The woman shook her head and refused, with an embarrassed look on her face. This little girl was so pretty, but her words were so annoying!
"No, no, Auntie is going back to cook. Next time, next time."
After saying this, he didn't even look at the father and daughter, but ran back to his own place.
Shen Li saw her enter the third courtyard on the left side of her house, then she retracted her gaze, pushed open the gate, and asked Shen Changshan to drive the carriage in.
In the yard, Lin Cuicui and Shen Jingyuan were dealing with wild rabbits. They had encountered them while weeding at the homestead today.
Thinking that I would live here in the future, it would be bad to leave rabbits digging holes here, so I spent some time catching all the rabbits, a total of 18.
There are both large and small ones. The big ones can be eaten, and the small ones should be raised for a while before being eaten.
The woman outside just now saw them carrying so many rabbits back, so she leaned on the door frame to peek.
Shen Qi'an and Shen Yuanzhou made a cage out of wood and put all the big wild rabbits in it. They couldn't finish eating them all at once, so they saved them for the next two days.
As for the little rabbits, there was a pigpen behind them. They had already picked up some stone slabs on the riverbank and lay on them to prevent the rabbits from digging holes and escaping.
"Ali, who were you talking to outside just now?"
Lin Cuicui just heard her daughter outside, seemingly talking to someone, so she asked casually.
"Just now, my aunt was peeking over our front door. She was the third one on the left. Mother and sister-in-law should be more careful."
The others all frowned, not knowing what kind of person this was. He actually lay at someone's door and peeked in.
"Okay, Mom knows and will pay attention."
"Dad, Ali, have you found a craftsman?"
Shen Qi'an asked about the progress of their business trip to the city today and changed the subject.
"We've found the bricks, wood, and tiles, and we can start construction tomorrow."
“So fast!”
"Well, we have a big yard, so we're a bit anxious to finish it before the snow starts, so we need to get started as soon as possible."
Shen Changshan looked at his wife beside him and said, "Cui Niang, these people are not from the village. The craftsman asked us to cook a meal at noon. What do you think..."
Chen Li had already thought about it, "Dad, Mom, this is a small matter. We can just find two people in the village to help cook."
Lin Cuicui shook her head. "Ali, no need. It's just a meal. Mom can handle it."
Bai Yao quickly spoke up: "Miss, I will help Madam."
Chen Li still disagreed a little. She didn't want to make Lin Cuicui so tired.
Lin Cuicui saw what her daughter was thinking and said softly, "Ali, it's just cooking a meal, how tiring can it be? Besides, we have to eat too, don't we?"
Another reason is that Lin Cuicui knew that it would cost a lot of money to build the house, and they had no source of income at the moment, so she felt uneasy about spending the money, so she wanted to save every penny.
"All right then."
Seeing that she was so insistent, Chen Li stopped persuading her and decided to help her mother when the time comes. As for her father and brothers, they would definitely go to help build the house.
Chen Li walked into the room where she kept her grain. There were still eight bags of grain, each containing half a stone.
Take advantage of this period of time to consume all the food, and after eating, take out the food you have grown from the space.
The dried meat is basically sold out, but there is still some bear jerky left, but it is not very popular.
Piled up next to it were the thank-you gifts from the Lu family, including a lot of cloth.
After lunch, the family went to pull weeds again. Chen Li also went. This time the family went out together. By the evening, they had pulled out all the tree roots and weeds on the homestead. The speed was so fast.
The usable things were piled aside, as was the grass that the horses could eat. They were taken back to feed their own horses and mules. The remaining unusable things were all piled together, and some hay was added to them and burned.
Not only Chen Li and his family were weeding, several other families were also weeding. They had already gone to see the village chief in the afternoon.
Their houses cannot be built at the same time, so they can only do it in groups of three. However, their houses are small, and they are not in a hurry as long as they are sure that they can be completed before the snow falls.
At night, the light in Chen Li's room was still on. She was sitting at the table with some papers and pens on it.
At this moment, she was looking at the words on the paper with a dark face and a constipated look on her face.
She had been here for quite some time, and she could recognize quite a few characters, but this calligraphy was simply unsightly!
Also, how do I write with this soft brush?
If only pencils and ballpoint pens were useful!
Bai Yao saw this and asked softly, "What's wrong, Miss?"
Bai Yao's words brought Chen Li back to her senses, her mind full of wandering thoughts. She suddenly remembered that this girl should be literate.
"Bai Yao, can you write?"
"meeting."
"What about drawing?"
"A little bit."
Although she didn't know why Shen Li asked these questions, she still answered truthfully.
"Great, come, sit here," Chen Li walked over, pulled Bai Yao over to sit down, and put the brush in her hand, "Come, I tell you to write."
She reached out and took away the paper she had just written on. Bai Yao saw it and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly. It turned out that the lady was worried about the problem of writing just now!
The two of them spoke and wrote. Chen Li carefully told Bai Yao the parts she wanted to change. The girl reacted quickly and easily understood what she meant.
The next morning, the craftsmen hired by the village chief had already started working. At this time, more than a dozen horse-drawn carriages drove into the village, all carrying things.
Chen Jian sat in the first carriage, because Shen Changshan said that his family planned to build a new house at the end of Qingxi Village. So when he entered the village, although he didn't know much about it, he still drove the carriage inside.
Sure enough, when I walked to the end of the village, I saw people gathered together.
Shen Changshan had been waiting for them to arrive. When he saw them coming, he went forward to greet them.
"Master Chen."
Chen Jian nodded at him: "Master Shen, take me to have a look. When the time comes, we will start working."
Shen Changshan carried Chen Jian around the homestead and had a rough idea in his mind. At three quarters past noon, after Shen Changshan, the owner of the house, started to pry the soil, the forty people he brought with him also started to work.
Not only the Shen family, but the other three families also started working after breaking ground, but most of the laborers they hired were from the village or nearby.
After a while, the blue bricks that we went to see yesterday were pulled into the village one after another, attracting the attention of many villagers.
Chen Li and Lin Cuicui went into the city together. There were so many people to feed, and there were not enough vegetables at home, so they had to buy more.
The mother and daughter went all the way into the city, and the carriage went straight to the busiest street. This street was basically occupied by ordinary people, so there were many people selling vegetables, backpacks, and snacks on the street.
The carriage couldn't get in, so it found a place to stop not far away on the street. After paying 5 cents for parking, the mother and daughter left.
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