Grandpa Zhou looked at the money exposed in the snakeskin bag, shook his hand and took off the bamboo pipe pinned to the back of his waist, stuffed it with tobacco, and took the lighter and lit it.

He took several puffs and then spat out the cigarette before he managed to compose.

Zhou's mother choked on second-hand smoke and coughed several times. Dad Zhou thought she was coughing deliberately, so he turned his head and said to her, "It's okay, our dad is not an outsider." ”

When Zhou's mother heard his words, she suddenly fell to her back in anger.

Why is this man so stupid? Where is all the shrewdness of buying and selling? His father is rolling his eyes and thinking about the money, can't he see it?

Zhou's mother said in her heart: This money has just arrived, and it hasn't been covered yet, but I can't let my father-in-law take it away.

She opened her mouth and reminded Zhou's father: "Didn't you say that you want to build a house......?" Have you done all of this? There is also a business in the storefront, and I have to inquire about it tomorrow. ”

200,000 seems like a lot, but after these two major events, there is not much left.

Dad Zhou nodded and said, "I'll think about it on the way, and I'll choose the piece of land that Xiaopeng said, and I'll go to the village committee tomorrow to find the village cadres for help." Materials and craftsmen, as long as the money is in place, it is not a problem. About the store, I will call Lao Liu tomorrow and ask him to help me inquire first. ”

Grandpa Zhou listened to the conversation between Zhou's mother and Zhou's father, and gradually frowned. He thought for a moment, then lifted his foot and slammed the bamboo pipe to the sole of his shoe, and the soot of the spark fell to the ground.

Grandpa Zhou said, "Qingshan, you come with me!" With that, he took the lead and went out first, and returned to his own house across the wall and sat down.

Dad Zhou obediently said "hey", stuffed the snakeskin bag into Zhou's mother's hand, and followed.

Zhou's mother stuffed the snakeskin bag into Zhou Xiaoxian's hand again, and said, "Hide it first, I'll go over and have a look", and followed. She was afraid that what Grandpa Zhou would say, and Dad Zhou would promise anything.

Zhou Peng walked up to Zhou Xiaoliu, glanced at Grandpa Zhou's house unhappily, and asked, "Xiaoliu, how much will Grandpa ask for from Dad?"

"More than half. Zhou Xiaoliu guessed.

Zhou Peng patted his chest, relieved himself, and then muttered softly: "Fortunately, I only took 200,000 yuan out." ”

Zhou Xiaofang, who was standing with Zhou Xiaoliu, asked, "What are you talking about?"

Zhou Xiaoliu replied: "It's nothing, by the way, second sister, what happened later? Why did the eldest sister have to move out to live with the eldest brother-in-law?"

Zhou Xiaofang said hatefully: "Phew, don't call him brother-in-law, that's an emotional liar." I heard that I hooked up with several silly girls at the same time! The eldest sister is the stupidest, no matter how much we persuade her, I persuaded too much, and she also said that I can't see her well, and I am so angry that I don't want to care about her anymore......"

Zhou Xiaofang was a little thirsty as she spoke, so the three of them entered the room, and after Zhou Xiaoxian poured her a glass of water, she told the story of the eldest sister who was lost and didn't know how to return from the beginning.

Grandpa Zhou sat on the top seat of his own dinner table, and when he saw his eldest son coming in, he nodded with satisfaction, and he was about to speak, but found that his eldest daughter-in-law also followed.

Grandpa Zhou shouted outside the door: "Xue'er, your eldest brother and sister-in-law are back, you go and talk to your sister-in-law." ”

Zhou Xue, who was wearing a white dress, walked out of her room, pulled Zhou's mother, and said, "Sister-in-law, why did you come back?

Grandpa Zhou quickly got up and closed the door, latched it again, and then sat back in his place and said to Dad Zhou: "There is one thing that has annoyed Dad for a long time. Your fourth brother is twenty-two years old this year, and he hasn't married a daughter-in-law yet, and when you were twenty years old, Xiaohong was born. ”

Dad Zhou was stunned for a moment and said, "The girl of the Zhao family who the fourth brother saw in the first moon phase, didn't it work?"

"It didn't work out!" Grandpa Zhou sighed.

"Why, our fourth brother really rejected this family affair because he disliked the pockmarks on the face of the Zhao family girl?" Dad Zhou asked his fourth brother before going out, and his fourth brother said this at the time: "The pockmarks on that face are too ugly!"

Grandpa Zhou choked, then looked elsewhere and said, "No, it's the girl of the Zhao family who dislikes Qinghu and doesn't have a house." ”

In fact, the girl of the Zhao family never mentioned the house at all. Although Zhou Qinghu is good-looking, she is idle, lazy and lazy all day long, and the girl of the Zhao family was already hesitating, but when she heard that Zhou Qinghu disliked her for being ugly, she immediately told the matchmaker to forget it.

Dad Zhou was stunned for a moment and said, "Doesn't the fourth brother have a whole room? When I got married, it was only half a room, isn't one room enough to live in?"

Grandpa Zhou sighed and said: "The world has changed, and now the girls are all big-hearted, and people don't think one room is enough, so they want a new house! Qinghu later saw several girls, and they all asked for a new house before they were willing to marry. ”

When Dad Zhou heard this, he probably understood what Grandpa Zhou meant, he looked at Grandpa Zhou, and said in embarrassment: "This ......" A new house is really not a trivial matter, even if the rural land is cheap, it will cost tens of thousands of dollars to build a frame. He had saved for so many years, but he didn't save enough money to build a house.

He wanted to honor his parents, but his parents were his parents, and the fourth brother was the fourth brother, and he really didn't want to let him build a new house for the fourth brother. What's more, for the 200,000 yuan, in addition to building a house, he also has to build a store.

Seeing the reluctance of his eldest son, Grandpa Zhou said: "You are rich now, and your second and third brothers are okay, but I don't worry about you." I'm old, maybe one day I'll kick my legs and leave, if your fourth brother is still playing a bachelor until the day I die, then I just close my eyes and don't feel at ease!"

Speaking of this, Grandpa Zhou coughed violently, he coughed while beating his chest, blocking his throat and holding back a sentence: "I blame me for being useless, complaining that I don't have the money to build a house for him......"

Dad Zhou saw Grandpa Zhou's uncomfortable appearance, and hurriedly ran over to pat him on the back. He patted and said: "Dad, don't be like this, I didn't say I wouldn't cover it, I am, it's just ......"

In order to act like something, Grandpa Zhou forced his face to blush.

Dad Zhou looked at his face and his eyes turned red, and asked, "How big is the house that the girl wants?"

When Grandpa Zhou heard this, did he agree? He nodded to Dad Zhou with satisfaction and said, "Dad's four sons, you are the most filial!"

Dad Zhou was praised so sweetly in his heart.

Grandpa Zhou continued: "The house doesn't need to be big, it's just the same as the one built by the Qingjiang family at the entrance of the village." ”

In recent years, the new houses built in the village are basically two-story and two-storey, and after they are built, they can be directly moved in.

Dad Zhou thought that to build such a house, he would take out all his savings over the years, and then move some from the 200,000 li to add it, it should be about the same.

But what he didn't know was that Zhou Qingjiang's newly built house at the entrance of the village was two straight and three and a half floors, and it was finely decorated. The cost is 150,000.

Grandpa Zhou's goal was achieved, so he said to Dad Zhou: "You haven't had dinner yet, have you? I'll let your mother kill a chicken to make up for your body, you've lost weight." ”

Dad Zhou hurriedly excused himself and said, "Don't, don't kill the chicken, Xiao Xian has already cooked the meal, I'll just go back and eat." ”