Do you know the long song of laughter?

Chapter 34 Chapter Buying a House
  Li An practiced for a while, and when he saw that his parents hadn't come back yet, he went to cook.

As soon as he steamed the rice, he heard the sound of opening the door and talking outside.

"Mom, dad, brother, I've steamed the rice. I'll be ready to eat after making some dishes."

Li An saw the tired faces of his parents and wanted to persuade them not to be so tired, but he also knew that his parents would not listen at all, so he sighed inwardly.

Although Mrs. Liu's face was full of fatigue, she was in high spirits.

"Aniu, have you changed your clothes?" Ms. Liu remembered that Li An was not wearing these clothes when he went out in the morning.

"I felt sticky on my body, so I came back and took a shower." Li An said.

Mrs. Liu didn't think much after hearing this. She asked Li Nan and Li Ping to bring the things into the house, rolled up their sleeves, and went to cook.

"Mom, I'll light the fire for you." Li An followed.

"Go, go, brother Fu, doesn't he always say that a gentleman should stay away from the kitchen? How many times have I told you, wait until I come back to cook the meal. If you are hungry, just eat some braised food to make up for it." Ms. Liu said .

"Mom, that's just a gentleman staying away from the cook. It has nothing to do with cooking." Li An said speechlessly.

The ancients believed that people with nicknames would make a living, so their children would all be given nicknames when they were born.

Just like Shizhu is called Goudan, he is called Aniu, that's it.

Li Fu's nickname was Chou Niu, but after he started studying, his eldest aunt felt that it was a bit embarrassing for her son to be called by his nickname, so she asked the family to call him Fu Geer instead. Over the years, he has become accustomed to calling him Fu Ge'er.

Rural children have to help with household chores as soon as they can run away. When Li Fu takes a bath, he will often be shouted at to light a fire or something.

But after he got to the middle house, he told him that a gentleman should stay away from the cook.

Mrs. Liu listened a lot and took note of this sentence. In her opinion, her son was already a scholar, so naturally he couldn't enter the kitchen.

"Why not? Although your mother has never read a book, how can she understand it if she understands it so well? A gentleman should stay away from the kitchen, and a scholar should stay away from the kitchen? You go and have a rest. Tieniu will come and light the fire for me." Liu Shi said.

"Here we come!" Li Ping responded and ran out of the hall.

Although Li An was speechless, he was very moved.

Shaking his head, he walked into the living room and saw his father counting money with two wooden barrels in front of him.

Li An took a look and saw that there was half a barrel of copper coins in the barrel, estimated to be 1,400 to 500 copper coins.

"Dad, have you added more?" Li An asked.

After his business started, it got better and better. From the first few pigs in the water, to the next ten.

It would take three people a long time to clean ten pigs into the water. There were only two pots at home, and the brine would take a long time. If there were more, it would be too busy.

So Li An told his parents to make ten sets every day.

At this time, the pig's head and trotters were not included in the pig's water, and it looked like it weighed about thirty kilograms.

After the ten pieces of meat shrunk, they only weighed about two hundred kilograms.

Generally, if you buy frequently, you will be given a little more. The daily turnover is about 1,000 yuan.

However, now that there are so many more, it is obvious that the amount has been increased.

"Well, I added a few more." Li Nan nodded.

"Dad, you won't be able to keep up with this. Doing this every day is unbearable." Li An said anxiously.

"Hey, this job is much easier than farming. You can make some money while the business is good now. If the business fails in the future, you won't be able to make any money even if you want to." Li Nan said.

Li An didn't know what to say when he heard this. He asked his parents to do business. Firstly, he wanted to make some money and change his family's life. Secondly, he wanted to make his parents easier.

Life has indeed improved now. With money, his parents are willing to buy some meat to eat basically every two or three days.

But the person is too tired and cannot be persuaded.

"Dad, why don't you hire someone?" Li An said.

Li Nan was stunned, shook his head and said: "How can this be done? What if someone hires someone to leak the secret recipe?"

"Dad, you can hire someone to help with cleaning and chores, and just don't let him interfere with other things." Li An said.

"No, you have to hire someone to be on guard when you come back. It's so troublesome. Your mother and I, as well as Tieniu, can just do more. There's no need to hire someone." Li Nan shook his head. Seeing that his father did not agree, Li An had no choice but to do it.

"How about asking your uncle to help?" Li Nan said.

After all, they were brothers, but he was still thinking about his eldest brother who was working hard on the dock.

"Uncle?"

Li An was startled. He didn't have any bad feelings towards his uncle.

His uncle is relatively honest, but he doesn't have any independent opinions.

"Dad, you have to tell your mother about this. After all, she is the head of the family." Li An said.

"You brat, what are you talking about? Your grandfather is the head of the family." Li Nan said angrily.

Li An smiled and said, "Dad, let me help you."

"Because you interrupted me like this, I counted how many times and forgot."

Li Nan glared at him and poured the money back into the other bucket.

"hey-hey."

Li An chuckled, moved a small stool to the side, sat down, and helped count the money.

"Dad, I counted 932 Wen, how many did you count?"

Li An finished counting the copper coins in his hand and saw that there was no more coins in the bucket. When Li Nan finished counting the coins in his hand, he asked.

"This is 425." After Li Nan finished speaking, he muttered: "Studying is so useful, you can count money so fast."

Li An: "..."

He calculated it in his mind and found that the total was one thousand three hundred and fifty-seven yuan.

This money sounds like a lot, but it's actually not much.

In the early Song Dynasty, one tael of silver could be exchanged for regular money, but silver was easier to carry than copper coins and was less circulated, so the conversion ratio between silver and copper coins also changed.

Now one tael of silver floats in the price of 1,200 to 1,300 fen, and more than 1,300 fen is only a little more than one tael of silver.

They have to spend money to buy firewood here, and the total cost is about 40%.

After a month, I can earn almost a dozen taels of silver.

Even so, it was a huge sum of money for a family like theirs.

"Have you finished counting the money?"

At this moment, Liu and Li Ping came in carrying food.

"Mom, I've finished counting. There are one thousand three hundred and fifty-seven in total." Li An said.

Mrs. Liu smiled slightly when she heard this and said, "You guys should go wash your hands and eat."

Li An and his father went to wash their hands and came back. Mrs. Liu had already served them rice.

Liu gave Li An a piece of meat and said, "Aniu, what do you think our family would like to buy this house?"

Because of Li An's behavior during this period, Li Nan and Mr. Liu no longer treat him as a child, and they will ask him anything at home.

"Buy a house?" Li An was stunned for a while and said, "Mom, this house shouldn't be cheap, right?"

"It's not cheap. I asked tentatively that day, and it cost sixty taels of silver." Ms. Liu said.

"Even if I can pay it back, it will probably only cost fifty taels anyway. Our family doesn't have that much money," Li An said.

Li An was not surprised that Mr. Liu wanted to buy a house. Mr. Liu frequently expressed his love for this house these days.

In just over two months, the money saved was only thirty taels at most. How could I afford a house of fifty taels.

　Thanks to Apologies for the 100-coin reward, and thanks to Fool’s Wisdom for the monthly ticket support.

　　
  　
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