Chapter 59 Chapter 59 I dream about these things at night...
"Mom, I'm back!" Before the bicycle had even stopped at the door, Ning Shixia, who was sitting on the back seat of the bicycle, shouted to the family, "My dad packed a lot of mutton!"
Zhao Ruyue came out of the kitchen when she heard the sound, took a stainless steel thermos from her daughter's arms, then picked her up from her seat, and then took out another thermos from the bicycle basket in front.
Ning Shiqiu parked his bicycle, locked it, and followed them home.
Ning Shaoming is not going home for dinner today. He is eating at the construction site with relatives and neighbors who are helping out. He and his two daughters are not going.
However, mutton is not a common meat in the local area. Ning Shaoming was thinking about his family when he cooked the rare meat, so he asked his children to bring back two portions, one stewed and one roasted, as a snack for his family.
At the dinner table, Wang Haiyan looked at the people at home eating and sighed while eating.
Almost all the families in other families were there, but there were only two of them in her family.
When the second son's family returned to the county town, there were only eight people eating at home, just like last year. But last year there were only two children from the third son's family, and this year there were only her and her daughter.
Liang Guobing has not been released since he was arrested. I heard that he will be imprisoned for several years.
As soon as Ning Shaoxian showed signs of being addicted to gambling, those signs were harshly nipped in the bud.
He thought again of going to Pengcheng to work, and wanted to try his luck to see if he could meet a noble person.
Ning Shaoxian felt that among the three brothers, he was the one with the most flexible mind and the best ability to handle things.
If the third brother could meet a noble person, there was no reason why he couldn't, so he excitedly followed him.
This time, Ning Shaoxian also went with Huang Wenfa, and brought his son Ning Shichun with him.
Wang Haiyan often quarreled with him, but she was not used to not seeing him suddenly. In fact, she didn't really want her husband to go. She felt that there must be a man in the family so that the family would have a backbone.
She was thinking of letting her son go and giving half of his salary to the family, which would be a lot of money.
After my daughter graduates from middle school and my son has established himself there, I will let my son take my daughter there and have him pay half of his salary to the family.
For a family of four, it is enough for two people to earn money outside.
In this way, the couple can stay at home and earn at least one thousand yuan a month even if they don't have to work. She couldn't even imagine how good that life would be.
It's a pity that her husband went with her. The father takes the son with him, and the son has to listen to his father. The son's salary might end up in the hands of her husband.
Ning Shaoxian was very lucky to be able to send 400 yuan home every month, just like the third brother and his wife, during the Spring Festival.
Wang Haiyan felt so distressed just thinking about the money she had lost that she couldn't even enjoy eating meat.
Huang Xiuhua has ignored Wang Haiyan since she talked back to her during the Spring Festival.
Seeing Wang Haiyan like this, she felt it was unlucky, so she put some meat and vegetables into her bowl, then took the bowl to the door and ate while chatting with her neighbors.
Except for Ning Danping, no one else talked to Wang Haiyan. Anyone who talked to her at this time would be annoyed by her complaints.
If Ning Danping was not her daughter, she would have wanted to take the bowl and go out to eat, for fear of being scolded as unfilial, selfish, and ungrateful if she ignored her.
Now, as the only person who spoke to Wang Haiyan, she was also being criticized by Wang Haiyan, and no one else was allowed to interrupt and speak for Ning Danping.
Who helped Ning Danping? She said: "What does my daughter's education have to do with you? If you are so nosy, why don't you take her and help me raise her?" 'He came over and actually packed up Ning Danping's things and drove her to someone else's house.
Everyone in the family knows this, so no one dares to interfere.
After dinner, Zhao Ruyue took the two children out to play.
The second brother and his wife went back to their room to pack their things. Ye Jing packed her clothes and went to the backyard to take a look at the place where the sausages were stored in previous years. After confirming for the last time that there were really no sausages this year, she returned to her room in disappointment.
She wanted to say something in front of Ning Shaode that his parents were so stingy this year that they didn't even prepare any sausages.
But when she thought about the division of the family, she made a wrong judgment because she overheard the old couple's conversation and spoke ill of his parents in front of Ning Shaode.
So much so that now he bowed his head in front of Ning Shaode and swallowed all those complaints.
She didn't know that Ning Shaode was actually muttering in his heart that he couldn't bring sausages this year and would have to spend more money to buy meat.
In the past, after they brought it there, they would cut two pieces of sausage a day and put them in the rice when cooking. The rice would have the aroma and fat of the sausage.
After the rice is cooked, take out the sausage and stir-fry it with the vegetables. It will become a meat dish.
If you eat sparingly, you can save enough money for meat for two months.
After much thought, he was still unwilling to go back to the county town like this.
After packing up my things, I went to find his mother and asked her for dozens of kilograms of rice, several kilograms of fresh vegetables, dried vegetables and pickled vegetables. Only then did I feel a little better.
They packed up all the things they bought for the New Year and took them back to the county town without leaving any for their parents.
Even the leftover parts of the two chickens that were slaughtered during the Chinese New Year were packed up and taken away.
Ning Shaode thought that since his parents were there in his hometown, no matter what he did, it would not be spread out and others would gossip about him.
But he forgot that his parents were no longer in their prime, they were old, and now they had separated the family, so his parents could no longer suppress the other people in the family.
After they left, Wang Haiyan sat at the door and discussed loudly with the neighbors, mocking the second brother's family for being stingy.
Huang Xiuhua felt unhappy and had another quarrel with her.
Afterwards, in order to save face for the second son, Huang Xiuhua said something like "The second son and his wife have low salaries, and their lives are not easy" at home.
But no one in the family listened to what she said. The New Year had not yet ended and it was not yet the busy farming season. Wang Haiyan had nothing to do all day, so she just loved going from house to house and chatting with people, telling people about the incident as a joke.
Ning Shaoming didn't get involved in these matters, nor did he let Zhao Ruyue and the two children get involved. He just wanted to build the house quickly and move out as soon as possible.
Hard work pays off. He cooks different meals for the people who come to work in his house every day. The ingredients are definitely not as good as those on the first day of work.
But there are vegetables, meat and soup, and the food tastes better than what other people cook at home.
Sometimes he made too much and they couldn’t finish it, and he said whoever wanted to take the leftovers home for a midnight snack could pack them up themselves, and everyone who came to work rushed to take them.
Later, the workers suggested that they should not eat here anymore. Instead, they should bring their own lunch boxes every day, get their meals and eat at home. After eating, they could rest for a while at home before coming back to work.
Ning Shaoming changed the way he ate. He thought they really wanted to rest at home.
Later, when the children from the working families were playing with Ning Shiqiu, they said to him, "Your dad cooks really well, and there's meat every day. My dad brought food home these few days, and my sister and I scrambled to eat it. My family only has meat on New Year's Eve and when we entertain relatives during the Spring Festival. Xiaoqiu, can your family eat meat every day?"
Ning Shiqiu brought up the matter again after returning home, and Ning Shaoming realized that the people who came to work did not want to go home to rest, but thought the food here was good and wanted to take the food back to eat with their families.
He was a little worried that their poor diet would affect their work, but since they were willing to take the food back to their families, he couldn't change his mind.
Ning Shaoming observed them quietly for a few days and asked about them calmly. He was relieved to learn that they had enough to eat every day and did not seem to lack strength to work.
He thought that they would probably share the meat and vegetables with their families, and they would probably eat a little themselves, but not much.
Almost every family in the town grows rice, so there is no shortage of rice to eat. Therefore, there is always enough rice to keep them full and it does not affect their work.
While Ning Shaoming was busy building the house, Zhao Ruyue was also not idle.
She was the one who took the children to the town and observed the market. Besides that, she also had to find someone to make furniture.
There is no place selling ready-made furniture in the town, but there are carpenters. You can buy wood yourself and find a carpenter to make furniture, or you can just tell the carpenter what you want and have him do it all, including the materials and labor.
Zhao Ruyue chose to find wood to make furniture by herself. They live in a mountainous area and have their own land. There are trees on the land they were allocated.
Now you don’t need to report or apply for anything when you cut down your own trees. As long as you don’t cut down someone else’s trees by mistake, no one will care about it.
She took a few days off and walked around the mountain where her home mountain was, carrying a rope and selecting several of the largest and straightest trees, including camphor and beech.
She planned to use the camphor wood to make wardrobes, bookcases and toy cabinets for her children. Although the children did not ask for a bookcase, she still decided to make one.
At that time, I will set up the room originally prepared for my mother-in-law as a study for the children and put the bookcases in it.
As for where to move to if my mother-in-law needs someone to take care of her in the future, we’ll talk about it when the time comes.
Since the mother-in-law was unwilling to move in with them when they divided the family property, there was certainly no need for them to keep the room empty.
Beech wood is used to make the children's beds and desks. Four sets of desks are made, two of which are smaller and placed in the two children's rooms so as not to take up too much space in the room.
The two sets are larger and can be placed in the study, so adults can also use them.
Although these two adults do not necessarily read books, when they have time occasionally and there is no TV at home, they can only pass the time by reading novels, newspapers, magazines, etc.
They don't have to do it as a couple.
Their bed was a solid wooden bed that their parents-in-law had made when they got married, and it also belongs to them after the family splits up.
At that time, you can disassemble it yourself, move it to your new home and then put it together again.
They also have a wardrobe and a dressing table, which were the dowry that Zhao Ruyue brought when she got married.
The couple had a clear division of labor regarding the house, but they still had no idea what to sell in the store.
There are shops in the town selling rice noodles, rice vermicelli, wontons, dumplings, and buns. Some of them have been open for many years. However, there are no shops selling rice in the town.
But it’s not that no one wants to sell it, but that all the restaurants selling food have gone bankrupt.
When it comes to food, people in the town prefer to eat at home, as they always feel that eating out is not cost-effective. There are not enough non-cooking people here to support the restaurants.
A store cannot be supported by passing drivers alone.
People on the street and in the surrounding villages, when they want to satisfy their cravings at the market, prefer rice noodles, rice vermicelli, dumplings, wontons, and buns.
Moreover, there are more conservative people in rural towns than those who are willing to try new things. Many people are not very tolerant of new things and may not be willing to try foreign food.
Zhao Ruyue thinks about what to sell in the store every day, and she dreams about these things at night.
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