The matter was settled. The next day, everyone except the delivery and receiving personnel began to move things. They had already started sorting and packing after returning last night. The first thing they cleaned was the kitchen, moving everything from there to Chunxiao's place. Zhang then sat there and braised the meat wholeheartedly.
Outside, things were being transported one by one. On normal days, it seemed that there were not many things in the house, but when they started moving, they found that there were quite a lot of miscellaneous things. Two days was not a long time, and it took them just enough time to finish moving everything.
On the third day, Master Zhong arrived with his bricklayers. They reviewed the blueprints. The structure of the house Yan Dashan and Chunxiao were completely different. It was a flat layout, with a main room and two bedrooms to the left and right. Three sets of rooms were arranged, each with two additional rooms at the back, for a total of 15 rooms, not counting the kitchen. Chunxiao felt that his brother's approach, while simple and crude, was effective in one go. Shuwen was going to marry in two years, so preparations were inevitable.
Her eight rooms and yard cost a total of more than 68 taels of silver. Although his elder brother did not mention building a courtyard wall, the number of houses doubled, so he was afraid that the final eighty or ninety taels would be at least.
Master Zhong gave them a rough estimate of the materials they would need based on their drawings, so they could prepare them when they were building the house and laying the foundation. Because it was in the middle of the village, there were many more people watching the fun than at Chunxiao's place. Only the father and his two sons were watching the village side, so Chunxiao and his friends were focused on the end of the village.
On the last day of the month, because her brothers were busy, Chunxiao gathered her sister-in-law and mother to divide the money for the month. On the 30th, Tian and Zhang each received more than 65 taels, and Chunxiao received 87 taels. This not only covered her house construction expenses but also added more than 10 taels. Her savings reached over 230 taels, which was encouraging. Tian and the others followed suit and gave Chunxiao 300 wen to pay her workers.
Chunxiao distributed the money to the family and gave it to the two farmhands. Both of them had worked hard and had worked for nine more days. Chunxiao simply gave each of them 1 tael and 5 qian as a reward. Both of them were stunned. They actually earned 1 tael and 5 qian of silver in a month. Together with the money from their father, their monthly income was more than 2 taels, which was almost as much as the savings of the previous year.
Dongsheng had already paid back 400 coins, and this time he took the opportunity to pay back the remaining 600 coins.
"You guys worked so hard this month that you get this much. Next month it will still be 700 wen," Chunxiao reminded.
Both of them said they knew, "Don't worry, Chunxiao, we are not greedy. We will definitely work as hard as before."
Dongsheng looked at the house she had built and felt indescribable envy in his heart. After finishing the work, they both went home happily.
In early June, Chunxiao began to teach her family and Dongsheng how to top the cotton. No one understood what topping was. Why did they have to pinch off the top branches and leaves? How could the cotton grow after pinching them off? But Chunxiao asked them to do so and they had no choice but to do it. In addition to topping, they also had to top the sides. In short, it was very laborious. Now the weather was very hot, and staying in the cotton field every day was a very hard job. Everyone worked hard even though they were sweating profusely with their hats on.
After work that day, everyone lined up to take a shower. When she went to the utility room to get something, she remembered that there were not many marinade ingredients left at home, and they would probably only last for about half a month. She went to the village to find Yan Dashan and the others, and told them that it was time to go to the county town again.
Only then did they remember that it had been more than four months since their last shopping trip.
Several people got together to rearrange the work, and each family contributed 30 taels of silver. The next day, Yan Dashan set off with Shuwen.
The houses in the village are being built in full swing, and the cotton fields at the end of the village are also being worked on in full swing.
Zhang was afraid that she was really pregnant. She felt like vomiting at the slightest provocation and could not stand the smell of braised meat at close range. So Zhou asked her to feed the chickens and wash clothes and not let her do anything else. Tian was left alone to take care of the braised meat.
"I am really blessed by my brother and sister-in-law. I do the easiest work in the family." Tian not only had no objection to braising the meat by herself, but was a little embarrassed.
Chunxiao originally thought that Yan Dashan and his friends would be back earlier after their last trip to the county town, but this time they had to wait for five days before the ox carts arrived in the village. Two ox carts brought all the things back.
Zhou looked at the things in the car and said, "Why do I feel like there aren't as many as last time?"
"Mom, let's talk about it later in the house." Yan Dashan paid the taxi fare, and several people helped put all the things into the utility room. Then Yan Dashan sat down with Zhou and Chunxiao.
"This time, there are indeed fewer things than last time. Last time, each item weighed about 150 kilograms, but this time, there are only about 100 kilograms."
"Why?" This was too different, and Zhou was a little puzzled.
Yan Dashan sighed, "The price of medicinal herbs has gone up, and yet they still won't sell to me. I heard there's going to be a war in the north, and the herbal medicine merchants are planning to take their supplies north in a few days."
"War?" Chun Xiao was very sensitive to the word. War was brutal, and for sensitive businessmen, it was indeed a good time to make a fortune. "Brother, who told you that?"
"People in the city are saying that the north has a huge supply of supplies, especially medicinal herbs."
If a war really breaks out, it may take several years. Medicinal herbs are indeed scarce. Regardless of whether this is true or not, since there are such rumors, they must not be groundless. She has to prepare early.
"Brother, this news is important. We have to go find Dad and the others."
Seeing Chunxiao's serious expression, Yan Dashan knew that she was always far-sighted, so he followed Chunxiao to the village. After finding Yan Bangfa, Yan Dashan told his father and second brother what he had heard in the county. Unexpectedly, the two of them were so focused on the house that they didn't care about it.
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