Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife-Chapter 1699: Prosperity 3

Two days after the roof was completed, the Lu Family’s new house was successfully finished.

The inside and outside of the walls, along with the roof, were evenly covered with cement, polished very smoothly, and waterproofed against cracking. The east and west side rooms were built with red bricks and blue tiles, and the floors inside were also concreted. Everything was neat and clean, including the courtyard walls, the gateway, and the small kitchen on the east side of the gateway, all built with bricks. It was considered the best in Wanglou Brigade.

Wang Jiao walked around several times, filled with envy, then turned to Zhang Yuejin and said, "Zhang Yuejin, you better start saving money, we should aim to build a flat house next year as well. Live in it for seven or eight years, and when Goudan gets married, we’ll have no regrets."

Miao Fengqin glared at her; what was she saying?

In other families, if they have the means, they would build a new house for the son when it’s time for him to marry, while they themselves live in the old house. But this daughter of hers decided to build a new house for herself first and then gives her son a worn house to get married in.

Zhang Yuejin also envied the Lu Family’s new house and courtyard, and readily agreed to his wife’s proposal, completely ignoring his mother-in-law’s glare at his wife, enthusiastically discussing with his wife, "We’ll build the flat house first and postpone everything else. Three thousand bricks cost over eight hundred yuan, Jiaojiao, I will definitely save up well. We can renovate the old house and not spend money on buying land, which will save us a bit."

Wang Jiao calculated for a while, "We have more than four hundred yuan on hand. If you save well for a year, you can definitely add two hundred, which makes six hundred. I’ll write a letter to Xiaoxue later, asking her to lend us two hundred. Your parents can’t be completely stingy, right? When your brother built his house and got married, it was still a half-brick, half-clay tile house, yet we forked out two hundred yuan. If it wasn’t for him being your only brother, I would never have spent that two hundred yuan! Look at him now; your brother lives in a brick tile house, while we’re still in a rundown grass house!"

"Yes, yes, my wife is broad-minded, my parents definitely won’t stand by, and my brothers surely won’t pretend not to know." Zhang Yuejin clasped his hands together in agreement, not mentioning at all that his parents lived with his four children most of the time, while he and his wife mostly stayed in the small house assigned to them in the city.

Miao Fengqin didn’t bother with them anymore.

In Zhang Yuejin’s family, Wang Jiao’s word was law, whatever she said, no one dared oppose.

Zhang Yuejin’s parents worked hard all year round and couldn’t save much money, entirely relying on the eldest son to support the youngest one, Zhang Guangrong, who only grew up smoothly because of this financial help. But he was a bit too honest and silly, poor at speaking, as if nothing would make him say a word. If it weren’t for the good reputation of Wanglou Brigade’s lifestyle, even getting a wife would have been difficult for him.

In other brigades, there are always many bachelors, but in Wanglou Brigade, there are none, and the unmarried young men are quite sought after, known near and far.

Even so, after setting the wedding date seven years ago, the bride’s family raised several conditions before agreeing to the marriage: there must be a betrothal gift, a new set of clothes, and a new house with new bedding, and they must split from the family after marriage and not live squeezed together with the eldest’s family as it wouldn’t be convenient.

Zhang Yuejin’s parents wanted to call off the engagement then, but Zhang Guangrong insisted on this marriage, so in the end, the elders had to compromise.

The old couple prepared a new bed, new bedding, and new clothes, but were short of 200 yuan. That’s from Wang Jiao, even though she rarely bothered with housework and chores, Zhang Yuejin’s parents were quite satisfied with this daughter-in-law. They took care of the eldest son’s three grandsons and one granddaughter, without needing Wang Jiao to worry at all.

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