Jiang Youcheng hurriedly hit the back of his head with his foot.
Jiang Michia, Song Jingyun and Mrs. Liu were also busy cooking, making tea and water, and buying some odds and ends.
If there is someone who needs to be moved or done some physical work, Jiang Michia will volunteer.
In addition, the tea garden wanted a batch of mats woven from bamboo strips. At night, the family had to use the bright moonlight in summer to weave mats from bamboo strips.
Jiang Youcheng had to do a lot of strenuous work during the day, and he had to rush back and forth. He was still so busy at night, which was really too much. But he was afraid that the order for mats would not be delivered on time, so he worked hard to hold on.
Fortunately, Song Jingyun is now very good at craftsmanship and can almost take on most of the tasks, so Jiang Youcheng can also take it a little easier here.
Half a month passed. Due to the busy schedule, the whole family almost lost weight, but fortunately, nothing was delayed.
The bamboo mats from the tea garden were delivered on time, and the family's house was almost ready.
The interior walls have been sorted out, the doors and windows have been installed, and even the walls only have a few finishing touches left.
All that's left is to dry the house, buy some furniture, move new furniture in, completely knock down the old house, clean up the pig and chicken pens, and it's all done.
These are small things that don't need to be rushed. Just take your time at home and let the folks who come to help know what to do. You don't have to worry about it anymore starting tomorrow.
In order to thank the folks who had come to help the family these days, Jiang Youcheng went to the town, bought a lot of pork, divided it into almost equal portions, and delivered the meat door to door.
Thank you to everyone who is willing to go to your home to help build a house in such a hot summer.
Every family in the village has weddings, weddings, weddings, construction of houses, etc. All other families in the village lend a hand to help. The head family only needs to take care of the food and tea, and then visit them one by one to express their gratitude.
Money is tight in this family, and the food and tea are a little light. When I come to thank you, I only pick up the white flour steamed buns that I can handle. If the family is rich, the food is heavy on oil and water, and the thank-you gifts are kept close to the meat.
Jiang Youcheng obviously belonged to the latter, and he was given a lot of meat.
Meat is not something that can be eaten every day. People who get it have smiles on their faces and are filled with emotion.
I lamented that Jiang Youcheng was so generous.
I feel that Jiang Youcheng's family has completely turned over and is living a better life.
He also lamented that Jiang Youcheng was an honest person and worked hard.
After all, building a house on this hot day is almost overwhelming. Compared with the spring and autumn, Jiang Youcheng does not vaguely compare the thank-you gifts given by others, but specially gives a few more. This shows that Jiang Youcheng knows The efforts made by everyone are kept in mind.
Others sighed with emotion, while some people became red-eyed.
Mrs. Zhang held up the piece of pork in her hand with disdain and muttered, "Look at this third room, they are really promising. They even gave pork as a thank you gift, and it was a gift of meat. One piece weighs half a catty!" "
"If I go to town to cut meat, I think this piece of meat will cost more than 20 yuan. There are more than ten families who went to his house to help, and now they went out for more than 300 yuan."
"Three strings of money, if you buy white flour rice, it will be enough to last for a while. I gave it away as soon as I said it would be given away. I really have money to burn!"
"Since my family is so rich, I don't care about the hard life of my brother's family. I just want to curry favor with outsiders. I really don't know what I'm thinking!"
Mrs. Zhang became more and more angry as she talked. She didn't like the piece of meat in her hand. She just wanted to throw it back to Sanfang's house, but when she thought about it, Jiang Youcai went to help for a few days because of his face. What he got in exchange was another gift of meat. I really couldn't bear to part with it, so I swallowed all the words that followed.
I just put salt on the piece of meat, hung it on the edge of the water tank, and kept it iced with water, hoping to eat it for two more days.
Jiang Youcai frowned when he heard Mrs. Zhang talking here, "How do you think this third family got so much money to build such a big new house?"
"I remember that after sending the betrothal gifts to the Song family, organizing the wedding ceremony for Xia Yatou, and calling the doctor several times because of the collapse of the wedding tent, the family was in dire straits and had no money for daily expenses. Or did Dafang give me a bunch of money as a gift? How long has it been before you have money?"
Those brick and tile houses and the courtyard walls cost a lot of money.
Jiang Youcai made a rough estimate and found that he would need at least ten taels of silver.
His house is now clean and he can't spare five taels of silver. How can he have so much money for three bedrooms?
Jiang Youcai was a little confused.
Mrs. Zhang curled her lips, "It's not that the third child was lucky. He got a job as the steward of a tea garden in the west. The bamboo baskets, bamboo bamboo baskets, bamboo mats, bamboo hats and other things used in the tea garden were all made by the third child. Such a big one Tea garden, with so many things, isn’t it profitable?”
That's true.
Jiang Youcai nodded, but his face was full of anger, "This third child used to make wattle baskets, but now he suddenly changed his profession to weaving bamboo baskets. After changing his profession, he met such a noble person. He is really lucky!"
While the two were talking, Jiang Chunhe returned home, looking unhappy.
"What's wrong with Chunhe? His face looks so ugly?" Mrs. Zhang felt sorry for her eldest son and rushed to greet her, "But you were injured while hunting in the mountains?"
"That's not true." Jiang Chunhe said impatiently, "I've been wandering around for a long time since morning and haven't even seen a living thing. I'm really angry."
"When I came back, I didn't know whose unscrupulous dog was messing around on the road, and accidentally stepped on dog poop. It was really unlucky!"
"What do I mean? If I'm not hunting, I'm not hunting. Where can I go hunting in the mountains and hunt something every day? It's okay if your shoes are dirty. Let Wu wash them for you. You've been out all day long. , there are times when everything goes smoothly, but don’t take it too seriously.”
Jiang Chunhe went to the mountains all day long to gamble his life with wild beasts. Mrs. Zhang didn't want to get into trouble and was also afraid that Jiang Chunhe would say depressing words, so she quickly called Mrs. Wu to deal with it.
Jiang Youcai frowned, "I remember Chunhe hasn't hunted anything these days?"
Jiang Chunhe nodded with an increasingly ugly face.
Indeed, he hadn't hunted anything these days.
I wander into the mountains every day, but come back empty-handed every day.
Rabbits and pheasants that I used to hunt all the time are now almost invisible.
"It's summer, I guess those living creatures are very fertile, and they can't come out easily. I guess it's the same for everyone..."
Mrs. Zhang comforted her again.
Jiang Youcai curled up his lips, "But yesterday I saw a few hunters from the Sun family carrying these big baskets of stuff to the town restaurant to sell game. They said they hunted it from the mountains, and the baskets were full of stuff. , How come people can hunt so many things, but Chunhe can’t hunt anything?”
Jiang Chunhe's face turned red after listening to Jiang Youcai's words.
He didn't know why either.
