Zhang Zhenyu also expressed his understanding of his mother's feelings for the old house.

According to the past she mentioned to Zhang Zhenyu countless times, Zhang Zhenyu knew that the Tujia style stilt house in their family had accumulated the efforts of three generations.

As early as the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Zhenyu's grandfather built the main house of this building under extremely difficult circumstances, laying the foundation for this ancestral home.

By the generation of Zhang Zhenyu's great-grandfather, that is, in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, corners on both sides were built and the scale of this ancestral home was expanded.

Then when Zhang Zhenyu's grandfather was in the hands of his grandfather, in the early 1940s, the final construction of this ancestral house was completed and the current form of a stilt house was formed.

In fact, even Zhang Zhenyu's parents' generation spent a lot of effort on this ancestral home. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, one end of the ancestral home was collectively requisitioned. As the canteen of the brigade, it lasted until the collective disbanded in the early 1980s. Zhang Zhenyu's family spent a lot of money to buy back the house that was originally requisitioned and maintain the integrity of the ancestral home.

The hard work of several generations has led to the current ancestral home. But it is precisely because of this that the ancestral home has occupied a too heavy position in the heart of the old man, and it has even become her obsession. She just wants to keep this ancestral home that has almost exhausted the efforts of her three generations of ancestors. She will not far away consider the rest.

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Of course, what my mother didn't want to give up was more than ten acres of land in her family. That was the foundation for the family to settle down in the past decade and the family suffered many difficulties in the past decade.

Ten years ago, Zhang Zhenyu's father followed the tide of working away from home, but because of his personality and luck, he basically didn't make much money.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Zhenyu and his second sister's tuition fees all fell on their mother who was working at home, and in fact they also fell on the more than ten acres of land at home.

This is not an easy task. At that time, the compulsory education policy in Sanjiang Province had not been popularized. Although Zhang Zhenyu and his siblings went to elementary school and the other went to junior high school, they had to pay a lot of tuition and miscellaneous fees every year.

In order to maintain the life of the three mothers and sons and pay the tuition and fees for the two brothers, the mother gets up early and goes to bed late every day. Even her second sister, who is still in junior high school, has to go to the fields to help with the work after she gets home from school, otherwise she will not be able to get busy at all.

Later, after Zhang Zhenyu went to junior high school, he had to go home on holidays to help with his work.

Because of this difficult experience, my mother attached great importance to the fields at home, and even an inch of the place would not be left behind. She also quarreled with neighbors because of fighting for some quarrels.

Even in recent years, there are actually many job opportunities in the city that can earn more money more easily. She completely disbelief and is determined to be her ancestral home and land at home, and is unwilling to go out.

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If Zhang Zhenyu didn't understand what his mother was thinking at this time in his previous life, Zhang Zhenyu now knew it very well.

Zhang Zhenyu also knew that if she had not allowed her to get out of it as soon as possible, the old man’s experience in his previous life would not have changed at all.

Zhang Zhenyu does not want to see a mother who is plagued by illness in a few years and has lost her ability to move normally. Therefore, even if it makes her unhappy, he must take this opportunity to free her from her obsession.

Zhang Zhenyu's words really made the old man very unhappy, and even his face turned red with anger. He shouted: "What do you know! This is the hard work of several generations of older generations, not a bad house! You can't be defeated so easily!"

"Okay, even if this is the hard work of several generations of ancestors, it should not be ruined. But is it useful to stay at home for a long time? Don't you have to pick up tiles to repair them every three to five years? Doesn't this require money?" Zhang Zhenyu asked back.

"I'm not just staying at home to look at the house. I didn't let the land at home be wasted at all. People say that I'm not panic when I have food at home. Even if there is any accident, I don't have to worry about growing some food at home. As for the money needed to pick up tiles and repair, I'll make money back every year." My mother said indifferently.

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Zhang Zhenyu almost laughed angry by her words. She thought she was tired and planted some places and earned money to repair her ancestral home. She felt very accomplished. But did she think that she would become sick due to being tired and almost paralyzed after a few years?

However, Zhang Zhenyu also knew that it was impossible to convince her about what had not happened yet. For the extremely stubborn old mother, even ten cows could not pull back what she believed.

If you want to convince her, you have to start from something else.

After a while of silence, Zhang Zhenyu calmed down and said, "Mom, I won't argue with you. I'll settle the score with you here. Think about it yourself and see what to choose. Don't rush to say anything, listen to me."

Chen Yanxiu opened her mouth but still did not interrupt Zhang Zhenyu.

Zhang Zhenyu said with his fingers: "You plant all the land at home. You can grow corn, red potatoes, potatoes and radishes a year. You can raise five pigs. Isn't this the most?"

Chen Yanxiu nodded and said, "You can still leave a thousand kilograms of potatoes and red potatoes for food."

Zhang Zhenyu was speechless for a moment, but continued, "Okay, even if you can still leave 1,000 kilograms of potatoes and 1,000 kilograms of red potatoes, plus five pigs. Each pig weighs 300 kilograms of gross weight, and you can kill 240 kilograms of meat. Now pork is sold for four to five to five kilograms, and five pigs are sold for 6,000 yuan. If you exclude the money for buying piglets and feed, it will be at most 4,000 yuan."

Chen Yanxiu nodded again. Zhang Zhenyu's calculations were very correct and she couldn't find any fault.

Zhang Zhenyu said again: "The remaining 1,000 pounds of potatoes are now 20 cents per pound, and selling them is 200 yuan. As for 1,000 pounds of red potatoes, basically no one buys them. Even if they sell them, 100 yuan is amazing."

The old mother's face looked a little bad, but she had to admit that Zhang Zhenyu said nothing.

Zhang Zhenyu was still continuing to settle accounts for the old man. He said: "In the field, you can plant millet for one season every year. If you calculate three thousand kilograms of dried rice, you can make 2,100 kilograms of rice. According to the current rice price per kilogram, this is 2,100 yuan."

"In total, your annual income is about 6,300 yuan, which is still gross income. You have to spend money on seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides. These expenses will not be less than 2,000 yuan a year, right? So, your annual income is 4,300?"

The old man said with his neck tampered, "I will pick some farm fertilizers and put them in the fields, but I won't spend so much..."

"Okay, I'll give you 200 yuan, so your net income per year is 4,500 yuan?" Zhang Zhenyu asked.

This time, the old man said something else if he didn't get well.

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Seeing that the old mother stopped talking, Zhang Zhenyu said again: "Then I will calculate it for you. If you go to the city to do the job I found for you. According to what Principal He told me, if you go to No. 1 Middle School to work, the monthly guaranteed salary is 1,000 yuan, which is the net income. You can get a meal card for you, eat in the cafeteria for free, and accommodation is also free. In addition, if the monthly assessment results are good, there will be a bonus of at least 200 yuan. Your job is very simple, and there will be basically no problem with the assessment. That is to say, the monthly net income is basically 1,200 yuan, and it is 14,400 yuan a year, the lowest."

"So good? What kind of job? Can I do it?"

Zhang Zhenyu nodded and said, "Of course. If it is something you can't do, I will not tell you. You just want to be a dormitory administrator. The job is very simple. You should hygiene the management area. You should remind students to get up on time in the morning and noon, and urge students to go to bed on time in the evening. You can ignore the rest."

"That's so simple?" Zhang Zhenyu's words made the old man feel a little unbelievable. With such a little work, you can get at least 1,200 yuan per month?

Zhang Zhenyu rolled his eyes and said, "How difficult do you think it is?"

After a pause, Zhang Zhenyu said again: "This is still a formal salary. In fact, you can also do some part-time jobs. Aren't you a simple tailor? So you can move the sewing machine at home to school, do some simple sewing for students, or change them to zippers for broken clothes and pants, so that you can make a lot of money. In general, you can earn 20,000 yuan a little while a young person can earn a net income."

Zhang Zhenyu finally said: "And you should be very clear about the situation in the school. There is one month of winter vacation and two months of summer vacation every year. During this period, you don't have to stay in school. You can go back to your hometown to work, so that both the school and the family are not a problem."

At this time, the old man was actually very moved, but she was very proud of her face and refused to change her attitude at once. She said in a very conflicted manner: "If you really have what you said... then I'll consider it."

The old mother was still struggling, but Zhang Zhenyu's father could not help it at all and said from the side: "Xiaoyu, what's the matter? It's too late for others to agree to such a good thing. If the school leaders hadn't looked down on our Xiaoyu, would you think such an opportunity would fall on us? After thinking about it, the opportunity would be gone!"

Then, he ignored Chen Yanxiu glared at him and asked Zhang Zhenyu impatiently: "Xiaoyu, you have told you about the job you arranged for your mother, and you also told me about the job you arranged for me?"

Zhang Zhenyu had a headache, patted his head and said, "Dad, that's not the job I arranged for you. I don't have the ability to do your son yet. That's the job opportunity that the leaders of the school and the municipal education committee take care of the families of students in need and give you solutions."

Zhang Chengpu said indifferently: "It's almost the same. If it weren't for you, your mother and I wouldn't have had such an opportunity."
Chapter completed!