A Handbook of Happiness for Small Farmers

Chapter 59 The Taste of a Hero
The appearance of the Qin Zhang family did not bring much influence to Qin Ke'er. Compared with her own life, people like the Qin Zhang family seemed insignificant.

The rebuilding of the new home lasted for three days. When Hu Jiren brought a man in his 30s to Qin Keer's new home in the afternoon of the third day, it meant that the work of Qin Keer and others could finally come to an end.The next thing to do is to build the furniture.

Through Hu Jiren, Qin Keer already knew about the money needed to make furniture. After comparing it with the money she had, Qin Keer decided to build a few pieces of furniture that are necessary for daily life, such as tables and doors. As for the wardrobe? Yes, just wait until I have some spare money in my hand before buying it.

The carpenter, surnamed Liu, is an honest farmer. When the farming is not busy, he relies on his carpentry skills to earn some pocket money to supplement his family.Seeing that the house Qin Keer lived in was not as good as his own, Carpenter Liu only asked for a cost price, saving Qin Keer a small amount of tens of pennies.

Only now Qin Ke'er realized what a few tens of pennies, or a few pennies, meant to an ordinary peasant family.Take the most basic seasoning in the kitchen as an example, the price of a catty of coarse salt is eight cents, and some grocery stores will sell fifteen cents and two catties.After the coarse salt is bought, it has to be carefully boiled and turned into fine salt before it can be eaten.For a catty of coarse salt, even a person with the best skill in boiling salt can produce at most seven taels of fine salt.Therefore, the price of finished salt is generally sold at about fifteen yuan.

Farmers generally focus on manual labor, and correspondingly, the more physical work, the greater the amount of salt consumed.Still according to the five-person relationship between two adults and three-and-a-half-year-old children, a catty of fine salt can last for about a month at most.Over the past month, the cost of salt and salt alone has to be more than ten or twenty Wen.

Coupled with condiments such as soy sauce and vinegar, a family will spend thirty to fifty yuan on seasoning alone, and if there is something that needs to be arranged, it will cost even more.

That's why I said that the tens of Wen's manual fee that carpenter Liu waived, to Qin Ke'er, it was the salt money of half a year with her mother-in-law!Moreover, in the past few days, the money spent on shopping has reduced Qin Ke'er's money by half. If he can't find a profitable business as soon as possible, Qin Ke'er and his aunt may have to rely on the money they have. It will be spring next year.

Carpenter Liu is honest and quick at work. In less than three days, a dining table, two matching chairs, and a small wooden box customized by Qin Keer are considered complete.Carpenter Liu also re-beat the cupboards in the kitchen in the back room, and fixed the loose corners with nails.

They waived the manual fee, and Qin Ke'er generously invited Carpenter Liu to have a meal.Although it is not big fish and meat, it is also delicious.

At night, Qin Ke'er got up from the bed, reached out to light a candle, and then found a purse from the inside of her clothes.

The purse was given by Hu Miaoxiang, the size of an adult's palm, just right for putting some money or something.

After counting her remaining savings, Qin Ke'er couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

I often heard people say that a penny beats a hero. Seeing the little money left in his hand, Qin Ke'er really felt like a hero.

(End of this chapter)