Happy pastoral event: a wonderful wife

Chapter 17 Building a New House

At night, Shen Yunjin was sleeping soundly, when suddenly a clod of soil landed next to her left hand, making a "boom", she frowned and turned over, then continued to sleep again.

After waking up in the morning, Shen Yunjin found a hole in the wall on the left side of the house, and a large clod of soil fell down. Only then did she realize what happened to the noise last night. It turned out that the wall was not strong. , the slag fell down.

She looked at the small room repeatedly, and couldn't help sighing. The walls inside the house were made of earth, the roof was made of paper, and the windows were pasted with layers of paper, which made the dilapidated house look so old. It got more stuffy and smaller.The few pieces of furniture in the house were either broken or turned black and moldy. This house was really not suitable for living.

Yunwen got up to put on her clothes and saw her sister sitting in a daze, so she asked, "What's the matter, sister, are you thinking about something?"

Shen Yunjin picked up the clod next to him and said, "Look, this wall is not strong anymore. If we continue to live like this, maybe one day even bigger clods will fall, so don't hit us."

"Then let's fix the wall. It won't cost much."

Shen Yunjin shook his head, Xiu?It's all broken, even if it's repaired, it's useless.

She made a big decision and said, "I've thought about it. Our house is too small and dilapidated. We won't repair it this time. We'll demolish the house and build a big one."

Although her house is small, but fortunately the front and back yards are large, there is enough space to build a new big house.

Hearing this, Yunwen and Jing'er were very surprised. To build a new house, and it was a big one, this has always been a dream they never dared to imagine.

Yun Wen opened her big eyes and asked, "Really? Sister, we need to rebuild a house, which will cost a lot of money."

Shen Yunjin had already made a plan, she said slowly, "I've thought it all over, didn't we receive a reward of ten taels of silver that day, that ten taels must be enough, we will use this money to build a house. It's spring now, and it's still a little cold in the morning and evening. If we build a house, we won't have a place to live for the time being, so I want to wait a little longer, and hire someone to tear down the house and build a new one in summer. The weather in summer Well, we can get a thatched house outside to live first, without fear of being frozen, what do you think?"

Now that my sister has already made up her mind, Yun Wen and Jing Er will naturally not disagree. They also know that their house is too dilapidated and they should change it. It just so happens that they have some spare money and it is appropriate to spend it on it. .

But Jinger has a question that he doesn't understand: "Sister, you said that we are going to demolish our house and then build a house. Isn't this a little troublesome? Guy, it's more convenient to live in directly without worrying about it."

This Shen Yunjin also thought about it, and she explained, "It is indeed more convenient to buy a new house directly, but we have lived here for a while after all, I have some feelings for this, and I don't want to move out. Another reason is, In our village, there are very few houses for sale now. Even if there are houses for sale, they are often cheap and cheap, or expensive and good. Both of these are not easy to sell, and they are not It's not easy to buy a proper house in the village that suits us, so I think we'll just build one to our liking."

Yun Wen smiled and nodded, "Okay, then let's build one, we can build whatever we want."

Just now, when Shen Yunjin was looking around the house, she thought of one thing. During this period of time, she has always locked her money in a cabinet closest to the kang, but since she came here, all the money in the house is She earned it, and she has never seen any other savings at home. Could it be that her family didn't even have a penny before that?
It's strange to say that she can recall all the things about this family in her memory, but she has no clue at all about this matter.

She asked curiously, "By the way, Yunwen, do you still remember where our family's money was kept before, that is, before I was knocked out by my sister-in-law, how much money was saved at home, where is it, I have some memories I don't know."

Yunwen's face was a bit perplexed. My sister asked her the same question last time, but she changed the topic, but why is my sister asking again now?

"Sister, don't you remember?" Yunwen whispered, "Since... since your brother-in-law went up the mountain and didn't come back, you spent all the money at home and hired someone to go up the mountain to find your brother-in-law. Last time you asked I didn't say it at the time, because I didn't want to make you sad by mentioning brother-in-law."

Hearing what she said, Shen Yunjin suddenly remembered that when Li Yi went up the mountain and never came back, she was anxious and went out to ask the villagers to find him. At first, the villagers were very willing to help, but after two days of searching, they found nothing. At that time, everyone felt that Li Yi must have been eaten by a tiger, so they didn't want to waste any more time looking for it.

Shen Yunjin didn't give up, so he spent all the little money the family had, and hired someone to go up the mountain to look for it, until he finally found a piece of Li Yi's bloody clothes...

"It turned out to be like this, how could I forget it, but I remembered it now." Shen Yunjin muttered with some embarrassment.

She thought to herself, she didn't know what was going on with Li Yi, he didn't live or die, and just a piece of his clothes couldn't explain anything, maybe he wasn't dead.But if he was really alive, why didn't he come home so late.

Shen Yunjin got off the ground, stretched her waist, and said, "Okay, don't think too much, today is another day, let's continue to go to the town to earn money."

After a while of busy work, the three siblings, Shen Yunjin, prepared the pastries to be sold today, and then went to the entrance of the village, got on an ox cart and prepared to go to town.

On the bullock cart, they met their neighbor Yang Xiaoqian.

Yang Xiaoqian wiped off the powder on her face, and it was so white that it glowed in the sun. She looked at Shen Yunjin and said disdainfully, "Yo, I'm going to sell things in the town again. I said you are really tired. Get up every day." To earn such a small amount of money so early in the morning, life is really hard."

Shen Yunjin asked back, "What about you, I think you must have spent a lot of time getting dressed up, and you probably got up very early to clean up, so why did you get up so early and go to town?"

"I'm going to see my husband-in-law. My husband-in-law is doing big business in the town. Eating delicious food from big restaurants in the town every day is much better than staying in a small village." Yang Xiaoqian raised her pointed chin, very proud .

Her husband, also surnamed Yang, is said to be in business with someone in the town.

Shen Yunjin smiled and said, "Really, it seems that your life is more miserable. Your husband lived a good life in the town, but he left you alone in the village with no one to rely on. He lived in the town Eat good food and drink good wine, but leave you alone in the village to cook and eat. How can a husband do this? I think he doesn’t take you seriously at all. It’s hard for you to get up so early to see he."

Hearing this, the other people in the bullock cart also thought it was funny. Everyone usually couldn't understand Yang Xiaoqian's complacent look, but now seeing Shen Yunjin choking Yang Xiaoqian with his words, they all felt a little happy.

(End of this chapter)