binnovel Chapter 298 The Little Deaf-Mute of the Era 14
Chapter 298 The Little Deaf-Mute of the Era 14
After school started, the group did not give up selling goods. The money they earned in two days was equivalent to several months' income for others. Would they be stupid to give up this money?
Unfortunately, the land in their hometown had already been distributed to individual households, and they simply couldn't cultivate all the land at home. Moreover, the older generation's mindset hadn't changed yet, so the group could only discuss going back during the winter break to try and change their family's mindset.
When winter break started, the group set up a stall for a few days and bought gifts for their families. Of course, clothes were a must, and they also brought their property ownership certificates, which were more convincing.
Fortunately, there were four of them, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to carry all their things. They had been traveling by car the whole way, and when they arrived in town, they saw Liu Erzhu driving an oxcart to pick them up.
"Dad!" "Second Uncle!" Liu Erzhu was surprised to see the four of them carrying so many bags and packages: "What are you all carrying? Did you get assigned jobs after graduation?"
"Pfft!" Liu Yumei burst out laughing. "Second Uncle, we don't graduate until next year. These are gifts we brought for our families!"
"What can you buy so much of? How much money will this cost? See if your grandmas nag you when you get home!" As a man, Liu Erzhu wouldn't share his thoughts with his children, but he only said these few words because the children had brought far too much stuff this time.
“Dad, most of these are clothes, they take up a lot of space. As we mentioned in our letter, we set up a stall during the summer vacation, and these are all goods we bought directly, so it didn’t cost us much,” Liu Yuxi explained to her father.
They rode the oxcart all the way home. Liu Erzhu went to the village to return the oxcart, and the group went straight home. After a simple meal, the family gathered in the main room to distribute the gifts.
The younger children were naturally the happiest. Although they could buy things without ration coupons now, supplies were still relatively scarce in small towns, and few families could afford to buy new clothes for each child during the Lunar New Year.
Watching each child try on their two new outfits, Zhang Dani and the others were happy, but they kept muttering to themselves, especially Zhang Dani:
"My God! How much money did this cost? I think you guys just have a few bucks to burn. Why buy so many new clothes for a child? They won't be able to wear them next year. You don't know how to manage money at all."
Wang Xiaomei, Niu Xiaolan, and Lin Ling chimed in. When they saw their clothes, they kept talking, but they couldn't suppress the upturned corners of their mouths.
Even the four of them, including Liu Laogen, couldn't help themselves. While touching their new clothes, they also muttered about how the kids were wasting money.
After sending the younger children back inside to sleep, everyone chatted in the main room. Liu Yushan and the others took out the property certificate to show their family.
Zhang Dani's eyes reddened as she looked at the several property certificates: "Selling clothes is really that profitable? These are houses in Beijing, you really bought four in just two months?"
These houses belong to her four children, but her son and grandson have nothing. She is now extremely grateful that she has not mistreated her older children over the years and has treated the younger generation fairly. Otherwise, how could her children always think of their uncle?
Putting everything else aside, without her children, Liu Xiaozhu would never have been able to go to university. Now that her children have found a way to make money, they haven't forgotten their family. She is filled with nothing but gratitude.
Liu Laogen was also unsettled: "So, is there really no one to regulate business now? It can't be like it was a few years ago, can it?"
“No, sir, we only started this business because we saw many small stalls on the street. The newspapers said that coastal areas started allowing free trade a couple of years ago. We're just doing this on a small scale. If they really stop allowing it later, we won't have much cost to us,” Liu Yushan said.
"Grandpa, we'll be graduating next summer. We'll still need the jobs assigned by the school, so we'll sell some goods during our time off. But we can't afford to make too much money that way."
We figured we'd let our relatives in the village farm our land, and they'd just give us some grain each year. Our whole family would go to Beijing; my parents and second uncle would learn to sell goods with us first, and the younger children would go to school there—the teachers there are definitely better than those in our hometown.
As for my uncle and aunt, we'll see how their jobs are after graduation. If they want to work in our hometown, they can stay and develop their careers there. If they want to go to Beijing, we'll see then. We can also use this time to see if there are any changes in the job market.
"Alright, you guys have been traveling all day, go back and rest first. Your father and I will discuss this some more." Liu Laogen was quite shocked and needed to talk to his sons again.
Liu Xiaozhu had been itching to buy the property as soon as the others took out their property certificates. Who doesn't want money to bite them? A secure job is tempting, but it can't compare to the allure of a house in Beijing!
After Liu Yushan and the others went back to their rooms to rest, he was the most enthusiastic one. If it weren't for the fact that he would graduate and be assigned a job in six months, he would have wanted to go to Beijing with his nephews and nieces at the beginning of the year.
However, Liu Laogen and Zhang Dani were reluctant to give up their soon-to-be-secure jobs, and the group was still a little unsure about doing business, given how frightening the events of the past few years had been.
So after discussing it, the family decided to keep the two of them focused on their studies after the new year, at least until they got jobs. As for the others, they would go to Beijing with the children after the new year.
Liu Dazhu and Liu Erzhu, a married couple, learned to sell clothes from their children. The elderly couple took care of the younger children's schooling. If they could continue to run the business, they would let their youngest son and his wife join them later.
After the family discussed it, they started preparing for the New Year. Liu Yuxi also took a night to deal with the original owner's husband and in-laws from her previous life.
After the New Year, Liu Yuxi will be 17 years old. The original owner's husband in her previous life is also of marriageable age. Liu Yuxi didn't take the lives of the three of them. It would be too easy for them to die!
She arrived near his house at night and used her mental power to directly paralyze the three of them from the waist down, which means severing their spinal nerves. The family also had two sons who were already married and living separately, so they weren't worried about these people starving to death.
Let's not give them any chance to harm people in this lifetime. Let them lie paralyzed in bed waiting to be served. As for how long they live, that's up to fate.
Sure enough, two days later, when Zhang Dani and her friends went to the market to buy New Year's goods, they told their families about the gossip when they got home. The family called the police and sent the three of them to the hospital.
But what could they find out in such a small place? Liu Yuxi hadn't harmed their bodies, he'd only severed their nerves, and nothing was stolen from their homes. In the end, the case was left unsolved and became a local unsolved mystery.
The story gets distorted as it's passed around. Anyway, the original husband can forget about getting married in this lifetime. There's no filial piety when a patient is bedridden for a long time, so let the three of them lie there and slowly get through the days.