Rebirth 1980: Marrying my sister’s best friend at the beginning

Chapter 27 I want to build a house (please subscribe!)

Li Yi knew that his father's thoughts were a bit conservative, and it was understandable that it was difficult to accept his seemingly risky behavior for a while, so Li Yi didn't say much.

He believes that as time goes by, his thoughts and attitudes will change.

Afterwards, Li Yi said something to his father and went straight to the back mountain!

When Li Yi came over, more than a dozen baskets had been placed on the dam of the reservoir, and many children were doing preliminary processing of the harvested mountain products.

Seeing Li Yi coming, the children gathered around.

Li Yi took a cursory look and found that there were more and more children picking mountain products these days, and there were as many as 30 people.

"Dongzi, what's going on with them?" Li Yi pointed to a few seven or eight-year-old children and asked.

Dongzi immediately said: "Brother Yi, don't everyone in the village know that we make money by picking mushrooms with you? Their parents found me and wanted them to pick mushrooms with you!"

"They are too young!" Li Yi said with a frown.

At this time, a dirty little boy said loudly: "We are not young anymore, we can also pick mushrooms!"

Li Yi recognized this little guy. He was the third son of Dong Laizi's family in the west of the village.

His father has polio and has limited mobility, and his mother is mute. There are five children in the family, and life is quite difficult.

Dongzi also echoed and said: "Brother Yi, we are all mountain children, so picking mushrooms is no problem!"

Li Yi sighed and said: "It's not safe in the mountains after all. Let's not talk about jackals, tigers, leopards, wild boars and other wild beasts. Just picking mountain products is not easy. People who climb high and low, I'm worried about something happening to them!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the children were heard saying, "We are not afraid!"

"Yes, we are not afraid!"

"We run in the mountains every day and we are really not afraid."

Li Yi signaled them to be quiet first, and then said: "You can make money with me if you want. Go back and ask your parents to come to my house to find me. Only after we speak clearly can I dare to take you, otherwise it won't work!"

It's not that Li Yi is paranoid, but that there are some things that he must think of ahead.

The business of collecting mountain products is really dangerous. Although in recent years, the government organized militia to kill all the wolves, tigers, leopards and other large beasts in the mountains. There are still some similar ones.

Especially wild boars, there are a lot of them in the mountains. Once children encounter those things, they are really dangerous.

If the child is injured or dead because of picking wild goods for himself, then the adults in his family have not given away the house of Li Yi's family. He can't take this risk!
After hearing that Li Yi didn't really want them, but let the adults of their family speak, the children didn't say anything else.

Later, under the command of Li Yi, a large group of children carried more than a dozen baskets of cleaned mushrooms and fungus back to the village!
After returning home, Li Yi also paid them yesterday's wages.

After the production team finished work in the evening, people from the village came to Li Yi's house one after another.

Everyone's purpose is the same, that is, they want their children to follow Li Yi and earn some pocket money to support their family.

Li Yi's attitude is very clear. You can follow suit if you want, but you have to sign an agreement.

The content of the agreement is also very simple, that is, the children use their spare time to work and study, and they are not engaged in child labor.

Secondly, children must obey the instructions of the older children when going up the mountain and cannot act without authorization. Secondly, he is not responsible for any safety issues.

Everyone also understood Li Yi's difficulties, so they signed this agreement one after another.

Some people even asked Li Yi if he wanted the mountain goods picked by the adults, but Li Yi refused.It's not that Li Yi has no market, but that the agricultural cooperative has not yet been disbanded. If he encourages these adults to go to the mountains to collect goods, it will inevitably affect the production progress of the production team, which is absolutely unacceptable.

In addition, the reason why he wanted to take Dongzi and the others to do mountain goods trading was that he needed money, and he also wanted these little brothers to make money with him.

But if all the adults in the village go to the mountains to pick mushrooms and fungus, how can the children have anything to do!
So although Li Yi was very moved by the adults' suggestions, he finally endured it!
When everyone left Li Yi's house, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening!

The family tidied up and got ready to rest!
At this time, Li Yi suddenly said to his parents: "Father, mother, I have something to discuss with you!"

Li Shankui knocked the dry tobacco pot in his hand on the edge of the kang, and then said, "What's the matter?"

"Dad, I want to build a house!" Li Yi said seriously.

Li Yi has been thinking about building a house for several days. He knows that his parents' idea is to sort out the house he lives in now and use it as their wedding room when he and Tang Xue get married.

But Li Yi felt that it was still too shabby. First of all, the room was originally used to store sundries at home. Not only was it small in area, it was not warm.

It's fine in summer, but in winter it's not suitable for a wedding room because of the draft and air leaks.

What's more, if nothing else goes wrong, Tang Xue already has their child in her belly. Even for the sake of the child, he has to consider the issue of the house.

Li Shankui was silent for a while, and then said, "Why do you think of building a house?"

Mother Zhang Yuehong also asked: "Although the West Room is a bit small, it can still be lived in! If it doesn't work, after Xiaoxue comes over, your father and I will live in the West Room, and you two will live in the East Room!"

Li Yi immediately said: "I have actually had the idea of ​​building a house for a long time. On the one hand, Xiaoxue and I want a small home of our own after we get married. On the other hand, our home is really too small."

"Because the family can't accommodate too many people, the eldest sister and the second sister rarely go back to their parents' home these years. Even if they come back, they don't spend the night at home."

After hearing Li Yi's words, Li Shankui and Zhang Yuehong were silent.

They all know that their son is telling the truth, but building a house is not that simple. It requires both labor and materials, and it is not cheap!

After a long time, Li Shankui finally said: "Building a house requires money, and you are getting married soon, so you also need money. Why don't you build it slowly?"

"I have almost 500 yuan in my hand now, I don't know if it is enough!" Li Yi replied.

Li Shankui and Zhang Yuehong looked at each other. They really didn't expect that their son would still have 500 yuan in his hand after taking out the gift money and buying a bicycle. They were both surprised.

“If it’s a brick house, it’s not even close, but an adobe house is enough!”

Li Yi thought for a while and said: "Dad, I want to build a brick house. I will build three rooms this year. Next year, I will renovate the old house and build it into a brick house!"

Li Shankui took a puff of his cigarette and said, "I'll talk about it later, but take care of yourselves first!"

"If you agree, then I will go to Uncle Feng tomorrow and ask him to approve the homestead for me!" Li Yi said.

"Well, remember to bring two bottles of wine to Lao Feng when you go!" Li Shankui warned.

Since his son has money, he will not stop him.

Moreover, he is also worried that his previous unreliable habits will happen again. He would rather waste the money and use it to build a house now.

"Row!"

(End of this chapter)