None of the six female educated youths wanted to go to the villagers' homes to eat together. Chen Shuning had a head injury and should be taken care of. Zhong Lingling had a boyfriend there, and it wouldn't be good to separate the two of them. Yang Wanqiu was hysterical and said she would rather die than go. Yang Xiaohong acted as if anyone who asked her to go was bullying her.
The atmosphere remained tense for a moment.
Finally, seeing that the fire was almost done, Chen Shuning pretended to be confused and looked at the team leader, asking, "Uncle Team Leader, I think this educated youth settlement is quite big, can't we build another room?"
“Where would we get the money to build a house? You educated youth only received a small resettlement allowance. For those of you who just arrived and didn’t have any work points, the team decided to use that allowance to exchange for grain. The remaining money was only enough for you to buy a cabinet or a wooden basin or something. Where would we get the money to build a house?”
The brigade leader's words immediately gave Chen Shuning a very good impression of the village. In many villages, the village would lend food rations to new educated youths like them who had just arrived and did not yet have work points. Once they earned work points, the borrowed food would be deducted from their work points, or the educated youths would be allowed to buy food with their own money.
The resettlement fees subsidized by the state were often directly deducted by the villages under the pretext of repaying the money the villages had advanced for building houses at the educated youth settlements or for repairing the houses at the educated youth settlements. They had a valid reason: the resettlement fees were meant to be used to resettle you educated youths, so it was only right to use them to build houses.
As for you eating the village's grain, isn't it only right that you have your work points deducted or pay for it? The village's grain belongs to the collective, so of course you have to pay for it, right?
Thinking about all this, Chen Shuning's smile became more genuine, and she became even more determined to build her own house. However, she had only just begun; the first person to propose paying for their own house would have to be someone else.
I remember that the original owner of the book seemed to have gone back and lived with the brigade leader for a while. Later, when he heard that Zhong Lingling was going to build a house, he also built a small house. However, Zhong Lingling proposed building a house a few days later.
Chen Shuning never wanted to live in the same house as Yang Wanqiu for even a single day in this lifetime. After all, according to the book, Yang Wanqiu was a villain who caused the original owner a lifetime of suffering. The kind-hearted original owner, after building her own house, couldn't resist Yang Wanqiu's persistent pleading and agreed to let her move in. Little did she know that her decision to invite a wolf into the house would ruin her life.
Thinking about the plot in the original book, Chen Shuning tentatively brought it up. As for whether Zhong Lingling would take it in, that would depend on the girl's reaction.
Of course, it doesn't matter if Zhong Lingling doesn't realize it. With that girl's fiery temper, if she can't stand living there, she can just build her own house in two or three days.
Fortunately, Miss Zhong really did not disappoint Chen Shuning. As soon as Chen Shuning finished speaking, Zhong Lingling and Wang Wenqi's eyes lit up.
Seeing Wang Wenqi's previously listless expression instantly brighten her spirits, Zhong Lingling, who had grown up with him since childhood, could easily guess his thoughts. So, after giving Wang Wenqi a reassuring smile, she quickly turned to the brigade leader and asked, "Brigade leader, if the team doesn't have money, can we pay for the house ourselves?"
The brigade leader was taken aback by Zhong Lingling's words, and then asked uncertainly, "Girl, what did you say? You're paying for your own house? Do you know how much it costs to build a house?"
“Captain, just tell me how much it costs. Even if I don’t have enough money, my family can send me some. Just tell me if we can pay for the house ourselves.”
Zhong Lingling really didn't know how much it would cost to build a house, but her parents had brought her a lot of money this time when she went to the countryside, plus the 80 yuan subsidy she received from the commune, so it should be enough. Even if it wasn't enough, it didn't matter; she could call her dad and ask her family to wire the money.
The reason she had the idea of building her own house was for Wang Wenqi's sake. Before going to the countryside, Wang Wenqi had promised his parents that he would take good care of his younger sister.
So Zhong Lingling knew that Wang Wenqi wanted to take his younger sister with him and take care of her. Zhong Lingling was willing to spend a little money to make her sweetheart happy and also to please her future sister-in-law.
Looking at Zhong Lingling, who seemed indifferent to money, Shen Baogen was pleased that the problem of her being placed in a job could be solved, but he couldn't help but sigh, "She's another one who's hard to manage."
However, after thinking it over in his heart, he replied, "It's not that it's not wrong for you educated youth to pay for your own houses, but since you are not villagers, you don't have homesteads. If you build a house, you can only live in it, not sell it. Zhong, are you still going to build a house?"
Zhong Lingling, who was only interested in pleasing her boyfriend and future sister-in-law, didn't care whether the house could be sold or not. Besides, it was just a dilapidated house in the countryside, how much could it be sold for? So she said without hesitation, "It's fine as long as it can be built. But if I pay for the house myself, I want to live in it comfortably. So, you can't just put people in my house arbitrarily, Brigade Leader."
Upon hearing this, Chen Shuning secretly gave Zhong Lingling a thumbs up in his heart. Apart from being a bit love-struck, this girl wasn't stupid.
To be honest, Shen Baogen initially had the idea that if new educated youth couldn't fit in Zhong Lingling's house after it was built, they could be accommodated in Zhong Lingling's house.
However, the house hadn't been built yet, and he was afraid that telling the truth would make the girl change her mind and not build it, so he hurriedly smiled awkwardly and said, "Of course, you paid for the house yourself, so it's up to you who lives there. But when you go back to the city, the house will belong to the brigade."
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