Yu Qinniang took Aunt Mozi's words to heart and became even more motivated.
Her mother-in-law is coming back soon, and she wants her mother-in-law to smile happily when she returns home.
Yu Qiniang happily called her man:
"Husband, are twenty basins and fifteen buckets enough?"
Xu Laoer said that he had already made it, but the later ones were being dried.
It rains every day these days and the sun shines intermittently.
Yu Qinniang felt relieved and asked again:
"Husband, we need to dig out stone troughs to feed the caravan's mules and cattle. According to my fourth brother, at least six should be prepared horizontally on that side."
Speaking of these stone troughs, there was a period of time when neighbor Hao Yinhua and his family had tinnitus, and they said they had hallucinations, poor memory, confusion, and no numeracy. Hao Yinhua’s man, Yu Jiagun, even fell into a ditch while driving due to lack of sleep. Xu Laoer came here because of the stone, and the tiger's mouth was so shocked that it hurt.
"Husband, why don't you go up the mountain today? If you don't go up the mountain quickly to select wood, will you be able to make the cabinet later? If you can't make it, what will you use to put the dishes in the new shop?"
Xu Laoer thought to himself: My wife is cruel.
At present, no matter whether it is on the mountain or at the intersection of the village, there is a lot of mud everywhere. There are only two trolleys in the house, one is used at the new house, and the other is lent to the village to carry sandbags. How can he go from the mountain to the village? Hit the cabinet with wood on your lower back and pull hard with your shoulders, right?
Xu Laoer wanted to talk back, but he swallowed it back when it reached his lips.
He was afraid that his wife would say that he couldn't carry the trolley, and that's right, there were few trolleys at home. Husband, you should make them as soon as you have time.
He knew it well, did he need others to remind him of this? But this can’t be done the same way.
Xu Laoer could only continue to do the work at hand with some anger, pretending not to hear Yu Qinniang calling him.
He was currently measuring the size of the wood with a charcoal pencil pinned to his ear. The wood left over from building the house should not be wasted and could be used as pillars.
Xu Laoer wanted to build a corn granary in the front yard. The style of the granary was somewhat like a castle in the air. The column feet should be a certain height from the ground, about three feet high, and the bottom of the granary would be covered with cross braces.
It is best to find four slippery-surfaced waste jars and place them between the pillars to prevent mice from climbing up and gnawing on the grain. They are so slippery that they cannot climb up. As for the roof, he planned to use peeled birch bark to protect it from rain and snow.
If you want to build it as soon as possible, you can dump all the corn stored in the warehouse here and store it. There is too much accumulation in the warehouse at home.
When it gets cold and snowy, the moisture in the cellar is also allowed to dissipate. Potatoes, cabbages, and radishes that can be stored in the cellar are all stored in the cellar. This way, the home can be much more convenient. Only pickles, rice, flour, etc. need to be stored in the house and warehouse.
Otherwise, he would almost be unable to turn around because there were too many pots and pans in his house.
His mother said that she had to grow vegetables in the house during the winter, and her niece loved playing with flowers, plants, and earthenware pots. She didn’t know how many things she and her niece would bring with them on this trip. .
Xu Youliang was thinking about all the trivial matters of life, and he had actually put the cupboards on his agenda.
He thought that this afternoon, he would scrape and drag the birch bark used in the corn barn together while the bark was wet, and then use a bamboo tube to hold it in while working, and prepare some birch sap for his niece. Tian Xin was almost home, so he let his niece drink it while it was fresh.
But it doesn't mean that Xu Youliang has no objection to his wife.
On the contrary, the more Yu Qinniang pressed him in the back garden, the more he became angry and remained silent and did not reply.
Because he has a strong reason.
To be honest, he had been sulky for several days.
And regarding these things, Xu Laoer thought that he was justified in telling anyone.
First of all, following Yu Qinniang makes me want to go hungry for nine meals in three days.
He and his younger brother Youyin were almost exhausted from working every day, so they wanted to make something profitable. After all, as a person, the only thing I look forward to from sunrise to sunset is the dinner table.
Besides, I had already asked my mother to change the cooking method at home, and I was already hungry. The abrupt wife took over the cooking. Instead of giving the two brothers three wild vegetable pancakes with grass seed porridge, she spread soybean paste on the porridge with chopsticks and stirred it up. A salty and light flavor, just boil cabbage, sweet potato, steamed buns and pickle strips
Son, they didn’t even give me some chili oil.
To use the exact words Youyin whispered to him in private, my sister-in-law cooks cabbage like pig food. I always feel that she is pinching her nose and has to deal with us. I really don’t understand. It’s like we have to eat porridge with soybean paste. Doesn’t she know how to make soybean paste?
Xu Laoer scolded his younger brother on the spot. Wasn't that a waste of gas? Whoever adds oil to cook rice will make it taste unpalatable. Just tighten the waistband of your pants, why are you so greedy?
But in my heart I identify with my brother.
Even if his wife opened a restaurant like this, she would have to die.
And the second reason was the most unhappy reason in his heart.
As he mentioned the day before yesterday, he wanted to be naughty with his wife.
Unexpectedly, his wife said that again. She stared at him with big eyes and basically meant to hurt him and said, "My mother and my niece, old and young, may have suffered a lot of punishment outside to make money. You still have time to have fun. You should treat it as your own son." Why is it so big? If you are really filial, pull me down quickly. My thighs will hurt when you break them, which will affect my work. If I work less, my mother will come back and work more.
Well, after saying this, how can I feel naughty?
No wonder the weather had become sunny since the day before yesterday. It turned out that his wife had stopped the rain for him.
Maybe Youliang really doesn’t understand, what is the connection between filial piety and that? Let's keep my mother in mind, so we should eat and drink as we should, and the couple should sleep on the kang.
While Xu Laoer kept complaining about his wife in his mind, Yu Qinniang walked out of the house after frying two pots of fish floss and beating out more than a dozen fish noodle cakes.
Yu Qinniang changed out of her clean clothes, put on her matai clothes and put on her straw sandals, then came to the yard and started stacking straw rolls.
The so-called grass rolls are collected together with the fodder for mules and cattle collected from everywhere with copper plates these days.
There is ryegrass, sweet elephant grass, corn straw, and corn stalks.
We didn't spend much money in total, and there were many middle-aged children in the village and elders who were friends with the Xu family who helped cut the grass.
Yu Qiniang sometimes cooks a large pot of pear soup for half-year-old children to make people look for her carefully, and helps the elderly people with poor eyesight in the village to sew clothes when they wake up early in the morning to repay the favor.
But asking someone to cut grass for you is a favor in itself, and you can't always let it be delivered to your door. In the end, all these livestock grass were brought back because Qin Niang took the time to carry them back.
Her husband and brother-in-law had no time to care about these little things. Yu Qiniang never expected anyone to bring them back. Every day, her back was bent, either carrying firewood back to the pine tree tower or carrying fodder. Men cannot be counted on for these easy jobs.
Well, just carrying it back isn't enough. The house can't be piled up in a mess. Yu Qinniang has to use a wooden blade to loosen the straw first, then stack the straw blocks, and finally roll all the straw before storing it.
Then sell the paper to the caravan for money.
If you want your mules and oxen to be strong, otherwise they won’t be fattened and will have no energy to work, then boil beans in salt water and mix them with a roll of grass to eat, that’s another price. In short, if you save more fodder, you will get a lot of copper coins.
After Yu Qinniang finished stacking the straw rolls, she was covered in ashes. She wiped the sweat on her face with her arm and looked at Xu Laoer who ignored her: "Husband, did you hear? It's not just the cupboards and cabinets that need to be taken care of, you'd better chop them down." Some miscellaneous branches came back. My mother-in-law mentioned before that she would plant the last batch of celery roots and sell them to guests in the winter. We don’t have so many flower pots at home, so we might as well make them into wooden troughs and put some in them. If you have enough soil to plant these celery roots, it will be too late when my mother comes back."
After saying that, Yu Qinniang stopped talking to Xu Laoer and rushed to the new house to watch her uncle re-thatch the roof. Don't mention it, it was windy and rainy the past few days, and the new house is almost like a water curtain hole. It is like the kind of bathroom heater that my niece once mentioned, and I can stand in the house and wash my hair. So the roof needs to be re-roofed, and tiles need to be added. Zhao Dashan bought the tiles yesterday and helped deliver them to the door. This favor has not yet been paid.
And she didn't worry about Xu Youyin going up to the house to unveil the tiles alone. She could at least hand the things down below.
By the way, Yu Qinniang tied the sledge rope to herself and dragged a basket of gravel to the new house. These are all the good stones she has accumulated in her daily life. She can use them to pave the road in the courtyard of her new house. It is better to accumulate them slowly than to force her husband and brother-in-law to go to the mountains to dig out stones for paving the road.
Her man's hand had a lot of big cracks.
Xu Laoer looked at Feng Feng Huo Huo Li
Yu Qiniang opened her eyes and suddenly stopped being angry. His wife is also working hard.
Anyway, it’s going to be the end of the year, so I’m used to it.
