Chapter 17 Chapter 17 Zhao Ruyue also wants to separate from the family, since...
The elderly in the family are still able to do farm work and do not need their children to support them in their old age. They send 400 yuan back home every month for the living expenses of their two children.
Of the four hundred yuan, assuming the children are not sick and do not need to buy clothes and shoes for the changing seasons, three hundred yuan would be used at most for two children, and the remaining one hundred yuan would be considered as hard work compensation for the elderly who helped take care of the children.
They will send additional money for the children's medical treatment, clothes and shoes.
Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming are relatively conscientious and the money they gave is relatively large.
Some people go out to work, and they say that they work so hard to raise their children, but in fact they live a very comfortable life outside.
I only send a little money back home every month, barely enough to support my parents.
Even though both of them are earning money outside and the family has no foreign debt, the child is still dressed in rags and is as thin as a refugee.
The money for children’s schooling may be given only after the parents and children beg for it, or they may not give it at all. If the parents have money, they will send their grandchildren to school. If they don’t have money, then forget it. The answer is that it is not easy to make a living outside and they don’t earn much money.
Like the couple Lu Qiuying and Sun Hongguang, they have three children in their hometown and they only send two or three hundred yuan every month. If the money is not enough, they rely entirely on subsidies from the elderly.
There are many cities like Pengcheng where their hometowns lag behind. The average person's monthly salary is between three hundred and five hundred, most of them are only three or four hundred, and very few can earn over five hundred.
One person's work can barely make enough for the family to keep from starving. It is difficult to buy some meat for the family, and it is impossible to save some money. Maybe you have to borrow money for the children's school books and tuition.
It would be better if both of them had jobs, then the money to raise the children would be barely enough.
But there are very few job opportunities in my hometown, and it is rare for both husband and wife in an ordinary family to have jobs. Generally, the man in the family works to earn money, while the unemployed women stay at home to take care of the few acres of land at home.
There are many people but little land there, and the grain and vegetables grown on the land allocated to each family are barely enough for their own consumption. If there are a few fruit trees at home, they can pick the fruits when they are ripe and sell them, earning about two or three hundred yuan to supplement the family income.
In this situation, unless the whole family tightens their belts and practices extreme frugal living, or has other sources of income, they will not be able to save any money.
If someone in the family has a problem, they still have to ask others for money, so many people have to leave their hometown to work.
Not to mention, building high-rise buildings has become popular in my hometown in recent years, and there is always such comparison in the countryside.
If I can’t save money and build this new house, I will be looked down upon in my hometown.
After I got out, regardless of other things, I could earn at least 800 yuan a month with the most ordinary job and not much overtime. If I worked a lot of overtime, I could earn more than 1,000 yuan.
The couple receives two salaries, spends one and saves the other. The children at home can eat better and don’t have to beg for money from others to pay tuition.
In a few years, I will be able to save enough money to build a new house.
This was the case when Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming worked in the washing machine factory.
Zhao Ruyue works less overtime and earns more than 900 yuan a month, while Ning Shaoming works more hard and earns more than 1,000 yuan a month.
Later he found a job in a hotel kitchen, which paid more and they were able to save more money.
The couple has been out for nearly a year, and their saved wages are actually enough to pay off their debts, but they haven't found the money to build a house, and without money to build a house, they can't split up the family.
There is no daughter-in-law who doesn't want to separate from the family and live on her own, and be the master of her own household. Zhao Ruyue also wants this.
While waiting in line for the phone call, she was thinking about the housing land in her hometown.
Lao Ning's family has three residential plots, two of which are located on the street in the town, not far from the market. They have long been used to build old houses, which were brick and tile houses built by the old man before. The two residential plots are combined to build a large courtyard.
When it was first built, the idea was that the family would be divided among their sons in the future, so the houses on both sides of the yard were the same, and they could just build a wall in the middle when the time came to divide the family.
The other residential plot was applied for after they had another son, Ning Shaoming.
There was no land on the street at that time, so they had to mark out the land further away. Therefore, this residential plot was located in a remote area and was no longer within the scope of the street.
No one in the town was willing to live in such a remote place. Most people would spend money to buy land on the street, but the Ning family didn't have that much money to buy land, so they could only accept this.
Zhao Ruyue was thinking about various things in her hometown, and only came back to her senses when Ning Shaoming patted her shoulder gently.
It's their turn to call.
The two of them walked to the small cubicle where the telephone was placed and sat down. Zhao Ruyue took out her phone card and made a call, feeling both excited and a little timid.
So much time has passed that she has almost forgotten what she said to her children when she called them during this period.
I just remember that the children at this time were not like in the previous life, where every phone call with her would turn into a quarrel.
Beep-beep-beep-
The phone rang several times before someone picked up, but unfortunately it wasn't either of the two children who answered.
"Sister-in-law?" Zhao Ruyue was a little surprised. She was stunned for a moment and then realized that the home phone was installed in her eldest brother and sister-in-law's room.
When the phone was installed, they, the couple, their parents-in-law, their eldest brother and his wife, their second brother and his wife, and even their eldest sister who was already married all contributed some money.
So when the eldest sister-in-law suggested installing the phone in their room, the women from several families had a quarrel.
Now thinking back on it, the quarrel was quite ridiculous. Everyone in the house can use this phone, and installing it in her room cannot prevent others from using it. After all, everyone paid for it. So, what privacy is there in the room with the phone installed?
But at that time, there was a telephone at home, and it was indeed quite prestigious to tell others about it.
After the sister-in-law successfully installed the phone in her room, she walked out with her head held high, as proud as a victorious rooster, and she also held her back straight when she returned to her parents' home.
"Hello! Is this my third sister-in-law?" Wang Haiyan, the eldest sister-in-law of the Ning family, shouted loudly into the phone, "Why did you two call back only today? It's been a long time since you called back this month. Xiaoqiu and Xiaoxia are always worried about why mom and dad haven't called back yet. They stare at the phone every day! Oh~ I feel so sorry for the two children waiting anxiously!"
Even though she knew that her sister-in-law liked to exaggerate, when Zhao Ruyue heard this, her heart as a mother seemed to be tugged at by someone, and her eyes couldn't help but turn red.
Ning Shaoming knew his sister-in-law's character better than Zhao Ruyue, so he was relatively calm at this time.
It seemed that the sister-in-law was saying that they were late in calling this month, but in fact her real intention was to blame them for sending money back late this month.
Seeing his wife about to cry, Ning Shaoming took the microphone and said, "Sister-in-law, we are very busy this month. We only found time to go to the post office today. We just sent the money back. Please remind my mother to pick up the money in time."
When Wang Haiyan heard this, she stopped talking about whether the child was pitiful or not and asked about the money with a fluttering brow:
"It's the end of the year, and my mom asked me how much money you guys sent back? You're not sending back 400 yuan, are you? I heard from Uncle Huang that your good brother Huang Wenfa sent 600 yuan to his family!"
"You also have two children, a boy and a girl, shouldn't you send them some extra money to buy them some good food and new clothes?
Other children can go to the county town to buy clothes and go to the People's Square in the county town to play, but they can't go. How pitiful! Please send me more money so that I can take them there! ”
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