Chapter 110: 109: Being an adult is so exhausting
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan said bluntly: "Anyway, I don't like Cai Ermei. I think he has a crooked eye. I think you should also be on guard against him collecting eels to sell!"
She remembered that in her previous life, Ye Xiaoshuang did not open a consignment store with her. It seemed that after she came back, some things were different from her previous life.
"No way?" Zhou Huaian looked at Yang Chunyan and suddenly remembered what Cai Ermei said: You are not the only one who knows the way to Ning'an.
"What do you think? You've already revealed your cards to them. Anyone with a little bit of common sense would know that if you send those yellow eels to Ning'an, you'll still make some profit after deducting the loss of one pound. Do you think they will buy them and sell them?"
"No way? Cai Ermei is a little bit unkind sometimes, but she's not bad enough to steal her brother's job, right?"
"I hope so? Aren't you unsure yourself?" Yang Chunyan looked at him, "Believe it or not, you will know the result tomorrow at the latest."
Zhou Huaian felt a little depressed when he saw her say this with such certainty, "If this is the case, I will break off my friendship with him!"
He also felt that what Yang Chunyan said was 90% possible, and was glad that he did not tell Erchun which family he sold the eels to.
Yang Chunyan patted him on the shoulder and said, "There's no need to be angry if that's the case. Remember, only say three-tenths of what you want to say to others, and don't give your whole heart away."
Zhou Huaian sat there for a while, then lay on his back and sighed, "I'm so tired! When I think about it, it was better when I was a kid. Being an adult is so fucking tiring!"
"People always have to grow up!"
After saying this, Yang Chunyan turned around and went out. She went to the backyard, picked up a handful of dry straw, and tied up a few small bundles of grass, intending to go back to the front yard to pick up the kudzu roots.
Zhao Huifang came out of the pig pen carrying a pig feed bucket, "Chunyan, it seems that we need to ask Huairong and the others to build a shed in the backyard. Look at those Polygonum multiflorum vines under the eaves, they are wet by the rain again."
The eaves of the backyard are narrow, and when it rains and the wind blows, the things hanging out to dry can easily get wet.
Yang Chunyan touched the Polygonum multiflorum vine and found that it was indeed quite wet. "I'll go to the front yard to see if the old mugwort has dried up. If it has, I'll take it down and hang the Polygonum multiflorum vine under the eaves of the front yard to dry."
"Okay, collect the chen mu and ask the third brother to take it to the city to sell it, and then we'll go harvest it."
Yang Chunyan returned to the front yard with a bundle of grass and saw the kudzu roots piled in the corner, with the mud on top having dried up.
I pulled a straw stool and sat in front of the kudzu root, and used a straw handle to brush off the yellow mud on it so that I could send Ning'an there tomorrow.
She remembered that Doctor Wang said Pueraria root was worth three cents per pound, and even if there were 200 pounds, it would only cost six yuan. She felt that herbs were still rare and valuable.
When Zhang Xiuxiang and Li Qiuyue saw this, they also pulled straw stools over to help.
Li Qiuyue looked at the gate of the courtyard and said, "Second sister-in-law, Chunyan, Mom and the old man have been accompanying Grandpa to Dad's house for so long and haven't come back yet. Do you think they will quarrel?"
Zhang Xiuxiang frowned and looked at her, "No way?"
Li Qiuyue whispered, "Auntie often says outside that grandpa smokes leaf tobacco, which stinks and produces a lot of phlegm that is so dirty. She would rather give some money to the two younger families every year and let him live in one of the two younger families, so as not to let her smoke the brick and tile house yellow."
Zhang Xiuxiang curled her lips, "I think she is just talking big. If grandpa really wants to live in our house, I'm afraid she will say that the old man used his private money to subsidize the second room."
"That's right! I dislike Auntie the most. She is obviously one family with us, but she wishes Second Branch to be poor all her life and never get ahead."
"When our brick house is repaired, I will make her eyes pop out."
Yang Chunyan suddenly remembered something when she said this. "My two sisters-in-law, if you still want to dig herbs after the family is divided, I think it would be better to build a few small second-floor rooms in the main house like the rammed earth houses in the past, and then build a shed on the roof, so that you don't have a place to dry the herbs on rainy days."
Zhang Xiuxiang thought about it and understood what Yang Chunyan meant. "A small second floor is good. The attic can be used to store food, and a shed can be built on the roof to dry herbs."
Li Qiuyue looked at the two of them and said, "We are all preparing to fire the kiln. Now that we have cement tickets, why do we still need to use rammed earth walls?"
"You can also use bricks to build a small second floor! I think rammed earth walls are warm in winter and cool in summer, and they are very comfortable to live in." Speaking of this, Yang Chunyan remembered that thirty or forty years later, the rammed earth walls that were despised by people in the mountains were treasured by foreigners to build villas.
Nowadays, poor people in the mountains build their houses with mud bricks, those who are slightly better off use rammed earth walls, and rich people use green tiles.
Earthen bricks are made by pouring treaded and mixed clay into an earthen brick mill, while others are made by compacting the earth with a stone mill and then pressing it with a special knife mold to extract it.
After the adobe bricks have dried in the shade, clay and sand are mixed together and applied on the adobe bricks to form walls. The roof is made entirely of straw, and apart from the craftsmen's wages, almost no other money is spent.
Only rammed earth walls can be used to build a small second floor. All the materials used are locally available, and the walls are made of rammed clay, sand, and gravel.
The attic has a wooden floor. The roof is first paved with logs as thick as calfs, then a thick layer of concrete mixed with clay, sand, and gravel is laid, and then it is tamped solid with a wooden hammer and mud boards.
Li Qiuyue curled her lips and said, "It's not hot in the mountains. The mud-walled houses are dark. I've had enough of living there. Brick and tile houses are much brighter!"
Zhang Xiuxiang also nodded, "I also think brick houses are bright. Now there is cheap cement. When the house is repaired, we will use cement sand and gravel to lay a layer from inside to outside. It will be clean even on rainy days."
"That's right!" Li Qiuyue imagined the scene of four new houses being built, and looked at the two people proudly, "When the time comes, there will be four small two-story houses in a row, and the house of the second branch of the Zhou family will be the first in the Funiu Brigade."
"If you want to build a small second floor, you have to work harder to make money." Zhou Huaijun stood at the door without knowing when.
Li Qiuyue looked at him and rolled her eyes, "Second brother, go check on the little ones, have they followed mom and dad to dad's house?"
"I'll go take a look." Zhou Huaijun said as he walked towards the kitchen.
As they talked, it didn't take long for them to clean all the kudzu roots and put them into the bamboo basket.
Yang Chunyan touched the old mugwort and said, "Sister-in-law, the old mugwort is dry. Go get a ladder and we'll collect all of this and send it to Ning An to sell."
"OK!"
The three of them collected all the old mugwort that was drying under the eaves and packed them up, and then Zhou Jiaming and others ran into the yard from outside.
Zhao Huifang grabbed Zhou Jialiang who was running ahead and said, "Have you finished your homework? The wind can blow away everything, and even a cow can't pull it back."
Zhou Jialiang covered his ears and said, "I did it. If you don't believe me, ask Dad!"
Zhou Huairong patted him on the shoulder and said, "Did you go out and brag to others about drinking malted milk?"
Zhou Jialiang covered his mouth and shook his head, "No, grandma told us not to tell anyone."
At this time, Zhou Huaijun helped the old man into the yard, followed by Zhou's mother and father.
Yang Chunyan and the others looked at the faces of the few people and didn't see anything wrong.
Zhao Huifang asked: "Mom, have you made an agreement?"
Mother Zhou nodded. "It's agreed that after you move out, your grandfather will live with us."
Li Qiuyue laughed and said, "I was gone for so long, I thought you guys were arguing!"
(End of this chapter)
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