Chu Yue looked at Lu Xinghe with admiration, "Ms. sir, you are so amazing."
Lu Xinghe smiled and took Chu Yue's hand.
"Let's go, I'm afraid mother has already made breakfast. After dinner, we have to go to the foundation of the new house early..."
Turning around and opening the door, there were three people standing in front of him. The smile on Lu Xinghe's face froze.
"mother?"
A look of uneasiness flashed across Yun Cuihe's face, and she turned to smile and said, "Hey, breakfast is ready. I was thinking about calling you to eat, and I was about to knock on the door, but before I thought, you guys came out."
After saying that, he pressed his two sons next to him very naturally, turned around, and walked to the kitchen.
"Come quickly, after dinner, our family still has to go to the foundation."
Chu Yue covered her mouth and smiled, then followed Lu Xinghe to the kitchen.
After eating, the family closed the door and went out.
When passing by Sun Dazhu's house next door, Yun Cuihe gave a small handful of peanuts he grabbed to his youngest son, and asked Luo to help him look around the house.
Luo Shi hurriedly responded and asked in a low voice, "Sister-in-law, I heard that Lu Shanshan came to your house yesterday to act like a monster? I have always seen her wandering around here in the past few days, maybe because she saw that your house was going to be built with blue bricks and tiles. Now, do you want to go back to the grass?"
"It's impossible for her to eat the grass." He turned closer to Luo Shi and asked in a low voice, "Sister, did you see anyone coming to my house yesterday? My house lost two taels of silver yesterday. It was all because of hard work. It’s hard earned, but it annoys me to death.”
Yun Cuihe looked sad.
Roche took a breath.
Two taels of silver is not a small sum of money. It is almost enough for a family to eat for a year.
"I only saw that Lu Shanshan was here, but no one else saw it." She took Yun Cuihe's arm and asked in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Yesterday I was in the room and listened to Lu Shanshan in a trance. Shanshan said, she knew who went to your house to steal things. How did she know something that even we didn't know? She has been sneaking around your house these days. Could it be that she was stealing things? That’s her, right?”
Yun Cuihe looked around and hurriedly held her back, "That's what she said. We don't have any evidence, so we'd better not spread it. If General Li Zheng is severely offended, our life will be difficult."
Roche sighed.
"She is Li Zheng's daughter, so she should be treated with tolerance. Sister-in-law, it's not my fault. Don't be too kind."
Yun Cuihe patted her hand and said, "Okay, I won't tell you any more. I have to go take a look at the foundation. My children are all gone."
Luo Shi said hurriedly, "Okay, sister-in-law, go and do your work. I'll keep an eye on this side of the house for you."
"Okay, thank you very much."
After Yun Cuihe finished speaking, she hurriedly chased after Lu Xinghe and the others.
When they arrived at the foundation, the Zi people invited by Lu Laifu and Lu Laicai had just arrived, and they were waiting for the master's order to start work.
Yun Cuihe buried the blessing objects brought to the foundation, lit incense, led her family and workers to worship in three directions, and then inserted the incense into a corner of the foundation. The Zi people made a roar, and the construction of the new house started.
This is a custom. Almost every household will worship like this when building a house, praying for good luck in the new house and the safety of the family.
Lu Xinghe took out the drawings he had brought with him. On them were the layout of the house that he had figured out based on Chu Yue's suggestions, as well as some detailed structures. He handed the drawings to Lu Laifu and Lu Laicai.
"Uncle and uncle, look at this picture. Is it possible to build it according to it?"
The two looked at it carefully and nodded hurriedly.
"OK."
Since it was the first day of construction, the three brothers Lu Xinghe stayed here to help.
Yun Cuihe and Chu Yue turned around and went home. They still had to boil water and send them here, and they also had to send the cooked food here. There was still work to be done at home.
But when the two of them passed the old house, they were stopped by Wang Xuelan.
"Third wife, please wait a moment."
Yun Cuihe turned around and asked, "Mom, what's wrong?"
Wang Xuelan hurriedly approached Yun Cuihe, took her arm and asked in a low voice, "I heard someone said that two taels of silver were stolen from home?"
When Yun Cuihe saw that there was no one around, she whispered in Wang Xuelan's ear, "Mom, I didn't lose that much money, it's just that there was a thief in the house. Xinghe wanted to find out the person who stole the money, so he deliberately said too much."
Wang Xuelan immediately scolded, "These sons of bitches are stealing into the house. I'm a hero, I'm a good man, I'm a thief, and I'm a bastard. If they are bad, they will definitely break the whole family. I have to find them and drown them with saliva." If this is a person from Banpo Village, it would be best to drive them out and leave a corrupt atmosphere, bah!"
Yun Cuihe stepped forward and stroked her back.
"Mom, there's no need to be angry. It's your own body that's being hurt. After all, Xinghe is aware of it. Besides, our family won't suffer much loss."
Wang Xuelan sighed and seemed to have aged a lot.
"They are bullying my third son because he is gone. If he were here, who would dare to bully your mothers?"
Hearing this, Yun Cuihe's eyes suddenly turned red.
"Mom, let's not talk about the past. People have to look forward, right? Now the children are healthy and filial, and I have nothing else to ask for."
Wang Xuelan patted her hand.
"These children are all sensible. You have raised them well. Just watch, the good days are yet to come." Then he said, "You can use the old house to cook food for Ziren these days. How many people are there at home?" They are all still young, and Xinghe has to study. This saves you from the trouble of running back and forth to deliver water and food. You can also ask Xiuqin to help here. After all, you can give the fourth son an extra ten cents in wages. , I can’t lose you, right?”
Yun Cuihe smiled.
"I was thinking that it's a long way from home to here, and it would be troublesome to go back and forth every day. Now that Mom has said this, I won't be polite to Mom."
Wang Xuelan smiled and said, "Why are you so polite to me? It's just that you have to fetch some firewood yourself, otherwise I'm afraid there won't be enough firewood at home."
Yun Cuihe said hurriedly, "That's right. Let's go back and move the things here."
After saying that, he took Chu Yue back home.
The two borrowed a cart from Lin's family, put the family's pot, a small jar of salted vegetables, seasonings, thirty kilograms of brown rice and a bundle of firewood on the cart, and pushed it to the old house.
The thing was relatively light. Yun Cuihe was pulling it in front and Chu Yue was pushing it behind. Although they were both weak, they finally transported the thing to the old house.
Yun Cuihe sat in the yard of her old house, holding her chest and breathing heavily. She had not done any physical work for a long time, and she was really worse than before.
"Yueyue, take a break later and go and return the cart from your Aunt Lin's house. Mom will put the pots and pans away, and then go to the well to fetch some water."
Cooking and boiling water in the old house is not only close to the new house, but the well is also not far away. It is less than half a mile away, which saves Xinghe from having to fetch water every morning.
