The news that Han Guobin and Chen Rou were going to move to the city with their children spread throughout the village.
Before this, Chen Rou had only told Han's wife, Zhou Zhen and Cai Lihua about it. They knew about it, but no one else in the village knew about it.
So everyone was shocked.
"Are we all going to move to the city? Are we going to become city dwellers?"
“I heard that it’s not like that. They just move there, but their household registration is still in the village.”
"Village household registration? Where will the whole family live after we move there?"
"I heard that he is staying in the city. When he saves up enough money, he can buy his own place."
"Why would you move to the city for no reason? It's free to live here, and this house was just built not long ago!"
"It was said that Guobin's wife was going to the city to do business, so they moved there."
"What? Doing business? Isn't this embarrassing for Guo Bin?"
“…”
Everyone in the village was saying that Brother Han and Sister-in-law Han had also come.
Chen Rou had already packed a lot of things at home and wanted Han Guobin to drive back to return them, and take them over first, which would also save a lot of work for the subsequent move.
Mrs. Han couldn't help but say, "Now everyone in the village is saying that you are doing this for nothing and bringing shame to your second uncle. Your second uncle has such a high salary, can't he support the family?"
"Let them talk." Chen Rou said.
Even her mother and sister said so when they heard that she wanted to do business, so the villagers' attitude was not surprising.
"I still don't understand why you want to do this. Isn't it good enough in the village?" Han Dasao said, "If you go to the city, you have to spend money on everything. The children's education also costs money, and the rented house also costs money. You run a food business, and there are state-owned restaurants here. Who would go to your restaurant to eat?"
"Don't worry about me, sisters-in-law. I know what I'm doing. From now on, I'll leave this house to you to help take care of it." Chen Rou said with a smile.
Mrs. Han knew she couldn't convince her, so she asked, "Do you want mushrooms or something in the future?"
"I still need mushrooms. If the price is reasonable, you can buy them from the villagers. I'll take as many as you can. Sister-in-law, please take Tiedan and deliver him to me. And come to my place to get to know the way." Chen Rou said.
Mrs. Han nodded: "Okay."
With the current trend, people even raise so many chickens and ducks, so collecting mushrooms from the villagers is no big deal.
"I also need a lot of soybeans to grind and cook soy milk, but your sister-in-law can also buy as many peanuts as you can, and then you can do business with Third Aunt. We didn't have enough to sell last year, and I estimate that this year will be more prosperous." Chen Rou said.
"What?" Han Dasao was stunned: "Are you in partnership with Third Aunt?"
"I'm working with Third Aunt on this. When the new peanuts are harvested, I'll ask Third Aunt to come back and talk to you. You two can work out your own plans for making money. I won't get involved with you anymore." Chen Rou said.
"I was wondering why Third Aunt was so bold this year. She even invited her mother to come to the city to help her divide the family property. How much did she earn?" said Mrs. Han.
"You'll know this year." Chen Rou smiled.
Mrs. Han laughed and scolded, "You kept it a secret from me." Then she sighed and said, "Now that you, the second son, have gone to the city, I won't have anyone to complain to in the future."
"Sister-in-law, you have so many connections, how can you not have someone nagging you? Don't try to be sentimental with me." Chen Rou said, "Let Tiedan and Ludan study hard. Think about it. Tiedan will pass the college entrance examination next year, right? If he passes, let him go to the city and live with me."
"I'm afraid you won't be able to pass the exam. It's not easy for you to study until now." said Mrs. Han.
"Let Tiedan work harder." Chen Rou said, "Now that society is open, he can't just stay at home and work. Sister-in-law, don't keep him in the village. The world outside is wider."
"What's the big deal? I don't care how he works if he's hungry. Just help at home honestly. I don't expect much else from him." Mrs. Han said.
How could she not know what kind of person her son is?
Han Guobin had already packed up all the things at home and loaded them into the car. He shouted, "Wife, I'm going to the city to return the car first."
"Okay." Chen Rou came out.
Han Guobin said hello to his elder brother and sister-in-law, then drove away.
Brother Han remembered and said hurriedly, "I haven't brought the chairs or anything yet. I'll go call Guobin."
"Don't take these things with you. We have them all in the city." Chen Rou quickly stopped him and said.
"Then the landlord also gave this to you?" Mrs. Han asked in surprise.
"You'll know when you go over and see it, brother and sister-in-law. I can't explain it clearly." Chen Rou said.
We tell outsiders that the house is borrowed and the shop is also borrowed. There is no such thing as renting a house here yet, we just call it borrowing.
"It's so mysterious." Mrs. Han said about her.
Chen Rou smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, why don't you raise more chickens to lay eggs? I do the same over there."
"What? Aren't you selling food or something? Why are you selling eggs?" said Mrs. Han.
Why does she feel that what the second brother's family is doing is less reliable the more she listens to it?
"Sell it, of course." Chen Rou said, "When we move into the city, you can come and fix up the chicken coop in the backyard. Make it bigger and use it to raise chickens for me. Just keep it clean."
"You don't need to ask for yours. The house will be the same as it was before you left." Mrs. Han waved her hand and said, "I support the family by myself, otherwise it will easily attract thieves."
Chen Rou nodded.
Brother Han said, "If business outside is not going well, it's good to come back to the village. After all, you can raise the children there."
"Your eldest brother is right. Don't be too embarrassed to come back when business there is bad. No face is as important as having a full stomach." Mrs. Han also said.
Although she didn't want to sound pessimistic, Mrs. Han really didn't think much of the idea of going to the city to make food. A state-owned restaurant with such a high reputation was not just for show.
"I know." Chen Rou smiled.
Brother Han and Sister-in-law Han didn't stay long and went back.
Just as they left, the captain's wife, Chen Aidi, Dagui's wife and others came over and asked about moving to the city.
Especially, they were very confused about going to the city to do business.
"The kids are old enough now, I just want to go out and try my luck," said Chen Rou.
"Why do you want to do this? You have Uncle Guobin. His salary is enough to support the whole family. What if you go to the city to do business and his colleagues look down on him?" said Dagui's wife.
It is true that it is open now, and it is also true that the new policy has been introduced since last year, but it is also true that the spring breeze has just blown, and many people have no awareness of this at all.
Those who have such ideas are keeping a wait-and-see attitude, so no one is the first to take action.
In fact, if Chen Rou was like the locals, she might not go to the city to do business at this time. She would have to wait until everyone else was doing it before doing anything.
She is actually a conservative person at heart and not impulsive.
But isn't this a memory of peacetime? We know that things have been taking off since the opening up, and there won't be any setbacks, and we won't go back to the old days.
So I decided to do it.
But for now, doing business is indeed looked down upon, but this contempt will only last for two or three years.
Once the situation is confirmed, more and more people will get involved, and it will become a trend.
"The shop is also planning to sell eggs and other things. If anyone has eggs, you can save them for me. I'll ask Guobin to come back every seven days to pick them up." Chen Rou said.
"I heard from Zhou Zhen that you were going to sell buns, so why are you selling eggs?" The captain's wife Chen Aidi couldn't help but say.
"The shop is there, so selling eggs is just a side job." Chen Rou said.
This was what she had planned. She could make buns with leek and egg fillings, and even if they couldn't be sold, they could be consumed. So, like other supplies, the eggs had to be collected.
Everyone asked her a lot of questions before going back. There was nothing they could do because it was really new. After all, she was the first person in their village to move out.
It is not unusual to go to the city to do business, but many people are not optimistic about it. They think Han Guobin spoils his wife too much. Isn't this nonsense?
Wouldn’t it be nice to live our good days like this? I heard on the radio that the country was opening up and the economy was going to develop, so I immediately went to Beijing to open a shop.
At the old house, Song Xiaoyu heard about this from Han Guolin when she got home from get off work. She was stunned: "My second brother and his wife are all moving to the city? When did this happen?"
"I told him about it when I came back today, and it has spread all over the village now," said Han Guolin.
"Do we really want to move?" Song Xiaoyu couldn't help but ask.
"I ran over to ask my second brother, he said it himself, how could it be false?" said Korean Lin Dao.
"Then why do you suddenly say you want to go to the city?" Song Xiaoyu said.
"My second sister-in-law said she wanted to go to the city to do business selling buns." Korean Lin said.
"Selling buns? Why did my second sister-in-law think of selling buns?" Song Xiaoyu couldn't help but ask.
"How did you come up with that? It's all in vain!" Hearing this, Han's mother sneered, "The second son is a useless henpecked man. He just does whatever his wife says. If he wants to let his wife waste the money, he might as well use it to honor his parents!"
After listening to the news from the villagers, Han's mother's face never looked good. Isn't this just a waste of money?
After Han's mother finished speaking, she looked at Han's father and said, "Master, when the second son comes back, you have to go and talk to him. Can you let a woman like her make a fuss? She doesn't stay at home to work and take care of the children, but she is out there doing business. Aren't you ashamed?"
"We've split up, why bother with so many things?" Father Han smoked opium without even blinking.
He still said the same thing, they have already separated, so it is their own business and there is no reason to interfere.
"So what if the family is divided? Doesn't that mean he is no longer our son? He wants to be a henpecked man and pamper his wife. You might as well go and ask him for the money and we'll keep it!" said Han's mother.
Han's father doesn't want to pay attention to her anymore. Why should she wait until now to get the money?
"Mom, forget it. We've divided up the family business. How could my second brother and his wife give you any money? Besides, there's nothing wrong with going to the city to do business. It means being in the spotlight. You're a woman of the new era now," said Song Xiaoyu.
Han's mother said, "Xiaoyu, the modern women, is a person like you. How can she compare with you? She has only attended literacy classes for a few days. She won't even know that she has lost money if she goes out to do business like that!"
"Mom, you underestimate my second sister-in-law. I've seen her tutoring Hanghang, and his chemistry level must be at least that of a third or fourth grader. She can't even do accounting." Song Xiaoyu felt very pleased, but still said.
"Anyway, I just think it's a waste of time." Han's mother said indignantly.
My son has been raised in vain. He would rather let his wife spend the money than give it to me as a filial son.
Song Xiaoyu didn't say any of this to her mother-in-law who had bound feet. She parked her bike and went straight to find Chen Rou.
"My third brother's wife is here." Chen Rou greeted them.
Song Xiaoyu said, "Second sister-in-law, I heard about it when I just came back. Are you really going to move?"
Chen Rou nodded: "Third uncle just came and I told him." She didn't want to deal with it anymore, as most of the villagers came over to ask.
"I heard from Guolin. He said, second sister-in-law, are you going to sell buns?" Song Xiaoyu said.
"Yeah." Chen Rou nodded: "Isn't this open? The children are getting older and older, and there will be a lot of pressure in all aspects in the future. We can't rely on your second brother alone."
"I see that your development is getting better and better now, second brother and sister-in-law." Song Xiaoyu said with some envy.
After he got back, he said to Han Guolin in the middle of the night, "My second brother and his wife are both leaving now, don't you want to leave too?"
Han Guolin was already sleepy, but he still said patiently: "I want to do that, but if you go out and don't have a job, the whole family will depend on you, how can that be possible?"
That makes sense.
Song Xiaoyu didn't dare to play smart because of what happened to her colleague last time, so she whispered, "Guolin, let's wait and see. If the second sister-in-law's bun shop can continue to operate, how about we open one too?"
Han Guolin yawned and said, "That won't work. You don't say that the buns I make are not delicious. You have a decent job. Will it be a relief for you if I go into business?"
This is indeed a matter of face, so Song Xiaoyu hesitated and said, "Now that everything is open, it's okay to do business, right?"
"It's only a short time now. Let's see how my second sister-in-law's business is doing." Han Guolin said.
In fact, Han Guolin and his mother shared the same idea. They felt that his second sister-in-law was really causing trouble. The family's house had just been built not long ago, and now they were moving to the city to get a loan. What was the point of doing that?
In the village, they could still shamelessly share the per capita rations, but now that their families have moved there, even though they still have the village household registration, they have not provided any labor force, so the village will no longer have a share of the per capita rations for them in the future.
How much loss is this?
This is a loss now, go to the city to sell buns?
How can this be so funny? There is a state-owned restaurant in the city, and people are willing to go there to eat its buns. He has eaten the big meat buns in the state-owned restaurant before, and he still remembers them vividly!
What future does his second sister-in-law have by selling buns?
Even if they did make some money, could they earn as much as the grain distributed to the people in the village? Impossible things.
Song Xiaoyu stopped talking and thought, forget it, I can talk about it later.
Han Guobin and Chen Rou were also talking about this matter at night.
The main reason is that Han Guobin doesn't want his wife to be under too much pressure. Everyone in the village did a calculation, including Brother Han and Sister-in-law, and no one was optimistic.
Brother Han even pulled him aside to talk, asking him to persuade his second brother's wife that it would be good for them to stay in the village.
The captain also talked to him and asked him to think about it carefully.
Chen Rou said, "The pressure is not too great, and the business won't be bad either. You'll know when you get there. I moved a lot of things today, and I'm tired. Let's go to sleep."
When Han Guobin heard what his wife said, he knew that she really didn't take what the villagers said to heart. He understood his wife's psychological quality and couldn't easily shake her.
So there is no need for further comfort.
The next day, Han Guobin brought a lot of things to work. The bicycle was not big, but it was full of things, including two chicken cages.
This requires us to take all the chickens over and raise them in the backyard first.
Bring all the sheets and quilt covers over tomorrow, and then we'll be moving.
Chen Rou asked the children to look after the house, and she took the fourth child and came to her mother's home.
Now that she has made up her mind and bought the house and shop, Chen's mother knows that she can't persuade her anymore and says, "The city is not like our village. You have to run your business well when you go there. If it really doesn't work out, then sell the shop and stay at home to take care of the children. Guobin can support you and your mother."
"I know, don't worry, mom." Chen Rou said with a smile.
"When do you plan to move?" asked Chen's mother.
"We'll move tomorrow." Chen Rou said.
Mother Chen was surprised: "Moving tomorrow? How can it be so fast? There is still time to pack up? I'll ask your three brothers to help you pick up some things to go into the city!"
"Almost everything has been moved. Guobin came back yesterday in a truck and took most of the things from home with him. He took a lot more today. There will be some left tomorrow. He will drive home and load them over in no time." Chen Rou said.
"Where is it?" asked Chen's mother.
Chen Rou gave an address and stayed at her mother's house for a while before going back.
After getting off work, Brother Chen San heard what his mother said and immediately went to his younger sister's house.
"Little sister, are you really going to the city to sell buns?" said Brother Chen San.
"Yeah." Chen Rou smiled.
"When I asked you last year, you said you would take a two-year break, but you started working on it now?" Brother Chen San gave you a dishonest look.
Chen Rou smiled and said, "I'm opening a shop this year. No one in our entire village, including mother and fourth sister, is optimistic about it. But after all, I'm married out, and mother can't control me. You haven't split up yet, so if you want to go out and work on your own, will mother agree?"
"Mom will definitely not agree." Brother Chen San sighed.
"Let's talk about it after I achieve some results this year. By then, your mother won't have any objection if you follow my path." Chen Rou said.
Brother Chen San asked: "Then you should do your best."
Chen Rou nodded.
Brother Chen San went back, and Han Hang, Han Zhou, and the three siblings Han Cheng also packed up their things.
"Mom, will we return to the village in the future?" asked the second son, Han Zhou. "I will miss so many friends in the village, including Xiao Hu and Hu Niu."
"Of course, I will go home to celebrate the New Year." Chen Rou nodded.
"Mom, with my grades, will I be worse than others if I go to a school in the city?" This is what the eldest brother Han Hang is worried about.
As he grows older, he has become very serious about studying and will study on his own initiative without his mother's supervision.
Only by studying well can you get into university and get an excellent stable job!
"There are always people better than you. The students in the city will definitely have better grades, and the teachers there are better than those in town. But I believe that even if you are not as good as them, you can definitely catch up. Mother also believes that you are not a frog in a well." Chen Rou encouraged.
Han Hang felt much more relieved. After coaxing the little kid to sleep in his arms, he went back to his room to do math problems.
"Beautiful clothes, beautiful shoes, and beautiful dolls." This was proposed by Miss Han Cheng.
"If there is an uncle in the city who says he has these things at home, would you like to go with him?" Chen Rou asked her daughter.
"No." Miss Han Cheng immediately shook her head.
"Why not follow him? He can give you so many things." Chen Rou said to her daughter.
"It wasn't given by my parents." Miss Han Cheng thought for a moment and looked at her mother seriously.
Chen Rou's heart softened. She picked up her daughter, looked into her eyes and said, "The city is different from our village. We don't want anything given by others, whether it's food or toys. Remember that?"
"I remember it." Miss Han Cheng nodded.
"Don't worry, Mom. I'm here to watch over my sister. It's impossible for others to coax her!" Han Zhou said.
"You have to go to the upper grade in the second half of this year, and you won't be free then." Chen Rou said.
Han Zhou remembered and said, "Then my sister has to go to the shop with you. She is still young and can't stay at home."
"Well, let's go to the shop with Lao Si when the time comes." Chen Rou said.
Han Zhou began to educate his sister: "Mom will definitely be busy with business by then. You have to take care of yourself and your brother, but I believe you can do it!"
"Of course I can!" Miss Han Cheng was very confident.
"If someone gives you something, whether it's food or toys, you have to ask mother first. You can only accept it if mother says it's okay. If mother doesn't say it, you can't accept it." Han Zhou continued to teach.
"Are there bad guys?" Han Cheng looked at her second brother and asked.
"Of course there are bad guys. There is also a kind of bad guy called a beggar, who specializes in stealing children. After stealing a child, the child will never see his parents again, let alone us." Han Zhou said.
"I will listen to my second brother!" Miss Han Cheng nodded and said quickly.
Han Zhou was satisfied when he saw that she had listened to him.
"Who told you about the beggar?" Chen Rou asked the second brother.
"The old people in the village said that this has never happened in our village, but a child in the neighboring village was stolen and never found again," said Han Zhou.
Chen Rou was very clear about this matter, which happened a few years ago.
It caused quite a stir in several surrounding villages.
If you ask what the most hated thing in the countryside is, it would be beggars. If you get caught, you will be beaten to death!
The law does not punish the masses, and people who trample others into mud deserve it!
However, what made Chen Rou feel relieved was that her second son seemed to be very alert. This naughty boy was years older than last year and knew more. He was very eloquent and his brain was also useful.
Chen Rou is not bragging. Many people in the village who are his age are actually still very ignorant.
It wasn't until he was about ten years old that he gradually started to understand.
Of course, only this kid would imitate his grandma's doing such a thing.
Whenever Chen Rou thinks back on it, she still feels like beating someone up.
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