Chapter 202 Chapter 201: Unspeakable
Yang Chunyan and the others took it and looked at it, and said happily, "Great, from next month until this month of 1987, we will not have to pay the contract fee."
Zhao Huifang narrowed her eyes and smiled, "It can last for 70 years. By that time, I will be over 100 years old."
After hearing this, the old man laughed and said, "Life will be better in the future. I hope you can live to be a hundred years old!"
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Grandpa, you will be over 140 years old by then."
The old man smiled and shook his head, "What's the point of living so long? You're still a bit of an old monster."
Father Zhou brought out a chair and sat down to roll a leaf cigarette. "The foundation has been marked out, and the barren hill has been leased. I plan to start construction after the millet is harvested. There is only one row of foundation. You sisters-in-law, please discuss how to divide the foundation."
Zhao Huifang smiled and said, "Old man, we'll take whatever piece you give us!"
Yang Chunyan recalled that she was at the tail end in her previous life. "That's right. A row of land is just near the intersection and the tail end. Just divide it among us."
Father Zhou lit up a leaf cigarette and said, "Secretary Xu said that the first family is at the intersection at the foot of the mountain. Each family has a vegetable plot, which is divided according to the population on the household registration. After our family has divided the land for the foundations of four houses, there is only three acres of land left at the end, except for the land for the sill."
He took two puffs of his tobacco and looked at the people. "How about this? The first piece at the intersection gets the largest one, the second one gets the second largest one, and then the third one. The piece at the end gets Chunyan and her friends. Chunyan pays an extra 20 yuan for the land foundation, and they can include all the land."
Zhao Huifang was the first to express her opinion, "I have no objection!"
Yang Chunyan also nodded, indicating that she was willing to give an extra twenty yuan and allocate more land.
Zhang Xiuxiang and Li Qiuyue were in the middle anyway, and the two had no objections.
Father Zhou nodded with satisfaction. "Okay, if you all have no objections, the eldest brother and the others will have no objections either. Tomorrow I will go to Secretary Xu to divide the land for you. I will buy a cow in a few days, otherwise it will be too conspicuous and make the villagers jealous."
Of course, they had no objection.
Seeing that they had discussed it, the old man stood up and said, "Second brother, let's go to your eldest brother's house to take a look."
"Hey!" Father Zhou followed the old man to the backyard, and Mother Zhou hurriedly said, "The meal is ready, where are you going?"
"I'll go to my eldest brother's house and come back."
"Oh! Let my sister-in-law get up early tomorrow, and we'll go to her vegetable garden to pick celery."
Father Zhou nodded and left with the old man.
Li Qiuyue glanced at Yang Chunyan and the others and said self-deprecatingly, "I am the only greedy person in my family. I was cheated out of 200 yuan!"
Yang Chunyan also glanced at her, "Third sister-in-law, I remember that before the accident we also divided the money from selling steel bar quotas and the money from selling herbs.
You didn't spend all your money to buy a spot, which proves that deep down you still don't believe that there is such a thing as a 100-for-10,000 chance of success."
Li Qiuyue was silent for a while, "I'm just afraid of being poor."
Zhang Xiuxiang: "In fact, our family is now better off than most families. We have leased more than 100 mu of barren hills. If we continue to work like this, it won't take more than two years to earn 10,000 yuan."
Li Qiuyue nodded, "If I can really earn 10,000 yuan, I will be satisfied."
Yang Chunyan: "It is impossible to be satisfied. When we save 10,000, we will think, I should earn a little more, and it would be good to earn 30,000. When we earn 30,000, we will want to earn 50,000, and then 100,000. There will never be a day when we are satisfied.
But as long as we earn it with hard work, even if it’s 100,000 or 200,000, it’s what we deserve!”
Zhao Huifang said with emotion: "Chunyan is right. I originally thought that we could build three thatched houses this year so that Jiaming and Jialiang can have a house too, so they don't have to live together with us."
"What happened? Now that we have a brick house and some extra money, my eldest brother and I are thinking that we should earn more money and save it up so that we can build a house for Jiaming and Jialiang when they grow up and find wives!"
Yang Chunyan joked, "Sister-in-law, you have to work harder to make money. Maybe Jiaming and Jialiang will no longer be interested in brick and tile houses and want the small Western-style buildings in the city!"
Zhao Huifang couldn't help shaking her head. "How much does that little Western-style house cost? I can't even earn that much even if I work till my hair turns grey!"
Zhang Xiuxiang gave her a sideways glance and said, "Exactly, how much money would two small western-style houses cost? You should work hard to earn money!"
Li Qiuyue laughed at herself and said, "There are only two girls in my family. I have no chance to earn money to build a small western-style house and find a wife."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan thought about her future and insisted on keeping Xiaolin as her son-in-law.
After her son-in-law came to the house, she started to intervene in any quarrels between the couple. In the end, Xiaolin and her husband couldn't stand her anymore and moved to the city with their children to rent a house.
Zhao Huifang disagreed and said, "Qiuyue, sister-in-law said something you don't like to hear. You should change your personality and stop being so competitive. That will be bad and you will suffer!"
Li Qiuyue smiled bitterly after hearing this, "I've already suffered a loss. The third brother was afraid that I would squander all the money, so he didn't even give it to me to manage."
Yang Chunyan advised: "Third sister-in-law, you should learn a lesson from the last time. Look, the youngest one suffered a loss and even his laziness has changed..."
"You guys are talking bad about me behind my back again!" Zhou Huaian suddenly found himself standing behind them carrying a drying mat.
It really proves the saying that Sichuan people cannot be talked about, but once they are talked about, they will come.
"Hehe!" Several people laughed.
Yang Chunyan pursed her lips and looked at him. "I didn't say anything bad about you. I just said that you are a prodigal son who has returned to the right path. You are worthy of our learning!"
"That's better!" Zhou Huaian glanced at them, "Remember, don't say bad things about me behind my back. If you ruin my reputation, I'll make you pay for it!"
Li Qiuyue raised her head and glanced at him, "Precious!"
"Yo~" Zhou Huaian took a few steps, then stepped back, looking at Li Qiuyue with a smile, "Third sister-in-law, you finally spoke! I haven't heard you speak for the whole afternoon, I'm really a little uncomfortable!"
"Stinky youngest!" Li Qiuyue also laughed after saying that.
Zhou's mother came out of the kitchen and said to Zhou Huaian, "Go to your grandfather's house and ask your old man and grandfather to come back for dinner."
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian put the drying mat against the wall, "Mom, we are tired after a day, what delicious food did you make?"
Mother Zhou took a look at him and found that he was thinner and darker but stronger than before. She said softly, "I kneaded some dough, steamed some buns, and chopped the pickled pig's trotter into some roasted vermicelli."
What should I do if I am not used to this tone of my mother? Zhou Huaian thought of this and suddenly felt that he was a cheap skin, and hurriedly took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat!
Zhou Xiaoru and the others ran out from the main room, "Grandma, I want to eat steamed buns!"
"Greedy cat!" Mother Zhou patted Zhou Jialiang's butt, "Auntie just bought you some ice cream first, you can eat the steamed buns when the ancestor comes back."
Zhou Jiakang hugged her legs and said, "Grandma, I want to eat. I'm hungry."
"Zhou Jiakang!" Zhang Xiuxiang glanced at him, "Stop arguing with grandma. Go call your husband back for dinner."
Zhou Huaian slapped Zhou Jiakang and said, "Come on, let's go and have dinner together."
"Oh!" Several kids followed him towards the kitchen happily.
Zhao Huifang leaned over to take a look and said with a smile, "Some of them stole the steamed buns from the kitchen to eat."
"The kids have only eaten white flour a few times this year, so it's normal for them to be greedy." Zhou's mother took a handful of straw and started to make straw ropes. "Okay, tie up all the straw ropes, and make the rest after dinner."
(End of this chapter)
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