Chen Shanhe glanced at Jiang Shiyue indifferently, "Husband and wife share the same hardships. I am an unfilial son and you are a wicked daughter-in-law. We are a perfect match. No one should laugh at the other."

"Who would want to be with you?" Jiang Shiyue blushed and shook her head, refusing to "go along with the crowd." "You said I'm just a passerby, I'll be here for a month or two and then leave, I can't hear them scolding me. You're different, you were born and raised here, and the people who scold you are all people you know."

"It doesn't matter." Chen Shanhe closed the gate and walked back. "For the past three years, I've been talked about every day."

Jiang Shiyue: “…”

She had heard how Yao Tengfei and others laughed at Chen Shanhe.

Those words are much more hurtful than these trumped-up charges.

Jiang Shiyue looked at Chen Shanhe's back and smiled slowly.

Fortunately, his mental illness has healed and he will be able to fly again when he returns.

He shouldn't be stuck in the house fight or in the repair camp.

It's not that the repair battalion is bad, it's just a waste of his talent.

**

After signing and sealing in public, even Chen Jiadong acknowledged that the house belonged to Chen Shanhe and stopped making a fuss.

The renovation of the earthen house was officially put on the agenda.

In fact, renovating a mud house is as troublesome as rebuilding a new one.

Jiang Shiyue actually also thought about rebuilding two brick houses.

She had also discussed with Chen Shanhe that building two brick houses would only cost a few hundred yuan, and she could afford it.

Chen Shanhe disagreed, saying that it was unreasonable for him to ask his wife to pay for building a house after he got married. The key point was not who paid, but that their time at home was limited and they did not have time to build a house.

"Another reason is that building a new house requires new land, and my parents are old and don't want to move."

Jiang Shiyue knew that many elderly people were conservative, so she nodded and said, "You are very thoughtful."

Chen Shanhe took Jiang Shiyue's hand and said sincerely, "Yueyue, thank you! I'm very happy that you treat my parents so sincerely."

I wish to win the heart of one person. Not only do we not need to be apart until we grow old, but I also hope we can share the same father and mother.

With his elder brother's experience as a lesson, Chen Shanhe was actually very resistant to the idea of ​​getting married.

Chen Caifeng alone has caused unrest in the entire Chen family for many years.

It was just because of responsibility that he was forced to marry Jiang Shiyue, who framed him.

In the past three or four years, Jiang Shiyue never went back to the village with him during vacation, and he never mentioned it.

He was afraid that Jiang Shiyue, who was even more arrogant than Zhao Caifeng, would anger his parents to death as they were already in poor health.

Fortunately, when he was in despair, Jiang Shiyue seemed like a different person.

Not only is she a good mother and wife, but she is also a good daughter-in-law.

Jiang Shiyue had no idea what Chen Shanhe was thinking, so she waved her hand disapprovingly, "You're just a couple! No need to be so polite. Besides, I can't help much with renovating the house, you'll be the one doing the hard work."

Chen Shanhe nodded and chuckled, "Okay, I'll be responsible for the work, and you'll be responsible for supervision."

**

Chen Shanhe took Yangyang and moved everything out of the old house one by one.

Jiang Shiyue sat in a hammock under the shade of a tree, chewing a watermelon and watching the father and son coming in and out, and sighed: "Don't say it, Yangyang works like a normal child."

He is always too mature for his age.

Wu Xiu'e was sitting on a hammock sewing shoe soles. She looked up when she heard this.

Yangyang was staggering across the threshold holding a small bamboo basket.

Wu Xiu'e subconsciously stood up and shouted, "Yangyang, be careful!"

Fortunately, Yangyang got out safely.

Wu Xiu'e breathed a sigh of relief, then turned around and scolded Jiang Shiyue in dissatisfaction, "You are such a generous mother. Yangyang is only three years old, and you let him work?"

Jiang Shiyue spread her hands, "Auntie, you see, I am the injured, and you are not in good condition, and the old man can't move. The uncle and nephew have gone to work. There are only these two men left at home, what can we do if they don't work?"

Wu Xiu'e choked, knowing she couldn't win the argument with Jiang Shiyue, so she turned to scold her son, "Shanhe, let Yangyang rest!"

Chen Shanhe brought out the wooden box. He glanced at Yangyang and shook his head. "Mom, children need to do more work to grow taller! Didn't you always say that to me before? You also said that so-and-so's child was already carrying manure at the age of three."

Wu Xiu'e: "..."

After hitting two snags in a row, he turned around and complained to Chen Dingguo, "Dad, you should take care of this kid."

Chen Dingguo raised his palm-leaf fan and fanned Wu Xiu'e twice. "Look at you, you get angry easily. Those who know you are a generation apart, while those who don't think you are a wicked mother-in-law!"

Wu Xiu'e: "..."

He rolled his eyes at Chen Dingguo, then looked at Jiang Shiyue who had closed her eyes and was dozing off. He sighed and said to Chen Dingguo, "You've been smiling more since your youngest son came back. But your youngest son will have to return to the army sooner or later, and Zhao Caifeng will be back too. When she finds out that you gave the house to Chen Shanhe and his wife, she'll make a scene!"

"Today isn't over yet, why think about tomorrow? If the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up. We're old now, and we can't take care of anything. We can just watch from the sidelines. Don't you agree, Miss Shiyue?"

Jiang Shiyue uttered a short "huh," "Old man, I can hear your calculations clearly from such a distance. You just want to watch the fun, but you insist on the consent of the parties involved. Isn't that a bit too much?"

Chen Dingguo was so happy that he laughed out loud.

Wu Xiu'e looked around in confusion, not understanding what these two people were talking about.

I only know that Chen Dingguo has been really happy these days. He gave away a house, signed a mortgage, and is happily eating and sleeping well.

Wu Xiu'e shook her head. "Never mind, never mind. They are both so old, how many days can they live? How can they not live to the bitter end?"

**

After cleaning up the old house, Chen Shanhe first polished the original rough earth wall to make it as smooth as possible, and then brushed it with a layer of fine mud to make the wall as smooth and flat as possible.

While waiting for the fine mud layer to dry, Chen Shanhe used the leftover adobe bricks from building a side room at home to separate a bathroom and a kitchen according to Jiang Shiyue's idea.

However, the kitchen did not use a gas stove as Jiang Shiyue suggested, but instead built a new stove.

It is very cold here in winter, and people burn kangs to keep warm.

The stove eye is connected to the earthen kang. You can boil a pot of hot water to wash your feet and warm the kang, so you won’t feel cold when sleeping on it.

In fact, the bathroom is just an extra space for a chamber pot and is very different from a normal bathroom.

Their production team had no running water and no flush toilets. Furthermore, the back of their house was next to their neighbor's yard, making it unsuitable for digging a manure pit.

Even so, it is more convenient to have a bathroom. At least you don’t have to go to the bathroom in the dark in the middle of the night to empty the chamber pot because of the smell.

The living room and bedroom are much cleaner.

Chen Shanhe knocked down half of the earthen kang and then rebuilt the edges.

Next is to buy paint.

Jiang Shiyue doesn't quite understand the difference between current paint and future porcelain, latex paint, etc.

I just know it's very cheap, two dollars for a big bucket.