Chapter 050 Chapter 50 New Home Planning

When most of the people had left, Zhang Zhiqiang came over to talk to Zhang Yuandong and his wife: "The team still has some dried adobe bricks. If you want to build a hut, you can take them from the team first, and then when you have time, you can return them after you have built them yourself."

During this period, Zhang Zhiqiang and his family helped them a lot. Zhang Yuandong was very grateful for his kindness and thanked them sincerely.

Zhang Zhiqiang smiled and said, "What's there to thank for? This is how everyone in our village builds a house! I checked the date, and tomorrow is the ninth day of the first lunar month, which is suitable for construction. This is the only good day in the past few days. If you want to move in early, you have to start construction tomorrow. Get it ready before the festival. It would be best if you move in on the fourteenth day. Then you can have a good holiday in your new home."

Although feudal superstitions were no longer allowed at that time, the almanac was still consulted for land and relocation in the village.

Zhang Yuandong and Lin Yue nodded in agreement, thanked them, and sent everyone away. Then they went to Aunt Zhang's house to pick up the two kids.

It was already very late, so the two said goodbye and went home without delay.

Aunt Zhang sent the two of them out the door and even pulled Zhang Yuandong to nag: "Yuandong, don't believe the nonsense of that troublemaker. I have been watching over Xiaoyue'er these years. She is such a good daughter-in-law. There is no one more obedient than her. Don't let a few words from others chill your daughter-in-law's heart!"

Zhang Yuandong used to call her "my wife" very smoothly, but now he felt embarrassed when he heard Aunt Zhang say that. His face was so red that it could be seen even when it was getting dark. He pretended to be calm and said, "Auntie, don't worry. I know what kind of person Lin Yue is. I won't believe what others say, and I won't let others say nonsense. If anyone dares to talk nonsense again, I will beat him to a pulp! Don't worry!"

After hearing this, Aunt Zhang nodded repeatedly and praised him: "You are right. You should love your wife well! If you keep putting up with her, people will think you are easy to bully. Okay, go back quickly, I will feel relieved now!"

After bidding farewell to Aunt Zhang, Lin Yue said with a smile: "Comrade Public Security, do you really want to beat me up? This is not good. You are breaking the law knowingly!"

Zhang Yuandong felt a little uncomfortable and secretly stroked his short hair twice: "Of course I won't break the law knowingly. Isn't this what Aunt Zhang likes to hear, so I told her!"

"Then how did you know where I was? And you also knew what Liu Aihua said. You are well-informed!"

Zhang Yuandong was no longer so embarrassed and even had the energy to joke with her. He looked at her meaningfully and said, "I ran into Zhang Xiaohui at the door of my house. She just came back from there. I thought you were bullied and rushed over. If I had known you were so good, I should have gone later so that you could show off more."

At this point, he suddenly paused, and recalled the first time they met, when she hit him with a stone.

He felt that Lin Yue was not stupid, but he was not willing to use his brain and preferred to just do things. His personality was a bit aggressive, but maybe because he was more protective of his children, he thought it was good this way and was not annoying at all.

Lin Yue didn't seem to notice him, but only noticed what he said: "Zhang Xiaohui? Isn't today Wednesday? Didn't she go to work? And she was so kind to come and inform you?"

Zhang Yuandong nodded and didn't say much.

In fact, Zhang Xiaohui didn't have good intentions. Every word she said was that Lin Yue was bullied, but every word sounded very meaningful. People who didn't know the truth would really think that Lin Yue had done something very indecent and was scolded. He didn't want to make Lin Yue feel bad, so he didn't say anything more.

Zhang Yuandong thought Zhang Xiaohui was quite interesting. This person was obviously so afraid of him before and had always been avoiding him, but now she was actively coming to him one after another and even wanted to show off her smartness in front of him. It seemed like she was a cat.

When they got home, Lin Yue saw Zhang Yuandong was about to light the stove again, so he quickly stopped him. If he used the stove to cook again at this time, no one would be able to sleep on the kang tonight.

Because it was already very late, she simply went into the space, picked some lentils from the space, and used the small earthen stove next to the big stove to make a brine soup. She also put the dried clams that Zhang Yuandong had sent back before, and added two eggs. The taste was very delicious.

By the time she had finished cooking the noodles, Zhang Yuandong had already taken the two children out to play in the yard. Although Lin Yue had only gone into the space to pick some vegetables, he was still afraid that the two children would see Lin Yue suddenly disappear and suddenly appear, and go out and say something, so he didn't let the two of them into the house.

In fact, Lin Yue would deliberately avoid the children before, but ever since the last food delivery incident, the two of them have developed a tacit understanding in the past few days. Whenever she wants to do something, Zhang Yuandong can always cover for her.

While eating, Lin Yue asked, "I saw a bag of something at the door. Is that cement?"

Zhang Yuandong nodded: "I asked someone to buy some for me. I'll be able to use them in the next few days."

Lin Yue's eyes lit up. Cement was hard to buy at that time. One had to queue up. "Then can you bring some more? We can lay cement floors in the house and also in the toilet."

As she said this, she was about to get up and take a pen and paper to draw for him. She had actually been planning how to renovate the house during this period and had already thought of several plans. Zhang Yuandong quickly stopped her and said, "Eat first, it won't be too late to look at it after dinner."

The two kids stared at them as they talked. Even though they didn't understand what they were saying, they still listened with great interest.

When Xiao Lingling heard what her father said, she seemed to understand something and pointed at her mother and said loudly, "Mom, don't eat properly! You can't play while eating!"

The two of them burst out laughing. Lin Yue touched Xiao Lingling's hair and said, "Okay, Mom knows I was wrong. Mom admits her mistake. Eat your meal well."

After dinner, Zhang Yuandong took the initiative to take over the dishwashing job: "You work very hard, and I can't help you with cooking, but I can do the laundry and dishes, so just leave it to me."

Lin Yue looked at him with admiration: "Not bad, your thoughts and awareness are very high!"

Most of the men she had seen in the village in recent years were very patriarchal. They could do the dirty and hard work at home, but they would never do cooking, washing dishes, doing laundry, or cleaning the house. If they did, they would be laughed at.

Zhang Yuandong is different. Ever since he came back a few days ago, he has never avoided these tasks and never felt that these are things he should not do.

Today Zhang Yuandong brought back a flashlight, and the two children were very curious. There was no electricity in the village, and only kerosene lamps were lit at night. There were very few families in the village who had flashlights, and the two children had long been curious. This time they finally touched the flashlight, and they simply couldn't let it go. They ran back and forth in the yard with the light on. Lin Yue watched for a long time before he realized that they were chasing the light on the ground.

She shook her head, feeling helpless, turned around and went into the house with Zhang Yuandong, drew a sketch and showed it to Zhang Yuandong.

She wanted to build the toilet like a dry toilet, digging a slanting passage in the pit that led to the outside of the wall, and then digging a feces pool outside the wall, smoothing it with cement, which would be beautiful and prevent leakage. In this way, there would be no need to worry about falling into the pit, and the feces pool would be outside, so the toilet would not be so smelly.

In fact, this type of toilet has already appeared, but because cement is not popular, if the slope is not smooth, the feces will not slide down easily, it will be very dirty, and in serious cases it will clog the toilet, so this type of toilet has never been seen in rural areas.

Zhang Yuandong had never seen such a design before. The army had public toilets, which were not much cleaner than those in the countryside. The open-air toilets in the countryside did not have such a strong odor. Public toilets were different. They were all enclosed spaces. Moreover, when it rained, the public toilets were easily flooded, and it was common for the feces in the pit to overflow.

He raised this question: "The manure storage tank is outside the wall. What if it rains? Will it get flooded?"

Lin Yue thought about it carefully and said, "The best way is to make a cement cover. Keep it on at all times and remove it when you want to take the feces out. Also, the cement cover is very heavy, so it is difficult for children to remove it and they will not fall into it easily."

Zhang Yuandong calculated that a lot of cement would be needed for building toilets and plastering the floor. "I'll go ask tomorrow. The supply of cement is not enough and it's not easy to buy."

Lin Yue nodded to show her understanding. At that time, the industry of Huaguo was not yet developed, and many materials were in short supply. It would be best if she could buy them, but she would not be disappointed if she could not.

What she valued most was the toilet. At that time, all the kitchens in the countryside used large stoves, so there was nothing to plan. She asked Zhang Yuandong what he thought, and Zhang Yuandong was not dissatisfied. He had a home of his own, which was something he had never thought of before.

After a while, someone will be arranged to protect Lin Yue and the children. This house is too small and there is no room for others to live. Moreover, he thinks it is too remote and unsafe for the three of them to live here, so he bought Uncle Zhang's house. Before this, even though he already had two children, he still had no idea of ​​setting up his own home. In the end, it was because his previous life was too hard, so he had no expectations for the word "home".

Now, as he listened to Lin Yue slowly planning the appearance of his new home, he suddenly felt a sour feeling in his heart, as if something had filled the empty space in his heart, and he suddenly had a beautiful yearning for his future home.

He calmed himself down and asked, "From what Uncle Zhiqiang said, we should go to the mountain to carry rocks tomorrow. It's hard work, so we need to cook more meals. See if there are any vegetables or meat missing at home. I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow morning to check."

Lin Yue: "You don't have to go to the supply and marketing cooperative. You can't buy anything decent in the supply and marketing cooperative in our village."

She thought for a moment and picked a rabbit from the space: "There is no shortage of meat, but I'll need your help in preparing it."

The rabbit was very fat, weighing at least ten pounds. Once it was out of the space, Lin Yue lost control of himself, and he broke free from his hands and started running around the room.