Song Tan looked at her: "Auntie, here is a house. Why don't you ask my brother to take care of the seventh cousin?"
My aunt’s son, Zhu Lingqi, is not married yet. Even if my aunt has a family background, why can’t she have an extra house?
The aunt was shy: "How do you know I didn't scream?"
The aunt's abacus eye made a thorough calculation of the price: the seventh cousin is now able to move around, eat and drink, and does not need to be taken care of at all. At most, he only needs to visit every now and then.
If he really got sick, he and his wife also said that no one would have to spend money, they would have their own medical insurance and savings.
Just in case it becomes inconvenient in the future, you have to take care of it. But for this care, even if it means hiring a caregiver to serve you every day, how much can it cost?
The seventh cousin's current house, a new building, can be sold for RMB 8,500 in such a sluggish market according to the house price in an eighteenth-tier city like Yuncheng. It can be seen that the school district and the central location of the city have taken up everything.
In addition, the compensation for the demolition of the house was also huge, covering more than 170 square meters... Is it too much for such a good house?
So as soon as the seventh cousin revealed his intention, my aunt quickly recommended herself.
At that time, she was still spreading pancakes on the stall. The seventh cousin walked by carrying vegetables. He smelled the smell and said to her:
"You are really ignorant. I have taught you how to pickle sauerkraut so many times but you still can't pickle it properly. You can tell the cowpeas don't taste right as soon as you smell them."
Auntie’s egg pancakes will be sprinkled with sour cowpeas to enhance the flavor, but who has the time to fiddle with these sour cowpeas? They are all bought ready-made.
In fact, my aunt's food is quite good, but it's a pity that my seventh cousin doesn't like it.
Fortunately, there was no one around, so the reputation of this sour cowpea was saved.
Auntie is not angry either.
She is now good at making egg pancakes, thanks to her seventh cousin's advice. So she smiled and said that she didn't have that skill, and then mentioned to his seventh cousin that her son would provide for him in the future.
The seventh cousin was also an upright person. Hearing this, he raised his eyebrows and looked at her: "You have taken a fancy to my house, right?"
My aunt thought there was something going on, and she was so happy that she rubbed her hands together:
"Looking at what you said, who wouldn't want that house? Don't worry, our family can promise you that it will be a decent and decent house for you to take care of."
The seventh cousin doesn’t believe it.
"You only have one son, taking care of two old people. When you get married, you will have children at the bottom. What if you find an only child partner again, and there are two old people there... will it be our turn?"
"That's not how it works, cousin."
The aunt is so stubborn: "Can't we still move here? Those who go back and clean up are still better than young people."
Song Tan was curious: "Auntie, I think what you said makes sense. Why does the seventh cousin disagree?"
Her eldest aunt's family is really good at running the house. Her eldest uncle doesn't like to talk, but he is honest and honest.
We don’t get along with my eldest cousin very much, but it seems that there shouldn’t be anything wrong with him.
Looking at the way my aunt cleans herself up clean and tidy every day, you can tell that if the seventh cousin lets go, they will still live in the community opposite. It will be so convenient to be nearby.
Auntie sighed:
"Actually, those are all excuses for your seventh cousin. He mainly looks down on me.:"
What did the seventh cousin say at that time?
"...Hongmei, I know you are a neat person, but I will enjoy it as soon as I get older."
"You live like that every day, that's not okay, I can't accept it."
In particular, my aunt loves to rush in when the stalls are about to be sold out in the vegetable market to get a bloody price. This is something that the seventh cousin is particularly disapproving of!
He believes that when eating vegetables and meat, they must be fresh or of extremely high quality.
Auntie's philosophy of life was incompatible with him.
"puff!"
Song Tan couldn't help laughing for a moment.
I never imagined that one day my aunt would be disliked for being too diligent and frugal in running the household.
The aunt lamented: "I think about it later, your seventh cousin still sees people very clearly."
"For example, if I really agree to serve him, he will still go to the big supermarket every day to see all kinds of imported fruits and vegetables. He will try whatever is new."
"If I just go to the supermarket with him, I will lose three years of my life... No, no, we are really not a family."
"So," the aunt said earnestly:
"Tan Tan, you go back and discuss it with your parents. If it really works, I will take you to meet the seventh cousin. You can coax this old man, he is so stubborn."
She felt a little regretful: "If you take that purple vetch from your house, oh, I'm sure he won't say anything and will come back with the old lady."
"No hurry, no hurry."
Song Tan was not dazzled by the house, and was rational at the moment: "Let's not mention that I can't offer a high salary here, let's just say that the seventh cousin is back, where can I live?"
"Besides, my original intention was to find a chef. My seventh cousin is already so old, so he can't do any work anymore, right?"
"You kid!"
The eldest aunt looked at her and felt a little resentful: "Young man, why are you so dull? My seventh cousin has an old house, and he cares about you. It only takes fifteen or twenty minutes to walk there."
"Besides, who told you that you can't do it at sixty or seventy? Then people say that you are middle-aged and older at forty or fifty. Do you think your dad is strong with a hoe?"
"I'm not bragging about your seventh cousin's physical strength. There is absolutely no problem in living into his early nineties!"
"This little old man sees things very cheerfully and is very young. Last winter he was turning iron sand and frying chestnuts by himself at home. How about you find a young man in his twenties or thirties and see if he can do it?"
"Besides," through the shadowy bamboo, Qiao Qiao's figure running around in the rapeseed field was particularly jumping, and the aunt murmured in a low voice:
"You ask the seventh cousin to cook, and ask Qiaoqiao to help him, carry and wash the vegetables and so on. The old man will just use the shovel."
"If I teach you for another three to five years, ten to twenty years, Qiao Qiao can cook by herself and has a skill, isn't that more reliable than relying on you?"
"My father has my mother, it's better to have it myself."
"In the future, when you get married and live a happy life, you can't take Qiao Qiao with you wherever you go."
Song Tan had never thought about starting a family and living a happy life.
But with Qiaoqiao like this, it’s really good to learn another craft.
Although he can shake honey now and has begun to understand the knowledge of beekeeping, young man, what are you afraid of if you are tired? You have many skills but you are not overwhelmed!
Song Tan quickly swung the hoe and dug up a large piece of bamboo shoots from under her feet for her aunt who had just sprouted spiritual energy:
"Auntie, you are still the best."
Regarding the matter of hiring a cook, Song Tan was originally thinking about how to convince Wu Lan, who was reluctant to pay his salary. But with Qiao Qiao's excuse, I am afraid that tonight, she will be urged to talk to her seventh cousin tomorrow.
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The aunt looked at the two baskets full of bamboo shoots and was very happy now:
"What's the point! I don't want the wealth to go to outsiders. I just love how caring my niece is. It's not like your uncle's family, where nothing is going on. Your aunt is as distressed as if she couldn't bear to take care of the child.
No wolf!"
She looked proud: "Your seventh cousin hasn't spread the news yet, and I haven't told your uncle at all!"