Farmhouse vicious stepmother, she is super fierce

Chapter 140 The Wooden Box in the Mouse Hole
After working hard for a long time, the west wing was finally tidied up.

Even the tiles on the roof need to be picked up again, and some mouse holes in the corners of the house need to be blocked with some mud.

The work of picking up tiles and tidying up the roof still needs men to do it.

Shen Jiayan decided to ask Li Goudan's father to help, and it would be fine to calculate the wages or give something.

He ran to Li's house before dinner and explained his intentions. Li Goudan's father readily agreed and agreed to come to repair it early tomorrow morning.

Early the next morning, Li Goudan's father came with Li Goudan.

I brought my own ladder and various tools.

Li Goudan was used to coming to Mu's house, so he teased him for a while before going to help his father.

There is nothing particular about picking tiles for the roof. It is just to pick up the broken tiles in the leaking area and replace them with new tiles.

Most of the houses in Dongguang Village still have thatched roofs, which is simpler.

There are very few such roofs covered with tiles.

The tiles on the roof were brittle, and Li Goudan's father, a big man, didn't dare to step on it, for fear that if he stepped on it, he would crush the unbroken tiles by himself.

Simply let Li Goudan go up to check it, after all, he is light in body and more flexible in his hands and feet.

Li Goudan was already adept at climbing trees and over walls, not to mention going up the roof, he went up the ladder, checked both front and back, and sure enough found three or four leaks and broken tiles.

By the way, he also took out the broken tiles and pointed out the location.

When the tiles were built for the first time, there were still some tiles left over for spare use.

They were all piled up in the corner of the yard and covered with planks.

After finding a dozen or so good tiles inside, Li Goudan's father climbed up to the roof first, and then motioned Li Goudan to throw the tiles up, and he just went on top and continued.

This is what they are used to, and when one throws it smoothly, the person above catches it smoothly, effortlessly.

Shen Jiayan is fine. When she was a child, she saw people building houses in their hometowns, especially two-story buildings. The bricks needed for the top were thrown up by the people below.

Skilled workers can also throw tricks when they are in a good mood.

But Mu Yue and Mu Tianrun hadn't seen each other before, they were sitting on the cool beds that had been rinsed and arranged under the tree, staring dumbfounded.

This look of having never seen the world made Li Goudan feel that the people in the city are actually no more knowledgeable than the country people, and it is too pitiful that they have never seen this.

After throwing all the tiles, there is nothing for him.

Shen Jiayan watched from below, he simply ran to the cool bed under the tree and sat down on the table, drank a bowl of herbal tea, then asked Mu Yue in a chattering voice: "Your elder brother is going to the county town alone, aren't you worried?"

"Oh, if my mother didn't let me go, I would have gone to the county town with your elder brother."

"Your family's summer bed is not bad, it's bigger than ours, and the whole family can sit on it."

……

Mu Yue didn't say a word, just heard Li Goudan muttering alone, and simply rolled her eyes and ignored him.

When Li Goudan's father came down after repairing the roof, he asked Shen Jiayan if he could help, and he did it along the way.

Shen Jiayan shook his head quickly, saying that there was nothing to help, he only borrowed the trowel from Li Goudan's father, and said he would send it back in a few days.

Li Goudan's father left the trowel and didn't ask for wages, so he went home with the ladder on his shoulder.

After the Li family left, Shen Jiayan thoroughly cleaned the house again, removing all the cobwebs and everything.

Looking at those mouse holes again, it is very unpleasant.

But this little thing can't stop her, she borrowed the trowel just to plug these mouse holes.

First I went to the side of the mountain to dig some loess, and then I dug some silt from the river and brought it back for use. I went to the Zhu family next door to borrow a bundle of straw, and cut the straw into three or four inches.

It stands to reason that glutinous rice should be soaked overnight, then ground into rice milk and cooked, and mixed with loess and sand with this glutinous rice milk, that is the strongest.

But in this world, there is not enough food to eat, and if it is used to make slurry and mud, it will be punished by God.

Shen Jiayan simply mixed the yellow mud and sand with water, then put the chopped straw in and stirred them evenly.

That's when I'm going to fill those mouse holes.

Mu Yue still has a psychological shadow, she dare not go in, she just helps out with the mud, for children, this is the time to play in the mud openly.

Mu Yue was a bit dirty at first, but looking at Mu Tianrun, she first stirred the mud with her hands, and then she just stood in with both feet, stepping on the yellow mud and splashing yellow mud spots all over her body .

Unexpectedly, he didn't feel it yet, he just grinned and didn't say anything, and dragged Mu Yue to let her play together.

Mu Yue really couldn't resist Mu Tianrun, so she had to take off her shoes, rolled up her trouser legs, and followed the mud to play. At first, she was a bit restrained, but then she became more and more free. Brother and sister, you step on my feet, and I step on yours. The greasy mud squeezed between the toes, which made people feel relaxed.

The siblings were having fun in the yard, but Shen Jiayan didn't care about them.

Children love to play by nature, especially playing with mud and treading water.

What's more, while they were playing, they mixed the mud and straw by the way, which was considered a help to themselves, didn't it?

Besides, if the clothes are dirty, don't wash them yourself, you can play like a mud monkey!

After entering the house, I dug around the mouse hole a little bit, and by the way, I also checked how deep the mouse hole was.

The first few were fine, but after digging around the corner of the room on the left, I felt something was wrong, as if there was something inside.

Shen Jiayan had heard before that during a famine, country people would go to the nests of mice and voles when they were so hungry that they couldn't help it.

They will store food, and if you are lucky, a mouse hole can pull out dozens of catties of food.

Could it be that the mice in this house are also hoarding food?
Find a hook from the stove, and slowly hook the things in the mouse hole out.

It was a patient job, and Shen Jiayan was not lacking in patience. After digging for about ten minutes, he finally pulled out a small black wooden box from the mouse hole.

The small box had been gnawed by the mice until the corners were bald, and one corner was directly gnawed through.

Pick it up and take a look, from the gnawed corner, you can see the golden light inside.

Shen Jiayan frowned, becoming interested.

There is a small lock on the outside of the box, which has rusted to death.

But it's okay, the corners of the wooden box are a little rotten, with a little force, the box was directly broken into two by Shen Jiayan.

There were two "bangs", and two packages fell out from inside.

The cloth was almost rotten, and when it fell to the ground, it scattered in all directions, and there were a few small ingots of gold ingots wrapped in the cloth, which were round and very cute.

Each weighs about one or two, and there are five or six.

In another bag, there were actually two small yellow croakers that were as long as two palms and as thick as two fingers.

Shen Jiayan was stunned all of a sudden!This is, a windfall?
(End of this chapter)