Chapter 180

Time flies. In the twinkling of an eye, Yan Fei and Yan Cui, the youngest two girls of the Yan family, have started primary school, and the little brother of the Yan family started his nursery career a year ago.

In order to make money, Yan Chu always left home every two months. This trip lasted thirty or forty days. Several children at home had a general concept of what money their father earned outside. However, Yan Chu may have paved the way well in the early stage. The children all felt that their father was very hard and did not insist on food and clothing.

It has just been more than a month since the beginning of school. As freshmen, Yan Fei and Yan Cui go to and from school together with several sisters every day. They are still in the process of adapting to school life.

As twins, twins as like as two peas are very popular in the class, especially when they are dressed and behaved almost exactly the same. They guess every two sisters who are the children and teachers, and the two sisters are very cooperative.

But so far, as long as the two sisters want to know their families, no one can guess their identity accurately again and again.

Don't underestimate the children's jealousy. Seeing that the sisters are so popular, some of them are spoiled at home and can't stand the arrogant bully.

"This is the skirt my father brought me from Shencheng. It looks good. We don't have it here."

Jin Xiaoxiao proudly picked up the skirt and turned it around in front of all her partners. The pleated skirt bloomed into a red flower with her turn. Looking at everyone's eyes, the little girl said confidently and proudly.

Four years later, some things in the South have become more and more popular in inland provinces and cities like them. In particular, more and more families have bought televisions. Watching those TV dramas broadcast by Hong Kong and Taiwan, the trendy and unique costumes of the protagonists have been envied and pursued by mainland audiences.

In the last few years, everyone thought that gray and blue were good, dirty and washable, and green symbolized the army. In addition to these three colors, black also had a part of the audience.

In those years, the streets were full of gray men and women, old and young.

In addition to the color, the style of clothes is basically the same, loose without showing the waist, straight down, sometimes men and women walk together, just looking at their backs, they can't tell their gender.

In those days, if you wore red, yellow and other striking colors on the main road, and the style of clothes was a little slim, showing your waist or chest, it would only be regarded as immoral, and no one would think the clothes you wore were beautiful.

Even if it is marriage, it is more to wear military green clothes. Few people will make bright red wedding clothes.

Now it's different. The economy has begun to develop, there are more and more rich people, and people's aesthetic consciousness has begun to make a qualitative leap.

Women's clothes, in particular, are colorful and fashionable. There are a wide range of large shopping malls and small clothing stores, which can make people dazzling. Among them, those who claim to purchase from Shenzhen city or Hong Kong City are the most popular.

In particular, the same models of some heroines in TV dramas can be robbed crazy as soon as they are listed.

But for children, this has little to do with them.

The children of the emerald sisters generation have not yet met the most stringent family planning. Who doesn't have four or five or six brothers and sisters? It's normal to wear the old clothes left by the brothers and sisters. Besides, children grow fast. If they buy suitable clothes for a year and a half, they may not be able to wear them in the coming year. That's too expensive.

Therefore, looking around, the clothes of many students in primary school and junior middle school are still mainly black, blue and gray. When it's time to finish school, a large area of ash is pressed out.

The living standards of residents in the provincial capital cities are relatively high. At most, the clothes worn by these children are washed white, and a few are patched. Even if they are patched, they are mostly invisible to the naked eye.

Although they were still children, they were already very conscious of beauty and ugliness. Looking at Jin Xiaoxiao wearing a red shaggy skirt proudly like a little peacock, the girls all gave a wow and looked at the little skirt she was wearing. They wanted to reach out and touch it. They were just stared by Jin Xiaoxiao and took their hands back.

"Xiaoxiao, your skirt is so beautiful. Your father is very kind to you."

"Xiaoxiao, can I touch your skirt? It's a beautiful color."

Children express their feelings very frankly. Boys don't have much pursuit of clothes. They can wear them. They prefer to play. They are the ones who run the most happily on the playground after class.

Girls are different. Who doesn't want a beautiful little skirt.

"Of course, my father is the best for me."

Listening to the praise of the students and watching everyone focus their attention on themselves, Jin Xiaoxiao was not so proud. He just saw that the jade sisters whispered and ignored her, and immediately felt a little dissatisfied.

"This is the chocolate my father bought for me from Shencheng. Do you know what chocolate is? It's made abroad and valuable."

Jin Xiaoxiao took out a handful of chocolate balls and felt a little distressed.

Her father was an unlucky man. He quit his job in the factory last year and began to resell things with local characteristics in several places. Before, the conditions of Jin Xiaoxiao's family were not bad. This year, the conditions were better.

She is the only girl in their family. I don't know which side of the husband and wife is the problem. There has been no news since she was born. Now the family planning investigation is strict. The Jin family is destined to have such a child. Therefore, the husband and wife dote on the girl and want the stars not to give the moon.

Chocolate is a rare thing now. When he came back this time, Kim dad didn't bring much to his daughter. There was only a box of chocolate balls, about 50 or 60, each size of a thumb, covered with a layer of tin foil and painted with color, which looked like a football.

Jin Xiaoxiao originally planned to bring these things to the school to show off. He just wanted to give too much to a few friends who were close to her, but now he was excited by the indifference of the emerald sisters. He couldn't help but put on a broad and generous to share the chocolate with his classmates.

She felt distressed. These chocolate balls were the amount she had planned for a week. Every time her father came back from Shencheng, it would take about a month to ship them. Then he would rest at home for a few days and go to Shencheng. With the time on the road and the time to buy goods in Shencheng, it would be more than three months before and after her father went to Shencheng to buy chocolate for her next time.

In fact, there are chocolates in the big shopping malls in the provincial capital. Several students in the class have eaten them, but the chocolates in Jin Xiaoxiao's hands are different. They are bought in Shenzhen or imported. It sounds more powerful.

"Yan Fei, Yan Cui, have you two eaten chocolate?"

Jin Xiaoxiao's ultimate goal is to let the twin sisters know her strength. Of course, they have to inform each other before sharing chocolate, so that the two sisters can turn their attention to themselves.

The little girl tilted her head high, with over nutrition and fat, tender, white and fat arms raised high. If there is a tail at this time, she should swing it happily.

After lifting it for a while, Jin Xiaoxiao felt tired, quietly lowered the height of his arm, then straightened his stomach, and still looked at the twin sisters proudly.

"Yes."

Yan Fei and Yan Cui answered at the same time, thinking about the taste of eating chocolate, licked their lips.

Chocolate is delicious, but it's too expensive.

Last time my father came back, he brought them a chocolate board about 15 cm long and 3 cm wide. Like the Yan family used to, the whole family shared this chocolate.

Grandma and dad are the elders and the most hardworking of the whole family. They have the largest share. The eldest sister and the second sister have been able to help grandma do a lot of housework, and they have the second largest share.

The third sister got good grades. She got full marks in Chinese and mathematics last time, so she was the third.

Only the twin sisters and the young brother could do less housework, and the two sisters had not started studying at that time, so they could not compare their grades, so they were given the smallest chocolate in the whole family.

It's about the size of a coin. The sisters wrapped it in gold foil and chewed a small piece every day. How can we save what we can eat? In three or four days, we still finished the chocolate.

Missing the thick, silky taste, Yan Fei and Yan Cui made up their minds to study hard and actively help grandma do housework. When they next share chocolate, they will be able to share chocolate as big as their eldest sister, second sister or third sister.

The sisters were full of confidence and didn't think there was anything wrong with dad's division.

"What you eat must be different from my chocolate. My chocolate is imported from abroad."

Jin Xiaoxiao heard that the twins had eaten chocolate. He couldn't hang his pride on his face. Tears flashed in his eyes and pursed his lips.

"Well, your chocolate is better."

Yan Fei and Yan Cui wonder why Jin Xiaoxiao looks like crying and naturally admit that each other's chocolate is better.

It's not easy for my father to make money. I blame their siblings for being too young. They can only spend money for the family, but can't make money for the family.

Although my father said that because there was no money at home, he bought the cheapest kind of chocolate and could only buy one piece and eat it separately, the sisters still felt very happy and thought that when they grew up, they would buy many of the most expensive chocolates for my father and grandmother to eat enough.

Watching the jealous twins admit that their chocolate is the best, the little fat girl Jin Xiaoxiao stopped crying and suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

She thought the twins seemed fine, too.

"Then I'll treat you to my chocolate."

Jin Xiaoxiao generously took out the Chocolate Ball and shared it with the students present.

There were few chocolate balls, and there were some more students present. Finally, three or four students shared a chocolate ball, and the atmosphere was suddenly better.

"Yan feicui, what does your father do?"

Jin Xiaoxiao thought he was a lovely and generous little girl and took the initiative to talk to the twin sisters after sharing the chocolate.

"My father is a businessman. When he goes to Shenzhen, he can always find the best goods and make a lot of money." Before Yan Fei and Yan Cui wanted to understand what their father did and explain it to the little fat girl, Jin Xiaoxiao began to show off his peacock feathers to the twin sisters.

Over the past few years, people are no longer so taboo about the industry of profiteering as before. Many smart people have put a layer of skin on their business of buying and selling profiteering, and gradually become legalized.

So Jin Xiaoxiao showed off her father's work with her classmates without hesitation.

"My father does something like this."

The jadeite sisters said uncertainly, sighing that they didn't get enough chocolate and couldn't take it home to grandma, sisters and brothers.

Sure enough, it's most reliable to make money by yourself. In the future, you'll make a lot of money to buy endless chocolate.

"No way, then why don't you have beautiful little skirts?"

Jin Xiaoxiao doesn't believe it. Her father said that although she takes risks in this business, she makes more money. Just like her, she always has beautiful little skirts that can't be worn out, and twins

She frowned and felt that the clothes on the twins didn't seem as ugly as she had imagined.

The style is the simplest white cotton long sleeves, but Yan Fei sewed an arm with yellow plaid cloth in the lower left corner of his clothes and a chubby little palm with meat skin color cloth.

Yan Cui's clothes were the same, but her arm was sewn in the lower right corner.

When I looked at them separately, I didn't think that now the two sisters are standing together, and the small hands on their clothes are just connected together. It seems that they show a pattern of holding hands.

Not to mention how exquisite the clothes are, the ingenious thinking alone makes people feel particularly interesting, especially if the twins wear these two clothes, which shows the ingenious design of the clothes.

Jin Xiaoxiao turned his head and thought about it. Although the twins had never worn such a dazzling little skirt as her, the clothes they wore never fell into the stereotype. Most of them were light color clothes that were not resistant to dirt but suitable for girls.

And although the styles are basic, the patterns embroidered on the clothes are different, which are not available in the mall.

"Because there is only dad in our family. Dad makes money very hard. We have three sisters and a brother. We have to read and eat, so we can't wear beautiful little skirts."

Yan Fei and Yan Cuiren said with a big sigh.

Jin Xiaoxiao's family has only one child, so she can save a lot of money, but their family has six children, so of course they are poor.

As a member of the family finance, Yan Fei and Yan Cui are a little cautious.

"Besides, our clothes are also very beautiful. We do what we want. Dad said that in the future, we can be a designer and design clothes for others. We can make a lot of money."

Yan Fei and Yan Cui held each other tightly, and then made a gesture. They didn't feel that their clothes might cost a lot of money compared with Jin Xiaoxiao's expensive skirt.

"Wow, you can also make your own clothes. That's great."

The students who finished eating chocolate were attracted by the words of the twin sisters and couldn't help looking at their clothes at the moment.

The two sisters are happy to see someone appreciate their design. They are happy to tell you the story that they helped their sister and grandmother choose broken cloth heads to match colors when they were four years old, and began to contact scissors cutting when they were older.

Most of the clothes worn by children of this age are handed down by their brothers and sisters, or made by their parents. No child or twin sister has ever made clothes for themselves early.

In particular, the two sisters' clothes were made of the cheapest white cotton cloth and all kinds of cheap broken cloth heads, which everyone admired even more.

Children at this age are still simple and don't care about money. Many times they praise a thing because it's really good, not how much it costs.

Of course, sometimes children will praise it for spending more money, but only because they think more money is also powerful.

At the moment, listening to the two sisters show off their clothing history since the age of four, no one thinks that their family is in a bad situation. They can only buy the cheapest cloth for their children to make clothes, or laugh at the fact that many of their clothes are made from the original sisters' clothes.

I just admire them. They have skills they don't have.

When Jin Xiaoxiao saw his popularity smashed with chocolate, he was robbed by the twin sisters again. His angry cheeks puffed up like a frog.

She decided to take back her previous words. Sure enough, twins are still the most annoying.

******

"Now my family has saved a lot of money. I wonder if I can buy some beautiful clothes for the children."

The old lady had been thinking about her promise to bring a small skirt to her granddaughters, but she broke her promise. Seeing that her family's savings had risen over the years, the idea began again.

Now the Yan family still lives in the same Sanheyuan they rented. Over the years, with the educated youth returning to the city, the housing in the city has become more and more tense. Even if some factories with good benefits have built welfare houses one after another, this problem has not been alleviated.

Therefore, the prices of some private property houses in the provincial capital are rising. The house they live in now has risen to 18000, up 3000 yuan compared with four years ago.

In recent years, because of the economic rise, the wages of workers have also risen, but the 3000 yuan is still the wages of a worker for four or five years or even longer.

In other words, the money earned by a worker who doesn't eat or drink can't match the rise in house prices.

However, the price is still on the high side, so even if the Sanheyuan is well maintained and the lot is good, it has not been sold.

Several families want to open and buy. After all, such a large yard is enough to house more than a dozen people. Small families can't use such a big place.

Although the original owner of the house wanted to sell the house, he still felt that it was an ancestral house. He was not willing to listen to the opinions of the middleman and re divided the house into several independent houses to sell, which has been delayed until now.

"Mom, I'm going to buy the house we rent now."

Listening to the old lady's proposal, Yan Chu gathered the peeled melon seeds together and said.

"Buy this house?"

The old lady frowned and hesitated.

As a tenant, when the middleman comes with buyers who want to buy a house, they also have to cooperate. Therefore, the old lady knows how much the landlord of this house has offered.

Over the years, Yan Chu has been an outcast. He pays money at home every two or three months. When he is more than 600, 700, and when he is less than 300, 400, the old lady saves it. Apart from the children's tuition fees and the money for rice, grain and oil, he spends almost nothing.

Thanks to the good housekeeping of the old lady, she opened the front yard into a vegetable field with the permission of the landlord. The yard is large enough to plant seasonal vegetables for the whole family. She needs to buy extra vegetables from the vegetable market, only some vegetables and fruits that are not easy to grow in the yard.

In addition, the family also raises several chickens and ducks, all of which lay eggs. In addition to the meat opening day fixed one day a week, the usual protein supplement depends on these chicken and duck eggs and tofu.

Therefore, the expenses of the whole family are very economical. The children even make their own clothes. The clothing expenses of six children are less than those of ordinary families with only two or three children.

Lu Aihua took out the wooden box locked in the cabinet and took out her deposits over the years.

"Part of it is in the bank, and there is some cash. It adds up to less than 10000."

The money is also a big figure now, but it's not enough to buy this house. If you change the location of a lot and choose a smaller yard, I'm afraid it's almost the same.

But the whole family has lived here for four years, and the surrounding neighbors are familiar. I'm afraid it's inconvenient to move again.

"I'll do something about the money."

Yan Chu was rich and had a lot of money, but he was the only one who knew. It was easy to take out another 8000 yuan.

But the old lady didn't know. Seeing her son's iron, she wanted to buy the yard. Thinking about the gap of 8000 yuan, the back teeth began to hurt.

"Mom, this house is really good. It's expensive to sell. That's because the wood and stone bricks of this house are much better than ordinary Sanheyuan. Besides, the house will rise by 3000 in four years. In a few years, we don't know what outrageous price it will rise, so it's better to buy the house early. When the landlord finds a buyer, we have to waste moving Time. "

Yan Chu comforted the old lady.

"Eight thousand yuan. If your business is good, you'll earn it back in three or four years. It's just hard for you and your children. You'll have to live a hard life for several years."

Yan Chu gave the old lady money to reassure her, but now the old lady is going to destroy his rear area, so she naturally has to think of a name to spend the money.

He thought it was also good. He began to think about what excuse to use up the money when he had another deposit next time.

"Then you have to take the risk for another three or four years."

Lu Aihua took her son's hand. She just loved her son.

"Don't say whether it's bitter or not. When mom was a child, she ate grass roots and gnawed bark. Who had new clothes to wear at that time? Now Dajin's brothers and sisters have books and can eat enough. Although the clothes are not bought in the mall, they are also new clothes made of good cloth."

The more the old lady said, the more she felt that life was not bad at all. She had eggs every day. A week, there would be a bowl of meat or a pot of fish on the table at home. Many people didn't necessarily have this condition.

Now the family wants to buy a house. There is such a big gap. The next day, the whole family can only live frugally. As for the new clothes promised to her granddaughters a long time ago, let's think of her old lady as old and forgetful. When the family has money again three or four years later, let's remember.

The old lady didn't know that as long as she had a good son at home, she would never have money.

"But mom is right. It's not good to always buy white cotton cloth for children to save money."

Yan Chu tangled for a while and clenched his teeth: "change tomorrow, I'll buy you a piece of pink and lively cloth."

He calculated that people's aesthetic consciousness has come up over the years. The price of white cloth is rising year by year, and it is almost the same as that of other colors. In this case, he doesn't need to stick to white cloth. It's time to change other colors for children to practice.

"Well, well, choose those red and green ones. Children just have to wear bright colors to look good."

The old lady's suggestion that her son buy new clothes for her granddaughters is greedy for the clothes of other children in the alley, and the main color of their children's clothes is white. In the eyes of the old man, it is still not festive enough.

Now the son let go and changed the color of the cloth, and the only thing left in the old lady's heart was the love for her granddaughters.

As for the style, the old lady doesn't choose, as long as she can wear it. Who doesn't come here like that? Besides, several granddaughters are not bad at making clothes now, especially the eldest granddaughter. If she practices for a few years, she will compare her.

Six year old Jin Yuanbao had a fever and didn't go to the nursery today. The chubby little Yuanbao was covered in a tight quilt and was almost wrapped into a silkworm chrysalis.

Listen, grandma and dad are discussing where to buy bright red cloth or pink rose red cloth.

As the only male in the third generation of the family, he has never enjoyed special treatment. Like his sisters, the little boy who began to learn to make clothes after being sensible is surprisingly sad. He doesn't want to go to school in pink at all.

*****

"Dad, can you give me a dollar?"

Yan Chu came back from the outside. Today, he just went to the housing administration bureau to go through the formalities for house purchase and sale. Now this house has officially become their home.

Before entering the main room, she was stopped by her second daughter Yan Zhen when she was in the yard.

Yan Zhen is also 11 years old this year. The little girl develops relatively early. Such a big person has begun to smoke. She is taller than her eldest sister. She is slim and graceful. She is beginning to show the beauty of a girl.

The Yan family looks good, including their original wife. They are also a beautiful woman. Several children choose good places for their parents. They can attract a lot of attention every time they go out.

"Have you spent all your pocket money this month?"

Yan Chu is not a stingy person. For example, in summer, he gives children fifty cents a month and five cents a mung bean popsicle. If he encounters semi-finished, he can buy three for ten cents.

Fifty cents is enough for them to find the man selling popsicles at the entrance of the alley in the heat and buy a popsicle to relieve the heat in two or three days.

You can also choose not to buy it and drink it to relieve the summer heat. That money can be saved and buy other things.

This pocket money is not generous, but it is definitely not stingy.

After summer, the pocket money will be reduced to 20 cents a month. Several children eat and live at home, and there is no place to spend money. At most, they buy some stationery, pencils, erasers and other things. Especially pencils, they are not used until they can't be cut. They may not be able to use 20 cents or 30 cents a semester.

So Yan Chu was surprised that his second daughter asked him for pocket money again, not long after she withdrew the pocket money this month.

"It's not that we ran out of pocket money. It's the teacher who asked us to buy textbooks. We need a dollar."

Yan Zhen probably lied for the first time. She spoke stumbling and dared not look up into her father's eyes.

In fact, there was no matter of buying teaching materials at all, but Yan Zhen made an appointment with several good classmates to go to the newly opened skating rink on Sunday. It is said that it is interesting there. It only costs 60 cents an hour to rent skates.

In addition, she may drink soda or something at that time. Yan Zhen calculated her savings and was a little stretched.

But she agreed with her classmates that if she broke the appointment at that time, she would have no face. After thinking about it, she came to her father and lied for the first time in her life.

"When I bought a house at home, I didn't have enough money, but reading is the most important thing. Take it to buy teaching materials. I should listen to the teacher more in school, but I don't have to swallow it when I was bullied. Come back and tell my father, do you know?"

Yan Chu took out his pocket. Most of them were fragmentary notes, one or two cents, and the largest denomination was only a dime.

When I scraped together a dollar, it was already a thick stack of paper money.

Yan Zhen looked at the crumpled banknotes and felt a little uncomfortable. She wanted to admit that she had lied to her father, but the charm of skating described by her classmates was more attractive.

She lowered her head and bit her lower lip. After all, she didn't admit that she had lied. She went back to her room with the money.

Yan Chu put the remaining pieces of loose money in his pocket, looked at the back of his daughter when she returned to the room, and touched the other pocket.

Fortunately, there is change, otherwise there is a thick stack of ten yuan bills in the other pocket. It's not easy to break them.

Sure enough, the children are old, and the challenge to their father has just begun.

******

As the first ice skating rink in the provincial capital, the business here is much better. Many young people who come to join the fun dress up in fashion, just like what they play on TV.

Although Yan Zhen is young, she is tall and well developed. She looks no different from a girl of 14 or 15 years old. Coupled with her beautiful face, she has attracted the attention of many young people. Some boast of being romantic and whistle at her, which makes the young girl ashamed and ashamed.

Just secretly proud in my heart, I even reduced my sense of guilt when I went out with that dollar.

"You should have been like this for a long time. I didn't say that your father earned a lot of money when he was an unlucky man. How can he live a hard life? Ha ha. Even eating an ice cream in summer should look ahead and backward."

Yan Zhen's deskmate, who had just transferred from Beijing this semester, said to her with encouragement and warning in her eyes.

"It's not like this. Our children have a lot of expenses. In addition, we have recently bought a house. Besides, my father has provided for our sisters to study."

Yan Zhen looked at the rink, which was more lively than she thought, listened to her deskmate, and then explained in a low voice.

"You are your father's daughter. He should provide you with reading. What's the matter? Just because he did his part, he still wants your gratitude?"

The girl didn't agree with Yan Zhen's words: "besides, does your house have anything to do with you? That's for your brother. Now the whole family is stingy. Do you believe it's all for your brother in the future?"

Her words were a little resentful: "don't say that your father and your milk are the same to your sisters and brothers. If you don't cherish your son, your mother will keep on giving birth until she dies to give birth to her son? You, take your day, how much you want to spend your father's money. That's what he should do for you."

At the thought of being spoiled by her father's stepmother's son, and she can only be sent back to her grandmother's house in the provincial capital, the girl's heart is angry. Isn't it more than one, which makes her particularly valuable?

She figured out that men are cheap. Anyway, she's not an adult yet. His father has the obligation to give her living expenses. If she doesn't want to give it, she'll go to his and the woman's unit to see whether they care about money or their reputation and status.

Yan Zhen felt that her deskmate was wrong. She knew that her father and grandmother had no difference between their sister and brother. Her mother had difficulty giving birth to her brother, which was something that everyone didn't expect.

But Yan Zhen couldn't explain to her new deskmate. When she played skating, Yan Zhen completely forgot about it and indulged in the fun of skating.

Once there was a lie, there would be a second time. Yan Zhen was restrained. She went to the skating rink once or twice a month, but she asked her father or grandmother for money in the name of textbook fees every month. More than once, the whole family realized that she was wrong.

Only Yan Zhen felt that she was hiding well, and her heart was more and more relaxed.

"Anyway, it's going to be a holiday soon. I want to take Dajin and Erzhen to Shencheng this time."

At the dinner table, Yan Chu suddenly said.

"I want to go, too."

Listen, Dad actually wants to take the eldest sister and the second sister to Shencheng. The little children are also noisy.

"How troublesome it is to take the children."

The old lady thought that her son was so tired to buy goods. Wouldn't it be more tired to look after two small ones.

"Dajin and Erzhen are not small. This trip also opened their eyes."

Yan Chu said and touched some young children: "don't worry, when you are older, dad will take you with him."

I don't know why, Yan Yuanbao and other little carrots have some chills behind their heads. Intuition is not a good thing.