Well, the next day was back to our same old grind that we'd gone through for the better part of our post-teen years. Now that we were graduates, the long road of life was ahead of us. And every day afterwards was yet another daily grind of survival; we'd had started to build the house that we'd always dreamed of...adding vehicles to our mix and building a garage.
Over the coming days we added a greenhouse and dug out a lake around the supports that we pre-built. Our property was starting to come together and we could truly start calling it our home. It was our refuge; our place. Once we had that property tax paid off we knew that we had no problems left; now it was the accumulation of wealth that we needed to do in order to make certain that we had a financial leg to stand on before we started a family.
We also added cows and chickens to the mix, after all, they were a big investment. The cost burden of going down to buy eggs and having no way of making cheese other than to buy it outweighed the initial investment cost of having chickens and cows. When one ran the figures together, River and I found that over time, the chickens and cows would pay for themselves in convenience.
We both opted to learn the cooking skill, as it would stand us in good stead. Either of us could cook a decent meal then and we wouldn't potentially fear going hungry. We'd had our fill of having to use a fire-pit for food and we bought ourselves a decent kitchen with top-of-the-line appliances. This was where knowing people who knew the value of gemstones and space rocks came in handy: we didn't get ripped off by unscrupulous people who wanted to make a quick buck at someone else's expense. When we put our rocks and gemstones up for sale, we knew the exact value of the stone, let other people try to undercut us with subpar gemcuts and space-rocks. Ours were of the highest quality.
The only thing that I was grateful to my mother for being the abusive piece of excrement that she was, was the fact that I no longer looked for the good in people - being betrayed by the people you trust the most in the world tends to do that to you. Put on a good face in the exterior but always keep your guard because you don't know where the knife in the back is coming from.
The only person I could trust with my life was the woman who had chosen me for her mate and that was who I placed all my trust in. Anybody else was someone who I guarded my back against.
We would face whatever life threw at us; shoulder to shoulder, united and we would over come any trials together.
At least we had a home, a property that we could call our own and a start in life that saw us from owning just the clothes on our back, a bike to call our transportation, to having a place to lay our heads at night with walls and a roof, a place to grow our plants to harvest, milk for cheese and eggs and vehicles (a SUV for River, and a Yomoshoto Evasion for myself)
For now, that was enough. But as our wealth grows, River and I have plans...big plans.
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