"Eight sisters, leave this kind of inquiring matter to me!"
Sure enough, Mrs. Liu enthusiastically raised her hands and patted her chest to take over the matter.
Cao Bamei looked at Mrs. Liu and smiled gratefully.
"You have to be the fourth aunt, know-it-all, okay, then I'll overwork you!"
"Then we have to work hard on this matter as soon as possible,"
"Xiu over there... I'm so anxious about this!"
"Haha," Ms. Liu grinned and started to put the shelf up.
"I'm busy building a house. I'm very busy. Today is different from the past. I'm afraid your fourth uncle will have objections to me..."
Cao Bamei took out a handkerchief directly from her pocket and gave it to Ms. Liu.
"Fourth Aunt, please take this handkerchief to use. It's brand new. It's great for wiping sweat."
Mrs. Liu looked at the handkerchief in the palm of her hand. Isn't it the kind of handkerchief with exquisite materials used in embroidered trousseaus?
This kind of handkerchief was specially made by Yang Yongjin and Cao Bamei at the embroidery shop in the county when they bought their dowry.
I heard that thirty pieces were ordered at that time, and the girls gave each other gifts, and the handkerchiefs were just right.
Handkerchiefs are also practical, for wiping yourself and wiping your children.
In particular, this kind of handkerchief, which uses exquisite materials and has high-end embroidery work, is basically not available to women of farmers.
Use it as a collection, or show it off in crowded places.
Mrs. Liu could already imagine the envious eyes of those members of the women's troupe with long tongues in the village.
"I like this handkerchief, okay, I'll take the time to find out for you."
Mrs. Liu finished holding the handkerchief in her hand and told Cao Bamei in a loud voice:
"Go back and tell Xiuxiu to raise her confinement in peace and not to be in a hurry."
"Other people's life and death are other people's. Ask her to take care of her own first. She doesn't owe the Li family anything, ha!"
Liu's advice was very useful to Cao Bamei.
Because every word of it spoke to her heart.
I saw Xiu Xiu in confinement before, but now I see Xiu Xiu is sensible.
So Cao Bamei couldn't bear to argue with her too much.
In fact, from the bottom of my heart, Li Qiaoer's affairs are really nothing to worry about.
But Xiu Xiu needs to take care of her, which shows that Xiu Xiu is kind.
For such a kind child, Cao Bamei couldn't bear to kill that kindness.
…
Everyone acted separately.
The next day, the three brothers of the Li family came to the door.
Yang Huaming took a half-day leave from the Taoist Temple and took the three brothers from the Li family to inspect the new land.
The location of the new land was originally planned to be built next to the left side of the Luo family.
On the right side of the Luo family is the Yang Huazhong family, and the two families share a courtyard wall.
If you shout on one side of the wall, you can hear it on the other side of the wall.
Sometimes a ladder is set up on each side.
Wang Cuilian and Mrs. Sun moved some salt to each other and picked some garlic.
They are all very convenient, and there is no need to go around the front yard gate at all.
Therefore, this wave of four-bedroom houses also wants to imitate the Yang Huazhong family.
Go to the Luo family from the left. The two families share a courtyard wall.
However, this turned out to be unworkable.
why?
Because the area under the wall on the left side of Luo's house is a one-meter-wide slope walkway.
When the Luo family first built their house, they used stone slabs to build a curved walkway under the wall.
Where the walkway connects with the courtyard wall, there will be drainage holes every other section of the way.
Some are drainage holes installed on the ground, while others are blind drainage holes buried under the wall.
The function is the same, which is to drain the water in the Luo family's yard from the pipes.
Under the one-meter-wide slope outside the base of the wall, there is a ditch in the field.
This ditch is also one of the branches where the water from the pond at the entrance of Changping Village flows downstream.
The Luo family deepened and widened the drainage of this ditch. Beyond the ditch, there was a large area of farmland.
Therefore, when the fourth house proposed to share the left courtyard wall with the Luo family, Yang Ruoqing rejected it at that time.
"Qing'er, why not? My fourth aunt wants to be closer to you!"
Yang Huaming took the three brothers of the Li family there to look at the land. Liu didn't give up and clung to Yang Ruoqing's playful smile.
Yang Ruoqing was washing the shoes of two little guys by the well in the backyard.
When she heard Liu's words, she just rolled her eyes at her and asked her to figure it out on her own.
Neither bothered to explain.
Because everything that needs to be explained has been explained, Fourth Uncle and Kang Xiaozi both understood and understood.
But the fourth aunt is still chattering here.
"Qing'er, as long as you nod, then the ditch or whatever is really not a problem." Ms. Liu continued.
"Our two families are next to each other. When the fourth aunt cooks something delicious, I will shout from the wall and hand it to you."
She slapped her hands in the middle and said, "Look, how good this is!"
Yang Ruoqing picked up the washed shoes and walked to the row of iron shelves facing the sun under the wall and spread them out to dry.
Mrs. Liu followed and continued to draw the pie behind her.
Yang Ruoqing turned around, crossed her arms, and looked Liu up and down.
A sneer raised at the corner of his lips, and he said: "Fourth Aunt, please don't come here. Do you think I will care less about your food? Pull it off!"
"What's your idea? Do you think I don't know about it?"
"It's you who cares about my food, and it's you who want to be next to my courtyard wall, so that you can save the cost of a section of the courtyard wall for your family!"
Her thoughts were revealed at once. Mrs. Liu was not embarrassed at all, but instead grinned.
"That's not entirely true. I just want the two families to be closer..."
Yang Ruoqing nodded, freed her hand to grab Ms. Liu's arm and led her out of the backyard door to the edge of the ditch outside.
Yang Ruoqing pointed to one of the open drainage holes and asked Mrs. Liu: "Look at this water, which is drained out every day for washing in my house."
"You have to be next to my house, so what are you going to do with such a long and deep ditch?"
"Fill in the soil? Fill in the ground? You have nothing to do!"
"Furthermore, if it is filled up, where will the water from my house be drained? How will the water from the pond at the entrance of our village be drained?"
"My fourth uncle and Kang Xiaozi took one look and knew it was not feasible,"
"Aunt Fourth, you're still pestering me here, are you so thoughtless?"
Mrs. Liu felt quite depressed when she saw such a big ditch blocking the middle of the two families.
Her thoughts were exactly what Yang Ruoqing said before.
Get closer to show your closeness and make eating and other things more convenient.
When the time comes, she will set up a ladder on the wall. As soon as she smells delicious food being cooked at the Luo family, she will immediately climb up the ladder to eat and drink.
In addition, it can indeed save bricks and stones for a section of the courtyard wall, saving money.
And because it's next to the Luo family's courtyard wall, you can also take advantage of the Luo family's luck and security...
There are a lot of benefits.
However, this ditch is really in the way!
"Hey, where is this big ditch? This is simply the Queen Mother using the golden hairpin on her head to cut our two families apart. It's so unethical!"
Yang Ruoqing couldn't help but roll her eyes again.
(End of chapter)
