After the village was marked out, Li Chenyang and his brothers started to tidy it up, and they also had to find people to haul soil to fill the village.
Compaction was done manually, without the machines used later on. It was incredibly laborious.
After a month of work, Li Chenyang also asked his close friends and brothers to come and help.
He had helped Zhou Kuan a lot in the past, from building his house to getting married, and for all sorts of big and small matters, Li Chenyang always took his third and fourth sons with him. Now he was just too busy to help.
This also allowed Li Chenyang to see Zhou Kuan for who he really was. When it came to drinking and playing cards, he was a good friend, but when it came to serious matters, he would make excuses, saying he had something to do, that he was busy at home, and that he had been scolded by Ye Xiaoxiao and was in a bad mood, so he just wouldn't come.
Ye Xiaoxiao was very enthusiastic about building her own house, and she cooked all the meals for the past month.
There were cabbages and radishes growing in the field, and I also bought a big bag of potatoes. Potatoes were very cheap these days, only three cents a pound, so the bag weighed about sixty pounds. I also bought some pickled vegetables.
The dishes were ordinary, but Ye Xiaoxiao had MSG. These days, MSG isn't even used. Everyone thought the dishes with MSG tasted better.
"My sister-in-law's cooking skills are absolutely amazing. After eating her cooking, I feel like my meals at home don't taste very good."
Wang Chao, son of village doctor Wang Ping, was eating his vegetables heartily.
"Even the pickled vegetables taste better than what I make at home."
"Eat more if you like it. You've really worked hard."
“Red Army soldier, you should eat some vegetables too. There’s more if you’re not full.”
Sun Hongjun and Li Chenyang grew up together and have an exceptionally close relationship.
It was this Sun Hongjun who later lost money by contracting out projects.
He's still full of vigor now, but what's driving his wife crazy is that he's driven her to the brink of a mental breakdown.
"Yeah, don't worry about it, I'm eating."
They only built four mud-brick houses, which took half a month to complete. However, after they were built, they still needed to let them air out properly.
Ye Xiaoxiao also looked around with her child in her arms. There were two rooms on the left and right in front of her. Ye Xiaoxiao deliberately had them open a large window on the side of one of the rooms. She planned to use this room as a storeroom after she could start doing business next year.
You'll see the merchandise as soon as you enter. The other room is where they live, and there are two smaller rooms behind it; one is used to store miscellaneous items, and the other is used as a kitchen.
The central yard is quite large. You can raise pigs, sheep, and even a dozen or so chickens, so you'll have eggs to eat later.
The actual move didn't take place until November, when it was already cold.
However, a new kang (heated brick bed) has been installed in the house and has been heated for half a month, so it's not cold to live in.
On the day they moved, they still invited relatives and friends over for a meal.
People also brought her some food and small gifts. Ye Xiaoxiao was very happy; she finally had her own home. She was sure things would get better and better from now on.
Right after the move, it started snowing. Ye Xiaoxiao had thought the system was gone, but it suddenly came back to life.
【Hello, host!】
"Holy crap, Tongzi, I thought you were dead, you're still here?"
Li Chenyang isn't home, and there isn't much firewood at home right now. He's been going back to his parents' place to get firewood for the past two days.
He'll use it this year, and then he'll go up the mountain to chop firewood next spring.
[Host, what are you talking about? My upgrade just took a little longer than usual; it won't take this long next time.]
[What did you upgrade? Tell me. Oh, by the way.]
Ye Xiaoxiao suddenly remembered that she had completed a task before, and the system had upgraded. What about her reward?
What was my reward for the last mission? Don't try to get away with it.
Last time, uh, I rewarded you with a black and white TV!
[A black and white television set!!]
To be honest, although black and white TVs were a rarity these days, they were of little use to Ye Xiaoxiao. Before she transmigrated, everyone had a mobile phone, so no one watched those big-screen smart TVs anymore.
If we give her a black and white television now, she can't use it right now. She'll have to wait a few years.
"Um, you might as well give me a few hundred yuan, can I have it in cash?"
The system directly rejected the request.
Ye Xiaoxiao took out the stroller she had given her as a reward, put a diaper on her son, and then pushed the stroller to the kitchen to start tidying up.
Hey Tongzi, next time get me a complete kitchen kit! Dishwasher, steel wool, dishes, plates, all sorts of seasonings—give me everything! The new kitchen is so lacking!
Their large iron pot was newly bought; it cost 30 yuan per pot. They bought two.
When she said she wanted to buy two pots, her mother-in-law thought it was wasteful, saying that there were only two of them, plus the child, making three people in total, so why did she need two big pots?
One pot isn't enough; we need to boil water for the other one. In this cold weather, the water is always icy in winter; her little hands are going to suffer.
They also bought two new kettles, which they didn't have when they got married. They said they had them at home, but now that they're moving, they're not bringing them for her.
She added water to the pot, preparing to cook noodles for Li Chenyang later. With only basic cooking skills, she could easily manage this.
Li Chenyang has been building a shed next to the kitchen these past two days, intending to use it to store firewood.
"Xiaoxiao, what is this?"
As soon as Li Chenyang entered the kitchen, he saw a baby stroller. He had never seen one before.
Seeing that there were wheels underneath, they tried pushing it. Hao Hao, inside the toy car, felt the car move and giggled happily.
"Oh, this is a baby stroller, it's specially designed to soothe babies," Ye Xiaoxiao explained.
"Where did it come from? I've never seen it before."
Li Chenyang looked on in surprise. This little car could turn corners at will. He pulled the little car around the yard.
"Oh, this is great, really good."
"What a country bumpkin! It's just a baby stroller, why is he making such a fuss about it?"
Ye Xiaoxiao quietly complained to the system.
【Host, think of a way to explain to him how this car came to be.】
Ye Xiaoxiao's eyes darted around. She immediately made up a lie for Li Chenyang:
"My brother sent it to me. He said they couldn't come, so he specially bought imported goods at the Foreign Trade Building. It cost..."
Ye Xiaoxiao thought that this car would generally cost two or three hundred yuan in later generations.
"It's over eighty yuan." Eighty yuan should be acceptable now, right?
"Your older brother is so good to you!"
Upon hearing that it was from his wife's family again, Li Chenyang chuckled foolishly. This brother-in-law is really generous.
When I have money in the future, I should give my brother-in-law a gift in return.
"Of course! I'm your only sister, and I've even come all the way here. You should be grateful!"
"I'm warning you, if you don't treat me well from now on, I'll take Hao Hao and go straight back to my parents' house, and I'm never coming back. You'll be a bachelor all by yourself."
"Don't keep talking about going back to your parents' home. It makes me uneasy when you keep bringing it up."
Li Chenyang felt that it was better to separate the families; their little home together was much more comfortable.
At least I won't have to face my mother and wife arguing every day over trivial matters anymore.
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