Ordinary people's rice bowl

Chapter 83
In the blink of an eye, it has been two weeks since school started, but Mu Zhen didn't go home because of the rest. During this period, she didn't ask her family for a penny except for the school fees. Old Mu was a little worried.

"When Mu Zhen started school, how much did you give him?" Old Mu, who had left his job, stared at Xiuhua and asked.

"Didn't you say that in addition to paying his tuition, you would pay him five yuan a week? You gave him two weeks' living expenses in total." Xiuhua responded seriously.

"Ten yuan, it's been more than two weeks, can he still have living expenses there?" Old Mu asked back.

"Even if there are not many, you can send some money when you have time, and at the same time, look at what your child is lacking in school? You are a father, you don't care about your child going to school, and you want your child to come back with a golden job? "Xiuhua complained a little.

"Why don't I care about it? Isn't it because I have a lot of school affairs? We are so close to the school, and you don't know that Teacher Xiao Wang gave birth to a child, and I took care of the twenty students in the class for him. It’s time to leave! Besides school, I have to be busy preparing bricks, tiles, and wood on weekends. If you didn’t propose to build a house, I could save some time this weekend. But you complain every day that our house is sunny and exposed, and rainy Water leaks, isn’t this why we have to be busy preparing materials for building a house?” Lao Mu has always been unreasonable, and said a lot with reason and restraint.

"Don't mention the house, I'll get angry when I mention it. The two homesteads we asked for in front of the village were favored by others. At that time, Tian Cheng helped us distribute them. The homesteads they asked for were all built with red bricks Don’t you look at the big tile-roofed house with red tiles. The broken thatched house when we got married has been around for ten years now. The children are all grown up, and they still live together. The children have their own ideas. Don’t blame your son. If you don’t come back on weekends, how can you come back? We don’t even have a place to live at home, we don’t build a house, and people don’t tell jokes, so we can’t live with our face!” Xiuhua became more and more angry, her voice raised a lot.

"Build, build, who said not to build? Didn't you listen to the people in the village? If you want to have a feud with someone, then persuade him to tear down the house and build a house. This makes sense. To build a house, if you have money, Second, there must be labor. Although I have had some money in the past two years, it is not generous to use the money to build a house. Now I can only prepare a little bit. When the materials are ready, we will start construction. Besides, we live here. It’s so close to the school, so much effort is saved.” Lao Mu finally understood why he was not in a hurry.

"If you build it, you can collect the money. I'll go back to Yangliu today and ask my father to borrow some money to solve the famine of lack of money for building a house!" Mu Hua heard Lao Mu mentioning the lack of money, and felt that it was wrong to build a house without money. Absolutely impossible, without money, saying anything is useless, living at home, she is the most familiar with the dilemma that this clever woman can't live without rice.Even if Xiuhua was a little angry at this time, it was inconvenient to put all difficulties on Lao Mu's shoulders. She knew very well that Lao Mu was now the caretaker of the school and his family. Although the school was only a wall away from home, as long as Lao Mu entered the partition His people stayed in the courtyard, and his heart was with the children in the courtyard, never thinking about anything at home. Over the years, Xiuhua knew very well that Mu had devoted himself to education. , much more than the dedication to this family, otherwise those honors won every year would not have been exchanged for nothing.

Lao Mu nodded, relieved his emotions, and said in a quite calm tone: "You are talking about it. These days, because of the construction of the house, our family has a lot of things, but the most important thing we are facing The problem is the money, if the money is in place, will we still worry about not having a new house to live in?" Lao Mu said very practically, last week he went to the market to look at bricks, and he asked for five carts of bricks at a time, although one brick The price is only two and a half cents, but it costs at least 1 yuan to build such three tile-roofed houses, and [-] yuan for the bare bricks. The total income from the field is no more than four to five hundred yuan. Except for the family expenses, this year's income is not enough for the bricks used to build the house, plus the stones, cement, sand, lime, rafters, and houses used below. Wa, none of this is without money. Fortunately, there are four hundred yuan in dividends from the pig farm this year. Otherwise, how could I have the ability to build these three tile-roofed houses?

"You calculated that day, how much do we still need in this house?" Xiuhua pondered, the money is not much different, but there is no place to borrow, so it seems stretched.

"Everything is counted. If all the materials are prepared, there is no one thousand two hundred yuan, and the problem cannot be solved at all. Now we add everything in our family, and it is only eight hundred yuan, which is at least four hundred yuan!" Old Mu After a little thought.

"Well, I will lend four hundred yuan to my father to try to build the house after autumn. I heard that the materials for building houses are cheaper at this time, and the price of materials will be higher next spring. When we meet The difficulty will be even greater.” Xiuhua’s point is not unreasonable. At this time of the year, due to the lack of supply, it is a time when everyone is relatively short of money, and there are fewer houses in rural areas. All building materials are relatively cheap, and spring flowers bloom. The season is when rural people’s pockets are the most bulging. At this time, there are many houses built, and all the building materials are relatively expensive. The villagers mentioned to her that building houses in these two seasons can save more than 200 yuan for three houses. Woolen cloth!

"You go to Yangliu, I'm going to the town today, and the education committee informed me to go to a meeting with the principal, so I can visit Mu Zhen by the way." Old Mu thought of giving up on Mu Zhen, and had placed such high hopes on Mu Zhen back then. , After graduating from elementary school, he went to the middle school in the county seat. In order to help him solve the problem of partial subjects, he was transferred to Binhu Middle School to study. In the past two years in Binhu Middle School, although he was very satisfied with his grades in the middle, he went to Binhu Middle School. The final grades were not even as good as those in Gucheng No. [-] Middle School, which made Mu Zhen feel very annoyed, so when Mu Zhen started school, he did not pay his son directly, but asked Xiuhua to do it for him, but after all, it was his own child No matter how unsatisfactory he is, he should also think about his basic living expenses. His consistent principle is that the child cannot be as helpless as he was back then. He wants to see the child and give his son the family warmth he deserves.

"Mu Yan, your father and I are going out today, after school at noon, if we can't come back, take good care of Mu Bao!" Xiuhua, who is about to go out, turned to Mu who was picking up rubbish in the freshly dried soybeans. Yan exhorted.

Mu Yan raised her head, glanced at her mother and agreed, "Well, we'll make salty rice for lunch!"

Mu Yan, who has not been to school for a few days, although she is only 12 years old, she is like an expert in housework. Not only can she cook all kinds of home-cooked dishes at home, but she also learned steamed noodles from Xiuhua. Among the children, there is no one who can compare. Although he has not been in school for a long time, he was the No.1 in the class that year. If it wasn't for that accident, two pieces of the middle finger and index finger of his right hand were amputated , she is a little disabled, maybe she is also the best among students of her age!

Mu Yan looked at the backs of her parents when they went out. She didn't know whether it was because she was confused or hurt by what her parents said just now.

(End of this chapter)