Travel to ancient times and make a fortune

Chapter 36 Building a New House

Everything to build the house was ordered in advance and delivered two days early. We just waited for the auspicious time to start working!

Most of the farm men are quite down-to-earth. Occasionally, there are one or two who like to cheat and act sneaky, but they are embarrassed to go too far in front of everyone.

Brothers Li Qingsong and Li Qingbai helped at home for four days and then went back to school.

There are many people building houses, so it actually happens very quickly.Before the brothers left, the walls of the new house had been built, but they left two days to plaster the walls in order to wait for the auspicious time to install the beams.

May [-]th is the day to go to the Liang Dynasty.

On May [-]th, when the last tile was put on, Li Dashan's new house was completed!
Because it ended early, Li Dashan invited the village chief to be a witness and settled the wages of 33 people, including the old carpenter's two daughters-in-law.

The last day was only busy for most of the day, but Li Dashan also calculated based on one day's wages, a total of eight days.

The men each received a total of 160 Wen, and the two women each received 5150 Wen. In addition to a red envelope of [-] Wen given to the village chief, the total was [-] Wen.

After sending everyone away, Li Dashan's family stood in the yard of their new home, filled with excitement.

From now on, this is their home, their real home!

After dinner, Li Dashan and Li Yuan sat in the main room to settle accounts.

After the New Year, my family spends a lot of money.

He spent 36 taels on the land, adobe bricks, tiles, beams, etc., totaling [-] taels. This did not include the adobe bricks for the backyard, because Li Dashan took the time to make the adobe bricks for the backyard.

During the construction period, the wages were 150 taels and [-] Wen, not including rice and vegetables for lunch, and pork and eggs for eight days, a total of [-] Wen.

In addition, I asked an old carpenter to make three new beds, three cabinets, and four small desks, which is another one or two.

So far, this new house has cost 47 taels and 550 taels, nearly 48 taels!
But thinking about the spacious courtyard, the bright main room, and the clean rooms, Li Dashan felt that it was worth it!
In addition to a new house, going to school for the Li Qingsong brothers is also a big expense.

Shu Xiu spends 14 taels per person for a year, because he usually lives and eats in the school, which costs 10 taels per month for food and accommodation. After one year, the two brothers go to school, and Guang Guang spends [-] taels for food and accommodation (schooling for [-] months a year) ).

This is not counting the holidays. I give gifts to my husband on birthdays and other occasions, as well as pens, ink, paper, and inkstones, and books. You know, it has only been three months, and I have already spent nearly 30 taels of silver just buying books, pens, ink, paper, and inkstones.

Of course, most of these 30 taels are spent on books when entering school.In the later stage, basically the consumption of paper is greater.It shouldn't be a problem if you keep it to about a hundred dollars a month.

After such calculation, the family now has less than 70 taels of silver left.

"Alas~" Li Xiao on the side sighed unconsciously after listening, "You still have to make money!" She sighed silently in her heart.

After a new house is built, it needs to be "drying", and after the new furniture is laid, it also needs to be properly aired, so the move will not be rushed for a while.

However, there are two particularly good days in June, one is June 29 and the other is June [-].

Thinking about moving to a new home and wanting his family to be together, Li Dashan decided to move on June 29.

The date was decided, and for more than a month, Li Dashan and his family worked in their new home whenever they had free time.

The front yard wall was made of purchased adobe bricks and was built to a height of seven feet.

Because the backyard is a vegetable garden, although it is also surrounded by an earth wall, the earth bricks were made by Li Dashan himself. They are a bit thin and ugly, but they are still strong. They are five and a half feet high, but a lot of bricks are wasted. .

This also led to the fact that the toilet, chicken coop, duck coop, and cattle and sheep shed planned to be built in the backyard have not yet been built.

No, more than a month before moving, Li Dashan started to get busy.

Chicken sheds, duck houses, and cattle and sheep sheds are easy to solve. They are against the backyard wall, with adobe bricks on both sides, and a wall is added in the middle to separate chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep.In front of the cattle and sheep, wooden pillars were used to separate the cattle and sheep.Chickens and ducks are separated by low fences.

The roof of the shed cannot be made of tiles, but is made of bark and dry straw pressed flat and clamped together. This is considered a "top-of-the-line" feature in the countryside.

Because of the strong smell, the toilet was finally located at the outermost part of the backyard, the furthest place away.

Li Dashan spent a lot of effort and dug a large pit three feet deep and four feet wide.

Then according to Li Xiao's suggestion, a thatched shed was built diagonally over the pit, and the edge of the pit was raised half a foot to prevent water from flooding in on rainy days.

As for the pit entrance, a "lid" was made of bamboo and covered tightly.

As for the place to relieve one's hands, a shed was built diagonally against the courtyard wall with adobe bricks. I don't know what his daughter thought. Inside the toilet, they just dug a small pit, not deep, with a small hole one foot down. A ramp leads to the toilet pit outside.

This was the first time that Li Dashan had seen a toilet with a urinal placed outside. He just thought it was a daughter's whim. She thought it would not be difficult to build it, so she followed her.

At this time, Li Dashan had not yet realized how "friendly" his daughter's "new style toilet" was to people, and once he got used to it, he would no longer want to use the toilet in other people's homes.

On May 25, new furniture arrived in the new house.

In the new home, the children each have a new room.

On both sides of the main room, the larger room on the east side belongs to Li Dashan and his wife.The slightly smaller room on the west side belongs to Li Xiao.

The doors of both rooms open into the main hall.

On the east side, sharing the same wall with the east wing, is the warehouse, which is much larger than the previous warehouse.

Two rooms were built side by side in the east chamber, planned to be reserved for brothers Li Qingsong and Li Qingbai.

Further outside is the woodshed.

On the west side of Li Xiao's room is the kitchen that shares a wall with the west wing.

There are also two rooms built in the west wing, one belongs to Li Qingzhu, and the other is reserved for future use.

Further out in the west wing, a straw shed was built, with carts, pear rakes and other things placed underneath.

Li Xiao originally wanted to dig a well, but he asked someone who knew Feng Shui to look at it and said it was not appropriate to dig a well as it would destroy Feng Shui and disturb future fortune.

Li Xiao actually doesn't believe in Feng Shui, but her parents are both natives of ancient times, and they are most in awe of the theory of ghosts, gods, and Feng Shui.So he said he wouldn't dig a well anymore.

Fortunately, the new home is closer to the river than before, so carrying water won't be too much trouble.

Dapo Village is located in the southern part of Dali, where there is more rain in spring.When I was building a house, I was lucky enough to catch a few days without rain, and then it continued to rain intermittently.

Li Dashan built the shed, toilet and other things in the backyard by laying bricks when the rain stopped and covering them with thatch when it rained. He built them intermittently day by day.

The new furniture is left open in the room. If it doesn’t rain, open the windows and doors. If it rains, close the doors and windows.

Because Li Qingsong and Li Qingbai were considering that Mu Xiu would also read at home in the future, all the windows were opened larger and the window paper was better.

This was of course Li Xiao’s idea.

　Two in one
　　
　
(End of this chapter)