Chapter 12 My Aunt is Here

"Congratulations, brother and sister-in-law, you have accomplished another great thing." Gu Yan's aunt came with Gu Yan who reported the news.

Although the village chief she married lived at the foot of the mountain and was only a day's journey away by taking a shortcut, she, a woman, did not dare to go into the mountains alone.

"Little sister, you're here? Come in quickly. How come you came here by yourself? Where's your brother-in-law? Why didn't you bring the child?" Zhang Dahua warmly welcomed her sister-in-law in.

"Don't be offended, sister-in-law. Landlord Zhang's family needs temporary workers, and Dazhuang has gone to work. He has been gone for several days. Saner's date is urgent, so there is no way to notify his uncle." Aunt Gu explained apologetically.

"It's okay, I don't blame you. This happened a little suddenly. I'm very happy that you can come." Zhang Dahua said, holding her sister-in-law's hand.

"Sister-in-law, I hope you don't blame me. By the way, what did my second brother and the others say? Are you coming?" asked Aunt Gu.

"He said he wouldn't come, but he brought me some gift money. I guess it's his wife who doesn't want him to come again." Zhang Dahua said unhappily.

"I don't even want to talk about my second sister-in-law. A few days ago, I went to town to buy something and passed by a restaurant, so I wanted to go in and see my second brother.

As a result, Wang Jinhuan's nose was not a nose and her face was not a face, as if I was a beggar.

The same goes for my second brother. When I went there, he didn't even ask me to have a meal at his place.

Forget it, it’s better not to talk about them and not come.

Let’s talk about the girl San’er is going to marry.

"Sister-in-law, I heard from the third brother that this girl got lost in the mountains and was rescued by him? How could such a healthy girl go into the mountains?"

"Yes, Wanqing was a maid in a wealthy family. Later, her master showed mercy and allowed her to redeem her indenture and return to look for her relatives. However, her family had just moved away.

Later, he strayed into the woods and was rescued by his third child. This was also the fate of the two children," said Zhang Dahua.

"Hearing you put it that way, it really is fate. Our third child is also blessed. I think the old saying that it is better to marry a maid from a wealthy family than a girl from a poor family is still true.

At least the maids in wealthy families usually know a few words and are well-mannered. We farm girls can’t compare,” said Aunt Gu.

"You're right. Wanqing has lived in a wealthy family before, so she's smart. You didn't see how neatly they cleaned up the cave.

Even though the items are the same, she is so comfortable just looking at them. She is also very skilled, whether it is making clothes or cooking.

I even want Xiang Yatou to learn from her." Zhang Dahua also praised her non-stop.

"Now that you mention it, I really have to go over there and take a look. Come on, sister-in-law, take me to have a look." Aunt Gu pulled her sister-in-law and was about to leave.

Seeing that her sister-in-law wanted to go, Zhang Dahua did not refuse. Today, Zhang Cuihua and Li Yingdi were there helping to pack up and prepare things for tomorrow.

If she hadn't been waiting for her sister-in-law, she would have gone there long ago.

When they got there, the cave had already been decorated, with big red wedding characters pasted on the door and windows.

Zhang Cuihua and her two daughters were picking wild vegetables in the wooden house, which they would eat tomorrow.

Zhang Cuihua was facing the door. When she saw Zhang Dahua and Gu Xiaogu coming, she quickly came out to greet them: "Mom, is my aunt here?"

"Well, Cuihua, you go and do your work. I'll take your aunt in to take a look." Zhang Dahua said.

"Sister-in-law, this wooden house is really nice. It's newly built, right? This wooden house is not much worse than a brick and tile house." Aunt Gu said as she looked at the wooden house in front of her that was built with wood as thick as her arm.

The wooden house is built with wood as thick as an arm.

It sounds simple, but it is actually not easy to build a wooden house.

The first thing to do was to find four thick logs and bury them deep in the four corners. To ensure the structure was strong, Li Wanqing asked Gu Yan to find four large trees with a diameter of about ten centimeters and cut them down.

Moreover, the burial depth is deep enough, two meters, to ensure that no matter how strong the wind and rain are, the wooden house will not shake at all.

Li Wanqing also designed the roof based on what she had seen online. She first laid two layers of wooden boards and then a thick second layer of thatch.

On top of the thatch was a layer of large leaves unique to the mountains, which looked like the palm leaves in the south, but were thicker and larger than palm leaves. Gu Yan said that this was called the palm tree.

The top layer is covered with yellow mud mixed with chopped thatch.

Li Wanqing also asked Gu Yan to spread a layer of palm leaves outside the wooden house, and then covered the leaves with a layer of yellow mud. This was also to keep warm in winter.

Moreover, Li Wanqing left a large window in this wooden house, so the lighting in the house is particularly good.

If we build a kang here, it won’t be cold even in winter.

After looking at the wooden house, Zhang Dahua took Gu Xiaogu into the cave.

"Wow, this cave looks much tidier after being cleaned up like this." Gu Xiaogu looked at the cave and exclaimed in admiration.

Gu Xiaogu also grew up here and knows what the cave originally looked like.

Li Wanqing was sewing a quilt on the kang. This was her first marriage in two lives, so she could tolerate everything else, but the quilt had to be new.

Gu Yan spent a lot of money to buy the cotton and quilt cover. It is worth mentioning that Gu Yan also bought a lot of seeds for her.

There are cotton seeds, wheat, and rice. There are not many of these three, only a small bag of each, about half a pound.

Don’t underestimate the amount. It cost a lot of money. Just these few things cost two taels of silver.

When Gu Yan bought it, he felt heartbroken, but since this was his future wife's request, he had to buy it even though he felt bad.

Li Wanqing was also shocked when she learned the price. She knew that ancient seeds were expensive, but she didn't expect them to be so expensive.

Even if it was expensive, she had to buy it. The land in her space couldn't be left empty. She had to buy food in the mountains. And most of the food she ate was coarse grains. She didn't want to eat sore-sour sorghum rice every meal.

She had already planted all the seeds at night.

Today she took the time to take a look and saw that the seeds had already grown into tall seedlings.

She thought that the time in space was synchronized with the outside world, and that planting crops should also be the same as the time outside.

Now she found out that she was wrong. The seeds she planted last night sprouted this morning, which would be impossible outside.

Although she couldn't be sure how many months it would take for the crops to mature, it was definitely shorter than outside.

But that is all in the future. Right now she is making bedding for her husband.

Seeing Zhang Dahua and Gu Xiaogu come in, Li Wanqing put down her needlework and came over to greet them: "Auntie, you're here."

"Wanqing, this is Gu Yan's aunt, you can just call her aunt." Zhang Dahua said.

"Hello, aunt. There are no chairs at home. Auntie and aunt, please sit on the kang." Li Wanqing entertained the guests generously.

Gu Xiaogu was very satisfied with Li Wanqing's graceful and elegant performance. She was worthy of being a maid from a wealthy family. Not to mention anything else, her demeanor was incomparable to that of ordinary girls from farming families.

"My sister-in-law said your name is Wanqing, so I will call you Wanqing too.

Wanqing, what are you doing?"