Chapter 110: Building a New House
Baoya and Yunyue walked into the main hall hand in hand, and saw her two uncles and aunt, second brother and third sister, all gathered in a circle in the main hall, yawning and rubbing their eyes.
Even my father and mother had rushed back from the town, and they hadn't even taken off their coats yet.
Baoya blinked her eyes. What big news is grandma going to announce?
Zhao Zhilan sat next to the small table, and seeing them yawning from sleepiness, she smiled.
"You've all been very hardworking and diligent during this period, and we've saved quite a bit of money. I think it's time to renovate our house."
As soon as she said this, everyone woke up immediately, their black eyes widening.
"Mom, building a house? Really?" Yun Dalang rubbed his eyes hard, even feeling like he was still asleep.
Zhao Zhilan nodded. "We have such a huge supply of tofu and pudding right now. Grinding it with just that stone mill is both time-consuming and laborious."
"I'm planning to build a separate mill. If we don't have enough manpower, I'll find two people from the village to help your family grind beans and make tofu."
"But if we build a mill, we don't have much space left at home. So we might as well build the house and turn the east wing into a mill."
After she finished speaking, she didn't look at Dafang and the others, but looked at Baoya, as if asking for Baoya's opinion.
Baoya saw her grandmother looking at her, and she sucked her little finger and thought for a while: "Grandma is right. But when the new house is built, won't it be big enough to live in? And where will we live while the house is being built?"
The questions are all on point.
Zhao Zhilan laughed immediately. Her Baoya was so smart.
"Baby, how about we build a two-story house? You and your brothers and sisters can live on the second floor, and grandma, your aunt, and your mother can live on the first floor."
"That way, the east and west wings can be freed up to build a mill, a warehouse, or something. But when we build the small building, our family will have to squeeze into the east and west wings first."
"Okay!" Baoya nodded. "But it would be better if Baoya and her brothers and sisters lived on the first floor. Grandma is old, and Mom's legs are not in good condition. The first floor is too damp and uncomfortable to live on."
"Hahaha," Zhao Zhilan smiled, her eyes curved. "Grandma appreciates Baoya's kindness, but I'm old and my legs are not good, so climbing stairs is difficult. I'll build a higher foundation and make it more comfortable. Then I can live on the same floor with your parents, uncle, and aunt."
"Yeah!" Baoya responded happily. She felt relieved when she heard her grandma say that.
After discussing the house building, Zhao Zhilan talked about the 600 kilograms of wild boar meat.
She planned to sell 300 kilograms and keep 300 kilograms for her own consumption, which would be enough to last for a long time.
Baoya blinked after hearing this and said, "Grandma, three hundred kilograms of wild boar meat is a lot. It will take a long time to sell it in town. Why don't we go ask Uncle Zhu?"
She thought that since Uncle Zhu ran a restaurant, he would need a lot of game like this.
Zhao Zhilan's eyes lit up when she heard this: "That's a great idea! I can even ask Boss Zhu later if he wants bacon and sausages. We're really good at making bacon and sausages."
"Okay," Baoya clapped her hands, "Grandma, let's go today!"
Zhao Zhilan naturally agreed.
It was still early, and now that we had an ox cart at home, it would be much more convenient to go to town. If we left immediately, we could be back before dark.
During this family conversation, the eldest family was very quiet. Wang Cailian didn't say a word, and Baoya just followed whatever he said.
Zhao Zhilan was very satisfied. Thinking that Sanlang and He Chunxiu were coming back from the town, and Erlang and Li Rongyue were going to the fields to sow winter wheat, she asked Dalang to go with them to move the pork and other things.
However, Yun Chenglu, who had been studying hard during this period, suddenly took the initiative to go along.
Yun Chenglu could go and take care of Baoya, so Zhao Zhilan agreed.
The Yun family's ox cart, loaded with fresh frozen wild boar meat and two adults and two children, set off slowly.
It was not until they arrived at Ping'an Town and at the gate of Kelaixiang that Baoya understood why her second brother suddenly wanted to come along this time.
There are two ginkgo trees at the entrance of Kelaixiang, and the fruits have fallen all over the ground at this time.
Yun Chenglu took a small bag, squatted under two trees and picked up a bag full of ginkgo nuts.
Baoya watched him contentedly place the small bag filled with ginkgo nuts on the ox cart and asked, "Second brother, what are you picking these nuts for?"
Yun Chenglu reached out and touched her little head. "Use it as a projectile. The stones in our village are too sharp. They'll easily scratch the bowstring made of deer spine tendons, which won't look good."
Baoya looked at her second brother's cherished look and smiled, "Second brother, I think you are very good at playing with the slingshot. You are very accurate."
When he hit Chen Xiaojuan and Zhou Cuihua, he was extremely accurate!
"Of course," Yun Chenglu was praised and became happy, "I have been practicing hard for several years!"
"Well, so next time you see Master, I think you could show him around. Maybe he'll take you in."
"Really?" Yun Chenglu scratched his head. "Slingshots are just little toys for country kids. Brother Nan, you can tell he's from a high-class background, so he probably wouldn't be interested in them, right?"
"But how do you know if you don't try, second brother?" Baoya said seriously, "Master is a strange person, maybe he will fall in love with me."
"Okay, then I'll pick a fruit or a bird for him to see next time." Yun Chenglu replied.
The two kids chattered for a while in the back. Dalang had already brought in the wild boar meat. Zhao Zhilan urged them to follow quickly.
When Xiaodouzi saw the large piece of wild boar meat, his eyes widened and he said, "Auntie, where did you get so much wild boar meat?"
"Well, I caught some in the mountains a couple of days ago. We can't eat them all at home, so I came to ask if you need any." Zhao Zhilan said.
Xiaodouzi touched his chin. They definitely needed wild boar meat, but they didn't need so much. Only those with some spare money would order game.
But the amount of wild boar meat that Zhao Zhilan and the others brought was too much, probably about 300 kilograms.
Seeing him hesitate, Zhao Zhilan said directly, "Is Boss Zhu here? Why don't we go up and talk to him?"
"The boss is out. He might not be back for a while." Xiaodouzi was a little embarrassed. "How about you go upstairs to the private room and have some tea while waiting for him?"
"That's fine, as long as it doesn't cause you any trouble." Zhao Zhilan replied.
Anyway, they came here specifically to talk to Zhu Qi about wild boar meat, so it wouldn't matter if they waited a while.
"It's not a trouble, it's very convenient!" Seeing that she agreed, Xiaodouzi quickly took them upstairs.
Zhao Zhilan was talking to Xiaodouzi, while Baoya and Yun Chenglu were standing behind playing with the ginkgo nuts they had just picked.
When Baoya heard her grandma calling them to go upstairs together, she looked up and suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure walking past the door.
Her crystal-like eyes suddenly lit up: "Second brother, I think I saw Master just now!"
"Brother Nan?" Yun Chenglu said in disbelief. "That's impossible. He and Jingzhen have lived in the mountains all year round. Why would they come to Ping'an Town?"
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