Nongmen Rice Flower Fragrance

Chapter 16 Building a House

The business of selling sour bamboo shoots came to an end, and there was nothing else to do at home for the time being.Li Xin looked at the crumbling of several houses at home, so she thought about rebuilding the house.It just so happened that selling sour bamboo shoots only earned 50 taels of silver, but it was not enough to build a house in the countryside.

It doesn't rain much this season, so it's just a good time to fix the house.When the rainy season came, there was no way to build a house, and their house might not be able to survive the rainy season.As long as there is a little rain on weekdays, the house will leak everywhere, and it will definitely be impossible to live in during the rainy season.

Li Xin told Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang about the idea of ​​building a house, and they both agreed.Although it costs money to build a house, in the countryside, a well-built house usually requires a lifetime of living, so in their hearts, a house is considered a big family property.Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang asked their siblings to clean up and move to Zhang's house. The dilapidated house here was demolished first, and then they planned how to build the house.

As soon as he said it, Li Xin took his younger brothers and sisters to pack up their things and moved to Zhang's house.Uncle Zhang went to contact the craftsmen who built the house, and ran around to buy bricks and tiles in places where bricks were fired.Because the wood was not prepared before, so they all had to be bought, so Uncle Zhang was busy running around the surrounding villages to see which one had suitable wood.

Li Xin spent the whole day drawing house designs.She still likes the courtyard style, the courtyard is open, once the gate is closed, there is a separate small world inside.In the past, the house was surrounded by wasteland. In the village, it was allowed to expand the house on such wasteland, so the house was built bigger.She designed the traditional courtyard style.

The house gate is in the southeast corner, and parallel to it is a row of inverted houses. There is a screen wall inside the gate, and then there is a courtyard wall and a vertical flower gate. The front yard and the inner courtyard are separated by the vertical flower gate and the courtyard wall.Going in again is the inner house, the north is the main house with three fronts and two ears, and the east and west are three wing rooms.On both sides of the main house are east and west courtyards, and at the end is a row of back rooms.On the outer edge of the house, there is a circle of Chaoshou veranda, which connects with the hanging flower gate.

This kind of courtyard house has the characteristics of the north. The courtyard is spacious and sparse, and the houses on all sides are independent and connected by corridors, making living very convenient.The courtyard is spacious, where you can plant trees and flowers, raise birds and fish, and stack stones for landscaping.

When Li Xin's design came out, Uncle Zhang had already found the materials and craftsmen.After demolishing the dilapidated house of the Li family, a new house can be built.No one in the local area has built a courtyard house, so the craftsmen hired to build the house have never built a courtyard house. It can be said that they have never seen it.Li Xin explained it to those craftsmen in detail. Fortunately, they are all in this industry, so it is not difficult to understand.The materials were brought in one after another, and the house began to be built in full swing.

Li Xin had to go over there every day to watch, firstly, to watch the progress; secondly, to watch the craftsmen at work, and to bring up any inappropriate things in time.The house built by Li Xin's house attracted many people from the village to come and see. After all, everyone in the village knew how poor Li's family was before, and now they suddenly had the money to build a house. Naturally, they all came to see the excitement. After thinking about it, did the Li family suddenly get rich.Some good people who look down on others will inevitably say something sour after watching the excitement, and Li Xin doesn't pay much attention to it.

Uncle Zhang went to help every day, and the village chief also went to watch most of the day, and would help if there was work that could be done.Aunt Zhang took Wenbo, Wenhao and Yuexiang to pick vegetables for cooking, and also provided meals for the craftsmen every day.Because it was a labor-intensive job, Li Xin took out a lot of money and prepared delicious dishes to entertain the craftsmen every day.Yue Ting was still young and couldn't help with anything, and Yue Xiang was too busy to take her with her, so Li Xin took her to see and build a house every day.

Materials have been supplied, and many craftsmen are invited, so the progress is very fast.By the time of May, the weather was already very hot, and the wheat in the fields was also golden. It was already the harvest season.The village also became busy all of a sudden, and every household went to the fields to harvest wheat.The Li family built a house, so Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang were too busy to harvest the wheat. Seeing that this was not an option, Li Xin hired workers to help Aunt Zhang's house harvest the wheat.She looked amusing, and sometimes she would carry a basket and take Yuexiang to pick ears of wheat.

Few of the children in the village go to school, so when they are older, they help with the housework, and the younger ones run and play all over the mountains and plains.When it comes to the season of harvesting wheat, adults are busy in the fields, so they will also catch their own children to pick ears of wheat in the sky.Li Xin took Yueting to the wheat field, and saw children picking up ears of wheat with baskets everywhere, some of them were serious about picking ears of wheat, some of them lost their patience after a while, and ran around to play.

Xiaowang and Niuniu from Aunt Zhang's family also went to the field to pick wheat ears together. Although the two children are still young, they are very obedient and have been picking wheat ears seriously.

"Sister, my face hurts." After picking it up for a while, Yue Ting yelled.Li Xin looked over, maybe it was too hot, Yue Ting's face was flushed, sweat dripped down in big drops.Maybe it was because she was sweating, so she wiped it off with her hands, and the ear of wheat in her hand poked her face, and she kept screaming for pain.

"Don't pick it up, go and play!" Li Xin dragged Yueting to the edge of the field.There are some willow trees growing beside the field, which should have been planted for several years, so they grow luxuriantly, and the long willows hang down. This season is emerald green.It was cool in the shade under the tree, so Li Xin asked Yueting to sit under the tree.He poured water from the kettle he brought for her to drink, then wet the handkerchief with water and wiped her face. Seeing that she was getting better, he gave her some snacks and let her play under the tree by herself.

When Li Xin returned to the sky, she saw that Niuniu's face was flushed and sweaty. It was pitiful for a four-year-old child to work hard like this. Play.

Although it was hard work, Li Xin still felt very happy looking at the golden ears of wheat in the basket.At a glance, there are golden ears of wheat everywhere, which is the color of harvest.

Farmers in the countryside never think about how much money they will earn from the fields under their feet. They only want to harvest the food they plant every day and feed their families.In this era, grain yields are not high. In fact, a lot of fields can barely feed themselves. Some families only harvest half a year's worth of grain after planting a field for a year.And they all depend on the weather, whether it is drought or flood, it is a disaster.

Although no one is too rich, it makes people feel warm in this countryside.There will not be too many intrigues here, and many people are very simple.It feels so good, it seems that even the air is unusually fresh.

However, the harmonious atmosphere is always easy to be broken, Li Xin and Xiao Wang heard Yue Ting and Niu Niu's cries within a short time. (Ask for a recommendation ticket!)

(End of this chapter)