"No."
Zhao Meiya flatly refused, "Dongbao's house is to be used as a bridal chamber. It's fine to live there for a few days, but you can't live there for a long time.
Haven't you heard? Houses with elderly people have a sense of old age and are unlucky. You should wait at least two or three years until they get married before you can move in."
He Ruixue was confused. "Mom, where did you hear this? Who kicks their parents out for getting married?"
"That's you city people. You live like you're in a birdcage. You don't even necessarily have a new house when you get married, so of course you don't care about that.
We can’t just ignore it. What if we scare the Goddess of Childbirth and she doesn’t come over anymore?”
He Ruixue began to understand a little. The origin of this custom was probably to make it easier for young couples to have children.
Newlyweds can spend some time alone away from their parents. Wow, anyone with a normal body can get pregnant.
He Qiusheng paused and turned his head, "That's not right, Mom. You didn't think of moving out when I got married."
"You unfilial thing! You live in my house and you still dare to make demands? If you had the guts, you should have found a place to build a few new rooms and see if I could stop you."
What she didn't say was, I don't care whether your marriage is auspicious or not, just make do with it, and if it doesn't work out, so be it.
He Qiusheng smiled awkwardly and said, "It's my fault, Mom. It's not easy for you and Dad."
He Ruixue tried to persuade her a few more times, but Zhao Meiya was stubborn and insisted on her own way.
She could only let the old lady do what she wanted. "I'll keep the house for you. When I get married, you can move in quickly."
Zhao Meiya said with a smile, "Okay, Mom will stay with Dongbao every day from now on. Maybe she can live a few more years."
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The house was finally transferred in the name of a relative, changing hands twice, without them realizing that it was the He family who bought the house.
The Huang family is the most stingy. When they are packing up, they would even want to take off all the tiles on the wall.
She took away everything, including the stone slabs for pressing pickles, the bamboo poles for drying clothes, the pieces of tattered curtain cloth hanging behind the window, and even the charcoal ash buried in the stove.
The whole family was carrying large and small bags, which they had to pull on a cart. If you didn't know, you would think they had a lot of belongings.
But thanks to the fact that they were reluctant to throw anything away, all that was left of the house were the walls and floors, so there was no need to clean up anything. They just had to clean the dirty areas and then have someone come over to renovate them.
It is better not to bother two people with the same task. Based on the previous cooperation, He Ruixue still hired the previous construction team.
There is not much to do with decoration nowadays. Just hire a mason and a carpenter.
The tiles were replaced, the missing bricks were filled, and the ground was smoothed with cement. The broken doors and windows were removed and replaced with new ones. As for the soft furnishings, they were just waiting for the father and son to go to the scrap yard to buy furniture.
It’s not that you can’t afford new furniture, but that repaired old furniture is more cost-effective.
In front of the Huang family's yard was a vegetable patch, all the vegetables in it had been pulled out, leaving only weeds.
They didn't make any changes and still used it to grow vegetables. As for raising chickens, forget it because there wasn't enough space.
Zhao Meiya was walking around the new house, and He Dagen was beside her. He asked in confusion, "Daughter doesn't mind that we are useless and invites us to live with her. Why are you not happy?"
When we were at home, I often heard you talk about how beautiful her house was, and you even said you would help her with the housework and cooking, but now that the time has come, you're not happy about it."
"What do you know? When we move here this time, do we have to move the two coffins at home together? Won't that bring bad luck to her new house?"
"That's why you do that. Then just leave it in the old house."
"No, I'll keep it by my side so I can feel at ease."
If she died and couldn't lie in the coffin immediately, she wouldn't be able to close her eyes.
"Just move in. It'll bring you promotion and wealth. It's a good omen."
"Dongbao was sick several times after she was born. The fortune teller said that she had a light fate and it would be good for her to avoid such life and death matters."
In fact, the coffin could be placed next door, but Zhao Meiya always felt that the house where the old man had lived for a long time was full of decay and would easily ruin her daughter's luck, so she wanted to make excuses to delay.
Seeing that his wife was not listening to his advice, He Dagen shook his head and said no more, and planned the use of each room with her.
This time, there are five people moving in, and there are many empty houses. Zhao Meiya is thinking about whether she can convert one of them into a pigpen to raise pigs, so that when the pigs grow up, the family will have no shortage of meat to eat during the New Year.
He Dagen disagreed, "You're just acting on impulse. Raising pigs is such a big deal. Will the neighbors agree?"
Zhao Meiya rolled her eyes. "I don't care whether they like it or not. Dongbao lives upwind, so the stench won't reach her. As for our yard, a little smell is no big deal."
We all come from the countryside. We all deal with pig and chicken manure all day long, and we use a lot of fertilizer when watering the land. Why would we dislike this?
"What do pigs eat? There's no grass to harvest in the city. Who can afford to feed them with grain?"
Zhao Meiya glanced at him as if he were a fool. "How could I not have thought of what you said? I've already asked Xiaojie. She works at the grain station. The harvested grain has to be processed. There are plenty of rice husks and wheat bran.
They're either taken to the slaughterhouse to feed pigs, or bought cheaply and mixed with grain. As an employee, it's easy for her to exchange them for a few bags at the internal price, and then feed them with potatoes grown in the fields to help them grow meat quickly."
"Pigeon grass is easy to find. There's a piece of wasteland next to Xiaoyou School, and there's a river with grass all over the side. Tell them to cut a couple of handfuls and bring them back when they go home.
There's also the woods behind the textile factory, where you can pick up branches. There are plenty of wild vegetables there for pigs to eat. You're just trying to save trouble. If we raise a few more pounds, wouldn't Dongbao save money on meat? "
During the time they lived with Dongbao, they didn't have meat every day, but they definitely had meat every other day.
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