Jiang Tangtang drew the smaller house first.
These are families like Gao Shumei's, where there aren't many able-bodied members.
After receiving their individual house number bamboo tags, everyone eagerly went to find their own houses.
This house was built through everyone's joint efforts. I've actually seen it countless times before.
But when they looked at the houses they had been allocated, many people felt as if they were seeing them for the first time, carefully touching the brick walls and thinking about what furniture they would buy and how their families would divide the space.
The villagers were overjoyed, and some even touched the brick wall, shedding tears of happiness.
On the makeshift platform, the children continued drawing lots to allocate houses. After the first batch was drawn, the second batch began. These were all medium-sized houses, for families with more members.
In some families, the head of the household draws the lots, while in others, they discuss and choose the family member with the best luck to draw the lots.
Soon, the second size category was also exhausted. Only the largest houses remained.
Both the Jiang and Lu families should be allocated this type of housing.
Although Jiang Tangtang represented the Valley Master in presiding over the house allocation ceremony, the Lu family members received the same houses as everyone else.
The Lu family drew number three, so it was their turn to go up on stage and draw lots. After discussing it, the Lu family unanimously decided that Jiang Tangtang would represent the Lu family in drawing lots.
The Jiang family actually wanted Jiang Tangtang to help with the drawing of lots, but they felt it was inappropriate, so in the end, Jiang's father drew the lots instead.
In fact, when Jiang Tangtang designed the houses, in order to be fair, the houses of the same level were almost the same size, and the only difference was the location.
People were very conflicted before the lottery, but after receiving their houses, they all felt that their houses were better the more they looked at them.
The housing allocation went smoothly without any conflicts.
Another thing worth mentioning is the place where Jiang Tangtang and Lu Shiyan brought back the children to live in the valley.
Unlike the group Liu Chengjun brought to seek refuge with Lu Shiyan, these children had little labor capacity and couldn't contribute much to building the earthen fortress. According to the principle of fairness, they wouldn't have been allocated any houses.
But Jiang Tangtang couldn't just abandon them after bringing them back to the valley. Besides, she was the one who brought them back, so she felt she bore some responsibility.
So he took it upon himself to design a large dormitory for the group of children. Although so many people were crammed together, at least they had a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
In addition, an extra room was built in the earthen village but not allocated. This room was reserved by Jiang Tangtang as a school, intended for the children in the valley to use for classes once things stabilized.
However, given the current situation, the most important thing is to solve the problem of food and clothing. The matter of setting up a school can be put aside for now.
After the houses were allocated, Jiang Tangtang, like the other villagers, went to see her own house.
The Lu family all thought Jiang Tangtang had great luck, drawing a particularly good position.
The house the Lu family drew was located at the westernmost end of the earthen fortress. There was a lot of open space there, and the Lu family thought it would be convenient to build additional houses on the side when they had the means.
Even if there's no way to build a new structure now, it would be good to dig out the land next to it and use it as a private plot to grow vegetables or something.
Jiang Tangtang didn't feel any joy about this position. In her opinion, she definitely wouldn't live here when the conditions were right.
She needs to find a plot of land in the valley to build a small villa.
But that's all for the future. Given the current situation, she certainly doesn't have the energy to work on any small villas.
For the villagers, the focus was on stockpiling as much food as possible during the autumn season. But for Jiang Tangtang, she had to organize a team to establish a weapons research and production group.
The primary task is to research and develop the bombs to enhance the overall combat effectiveness of Puzhou.
Only if Puzhou is saved can their valley be safer.
"Mother, is this our home from now on?" Lu Chenyan's voice pulled Jiang Tangtang back to reality. She looked at her son and smiled, "Yes, Xiaoyan, do you like it?"
Lu Chenyan observed the house with his big eyes and said, "I like it! This house is brighter than our old one."
While Su was discussing with Old Man Lu how to divide the house, she heard her grandson's words and immediately grinned and said, "Of course it will be brighter than the old one, this is a brick and tile house."
She never dreamed she would live such a good life.
This is all thanks to the third daughter-in-law.
If it weren't for the third daughter-in-law being enlightened by a deity, taking on a disciple and bringing good fortune to their family, the third son would never have had that luck, and would have even become an official outside the family.
With that thought in mind, she stopped worrying about how to allocate the rooms and directly said to Jiang Tangtang beside her, "Sanlang's wife, which room would you like to stay in? I'll have your two brothers help you move the bamboo bed over there."
When Jiang Tangtang designed the house, she hoped to shorten the construction time as much as possible, so the interior space of the house was relatively large.
The interior can be divided into rooms using bricks according to one's own needs.
Jiang Tangtang first explained the plan for partitioning the house, and then said, "Parents don't need to worry about the furniture. I collected some old ones in the city before, and I'll have my husband send them back when I have time."
She had previously used the space to collect a lot of cabinets, tables, chairs and other furniture.
In preparation for her journey to Baiyue, she took out all these items and, along with the grain she had obtained from the Western Rong army, placed them in the warehouse that Lu Shiyan had found.
Just find a time to put the things back into the space and bring them back.
Thinking about the furniture and food, Jiang Tangtang felt even more that the more space the better. If there was enough space, there would be no need to worry about not having enough room; she could take those things out in advance and put them elsewhere.
With that in mind, she no longer hesitated and exchanged all the points she earned from building the earthen village for usable space.
Madam Su said happily, "Your eldest and second brothers had also collected a lot of wood before, saying they wanted to keep it to make furniture. But it was too slow for them to make it. It's perfect that you were able to bring furniture back from outside."
Jiang Tangtang said, "Let's use the timber that our eldest and second brothers collected earlier to make the door! Let's build the gate first and then move the grain over."
Madam Su nodded and said, "Yes, what Sanlang's wife said makes sense. Let's fix the door first."
Not only the Lu family, but other families in the village were also thinking about building a gate.
The houses in the earthen fortresses do not have doors.
Everyone has to figure these things out themselves after they receive their houses.
Besides Lu Shichang, there are several other men in the village who are skilled in carpentry.
Some families used their leftover grain to find a carpenter to make a door, while others simply wove a bamboo door to block the entrance and made do for the time being.
As for the door, I plan to consider it later when I have more surplus food. For now, I'll go to the mountains to gather wild produce, such as kudzu root and fern root.
There are plenty of kudzu roots in the valley; you can dig up a whole basketful without even going into the mountains.
Besides kudzu root, the fruit of the oak tree is also very popular among the villagers.
The villagers call the fruit of the oak tree "Qinggangzi". In the past, when the villagers did not encounter disasters, they liked to go into the mountains to pick it. They could make tofu and eat it as a vegetable, or use it as food.
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