Chapter 23 Drawing a pie
Lin Min and Lin Rui were also on the tractor, and Lin Jing did not explain too much.
When the brothers and sisters returned, Zhang Cuiying saw the big package behind the tractor at a glance and said in surprise: "How many things did you buy?"
"It's a lot." Lin Min's whole face was flushed with cold, but she couldn't help but said proudly: "Mom, sister bought new clothes for all of us, and also bought a lot of good things."
"What?" Zhang Cuiying was stunned. The first thing that came to her mind was waste, and she said distressedly: "My clothes are enough for you kids to buy. Why did you buy them for me too?"
There are so many colorful clothes, and at first glance they are styles only found in the city. What a waste!
Lin Jing didn't think so and said, "If we all wear new clothes, but mom is not an elder, is that ridiculous?"
Respecting the elderly and loving the young is a traditional virtue, but it would be outrageous if it were true.
"Can't we just pull some cloth and buy some cotton? We have a sewing machine at home, why do you have to spend so much money?" Zhang Cuiying felt distressed every time she picked up another piece of clothing.
Children just don't know how to live. If they have money, they know how to work hard, but they don't know how to use it sparingly, so as not to know how hard it is to have no money when they have a big need in the future.
Lin Jing hurriedly cooperated: "Sister-in-law's clothes don't have sizes. We pulled the cloth and weighed the cotton. Mom, you can do it."
Zhang Cuiying...the point is that she doesn't have any cloth to make clothes? The point is money!
Liu Hui originally felt very disappointed when she saw that everyone had new clothes but she didn't have any. After confirming that she had a share, she felt her belly and thought that she would have to wait for another month or two before giving birth. It would be better to keep these fabrics and clothes for the child.
Instinctively, she is also a very thrifty person.
When Lin Rui took out his airplane model, Zhang Cuiying couldn't bear it anymore and scolded Lin Yundao: "Your sister is still young and not sensible, and you are not sensible either? How can you waste money like this?! Such a piece of crap actually costs two yuan Money, does the family have a mountain of gold or a mountain of silver, how can it tolerate you being so defeated?"
What an injustice! Lin Yun glanced at his sister and dodgeed - Mom, do you think I am someone who can speak? I am a proper tool!
"Mom, how much do these things cost? My sister also booked a house in the city today, so it really costs a lot of money."
These few dollars are unjust, what is the house?
"What?" Zhang Cuiying suspected that she heard wrongly, "What else did your sister order?"
"House." Lin Yun told him about the sudden purchase of a house in partnership with his uncle and uncle. "Even if the three families share it equally, our house will still cost a thousand yuan. My uncle, who is just a daughter, will definitely not be able to buy a house." To buy so many houses, our family will have to spend more than a thousand yuan."
Zhang Cuiying's chin is almost touching the ground. The children have recently handed her twenty yuan every day. She didn't expect to have money to buy new clothes. Did she buy a house without even discussing it with her?
Houses in the city are of a higher level than those in towns and counties. Do rural people like them dare to think about it?
"You, you, you go tell the landlord tomorrow that you don't want to buy that house. Our family has no money and we don't want it." The surprise came so shocking that Zhang Cuiying's lips were trembling.
"How dare you say you are so young? Why didn't your uncle stop you? What do you, a child, know?"
Lin Jing didn't feel guilty at all about spending a lot of money behind her parents' back. She just said, "I paid the deposit of two hundred yuan today. If I don't use it tomorrow, I will definitely not get a refund."
Zhang Cuiying was about to cry. It wasn't that she couldn't get the money. When the man was there, the family conditions were not bad, and she could always get some game in exchange for money. If she was lucky, someone would collect furs and she could earn two or three hundred dollars a year. In addition to the income passed down from her father-in-law, she herself is a very frugal person, and her family's savings are actually more than those of her sister-in-law in the city.
The problem is that I save money every time. When my daughter goes out and waves her hands, she spends hundreds of dollars, but if she doesn’t continue to spend money, the hundreds of dollars will be wasted!
Finally, her son stopped gambling, but her daughter spent her life desperately. Zhang Cuiying felt that the new clothes in her hands were no longer beautiful, and her mouth felt as if she had yellow lotus in her mouth. She was speechless.
Thinking back to the time when her mother lay on the kang for a few months because her eldest brother was angry, Lin Jing did not dare to make Zhang Cuiying anxious, and said quickly: "Mom, don't worry, we have made enough money recently, enough to buy a house. "
"You made money?!" Zhang Cuiying couldn't believe it and said in a hurried tone, "The three or four hundred you earned from selling vegetables is not enough for the deposit, so how can you buy a house?"
Thinking about it again, it was wrong. She still kept the three or four hundred in her hands. Where did she get the money to pay the deposit?
"You, what have you done? No matter how poor our Lin family is, we must never do anything illegal or criminal!" Zhang Cuiying was really afraid that her son and daughter would go astray.
The man is dead and the mother-in-law is gone. The eldest son and daughter are about to become the pillars of the family, but they must not collapse.
Lin Jing hurriedly talked about selling stickers, and then talked about supplying kimchi to railway canteens and restaurants, "Mom, you can earn about four to five hundred yuan a month in the city, and you can make it without using it for half a year." You’ve earned back the money for the house, what are you afraid of?”
"I have to make so many kimchi every day. Traveling here and there will definitely delay things. I must have a place to live in the city. The place must not be too small, otherwise I won't be able to do anything." Lin Jing expressed her need to buy a house as much as possible.
"Then--" It sounds very tempting. It's half a million yuan per year.
Zhang Cuiying was still worried, "Isn't it just a matter of renting a house in the city? Where is the need to buy one?"
"Why don't you discuss such a big matter with your family?"
Lin Jing said patiently: "I didn't know until the day after tomorrow that that person was going abroad. It's okay if I don't know about such a good thing. If I know, I will definitely buy it. That house is definitely cheap and affordable, and we won't suffer."
"We all have rural registered permanent residence. If so many people go to the city and there is no decent place to stay, what should we do if the landlord evicts us? What should we do if we are bullied by the neighbors? The rented place is too small or the landlord thinks it is smelly and does not allow us to do it. What should I do with Kimchi? What should I do if something happens and there is no one around to take care of me? Of course I took this opportunity to buy a house with my uncle and the others. Living together with relatives can be lively and take care of each other."
Lin Jing drew a big cake for her mother.
Zhang Cuiying was stunned for a while, and then she asked: "Did you tell your aunt, your uncle, and your second uncle?"
Since I was thinking of several families living together, why didn't I think of my second uncle's house? They all still live in the same village.