◎Matters of livelihood◎
"It's because you think he's too young that he never grows up. Besides, can't you see how much resentment the eldest brother's wife has been secretly feeling recently? She's afraid that Xiao Che has taken advantage of us and she's suffered losses. It would be better if Xiao Che moves out so there are fewer arguments."
When it comes to this, Jiang's mother is not happy: "Why bother with her? As long as the eldest daughter is reasonable, I don't think she can cause any trouble."
Father Jiang sighed, "Yes, the relationship between the eldest and the youngest is good, but the sons are grown up and have their own families. Over time, it is hard to guarantee that there will be no gap between the two sons. If things are far away, they will smell bad. Since the son wants to move out, let him move out and give it a try."
"You've already agreed, what else can I say?" Jiang's mother snorted at him, turned around and went to sleep.
Well, as long as he can convince her, Father Jiang doesn’t care about his daughter-in-law’s temporary cold face.
"What did my parents say? Did they agree for us to move out?" Wei Xuan asked quickly when she saw Jiang Che coming back with a smile on his face.
"That is, is there anything I can't do?"
Jiang Che looked very proud. Wei Xuan did not ask him how he convinced his parents-in-law. She just praised him quickly, "Yes, yes, you are the best, okay? Then remember to find someone to work in the newly rented house tomorrow. Remember to paint the walls and floors several times, otherwise it will look dirty and dull."
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"Come on, this little thing is not worth your explanation three or five times. I've remembered it all. I guarantee that you will be satisfied with it after I finish it." Jiang Che lay on the bed like an old man and waved his hands impatiently at Wei Xuan.
Considering the contribution he had just made, Wei Xuan didn't bother with him and would deal with it later if the job was not done well.
Since he had given a pledge in front of his wife, Jiang Che dared not be careless. He did not go home for dinner after get off work, but went straight to find a few brothers to help him clean up the house.
After going out early and coming back late for a week, he finally tidied the house up.
After seeing it, Wei Xuan was also very satisfied: "Not bad, not bad, it's better than I thought."
"That's right. By the way, the kitchen cabinets are also finished. I'll have someone bring them back this afternoon. But why do you need so many cabinets?"
The two walked to the kitchen, and Wei Xuan pointed to a place and said, "Put it here when the time comes when the cabinet is pulled back."
There are four rooms in total, including the bathroom. The kitchen is the place where the most money was spent, and a lot of things were added to it. The bedroom is not so bad, as we can just move the things we are currently using over there. There is already a kang in the room, so we don't even need a bed.
There was no need to make new tables and chairs in the main room, as there were already existing ones, but they were rather worn out. Jiang Che had someone polish them and repaint them, so they were still very sturdy.
"Let's build a few cabinets to store things. We are not like before. We have to make all the arrangements ourselves. We can't wait until we need something and then buy something on the spur of the moment. Besides, two cabinets aren't too many."
Since Wei Xuan was planning to start a food business, there would definitely be a lot of food in the kitchen, but she hadn't discussed this with Jiang Che yet, so she didn't mention it yet. She would move first, and then talk about other things after she was settled.
There was nothing special about the moving day, it was just an ordinary night. The two of them went home to pack after work. Fortunately, there were not many things and they could be moved in one truck.
After dinner, Jiang Che invited two friends who were moving to come over.
Jiang Che stood up and said to his father and mother, "Mom and Dad, I'll get busy now."
"Well, go ahead. If you have any difficulties, tell your family in time."
Wei Xuan also stood up and walked away.
When Brother Jiang saw that his younger brother and his sister-in-law had left, he asked, "Dad, where is Xiao Che going?"
Father Jiang took a sip of tea and said slowly, "Moving. He and his wife plan to move out and live alone."
"Moving?" Brother Jiang was a little surprised for a moment. After he reacted, he looked back at his wife sitting next to him with a bad expression.
Mrs. Jiang was a little ashamed and angry when her husband looked at her. Why was he looking at her? It had nothing to do with her. But when she thought that her brother-in-law was about to move out, it was a great thing, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise.
Seeing his wife's face wanting to laugh but not daring to, Brother Jiang snorted and looked at Father Jiang: "Why do you want to move out? Isn't this nonsense? Mom and Dad, you actually agreed to it? How can they live comfortably at home if they move out?"
Jiang's mother didn't want her younger son to move out in the first place. When she heard her older son say this, she looked at Jiang's father with hope, hoping that he could persuade her a little more.
But before Father Jiang could say anything, Sister Jiang spoke first: "Since my younger brother wants to move out, he must have his reasons. We can't say anything. If we say too much, my younger brother will be unhappy."
"You, if you can't speak, just shut up." Brother Jiang was so angry with her.
"Hey, what did I say wrong? Can you control my brother's temper?" Mrs. Jiang continued to refute without any restraint.
Before Brother Jiang could continue to scold him, Father Jiang put down the cup in his hand heavily and said, "Okay, stop talking."
Then he looked at Brother Jiang and said, "I am very pleased that you care about your brother, but your wife is not wrong. Xiao Che has made his decision, and it is useless for us to oppose it. We might as well let him move out and give it a try. It won't do him any harm. Okay, your mother and I have already decided on this matter, so don't persuade him anymore. Your brother will definitely have a lot of things to do when he moves, so go and see if there is anything you can help with."
After saying that, he winked at Jiang's mother and went back to the house together.
Seeing his parents leave, Brother Jiang was anxious but there was nothing he could do so he had to listen to his father and go to help.
Mrs. Jiang was very happy to see the man leaving this time and did not stop him. She just said, "Go early and come back early."
Jiang Che's two friends drove a tricycle to the scene. They had already loaded clothes and bedding onto the tricycle and were moving a few cabinets. When they saw their eldest brother coming, they immediately said, "Brother, you've come at the right time. Give me a hand."
Several people worked together to move the things into the car. Brother Jiang also got in the car and went to see where his younger brother lived now.
When they arrived at the destination, Brother Jiang got out of the car and saw three houses in a row. He pulled Jiang Che and asked, "Are these three yours?"
"Yeah, big brother, I'm not bad."
Brother Jiang looked at it for a long time and said with a smile: "Not bad, not bad. Come on, it's almost dark, let's move the things in quickly."
This house is more spacious than his home, so Brother Jiang felt less worried.
The four grown men worked very quickly and put everything in place in no time.
"Thank you for your hard work, I'll ask Jiang Che to invite you all to dinner in a couple of days!"
After seeing everyone off, Wei Xuan hummed a song and began to make the bed.
Jiang Che sat aside and saw his young wife's eyes were full of smiles. He said with a smile: "Are you so happy?"
"Of course, this is our own home." After saying that, he remembered something and turned around to look at Jiang Che and said seriously: "We have agreed that you will have to hand over your salary from now on. From now on, we have to start saving money and can't spend as much as we have without restraint like before."
Jiang Che was reluctant, but Wei Xuan would not allow him to fool around. She took the box where she kept her money and opened it: "This is all the money our family has now, a total of more than 640. What's yours? Give it to me now."
"How do you still have so much money left?" Jiang Che was surprised. He knew that the 600 yuan betrothal gift his family had given was all in Wei Xuan's hands, but it also cost a lot of money to clean up the house.
"Humph." Wei Xuan said proudly, "In addition to the betrothal gift, there is also 150 yuan that my mother left for me. I spent more than 100 yuan in the past few days and this is all I have left."
If I hadn't used the first two months' wages to buy wool for knitting sweaters, I would have had more. Never mind, I can't save that money. Fortunately, my wages will be paid soon, and I will have money in the little box.
Seeing that Wei Xuan had taken out all her savings to contribute to their small family, Jiang Che felt it was not appropriate to be stingy with his salary. Besides, it was not appropriate to let a woman support the family, otherwise he would become a gigolo, right?
He took out the remaining money from his pocket and handed it to Wei Xuan: "Here, this is all the money I have, I'll give it all to you." After saying that, perhaps feeling that it was a little too little compared to Wei Xuan, he added: "I'll give it all to you after I get my salary next month."
Wei Xuan was satisfied then. She counted the money he handed over and found there was only six yuan and thirty cents. After thinking for a while, she took out thirty cents and handed it back to him, "It's not good for you to not have a dime in your pocket, so I'll leave some for you." She put the rest into the small box.
Jiang Che didn't think it was too little, and thought that something was better than nothing, so he happily accepted it.
The next morning, Wei Xuan got up and went to the kitchen to prepare the first meal after moving.
There weren't many ingredients since they had just been moved in, so she cooked some corn porridge and fried two eggs to eat with it.
I was thinking about what was still missing at home.
She definitely had to buy more food. She and Jiang Che together only had less than 60 kilograms of food supply per month, and even less fine grains.
They had been eating at home before, and the food they had kept was enough for this month. However, if she wanted to start a food business, this amount of food would definitely not be enough. She had to find another way.
It would be even better if I could grow some of the vegetables I usually eat. I can buy some seeds on my way to work today and try it out. I felt the temperature and it’s already November. I don’t know if it’s too late to plant now.
Forget it, there’s no harm in trying it. If it turns out to be a problem of eating vegetables, then it will be solved.
After dinner, he handed the food book and money to Jiang Che: "Come back in the evening and buy all the food for this month."
Jiang Che accepted it without even looking at it and left.
Wei Xuan also followed him out the door.
When Jiang Che came back with two bags of grain in the evening, Wei Xuan was hoeing the ground in the yard with a small hoe.
"What are you doing?"
Wei Xuan said without even looking up: "I just thought it would be a waste to leave such a large piece of land empty, so I decided to plant some vegetables there."
Today, Wei Xuan went to a seed shop and asked, and found out that there were still many vegetables that could be grown at this time of year. She immediately bought some of all the ones she could grow.
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