Chapter 496 Family Building
After thinking about it, Liu Yinyin bought another pound of shrimps and a pound of pork.
Carrying the things back to the family compound, Jiang Cuihua was feeding the triplets egg custard.
It is quite worry-free to take care of triplets. No matter how many there are, only one person is needed to feed them.
The eldest takes a bite, the second takes a bite, the third takes a bite...they take turns in order.
Perhaps they are used to this feeding pattern, so as long as there is food, the children will not make any noise.
Liu Lai Fu had nothing to do, so he was busy weeding in the vegetable garden.
Liu Yinyin washed an apple for each of the old couple and asked casually, "Mom, how is my niece?"
Liu Yinyin has never seen the little lady Liu Mingyuan from birth to now.
Thinking of her granddaughter, Jiang Cuihua smiled and said, "That's good. Xiaoyue has enough milk this time, and Manman has become plump and white."
Manman is Huang Xiaoyue’s little girl, and her full name is Liu Manman.
Liu Yinyin thought for a moment and said, "I'll send Manman two more pieces of cloth to make new clothes later."
Jiang Cuihua waved her hands and said, "No need. Your third brother knows how to raise bees now. This thing is very valuable. Take it to the city and you can exchange it for a lot of things."
In the end, Liu Mingyuan learned the beekeeping techniques from Huang Laizi. Beekeeping requires traveling around the mountains, which is very hard work.
The weather has been good in recent years and the harvest is quite good.
Although he is not as skilled as the workers in the city, beekeeping does not prevent Liu Mingyuan from going to the fields to earn work points.
So, even though the third brother's family doesn't have a formal job, their life is not much worse than other families.
Liu Yinyin thought of something and reminded, "Mom, if Third Brother has any extra honey, you can take it to the market to exchange for some supplies, but don't sell it on the black market."
"I heard that the authorities are getting more and more strict about this. Going to the black market...it's easy to get into trouble."
In the past few years when the economy was bad, Liu Yinyin would often go to the black market to buy food, and she also bought food for the Liu family several times.
Later, without Liu Yinyin's help, the Liu family could find the black market on their own.
The harvest was not good in the past, and the supervision from above was not strict, so if you were careful, nothing would happen.
Now, if Liu Yinyin didn't rely on the system, she wouldn't dare to take the risk of going to the black market.
Jiang Cuihua usually stayed in the countryside and didn't know much about what was happening outside: "Is it so serious?"
To be honest, Liu Mingyuan has indeed been to the black market quite a lot in the past two years, especially in winter.
When the weather was cold, they secretly grew vegetables at home and sold them to people in the city, and also helped sell some yellow croakers.
Jiang Cuihua was worried at first, but nothing happened, so she gradually got used to it.
I'm even a little happy that thanks to this method, the third brother's family is living a good life.
"Of course." Liu Yinyin was afraid that something might happen to the Liu family, so she deliberately made it sound more serious. "A special unit has been set up to handle this matter. If you get caught, you'll be sent to labor reform."
These days, if someone in a family is sent to labor camp, the consequences are very serious.
Not only the person who made the mistake, but the entire family will be implicated.
Sure enough, when Jiang Cuihua heard that she would be sent to labor reform, her heart almost jumped out: "Mom, I will tell your third brother later to tell him not to go to the black market in the future."
Life at home wasn't that difficult to begin with, there was no need to involve the entire family just to make a few bucks.
Liu Yinyin felt relieved after hearing this. Liu Mingyuan was filial and there was no way he would disobey what Jiang Cuihua said.
At noon, Liu Yinyin made braised shrimps, stir-fried meat with celery, scrambled eggs with black fungus, and stir-fried cabbage with shiitake mushrooms.
The staple food is white rice.
Gu Cheng has been very busy these days and doesn't have time to send a group of people to Qing City to take a boat tomorrow.
However, he arranged for Xiao Zhao to drive them to Qing City.
It was inconvenient for them to go to town to take the bus as they were carrying their children and luggage.
In order to catch the earliest boat to the island, we finished breakfast and prepared to set off at dawn the next day.
The weather is neither too hot nor too cold right now, which is perfect for going out.
When they arrived at Qingshi, Xiao Zhao sent them directly to the dock.
Liu Yinyin carried the eldest brother out of the car and said, "Comrade Zhao, thank you for your help."
Xiao Zhao smiled shyly: "Sister-in-law, I'm going back to the army, please be careful."
The busy farming season is over, and at this time, many people take the boat to the island.
They sent telegrams to Brother Liu and Brother Liu in advance.
When the boat docked, Brother Liu was standing at the dock waiting for them.
"Dad, Mom, little sister..."
Jiang Cuihua smiled and asked, "How is your work?"
It was also because her two sons did not go home for the New Year last year, and Jiang Cuihua was thinking about them, so she took the time to come and visit.
"It's pretty good." Brother Liu said with a smile, "The salary has increased by two yuan this year."
Two yuan a month...that's twenty-four yuan a year, which is not a small amount.
Jiang Cuihua smiled and said, "As long as you are doing well, your father and I will be relieved."
Liu Yinyin looked around. After half a year away, there hadn't been any major changes on the island...
Of course, it’s not completely different. There are more people coming and going on the island than before.
Liu Yinyin asked casually, "Second brother, this place looks more lively than before."
Brother Liu nodded and said, "That's right. After the canning factory was built, there are many new faces on the island. The canning factory is profitable. I heard from your sister-in-law that the canning factory is expected to expand by the end of this year."
There is no shortage of vacant land on the island. As long as the benefits are good, there are conditions to build new factories.
And more...
Thinking of something, Brother Liu smiled brightly: "I heard that the canning factory will build a family building in the future."
"What is this?" Jiang Cuihua suddenly became interested. "You...your wife is also working in the canning factory now. Is she eligible for a house as well?"
That’s a building. Who wouldn’t want to live in a building these days?
"Not yet." Brother Liu was a little unsure. "There are too many people and too little meat. It depends on how the factory divides it. Your sister-in-law has been working very hard recently. She wants to become that... labor activist. She will have an advantage when the house is divided."
They built two houses on the island and originally wanted to save some money to build one or two more rooms.
Now it seems that we can wait a little longer. After all, our two children are still young and there is no need to rush about the house.
"Oh." Jiang Cuihua said in surprise, "Your wife is so capable?"
Brother Liu nodded: "You leave early and come back late, and you are busier than me at work."
Jiang Cuihua was not that kind of evil mother-in-law. When she heard that her second daughter-in-law worked so hard, she said hurriedly: "Then you have to treat her well. You can't expect her to do the housework alone."
If Liu Ersao stayed at home to take care of the children, Jiang Cuihua would not say anything.
But now that she can earn money to support her family, she cannot leave all the matters at home and outside to Liu Ersao alone.
Jiang Cuihua thought about it and sighed: "Your nephew and niece are still young, and they really can't leave their hometown without someone. Otherwise, I will come over and help you for a while."