In the evening, after her two uncles and several old cousins went back, Xiang Jin pulled her mother into her room and started talking to her.
The content is about the silkworm raised by her two uncles.
After hearing this, Yang Juyun was also shocked, and then said directly, "This is such a pity!"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Yes, so I just want to discuss something with you."
Yang Juyun looked at her, waiting for her next words, and Xiang Jin continued, "Look, my uncles' summer silkworms have been spoiled this season, and their income may not be much by then.
My two uncles and two aunts have been taking turns to help us with the work. I thought that when the house is completed, we might as well give their family a few hundred yuan as a subsidy.
This is a favor for a day or two, but it is unjustifiable to continue to help for a long time. Two uncles and you are blood brothers and sisters. They may not say anything, but what about the two aunts? It is inevitable in their hearts.
There won’t be any opinions. What do you think?”
Yang Juyun was a little hesitant.
Xiang Jin advised her, "Don't be reluctant to part with it. If you are reluctant to part with the money, I will help you pay it when the time comes."
Yang Juyun interrupted her, "No."
Xiang Jin curled his lips and glanced at her sideways, "Stop making excuses. I don't know what you are thinking. You are obviously reluctant to part with that money, and you are still so stubborn."
Yang Juyun asked, "Then you want to give their family a few hundred dollars?"
This can be regarded as a disguised acknowledgment of what Xiang Jin just said.
Xiang Jin said, "Four hundred, maybe."
Yang Juyun was surprised and immediately became excited, "Four hundred? That much? It's almost as much as the price of the craftsman we hired."
Xiang Jin's head was immediately covered with black lines, and then he rolled his eyes at her speechlessly, "Mom, you have to know that the worst thing in this world is to owe a favor, and the worst thing to repay is a debt of favor. This is too much.
It is also a burden.
The two uncles will also have to repair their houses. Didn't I discuss with you before that after our house is repaired, I will teach you how to make braised vegetables, and then you will go to the town to open a braised vegetable shop?
When the time comes, you have business to do, how can you have time to help your uncles with the work and repair the house? The few hundred yuan we give to their family will be enough to cover the work then, and the two aunts will not have it by then.
What's your opinion? They said that when our family was building the house, they came to help every day, but when it was their turn to repair the house, we refused to help, saying that we are white-eyed wolves, do you understand?"
Yang Juyun understood immediately, but was still a little confused, "But it's not that much, how about four hundred?"
Xiang Jin said, "That's your biological brother. How can you really pay the same price as those craftsmen? Let's not talk about anything else. Let's talk about the time we had with the old Xiang family. They heard that
, but without saying a word, they came with our grandparents to support us Changfeng.
If you calculate the price for the craftsmen according to their prices, then if you have something in the future, don’t count on your parents’ family anymore.
What's the point of giving them more? Even if you are more generous, my two aunts will only remember how good you were to them. If you act so petty, my two aunts will only hate you in their hearts. Do you believe it?"
Yang Juyun lowered his eyes and said, "It's not that I don't want to be petty, I just think it's hard to make money. Let's save a little bit."
Xiang Jin said, "I told you, don't worry about money. I have a problem with it. Besides, the money is earned, not saved. I have a way for you to make money, so naturally you won't
It's empty talk.
In fact, even if we give more, it won’t be much more. It’s only a few dozen or a hundred dollars more than those craftsmen, so you can still be in a good position.”
After a while, Yang Juyun nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll listen to you and give their family four hundred yuan."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Don't tell them this for now. We'll talk about it after the house is repaired."
"Well, I know!"
Then Xiang Jin asked again, "Shouldn't the bag from Mr. Ruibin's house on the mountain also be carried away and compensated?"
Yang Juyun said, "I should compensate them. How many trees were crushed in the first place?"
Xiang Jin said, "There seem to be more than a hundred trees. I remember that tomorrow, I will prepare the bag of corn sticks. Then you can carry them up the mountain with me."
Yang Juyun agreed.
After her mother went out, Xiang Jin dug out her notepad and found out the exact number of damages. The next morning, after she helped Aunt Liao fight the pigweed back from inside, she went straight from it.
Among the piles of corn cobs on the street eaves, some large ones with plump kernels were picked out.
When her grandmother saw it, she asked her what she was doing, and Xiang Jin replied.
Her grandma nodded after hearing this, "It should be, it should be. We have suffered a little loss ourselves, but we can't do it to make people laugh. You pick it up, and grandma will send it to them up the mountain with you later."
go."
Xiang Jin said "Yes" and then said "Okay!"
Xiang Jin picked up the corn cobs and asked Xiang Nan to keep them at home. Then she and her grandmother went up the mountain carrying a basket on their backs.
The whole family was at home. Aunt Cai'er and Aunt Mingfen, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were washing clothes by the well. When they saw them coming, they both stopped to say hello. But when they found out what they were coming for, Aunt Cai'er pretended to be displeased.
He said, "Well, you see, you have crushed a few seedlings, and you still have to go out of your way to compensate? How unusual is that?"
Xiang Jin and her grandmother said, "What's the point of seeing someone outside? Is this something damaged? Dafa has to pay for it. We should have come early in the morning, but because it rained for several days in a row, the road was slippery.
Didn't come.
Later, the rain stopped, and the material craftsmen arrived again. In addition, I also went back some time ago. They were very busy here and outside, so they didn't take time out.
If you have a little free time today, we will send you to the mountain."
Then the two old ladies walked home together. Mingfen wiped her wet hands and took the basket from Xiang Jin.
When Xiang Jin got there, she went to see Dengwei's father and the others at work. Dengwei's father told her that they had already made three beds for them, which were now placed in their house until their house was built.
After that, they would pull them down the mountain together and install them directly.
Xiang Jin nodded, then looked at Ai Chaoyun aside and asked him if he could take him to have a look?
Ai Chaoyun put down her work and led her straight to a row of small houses nearby. She saw the chicken bed in the middle room.
Then she discovered that the beds were quite exquisitely made, in typical modern Simmons style. Not only were they engraved with exquisite flower and bird patterns, they were also coated with a layer of varnish, making them smooth to the touch.
Then Ai Chaoyun said to her, "These are two bedside tables for a bed. The drawers on the top layer are all secretly locked. As long as the top drawer is locked, the drawers on the lower layers will be locked.
The drawers cannot be opened."
Xiang Jin nodded, "It's very good. I like this design very much."
Ai Chaoyun's lips curled up, "Now we are building your wardrobe. Do you need to install a mirror on that wardrobe?"
Xiang Jin shook his head, "No need for that. I'll just buy a separate mirror and install it directly on the wall."
"Oh, okay, I'll tell my dad then."
Then Xiang Jin asked him, "Do you still have enough wood?"
Ai Chaoyun shook his head, "It doesn't seem like there's much left. It's just enough to make a wardrobe and a few small stools."
Xiang Jin asked, "If you don't need to make a small stool, can you also make a bed?"
"You still want to make a bed?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, I plan to make one or two more and place them in the guest room."
"How many houses do you need to build?" Ai Chaoyun was surprised.
"Isn't there just three rooms? We just need to separate them inside so that we can have a few more rooms. If guests come, it will be more convenient to accommodate them."
At first, she really imagined that their home would only have three or four rooms, one for her, one for her mother, one for Xiang Nan, and another guest room or study room.
But then she thought about it carefully, just like her grandparents, uncles, aunts, or cousins sometimes came to their place. If they stayed too late and it was inconvenient to go back, it would still be more.
There were two rooms for customers, otherwise there wouldn't be enough space to live in, so she later made some modifications to the architectural drawings of the house and added several new room sizes.
Ai Chaoyun nodded, then shook his head, "It's still not enough, it can't be done."
Xiang Jin thought to herself that they still had a few big cypress trees piled up at the end of Aunt Liao's yard, which were sawed from Lao Xiang's house, but she planned to use those big cypress trees to build a house when the time came.
As a doorkeeper, she would never let go of making a bed.
"Okay, then I'll think about it for a while and see if I should go directly to the people in Wantou to buy a few trees, or if I can go directly to the town to buy the wood and bring it back."
Immediately, she told Ai Chaoyun how many beds, wardrobes, seats and benches they needed for their home, and asked him about how many more trees they needed.
Ai Chaoyun said that he didn't understand this yet, and he would have to ask his dad later, who knew how to calculate.
Xiang Jin nodded, and then asked him if he could give her the answer today. Ai Chaoyun said, "I don't think it will be possible today, but tomorrow or the next two days. I will go down to the bay to tell you two days from tomorrow."
Xiang Jin nodded slightly, "Okay, then I'll wait for your news."