? At this time, my grandfather felt that something was wrong with me and took the initiative to talk to me. "Niu Niu, if you have financial difficulties, tell Grandpa that Grandpa has money and I will give it to you."
? My grandfather is 76 years old this year. Although he offered to help me, I thought, how can he have any money at his age? Even if he has at most ten thousand pieces of pocket money, how can I ask him for money?
? Maybe he saw my doubts, and he said, "Niu Niu, I'm really rich. I earned 50 thousand yuan last year."
? This shocked me. It's not that he has 50,000 yuan, but how he earned 50,000 yuan. So I begged him to tell me his history of "getting rich".
? When grandpa was young, he was a clever boy, fond of tossing and turning, with many ways and quite a business mind. So in the 1990s, he was the biggest feed distributor in our county, and then he had a monthly net income of 10,000.
? Later, when he was old, the feed was not easy to sell. He went to sell insurance. At that time, insurance was not recognized and the premium was very cheap. But he has a wide network of contacts and will be a man. He has done business before and kept his word. Almost every household in our village bought insurance from him, and in 10, his maximum monthly income was 40,000 to 50,000.
Now he is old, and he got prostate cancer eight years ago. He has been wearing a urine bag, so it is inconvenient to walk and his mental state is not as good as before. We thought he should rest at home, but we didn't think about him and tried to make money. The 50,000 he earned last year mainly came from the following ways.
? 1. Rent income. Monthly income is 2200~2300.
Originally, our home was in a village not far from the county seat. There was no real estate in our county seat, but there was an old house near the ancestral temple in the village. Because the geomantic omen near the ancestral temple was not good, no one lived there.
? However, due to the construction of new countryside, the village invested in painting and repairing this house. My grandfather went out to spend some extra money, pulled the water and electricity for the house, laid the tiles, bought a table and a new bed, and separated seven small single rooms, each of which ranged from100 to 300 yuan, and rented them to workers from nearby construction sites.
? Needless to say, the decorated house is full of light, warm in winter and cool in summer, and it is close to the county seat. For the tenants who rent 300 yuan, it is also very attractive for the workers to send them a piece of cultivated vegetable garden soil to grow vegetables.
? After all, vegetables are expensive now. If you can grow your own vegetables, you can save a lot of money. Although the house is near the ancestral temple, it is important to save money by working outside, and I don't care about Feng Shui, so many people call to rent a house after posting a small advertisement for renting a house. So the monthly rental income of this house is 1200 yuan.
And my family, because my parents are away all the year round, only live at home for more than ten days in the New Year, so two rooms on the first floor have been empty. My grandfather rented these two rooms to the project department of the construction site, and gave them the office and the residence of the project manager. The rent was 500 yuan a month.
? Of course, in order to rent it better, my grandfather planted flowers in our yard. Before, the yard was surrounded by walls and paved with marble. Now it is full of all kinds of flowers, and the scenery is unique.
? In addition, because the house they live in is close to the road, they have opened a canteen there to sell navel oranges, which are daily necessities and snacks, and they also earn 500 to 600 yuan a month.
Second, the monthly income from selling eggs is 600-800.
? We have to send eggs when we are pregnant and have a baby. Although in the countryside, there are few real and pure earth eggs, so the earth eggs are very expensive, 2.5 each, and it is difficult to buy.
? My grandfather is a good chicken breeder. He keeps more than a dozen chickens and can lay at least a dozen or twenty eggs every day.
? Mainly, he is willing to spend his time thinking about how to make chickens lay more eggs. He gives chickens a nutritious meal every day.
? He is responsible for the chicken's food. Every day, he chopped the green leaves, mixed them with corn kernels, rice kernels and sweet potato kernels, and fed them to the chicken. From time to time, open a meatless diet for chickens, smash snails or shells and feed them, or put them in the fields to eat worms. A chicken can lay at least one egg every day.
? Except for the eggs he eats at home, the rest of the eggs will be booked in advance, so this can bring him 600~800 yuan a month.
3. The monthly income from selling vegetables is 2,000 ~ 2,400.
? My grandmother is also a hardworking person. Grandma is six years younger than grandpa, and she can't be idle.
Several plots of land in front of our house are used by grandma to grow vegetables. Leek, pepper, green vegetables, eggplant, beans and so on. Because the two old people are usually at home, grandma always pulls the vegetables she can't finish to the county street to sell.
? Because it is more convenient to fertilize and water at home, grandma's dishes are fresh and have no pesticides, so they are more popular. You can earn 70 to 80 yuan a day, sometimes the price of vegetables is more expensive and you can earn more.
4. Pension income is more than 1700 per month.
? Because grandpa sold insurance in earlier years, he has a strong sense of supporting the elderly. Although they don't have retirement salary, they have already paid the old-age insurance, and now they can receive more than 1700 pension every month. This part is used as their daily expenses.
? After listening to my grandfather's history of "getting rich", I can't help feeling that as long as you have a lively mind, love to think, have a strong desire to make money, and be diligent and have strong action, life will not be hard.
? This also reminded me that there was no income during the epidemic. Anxiety is useless. Only by taking action, the solution will be much more difficult.