Chapter 33: Moving to a New Home
The house was finally renovated in mid-August, and the household appliances were all bought new, and there were no household appliances in the hometown, and the TV was still the old TV that the parents moved from H City, and the refrigerator was not, and then there was a tape recorder, an electric fan, so the household appliances in the new home had to be re-bought, and the family spent a lot of money on house decoration, and it was distressing to buy these household appliances, but this could not be bought, and now the family's savings can be said to be empty. Yan Jing and Yan Lin's registration fee, as well as the living expenses for the second half of the year, are still his salary sent back by his father for the first half of the year.
Fortunately, the consumption level of the county is not high at this time. Because it is not the New Year, some relatives and friends are at home, some are working outside, and it is not good to invite wine, so Yan's mother plans to ask the four old people on both sides to help move on August 18, move into the house first, and invite relatives and friends to eat moving wine together during the New Year.
On August 18th, Yan's mother packed up some pots and pans, clothes, quilts and other things, like a large bed or something re-bought, the family has to live at home, it is inconvenient to move around, and the bed at home is also very old, so although there are a lot of things, but they are all small pieces, grandparents, grandparents and Yan Jing's family, adults are carrying burdens, and the two children carry their own school bags, so they went to their new homes in the county.
Uncle didn't go to H City in the end, originally his father found him a job on the construction site, but he felt that although the salary was okay but too tired, and the family had planted a few acres of land, the aunt felt that if the uncle left, she would have to plant alone, and she had to take two children, and her cousin also had to take the high school entrance examination, so he didn't let him go, maybe he didn't want to go, so his grandparents didn't bring his cousin and cousin this year.
The third aunt is at home, her child is only half a year old, it is not suitable to go out, originally Yan's mother asked her to go, but it is inconvenient for her to take the child, and she can go to play when she moves in the future, Yan's father wants to come back, but it takes 1 week to toss back and forth, to deduct wages, and to come back with travel expenses and expenses, and now the family is short of money, and finally did not come. Therefore, the four old men plus Yan Jing moved things into the new home.
Entering the courtyard gate of the new house, grandma and grandma have not come, grandpa and grandpa have often come to see, but they have already seen it, Yan Jing came in the early days of the house, and she has not been here later, Yan's mother cannot come and go back on the same day, and Yan's mother does not want her daughter to live in a tent with her, so how is the decoration, it is also the first time to see it.
The yard is made of red bricks, and the yard is indeed in accordance with Yan Jing's requirements to leave two places on both sides behind the courtyard door to plant flowers, trees, and vegetables, the house has two floors and three bays, and the outer wall is pasted with white tiles, the windows are made of aluminum alloy, and the balcony is made of bricks.
The two old men who had never seen each other were amazed, talking about how much it would cost and so on. Yan's mother opened the door and set off firecrackers outside the yard, and everyone moved their things into the house one after another.
The house is relatively large, with a living room and a dining room, which is relatively new-style now, and will be more old-fashioned duplex living room in the future, with steps up and down in the middle. There are mahogany tables, chairs and coffee tables in the two living rooms, of course, not real mahogany, but painted mahogany.
Then it is to go up the stairs of the wooden handrail on the second floor, there are beds on both sides of the living room, a room is placed on both sides of the living room, walk through the stairs to the kitchen, the left side of the kitchen is a small room, there is no bed, there is a desk and bookcase against the wall, this should be the study, there is no house behind the house, the light is very good, and the right is the bathroom.
Yan Jing went up the stairs again, and up the stairs was a large living room, and there was no furniture yet, the two rooms on the left were still empty, and the room on the right had a bed and some simple furniture, and the back room was a washroom. In front is an open balcony. After watching Yan Jing go back downstairs, Yan's mother has already gone to boil water to make tea for everyone, and Yan Jing also helped take out the teacup and go to the kitchen to wash it and bring it over to make the original tea for everyone.
After sitting for a while, when everyone was almost resting, Yan's mother began to organize all the things she brought, Yan Jing chose the upstairs east room, the younger brother Yan Lin slept in the west room downstairs, and Yan Ma slept in the east room downstairs, everyone helped to spread the sheets and quilt covers, now in summer, there is no need to lay thick cotton wool, Simmons beds have mattresses, and only need to lay sheets and thin quilts.
The two children are 1.5 meters bed, the adult's room is 1.8 meters bed, and the quilts at home are not used, so Yan's mother bought them from the county town and took them back to the countryside to wash them. After an hour, Yan's mother looked at the time, and hurriedly took out the pots and pans, vegetables and other things brought by the family into the kitchen to make lunch for everyone.
The county now uses canned gas, and there are no pipelines, and of course no firewood can be burned, so now gas is used for cooking, and refrigerators are also placed in the kitchen. Yan Jing helped put some food that needed to be put in the refrigerator into the refrigerator, and then went out, originally wanted to help pick vegetables, but was kicked out by her grandmother and grandmother, so she went to visit the courtyard.
This land is more than 150 square meters, to build a house, about 100 square meters, Yan Jing just saw a door in the kitchen is leading to the backyard, so I know that there are yards in the front and back, and the back should be a long strip of ground without pouring cement for planting vegetables, about 1 meter wide, and the front yard is about 3 meters wide.
However, because the front of the house occupies a relatively wide area, the yard is long, if it is according to Yan Jing's idea, it is definitely not designed like this, but who calls himself small, has no right to speak, now it is popular to have three bays, and there is no idea of building a small villa.
Yan Jing thought that the yard was so long and so deep, she planned to plant grapes at the ends of both sides, and then plant two peach trees in the backyard, the front yard seemed to be unable to plant peach trees, and then plant two open spaces in the front yard with tea trees, jasmine and chrysanthemum ~ flowers. In this way, the two fruits in your own space can be eaten secretly in season, and jasmine, chrysanthemum ~ flowers and tea also have provenance.
After eating, Yan's mother asked the old man to stay here for two more days, anyway, there are so many rooms. But the old people have to go back, worrying about the chickens and pigs at home, and the fields. I had no choice but to let them drink tea and rest for a while before sending them to the car.
Sent away the four old people, Yan's mother began to clean the house, Yan Jing is also helping, Yan Lin now has no friends in the county, and there is no place to play, so he can only stay in the yard and play in the mud. Yan Jing couldn't stand it and asked him to write his summer homework, but Yan Jing had already finished it. Yan's mother also asked him to go to the study to do his homework when he heard about it.
At night, Yan Jing finally had a room by herself, she could really do whatever she wanted, and she could go to the space to sleep with an alarm clock. Yan Jing was really a sleeping space that night, the smell of the house was not good after the decoration was just completed, and there were no reports of formaldehyde poisoning now, otherwise Yan's mother would not have lived, Yan Jing knew, but their family had a good physique, if they didn't live, then how could they go to school, so it would be enough.
She plans to go outside tomorrow for a few laps, then go buy some green plants, raise more at home, and then water them with space water. In this way, the air in the house will be much better, and of course buy some jasmine and tea tree seedlings and plant them in the open space. Now these are not expensive, it should not cost much.
After breakfast the next day, Yan's mother said that she would take her sister and brother to go out for a walk, familiarize herself with the way to school, and also buy some things that were in short supply at home. Yan's mother thinks she wants to buy it, of course, Yan's mother is so receptive, it is because she has been in a big city and knows that potted plants are used to decorate the home and purify the air.
The old-fashioned bicycle at home did not come over, there were too many things to take at that time, it is estimated that in a few days Yan's mother will go to the countryside to bring it over, usually go out to buy a vegetable also has a car is not.
Yan Jing and Yan Lin have to walk to school, and the old and dilapidated sister and brother will not ride. The family doesn't have the money to buy bicycles for the two of them now, at least until next year, of course, the two siblings are very well-read, and they will soon be able to walk to school.
In fact, Yan Jing has earned 1,000 yuan from the game she has sold in the past year, but she can't take it out. Otherwise, I can't explain it, the New Year's money has already been given to my parents, and I need money to build a house. Yan Jing wants to polish her serialized story and take it to the publishing house to see if she can earn some manuscript fees, at least to subsidize her family, I don't know how much the manuscript fee will be this year.
Thinking about it, I have already walked to the door of the county No. 1 middle school, just like I remember, it is a new teaching building, with a cement road in the middle and a playground on both sides. Sports equipment: uneven bars, horizontal bars, parallel bars, basketball hoops, etc.
The main ~ seat platform, behind the main ~ seat is a big teaching building, there is a dormitory in the back, the playground is the real yàn building, multimedia classrooms, etc., and the right is also the teaching building, which is the junior high school.
Across the road is the high school, and the construction is about the same, of course, it is more lenient, because the high school has students from the townships plus the county seat, the number of people is twice that of the junior high school, so the area is nearly twice as large.
The elementary school is next to the middle school and the high school, and there are three separate campuses anyway. The houses in this neighborhood will be expensive to death in the future. From elementary school to high school, you can study here for nine years of compulsory education.
It's still summer vacation, and the school gates are closed. So everyone just looked outside. I'm ready to go shopping on the street, and if you walk from home to the pedestrian street, it will take thirty or forty minutes. It's only a minute or two from school.
This is the old street, and when the new street is built in the future, it will be close to Yan Jing's house, and it is in the opposite direction of the old street. That is, in the direction of Yan Jing's house, but it will take 5 or 6 years for the new street to be built, and Yan Jing will have already graduated from high school by then.
The three of them walked slowly to the pedestrian street, where everything was sold. When she arrived at the place, Yan's mother first went to buy things that were urgently in short supply at home, and then began to look for a flower shop to see bonsai or something. In the end, there were only pothos, rich bamboo, and the like. Yan's mother bought two plates of pothos and a few rich bamboos, and planned to go back, but she didn't know that Yan Jing wanted to buy saplings.
Yan Jing looked at a few houses and didn't find any saplings or flower seedlings or anything, and was very disappointed. I also suddenly felt stupid, how can I plant trees in summer. Come to think of it, Yan's mother has to go back to the countryside to get a car and other small things anyway.
When the time comes, she will go outside to the mountains, in front of the house and behind the house, and then cut more vines, tea tree branches, and jasmine branches in the space. Pull out more wild chrysanthemum ~ flowers, take them back, and say that they were picked outside.