"Auntie, Liu Baogen wanted to play with us again today. He beat Xiao Anzi last time. We all hated him and stopped playing with him. He still wanted to beat us, but he was scared away by Maomao." Xiao Yu said at the dinner table Telling what happened today, Maomao was so scared that he peeed when he barked. It was so funny.
"Liu Baogen is so strong, unreasonable, and loves to hit people. If you take Mao Mao with you when you go out from now on, he won't dare to hit you. But don't ask Mao Mao to bite him, just scare him away." Xiao Ming instructed. , she knew that many couples in the village came to Xiao's house to work. It was okay for those with old people at home, and they could look after their children. Some did not, like the Wang family, where there were no old people at home, and the eldest son worked as a clerk in the city's horse and carriage business. Both she and her husband came to work at Xiao's house, leaving only their youngest son Tiezhu with no one to take care of them, so they had to bring the child with them and share their share with him during meals.
After Xiao Ming found out, she asked Wang and the others to cook more food for the children and let them lead Xiao Yu to play.
But Mrs. Liu is a top-notch person. She was clearly at home, but she actually let Wang Xiaohua shamelessly bring Liu Baogen to eat as a meal. This lasted for several days, every day. Come on, come on. Xiao Ming didn't bother to say, just let him go. .
But this Liu Baogen is really unlikable. Not only is he competitive and fights, but he also snatches food from other children when eating. He grabs whatever meat and steamed buns he sees. After Liu Daya and Liu Erdan came, I have never eaten meat or steamed buns again.
Liu Fugui and Wang Xiaohua did not object to their son's behavior. They even smiled and praised their son for his ability, and naturally ate the food their son grabbed.
The village chief was so angry that he could not speak. He warned him several times not to bring him again. Liu Erlang and his wife made a good promise, nodding and guaranteeing, but unfortunately they brought him again the next day.
Fortunately, there is not much grass left on the wasteland, and there will be no need to arrange for people to hoe the grass in less than two days.
After dinner, Xiao Han took Maomao to the construction site to look around and check. Now they couldn't sleep well at night. In the middle of the night, Maomao suddenly rushed out and screamed. He knew that this was a thief. , but it was all in vain. When Maomao screamed, people ran away, picked up things and left. No one could be caught, and no one knew who it was. Every time I came down, there would always be something missing from the construction site, either bricks or tiles. Xiao Han was a rogue, and in the end he had no choice but to lock the iron gate on the bridge.
The village chief can't do anything about it. There are always a few sneaky people in every village.
After the wasteland was completed, Xiao Ming paid off the wages. Ten cash a day, more than a dozen women, earned almost two hundred cash in more than half a month. The guys took the money and left with satisfaction.
Xiao Ming kept Liu Daya and Erdan to help, but Wang Xiaohua was not happy about this. She asked Xiao Ming several times to let her come, and she did better than those two people.
Although Xiao Ming rejected Wang Xiaohua, she was extremely thick-skinned. How could Xiao Ming's rejection stop her from walking rain or shine every day? Wang Xiaohua would come over every day at meal time, either to bring water or clothes to her husband-in-law. , there were all kinds of excuses, and they were not the same every day, and they made it clear that they were here to get a meal; Wang was so angry that he chased them away with a big spoon, and gave up after scolding them severely.
Xiao Ming was also convinced. Throughout the ages, top quality products have been everywhere.
After two months, stimulated by good food and rice, the group worked enthusiastically and with high ambitions. Finally, a three-in-one courtyard was built, but it took half a month of ventilation and dehumidification before Xiao Ming and his family could move in.
As early as a month ago, Xiao Ming had people start making furniture. She designed a lot of furniture styles herself. Wang's brother is an old carpenter. He has been a carpenter for decades and has superb craftsmanship. You can understand it by just looking at the drawings. To make the furniture novel and unique, Xiao Ming also specially hired a carving master in the city to carve patterns on the furniture, which makes it look exquisite.
After painting and drying, all the furniture is ready when the new house is completed, waiting to be moved in after dehumidification.
While waiting for half a month, Xiao Ming then arranged for people to reclaim the wasteland. Those with cows at home took their oxen to plow the land, while those without cows directly used hoes to dig, clean up the grass roots, and paved the land with small stones left over from building houses. Several roads came out, dividing the land into fifteen small plots, and all roads led straight into the field.
Everyone worked together and finally reclaimed the wasteland in the first two days of moving to the new house.
Xiao Ming planned to use this land to plant fruit trees and plant medicinal herbs under the trees. At Xiao Han's request, he set aside five pieces of land to grow vegetables for sale. According to him, he would sell vegetables to support the family in the future, and his sister would earn the money. They were all reserved for her sister's dowry. Xiao Ming smiled helplessly after hearing her brother's heroic words, and was extremely moved.
Xiao Han also specially asked people to dig two wells, one in the yard and one in the ground near the river. This will make it easier to water the ground in the future. However, digging wells is expensive, and one well costs twenty taels of silver. .
On the first day of the move, Master Wang brought his son and apprentice to move all the furniture into the new house. The new house was completely completed and was just waiting for the right time.
It was time to move into a new house at the 3rd hour of the 11th day of the 11th day of the lunar calendar. The whole family was so excited that they couldn't sleep. They packed their things and sat down to wait for the auspicious time to arrive.
As soon as Yinshi Sanji arrived, the family officially moved.
Xiao Han first moved the firewood, rice, oil, salt, pots and pans into the kitchen, lit a fire and boiled water, and took out the prepared glutinous rice balls. They were going to have their first meal in the new house, glutinous rice balls and glutinous rice balls, reunited.
Xiao Han asked Xiao Yu to burn the water to death, and he went to help his sister move things. In fact, they didn't have many things. They just had a few clothes and some old clothes. Xiao Ming planned to throw them away, but Xiao Han was used to thrifting. Reluctant to part with it.
There was a shabby wardrobe in the room where Xiao Ming slept. This was the room where the eldest brother and sister-in-law used to sleep, and Xiao Ming had been using it ever since.
There were not many things, so the two of them moved them all in one trip. The furniture in the new home was all packed by Xiao Ming later. All the old furniture was left in the old house.
Xiao Han took a look at the thatched hut. There were memories of his childhood here. At that time, his eldest brother taught him how to read and calligraphy, and his eldest sister-in-law taught his sister how to embroider. At that time, he was carefree, innocent and happy, and taught him everything in class every day. I share things with my elder brothers and sisters-in-law, and they always laugh.
"Brother and sister-in-law, we have built a new house now. I will take good care of my sister and Yu'er in the future. Rest in peace." Xiao Han turned around and went back to his new home. The three of them and one dog happily ate their first meal in the new home. A reunion dinner.
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Liujia Village is particularly lively today, everyone is dressed decently, and many women even take out their treasured jewelry, dress themselves up beautifully, and the man in charge leads the elderly and children out to the east of Qiaodong. Today is the day for the Xiao family to move and entertain guests. They all want to see the Xiao family's newly built house. The green brick house and the three-door courtyard are the only ones in Liujia Village.
Of course, in addition to looking at the only house in the village, it was also for the sumptuous moving banquet. I didn’t want to go to the moving banquet empty-handed, so each household took something.
