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Chapter 108 Huanxi moved to a new house

From breaking the ground on the [-]th day of the first lunar month to plastering the walls with whitewash and drying them, it took only two or three months to repair a tile-roofed house.

The room is paved with solid blue bricks, and the yard is paved with thick bluestone slabs, so you won't step on muddy water even in rainy days.The coffers, cabinets and tables custom-made by Liu Sanping have all been moved into the new home, and the canopy bed that Father Liu built with care is firmly placed in the east room.

Pick a good day, and everyone will come to help Lily move.

The first thing to be moved is the portrait of the Stove King Bodhisattva, who took over the stove on the first day of the first lunar month. Now that he is moving to a new house, the Stove King Bodhisattva must be the first to move in and put it on the stove to protect the safety of the house.

According to the local customs, when moving to a new house, the person who enters the door must take one or two things in his hand, even if it is a firewood or a needle, and put it at home after taking it in, which indicates that it will bring wealth to the family.

In any case, you can't enter the door empty-handed, which symbolizes taking away the wealth of the family.

The people who came to help move were either carrying a box, holding a jar, or moving a stool, holding a basket, or holding a knife and scissors... No one was empty-handed.

Xing'er and Ju'er, although they are cautious, they always want to participate in such a big event, and they make their mothers feel like they are both big and big.Lily saw it funny, and hurriedly stuffed a pair of insoles one by one: "This is the most precious, please help my aunt to send it to the new house."

There is a distance of two feet between the new house and the old house, and the old house will not be demolished when we move there. Onions, ginger and garlic are still planted in the yard, and a few thatched huts are used to raise chickens and ducks, which just saves the effort of building shacks.

For the first meal in the new house, everyone must have something good to eat, and I am grateful to them for their enthusiastic help in the past few months.

Steam white rice in a large pot, and oil and vinegar noodles in another pot.

The Chinese toon sprouts marinated in the spring of last year were taken out and washed with water to remove the salt, and fried together with eggs, it was delicious, without adding extra salt, it was very fragrant.

The cabbage just taken out of the cellar is still tender and raw, and it is fried with lard residue. The leaves are soft and sweet, and the oil residue is crispy and chewy. The combination of two wonderful textures makes people want to eat more.

Fish out cowpea, radish, and carrots from a jar, chop them up and mix them well. It is a refreshing cold dish, delicious in taste and beautiful in color. Xing'er only picks bright red carrots to eat, and they are crispy when bitten down.

Kill another chicken and stew a pot of wild mushroom soup. The mushrooms were picked by Song Haonian from the deep mountains a few years ago. They are not common in the town, so rare that people can swallow their tongues.

Pork belly is very expensive. Lily bought five or six catties, cut it into one-inch cubes, fried it with rock sugar, and then simmered it slowly to taste. A pot of braised pork, everyone can share a bowl.

Pork belly is thin and fat, fat but not greasy, thin but not woody, rock sugar adds to its umami taste, autumn oil brings out a mellow salty fragrance, and the mouth is full of oil after one bite, and everyone has a satisfied smile on their faces .

The meal was full of oil and water, and the ingredients were good. Everyone was satisfied. A few young people even praised: "Sister-in-law's skills can be a master chef."

When getting married in the countryside, it is necessary to invite acquaintance women to help, and the one with the best skills is publicly recommended as a chef. To invite such a person to help, it is the same as asking a mason, you have to bring wine and meat to invite you.

Lily hurriedly humbled: "This is not a craft, it's just some home-cooked meals. If someone else's chef hears about it later, they will say that I am frivolous."

No longer forgiving, Li Caifeng laughed loudly: "I knew how to shirk until you were lazy." She said to the young man, "When you get married, bring wine and meat to invite your elder sister-in-law. If she doesn't go, I will force you Force her to go!"

The young man followed suit with a smile: "Then I will write it down, and it will all depend on my sister-in-laws in the future!"

A person next to him smiled and said: "You haven't seen your wife yet, but you booked the chef first."

The young man blushed, not to be outdone: "What's the matter? Later, I married a daughter-in-law and asked her to come and learn from Mrs. Da Nian. When I look back, I, like Brother Da Nian, eat well every day."

Song Haonian smiled sullenly: "When did I eat alone?"

Every time Lily made good things, I gave points to the brothers to taste, and this young man didn't eat less.

After eating and drinking, everyone said that they are exhausted these days, they should go back to sleep as soon as possible, and asked Song Haonian and his wife to rest well, and they each helped the old and the young to disperse.

Today I'm still in a daze, Song Haonian and Baihe sleep in the room with the kang in the east wing, and Lamei's room is on the west side of the main room.

In the past, the two sisters' houses were separated by a wall, and they could hear the loudest noises. Even though Lamei was timid, there was Lily to take care of her nearby.

Now that the room is far away, Lily is very worried, and repeatedly told her to leave a gap in the window at night, so as not to put the charcoal basin in the house to emit gas and burn people.

He also said: "This is my own home. Even if it is dark at night, don't be afraid."

The house is not dark at all. After moving, use an oil lamp, a shallow lamp with a puddle of rapeseed oil in it, and the wick twisted with cotton thread is soaked in oil and burns slowly. Just turn the wick out every hour or so.

This oil lamp is exquisite, the lamp bowl looks very deep from the outside, but very shallow when viewed from the inside, but it is made in the shape of a fake belly, and a small hole is opened in the upper part of the fake belly, and cold water is poured in along the small hole.

When the wick burns, the temperature of the lamp oil rises and burns faster. Adding cold water to the belly of the lamp lowers the temperature of the lamp oil, which can greatly slow down the burning speed.On weekdays, a lamp of oil can burn for two or three days, but with such a lamp, it can burn for at least four or five days.

Here is the so-called "fuel-efficient lamp".

Lamei looked at her new house: the four walls were painted white, the floor was paved with blue bricks, and it was swept clean.The wooden bed, the half-new and not old bedding, everything is neat.New tables and stools, on the table are her bronze mirror, hair rope, etc., and a few boxes of rouge and gouache—her eldest sister has the same, and she must have the same.

A wooden box was placed in the corner for her to store clothes and body. There was a brass lock on the box, and the key hung on her body.

Lamei was ten years older, and it was the first time she slept in such a good house. She was afraid to go there first, and said to Lily: "Sister, go to sleep quickly, you are not happy enough after all these days?"

Lily nodded at her: "If you are afraid at night, don't come to me crying."

"No way!" Lamei blushed, she was either a baby, or she was really scared, how could she still cry to find her elder sister?
When Lily returned to her room, there was also a warm yellow oil lamp, and the light flickered slightly, casting figures on the snow-white window paper.They sleep in this east room in winter, and move back to the east room in summer, that room is cool.

The kang was burning warmly, and Song Haonian said that the house was too hot, and Lily took the porcelain pot to the kitchen to fill a pot of hot water - the new home bought a whole set of furniture and porcelain, and the pot was said to be made in Jingdezhen Good porcelain - come back and put it on the table, cover it with a cotton nest, it can keep warm until the middle of the night.

The room was warm, but after a while a thin layer of sweat broke out on her body, she couldn't wear the thick padded jacket, so Lily took off the padded jacket and folded it on the bedside, revealing the same color embroidered gown embroidered with lotus branches inside.

It was the first time for the young couple to live in such a house, and they felt novelty everywhere, and they were even more excited when they thought that the inside and outside of the house were cleaned up by themselves.

Lily smiled and said to Song Haonian: "You said earlier that you wanted me to live in a big house, but I didn't expect to live here."

Song Haonian followed with a smile: "I didn't expect it to be so fast, it's still you who can do it."

If he is the only one in this family who can make money and can barely make ends meet, but he is lucky to have such a capable daughter-in-law who can save money at home and abroad, so he has no worries about the future and saves enough money to repair the house in one go. There is a new house to live in for more than a year.

After that, they will only get better.

Looking at a beauty under the lamp, beauty is in the eye of the beholder again, Song Haonian thinks Lily looks pretty, his heart is pounding, he walks over and hugs her in his arms.

The overlapping shadows were reflected on the window, Lily blushed and wanted to blow the lamp.

Song Haonian quickly grabbed her, "Don't brag, I want to take a good look at you."

Lily was stunned for a moment, and realized that the blood all over her body rushed to her head. She was as top-heavy as drunk, almost unable to stand, so she could only lean on him tightly to prevent herself from slipping down and making a fool of herself.

Her reaction gave Song Haonian a burst of unspeakable joy, he felt that his daughter-in-law was like white and tender sweet bean curd, he wanted to swallow it whole, but he was afraid that he would use too much strength and damage her.

The shadows on the window overlapped and intertwined, separated and reunited, and Lily saw his eyes in a daze.

There was a scorching light in her beautiful eyes, which was going to burn into her soul all the way.The pupils of the pupils seemed to be filled with stars, Lily was fascinated by it, she suddenly gave him a big push, screamed, her hands and feet clung to him convulsively, and she was in a ball.

(End of this chapter)