Chapter 26 Do you want to marry her as a daughter-in-law?
It was already past four o'clock in the afternoon, and Lin Mai was carrying Doudou on his back as he rushed all the way to catch the six o'clock train.
I finally got in the car in the last few minutes and arrived at Grandpa Fang’s and Grandma Fang’s house at around seven o’clock.
Lin Mai and her daughter didn't come back, and Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang didn't serve dinner either. As soon as they came back, Grandma Fang immediately served dinner.
Lin Mai said guiltily: "Grandpa and grandma, really, last time we came back late, we told you and your elders that you don't have to wait for us when the meal is ready. You eat first, why are you waiting for us again?"
The two old men had already set out the dishes and chopsticks. Grandma Fang smiled and said, "Let's have fun together."
Then he asked: "Why are you back so late today? Is it because business is not good?"
Lin Mai shook his head: "No, someone maliciously robbed my business, so I planned to set up a stall in another place. I wasted time looking for a place to buy a house, and I came back late."
Grandpa Fang's face turned dark immediately: "Who maliciously stole your business? Tell grandpa, grandpa will stand up for you!"
Lin Mai smiled and said: "No need, Professor Fang will take the lead for me."
Even if Fang Zhuoran didn't help her, she wouldn't let Grandpa Fang worry about her. She could handle it on her own.
Grandpa Fang said dissatisfied: "Then why don't you change places!"
"If people move, they will live, and if they move trees, they will die. I want a better business."
Grandpa Fang didn't say anything.
While preparing dinner, Grandma Fang said sadly: "I have already bought a house in the city, so won't I have to move there soon?"
Lin Mai nodded, turned to Grandpa Fang and said, "Please help me rent a tractor to transport 10,000 kilograms of chestnuts to the city, so I don't have to run back and forth every day."
At first, she only planned to transport one or two thousand kilograms of chestnuts, but the house she bought was big enough, so she wanted to transport more chestnuts at once to save trouble.
Grandpa Fang responded cheerfully.
Grandma Fang was surprised and said: "With so many chestnuts, can they be sold out before the end of the year?"
"If you can't sell it all before the new year, you will continue to sell it after the new year."
Based on Linmai’s experience in his previous life, consumption surged during the Spring Festival in the provincial capital.
During this seven-day holiday, you can make money by selling anything. Maybe 10,000 kilograms of chestnuts can be sold out before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
Grandpa Fang belatedly asked: "You bought a house in the city? Where did you get so much money to buy a house?"
Lin Mai explained: "I just don't have money, so I haven't officially bought a house yet. I just signed a house purchase contract with someone."
Grandpa Fang said oh and asked, "Where is that house and how much does it cost?"
"The Yue-Han Pier is near Hankou Ferry, eight hundred yuan."
Grandma Fang's eyes widened: "Eight hundred yuan? So expensive!"
Lin Mai smiled: "It's not expensive. A worker can earn it without eating or drinking for three years."
In the last ten years of her previous life, a migrant worker could afford to buy a house with an area of less than 100 yuan without eating or drinking for thirty years.
Grandma Fang muttered: "Who can do this without eating or drinking these days?"
This is also true. Although workers in the city receive wages, they are only enough to support their families. It is not easy to save money.
Therefore, no matter what era, buying a house is difficult.
After dinner, Lin Mai said hello to Grandma Fang and was about to go out to find Li Tieniu, hoping to ask him to be his helper and fry and sell chestnuts together so that he could earn more money.
Mother Fang stopped her: "You take Tieniu to the city to sell chestnuts. This... is not good."
"Is grandma afraid that people will gossip about us when we live alone together? It's easy to handle, just bring his wife along with us."
She and Li Tieniu were responsible for selling chestnuts, and they also needed someone to cut chestnuts. Bringing Tieniu's wife along would allow her to do this job.
During this period, all the chestnuts she sold were cut open by Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang at home.
When she goes to the Guangdong-Han Wharf to sell chestnuts, Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang can no longer help her cut holes in the chestnuts.
Grandma Fang looked at her and said, "Tieniu's wife has been dead for several years."
Lin Mai was stunned. She knew nothing about Tieniu's personal situation, so she didn't know that he was a widowed man.
Grandpa Fang waved his hand: "If you don't have a wife, you can take Tieniu Mama and his daughter to the city together, so that others can't gossip."
Lin Mai came to visit at night. Both Tieniu and her son were surprised, but they treated her warmly. They wiped the chair and invited her to sit down, and poured tea and water.
Lin Mai hurriedly stopped him: "Auntie, Brother Li, please stop being busy. I just want to tell you something and leave."
Iron Cowgirl handed her a cup of brewed tea: "What's the matter?"
"I want to bring Brother Tie Niu to the city to fry chestnuts and sell them for me. Three meals a day will be included for five yuan a day. I wonder if Brother Tie Niu is willing."
Not only Tieniu, but even his mother was almost crazy with joy. Five yuan a day, even if he worked for ten days, he would still get fifty yuan.
Where can an honest country boy earn fifty yuan?
Tieniu Ma rushed to say: "Yes, why don't you want to!"
Tieniu nodded excitedly at the side.
Seeing that they agreed, Lin Mai continued: "I have to explain something in advance. Brother Tieniu is working for me, so he is getting wages.
If I make a loss, I won’t lose a penny from Brother Tieniu’s salary.
So I hope that when I make money, Brother Tieniu won’t be resentful, thinking that I get the big head and he gets the small head.”
Iron Cow Mom was the first to express her position: "How can you do that? You have taken all the risks, and we still understand this."
Lin Mai was just satisfied, and smiled and said to Tieniu Ma: "Auntie, you have to follow us, slit the chestnuts, and cook us three meals a day. I will also pay you the wages, one dollar and five dollars a day, you go
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Iron Cow Mother patted her thigh and said happily: "Go! Of course you go!"
Tieniu asked hesitantly: "If mom goes too, who will take care of Niuniu, and who will feed the pigs and chickens at home?"
Tieniu's mother looked at her silly son and was speechless: "Let's take Niuniu and ask your eldest sister's eldest daughter to come to our house to look after the door for ten and a half days. Won't someone feed the pigs and chickens?"
Lin Mai put down the tea cup in his hand: "Then it's agreed that Brother Li will help Grandpa Fang collect chestnuts tomorrow.
Regardless of whether the chestnuts have been received or not, one batch must be shipped to the city at three o'clock in the afternoon, and the rest can be shipped over a few days later."
Tieniu mother and son responded and sent her out the door.
Mother and son stood at the door and watched Lin Mai off.
Iron Niu Ma's eyes stayed on Lin Mai's butt for several minutes.
Although this woman is slim, her breasts and butt are not big enough, so she does not look like a child.
But I heard that she is only seventeen years old, not even eighteen. If she takes good care of herself and eats more nutritious food, her breasts and ass will have meat, and she will be able to have children by then.
Thinking of this, Tieniu's mother excitedly patted Tieniu: "Son, what do you think of Xiaolin?"
Tieniu was confused: "How is she? Of course she's pretty good."
Tie Niu Ma lowered her voice and whispered in his ear: "Do you want to marry her as your wife?"
Tieniu looked at his mother with an incredulous expression: "Mom! I am already thirty-one, and Xiao Lin is only seventeen! With such a big age difference, how can Xiao Lin be my wife? Don't make any mistakes."
Iron Cow Mother poked him hard on the forehead: "You are really a cow. How about she being seventeen? She has already been married once and is no longer a young girl. You are still afraid that she will think you are too old!"
Tieniu muttered: "Even if she doesn't think I'm older, she's so capable and there's no way she'll like me."
Tieniu Ma rolled her eyes at him: "How will you know if you don't try~"