Chapter 183: Build a small courtyard for retirement?
After having breakfast at Jiang Wenying's house, the family returned home and started cleaning the house, and even Zhou Dabao actively participated.
No one has lived here for a long time, and there's a layer of dust everywhere in the house.
The yard was clean, thanks to Jiang Wenying and her husband who often helped clean it, otherwise it would have been overgrown with weeds.
The Zhou Nanxu brothers were first responsible for cleaning the kang and burning it to warm up the house, with each taking charge of one room.
Rong Mei naturally assigned it to Zhou Nanxu, asking him to do some odd jobs.
Zhou Nanxu bent over, holding a shovel, and shoveled the accumulated dust in the kang with force. The dust that was raised made Rong Mei, who was standing next to him sweeping the residue with a broom, cough several times.
The man straightened up and wanted to go forward and pat the man, but he lowered his head and glanced at his dirty and black hands, frowned, and said, "You can rest in the room, I'll take care of it here."
Rong Mei raised her hand and fanned the dust in front of her, "Ahem, ahem, even Dabao is helping mother sweep the floor and wipe the table, how can I take a rest?"
Zhou Nanxu said, "Why are you comparing yourself to a child? Dabao is just playing out of curiosity."
"Then I'm just curious and doing it for fun~" The dust became much smaller, Rong Mei stopped coughing, and blinked at Zhou Nanxu.
"Then stand further away and come over after I finish shoveling." Zhou Nanxu shook his head helplessly. Seeing that persuasion didn't work, he had no choice but to let his wife go. However, he did ask her to stand further away.
"Okay, then I'll be the supervisor." Rong Mei smiled and obediently stepped back to the door.
Seeing that the people had moved away, Zhou Nanxu bent down and continued.
Rong Mei placed the broom against the wall, folded her arms across her chest, and leaned lazily against the door frame, looking out through the window at the yard outside. "Zhou Nanxu, why don't we come back someday and tear down this house and rebuild a small yard? We'll build a one-story house with four rooms, one for mom, one for my parents, and a study. If we ever have a fight, you can sleep in the study."
He touched his chin with his fingertips and thought for a while before continuing, "Well... dig a small fish pond in the yard, raise a few small fish, cover the ground with pebbles and green grass, plant some green plants, make a swing, and raise a cat and a dog... Isn't it beautiful? Especially suitable for our retirement?"
She was happy just thinking about it. This was exactly what she wanted to do in her previous life. She thought that when she could no longer roll, she would go to a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, or to Cangshan Mountain or Erhai Lake to find a quiet courtyard to spend her later years.
After hearing this, Zhou Nanxu almost dropped the shovel on his foot.
Although such a small courtyard sounds beautiful just by listening to his wife's description, a study is completely unnecessary. He will definitely not make his wife angry. If he accidentally makes her angry, he will definitely apologize in time and would rather sleep on the floor in the house than in the study.
Also...my wife is only 18 years old, and we're already talking about retirement. Isn't it a bit...too early?
But never mind. My wife said she wanted to build a house for her old age, so of course we built it!
He nodded and started shoveling the dust again, "Well, it's very beautiful, especially suitable for retirement."
At the same time, I was also calculating in my mind how much meritorious service bonus I could get this year...
When she said she wanted to build a small courtyard here, Rong Mei really had this idea. Even now, this house was still mixed with hay and yellow mud. According to Liu Rong's idea, this place was her "roots" and it was impossible for her to move away completely. She would eventually return to her roots after the New Year or in the future.
The family is away from home all year round, and with no one living in the house, it loses its vitality and the house will collapse soon.
If it is replaced with a brick house or brick-concrete structure, it will be more durable. Of course, it will be more comfortable to live in when you return home.
However, she is just putting forward this idea now. As for the reconstruction, she will have to wait until after the New Year, when she has finished most of the things she is doing, and then she will have time for planning and design.
After working all day, I finally finished cleaning up.
After dinner, the family, who had been traveling for two days, finally got a real rest.
The next morning.
Liu Rong got up early and prepared breakfast.
Today is the 27th, and no New Year's goods have been bought yet, so Liu Rong is in a hurry to go to the county town to buy things.
Arrangements were made early in the morning. "Zhengfu, Nanxu, one of you should take the things to Zhengmei later."
After coming back, he brought things for both of his daughters. Zhou Yueyi was in the county town, so he delivered the things to her when he went there, but Zhou Zhengmei had to have someone deliver the things to her.
Rong Mei wants to drive with her to buy New Year's goods.
Brothers Zhou Nanxu and Zhou Zhengfu stayed at home to do some groceries, chop firewood, etc., so this matter was left to the brothers.
The two brothers ate the rice in their bowls and nodded, "Got it, Mom."
Zhou Dabao originally wanted to go with Liu Rong and her mother-in-law, but Liu Rong was afraid that she wouldn't be able to make it. There were many people in the city these two days. If something was taken away by someone with ulterior motives when he was buying something, it would be too late to regret it then.
When Liu Rong said this to the little guy, he immediately nodded and said that he would stay at home with his father and uncle and would not go anywhere. He even used Liu Rong's words in a baby voice and warned Liu Rong and Rong Mei, "Grandma, you and your aunt should also pay attention to safety. If you meet a bad guy, you must run away and don't talk to bad people."
Rong Mei pinched the little guy's face and said with a smile, "It's okay. If you meet a bad guy, I can fight him and beat him down."
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