The grand lady who time-traveled became a hot mom

Chapter 67

After the new house of Fang Yumin's family was built, there was an endless stream of people who came to visit the house, some sincerely blessed it, and some envied and hated it.Zhang Cuihua and Hu came here almost every day, and the expressions on their faces after hearing the praise and comments from the villagers were wonderful.

Fang Yumin also generously opened the door for the villagers to visit. There is nothing in the new house yet, and the more people come to see it, the more popular it will be.Although they haven't moved in yet, Fang Yumin boils water and cooks in the kitchen every day, and they will move in when the moisture in the house dries up.

This new house was completely built according to Fang Yumin's original design.The whole house is surrounded by rooms as walls, and thorns are planted outside the walls, making it difficult for even ordinary thieves to climb in.

This house is a bit like the three-entry house structure in the north. It is entered by a thick wooden door about three meters high, which is a small yard.There is no vegetable garden in the yard, but peppers, wild chrysanthemums, mint and unknown wild flowers are transplanted from the old house.Now it is autumn, when the chrysanthemums are in full bloom and the peppers are ripe and red, it is quite beautiful to decorate the yard.

Through the small courtyard and across the threshold, there is a small front hall.There is a side room on the left and right sides of the front hall, which are used to store farm tools and firewood; further forward is a large open-air yard, with six bungalows on both sides of the yard, the three on the left are temporarily vacant for guest rooms or other purposes; The rooms are the kitchen, dining room and bathroom.

Two cherry saplings were transplanted in the middle of the yard, and a flower garden was surrounded by stones to surround the fruit samples.Concrete was used around the flower garden, and the surrounding area was specially made concave to facilitate drainage. You can also pour the water down after washing vegetables and dishes, and then lead the water outside the house along the dug canal.

Crossing the courtyard in the middle is another threshold, which is the large living room of the house.In the living room, facing the door, there is a square table and two chairs on the wall, and some fruits are placed on it.There are also two sets of tables and chairs on the left and right walls.

There is a suite built on both sides of the living room, where the bedroom and the study are connected together. This is the room specially arranged by Fang Yumin for Xiao Ming and Xiao Yang.

A screen is placed on the side of the living room, walk around the screen, and after passing a threshold, there is a small side hall.In the side hall, only one round table and five round stools were placed in the middle.On the table was a not-so-delicate vase, in which a handful of yellow wild chrysanthemums were in full bloom.

In the side hall, Fang Yumin didn't intend to let outsiders in.Because there is also a suite on each side, and the one on the left is the bedroom of Lin Qiulai and Fang Yumin.

There is a door between the kitchen and the chaimen, which leads to the back yard.Because it is used to make soy sauce with dried tempeh and breed rabbits, this backyard is very spacious.In the middle is an open space, which will be used to put sauce jars to bask in the sun in the future.And the four rooms on the far right are all opened up, which is used to raise rabbits.It's just that the rabbit shed hasn't started to be built yet, so I can't go up the mountain to cut bamboo until Lin Qiulai is free.

Except for the last one which is a toilet, the other rooms are used to store food.The latrine was still built according to the original method, and Jichi was dug outside the house and covered with stone slabs.

There is still no vegetable garden in the yard, only two jujube trees have been transplanted and peppermint has been planted.

As for the cows, pigs, chickens and so on, they are still kept in the old houses.The vegetable garden is also there. Anyway, the new house and the old house are almost connected together, and it is only two steps away.

The villagers went back after seeing it, but Zhang Cuihua came to the house every day in the name of looking after her grandson.But Xiao Ming is already very wary of grandma, and rarely talks to her except to say hello; Xiao Yang doesn't like Zhang Cuihua either, because when Lin Qiulai and Fang Yumin adopted them, the old grandma came to the door and rolled on the ground to force his godfather To send them back.

Fang Yumin knew very well what kind of person Zhang Cuihua was, and she had no intention of getting along with her.

Zhang Cuihua didn't really come here to see her grandson Xiao Ming or Xiao Yang. She had never liked this little grandson who looked like Fang Xiaolian. As for Xiao Yang, she was not her own grandson at all.Zhang Cuihua came here just for that new house, she wanted to see what good it would be if Lin Qiu could get it from Fang Yumin's hands?
It's just that Lin Qiulai's family is so busy that they don't have time to greet her. Even if she came in the morning, they would be turned away.Because Lin Qiulai and Fang Yumin went to the field at that time, Xiao Ming and Xiao Yang went to the school, and there was no one at home, so Fang Yumin locked the door.Come in the afternoon, the family of four is very busy, Qiulai is busy making rabbit sheds, Fang Yumin is busy making winter clothes, sometimes Mrs. He and Aunt Chunhua will come to sew winter clothes together, the two young ones are studying in the house, Zhang Cuihua How to open your mouth to test?
After finally waiting for Lin Qiulai to be free, Zhang Cuihua hurriedly stepped forward to grab his hand and went out.Fang Yumin looked at their backs and just smiled, then bowed her head and sewed the cotton-padded clothes again.

"Mom." Xiao Ming called out worriedly, Grandma didn't know what happened again.

Fang Yumin smiled and comforted: "It's okay, you continue."

After a while, Lin Qiulai hadn't come back yet, but Dabao's father and Xiaozhu's father came over.As soon as they entered the door, they asked, "Daughter-in-law Qiulai, it's time to catch fish. Why haven't you started catching fish yet? In a few days, it will be too cold to go into the water."

"No hurry, no hurry." Fang Yumin smiled and gave up his seat for them, and Xiao Yang and Xiao Ming also came to say hello and poured hot tea.

Dabao's father was in a hurry, and most of the farmers were straightforward: "Are you still in a hurry? The water is so cold now, and it will be very bitter in a few days."

"Hehe, my fish are raised in the rice fields, so they don't need to be put into the water." Fang Yumin reminded.

"Ah, I really forgot."

"Uncle Wang, do you have anything to do with me today?" Fang Yumin asked: "I don't plan to salvage the fish now, and I see that people in the village have gone fishing in the river. If there are more fish, the price will definitely be lower." .”

"That's right, fresh big fish only sell for 3 renminbi a catty now, and small fish are so bad that 5 renminbi is a small pile. That's it, sometimes the stalls are set up all morning and they still can't be sold." Xiaozhu's father also Sighing, she looked at Fang Yumin and said, "Actually, we came here today to ask Qiulai's wife, the dried fish you mentioned earlier..."

"I didn't expect fish to be sold so cheaply. Uncle, do you know how to make salted fish?"

"Yes, why not? Everyone in Wangjia Village can make it."

"Okay, let's see if we make the same method later. My family just built a house this year and I'm very busy, so I don't have time to go out in Qiulai. How about this. All the fish that your two families salvage are more than two catties are sold. Give it to me, but you have to help me make it into dried fish."

"You want them all?" Dabao's father widened his eyes, "That's a lot!"

Xiao Zhu's father also nodded: "Qiu Lai, there are really many wives."

"Yes, all of them." Fang Yumin smiled and said, "But you have to come and help me make dried fish."

"OK, no problem."

"Then it's settled." Fang Yumin said with a smile.The house is so big, why can’t you put dried fish?Next spring, after the big fish have been caught in the winter, there will be only small fry in the river, and these dried fish can be sold.

After the two uncles in Wangjia Village left, Lin Qiu came home, but Zhang Cuihua was not with him.Fang Yumin observed Lin Qiulai's expression, and he really couldn't see any joy or anger.I couldn't help but ask: "Qiu Lai, what is your mother-in-law looking for?"

Xiao Ming and Xiao Yang also stopped writing and opened the door to look at Lin Qiulai, they really wanted to know.

"It's nothing, she asked if we still want this old house?" Lin Qiulai looked at Fang Yumin and said, "I told her that this house was built by Xiaolian's mother, we definitely want it."

"Oh?" The corners of Fang Yumin's mouth turned up slightly, "It's gone?"

"...She also said that she wanted to move in and live with us." Lin Qiulai's tanned face also turned red, ashamed of his mother.

Fang Yumin snorted coldly: "It's a good idea."

"I've already told her that it's impossible. She asked me to separate the family long before we got married. She wants to live with the eldest brother and leave everything to the eldest brother. My second brother and I have lived in a difficult life these years. She didn't even think about helping out a little." Lin Qiulai didn't want to mind the past, but what Zhang Cuihua said just now really made him angry.

"Even if you agree, I won't let her move in and live with us." Fang Yumin said categorically, "We will show filial piety during the holidays, but that's all."

Lin Qiulai didn't speak, nor did he take a stand.He continued to cut bamboo to make the greenhouse that Fang Yumin said, as long as he sewed it up with tarpaulin and covered it on the vegetable field, it would be able to keep out the wind and snow, and then he would be able to eat green vegetables in winter.

Fang Yumin watched Lin Qiulai pursing his thin lips and working in silence, and said: "I promised Uncle Wang that they will buy their fish at 3 Wen a catty. They will ship the fish to us in two days." come home."

"Ah?" Lin Qiulai looked at Fang Yumin with a look of astonishment: "How can we eat so many fish? Even if it is made into dried fish, we are too busy."

"They will help us make dried fish. Tomorrow you go to Nantou County to buy more salt. You also need to buy more spices, and our family will also start preparing bacon and sausages."

"Okay, I'll go tomorrow. Ah, by the way, tomorrow is the market day, how about we go together?" Lin Qiulai turned to Fang Yumin without stopping his hands.

"Be careful with your hands." Fang Yumin was a little scared seeing the knife flying.

Lin Qiulai smiled: "It's okay."

"Forget it, the weather is getting cold too, I'm too lazy to get up early, it's better if you go and buy it."

"Okay. How about we move to the new house today? In two days, the fish will be cut up and dried in the sun. The taste is not very good. Anyway, everything is complete in the new house, and we just need to live in it." .”

"That's fine." Fang Yumin nodded, then turned her head and said to the two little kids who were standing in the corner of the door, "You two, one goes to your second uncle's house to invite them over for dinner, and the other goes to Aunt Chunhua's house. No?"

"Okay, the Lord will go right away."

Fang Yumin smiled, and discussed with Lin Qiulai where it would be better to put the shed.Because although the greenhouse can keep out the wind and snow, the temperature inside is still quite low, and Fang Yumin is also afraid that the vegetables and beans will freeze.I just thought about getting a stove and a chimney inside, so that it would be warm inside by burning wood.

Fang Yumin can only say that she won't do it, and Lin Qiulai has to figure out a way to do it.Lin Qiulai found Fang Yumin's proposal really interesting. People and animals need to keep warm, and now even plants need to keep warm.Not only is it not the warmest to get a charcoal basin, but also directly build a stove and a chimney.

"How about moving the vegetables to the room to grow?"

"It's okay. Ah, no, there's no sunshine."

"It doesn't matter if you cover it with an oilcloth."

"If you cover it, you can see it through a little bit, but your suggestion is also good. Let's make a shelf and put it in the kitchen, and grow some leeks, shallots, and rapeseed. Just cut it off when you want to eat it." Fang Yumin Excitedly, it seems that I have seen the white snow outside and the green vegetables in the kitchen.

Lin Qiulai looked at Fang Yumin's appearance and laughed, feeling warm in his heart, he rubbed her head and asked, "Why do you have so many novel ideas in your head?"

"I'm smart. You are lucky to marry me."

"That is. The greatest blessing in my life, Lin Qiulai, is to marry Fang Yumin as my wife."

"Hey. Since it's a blessing, then you have to listen to me carefully and treat me well."

"Sure, don't talk about the future, I also listen to you very much now."

Suddenly Aunt Chunhua's loud voice came: "Okay, okay, stop talking nasty things in broad daylight, goosebumps are popping up."

"Aunt Chunhua, why are you here?"

"Didn't you ask Xiaoyang to come over and ask us to have dinner? I just came here to see if I can help. Here, there is nothing good at home, so this duck is to congratulate you on your housewarming."

"It's a waste of money, I just want to invite you to have a potluck with the second uncle's family, and I will move in today."

"Well, the house has been baked for almost 20 days and the moisture has already disappeared. It's just right to move in." Aunt Chunhua nodded, seeing Lin Qiulai building a greenhouse, she couldn't help asking strangely: "Qiulai, are you planning to make a greenhouse?" What?"

Fang Yumin quickly pulled Aunt Chunhua to sit down: "Come on, Aunt Chunhua, sit down, let me tell you, this is going to be used as a greenhouse."

"Great shed? Building a house again?"

"It is not."

"what?"

"It's a house built for vegetables to keep them warm in winter."

"what?"

Lin Qiulai couldn't help laughing, Xiaoyang squatted aside and smiled with her lips pursed, Fang Yumin also laughed, and then vividly told Aunt Chunhua about the great role of greenhouses in winter.

(End of this chapter)