[14] Busy big city, leisurely mountain village, difficult choices
“My family’s property includes three orchards, two rows of houses, three acres of fields, and two fish ponds.
Although I helped the family relatively early, isn't it a bit bad to only give my brother the worst house in the row? After all, he has two mouths to eat now."
After calculating his family's property in his mind, Li Hong looked at Li Wanfu and Li Bu and said, "Dad, it's a bit small to only give my brother a row of houses. Why don't we also give our lychee forest to my brother?"
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"No, no, no, no, no, no, I can't even get over the two hills my father-in-law gave me. If you give me another lychee forest, you will exhaust me to death." Listen.
When it came to Li Hong, Li Wanfu hadn't spoken yet, but Li Bu next to Li Hong was so frightened that he shook his head and refused.
Upon hearing Li Bu's refusal, Li Hong immediately criticized him angrily: "Are you stupid? The two hills your father-in-law gave you are full of longan trees, and they are both new trees. Will they bear fruit next year?"
Not sure yet.
Also, do you think you can make money just by raising chickens? You raise chickens, ducks, and geese outside, and many of them go bankrupt.
If you don’t want the lychee forest now, if you don’t want the lychee forest, then if you fail to raise chickens next year and the longans don’t bear fruit, will you two starve to death?
You are not allowed to refuse, I am the eldest in the family, even if we are separated now, I am still your eldest brother, the biological eldest brother who brought you up since childhood. In addition, your sister-in-law and I have to work outside, so Litchi Forest will be given to your family.
Already..."
"Don't, don't, don't... Brother, this matter is one and the same. We can't mix family ties with interests.
I really don’t need the lychee forest. If you give it to me, you are just increasing my labor burden.
Besides, life outside is not easy for eldest brother, right?
After working so hard every night to carry bags, it only costs more than 4,000 yuan a month, and then after paying for rent, water, electricity and food, the only savings that can be saved a month are one or two thousand, and including my sister-in-law, it is only 5,000, right?
?" After rejecting Li Zhilin again, Li Bu suddenly looked at Li Hong's face, which was much older than him, and said a little distressed.
Although he didn't want to admit that he was not doing well, Li Hong finally nodded in front of Li Bu and said with a helpless and bitter look on his face: "It's almost what you said, the money I can save in a month is less than 5,000."
, sometimes I can’t save even two thousand a month.
And working the night shift is really hard. If you look at my face, you will know that a person who is under thirty years old looks almost like a forty-year-old person. But, what can be done about this?
In order not to get sick and have no money for medical care, I have to save money.
You need to save money for your nephew's future studies.
I have to save money for my parents’ future pension.
You were not sensible before, so you had to save money in order to save some money for your wife's book or something.
This costs money, and that costs money. If I don’t go through this hardship, what can I do?
To be honest, if I had a choice, I would also like to stay at home and just take care of a few orchards, raise chickens, farm and so on.
But I have no choice. If I don’t do it, our family will have no money. Without money, your nephew won’t even be able to study..."
"Our lychees are about 5,000 kilograms. I can give you a wholesale price of 20,000 yuan. My parents still have more than 30,000 yuan in savings. You and your sister-in-law should also have a savings of 40,000 to 50,000 yuan.
These bits and pieces add up to 100,000, if you don’t want to go back to logistics.
You can open a chicken killing shop at the foot of the mountain, and then specialize in killing the floor-standing chickens I provide for you. I dare not say that there are many, and it is no problem to save more than ten or two hundred thousand a year.
Of course, killing chickens is quite tiring. If you don't want to kill chickens, you can also set up an orchard at home like me and raise some free-range chickens, bamboo rats, rabbits, etc., and then I will find a way out.
Although your brother and I have not been doing well in the past few years, I have gained some business experience. Now I am at the farmer's market down the mountain, and I can be considered a respectable person.
I'm not bragging, brother, if you just get me a cart of sweet potato leaves that pigs eat, I can drag them down the mountain and find a buyer to sell them for you.
So, brother, if you don’t want to go out anymore, just stay at home, even if you work for me, I’ll pay you.”
There are several fruit trees at home, and the fields, water resources, etc. are also very good, so Li Bu plans to ask Li Hong to give up the thousands of dollars of logistics work and go home, even if he can no longer run the orchard in the end.
You can also do some hard work for him.
Hearing his brother's praise, Li Hong was stunned for a while, and then he said in a low voice, "Your sister-in-law and I have taken a ten-day holiday, and we will stay at home to help you during these ten days."
's busy.
At that time, I will ask your sister-in-law, if she thinks it can be done, then we will listen to you and stay at home. Hey, I have been living outside for almost ten years, and sometimes I feel really tired, hehehe...
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"Your brother's plan is quite good. If you have any ideas, just stay at home and do it. I don't know if it will make money, but your mother and I feel at ease when we can see you in front of us every day."
The brothers were almost finished talking, and Li Wanfu intervened appropriately to express his approval of Li Hong's decision to stay at home and develop.
Hearing the words of his father and brother, Li Hong's tired heart shook.
However, Li Hong, who also knew that his current life no longer belonged to him alone, did not directly give a positive answer, but chose to discuss it with his wife first before making a decision.
Since Li Hong and his wife wanted to accompany them when they came back, Li Bu and Li Yanmei had to cancel their plan to go to Li Ai's country for lunch. After calling their elders, they stayed here for lunch.
After finishing lunch, Li Bu and Li Yanmei said their goodbyes and left directly.
Li Wanfu and others knew that they were going to pick lychees in the afternoon and would go down the mountain at two or three o'clock in the evening. They did not stop them. They just told them to call them when picking lychees and let them go home.
After seeing off Li Bu and Li Yanmei, Li Hong returned to the room, looked at his wife with a worried look and said, "Wife, do you think we should resign and go home to manage fruit trees and raise some chickens and ducks?"
"When I was in the kitchen, I seemed to hear dad telling you about the separation.
What did our family get? Among the three fruit groves, did we get the lychee grove?
This year's lychees cost more than 20 yuan per pound, and the wholesale price here is four or five yuan. If we can get a lychee forest, we can have a good year even if we stay at home, haha..."
Li Hong's wife Chunni did not answer her husband's question directly, but smiled and asked about the division of her family.
I know what Chuni means. If the family is divided into a large amount, she should stay at home. If the family is divided into a small amount, she should continue to go out to work.
So after Li Hong smiled, he raised a finger and said: "My brother wants the house they live in now, three orchards, all the fields, two fish ponds, and the house we live in now, all of them will be divided."
We are..."
"Wouldn't my brother and the others have any objections to my father's separation of the family?
My younger brother is allocated three houses, so how will they live in the future?"
Chuni, who knew what was going on in her husband's family, suddenly became a little out of her mind when she heard that Li Bu and the others had only divided the house, and the rest belonged to her.
After hearing Chuni's words, Li Hong waved his hands and said, "His father-in-law is the village chief, and his wife's dowry is two mountains. Speaking of which, he has more land than our family.
Also, when my dad told me about the separation of the family just now, I heard that I had been given so many things, and I wondered if I had given too much. Then I was ready to give the lychee garden to my brother, but he didn’t want it.
, he said that what I gave him would only increase his burden..."
"Then let's call and resign tomorrow.
There are so many orchards at home, and if we work hard, we can earn a share of the family property for our son. Outside, we are as busy as dogs every day, and we can’t make any money. It also makes us grow old..."
After hearing her husband say that her family had received a lot of things, and that her brother-in-law had no objection to the family division, Chunni finally chose to agree with Li Hong's idea and planned to stay at home and farm.