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"Yes, I bought too much, but it's so cheap! Xiao Qin, I'll give you some. It's enough for you to eat for a long time..." Chen Xiaoyun enthusiastically gave a small bag to Qin Yao. The chicken feed she bought was not worth a few cents in total, and the little bit she gave away was probably only a few cents.
Qin Yao took the chicken feed and said in a helpless tone, "Thank you."
She didn't want to feed her chickens with chicken feed, but she couldn't refuse her neighbor's kindness. Nowadays, chicken feed is still a new thing, and people don’t know how powerful “feed chicken” is.
Chickens raised with feed really don't taste that good and are only suitable for making fried chicken or the like. If used to make soup or cooked using ordinary farm cooking methods, they will be woody and tasteless, dry and bland.
For example, if you just throw a few pieces of ginger into the free-range chicken fed with grain, the resulting chicken soup will be fresh and delicious.
Qin Yao now lives in a dormitory building, but the school also has a vegetable plot, and she can build a chicken coop next to the plot to raise some chickens and ducks. Her family has raised a few chickens and ducks. They just need to feed them some food every day and don't need to take care of them. Usually, Gu Cheng takes the two children to feed the chickens, and the two little guys also catch insects for the hens to eat.
"Let's go back. I want to see what happens to the chickens after eating the chicken feed. I won't kill the two little roosters. I'll feed them the chicken feed."
For ordinary families, roosters are not raised to adulthood. Generally, when they grow into young roosters, they are eaten one after another, leaving only one adult rooster, or none are left, leaving only the hens.
When a rooster grows up, it needs to eat food every day but does not lay eggs. It is a loss to raise it, so no one likes to raise roosters.
Now that she has this chicken feed, Chen Xiaoyun plans to keep a few roosters alive.
"Okay, I'll go back." Qin Yao waved to Chen Xiaoyun. It was a good thing to feed the rooster with chicken feed. At least the rooster could be raised bigger and eat more meat.
In the future, the price of chickens raised with feed can be two or three times that of chickens raised with millet.
There are also quick-growing white-feather chickens, which are even less valuable. However, it is precisely because of the white-feather chickens that domestic chicken has fallen from grace.
The most expensive meat now is not pork, but chicken. Beef and mutton are cheaper than pork and chicken.
Qin Yao closed the door and went back to the house. Not long after, she heard a quarrel coming from the neighbor's house. Chen Xiaoyun's husband came back and was angry because she bought so many messy things. This was not the first time.
"What's the point of buying this chicken feed? I can just dry the leftovers at home and feed them to the chickens..."
“This feed is so cheap!”
"How many……"
"It's cheap, but buy less. Calculate how much you've spent this month."
…
Not only Chen Xiaoyun's family was quarreling, but Qiao Jie's family was even more quarrelsome. Chen Xiaoyun was relatively good. She spent a lot of money on buying things, but the prices were affordable and very cheap. Now that she bought them, they could be used for a long time. Although her husband had complaints, he also felt that it was worth the purchase as the things were cheap and practical.
As for Qiao Jie, she was even more adventurous in shopping. Just around the Chinese New Year, she spent four figures, emptied her husband's annual salary, and bought a lot of trendy imported "foreign gadgets".
Her husband Meng Xian had a hard life since he was a child. Later, when his salary increased, he also lived frugally. He was not picky about food, clothing, housing and transportation. He wore a military uniform, ate in the canteen, and lived in the dormitory... He saved money for many years without touching his monthly salary.
Qiao Jie directly spent one or two years' salary of his. Even though the family still had a lot of savings left and Qiao Jie's parents also subsidized some, for Meng Xian, it was still like cutting flesh from his heart.
After the quarrel, Meng Xian walked out with a cigarette in his mouth, standing at the corridor smoking, with a coat draped over his shoulders. He looked haggard, as if he had aged ten years. He once again regretted marrying a woman like Qiao Jie.
"Gu Cheng, I really envy you." Turning his head and glancing at Gu Cheng coming back sweaty after playing ball with the two children, Meng Xian said his envy without thinking of anything else.
He was really envious. Qin Yao was not a frugal woman, but she could make money!
"It's great to have a wife with a high salary. Even if it's a hundred yuan more a month, that's twelve hundred a year. Your Xiao Qin earns more than one or two hundred, right?" Meng Xian asked tentatively.
At first he thought that the wife he married was better than Gu Cheng. Although Qin Yao had excellent personal abilities, her family conditions were not that good. It was said that she was just the daughter of a cook and came from a small family. At most, she had no worries about food and clothing. There were no important people in her family, and she had no connections, so she could not be of much help to her husband's career.
Qiao Jie is not a good person and she waited until such an old age to get married, but fortunately she has a good father. Even though her father is about to retire, his influence and connections are still there, which can be of some help to him - provided that she doesn't speak carelessly and offend anyone.
Recently, Qiao Jie has been polite to everyone and can be patient with her mouth, but her hands can't be patient. She keeps buying things for the house, and the family's wallet is getting thinner and thinner.
"About that." Gu Cheng said vaguely. As a husband, he was not sure how much Qin Yao's exact salary was. In addition to salary, his wife also received royalties. Anyway, she earned much more than him.
Gu Cheng himself didn't know how much savings the family had. He was too lazy to calculate it and didn't care too much. It would be annoying if the couple calculated the accounts too clearly. The housekeeper power was handed over to Qin Yao, and Gu Cheng didn't plan to ask too much. At most, he would ask once a year, for fear that asking too much would show that he didn't trust his wife.
Qin Yao keeps her own salary, and Gu Cheng's salary is also under her control. He himself has about 1,000 yuan in pocket money - given by his wife, which is very generous.
Comrade Xiao Qin shouted, "Ask me for more when you've used up all the money!"
Qin Yao was very generous in giving pocket money. Many of his comrades and colleagues only had around five to twenty yuan in pocket money a month. The rest of the money was managed by their wives. They lived a miserable life every month. They didn't even have money to smoke a few more packs of cigarettes and could only hope that the company would give them some.
In the past, we would distribute some supplies from time to time, but now as students studying, we have no cigarettes or alcohol and can only spend our pocket money.
The thousand yuan Qin Yao gave was quite a lot of money. At that time, Gu Cheng thought that if he only used the money on himself, he would not be able to spend it all in ten years... But if he wanted to buy things for his family, such as buying gifts for his wife, he could spend it in just a few days.
"My mother is very rich. She gives my father a thousand pocket money. But my mother is so stingy. She won't give me a single dollar even if I ask her for it!" said the short and stocky little Mingming angrily.
Gu Cheng: “?!”
Why did his son know that he had a thousand pocket money, but he didn't know that his son knew it.
Little Ruirui glanced at his younger brother, kept silent, pretended to eavesdrop and told his younger brother that it was not him who told him the truth.
He tilted his little head slightly, his big eyes were black and clear, and he looked completely indifferent and cute.
"One, one thousand yuan?" Meng Xian's eyebrows and lips were twitching uncontrollably. He was so frightened by the number that he couldn't control his expression.
One thousand yuan, this is one thousand yuan? One thousand yuan as pocket money for your husband? For many families, if they can spend 500 yuan in a year, they are considered well-off. How about 1,000 yuan? What a huge amount of pocket money this is.
An ordinary husband can get five or ten yuan of pocket money a month, which is all due to the generosity of his wife.
Gu Cheng actually has a thousand yuan in pocket money!
What a child says may not be true, but he is definitely not speaking without a purpose. He must have heard it somewhere before saying such things.
"The kid is talking nonsense..." Gu Cheng couldn't speak, Meng Xian had already given a vague answer. If other comrades knew this news, they would be jealous of Gu Cheng to death.
Meng Xian thought that even if Gu Cheng really had a thousand yuan in pocket money, he would not admit it, otherwise he would become the unlucky guy who was the "target of public criticism", which would be too enviable!
Gu Cheng said "hmm" lightly. He also knew that he could not become the enemy of the people. The one thousand yuan pocket money could not be revealed to others. It would not be a good thing for others to know that he was rich.
"My brother said that. My brother would never lie." Little Mingming betrayed his brother without hesitation. There was no trace of betrayal in his tone, but it was full of pride.
Ruirui's eyes widened: "!"
"My brother overheard this."
Gu Cheng: “…”
Meng Xian: “…”So this is true?
"That's not true." Gu Cheng rubbed one of his sons' heads with one hand, "I, your father, have no money. If you want to buy anything, you have to listen to your mother."
No wonder these two unlucky sons have been so sweet-talking these days. It turns out that they know their dad has a lot of pocket money, so they rush to "please" him and then seek benefits.
"Come on, go home and ask your mother for pocket money."
"Mom is so stingy, she doesn't even give me a dollar!"
"Your mother said that she will give you pocket money when you go to primary school."
…
After seeing Gu Cheng and his son disappear, Meng Xian, who was originally smoking in the corridor and feeling lost, felt like his soul was sucked away. They all lived on the same floor of the same building, so why was there such a big difference?
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"It's the end of the year, and it's a time for families to reunite and celebrate the New Year, but more and more couples are quarreling."
“It’s all about money!”
“There are so many things money can buy nowadays!”
"You don't need meat coupons to buy meat during the Chinese New Year. Just money will do..."
“Money is so important!”
"The couple has jobs, they just make a lot of money, I wish I could have a job too."
…
Qin Yao went home recently and often encountered several sisters-in-law looking at her with joking and envious eyes on the way. They asked her openly or secretly about her salary, and Qin Yao just pushed them away like she was doing Tai Chi.
"Manager Qin, you are a manager too. Are you getting paid the same as a manager?"
"Manager Qin, your annual royalties are not small, right? How much can you earn in a month? I'll also let my little girl learn to write..."
Qin Yao: "The salary is what it should be, it's set by the higher-ups... It's good to learn writing. If you're still in school, you should first lay a solid foundation in Chinese and write well. You parents should keep an eye on it."
Qin Yao and his wife bought a lot of New Year's goods. Chen Guixiang and his wife from the capital sent large and small packages of snacks and specialties. Qin Chuanrong had some free time and tried his best to make delicious food for the children.
The two kids had big bellies from eating so much that Qin Yao reminded them to brush their teeth every day, for fear that they would get cavities accidentally. Although the baby teeth would be replaced later, it was extremely difficult to eliminate cavities by replacing teeth once the problem was established.
If you have cavities, you will probably have them for the rest of your life, and the toothaches will be unbearable when you grow up.
"Manager Qin, your family is living a very comfortable life. You are a dual-income family, and both of them are leaders. Who else in our building can compare to yours?"
Zhang Shihong, the building manager on the same floor, knocked on Qin Yao's door with a smile on her face. She had no other intention, but just hoped that Qin Yao could help arrange some work for other family members.
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