Shen Yunzhao stood at the door, recalling the time when he lived here as a child and played with a group of friends.
"Yun Zhao, what are you doing standing here?"
Shen Fugui looked at her strangely, "Do you want to go in? If you want to go in, then go in quickly. If not, then stay outside."
"Oh. I'm going in."
A group of people entered the gate.
The furniture in the hall, such as tables and chairs, had long been broken, with some missing arms or legs, and some even collapsed completely.
The walls were covered with paper ash, part of which had already fallen off, part of which was covered with black mold due to water leakage, and part of which was dirty from something unknown.
The floors and doors are all made of wood. Under the erosion of time, the paint has lost its luster, and the color has become old and mottled.
Everything looked old and run-down.
"Oh, I haven't come back to clean for a long time, it's too dirty!" Shen Fugui sighed.
Zhou Xiuqin curled her lips and said, "You don't know how to do the work when you come back, so I have to do it. I'm too lazy to do it."
Shen Fugui quickly changed the subject, "Our house is about to collapse without people living in it. Hey, a house needs people!"
Zhou Xiuqin continued the conversation, "We've all moved to the city. We have to run the shop, so how can we have time to come back?"
Shen Yunzhao also said, "The neighbors around here have all moved to the city. Everyone is out celebrating the New Year and other holidays. Why would our family come back?"
Zhou Xiuqin nodded. "Besides, our house is too shabby and old. It doesn't even have a bathroom. We have to go to other people's houses to use the toilet. It's not comfortable to live in."
The toilets in their old-style houses are dry toilets, built dozens of meters away from the house.
A few years ago, the toilet collapsed, and after several neighbors discussed it, they simply filled it up.
Now the place is overgrown with weeds and has long become a paradise for animals and plants.
The three of them chattered for a while, and finally came to the conclusion: the house had to be rebuilt, and immediately!
After the discussion, they went out to find Mr. Geography.
At this time, Mr. Geography took a compass, looked down at it from time to time, and moved his position from time to time.
Shen Fugui himself is a geography expert and knows a lot about this, so he has already started chatting with the geography expert.
Zhou Xiuqin couldn't understand and had no patience to stay here, so she said to Shen Yunzhao, "It's okay for us to be here, let's go to your aunt's house."
"good."
After talking to Shen Fugui for a few words, Shen Yunzhao drove away with Zhou Xiuqin and Yaoyao.
Shen Yunzhao's aunt's house is very close to hers, and it only takes 5 minutes to drive there.
When they arrived, my aunt-in-law just came out with a basket.
Seeing Shen Yunzhao and the others, my aunt was particularly enthusiastic, "Xiuqin, when did you arrive?"
"We just arrived and went to the old house first. Fugui and Mr. Dili were at the old house, so we came down first since we had nothing else to do."
The aunt pushed open the door and looked at Yaoyao in Zhou Xiuqin's arms. "Oh, is this Yaoyao? She's grown so big! Come here, let auntie hug you!"
Yaoyao was not shy at all and she giggled non-stop when being held by her aunt-in-law.
Several people entered the house, and Shen Yunzhao put down the gifts he brought.
"Aunt, this is a bag of dried red mushrooms, and this is a bag of dried mixed mushrooms. They were just dried a few days ago, so they're very fresh."
The aunt-in-law glared at Shen Yunzhao and said, "You came here, but what gift did you bring? Red mushrooms are not cheap. This bag of red mushrooms must be at least three pounds, right? It's too expensive. I won't accept it."
She picked up the bag of mixed mushrooms and pushed the red mushrooms back to Shen Yunzhao, "I'll take the mixed mushrooms, you take the red mushrooms back."
The price of dried red mushrooms is not cheap. Ordinary ones cost more than 1,000 yuan per pound, while high-quality mushrooms cost 1,500 yuan or even more.
This bag of red mushrooms is worth at least 3,000 yuan, but my aunt-in-law doesn't want to buy it.
Zhou Xiuqin pushed the red mushrooms to her aunt-in-law and said, "Keep them. I have plenty of these at home."
My aunt was very surprised. "What do you mean?"
"Yun Zhao went to the mountains to pick red mushrooms himself and bought quite a few. He then went to the Dongmen Market to sell them the next day..."
Zhou Xiuqin told the story of Shen Yunzhao selling red mushrooms, and finally said, "I've brought it in, just keep it!"
My aunt-in-law looked at Shen Yunzhao in surprise, "Yunzhao, are you really going to sell red mushrooms?"
"Yes." Shen Yunzhao replied with a smile.
"Making money?"
"It's okay, I made a little money."
"Not bad, not bad. These days, as long as you can make money, it doesn't matter what you do. And don't think you're a college student and look down on these small businesses. Let me tell you, selling red mushrooms is very profitable!"
My aunt-in-law leaned over and gossiped, "Let me tell you, last summer, Shen Dajiang from our village made 100,000 yuan selling red mushrooms!"
"100,000! Earned so much!" Zhou Xiuqin was shocked.
You know, farmers only earn 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a year, so earning 100,000 yuan a year is extremely impressive.
Shen Yunzhao also became interested and pricked up his ears to listen.
"That's right!" My aunt-in-law was eager to share, and continued, "It was only in the 6th, 7th, and 8th months! He and his wife went up the mountain every night and came down at dawn. After that, they went back to rest, and his son rode his motorcycle to the city to sell it."
"Every summer, the family goes up the mountain to pick mushrooms. Over the years, they've probably earned hundreds of thousands of yuan. His son bought a house in the county town's World Trade Center, a large one of over 140 square meters, and the down payment was over 500,000 yuan."
"At that time, Shen Dajiang directly paid a down payment of 600,000 yuan and borrowed more than 800,000 yuan. Last year, I heard from Shen Dajiang that they had paid back more than 400,000 yuan in loans in the past few years, and now they have more than 300,000 yuan left on the mortgage."
"Shen Dajiang also said that if he earned more money in a few years, he would pay off the mortgage on that house, and he wouldn't work so hard in the future."
"Wow, Shen Dajiang is amazing! His whole family is very hardworking, no wonder they can make so much money."
Zhou Xiuqin particularly admires and envies those who become rich through hard work.
Zhou Xiuqin is diligent and thrifty, but Shen Fugui is lazy and wasteful. He is not very good at making money but spends it lavishly.
Over the years, she worked tirelessly to help pay off the mortgage. The mortgage amount was getting smaller and smaller, but Shen Fugui's debts outside were getting larger and larger, which made her exhausted.
Zhou Xiuqin sighed, a little melancholy, "If Fugui could be as frugal as Shen Dajiang, we would have paid off the mortgage on our house."
My aunt-in-law said with a smile, "What are you worried about? Yundong is about to graduate and start working, so we'll let him pay it back later. The house will be his anyway. Xingbo, on the other hand, doesn't even have a house yet, even though his son is about to get married."
Speaking of her son Zhou Xingbo, my aunt was worried.
Zhou Xingbo is in his 40s and almost 50 this year. His eldest son is 22 years old and has a girlfriend. They are both planning to get married.
According to their local customs, the bride price is 100,000 yuan, the wedding banquet is about 30,000 yuan, the three golds are more than 40,000 yuan, the house also needs to be slightly decorated, and some miscellaneous things need to be bought, which will cost another 30,000 to 40,000 yuan.
If you want to buy a house, the down payment must be at least 300,000.
With this calculation, getting married will cost at least 500,000 yuan.
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