Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Chapter 1394 Lazy Wife 11
As expected, Mrs. Chen's excuse successfully dispelled the neighbor's suspicion, but the neighbor still sighed and said, "In the winter when there is no farming, we can do it during the day. Now it's too wasteful to light a lamp at night."

After all, electricity costs money.

Mrs. Chen laughed and said, "The shoes at home are all in tatters. We have to make some."

This is true. The Chen family used to be poor, and the clothes and shoes in their home had to be worn out and patched up before they could make new ones.

But Mrs. Chen smiled, not because of this, but because she heard the other party say that they would have to pay for electricity.

What was the electricity bill? She and her three children could string beads worth nearly three yuan a day, which meant ninety yuan a month! Even if it wasn't ninety yuan, it was eighty yuan, much more than the fifty yuan a month she had thought of, and much more than what people around her made in a month. At the end of the year, their family would be rich!

After all, she is not the only one who hangs out with the children. Sometimes the children's father, who has nothing to do, will also help out. In this way, their family can probably save thousands of dollars a year. This is a huge sum of money. How can she not smile happily?

Actually, if the third daughter-in-law hadn't insisted that they stand up and move for ten minutes every hour, they could have done more. But the third daughter-in-law insisted that sitting for too long was harmful to the body and that if they ruined their health, they would have wasted their money. So they had no choice but to listen to her and get up and move for ten minutes every hour and do some housework.

In fact, she knew that what the third daughter-in-law said was right. After all, everyone knows that sitting for a long time is bad for the body, but didn't she want to string more beads? But the third daughter-in-law had a bad temper and said that if she continued to do this, it would not only damage her own health, but also the child's health. What should she do? If they really did this, she would not pull materials back in the future.

Seeing Linlang say this, the Chen family had no choice but to listen. To be honest, the other person was not doing anything bad, he was just worried about their health. They knew what was good for them and were willing to listen.

Then Mrs. Chen heard the other party chattering with her and asked, "Why did your family sell the pigs? Don't you raise pigs anymore?"

Mrs. Chen said, "I don't know what happened recently. Our family has not had many pigs. One died last year, and another died this year. I don't know how much money I lost. I'm really scared, so I don't plan to raise any more for now. I'll wait and see next year. If the pigs are thriving, it won't be too late to raise any more, and I can save myself the money."

In fact, pigs often die of disease when raised by country people. For example, some of their neighbors’ pigs died. But there are very few families like the Chen family who stop raising pigs after they die.

When the neighbors heard what Mrs. Chen said, they were surprised. They thought the Chen family was too timid. They would not raise pigs now. So they asked, "So you will buy meat and oil in the future? How much will it cost?"

You should know that after the country people kill a pig, they will sell part of it and pickle the rest for the family to eat slowly.

There will be lard after slaughtering the pig, so you don’t have to buy oil outside after boiling it.

For a long time, country people did not buy oil, and made all the oil at home.

We make lard by slaughtering pigs at home, press sesame oil by growing sesame seeds at home, and press sesame oil by growing rapeseed seeds. It is a small peasant economy and we are self-sufficient in many things.

Mrs. Chen knew that it would be strange for her family not to raise pigs in the countryside, but she still said, "If we raise them, they will die. It's not cost-effective. Let's buy them first. Anyway, we can't eat many."

Mrs. Chen pretended to be poor. The neighbor thought about the economic conditions of the Chen family and thought that it was true. They were too poor. If they didn't raise pigs, they would have no lard or pork to eat. It was just too pitiful. When they thought about their own living conditions getting better and better, the Chen family was so poor that they couldn't even eat pork and lard. After returning home, the neighbor couldn't help but scold the Chen family with his family.

The Chen family is rich now, so they don’t really care if other people think they are poor. They even hope that other people think they are poor. After all, wealth should not be shown off. Nowadays, it is scary to have money and attract thieves, or even worse criminals - there are quite a few home robberies these days.

However, as the Chen family's income increased, Chen's father began to think about building a house.

With the reform and opening up, many families in this small village on the outskirts of the provincial capital have built better houses. There are not only bright large tiled houses, but some wealthy people have even built two-story buildings.

When Chen's father got married, the thatched house built by Chen's father was almost the worst house in the village.

Now that he has money, Chen's father naturally wants to build a new house. After all, who doesn't want to live in a better place?

Seeing that Chen's father wanted to build a house, Linlang suggested building the house closer to the main road, saying that it would be more convenient to get materials and deliver the finished product in the future.

In fact, this is one of the reasons. More importantly, according to the original body’s memory, the houses near the main road will be demolished in the future to build a main road leading to the village.

This was the first time that the villagers in this village on the outskirts of the provincial capital made money.

Although the country's real estate was not well developed when this road was built, the compensation given for the demolition was not as much as that given when the real estate was developing rapidly later, but it was still a huge sum of money for people at that time. Since Linlang had the memories of her original body, she naturally could not let go of this money.

Linlang said that the new house should be built close to the main road. Chen's father and others did not doubt whether she knew about the future. After all, what Linlang said was right for the convenience of getting materials and delivering finished products. It would save a lot of time, which could be used to string more beads. So the Chen family agreed.

Moreover, if they do not demolish the old house and build a new house elsewhere with a new foundation, their bead stringing will not be delayed and they can continue stringing beads while building the house. Otherwise, if they build a new house on the foundation of the old house, they will not be able to string beads.

When the Chen family thought about how much money they would lose if they couldn't string beads for almost a year, they were willing to find another place to build the house.

Although this is far from their own fields, it's okay. They have money now. At worst, they can just buy bicycles and ride them to the fields. It won't be too much trouble. They will definitely buy bicycles in the future anyway, and if they have a bicycle, they will always make use of it. Why not ride it to the old house to farm?

——It’s fortunate that this is a hilly area with relatively flat roads and can be ridden on. Otherwise, if it were a mountainous rural area, it would not be possible to ride a bike. And then Chen’s father might not agree to the moving plan. After all, the older generation still thinks that fields are the most important.

Since they were planning to build the house in another place, Father Chen and his three sons went to the place that Linlang mentioned, which was closer to the main road, to see where would be better to lay the foundation.

Although Father Chen has not earned enough money to build a house yet, it’s okay. Building a house takes a long time and he can make money while building it.