Portable Space: Small Peasant Girls Farm to Get Rich

Chapter 16 Repairing the House
After eating too much, Liu Qingcao arranged for Liu Jiangbei to follow her to mix the mud. A lot of stone bricks have been accumulated, and now what to do is to continue to make bricks and burn them.

When Liu Qingcao was resting at night, she had carefully thought about the structure of the wall. The foundation was dug deeper, and the stones from the riverside were used as the bottom to prevent it from collapsing. Stone bricks and time.

Their houses were plastered with clay, the gutters were dug out, and the grass on the roof had to be rebuilt.

The newly laid foundation, Liu Qingcao wants to build a tile house, and she can burn the tiles one by one. After all, it costs more than ten yuan to buy tiles outside, which is quite expensive...

A [-]-square-meter house uses at least [-] horses of watts...

two thousand……

The corners of Liu Qingcao's mouth twitched thinking about it. If you spend money to buy it, the light tile will cost 26 taels, not counting other things...

Liu Qingcao sighed!
It's too expensive, so let's build them one by one. When the time comes, it will cost less than five taels at most to hire someone to repair a house.

Thinking about it, Liu Qingcao felt that she was under a lot of pressure. Simply repairing a house would cost five taels of silver. She had to work hard to make money, otherwise she would not even be able to repair a house, let alone support Liu Jiangbei's education.

At the beginning, her plan was to make money first, and then go to the town to buy a house, but when she inquired, the cheapest one cost more than 200 taels. To save that much money, it would take a long time to earn without novelties. Let’s start a business, a newcomer It is one thing to keep doing it, but it is another thing to earn enough time for a few hundred taels.

The most careful thing is that there are some rare seeds now. Those things are valuable when planted, but the time before harvesting is too long. There is a lot of rain this summer. If my house is not repaired, I am afraid that the east house will leak to the west house.

So Liu Qingcao thought about it, and planned to build it up brick by brick. At least, the house he lives in now needs to be built up first.

The time for the roof to be flipped, Liu Qingcao is scheduled to be a week later, and within a week, Liu Qingcao has to find someone, buy grass, buy beams and wood, and buy tables and chairs at home. There are too many trivial things, waiting for preparations Well, about six or seven days.

After the place where she lives is safe, she can slowly burn bricks and tiles and build a new house with peace of mind.

All afternoon, Liu Qingcao was making brick molds. Liu Jiangbei was young and couldn't do it for long, so he was driven to a cool place to practice calligraphy.

In the afternoon, Liu Qingcao was making brick models while firing bricks in the kiln. He could burn a hundred bricks at a time, and the kiln would start tomorrow morning.

In about a month, she will be able to burn out all the bricks of the new house.

The tiles will take about that long, two months, at most two months, and the tile house that belongs to her will be completed.

During the cooling time of the kiln in the middle, she can also plant the land and cultivate seeds.

When the first batch of planted things were harvested, Liu Qingcao would sell some of them at a high price to buy a few dead contracts and come back to work for herself.

With such a plan in mind, Liu Qingcao's face blossomed into a smile, and her hands and feet quickened inadvertently.

For the next seven days, Liu Qingcao was as busy as a spinning top every day, going to the town to find craftsmen who repaired houses, to find carpenters, to build brick kilns, to chop firewood and carry water. The house repair craftsmen can make dry packages, and pack out the house grass, wood, etc., and she will pay an extra three hundred Wen for the hard work.

The day before the start of work, Liu Qingcao found the old man Niu, pulled back the tables, chairs and benches he had found from the carpenter, and went to the town to buy food in a bullock cart.

Liu Qingcao learned from the craftsman that when repairing the house, the owner had to pay for food, so she had to buy some other food before returning.

In order to spend as little money as possible for herself and feed ten craftsmen well, Liu Qingcao really took great pains.

In the grain shop, Liu Qingcao bought five catties of brown rice, ten catties of low-grade rice, and fifty eggs.

Fat meat was too expensive, so I didn’t buy Liu Qingcao, so I bought a pig’s offal, a pig’s head and a few pig bones. I bought cucumbers, green vegetables, eggplants, yams, and taro for vegetables.

Passing by a wine shop, I bought three catties of inferior shochu and one catty of fermented glutinous rice.

Just preparing these, Liu Qingcao is more than ten times better than other people's treats.

Liu Qingcao's idea is that if they eat well, they can do a good job. Next time they build a house, they can hire more people. If they spend more, they will spend more. As long as they are done well, they will not lose the money.

When Liu Qingcao came home, she happened to see Liu Jiangbei moving the bricks fired in the kiln out. The little man looked at his work quietly, a little cute and pitiful.

Seeing his sister coming back, Liu Jiangbei patted the dust off his hands, smiled and raised his head:
"Sister, you're back, I'll get you some water to drink."

After speaking, he quickly ran to the kitchen to pour water.

Liu Qingcao put down the basket, put the things away one by one, and then drank water from the bowl.

Liu Jiangbei was very happy. He was happy that his family was going to repair the house. He was happy that he would no longer be afraid of heavy rain.

For lunch, Liu Qingcao simply scrambled a leek and egg to eat. Liu Jiangbei didn't feel unhappy at all. He felt that he could obediently eat whatever his sister did.

After dinner, Liu Qingcao was washed vigorously in the water, and the hair on the pig's head was trimmed, and Liu Jiangbei was sent to burn the kiln.

Liu Qingcao was busy working in the kitchen and packing things all afternoon, without stopping.

"God, it's not easy to organize a banquet." When Liu Qingcao was almost busy, she thumped her waist and took a deep breath.

On the second day, Liu Qingcao got up early to prepare breakfast for the craftsmen. It was not necessary at first, but after thinking about it, Liu Qingcao prepared it. There is no other reason. These poor people basically eat two meals a day, but To work, Liu Qingcao still wanted to prepare something to eat, a bowl of porridge for each person would be fine.

After Liu Qingcao boiled the porridge almost, put in the dough balls that had been added with sugar and water.

Then twelve bowls were filled, and a large spoonful of braised pork offal was placed in it.

Looking at the porridge and stewed pork porridge on the table, Liu Qingcao felt that the village chief would be speechless when he came to see him. She had inquired about the specifications of the meals outside, and they were basically porridge and wild vegetables, which did not feel full, let alone nutritious. .

When the porridge was getting warmer, a group of craftsmen finally came.

Liu Qingcao warmly greeted them to sit on the stools.

"Uncle, don't start work until you have breakfast."

Liu Kaifu, head craftsman, looked at the porridge on the table, and then at his brothers: "Eat, eat, everyone work hard, and try to finish it today."

When Liu Kaifu's brothers saw the boss speaking, they didn't object, so they picked up their chopsticks and started.

Liu Kaifu looked at the porridge in the bowl, then at Liu Qingcao and brother Liu who were drinking the porridge, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

He felt that this girl was very good at being a human being. If it was elsewhere, he would have to give him three days' work for one day's work.

It's not that they are dishonest, but that's the way craftsmen are.

After drinking a bowl of porridge, the craftsmen were happy and worked hard. Anyway, they have built a house for decades, and they have never had breakfast at the master’s house, let alone the porridge with gnocchi and meat dishes!

Liu Qingcao couldn't help smiling when she looked at the craftsmen who were working enthusiastically.

In the hot weather, Liu Qingcao boiled mung bean soup in the kitchen for the craftsmen working under the scorching sun to drink.

The craftsmen were busy, and Liu Qingcao and Liu Jiangbei were also busy, preparing lunch quickly.

After the brown rice and the dry rice cooked with the inferior rice were steamed, they were put aside, and they began to chop and stir-fry vegetables again. The chimney of the kitchen kept wafting black smoke.

At noon, Liu Qingcao asked Liu Jiangbei to clean the two tables and prepare to put the dishes.

Liu Qingcao prepared a total of six dishes, a large plate of marinated fat intestines, stir-fried pork liver, cold pig ears, yam bone soup, cold cucumber, garlic and green vegetables.

(End of this chapter)