jdhmnovel Chapter 190 Come to the door
Chapter 190 Come to the door
Zhou Gui told his father and mother that Qin Yanhua wanted to visit.
After the two of them discussed it, they asked the Shen family to come over on the tenth day.
Shen Bohang went to Zhou's house every day. When he learned that he could visit on the tenth day of the first lunar month, he was so happy that he hurried home to prepare gifts...
On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Zhou Jiafeng, Zhou Jiafu and others stayed at Zhou Rong's house for one night and would return to the construction site tomorrow.
Zhou Chuanxiang and Zhou Jiashun, along with their wives and children, moved directly into the house rented by Luo Qiuyue's family.
Zhou Chuanxiang also brought his two brothers-in-law and three children of his cousins, intending to have them help at the construction site.
Let’s not consider the issue of changing the household registration for the time being.
Because Zhou Chuanxiang told them that a household registration would cost 500 yuan, which was the price for one person. If the whole family moved, the fee would be charged per person.
Everyone was reluctant to spend the money and didn't have the funds to transfer their household registration, so they planned to come to Jiangcheng to earn some money and then return to the countryside to build a house and get married.
The income from the fields was too low, and other people in Zhoujiawan also wanted to move to the city.
During the Chinese New Year, he tried his best to curry favor with Zhou's father and mother and Zhou Chuanxiang, and kept stuffing home-cooked food into their hands.
Zhou Chuanxiang said that the construction site did not need so many people at the moment. After construction started, he would try to get close to the foreman. If the site needed to recruit more people, he would write a letter to the village.
Zhou's father and mother also said that they would help keep an eye out and inquire if a new construction site was started. If they could get a vacancy, they would notify everyone.
Zhou Chuanyi told Zhou's father and Zhou Chuanxiang that if gifts were needed to obtain quotas, the expenses would be borne by those who went to work, and they would not suffer any loss...
When he just moved to Luo's house, the firewood, rice, oil and salt were not prepared yet, so it was inconvenient to cook, so Zhou Chuanxiang could only go to Zhou Rong's house for meals.
He didn't want to eat for free at Zhou Rong's house, so after discussing with his wife Xiong Qiuju, he brought a hen from home over.
He also gave a dozen eggs and some preserved foods that his family had prepared for the New Year, hoping that Zhou Rong and his family would take care of his three children in the future.
The Zhou brothers who followed Zhou Chuanxiang into the city also sent some cured meat to Zhou Rong's family.
Shen Xiaomei gave Zhou Rong a chicken and a dozen eggs to thank her for taking care of Zhou Jiashun.
Zhou Rong didn't want it, but Zhou Chuanxiang said, "Take it. This is a small token of our appreciation. The policy in the countryside has changed now, requiring every family to hand in two chickens and one pig every year, and to provide their own food.
The family's food rations were limited, so your fifth aunt didn't dare to raise too many chickens. Apart from the tasks required by her superiors, the family only raised eight chickens. Three of them died, and we stewed two of them during the New Year. We brought the remaining three with us.
I plan to stew them for Xiangxiang and Tiantian on the 15th, or I will give you a few more."
Shen Xiaomei said, "We're worried that we won't have enough food, so we don't dare raise more chickens. We took the remaining chickens with us and planned to sell them at the market for some money. I saw Aunt San put up a chicken coop here. Can we raise chickens in the city?"
Zhou Rong: "There is no regulation in the city that forbids raising chickens. It depends on whether your landlord agrees."
Shen Xiaomei: "Then I'll go down and ask. If I can raise them, I won't sell my chickens. I can raise them for eggs and save some money on buying vegetables."
Xiong Qiuju: "If the landlord agrees, I will keep the two chickens too, so that my three children can have eggs to eat every day."
Luo Qiuyue agreed to Xiong Qiuju and Shen Xiaomei's request to raise chickens, but they could not roam freely and had to be kept in chicken coops to avoid chicken poop everywhere in the house...
On the morning of the tenth day, Shen Chunheng, Qin Yanhua, Shen Bohang and Wang Xihong, the matchmaker specially hired by the Shen family, pushed two bicycles and visited the Zhou family with gifts.
Ever since they entered Chang'an, they attracted a lot of attention.
Six pounds of meat (cut in one piece), six fish (with scales), six bottles of wine, six cartons of cigarettes, six boxes of snacks, and six bundles of vermicelli tied with red thread.
These gifts made the neighbors marvel. They were all talking about the Shen family's background to be able to give such expensive gifts. The six packs of Xinhua cigarettes alone cost a lot of money!
Everyone envied the Zhou family's good fortune, having found a good in-law...
Not to mention the neighbors, even the Zhou family was shocked when they saw the gift from the Shen family.
Zhou Gui asked Shen Bohang quietly: "Why do you bring so many things?"
Shen Bohang: "My mother said that you are so outstanding that I must use the best gift to be worthy of you."
Zhou Gui: "......You don't need so much!"
Shen Bohang: "It's okay. My family doesn't lack this little money. When we discuss the gift later, just ask for what you want. Don't be polite. My parents have money."
Zhou Gui: “…”
Zhou Gui didn't want to pay attention to that stupid guy Shen Bohang, and was too embarrassed to stay in the living room, so he went to the kitchen to help cook.
Matchmaker Wang Xihong praised Shen Bohang to the skies, saying he was peerless, as if not marrying him would be an unforgivable crime. Qin Yanhua felt a little embarrassed when she heard that and took the initiative to change the subject.
"Agui's mother, my son Bohang is the youngest in the family. He was spoiled by us when he was young. He has many shortcomings. I hope you can bear with him."
Mother Zhou: "Teacher Qin is too modest. Bohang is a good kid. It's obvious that Teacher Qin and Bohang's father have carefully nurtured him. It's a blessing for our Sigui to know him."
Qin Yanhua: "No! No! It was because Bohang was lucky to meet Agui that he became so good. You and Agui's father are the ones who really know how to raise children. Look at your children, each of them is outstanding and has excellent character."
Qin Yanhua's praise came from the bottom of her heart. She knew her son's character very well. It was only after he met Zhou Gui that he gradually changed.
I don’t know what kind of personality Zhou family’s son has at the moment, but there is absolutely nothing to say about their daughter.
The marriage between the two families is like the poor student from her family marrying the excellent student from someone else's family. How could she not be happy and take it seriously? !
Zhou's mother smiled and said, "The child's father and I are not well educated. When educating our children, we only ask them to be down-to-earth in life and work. It can't be said that we have a good way of raising children."
Qin Yanhua: "It's amazing to be able to do this! The two children have similar interests and are connected, which is a match made in heaven. They are also at the age of marriage, so why not get them married as soon as possible?"
Zhou's mother: "Sigui will be 9 in September. Our daughter is more loved than our son. Her father and I want her to get married after she turns 20, so that she will have enough time to prepare her dowry."
Qin Yanhua: "We can set the wedding date in October. My family is willing to give a bicycle, a watch, a sewing machine, and a 10 yuan betrothal gift. If you think it is not enough, we can discuss it.
As for Agui's dowry, you can decide what you want. We will prepare daily necessities for the two children's marriage."
The betrothal gift Qin Yanhua mentioned once again shocked Zhou's mother. She didn't expect the Shen family to be so generous.
Zhou's mother and father discussed it quietly, looked at the calendar, and said, "Our family has no requirements for the bride price. We just hope that the two children live well and happily. We can be careless about other aspects.
October 10th is a Sunday, which is also a good day for marriage. How about setting the wedding date on this day temporarily? "
As long as the wedding date can be set, how could Qin Yanhua not agree?
Shen Bohang, who had been sitting there nervously, was so happy that he kept grinning when he learned that he could marry Zhou Gui on October 10th...