Happiness System

In order to save money, many families build houses by digging foundations and chiseling stones whenever they have time. It takes at least one or two years to build a house.

Of course, this only applies to a small number of families. Most families exchange work and help each other, and it won’t take long even if there are many people.

Qin Xi stood at the entrance of the Youth League Home and watched for a while, then asked Jin Zhe and Cheng Bing to carry the cooled herbal tea to the construction site. There were many people there, so they could probably only get one bowl each.

Li Jianshe looks like a male chauvinist, but his cooking skills are surprisingly good.

Knowing that others couldn't eat too spicy food, they served most of it first, and put the rest of the fish and vegetables in a small bowl, adding chili peppers to the soup base and cooking them before putting them in the small bowl.

Unexpectedly, the spicy small bowl of pickled fish was unexpectedly popular. Although everyone couldn't eat spicy food, they couldn't help but reach for the small bowl with their chopsticks.

After Huo Yueyao and two female educated youth failed in their proposal to join them, they then asked to borrow their cookware. This was their real purpose. They were afraid that the group of seven would not agree, so they used the opportunity to join them as a prelude.

I thought it was a sure thing, but unexpectedly it was rejected.

The old educated youth have fallen out again. If they go to seek peace again, they will surely be eaten alive and nothing will be left.

Just after arriving in the countryside, several people felt that they had experienced all the hardships they had endured in their lifetime.

Helplessly, Huo Yueyao could only wait for Wen Hongshen to come back with an empty stomach.

Originally, she thought that Wen Hongshen knew Qin Xi, so she asked him to help persuade her and say a few good words, but Wen Hongshen did not agree. Huo Yueyao then suggested that they should live together at Wen Hongshen's house, but Wen Hongshen still refused.

Huo Yueyao got angry and took the two female educated youth to find the team leader. However, the team leader was too impatient to deal with them and chased them away like flies.

Several people were hungry and angry, so they finally found a nearby family and asked them to make them dinner. Each of them gave fifty cents and some food and begged them to take care of them for a few days. Only then was the problem temporarily solved.

The two female educated youth with Huo Yueyao were just spoiled and naive by their families. They were not bad people and had some brains. The next day, they went to find the team leader and said that they wanted to build a house.

The reason why Huo Yueyao was not invited was naturally because Huo Yueyao had no money. They knew that the money Zhou Pandi and Zhao Xiaofen used to build the house was borrowed by Qin Xi, and they despised Qin Xi.

It's obvious that Zhou Pandi and Zhao Xiaofen come from poor and unpopular families. If these city kids go to the countryside without support from their families, it will be a problem for them to have enough food to eat, let alone earn money to pay off their debts!

They think Qin Xi looks fierce, but is actually a brainless person.

Unlike them, Huo Yueyao seemed to be favored and in good condition on the surface, but they soon realized that Huo Yueyao was only good on the outside and was actually nothing special, just a vain woman!

So when Huo Yueyao suggested that they contribute money to build the house together, the two of them simply ignored her and went to find the team leader.

As early as the first day the new educated youth started working, the team leader was afraid that Qin Xi and his team would have problems building houses, so he told the new and old educated youth that the village would allow them to allocate residential land to build houses, but they only had the right to live in and use the land, not the right to buy or sell.

Not only the remaining new educated youth were moved by this, but even the old educated youth were equally moved.

In the past, they only thought about staying with villagers or asking the village to solve their housing problems, but never thought that they could build their own houses.

The cost of building a house is about 50 yuan. In fact, some of the old educated youth have better conditions. Although their families cannot bring them back, they can still give them a hundred or eighty yuan to improve their living conditions.

But most people are still waiting and watching!

Wen Hongshen and the two female educated youth were originally waiting and watching, planning to wait until Qin Xi and their family's house was built before making any decisions. They didn't expect that Huo Yueyao would decide to build a house early.

Wen Hongshen quietly took a pack of cigarettes to the team leader's house yesterday to finalize the building of the house. The two female educated youth went to see the team leader specifically after the meeting in the morning.

The original intention of the three was to build the house together with Qin Xi and the other six, but they didn't expect that Qin Xi and the other six were a family of their own and had already planned their foundation and yard. They could only settle for the second best and build the house on the vacant lot between Qin Xi and the other's house and the Youth League Courtyard.

Wen Hongshen was fine, but there were two female educated youth. The team leader was afraid that something might happen to them living alone, so he advised the female educated youth to ask the older educated youth who were in better conditions. Although there would be conflicts with more people, it would at least be safer.

They also have time to observe other educated youth. It will probably take Qin Xi and his team five or six days to lay the bricks and foundation. Only after the foundation is laid can they spare some manpower to help them build the house.

Qin Xi followed the ten-year-old girls in the village to collect pig grass. She was given two centimeters for every hundred kilograms. She went once in the morning and once in the afternoon. The work was quite leisurely but physically demanding. After working hard all day, she barely got five centimeters.

"Qin Xi, we have a day off tomorrow. Do you want to go to the commune for a stroll?" At the dinner table, Zhao Xiaofen looked relaxed.

I can finally take a break. Although I only worked two shifts, it was really tiring.

Qin Xi shook her head and said, "No, I'm not going. Yesterday I asked Doctor Liu to buy me some medicine for my health. He gave me thirty yuan and I might have to pay more. It's too expensive. I plan to go into the mountains to see if there are any herbs. It's more cost-effective to collect them myself."

Zhao Xiaofen and Zhou Pandi looked at each other and said, "Then we won't go either. We'll go collect herbs too! Qin Xi, whether we can pay off our debt depends on you!"

Qin Xi glanced at them and said, "We don't need a day like this. I can go to the mountain to explore first and then take you there next time."

Zhou Pandi shook his head, "No, every penny I can earn is a penny I can earn. I have nothing in my pocket right now and I don't have money to buy anything, and I don't have to write a letter back home."

Zhao Xiaofen followed up by saying, "I can't buy what I want at the commune. I really won't go. Can someone help me post a letter?"

"Please send a letter for me too. I need to write a letter back to ask them to be strict and tell my dad to remember to send me money on time!"

Everyone immediately looked at her in admiration. It had to be Qin Xi who actually dared to help her old father!

After dinner, Qin Xi took out the oil lamp, and several people lay on the dining table to write letters to their families.

Li Jianshe and Cheng Bing didn't go either. They also owed debts and couldn't have fun. They simply followed a few female comrades to act as flower protectors. Even if they couldn't collect herbs, they could at least get some firewood.

In the end, only Jin Zhe and Jing Yan went, and they were asked to help mail the letter.

Qin Xi wrote three letters, the extra two were one to her maternal grandparents and one to Grandpa Qin.

The original owner's maternal family probably still doesn't know that she went to the countryside. She originally wanted to tell them, but when she went there, no one paid any attention to her, so the original owner left in anger.

I think something had already happened in my grandparents' family at that time, but the situation was not serious and everyone was still trying to make amends.

Write a letter to them now, telling them about the going to the countryside and the address. If they want to send my brother over again in the future, they won’t have to waste their time looking for her address.

As for Grandpa Qin and Grandma Qin, the old man actually likes this granddaughter very much. Although the old lady is patriarchal and unwilling to take care of her, she is quite nice to her because her uncle and her uncles have no daughters.

Compared with Qin Xi, the old lady hated the two daughters born to her stepmother Liu Dahong even more. She disliked Liu Dahong and the four children she gave birth to.

She could still give some face to the two boys, but the two girls had never received a penny of New Year's money from the old lady since they were young.

The original owner was so arrogant, not only because Qin He was concerned about her reputation and was afraid that she would make trouble, but also because the old man supported her behind the scenes.

The old couple only had the old man receiving a pension of more than 20 yuan a month, and they had to subsidize the household expenses from time to time. When they learned that the original owner had gone to the countryside, they collected a lot of bills for the original owner and gave him another 100 yuan.

This kind of thought is already rare!

The old lady felt so painful to pay the money, and kept nagging her to be grateful. They only gave a subsidy of 50 yuan to her uncle's cousin who she had personally taken care of and raised her grandson to go to the countryside. Now they were losing so much money to her, who was a loss.

"I'll go to the captain's house and ask her if there are any specialties that I can buy and send back. Do you want to go?" After thinking about it, Qin Xi decided to send some things back.

Zhao Xiaofen quickly shook her head: "I won't go. I just wrote a letter saying I was very disappointed. If I send something back, they will definitely think that fifty yuan is a huge sum of money in the countryside and that I will have enough to spare."

Zhou Pandi also shook his head, "If I had this money, I might as well make myself some decent clothes!"

Li Jianshe and Cheng Bing didn't want to go at first after hearing what Zhao Xiaofen said, but then they thought that every family's circumstances were different. If they spent a few dollars to send things to their homes, maybe because they were so filial, they would be given money to support building a house?

Although Jin Zhe didn't want to let his stepmother get away with it, he was thinking about his old man's property, so he decided to buy some things and send them to his old man's workplace!

Jingyan just followed the trend and sent some to the elderly at home.

Several people went to the team leader's house with flashlights, but the things in the team leader's house were not enough for them to share, so he asked his son to go to a few more families before he could get what they wanted.

What was rare was that the captain's family actually had two smoked chickens. The captain's wife, Aunt Ma, was very good at smoking fires. Knowing that Qin Xi was the little Qin Zhiqing her grandson had mentioned, she immediately pulled Qin Xi over. "Little Qin Zhiqing, if you go fishing in the future, just go fishing as much as you want. If you can't finish it, bring it to Auntie and I'll smoke it for you. I'll make sure it won't be wasted!"

Qin Xi immediately agreed: "Okay, Auntie, I'll take Er Zhuang with me next time I go fishing!"

The two smoked chickens were taken by the local rich man Jin Zhe, so Qin Xi had to settle for the next best thing and go to Da Niu's house to buy some soybean paste.

The mother of the old lady of the Qin family came from the north. When the great-grandfather Hai was alive, he often asked people to bring soybean paste to the old lady. After the great-grandfather passed away, the contact with that side was cut off.

You can’t make a sauce as delicious as that in the south. The old lady keeps thinking about it all day long. I don’t know if it’s a local custom or a dietary habit.