and pay the public grain tax, the bulk of the remaining grain goes to the tenants, and she can only get a small part.
This is how those who work away from home divide the land they rent to others for farming.
Since it is more profitable to farm the land herself, she certainly doesn't want to rent the land to others.
After all, her parents-in-law's land was given to her family. Her father-in-law doesn't have to work in the future. When she is busy with farm work, she must be thinking of asking her father-in-law who doesn't have to work to help look after her mother-in-law temporarily.
Of course, when she is not so busy, she is definitely the one who is mainly responsible for taking care of the children.
But Ningda directly pointed out her little thoughts and expressed that she didn't want to do that.
Ning Shaoming and Ning Meiting could not persuade him, so they had to respect the old man's idea.
Ning Da asked Ning Shaoming and Ning Shaode to give him 300 yuan each every month.
The old man's family didn't contribute money, but they lived closest, so they helped him out when he needed help. They also ate three meals a day at the old man's house, and they ate whatever Wang Haiyan cooked.
However, the little farmland and vegetable plots that he and his wife had left for themselves were no longer suitable for cultivation, so they were transferred to Wang Haiyan.
After he said this, Wang Haiyan's unhappiness disappeared after she got their fields and vegetable plots, and she expressed her agreement with his decision.
Ning Shaoming had no choice but to respect his father's idea, but he still planned to send a portion of meat to the old man every time his family bought meat in the future.
Ning Meiting doesn't have to pay any money, she just needs to visit the old man when she is free. As for whether she will give money to the old man privately, that is her own business and no one can force her.
Only Ning Shaode complained that the money he had to pay every month was a bit too much.
But Ningda said to him: "This three hundred yuan includes the pension for your mother and me, as well as the medical expenses for your mother's medicine. If you are not willing to pay.
Then I will have to go to your school every month to ask you for pension and medical expenses. You have to reimburse me for the travel expenses, otherwise I will go to your leader to seek justice. ”
Ning Shaode dared not say a word after hearing these few words.
Zhao Ruyue did not tell Chen Fangni about these private disputes.
She simply said that she would live with her parents-in-law from now on, then said goodbye to her sister-in-law and hurried to the old house to help her sister-in-law move the bed and things.
On the other hand, Ning Shaode felt more and more unhappy the more he thought about it.
He couldn't help but say to Ye Jing, who had been coaxed by him, "Why don't the old family have to pay a penny, and just lend a hand occasionally and give some food?
The food in her house is not like the third brother's, where there is meat for every meal. How much can that food be worth? It’s not worth a hundred dollars a month, right? ”
Ye Jing also said, "Yes, there is another thing. Think about it. The old man and the old lady live in our house, and we have to pay money every month. Isn't it equivalent to paying for both the house and the money? The eldest family doesn't pay anything, and the third family only pays for the money. We pay for the house and the money. It's a big loss!"
Ning Shaode thought along the lines of what she said and felt even worse off: "No, we have to think of a way to reduce the amount of money we have to pay every month, otherwise when can we buy a house in the county? Many people in the company who have worked for us for a similar period of time, or even a few years less than us, have bought houses in the county, but we are the only ones who don't have a house. How embarrassing! Others have their parents to help them, but our parents not only can't help us, but they also suck our blood and hold us back."
Ye Jing thought: It is your parents who are holding us back and sucking our blood, but I don’t have those parents.
She added, "No matter how much we reduce our monthly rent, it won't be much. Houses in town are not worth much, and rent is even cheaper. For a broken house that's been in existence for decades, we can only reduce it by a hundred dollars a month at best. It won't help us much. Your parents are living in your house and you're still charging them. If this gets out, those big mouths in town will definitely poke our spines and gossip about us everywhere."
"What should we do then?" Ning Shaode now has the leverage in their hands.
His father relied on his seniority to suppress him and would always threaten to go to his workplace to make trouble. He was so annoyed, but this trick really worked on him.
"That's easy, let's sell the house!" Ye Jing had this idea a long time ago.
She felt that they seldom went back home often, and there was no point in keeping the dilapidated house in the town. It would take eight hundred years for the town to be demolished, so it would be better to sell it.
Ning Shaode frowned: "Sell it? But that's my family's old house. If I sell it, others will poke me in the back and say that I'm selling my ancestral property to ruin the family..."
Ye Jing couldn't help but roll her eyes: "Returning the ancestral property, are your ancestors a wealthy family? Or do you want to live in the countryside in the future?"
"That's not the case." Whenever he returned to town, he would inevitably think of the days when his family was poor and he had no extra money at school. He had no money to contribute to other people's parties, and he usually didn't eat or dress well, and he didn't fit in with his schoolmates.
Seeing that his expression had relaxed a little, Ye Jing continued, "With the money from selling the house, plus the money we have saved over the years, I will go back to my parents' home to ask for some support. The total amount will not only be enough for us to buy a house, but also enough for decoration and furniture. Think about it carefully!"
Ning Shaode was silent for a while, but he couldn't resist the temptation of the house in the county town. "You also said that the houses in the town are not valuable, so who would be willing to buy them? The homesteads in the countryside can only be sold to people in the town, and they can't be sold at a high price."
"You are wrong. Although the houses in the town are not as valuable as those in the county, the location of our yard is very good in the town. As long as we are willing to sell it, there will be many people willing to buy it." She had already had this idea and had inquired about it. Their yard could be sold for more than ten thousand yuan.
This was the price she found out a few years ago. With the increase in prices in recent years, the price of houses must have increased a little, and it cannot be calculated based on the prices of a few years ago.
Ning Shaode said, "Go back some other day and ask your parents about the price of the house in town. Don't let them cheat you when you sell it. Sell it for more money. We can buy a house in the county and renovate it, and then we will have less pressure."
"Do I need to tell you that? I will definitely not let our family suffer any loss."
When Ning Shaode and his wife were privately inquiring about the price of houses in the town, Huang Xiuhua was discharged from the hospital.
Zhao Ruyue also hired Zheng Xiu's car to pick her up that day, as Ning Shaoming and Ning Meiting were both busy during the day.
It was okay for her to go to her shop later. Su Shengnan could do everything except repairing electronic equipment now, so today only Zhao Ruyue took the two children to pick up Huang Xiuhua from the hospital.
Zhao Ruyue arrived early, so she asked Zheng Xiu to drive them to the place where school bags and stationery were sold, and bought new school bags and stationery for the two children.
He also bought a wheelchair for Huang Xiuhua.
Wang Haiyan was in charge of taking care of Huang Xiuhua last night. After Zhao Ruyue finished shopping, she went to the hospital. Ning Da and Wang Haiyan had almost completed the discharge procedures for Huang Xiuhua.
Zhao Ruyue went to help pack up the things in the ward that were to be taken home. She gave away the things that could be given away, and threw away the things that could not be given away. It didn't take much time to pack up.
Ning Da let Huang Xiuhua sit in the wheelchair and pushed her out of the hospital.
Ning Da said to Zhao Ruyue as they walked, "Fortunately, I listened to you last year and this year and paid for the New Rural Cooperative Medical Insurance. When I was going through the discharge procedures just now, they asked me if I had paid for it, saying that half of the hospitalization expenses could be reimbursed. It's really a good deal.
It only costs ten dollars a year. When I didn’t use it, I didn’t feel it was useful and I even forgot it existed. But when I used it today, I realized its benefits. ”
One reimbursement can cover decades of expenses. Ning Da was even a little worried that the country would lose money. He felt that he was taking advantage of the country and felt a little embarrassed.
Wang Haiyan did not pay the money because she thought it was useless. But today she saw with her own eyes that it was indeed useful. She also planned to go to the village committee after returning home to ask if she could still pay it.
Huang Xiuhua looked dazed all the way back home. She didn't make a fuss like some other patients. It was just that she may have drunk too much water in the hospital and couldn't control her urine.
Zhao Ruyue bought her adult diapers and helped her change them into new ones before she left, but when she got home, her pants were still wet.
She asked Ning Da and Wang Haiyan to take her into the house and help her change her pants.
Then he hurried to check the seat of Zheng Xiu's car. If he had wet the seat of someone else's car, he would have to pay for the car wash.
After the inspection, Zhao Ruyue breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, there is a disposable urine pad on the seat."
After paying Zheng Xiu for the ride, he thanked her. Zheng Xiu waved her hand and said, "No need to be so polite." Then she drove away and continued to pick up passengers. She would come back later to pick up Zhao Ruyue to go to the store in the county town.
Zhao Ruyue asked the two children to take their newly bought things home, and she went into her parents-in-law's room.
"How is it? Did you not make someone's car dirty?" Ning Da asked.
Zhao Ruyue shook her head: "It's not dirty. The diaper pad is still quite useful. Dad, you can put one on the place where mom sleeps and where she sits. Don't worry about wasting it. I will buy more when it's used up. Otherwise, you can't clean up her mattress and sheets as fast as she gets them dirty."
Ning Da nodded and didn't dare to be frugal. Last night and this morning, he was worried that the old woman would lose control on the way back from the car, so he didn't give her much to eat. Today, she just wet her pants.
But he couldn't always feed her so little. If she ate normally, when she couldn't control herself, she would pee more than just urine.
After some trouble, he finally helped Huang Xiuhua change her pants and let her lie on the bed to rest.
After packing up, Zhao Ruyue went out to go back to her own home. When she reached the door, she was stopped by a neighbor who asked, "Didn't your mother-in-law ask Old Second Ning to take her to the doctor for a checkup? How did she become like this?"
When they came back just now, many neighbors saw Huang Xiuhua's condition at the door of the old house. She had lost a lot of weight and didn't look like a normal person.
But their impression of Huang Xiuhua is still the way she boasted to others before she left, and how her son insisted on taking her to see a doctor.
Wang Haiyan did tell many people about her illness when she came back, but when Ning Shaode and Ning Shaoming had an argument, Wang Haiyan had not yet arrived at the hospital, so she did not know about the demolition of the house and did not tell the neighbors. Ning Meiting and Ning Da did not tell anyone about this when they came back either.
This saved Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming a lot of trouble.
Hearing is not as good as seeing. No matter how many times the neighbors have heard Wang Haiyan describe her mother-in-law's situation, many of them have never seen it with their own eyes and cannot imagine it. When they saw it today, they all felt very sad.
Huang Xiuhua was such a strong person back then, but he became like this in his later years. Many elderly people couldn't help but think of themselves and began to worry.
The neighbors also heard Wang Haiyan say vaguely that Huang Xiuhua became like this because of Ning Laoer and his wife, but she didn't say it explicitly, just gave some hints and let others guess.
At this moment, someone asked Zhao Ruyue about this, but Zhao Ruyue avoided the question and did not give a direct answer.
This made the neighbors even more certain that Huang Xiuhua became like that because of something that happened between Ning Laoer and his wife.
I couldn't help but sigh in my heart. This Ning Lao Er was Huang Xiuhua's favorite son. Before she left the house, she told people that this son was the most filial. But he ended up being so filial to her...
Zhao Ruyue chatted briefly with her neighbor for a while and then left, saying that she had something to do.
Her mother-in-law will no longer be paralyzed in bed and unable to go out. She bought her a wheelchair. When the weather is good, her father-in-law can push her out to bask in the sun. The neighbors live so close and if they want to know about her condition, there will be plenty of opportunities to see it with their own eyes in the future.
They just felt a little uncomfortable when they first saw such a big change in an acquaintance, but after seeing her more often, they no longer found it strange.
Zhao Ruyue returned home to rest and waited for Zheng Xiu's car to return from the county town.
Ning Shaoming's good friend Ding Min happened to come to the restaurant to eat.
Seeing Zhao Ruyue was there, he told her something: "I heard that Shaoming's second brother and his wife are asking about the house prices in town. They seem to want to sell their yard in town. Do you know about this?"
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