The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 15
Chu Ying saw that it was almost time, so she went to cook rice, cut a piece of bacon that Lu Meng gave, sliced ​​it into thin slices and put it on top of the rice.Zhuang Li, who came to work at the master's house, wanted to eat at the master's house, and Chu Ying added chopped bamboo shoots to it, making it a claypot meal.

Chu Ying turned over the dried bamboo shoots outside the door and let them dry in the sun. "Uncle Qi, dinner will be ready later. Why don't you take a rest first." Chu Ying looked at Uncle Qi and Brother Wang who were sawing wood to make planks.

"No, let's finish it quickly, winter is coming soon, and there are still a few adjacent houses to be repaired." Chu Ying later found out that if there is any problem with the house built by Uncle Qi in the future, Uncle Qi will come to repair it for free.

"Okay." Uncle Qi worked hard and was very skilled. Uncle Qi solved the attic and the bamboo roof that Chu Ying said before.

After the meal, Uncle Qi asked Brother Wang to help install all the wooden strips on the roof. It was almost dark when they were installed, and Uncle Qi showed Chu Ying a demonstration with a few bamboo slices.

Uncle Qi fixed the wood at the eaves as a baffle, and cut out a row of tongues and grooves on the side of the wood facing the roof. As long as the bamboo pieces are inserted into it, they will not fall down.

"After the bamboo pieces are laid on both sides, you take a large piece of bamboo and place it on the tip of the roof, then insert it into the grooves on both sides of the roof from left to right, and it will be fine. It should not leak, don't worry. You can add straw on top." Chu Ying looked at the groove pointed by Uncle Qi.

"Understood. Thank you very much Uncle Qi, how much money do you need in total?" Uncle Qi hugged Chu Ying first, and let Wang Naiyuan below follow.Go down the stairs next to you.

"I brought the windows, and you got the other wood from here, so I made a roof, a floor and a door, and you can lay the bamboo on the roof yourself, and you'll be charged 1 cents. And this ladder, you can use it then." Carpenter Qi put away the tools.

"Okay, Uncle Qi, just wait."

"Uncle Qi, there are a few places in my house that need to be repaired a little bit. When the other houses are finished, you can come over when you have time."

"Okay." Chu Ying gave Uncle Qi the money, and Uncle Qi left in a hurry.He said he wanted to go to the nearest house to repair the house before it was dark.

"Don't worry about Uncle Qi's work. Uncle Qi is afraid that it will snow, so he will go to every house to repair it at this time of year. Uncle Qi is very responsible." Chu Ying looked at the rough but strong ladder left by Uncle Qi.

"Enn, I also think Uncle Qi is very good. Brother Wang, please help me pass the bamboo slices. I am small, so I will spread it on top."

"It's better for me to be on top. By the way, I can't get it if you hand it to me, so be careful." Wang Naiyuan handed over to Chu Ying's shop, and finally laid all the bamboo pieces before dark, and put the ridge of the roof on it. Larger bamboo slices.

"It's finally over. Brother Wang, please rest for a few days, I'm quite tired these days."

"No, although these bamboo whips won't dry out if placed in the soil and watered, they still need to be planted early. I'm fine, I'm used to doing farm work, but you, take a good rest tomorrow. Then I'll go first."

Seeing that it was late autumn, Chu Ying saw that Big Brother Wang had taken off his shirt and sweated a lot.When the chestnuts are collected, they must be taken to Brother Wang.

Chu Ying still slept in the original house, and the newly built wooden house had to be filled with wooden sections and boards tomorrow.Looking at the wooden house I live in, I think it is very kind. Although there are a few leaks in the roof and a few broken wooden walls, I still love this house very much.

With a new house, I feel that I am more energetic, and I feel more emotional in doing things. Chu Ying got up early and put the wooden sections on the ground, leaving a small path for air convection.

The door of the house is facing the former wooden house, and the window faces south. Chu Ying digs a small hole 10 inches wide at the northeast corner to pass through the wood to lead to the outside, leaving 3 steps wide and 4 steps at the northeast corner The long place is piled with soil to make a slope towards the wooden wall, and then the bamboo pieces stacked on top of each other are laid on the slope.

Put bamboo slices placed in a V shape on the bottom of the bamboo slices to catch the water left from each bamboo slice, and the bottom of the V is facing the small hole just dug.Chu Ying wanted to add a bathroom here. Originally, she wanted to build it outside, but she was afraid that she would catch a cold when taking a bath in winter.

After this part was finished, other wood sections were also put away, and Chu Ying came out to saw the wood.

"You got up early today. Let's go together." Wang Naiyuan squatted to match Chu Ying's height. The two of them each held one side of the saw and sliced ​​the log into planks.This job is still very laborious.

By the time the planks were sawn almost, Wang Naiyuan and Chu Ying were already exhausted.Chu Ying placed the wooden plank on the wooden section, just enough to be stuck in the middle of the superposition of two logs.

"Brother Wang, take some chestnuts home." Chu Ying called to stop Wang Naiyuan who was going home for lunch.

"Chestnuts?" Chu Ying pushed out the basket from the previous house. "You can take this basket back. There are still some in the woods, but there will be a few broken ones."

"Then you have to collect the chestnuts quickly. It will be troublesome when it snows in a few days." Chu Ying doesn't have a calendar and has no sense of time, but it's really getting cold these few days, and Chu Ying has already put on a thinner dress winter clothes.

"There is no place to put them at home, so I thought about building a house. Now that the house is almost ready, I went to pick them up in the afternoon."

"Okay, I'll come this afternoon. I'll carry this basket back." Chu Ying nodded and went back to lay the planks.When Big Brother Wang came, Chu Ying was too busy to eat.

"Chu Ying, if you need help with anything, just tell me, your chestnuts will perish on the ground." When Chu Ying left the house, she saw Aunt Wang carrying a basket on her back, with two more in her hand, followed by Wang Liyuan and Wang Nai Garden.

"Aunt Wang, why are you here?" Chu Ying hurriedly wiped her hands on her body.

"Don't say anything if you need help. Do you think you can do it alone?" Wang Liyuan seemed to be less hostile towards him.

"It's not a lot, I just wanted to come by myself." Before the few exchanged a few words of greetings, Aunt Wang was ready to pick up chestnuts with the tongs.

Chu Ying also put on the pannier and went together.Aunt Wang is not only good at farm work, she picks up chestnuts and pinches them accurately.It was more than Chu Ying and the three brothers and sisters of the Wang family.

"In the past, we used to go to the mountains to look for these mountain goods. Later, the eldest son of the Tang family was raped by a wild boar...but he was injured by a wild boar, so fewer people went there. The wild boar is very vicious, especially when the young boy is around. , rushed over like crazy."

The four of Chu Ying walked forward slowly in a row, so as not to miss the chestnuts and avoid duplication of work.

Aunt Wang is also a talkative person. Listening to what Aunt Wang said, Chu Ying understood everyone's awe and fear of the mountain in the south.

In autumn, the strong men in the village will go to the mountains to hunt game together, but they dare not go into the depths of the mountains. There are wild boars inside, and several hunters said they have encountered bears.

And in the past few years, some hunters went to kill bears together for money, 5 of them went there and 4 came back, and the 4 who escaped later never entered the mountain again.

"You guys don't go into the mountains if you have nothing to do. The hunters in the village will go together. It's better for you to stay at home. You didn't see those troublemakers from the Xu family going to play in the mountains. Are you afraid that you will never go again when you come back?"

Chu Ying and the brothers and sisters of the Wang family looked at each other and smiled. She originally wanted to go to the mountains to find some game, but now it seemed that she had to wait until her wings were full before entering the mountains.

With the help of Mrs. Wang's family, the chestnuts that would have taken some time to pick up were finished in two days, and more than half of the newly built house was piled up with chestnuts.

"Ms. Wang, take some more."

"No, I took 3 baskets yesterday. There are enough at home. You can dry them or grind them when you have time. Otherwise, they will go bad if you are bored."

"Get some more, you have helped me so much." Chu Ying talked for a long time before Aunt Wang let Wang Naiyuan carry a basket.

"That's fine, you can pack it up too, the house has just been built. Let's go." Chu Ying looked at the chestnuts that were piled up in the room, and felt very fulfilled in her heart.

Chu Ying used the leftover wood from building the house to fold out the base of the bed in the same way as building the house.Lay wooden boards and mattresses on it, the mattress is a piece of fine linen, Chu Ying is used to sleeping on wooden board beds and doesn't feel uncomfortable.

Then bring all the quilts, pillows, and clothes from the previous house.The previous house was used as a kitchen, not far away.

After finishing her work, Chu Ying turned over a few times on the big bed she made, and kicked happily on the bed.Finally, I have my own bedroom. Although it is full of chestnuts, I feel a little smelly after working these days.

For her own bathroom, Chu Ying had to drag her already exhausted body up, picked up the stone ax and dragged the outside wood in. The house itself already had two sides, so it would be enough to add two more walls, and it didn’t have to be very high. Can be covered with bamboo chips.

Chu Ying still stacked the wood with mortise and tenon joints, because most of the remaining wood was shorter, just enough to make it wide.Chu Ying used the dovetail tenon seen from Carpenter Qi on the bathroom door, and when she was almost busy, Chu Ying was too tired to take a bath, so she peeled a few chestnuts and ate them before falling asleep.

(End of this chapter)