Looking at the patter of spring rain outside and the leaking thatched house at home, Li Shiqiang had already decided to build his own blue-tiled house first so that his family could have better living conditions.
"Buy a house? Okay, I'll find someone later."
Li Nongchang thought it was to build another thatched house so that his second son and Huang Yun could have a place to live after they got married, so he immediately agreed.
"Old man, instead of building one thatched house, we will build five blue-tiled houses."
Li Shiqiang shook his head, walked to the table and opened the can of sugary oranges.
"What? Five blue-tiled houses, where do you get so much money?"
After hearing what his second son said, Li Nongchang immediately stared and almost dropped the cigarette rod from his mouth.
Li Shiqiang picked up a sugar-watered orange with chopsticks and put it in a bowl. He divided it into two halves and ate half of it himself. Then he placed the remaining half in the bowl in front of the youngest Li Shijun. While tasting the sweetness in his mouth, he said, "Wait a minute." Come on, I’ll get you some more money.”
Li Shiqiang went back to the house and found out the remaining two hundred yuan from the last time he bought a gun. After leaving some odds and ends for himself, he took the two hundred yuan into the main room.
"I still have two hundred yuan here, plus today's fifty and the money I gave to mom before, it's almost five hundred."
He put the money on the table, and then continued: "When I sell the musk and the yellow tiger skin, I can get at least five hundred yuan back. There are also a bunch of herbs on the mountain behind that I can sell in bits and pieces. If you break it, you should be able to collect two thousand yuan."
Li Shiqiang had asked the old man before that it would cost at least two thousand yuan to build five blue-tiled houses.
Moreover, building a house is a long-term matter, and it takes at least a year to lay the groundwork.
There was still so much time, no matter what, it would be enough for him to get the money together.
The key is to secure the house early and start construction early.
Try to build it before the Chinese New Year, so that the family can live in it during the Chinese New Year, and he can also give Huang Yun a place to live.
"this...."
Listening to Li Shiqiang's words, Li Nongchang was also calculating in his mind.
He estimated that if he could come up with a thousand yuan first, it would indeed be enough for the initial consumption of five blue-tiled houses.
When building a house, the most expensive items are materials and workers.
If it is an adobe house, you can make the thatch and mud yourself, but you have to buy the tiles.
Just when Li Nongchang was about to nod in agreement, Chen Xianglan on the side suddenly asked: "Er baby, why don't you take the money and buy the things the Huang family mentioned?"
From the mother's point of view, her son's marriage is more important.
"Need not!"
Li Shiqiang shook his head and said resolutely: "Buy the house first, and don't worry about the things the Huang family wants."
Instead of using the money to meet the Huang family's outrageous conditions, it would be better to let the family live in a better house first.
He didn't believe it. When the Huang family saw him building five blue-tiled houses for their family, they dared to mention those outrageous conditions?
Chen Xianglan lowered her head and thought for a while, and finally agreed to build a house.
"If our family really builds five blue-tiled houses, I won't believe that the second baby can't find a wife based on his ability!"
After Chen Xianglan finished speaking with a proud look on her face, she immediately stood up and said to Li Nongchang: "Go and find someone to discuss building a house."
"good!"
Li Nongchang knocked on the cigarette pole and went out with a happy face.
Even if it was drizzling outside, it couldn't stop his excitement.
As soon as he walked outside, an acquaintance passing by praised him: "Li Paitou, your second son is so awesome. He beat the yellow tiger."
Li Nongchang smiled, but the expression on his face was a little unconcerned.
Not only did his second son have a yellow tiger, he also built five blue-tiled houses for the house.
In Jinsha Village, except for the Huang family of the village party secretary, most people live in adobe houses. If this were revealed, I am afraid that many people would praise his second son.
Forget it, forget it, don't say it yet, lest the second baby will become distracted after hearing so many good words.
Li Nongchang shook his head and continued on his way with a suppressed smile.
Just the way he walks makes him feel like something happy is happening.
...
After the old man Li Nongchang went out, Li Shiqiang also went to find the third and fourth children outside.
If I don't find it back, the can of sugar water given by others will be eaten by the youngest, and then I will have to drink sugar water.
"Erguo, are you awake?"
Xiao Xuemei raised her head in surprise when she saw Li Shiqiang.
"Um."
Li Shiqiang nodded slightly, and complained in a rare moment: "You are so old, and you are still playing in the mud."
It happened to be no time for school, and it rained again in spring. The rainwater was slowly flowing on the hillside next to Li's house, so Xiao Xuemei made an arch bridge with mud in front of her house.
"whee."
Xiao Xuemei smiled, grabbed another piece of mud and said, "Second brother, I saw Sister Yun coming up today."
Huang Yun is coming up?
"When?"
"It wasn't long after lunch."
It turned out that I slept until the afternoon.
When Huang Yun came up the mountain, she must have heard about him beating the yellow tiger last night, and couldn't help but worry to watch.
"Did you say anything to her?"
"As I said, I said you had a fever and were still sleeping, so she said she would come up after dinner in the evening to check on you."
"Okay, wash your hands and go back. Someone gave me an orange with sugar water, and the youngest is eating it. If you don't go back, nothing will happen."
"ah!"
When Xiao Xuemei heard this, she immediately rubbed her hands with rainwater, threw aside the newly completed arch bridge, and ran back quickly, shouting along the way: "Save some for me, leave some for me."
When Li Shiqiang returned home, he saw his eldest sister Li Shiying getting meat for his second aunt.
"Ah, Erba, you are getting better and better. You just killed five wolves some time ago, and you killed so much meat this time."
"This morning I heard from the villagers that you had killed a yellow tiger. We still didn't believe it. We didn't really see the yellow tiger until we came to your house after dinner." The second aunt smiled while holding the meat. praised him.
Li Shiqiang nodded with a fake smile on his face and asked: "Why is the second aunt here again? When you went to deliver meat that night, didn't you welcome us?"
Last time he took his mother to deliver meat to his grandfather and grandmother, but his second aunt laughed at him, and Chen Xianglan was so angry that she took him away directly.
"Ha ha...."
The second aunt smiled awkwardly, waved her hand in embarrassment and said: "I saw Gouwazi taking meat from your house on the road. I thought that your family must have too much meat to eat, so I even gave it to Gouwazi. .So I’m here to help you share the burden.”
"Er baby, what about the meat of the yellow tiger? I haven't tasted the meat of that thing. I just walked around your kitchen and didn't see it."
It is estimated that she was scolded by her mother Chen Xianglan last time and did not dare to mention the fur at all, but she did not forget to think about the meat of the yellow tiger.
"hehe..."
Li Shiqiang gave another fake smile, stepped forward, took the meat from Second Aunt's hand and said, "Second Aunt, the road is not going to be good this afternoon. I'll just deliver the meat to you in the evening."
"Eh... eh... no need!"
Before the second aunt stretched out her hand, Li Shiqiang had already entered the kitchen with the meat.
