Lin Meiyu nodded after hearing this. Their current room is big because so many people have to live on one kang, so the room must be built bigger.
And because the housing land may not be enough, it is not possible to build more rooms.
"Is our housing land big enough?" Lin Meiyu asked.
The homestead is the most important thing. If your homestead is not big enough, the house cannot be built so big. You also have to reserve area for the front and back vegetable gardens.
The size of the site determines the size of the house you can build.
Fortunately, when Tian Yuan just came of age, Tian Lisong applied to the village for all the surrounding residential land. He originally planned to build houses and divide the land among Tian Yuan and Tian Zhuo after they got married, but he did not expect that they would end up using the land for themselves.
"We don't have to worry about the homestead being too small to build a house."
After the two of them calculated the approximate amount of money needed, they began to discuss what they wanted the house to look like.
The two men discussed the business before finalizing the blueprint for building the house.
Tian Tian didn't know that they had been discussing building a house until so late, and she slept well without any care in the world.
In the next two days, Gu Zhao took Ge Huiyun and others to visit the entire team. They also went to the mountains and picked a lot of forsythia flowers.
It was not until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival, that everyone stopped and helped Old Lady Tian shake the Lanterns at home.
It was the first time for Ge Huiyun and the others to shake Yuanxiao. They were very curious about the process and gathered around Lin Meiyu to ask questions. They even shook a few Yuanxiao themselves.
Ge Huiyun has no talent for cooking, but Gu Shuyun is particularly talented in cooking and quickly got the hang of it. The Yuanxiao she shook out were very round, and the skin did not break after cooking.
"This black sesame Yuanxiao is so delicious!" Ge Huiyun was amazed after eating the Yuanxiao with black sesame filling.
The black sesame filling is fragrant and sweet. When you bite a small hole in the Yuanxiao, the filling will flow into your mouth. After eating a Yuanxiao, your mouth is full of the aroma of black sesame.
"Tiantian likes the one with black sesame filling the most. We have made it so many times that we know how to make it. This flavor is also the best." Lin Meiyu said with a smile, "If you like this flavor, you can take some more when you leave. Anyway, the weather is still cold now, so the Yuanxiao should be able to keep well."
"Then we won't be polite." Ge Huiyun said with a smile.
Lin Meiyu laughed even more happily after hearing this.
When Ge Huiyun and the others came, they brought a lot of things, including rice, flour, oil, and a lot of biscuits, malted milk, and canned food. So you brought so many things to show your sincerity to Tiantian, and also as food for them during their stay at the Tian family.
Even though Lin Meiyu racked her brains to cook some delicious food to entertain Ge Huiyun and the others, there was still a lot of food left from the food that Ge Huiyun brought.
Lin Meiyu didn't want to take advantage of Ge Huiyun and was thinking of bringing more food for Ge Huiyun. Now that she saw that Ge Huiyun liked to eat this Yuanxiao, she wanted to make another big bowl for Ge Huiyun to take away.
They bought tickets for the 16th day of the first lunar month, and Tian Tian would go directly with them at that time. Lin Meiyu also wanted to pack more food for Tian Tian to take to the provincial capital.
Lin Meiyu was extremely busy these days, wishing she could tear a person into eight pieces and use them. She was looking everywhere for something she could bring back for them.
Tian Tian swallowed the rice dumplings in her mouth and said, "Mom, please don't bring me too many rice dumplings. I can't finish them all by myself, and it's not convenient to cook in the dormitory. It would be a pity if they go bad. You can keep some for yourself to eat at home."
This pack of Yuanxiao (glutinous rice flour and rhubarb rice flour) is quite expensive. A bowl of Yuanxiao (glutinous rice flour and rhubarb rice flour) is quite expensive. If it were a few years ago, when their family was in hard times, they would not be willing to eat it. Each person would just eat two or three to taste it. How could they buy it in a pack or a big pot like now, freeze it outside, and then cook it slowly to eat.
Although this Yuanxiao thing is delicious, it is also greasy.
Every time Tian Tian cooks Yuanxiao, she is ambitious and wants to eat ten or twenty of them, but in the end she can only eat five. If she eats one more, she will spit it out.
"I've never seen a person like you before, kid. Yuanxiao is such a good thing. Others want to eat it but can't, but you still complain about it. If you don't want to eat it, then don't eat it. If you don't want to eat it, we can keep it for you to eat at home." Lin Meiyu said.
Tian Tian smiled, finished her Yuanxiao, and ran out to find Tian Yun and Shen Lingling.
Tian had started working in a factory in the county some time ago. Today was the Lantern Festival, so they had a day off. Tian Yun came back early in the morning and even came to find Tian Tian and asked her to go play with her in the afternoon.
Shen Lingling also took a day off because it was the Lantern Festival today and was preparing to come back to spend time with Niuniu.
Tian Tian thought about it and decided to talk to Shen Lingling and ask her if she wanted to go to Tian Yun's place.
As a result, when Tian Tian went there, Niu Niu had just fallen asleep. Shen Lingling asked her mother to look after Niu Niu, and then followed Tian Tian to find Shen Lingling.
"How's your business lately?" Shen Lingling said during the Chinese New Year that her business wasn't very good. How is it now?
"That's it. I can't sell it for much, but I can still make a little every day."
Shen Lingling's main source of income now is from wholesale sales of candied chestnuts. She can't make much money selling the candied chestnuts herself. But even if she doesn't make much money, Shen Lingling is unwilling to come back. She can't stand the life of staying at home and relying on this land to make money.
"I've been thinking recently about whether I can find another job. I can't make any money from selling candied chestnuts. If I ask Sister Lili for help, I can rent a house. Actually, I don't make much in a day." Shen Lingling said.
"Besides, the salary I pay Sister Lili is getting less and less. Instead of both of us taking care of this business, why don't I let Sister Lili do it while I look for another job."
"What other work are you going to do?" Tian Tian asked.
Nowadays, you can’t just do a job if you want to.
"I've been worried about this recently. What if I start working in the catering industry? But I can't get rice, flour, grain and oil. What if I start working in the clothing industry? The fabrics alone are enough to worry me. I've been thinking about it over and over again, but I still have no idea." Shen Lingling said.
There are many people working in the catering industry in their county now. Every morning, there are a lot of people lining up for meals. Shen Lingling is quite envious of them, but if she were asked to work on her own, she really couldn't find any job. She is capable.
Tian Tian nodded in agreement. She had been to the county town before and found that there were indeed many people setting up stalls to sell breakfast in the county town.
But most of those people are quite young, and they may have been in the black market before, so they have the ability to get all kinds of meat, food and the like. People like Shen Lingling who don't have any connections can do nothing.
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