Chapter 50 It’s good to have money. It’s so easy to build a house.

Chapter 50 It’s good to have money. It’s so easy to build a house.

With the money, materials, manpower and mechanical equipment in place, this kitchen with three rooms on the ground and three rooms underground was completed in less than five days, including the corridor connecting the kitchen to the old house, wall insulation and painting, stove construction, and reinforcement of the old house.

The original back door of the old house was small and a bit damaged. Now it has been reinforced and renovated to match the tall corridor and looks very good.

Considering that my grandmother is old, all the floors are treated with anti-slip treatment.

A lightning rod is also installed high on the roof. Its appearance is coordinated with the architectural style. It uses a relatively concealed down conductor to lead possible lightning into the underground.

Li Xiang climbed up to install the five small animals himself. There were small steel bars on the roof ridge that were coated with cement and the small animals were put on. These small animals were made of clay, the same color as the glazed tiles, and some parts were painted, which were shining in the sun.

Many people from the village came to visit and said it was good.

An old man with white hair and a cane sighed: "Even the great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather of the Li family, when they were once wealthy, could not achieve this."

Although Li's great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather were wealthy, gentry and landlords, and some of their family members were minor officials, they were not qualified to place so many small animals in the ancestral house when building it, and could only build it in the shape of "one".

That is to say, only one small animal can be placed on each eaves, but Li Xiang now has five small animals.

But the ancient times are different from the modern times. In modern society, as long as you have money, you can release 99 or 81 of them and no one will care.

Having said that, for the elderly, it is still quite touching that something that was once unimaginable has now been achieved by a kid like Li Xiang.

For this reason, when people build houses in Lijia Village, if they are Chinese-style buildings, they will follow suit and place mythical beasts on the roof. It is indeed beautiful and impressive.

And this is just a kitchen.

This kitchen has three rooms on the ground. The middle one is naturally the master room, which is very spacious and has a stove and a dining room. The rooms on both sides are storage rooms, where Li Xiang moved the refrigerator. He also built some shelves with bamboo to store daily food or sundries.

The five kittens can already run and jump. They are full of curiosity about the world and explore everywhere every day. However, they are still too small to climb over the threshold. Seeing that they are hanging on the threshold with great difficulty, Li Xiang helps them and sends them to the storage room.

Because Li Xiang and the others were inside just now, the kitten wanted to go in again and again.

The mother cat was afraid that something might happen to her children, so she followed them closely.

In fact, even if Li Xiang didn't do anything, the mother cat would take them away one by one.

Now that the kittens have grown up, outsiders can pet them and the mother cat doesn’t mind. She can distinguish her own children very clearly and will not misjudge or bite them.

With six cats patrolling the house every day, it is almost impossible to find mice. If there are mice, they will be given to the kittens to eat and practice their hunting skills.

The other wing is a bathroom. Because it is close to the kitchen, the hot water can be easily brought over, and there is a sewer in the room for easy drainage.

Li Xiang bought two large wooden barrels, one for him and one for his grandmother, for bathing in winter.

My grandma is old, but she doesn't like taking a bath because her body can't handle it. She just wipes herself with a hot towel every day and soaks her feet at most. She only takes a long bath once every five or six days.

The newly built stove in the kitchen is still a double stove, and its quality is better than the previous one in the bamboo house, and it is covered with tiles.

Grandma looked at the new kitchen and liked it very much.

In fact, it was a bit over budget. The original plan was to spend 100,000 yuan, but it ended up costing more than 120,000 yuan.

The little money I had saved has basically been used up, and I only have less than 30,000 yuan left.

The villagers were all discussing that it was good to have money and it would be so quick to build a house.

Li Xiang plans to plant some flowers and plants on one side of the corridor after spring comes, especially plum blossoms and wintersweets.

There are a few plum blossoms in the corner, blooming alone in the cold. I know it is not snow from afar because of the subtle fragrance.

In the coming winters, it will get colder every year. Only the "snow-proud plum blossoms" can bring a touch of brightness and fragrance to the winter.

Because plum blossoms sound like “mildew” in Chinese, some people are very particular about them and don’t want to plant them in the yard, but they can be planted outside the yard or in the garden.

Some ancient people who were obsessed with plum blossoms, such as Lin Bu, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Gong Zizhen, a writer in the Qing Dynasty, all planted plum trees in their yards.

The five petals of the plum blossom represent auspiciousness, namely happiness, prosperity, longevity, happiness and wealth. In folk culture, they are called the "Five Blessings", which have the auspicious meaning of "bringing spring and announcing good news".

The flowers of wintersweet are yellow, and it is actually not the same species of tree as plum blossoms. Plum blossoms belong to the Rosaceae family, while wintersweet is a family of its own, belonging to the Chimonaceae family.

The classification in biology: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. Even the "family" is different, so the difference is naturally huge.

Since the building materials used are very environmentally friendly, there is basically no formaldehyde and odor, the ventilation facilities in the cellar are good and the air is fresh. Li Xiang moved all the sweet potatoes in and placed them in a corner.

The medicinal wine that had been brewed previously was also moved in, as well as two poisonous snakes and two giant red dragon centipedes, all of which were potential mutant creatures that had been dried before being thrown in.

Li Xiang also bought some wolfberries and astragalus and threw them in. The main reason was that the snake wine had a bit of fishy smell. Adding these two herbs not only had a nourishing effect, but also enhanced the efficacy of the wine, and removed its fishy smell, and even added a little bit of sweetness, improving the taste and flavor of the wine.

Lycium barbarum improves eyesight, nourishes the liver and kidneys, while Astragalus is a qi tonic. Both herbs are average, widely used, and will not cause any problems if taken.

The marinade package that Li Xiang bought last time also contained astragalus.

After cleaning up the kitchen, he took a short video and posted it on his self-media account. Fans left comments and messages one after another. The most discussed one was the "Five Ridges and Six Beasts" designed by Li Xiang. It has to be said that there are quite a lot of people who know what it is.

If there are some people who don’t understand, Li Xiang doesn’t need to reply, as there are enthusiastic fans who will help him understand.

What made Li Xiang happy was that during the previous live broadcast of winter bamboo shoots, he sold so many orders without any returns or negative reviews, which was 100% positive reviews.

This is very rare.

Li Xiang specially posted a video to express his gratitude to fans for their support.

The eldest sister on the list was very mysterious. Her name was "Fei Fei". She rarely spoke. Her age, identity and appearance were unknown. She was very cold and aloof.

But one thing is certain, he is very rich.

Because everyone found that every time Li Xiang live broadcast, the other party would almost always come to support him, and they were either number one or number two, and had never fallen out of the top three.

The persimmon tree in the backyard is full of fruits. Li Xiang thinks that he can pick them and use them to make persimmon cakes. Because once the heavy snow comes, the bad weather will last for more than half a month, which will not be suitable for drying persimmon cakes.

Now is a good time to make dried persimmons while the weather is still good.

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(End of this chapter)

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