CH 63.1

When Zhang Fangyuan bought the pig and went home, he saw Liu Xianglan walking back with a herring on the mountain ridge. He reckoned that someone had come to the house.

He didn’t catch up to say anything but went home by himself. He saw an old hen in the yard, and laughed.

"The sun came out from the west, and my mother-in-law actually brought things here."

Xu He was washing the rice, and glanced at the man: "But she couldn't afford to suffer, and took the fish."

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It's not a problem, there are a lot of them in the left and right of the river."

They didn't eat less in the past two days, and there were still a lot them in the barrel. Xu He was already planning to sell them in the tea shed. Anyone who could cook and sell their works could do it. The price of fish was low and it was not very valuable.

"Can you find a suitable one?"

"Yes, everyone in the neighborhood knows that I do this business. It's much easier to find than before. When you enter the village, someone will greet you."

But he sighed again.

"Chen Si came to me yesterday and said he wanted to learn this skill."

Xu He frowned slightly when he heard this. He knew that the rainstorm had ruined the crops this time, and every houses was not spared. A piece of crop land in the Chen family was flooded by the river. Even for such a small family, the food for this year may not be enough to eat after paying the land tax.

In fact, not only their family, many villagers were worried about this matter.

He went out to pick vegetables, and when he met the villagers in the village, the wife and fulang took him and said that he had a good life and married into a good husband.

This morning everyone said that his man bought old hens everywhere, and fed him with delicious food and drink at home. People like them still had to work in the fields for six months of pregnancy, let alone have a good meal. Now there was a natural disaster again, the house leaked and it rained all night, life was very hard.

As they spoke, they began to mourn like at a funeral.

Xu He knew that the life of the farmer was not easy, but dragged him into mourning as if it was his own fault for their bad luck.

He didn't know what these people were thinking, but he felt that he used to be like a gray wall, incompetent and worse than them, who was at the bottom of everything, and now when he had surpassed them, instead he felt more and more unhappy.

When a disaster happened, they didn't want to think about how to remedy it. Instead, they complained and complained, apart from making themself feel more troubled, nothing was resolved.

"It's good for the Chen family to find more ways out." At least it was not like the other families, who could do nothing but blame others, said it was their bad luck, and scolded those rich people.

Zhang Fangyuan squatted in front of the stove to light the fire, and threw firewood into the stove: "I think it will be okay to teach him the craft. In the final analysis, he is a person who is familiar with and knows the basic. That kid has been with me since he was a child, and I know him well.”

The craft was Zhang Fangyuan's. Xu He couldn't make decisions for him, but he still said sincerely: "We can earn more than six taels a month by selling pork and at least three taels. This is also due to the fact that there is only one butcher in the village. If there are more than one person, it’s bound to divide some of the business."

"Have you thought about it?"

Of course Zhang Fangyuan knew this truth, in fact, the money earned from selling pork at the stall was already the top among the villagers. They earned a lot of money every month from the stall, they were still stable in the long run, and they lived a very solid life. In addition to the tea shed business, although it had only been opened for a while, there were still three taels of income a month, and the combination of the two businesses was quite many.

But you couldn't just count the income, you also had to count the expenses.

This time when there was torrential rain, their house leaked everywhere. Although their house was not too badly leaked, a few pieces of turf were lifted from the roof. He saw the tragic situation of the Chen family, and when he compared the two families, his own family was much better.

But two days ago, he passed by the landlord's house in the east of the village. The green brick and tile house built by others, when thre was torrential rain, not to mention the tiles had never been knocked off, there were still servants sweeping the yard. For the first time, he felt that his house was too poor.

Thinking about the leakage in his previous life like a waterfall, he thought over and over again, he still had to build a green brick house.

If he wanted to build a smaller one, he actually had enough money on hand, but if he wanted to build a big house, he had to spend all the money. He wanted to earn so much more money, relying on the income from the family's two small businesses, he didn't know how long it would take to save so much money again.

He told Xu He about his thoughts.

Xu He didn't even dare to think about building green brick and tile houses. Only the landlords had such houses in the village, and even the village chief's family couldn't build them. In fact, when Zhang Fangyuan proposed this idea, he was quite moved: "It's enough to repair the house and earn the money again. Although the money on hand is gone, the house can be repaired."

Zhang Fangyuan said: "If you want to repair the house, you have to build a bigger one. "

"It's not a small thing if you want to build a green brick house. The smallest green brick house has five or six rooms. Isn't it enough for the four of us?"

Zhang Fangyuan retorted  immediately: "There are more than four!"

Xu He laughed, forgetting that there was one more in his stomach.

"Even if I share a room with you, the second aunt and Xiao'e share a room, at least two other rooms must be reserved for the children. Apart from the living room, there must be a warehouse, a main hall, and a utility room..." Zhang Fangyuan counted in detail: "It's not enough without ten or so rooms."

Xu He raised his brows and curled up his lips secretly, it turned out he wanted at least two children.