The road to wealth of a peasant widow

Chapter 120 Settlement

The children have a good relationship and want to live together, which is not a bad thing, so Chen Cui naturally has to satisfy their wishes.

It is also appropriate to set up a special study room. If their classmates come to visit, they can be received in the study room instead of being taken directly to the bedroom.

There are only necessary furniture in this house, such as tables, chairs, benches and beds. There is no desk, so it must be purchased new. There is also a wardrobe, which also needs to be purchased.

Originally, they ordered a large desk for three people to share because the house was small and could not accommodate three desks.

Now that they have a dedicated study room, they can buy a desk so that everyone can have one. Chen Cui even bought an extra one for herself so that she doesn't have to sit at the desk to practice calligraphy only when they are in school.

She has been too busy recently and often fails to keep up with the children's learning progress. She has not expected to learn any advanced knowledge, but recognizing and practicing writing is a must.

With calligraphy, it's so easy to tell whether you've put in enough effort as soon as you start writing. She originally thought her handwriting was just barely passable, but when compared with the children's handwriting, it pales in comparison and is clearly not on the same level.

Having a desk for yourself is not only convenient for practicing calligraphy, but also allows you to encourage your children with your own learning attitude. When they grow older, you can also let them read and write, thus killing two birds with one stone.

The desks and chairs were delivered by the furniture store, so she didn't have to worry about it. As for the other things, Chen Cui made a list and drove out on a mule cart to buy them all.

The family was busy cleaning up for the whole day, and it was not until the evening that they finally cleaned the house thoroughly and put all the things in their proper places. The three children were already sitting on the floor exhausted.

The walls of this house must have been painted with lime water recently, and everything is white. The blue brick floor is very flat, so after cleaning it, there is no need to worry when sitting on the floor.

Suisui followed his brothers' example and sat on the ground, sighing in a pretentious manner: "Oh, I'm so tired!"

Chang Fu rubbed her little head and said, "Little girl, you are just good at pretending!"

Everyone was busy today and had no time to take care of her. They closed the door and let her play in the yard. Suisui led the two dogs to run around the front and back yards and all over the house, making her hair messy and her body and face dirty.

After dinner, Chen Cui took Sui Sui over to take a bath.

Now they wash in the room next to the kitchen, which also has a blue brick floor. They don't have to worry about water splashing onto the ground and making mud, but they still have to carry the basin out to splash the water themselves.

Chen Cui was thinking about whether to renovate the room, build a sewer, and add some insulation measures so that she wouldn't have to worry about the cold when taking a bath in the winter.

She also wants to change the toilet. She wants to change it to a water-flushing one. Even if she has to flush it manually with a scoop, it is much better than a dry toilet.

Originally living in the village, it was not convenient to make any big moves. Moreover, it was far from the well and it was inconvenient to use water. Even if she had a well in the space, it was not convenient to release too much water.

Now that they have moved to the city, any renovations they make will not be so eye-catching. When she has some free time in a while, she will design them carefully and try to transform them into the way she likes.

Although the house is rented, your life is your own. Living comfortably within your means is also a way to love life.

The next day, Chen Cui took the children to school on foot, getting familiar with the environment along the way and the surrounding shops as they walked.

It was only a few hundred meters in total and they arrived there quickly. The mother and daughter waved goodbye to the three young men and watched them enter the school.

From then on, they all walked to school and no longer asked Chen Cui to pick them up. They walked a distance every day and considered it as exercise.

Chen Cui returned home and took Sui Sui to the canning workshop in a mule cart. Because she had been busy with school and moving these days, she hadn't been there for several days and she was a little worried.

When she arrived at the workshop, she saw the workers were working diligently and everything was in order. She felt relieved.

The canned food produced recently has already filled up half of the room, and we are just waiting to accumulate more so that we can ship them out to other places when the weather gets colder.

Although due to seasonal reasons, the only three kinds of fruits we received were peaches, cherries and apricots, and the quality of these fruits was actually not very stable.

Some of these fruits are sour, some are sweet, and some have scars on the surface, but after being peeled and boiled in sugar water, the taste is greatly improved and they are much more delicious than in their original state.

After Chen Cui looked around the workshop and felt there was nothing wrong, she went to the backyard of the county government office.

She went to pay her respects to Mrs. Zhang, to end her leave, and to report to her boss that she had resumed work.

When she saw Mrs. Zhang again, Chen Cui was slightly surprised. This noble lady had lost a lot of weight. She must have lost at least ten kilograms to have such an obvious weight loss effect.

After losing weight, not only did she look less bloated, but she also felt more energetic, at least much better than when she first started taking the medicine.

When she met Chen Cui, Mrs. Zhang first asked about her family situation and her children's schooling with concern.

Chen Cui naturally said that everything was fine and thanked her for her concern.

Then, Mrs. Zhang got to the point: "You said earlier that your family had planted a few acres of new crops. How are they doing now?"

"To answer Madam, the crops are growing well and will be ready for harvest in less than a month. I'll show them to Madam when the time comes, and she'll be happy too."

Chen Cui secretly cursed herself for being careless. She reminded herself that next time she went back, she must pick some green corns for the county magistrate's wife to taste, so that she could also influence the county magistrate.

In fact, she had no idea that Zhang Ruomei and Wang Hengzhi had been in a semi-cold war state before, and it was actually Zhang Ruomei who unilaterally ignored Wang Hengzhi.

But this man went out early and came back late, and he hadn't seen his wife for several days, but he didn't realize anything was wrong.

Zhang Ruomei was also holding her breath, but she refused to speak out, wanting to see when he would realize that he was wrong. Then they could come together to hold him accountable, expose all the dirty things his mother had done, and humiliate him.

Wang Hengzhi was shocked to see his wife had lost weight. He thought she was sick and kept calling for someone to come and ask for a doctor.

At this time, Zhang Ruomei scolded him harshly, blaming him for everything her disgusting mother-in-law had done, to let him see how disgusting his own mother was.

At first Wang Hengzhi didn’t believe it and thought his wife was overthinking it and that his mother would never do such a thing.

But the old doctor happened to come for a follow-up consultation at this time. He told him the pulse condition he had taken earlier, the cause of the disease, and the prescription he had prescribed. All of these were placed in front of him. He carefully recalled his mother's attitude before, and could not help but stand there in a daze.