pjbooks Chapter 43 House Repairs, My Mother's Worry
Chapter 43 House Repairs, My Mother's Worry
The next day.
As soon as the rooster crowed, Lin Feng got up. It seemed that he and Wang Liang were discussing selling the fish as well.
Once awake, he couldn't fall back asleep, so Lin Chuan simply got up and went with them to get the cage.
The original three cages were moved to a different location, and they started overflowing again, so we added three larger cages later.
The six cages yielded a total of over 300 jin (approximately 150 kg), and the harvest point reached 1424.
Watching them leave, Lin Chuan got busy. He had gone to find people yesterday, and today he started building the house, which would include meals.
There's also furniture making. Usually, the homeowner prepares the wood and calls a carpenter to make it at their home, and meals are provided.
Lin Chuan didn't want extra people at home all the time, so he simply had someone else do the work at his house. It would just cost him a little more money, and he would collect the money after the work was done.
At eight o'clock, the people who came to work arrived one after another, and Lin Chuan and his mother had already prepared the meal.
"Wow, this food is pretty good."
"Xiao Chuan is so promising! Sister Xia, you're so lucky."
The villagers had all seen the changes in Lin Chuan's family and knew that it was related to Lin Chuan.
Hearing others praise Lin Chuan, Mom smiled happily, said a few modest words, and then started eating.
The food was indeed quite good: stir-fried wild boar with chili peppers, stir-fried shrimp with chili peppers, stir-fried cured pork with chili peppers, loofah and egg soup, and two kinds of stir-fried seasonal vegetables. It was better than what most people eat during the Chinese New Year.
These people actually exchanged or bought some wild boar meat yesterday, but when it comes to meat, who can complain about having too much?
Lin Chuan's culinary skills were beyond question; everyone was thoroughly satisfied with the meal, and the praise never stopped throughout the meal.
If Lin Chuan weren't still in school, someone would definitely be introducing him to a potential partner right now.
Although the national regulations stipulate that men should be 22 and women 20, there are many people in rural areas who get married first and then register their marriage. Even decades from now, there will still be many such people, and no one will care about this.
"Xiao Chuan, tell me what to do."
After the meal, Lin Chuan gave everyone a pack of cigarettes, both men and women, and they were all Hongjinlong brand, which he had bought again yesterday.
They ate well and smoked higher-grade cigarettes than the average person, which made them a little embarrassed. They were about to start eating right after finishing their meal.
Lin Chuan led them into the yard. There was a fence in front of the yard and near the kitchen to prevent people from falling into the pond and chickens from escaping.
There was no fence on the other side of the yard, and some weeds and small trees grew there.
Lin Chuan ordered his men to clear out this area, with some going to the village to collect bricks and tiles, and others digging for yellow clay.
Cement is available for sale now, but in rural areas, yellow clay is still the most commonly used material, and the same applies to bricks, which are mostly made of adobe bricks and tiles.
Lin Chuan also prepared adobe bricks and tiles for the smoke room, but he prepared red bricks and cement for the shower room.
Yesterday I asked Wang Hu, and he said there were these in the bay. He agreed to find more workers.
Just as things were getting really busy, Wang Hu arrived, along with Wang Long and Wang Yan, all there to help.
There was a smoking room, a shower room, and Lin Chuan also built a storage room, which was used to store miscellaneous items.
There were many people looking for it, and the three rooms weren't very big, so we finished before five o'clock.
It was still a while before dinner, and with good food, good cigarettes, and immediate payment, these people felt embarrassed to take a break.
They repaired the toilet and pigsty for Lin Chuan's family, and even sawed and neatly stacked the firewood piled in the yard.
This is what rural areas are like in this era: simple and honest. If you treat someone well, they will treat you well in return. There are very few people who dawdle and try to take advantage of others.
"This looks pretty good."
My mom was initially reluctant, thinking it was a waste of money.
After she finished it, she looked at it and was satisfied with everything.
"Right, once the furniture is finished and placed inside, everything will be complete."
"Oh, right, Mom, how about we go buy another pig to raise?"
While repairing the pigsty today, Lin Chuan realized that he didn't have any pigs at home. He used to have some; he had bought piglets at the beginning of the year.
But after raising it for more than two months, my mother realized it was a superstitious pig and released it back into the wild.
Pigs typically have four toes. If a pig is found to have five toes, there's a saying that it's a reincarnation of a human, and it should be released back into the wild.
I don't know where this saying came from. People don't believe it when they hear it, and they call this kind of pig a superstitious pig. But when it comes to their own lives, they feel apprehensive if they don't release it.
Not having a pig at home has always been a worry for my mother, which means there won't be a pig for the Lunar New Year this year.
She had considered buying one before, but piglets were hard to find in May, and Lin Chuan was going to high school in September, so she was worried that she wouldn't have enough money and kept putting it off.
Hearing Lin Chuan mention buying pigs, and thinking about the family's recent income, her eyes instantly lit up:
"We should buy a pig, otherwise we'll have nowhere to put the swill. It's just that piglets are hard to find right now; there aren't any that have started breeding right now."
"Mom, why don't you ask around later? If they don't have a small one, we can buy a half-grown one. Raising it until the New Year won't be a loss."
"Okay, I'll take a look later."
With one worry gone, Mom was in a great mood. These days, if the family doesn't raise a pig, it always feels like something's missing.
Seeing that his mother was in a good mood, Lin Chuan brought up another matter:
"Mom, when you're asking around, if anyone has a puppy, bring one home."
"Okay, I'll take a look later."
"Brother, are we going to get a dog? A small one?"
Lin Xue recently made a friend whose family has a dog that is small and very cute, which makes her extremely envious.
"Yeah, are you happy or not?"
"Yeah, I'm happy, bro. I also want to get a cat."
"Um, you tell Mom..."
"Mom~"
Lin Xue ran to hug her mother and acted coquettishly, while Lin Chuan pulled Lin Feng aside.
"Has the money been handed over?"
"Yes, I gave it to Mom."
"You gave it all away? Couldn't you have kept a little for yourself?"
"Why would I keep secret money? I can just ask my mom if I need money."
Lin Feng gave Lin Chuan a strange look, and Lin Chuan patted him on the shoulder:
"I was originally going to give you a hundred dollars to keep as your secret stash, but I didn't expect you to be so considerate. You're truly my brother."
After saying that, Lin Chuan gave Lin Feng a thumbs up, took out a hundred-yuan bill from his pocket, and admired it in his hand.
Just as he was about to put it away, a pair of hands reached out and grabbed Lin Chuan's forearm:
"Brother, I've thought about it again, having a little secret stash of money isn't a bad thing."
Lin Chuan didn't tease him anymore, slapped the hundred yuan into Lin Feng's hand, and gave him a word of advice:
"Don't spend it recklessly. If you need money, just tell me. Don't actually keep it for yourself."
"No, no, I definitely won't do that."
Lin Feng held the hundred-yuan note and looked at it with admiration for a while. This was the first time he had ever owned a hundred-yuan note of his own.
"Brother, brother, Mom has agreed to let me keep a kitten."
"Be happy."
"happy."
"Then you'd better take good care of yourself."
"Yes, I will definitely take good care of it."
After playing for a while, the three of them went to take a shower. The newly built bathroom couldn't be used yet because the cement had to dry.
But the smokehouse was already usable. Lin Chuan put the things he wanted to smoke inside and hung them up, and they could start smoking them tomorrow.
The next day.
[A certain amount of fishing caught, harvest points +332]
The closing point reached a new high of 1756.