After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

Chapter 37 Preparing to Build a House
At this moment, my family's [-] golden ears have been sorted, and I was about to go to the front yard to discuss with my parents and brothers, when I saw Chen Cun standing at the gate of his yard with his hands behind his back.

Chen Sanyou, the village official, is in his 40s. He is gentle, polite, and helpful.

Seeing that Chen Cun was coming, Jiang Sanlang hurried forward to meet him, and said with a smile, "Chen Sanshu, come in and sit down."

Chen Sanyou just walked in, looked around, and asked: "Sanlang, I see you are busy recently, what are you busy with?"

Jiang Sanlang rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "I'm not busy, I just picked some mushrooms from the mountain and came back to plant them."

"What mushroom?" Chen Sanyou was curious.

Jiang Sanlang led him into the bamboo shed, pointed to the twenty mulberries on the shelf and said, "I planted golden ears, it is said to be a tonic."

Chen Sanyou craned his neck to look at it for a while, and found that he didn't recognize it, so he muttered: "It's strange."

Jiang Sanlang laughed foolishly.

Coming out of the bamboo shed, Chen Sanyou said earnestly, "Sanlang, it's okay to grow mushrooms, but you can't throw away the fields. Growing food is the foundation of our farm."

Jiang Sanlang nodded immediately: "Uncle Chen San, don't worry, my fields are all planted, not even an acre has been lost."

Chen Sanyou nodded and sighed: "Yesterday Lizheng came to inform that after the summer harvest, the imperial court will collect a large amount of grain and cloth. The fields in our village are counted as one acre, and all of them will be taxed by [-]%. Sigh, you all need to worry about it." Well, there won’t be enough counts at that time, and life will be hard for you and me.”

Jiang Sanlang frowned: "Is there another reward? Uncle Chen, is the court starting a war with someone again?"

Chen Sanyou shook his head, "I don't know, there will always be a decree at that time, let's just wait."

He walked a few steps, stopped again, and continued:
"Also, you should hurry up to cultivate the fields on the Nanshan Mountains. No matter what you plant, it's better than leaving them unused. I think the price of grain in the second half of the year will definitely increase. You should fiddle with that piece of land a little, it will be better than winter. Hungry."

"What Chen Sanshu said is true." Jiang Sanlang said: "I am also planning to tidy up the land in Nanshan, and I will ask Chen Sanshu to give you a detailed look."

"En." Satisfied, Chen Sanyou left with his hands behind his back.

Seeing off Muramasa, Jiang Sanlang showed a dignified expression.

In previous years, before the war, the imperial court would always collect food and cloth, and if the war was stalemate, it would also recruit soldiers.

At that time, I am afraid that the people will have another cold wind, snow and rain.

Fortunately, I earned dozens of taels of silver. Even if I really wanted to be drafted, my three brothers could use the silver to buy pawns instead of going out.

Therefore, the matter of building a house has to be carefully considered.

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As the old saying goes, peach blossoms in March and rain in April. It is the end of April, and the sky is overcast with clouds, which seems to be brewing torrential rain.

Chun Niang sat by the window, glancing outside from time to time, worried.

She has been thinking about her daughter's words these days, fearing that one day the Chuanhe River will flood suddenly and her house will be flooded.

"Sanlang, let's hurry up and build a house in Nanshan, alas, I can't even sleep well these days."

Jiang Sanlang, who was teasing his son, was taken aback for a moment, looked outside, and frowned.

There was a lot of rain in early summer, and it hasn't cleared up in the past few days.

He thought for a moment and said, "How about we build three huts in Nanshan first, and if there is heavy rain, we can go to the mountain to take shelter."

Chunniang nodded immediately, "If you build a thatched hut, you will build thatched hut, Sanlang, I can't take it anymore." She was worried all night and dared not close her eyes.

"Then I'll tell my parents and elder brothers tomorrow to see if they can build it." Jiang Sanlang said.

Chun Niang glared at her husband, "You can cover it as long as you want, why are you always dragging your parents and elder brother and second brother? If they don't agree to go, then you won't build it?"

"Impossible." Jiang Sanlang rubbed his head in embarrassment: "Didn't I think that if there was a flood one day, they would build a house on the south slope and have a place to stay."

Chun Niang's face paled, and she urged: "Then what are you waiting for tomorrow, it's not too late now, hurry up and tell your elder brother and second brother."

"Oh, I'll go right now."

Yingbao didn't know, because with his own words, his parents really decided to build a house in Nanshan.Not only did dad go to cover it, but he also dragged his uncle and uncle together.

At the moment, she is busy in the cave, planting fungus on five mulberry trees.

After planting the fungus, I went to look at the golden fungus on the other five mulberry trees.

These golden ears have already grown, but because of the bad weather, they were not cut off.

But if they are not harvested, the mature golden ears will shrink and change color, and finally rot.

Now the golden ears planted by my father haven't grown up yet, so naturally I can't open the oven to bake them, and now it's the rainy season, the weather is humid and there is not enough sunlight, the golden ears will rot and become moldy if they are not dried in time.

Hey, you must calculate the time for planting next time, or you will be wasting your time.

Yingbao walked around the cave, and saw that big piece of bachelor grass, that is, the grass that grows water chestnuts.

Now the water chestnuts have matured, and if they are not picked, they will rot in the ground.

Yingbao scratched her head, squatted down to dig water chestnuts.

After pulling and digging, only a few dozen clumps of bachelor grass were harvested, and a large basket of water chestnuts the size of eggs was harvested, which made Yingbao very worried.

I can't finish it all by myself, and I don't dare to take out too much for others to eat. This is really fatal.

If only she grew up, she could sell them in the town.Or pretend to buy it from a bazaar.

But now she is only a two-year-old doll, a little higher than the small dining table. If she goes out alone, a child of any age can take her away.

I picked a dozen of the biggest ones and put them aside as seeds, and put the rest in the basket for the time being.

After washing her hands in the pool water, Yingbao began to think about the thirty golden ears that had matured.

This thing is very valuable, and it hurts her heart to waste even one flower.

Looking around, Yingbao saw Wudingzhi on the stone wall, and suddenly had a whim.

Grab a few pieces of Wudingzhi leaves, put them in a bowl, mash them into a paste, and scoop some pool water to stir them.

Wudingzhi juice melts in the water, only slightly viscous, nothing else can be seen.

Yingbao poured the bowl of water on the mature golden ears, and wanted to wait a few days to see if they would mutate.

Anyway, the golden ears are already mature, if they are not picked and dried in time, they will rot, so it is better to use them as an experiment.

If there is nothing unusual, she will cook these golden ears for her grandparents and uncles to eat. It is not considered a waste. If it goes bad, she will just throw it away.

When I came out of the cave, I saw dark clouds outside the window, and it was already raining.

Ying Bao knelt down beside the kang table, picked up an ink stick and began to grind ink.

Since her father bought her a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, she has had one more task every day, which is to copy the copybook and copy the Three Character Classic.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, crackling on the window lattice, causing splashes of water.

Jiang Sanlang hurried home from outside, his clothes were already wet.

He took off his wet clothes, took the cloth towel brought by his wife to wipe his face, and said with a smile: "The eldest brother and the second brother agreed to go to Nanshan to build a house with us. When the rain stops, I will ask Brother Li Dayong to help us make adobe. In autumn Start work."

Building a house is not an easy task, even if it is a thatched house, you must first dry the adobe needed to build the house, and then prepare enough bamboo and thatch, as well as log beams, door frames and window frames. Lay it out.

Once everything is ready, someone can lay the foundation and build the house.

During this period, we have to avoid the busy farming season, even in the harsh winter, because the soil is prone to ice. Once the spring is warm and the flowers bloom, the ice will melt, and the house will be unstable, and the walls will collapse after a short period of time.

Chunniang pursed her lips and smiled, brought him dry clothes to change, and asked, "Should we still build an adobe house?"

Now that the family has money, they can build five big tile-roofed houses with blue bricks, which are clean and bright, and there will be no black bugs crawling down from the rotten thatch on the roof in summer.

Jiang Sanlang nodded, "For the time being, we will build three adobe houses first, and when we earn some more money, we will build brick houses."

(End of this chapter)