Regarding the use of wood and bricks for building houses in the village, Jiang Zhi had previously discussed group purchasing with the eight-person group.
It is a big deal when a house is built. The reason why there has been no movement in group buying until now is that each house has not decided on what house it wants to build.
Some people want to build an adobe house. They have more hands and work harder. They spend a year or two breaking down the adobes and drying the bricks. In the end, they hire a few people to lay the bricks and repair the house, which costs almost no money.
There are also people who are preparing to build rammed earth walls, and the entire village is picking up soil. It only takes ten days and a half to build three to five rooms, which are warm in winter and cool in summer, but they don't look impressive.
Villagers help each other for free, and the most expensive thing is food.
As long as you finish harvesting the crops, sell the grain to the grain store, help the village chief, or find something to do in the town, you can raise enough money.
So those few companies started making wood products for doors and windows, and only started construction after selling grain.
There are fewer wooden houses to build like Jiang Zhi's, but they use a lot of materials and are expensive to build. This is exactly the kind of business the Wang family wants.
Tian Gui and Xu Gen are among the people who are coveting wooden houses now.
Compared with other villagers, they worked with Village Chief Jiang from the beginning and made the most money.
Xu Gen has a lot of land, and he gets more than one tael of silver from selling young corns. He also works a lot, and he will have no problem building a few houses next year.
There was talk on the mountain about the Wang family's desire to get a job, and the village was also talking about the same thing.
It was already dark. Xu Gen did not light a lamp, but went into the dark to add chopped sweet potato vines, corn leaves, and a handful of peanut seedlings to the old mule that was kept outside his shack.
The night was so dark that one couldn't see his furrowed eyebrows and troubled face.
In the shack, Mr. Liu also had a sad face, sitting at the long table made of wooden boards, and muttered: "He can also say such things."
On the wooden board were several large bowls filled with semolina paste.
Apart from this bowl of glutinous rice, there were also vegetables on the table. Apart from a bowl of kimchi, there was also a large pot of fatty meat stew, which looked oily.
Xu Gen's three children were sitting next to him, all eagerly looking at the pieces of meat.
The first two are sons, the oldest is ten years old, and the youngest is a seven-year-old daughter. The family situation is similar to Tian Gui's.
Mrs. Liu was reading and the children were waiting. Mrs. Tian packed up the stove and came over to see that Xu Genyou was gone again.
This person has a problem, that is, he can't sit still. Even before eating, he has to find one thing to finish before eating.
Mrs. Tian didn't go to call him. She just sat at the wooden table and said to Mrs. Liu: "Mom, the meat is fresh today. Your teeth are not good, so I stewed it until it became rotten."
Ms. Liu obviously had no appetite. She was upset at this time, but she had no temper with her virtuous eldest daughter-in-law. She just pushed the bowl in front of her and said, "Let Daqiang, Heizi and Chunxi eat first. I'm not hungry!"
Mrs. Tian knew that her mother-in-law had only eaten a bowl of porridge in the morning, so how could she not be hungry? Besides, it was rare to see meaty food in the house, so she could not eat it no matter what.
I don’t want to eat now because of my brother-in-law!
It turns out that today Xu Errui and Wu Yang went to Lihua Town to deliver medicinal solution, and Xu Genyou also went to sell some things together, so naturally they met their younger brother Xu Genbao.
After this younger brother left Xujiacun on the first day of the new year, the two of them didn't see each other for much time. At first, they expressed some concern for each other.
But that time Xu Genyou wanted to borrow money and was beaten by the Wang brothers, and he hasn't even apologized yet. This also made Xu Genyou resentful towards his younger brother.
In addition, he came to see her once on the way and wanted the Wang family to build a house for Aunt Jiang but was rejected. Wang Xiaoju cursed her outside the village, which made the honest man angry.
But today Wang Xiaoju asked someone to come back with a message, saying that she wanted to take back her land.
Now that the corns have grown and will be harvested in another twenty days or so, Wang Xiaoju jumped out to take over the land, which was a clear grab.
Although her mother-in-law and husband both said it was impossible, Ms. Tian still felt uneasy.
Having been sister-in-law to Wang Xiaoju for four years, she knew that her sister-in-law would not give up until she took advantage.
Now that we are talking about taking back the land, even if it is not taken back, we still have to ask for something at home.
What does Wang Xiaoju want?
Tian, who has been at home all year round, doesn't know what his sister-in-law wants, but Xu Genyou knows.
Today, my younger brother talked to me for a long time in the town, saying that life in his in-laws' family was not easy. Last time he knew that his eldest brother was being bullied and it was hard for him to speak out.
As he spoke, he started to cry, scolding him that he was not a human being, that he was sorry for my mother and elder brother, and that he caused his elder brother to be beaten.
Seeing his flesh and blood relatives crying in front of him, Xu Genyou felt uncomfortable and his resentment disappeared.
My younger brother can eat hot or cold at his own home, but he is not so comfortable living in someone else's home.
Just because his previous attempt to return to the village to pick up business failed, the Wang family would not give him a good look.
But he asked his younger brother to return to the village. No matter how poor his family was, it was better than looking at other people's faces.
Besides, these poor days will eventually pass, but he was rejected by his younger brother. Genbao said he was too embarrassed to come back and just wanted to help him support him in the Wang family.
help? How to help?
Xu Genbao said that the village needed to buy wood anyway, and since he could talk to Aunt Jiang, he would earn the money himself, so don't let outsiders take advantage of him.
After saying this, he stuffed a pound of meat into his hand, saying that he was filial to my mother.
This was the first time in half a year that I thought of my mother, so I brought the meat back, but no one could eat it.
However, I also made it clear to Genbao that buying lumber in the village was a group purchase, and I couldn't say it alone.
Moreover, what the Wang family did to Aunt Jiang couldn't just go away. They were chasing her on the road and wanted to beat her up. Although they didn't get the best of her, they had bad intentions.
As for the fact that he himself was slapped by the Wang brothers and was forced to kneel on the ground, for the sake of his brother's apology, he did not mention it for the time being.
Whether Xu Gen agreed or not, there was no news from Er Rui, so the matter disappeared again.
People in the village continued to do whatever they were supposed to do, but people in the mountains did something strange.
The sun had just emerged from the top of the mountain, and Jiang Zhi was already standing by the terraces with his people.
Chunfeng, Qiaoyun, Errui, Xiaoman and Xu Dazhu gathered together, each holding a pair of tweezers made of bamboo slices in their hands, and were listening intently to Jiang Zhi's words.
Jiang Zhi only brought Qiaoyun to emasculate the rice last year, and the two secretly processed dozens of them.
Now, she has made this public and wants everyone to help.
Sure enough, compared with Qiaoyun's three views collapsed last year, this year's others are no worse.
Xiao Man was not married and looked confused when he heard this.
Chunfeng covered her face and laughed, while Errui and Xu Dazhu had sullen faces and awkwardly picked up the stamens.
These emotions did not last long. Jiang Zhi said: "This method will be done every year in the future. It is the same as pollinating the corn. You should know how the pollinated corn will grow."
Pollination of corn is not a rare thing. The villagers all know how to do it, and the effect is immediate. After thinking about this, several people immediately started to pinch the stamens.
There were more people this time, and Jiang Zhi’s mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were sneaking around much faster than last year.
Pull out every other row, and mark the pulled rice plants with straw rope.
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The hottest weather has arrived. After the village was burned down by the bandits, the originally lush bamboo forest in front of and behind every house in Xujia Village disappeared, and the few young bamboos that finally grew have not been able to grow into the climate.
The low shacks were smoking in the hot sun.
They work individually during the day, but at night everyone gathers under the drying shed outside Jiangzhi's warehouse to chat.
Among the crowd, Xia Xiucai rarely appeared. He was still wearing a scholar's gown, and stood out among a group of farmers with their sleeves rolled up and their trousers rolled up.
At this time, Xia Xiucai was not talking about poetry and songs, but was talking about fortune telling!
Xu Gensheng was fanning everyone hard with a cattail leaf fan, and Xu Genqing was holding a tea cup. After Xia Xiucai finished speaking, he immediately handed it over to him in an awkward manner: "Xiucai Gong, take a sip of water before talking!"
