"It's tradition. Didn't our parents say we should follow tradition? We just got married, and the elders are supposed to prepare a house for their children. So, we don't have to pay rent."
“That’s right!”
Yan Jiecheng took the opportunity to add a sentence, then slapped his forehead: "How could I forget this? We don't need to spend rent anymore."
"That's right, so the three dollars for rent is completely fictitious."
What Yu Li said was absolutely correct, but that was for other families. If it were the Yan family, and they really split up and lived separately, Yan Fugui would not be able to pay the rent for them.
"So, ten dollars is our living expenses, but that's still not right. The cost of living in the city is five dollars per person, so the total for the two of us is exactly ten dollars. Dad isn't misleading me, right? After all, there are still water and electricity bills."
"This is where we are naive."
Yu Li sneered, "If we split up and started living separately, even if it's ten yuan, based on what we eat at home now, I estimate it wouldn't cost more than six yuan a month."
At this point, I have to mention that in this year of disaster, the Yan family only has two meals a day, and each meal consists of a bowl of porridge or a sweet potato. They can't even have steamed bread.
This kind of consumption is not the first time Yu Li has stayed in Beijing. It is completely different from the average consumption of not having enough to eat.
The minimum consumption of five yuan per person in the old city is calculated based on eating steamed bread for each meal, and three meals a day, with one to two steamed bread for each meal.
Of course, due to the lack of oil and water, one or two steamed buns are not enough to fill you up, but it is completely different from a meal consisting of a bowl of porridge or a sweet potato.
One eats dry food and the other drinks liquid food, can the money they spend be the same?
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