Chapter 174 My mind is much clearer
However, this matter has to be put on hold for the time being, because the autumn harvest is approaching and everyone is very busy. The Ma family has so many fields that even Lin Yulan has to do some work.
In the next village, Dani and her husband actually managed to finish building their house before the autumn harvest.
It is said that it was at night, and all the people who helped had gone home, but Wang Yong and Dani were still there working overtime with flashlights to build the wall. They managed to hold a beam-raising banquet the day before the autumn harvest. The chickens and ducks were all bought from the farm and sold to relatives at a price.
We also invited Chen Chunhua and her entire family to dinner. It happened to be the weekend when Lin Shuying returned, so all seven of them were there.
When they arrived, the new house had no walls and three tables had been set up in the open space in front. Lin Yulan and the three youngest girls were washing dishes and cutting vegetables outside, while the eldest and third girls were cooking inside. The fourth, fifth and sixth girls were going in and out to help serve the dishes, and Wang Yong was busy inviting people to sit down.
Seeing Lin Guoqing's family, they hurried over to greet him, "Uncle and aunt, come here, why don't you sit at the same table with Er Ni Degang and the others?"
"We can all do it!"
Erni was already very pregnant and was sitting in her seat. When she saw Chen Chunhua and the others coming over, she wanted to get up to pour them some water, but Chen Chunhua quickly stopped her. Lin Shuying went over and held her arm.
"Second cousin, you're about to give birth, so you'd better be careful. We can do it ourselves."
It was of course impossible to let them come on their own, so Zhao Degang hurriedly greeted his wife, uncle and his family and poured them some water, creating a harmonious atmosphere.
Lin Shumei ran up and asked if she could touch her second cousin's belly. This was because her second cousin's belly was much bigger than before.
Erni smiled and let her touch her, and also invited Chen Chunhua and the others to sit down.
Chen Chunhua couldn't sit still, so she said she wanted to go in and see if there was anything she could do to help, and then she went into the new house.
The three large bungalows looked like they were built in a hurry, and there was no point in saying whether the facades were good-looking or not. The red bricks were laid just as they were on the outside, without any plastering or polishing.
But when I walked into the house, I saw that the walls were painted, but...isn't this room a little too empty?
There was nothing there. The tables and chairs could be understood to have been pulled into the yard, but there was nothing in the cabinets. Even the room on the right had no door. The doorway was exposed there unscrupulously, showing everyone the emptiness inside.
The door on the left was closed, and Chen Chunhua didn't dare to push it open to see. She walked directly to the kitchen behind the main hall, looked at Da Ni squatting under the stove adding firewood and San Ni busy stirring the wok, and asked with a smile,
"Is there anything I can help you with?"
"Aunt? You're here!" Dani saw Chen Chunhua standing up happily, wiping her hands on her apron again and again. "It's hot in here, there's nothing I can do to help you. Just go sit outside and wait for dinner."
Sanni kept working, preparing a pot of celery and plating it, and even helped to herd people. "Yes, aunt, the dishes should be halfway served. My mom has a few more vegetables over, so we'll be almost done. It's okay, big sister, you can go out and entertain the guests."
Chen Chunhua looked around the kitchen cheerfully, "It's quite well-equipped here. When I first walked in, I was worried you might be running out of utensils while cooking!"
Dani immediately understood what she meant, smiled shyly, and walked out of the kitchen with Chen Chunhua.
"Isn't it just that we want to move in before the autumn harvest? Everything is so urgent. Anyway, it's just me and Wang Yong living here, so we just need to get a place for cooking and sleeping ready first, and the rest can come later."
As she spoke, she stretched out her hand and opened the door on the left.
"Look, Auntie, the bed was made and delivered today. I slept on the floor the past two days, and I didn't even have time to move the mattress onto the bed."
The room was also empty, but it was much better than the two rooms outside. In addition to a new bed and a quilt spread on the floor, there was also a large, half-new cabinet and a relatively old low cabinet.
All of their belongings are here, so the move is complete.
Chen Chunhua raised her eyebrows in surprise. "You guys slept here two nights ago? Is it that urgent?"
She was a little anxious about this matter, and Dani felt a little embarrassed to talk about it, but she just didn't want to sleep at Wang's house anymore.
"Aunt, you haven't seen Wang Yong's room. It's no different from a coffin. There are only two wooden boards on the left and right sides, and no windows. The only way to breathe is through the gap between the top board and the ceiling. I can't sleep there!"
"As soon as the walls of this room were painted, I wanted to move in. But Wang Yong said it wasn't habitable yet, so I waited a few days. As soon as I moved in, I felt like my mind really cleared up a lot!"
This room has three windows on the front, back, and left sides! It's very bright! Isn't it because she was so cooped up before!
Chen Chunhua had only known that the Wang family was short of housing, but this was the first time she'd heard Dani's detailed description. She was even more shocked. No windows, front, back, left, or right? Living this long was indeed Dani's limit.
If it were her, she wouldn't be willing to give birth in such a place.
"Hey, I just saw there are only three tables outside? It seems that there are almost two tables of people from our two families, right? The other table is for people helping to build the house? No one from Wang Yong's family is here?"
Speaking of this, Dani's excitement when she recalled sleeping in the new house just now instantly subsided and she curled the corners of her mouth.
"Before, Wang Yong wanted to earn some wages for his family, so he asked his brothers if they wanted to help build the house. But they seemed to think we were being taken advantage of and asked for an exorbitant wage of two yuan a day!"
Nowadays, professional laborers only make 1.25 yuan a day, and a good plastering master won't make more than 2 yuan. Not to mention the villagers helping each other like this.
The cost is usually one yuan a day, and the host will provide two meals and one snack, one of which must include meat and wine. If you are polite, you may also be given two cigarettes. At the end, they will also treat the couple to a beam-raising wine feast that is as delicious as the wedding banquet.
This expense is not small, and everyone does this. But Wang Yong’s four brothers said that they were the ones working in the fields, and Wang Yong could eat the food as long as he took it, so why shouldn’t they be given more money?
The half-acre of land Wang Yongqi had originally belonged to him, and although his brothers were cultivating it, he hadn't asked them for rent. He also had a ration of rice, and after paying the public tax and receiving his allotment of rice, the rest of the grain from that half-acre of land was theirs.
Knowing that they borrowed money to build the house, you still want to cheat him?
Wang Yong quit, so let's just split the family business completely. I don't want the crops you grow anymore. You can either sell the half acre of land to me for a discount, or pay me rent every year.
The Wang brothers had a big fight over this, and it was very noisy, each of them fighting like black-eyed chickens.
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