The lucky girl in the village has a good way of making money.

Chapter 18 Busy building a house

I thought that if we divided the family, everything would be settled and there would be no more disputes, but no matter what, within two days, the house was full of trivial matters again.

The reason was that the people in the third room were still living in the ancestral house. The Wu couple felt that the separation was unfair. Coupled with the previous fight, they became even more reluctant to see the other three rooms. They still wanted to live in the ancestral house after the separation. Living in one's own house, sleeping in one's own house, using one's own pots and pans, that's called an aggrieved person.

Although Mr. Yuan had arranged for the four houses to take turns doing housework, they would not be in a hurry to divide the food. When the third house moves out, the food that is used every day will be divided according to the amount of food left in the warehouse. Which house will not lose.

But Changfang still felt uncomfortable everywhere.

Mrs. Wu would either point at the chicken and scold it every day, or make it clang while working in the kitchen.

Just like that, everyone in the family could see her dissatisfaction. Huang and Jiang were thick-skinned and acted like they didn't know anything every day. Li Jifu was also a bigoted person, and Li Jigui was even more shameless.

Only Li Jihe and Song, who were honest and didn't want to take advantage of anyone, felt uncomfortable. Therefore, while they didn't have any carpentry work, Li Jihe wanted to build the house quickly.

In this regard, Pomegranate is also happy to see the results.

Nothing else is important. The most important thing now is to finish building your own house and move out as soon as possible!

There are more than 100 households in Xiahe Village. Many families have split up over the years. The homesteads in the village have been gradually reduced one by one. Then there are the families who have settled in the village. Therefore, after the Li family splits up, the only remaining homesteads Only a dozen yuan.

Father Li only found out about this when he took his son to the Li Chang's house to buy a homestead. He was finally a little lucky that the family was now separated.

If they continue to ignore each other, in a few years, there will be no homestead in the village. By then, his sons will have no choice but to settle in other villages?

Xiahe Village is the root of their Li family. The Li family is all here, so it would be wrong to move out of the village!
There were only a dozen or so pieces of homestead land left, which was good or bad. Father Li helped his three sons to calculate the total, and it took a long time to decide on three homestead sites not far away.

What I want is that the three sons can be neighbors and help each other when building houses.

But the homestead is a bit far from the ancestral home. It is at the east end of the village, but it is close to the family's fields.

According to the rules of the village's homestead, for a square piece of land of one acre, if an outsider settles in, it will cost six ounces of silver, while the villagers only need three ounces of silver.

Li Ji and his three brothers happily paid for their money, and each got a piece of homestead land.

The homestead that Li Jihe got was right on the edge of the Xishui River, adjacent to a large piece of lowland. The duck farmers in the village often drove their ducks to swim in the lowland. The area looked very exhausted.

Pomegranate glanced at it and couldn't help but frown, "Live here?" It tastes so bad! And in summer, mosquitoes are definitely indispensable.

It's a pity that I bought everything. If the house is not built here, where can I build it?
In order to move out as early as possible, Shiliu was also very concerned. They should not do housework in the second room. Every day, the whole family was busy weeding and collecting gravel on their homestead.

There are generally two types of houses built in the village, brick and tile houses and mud and tile houses.

The difference between the two is: the former has a bright living space and has a long service life, while the latter has a bright and long-lasting living space. But money can buy three houses.

Therefore, the latter are basically built by people who have no money.

Li Jihe split his family and got fifteen taels of silver specifically for building a house. He spent three taels of money to buy a homestead, leaving twelve taels of money, so of course he wanted to build a brick house. Li Jihe made a total plan and planned to build seven brick houses, three in the main room, one main room, one for him and the Song family, one for the eldest son Li Rongzong, two east and west wing rooms, and two east wing rooms. , one is used as a kitchen, one is used as a warehouse, there are two rooms in the west, one for the two daughters, and one for the second son and the youngest son.

In the backyard, there are three more mud-roofed rooms to store farm tools, firewood, sundries, etc., and that's enough.

Building a house is a big deal. Many farmers have never built a house in their lives. They have to run all the bricks and tiles needed to build a house. These days, there is no phone call saying "Hey, hey, hey, send a cart of bricks to the Li family in Xiahe Village." A truckload of tiles will come, and so on." - Then you have to go to battle in person.

Therefore, not only in the village, but also in the Li family, when building a house, the whole family has always worked together and the clan members have come to help.

There are about fifty households in the Li family, and there are many adult men. The three Li brothers all work together to build a house. Fortunately, except for them, no one else in the family builds a new house. In this way, even one person can build a new house. A dozen or twenty people were called to help.

If you shout for something like this, the tribesmen will not refuse. Who doesn’t have someone to help?
Ordinarily, the tribesmen came to help, so they should be in charge of the food, but the homestead was a bit far away from the old house and it was inconvenient to come and go. So the Song family had to bring the pomegranate sisters to steam the corn buns at the old house and put them in a basket. He would go to the homestead to give the tribesmen a meal, and when the house was built, he would prepare a table of good food to thank them.

The three-bedroom and four-bedroom people were busy building a house together, so they naturally planned to do so. Of course, they had agreed with the family that the food would be deducted from the 20% of the food they wanted to share, so as not to take advantage.

But the three houses had to steam buns, and there was only one pot, and the family had to prepare food. Within two days, the sound of Wu's clanging seemed to be getting louder.

Shiliu's ability to observe people's emotions has always been great, so naturally she couldn't help but feel it. Therefore, after thinking about it, she went to her eldest brother Li Rongzong and muttered: "Our homestead is almost finished now. Brother, you think we should build a few thatched sheds." Right? We will eat in the thatched shed then, and the clansmen can also have a warm meal. It's such a cold day, we can't wait for them to work for us, and one more thing, dad is not busy running bricks and tiles. Is it? When the time comes, we will bring it back, and no one will be watching at night. We will build a straw shed, and we can keep watch there at night!"

Now that they have separated their families, Shiliu is happy that the five sisters have chosen each other to rank them among themselves. In her own family, she calls Li Rongzong her eldest brother, which is quite nice.

Li Rongzong felt very happy when he heard her calling her brother. When he heard her muttering again, his eyes suddenly widened, "Pomegranate, you are the smart one! This is a good idea!"

As he spoke, he couldn't help lowering his voice and said: "I think it's good to build a thatched shed and let us move in there. Look at the auntie's smiling face every day. In short, I feel uncomfortable all over." Very!"

Pomegranate's eyes rolled around, "That's okay! Brother, go talk to dad!"

Li Rongzong didn't ask why his sister didn't go and tell his father, and happily went to find Li Jihe.

When he found Li Jihe, he didn't hide anything. The first thing he said was: "Dad, my second sister and I feel..." Blah blah blah blah.

When Li Jihe heard this, he thought? Don't tell me, why didn't he think of it? The idea works!

So that day, I took my two sons up the mountain to cut branches and other things.

Within two days, several straw sheds were erected.

Each homestead in the village will be surrounded by an open space of one or two feet wide. This land is not included in the homestead and cannot be built on. However, it can be used for self-retention of vegetable plots and other things. At this time, the straw shed will be built. There will be no hindrance to building a house on this vacant land.

Li Jihe took the time to go to Dafengji again, bought pots and pans, and set up a temporary simple earthen stove.

From then on, Mrs. Song and the pomegranate sisters could prepare meals in the thatched shed.

(End of this chapter)