Feng Yijia and Xu Xiuping moved their things from the shack back to the village and came directly to their new home.
It was the first time that Feng Yijia saw a house that belonged to him completely, even though it was only three adobe and thatched houses and was a mess everywhere, he was very happy.
I enthusiastically followed Xu Xiuping and her husband to put everything in the desired position.
The kitchen and bedroom are gradually taking shape, just waiting for the owner to move in.
Several people were busy for most of the day, putting all the household items in their places and cleaning up. The transplanted thorn bushes outside were also placed around the house in a circle, forming a decent-looking small courtyard.
Zhang Jing'an paid the hired people, and Xu Xiuping asked Feng Yijia to help her plan the yard.
“This residential plot is not big, and there is not much space in front next to the village road, but it is enough for drying some things.
Later, I will move the pile of wooden racks and bamboo mats that your uncle Zhang uses to dry medicine here. In the future, they will not only be used to dry the medicinal materials, but also enough to dry your own food.
There's an area of three mu of land at the back. When I'm free, I'll come over and help you dig it up and sprinkle some fast-growing vegetable seeds on it.
If you water the crops diligently, you will have enough vegetables at home in less than 20 days.
Build a chicken coop in the east corner. Since you don’t have a pigpen here, you can’t raise pigs, but you can still raise chickens and ducks.
After I come back from harvesting the grain, I’ll see if I can buy a few chicks in the village and raise them well for a few months. Then I won’t have to worry about eggs in the future.
You've been hungry and cold since you were a child, so you don't want to eat. If you don't want to eat, I tell you, if you don't have a good body, everything will be weak.
Take good care of yourself while you are young, and you can restore your body with some time.
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Xu Xiuping talked endlessly about the yard and her health.
Feng Yijia felt a little warmed at heart when he heard this. In the past few decades, he had received a lot of insults, but he rarely heard such well-intentioned nagging.
On the way back to Zhang's house with the others, she looked up at the mountains and forests in the distance and decided that before they left the village, she had to go to the mountains to dig some good things and bring them back to give to them.
Meng Sheng went into the city and first went to see the courtyard he had bought.
I haven't been here for a few days, and the house and yard that I had cleaned up with great effort have started to grow grass and dust again.
Meng Sheng looked carefully and found no signs of anyone entering the yard, and the treasure underground was still intact, so he felt relieved.
However, his parents and family are all in Mengjia Village, so he can't live here for long.
I still need to find someone to watch over me to feel at ease.
Meng Sheng was thinking about something, cleaned the room again, and then went to a construction site in the north of the city.
But he was not looking for a job, he was looking for people.
This man was nicknamed Skinny Monkey, and his real name was Shen Baojia. He had an older brother, Shen Weiguo, who was taken away from his doorstep when he was five or six years old.
Shen's mother was devastated by this and became insane, often looking for her child everywhere.
Father Shen has to support his family, take care of his sick wife and young son, and also has to distract himself with searching for his lost eldest son.
After several years of hard work and suffering, Shen Baojia could no longer bear it and passed away when he was fourteen years old.
From then on, Shen Baojia dropped out of school and worked hard every day to support himself and his mother.
He was just a teenager with limited abilities, and with the burden of his mother who was often ill, his life was very difficult.
In the end, he was lured onto a path of no return and participated in a gang robbery. Two years later in his previous life, he became Meng Sheng's cellmate.
One was thin and the other had a limp. Both were poor, but during their long years of labor reform, they developed a kind of sympathy for each other.
Meng Sheng pushed his bicycle around outside the construction site and saw Shen Baojia moving bricks from a distance.
His thin and short stature made him stand out among a group of tall and strong laborers.
At this time, Shen Baojia was still an honest child. He carried two baskets of bricks that bent the shoulder pole, and his two slender legs were working hard.
Work hard to earn every penny of hard-earned money.
Meng Sheng looked at him for a while and made up his mind to go with him.
It was already late when we arrived in the county town, and now that we were delayed, the construction site was closed soon.
Meng Sheng stopped Shen Baojia, who was wiping the sweat from his forehead and rushing home, and said directly: "Follow me in the future, 30 yuan a month, and you just need to take care of the goods, okay?"
Hearing this, Shen Baojia, who was covered in a thick layer of dust and sweat, opened his only clear eye wide and asked doubtfully, "Really?"
There are few jobs in the county now, and he is not yet eighteen years old, so he can only do odd jobs here and there to make a living.
As for doing business, he had never thought about it. Firstly, he had no money, and secondly, his family was too poor to afford any losses.
In the past, he had to act pitifully to get any work done. After all, there were so many strong laborers in the county that they couldn't use them all. Who would be willing to spend money to hire him, a minor who was always troublesome?
So, after hearing Meng Sheng's words, his first reaction was disbelief.
"real!
Nice to meet you. My name is Meng Sheng. I know your name is Chen Baojia, and I have also heard about some of your family situations.
I came here specially to find you!"
As Meng Sheng spoke, he didn't mind the man being covered in mud. He put his arm around the man's shoulders and took him to his small courtyard at the foot of the city wall.
I'm not worried at all that others might be unwilling.
After all, moving bricks on a construction site these days only earns about one dollar a day after working so hard.
Shen Baojia felt that this man must have felt sorry for him and wanted to give him the job. He was indeed not unwilling and nodded in agreement.
In this way, Meng Sheng had his first employee.
On the way, he brainwashed and gave people a shot of prevention: "To be honest, I'm from the countryside. My elder brother is getting married and my younger brother is studying, and our family is very poor.
I'm in my twenties and no girl is willing to date me.
I had no choice but to venture out. Fortunately, I was lucky. After a few rounds of trading in and out of the mountains, I finally made some money and bought a shabby little yard where someone had died as a place to stay.
At this point, Meng Sheng stopped and stared at the person and asked, "The previous owner of my yard has been dead for several years. The young couple, one drowned outside, and the other died of a shock and illness. Everyone thinks it's unlucky.
Do you mind...? "
Before he could finish his words, Shen Baojia, who was born and raised in the county and knew the place, interrupted him and said, "I know that place. It has been abandoned for a long time. I didn't expect you to buy it.
I don’t mind. Many people even say that our family is unlucky!
Don't worry, I promise to take good care of the yard."
People who are poor to a certain extent are willing to live in a house where someone has died, or even sleep in a cemetery outside the city, as long as they are paid.
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