The splendid life of a small peasant girl

Chapter 26 Building a House

"Sister-in-law, are you still satisfied?" Zhang Dehou has built many houses and knows everything about Fengshui. In order to prevent others from causing trouble, they built a layer of one-and-a-half-person-high walls on the outermost edge of the two-acre land. After the house was built, it was still a secondary courtyard, and a one-story bungalow was built on the right side of the courtyard, where these helpers lived on weekdays.

Yao Yu took out 14 taels of silver, "Brother Zhang, you brought a total of 22 people. According to the daily salary of [-] Wen, you paid them, and the rest of the money is for you."

Zhang Dehou did the calculations, and there was an extra [-] Wen. In this way, his daily salary was more than [-] Wen. "It can't be done."

"Brother Zhang, don't worry about me so much, maybe we will ask you to build a house in the future." Yao Yu said.

Zhang Dehou didn't agree with anything, Yao Yu pretended to be angry, "Does elder brother have any objections to my sister-in-law?"

"Ah? No, there is no such thing!" Zhang Dehou explained in a hurry.

"Accept if you have no objection!" Yao Yu went to prepare lunch after finishing speaking.

Zhang Dehou shook his head. Unexpectedly, Xie Zhimo found a good wife. Zhang Dehou gathered all the helpers, paid their wages, and repeatedly told him that he must do a good job.

"Brother Zhang, if you don't say it, we will do well. This is the first time someone has paid such a high wage."

"Even if it's not for the wages, the owner of this house is kind-hearted, and we will work hard."

Of course Yao Yu didn’t know these words. For her, this month was like a war. She spent day and night fishing to make fish cakes and fish jelly. She earned 60 taels of silver for a whole month. As well as the wages paid, Yao Yu still has 40 taels of silver on hand.

Yao Yu planned to give himself a three-day vacation, Xie Zhimo finished the work at hand, and saw Yao Yu's face was full of exhaustion, "Do you want to go to town tomorrow?"

Yao Yu shook his head, "There's not enough fish cakes."

"We don't sell fish cakes, let's go and look at the furniture." Xie Zhimo said.

Yao Yu's eyes lit up, that's right, after moving to a new house, it's time to replace it with new furniture, and she doesn't want the two missing table legs in Xie's house, "Okay!"

Nuo'er squeezed between the two, "Dad, Mom, Nuo'er also wants to go."

Normally, Yao Yu didn't take Nuo'er because he wanted to make money, and he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to take care of Nuo'er. He didn't have such worries when he went to town tomorrow. Besides, with Xie Zhimo, he didn't have to worry too much, so he agreed, "Okay, take Nuo'er tomorrow." go together."

Yao Yu took all the remaining 40 taels of silver at home, so as not to run out of money, he gave Xie Zhimo 20 taels to carry on his body.It's not that Xie Zhimo hasn't made so much money before, but this is the first time someone has given it to him, especially this person is Yu'er. Xie Zhimo's treasures look like something along the way, making Yao Yu dumbfounded.

"Is there anything Nuo'er wants to eat?" The three of them set off early and hadn't had breakfast yet, so as soon as they entered Hehua Town, Yao Yu asked Nuo'er what he wanted to eat.

Looking at the dazzling array of shops, Nuo'er felt dazzled and wanted to eat everything, but couldn't name the one she wanted the most.

Yao Yu simply asked Xie Zhimo, "What's delicious here?"

Seeing Yao Yu asking for his opinion, Xie Zhimo thought carefully and said, "There is a good noodle restaurant in Xishi."

"Okay, let's go there." Yao Yu said, before the fish cakes were sold out, he ate at the noodle restaurant in Dongshi. Xie Zhimo said that the ones in Xishi were good, but Yao Yu really wanted to try it.

Xie Zhimo said that the noodle restaurant is not big, strictly speaking it cannot be regarded as being in the main street of Xishi. There are relatively few customers coming and going here, and it is relatively clean, but there are extraordinarily many people in the noodle restaurant. Such a strong contrast, see It looks really good.

"I want three bowls of plain noodles." Xie Zhimo found a place and started ordering noodles.

Yao Yu hurriedly asked, "What else is there besides plain noodles?"

Xie Zhimo said, "In addition to plain noodles, there are shredded pork noodles."

"Boss, we want three bowls of shredded pork noodles." Yao Yu immediately changed the plain noodles to shredded pork noodles.

"Okay, come right away!" This shop costs three yuan for a bowl of plain noodles, but ten yuan for a bowl of shredded pork noodles, which is several times more expensive. Recently, Xie Zhimo eats a lot of meat, so he plans to change his bowl of shredded pork noodles Cheng Su noodles.

Yao Yu said, "It's okay, there must be a reason why the shredded pork noodles are expensive, so don't feel bad about them." You get what you pay for, the same principle that has never changed since ancient times.

Xie Zhimo knew that it was not easy for Yao Yu to make money, so he wanted to save these few pennies for Yao Yu. In fact, Yao Yu didn't care at all.

When the shredded pork noodles came, Yao Yu understood why this noodle was so expensive. The noodles were covered with a thick layer of shredded pork, which was extremely tender and tasted much better than the one in Dongshi.Nuo'er had never eaten such delicious noodles. For a while, the sound of three people eating noodles could only be heard on the table.

Nuo'er ate most of the bowl in one go, "Father, I really can't take it anymore." After finishing speaking, she burped.

Xie Zhimo was about to say that he would eat even if he couldn't finish it, so Yao Yu said, "Nuoer can't finish it, you eat the leftover." In fact, it's not because Nuoer couldn't finish it, even she almost didn't finish this bowl , I have to say that the boss is really too real.

Hearing Yao Yu's words, Xie Zhimo took Nuo'er's bowl and ate the rest of the noodles over and over again.

After paying the money, Xie Zhimo took Yao Yu and Nuo'er to a woodworking shop. It could be seen that Xie Zhimo was very familiar with Hehua Town.

The store is filled with all kinds of wooden furniture, Xie Zhimo whispered to Yao Yu, "Don't be confused, the craftsmen in this store are very good."

Yao Yu really found out, not to mention that every piece of furniture has a unique shape, even the carvings on the most common chairs are carved with heart. After walking around the shop, Yao Yu has taken a fancy to many things , especially the Eight Immortals table in front of me, "Shopkeeper, how do you sell this table?"

The shopkeeper was sitting at the table busy, when he heard Yao Yu's question, he looked up and replied, "One tael of silver."

Yao Yu was surprised that one tael of silver was so expensive, "Can it be cheaper?"

"This store does not negotiate prices." The shopkeeper continued to say indifferently.

Xie Zhimo was also a little surprised. An ordinary table can cost up to three hundred coins, but this one is worth a tael of silver, which is indeed a bit expensive.

Yao Yu gritted his teeth and decided to buy. Then the two chose three wardrobes, two lockers, and ten tables and chairs. They spent a total of five taels of silver. Yao Yu asked, "Shopkeeper, can you help me deliver these?" Are you going to Shuangshui Village?" These things will never fit in the ox cart.

"Okay, I'll attach another ten essays." The shopkeeper's tone was not at all enthusiastic because of Xie Zhimo's purchase.

Yao Yu felt that the price was acceptable, so Xie Zhimo hurriedly paid the money, and then went to the next store. Xie Zhimo's 20 taels of silver would only be 14 taels, 960 in a while, and he thought to himself, he must go out to make money next year.

I found a house that sells pots, and Yao Yu chose three pots. There are four stoves in the new house. Yao Yu didn't plan to take the pots given by Xie's family before, so buying three is enough, in order to make delicious dishes. For things, Yao Yu chose the best pot, so the six hundred Wen was gone again.

Yao Yu took Xie Zhimo and Nuoer to the cloth shop again, "After moving, I don't want any old clothes except the new clothes I made before. You choose the cloth yourself." Each of them chose two pieces of cloth, and Xie Zhimo chose together They chose three different colors, Yao Yu chose five, and Nuoer chose four.

The bed at home is made in the form of a Kang according to what Yao Yu said, so that it will not be cold in winter. In fact, Yao Yu doesn’t know what it is like, so he explained it to Zhang Dehou. Made such a bed in the north.

A total of three such beds were made at home. Yao Yu bought six sets of bed sheets for changing and washing. He also made six new bedding sheets, one for each bed and a mattress. Then he went to buy some salt and fine flour. , Pork, Pork Suet And Pork Bone.

Xie Zhimo was carrying something, his heart was trembling, and it cost close to ten taels of silver!

"Let's go, let's go find Little Wuzi." Yao Yu said, it is obviously impossible to walk back with so many things, plus there is a Nuoer, it is already very good to walk from Shuangshui Village to Hehua Town in the morning, of course I still need to take a carriage to go back Better.

Since there are a lot of things, although they are not heavy, they take up space, such as bedding, Yao Yu said, "We pay for five people, can we go back directly?"

The little five were stunned for a moment, and they gathered enough five people to leave on weekdays. If Yao Yu was willing to pay [-] Wen, of course he could leave immediately, "Okay."

Xie Zhimo hurriedly gave Xiao Wuzi twenty Wen.

Walking to the gate of the village, many people saw Yao Yu's family of three sitting on the bullock cart. The key point was that there were a lot of things in the bullock cart, and everyone raised their necks curiously to see what was in the cart.

Yao Yu didn't like these eyes, "Little Wu, can you drive the car directly to the east of the village?"

"No problem!" Little Wuzi drove the car over directly, "Is this your newly built house?"

Xie Zhimo nodded, "Yes, come and play after it's built."

Little Wuzi looked at the house that was about to be built, and there was a hint of envy in his eyes. Some people in the village said that Xie Zhimo bought two acres of wasteland. Now it seems that it is true, but no one thought that Xie Zhimo bought this land to build a house.

Seeing that Xie Zhimo and the others came back from shopping, Zhang Dehou hurried over to help move the things. After a while, the things they bought were back in their place, but the wardrobe hadn't been delivered yet, so the cloths they bought were put on the bed first.

Seeing that there was not much firewood left in the kitchen, Yao Yu planned to go to the barren hills behind to collect some firewood, and to see if there were any good things. In the end, let alone good things, there were not even a few dead branches. No wonder the land was sold so cheaply. .

Seeing that Yao Yu didn't bring much firewood back, Zhang Dehou beckoned and asked him to lead a team of two fast-footed people to pick it up. After a while, he came back with a lot of firewood.

When it was completely dark, everyone stopped their work. Xie Zhimo walked back with Yao Yu and Nuo'er. Just after entering the house, he heard the sound of hammering the door. Yao Yu was a little displeased, it was already midnight, Whoever knocks on the door, the key is still so loud.

(End of this chapter)