Fulu Farm was built so quickly that there are still some damp marks on the walls that have not dried up yet.
None of this matters. The Li family has lived in the tent for too long, so long that they can’t wait for the new house to be vacant.
All the refugees had evacuated, and the new house was empty. When all the family members moved in, it seemed spacious and bright.
"It's really big and spacious."
Li Shenggen sighed.
The mudslide happened five months ago, but except for staying in an inn in Qingdong City once, they lived in tents they built themselves for the rest of the time.
It has been a long time since I lay down and had a good rest, let alone such a sturdy and bright new house.
The design was modified once in the middle of the house, and the main renovation was on the backyard, which increased from five acres to eight acres.
With seven sons, four daughters-in-law and two grandsons, Lan Miao's silly sister Mo Xin now follows Wang Yi obediently.
Everyone except Mosin knew what to do next.
That means mom wants to separate the rooms!
The house, covering an area of five acres, was not designed according to the Feng Shui and landscape gardening that wealthy families believed in. Instead, it used the simplest and most practical methods, with a large courtyard, cattle and horse pens, and east and west wing rooms that could be used as firewood rooms and guest rooms.
As for servants' rooms, there are none. They are all hardworking and simple peasant families and do not need servants. At most, they will hire some long-term workers in the future.
The eight-acre house actually has one acre of residential land and two acres of backyard which are farmland cultivated by Wang Yi herself, which are separately enclosed behind her house.
The first entrance consists of seven large rooms and a main hall, with corridors and aisles on both sides suitable for carriages and horses. Outside the aisles are wing rooms that extend all the way to the backyard wall.
There are five rooms on the east and west sides, including kitchen and bathroom.
The front room is a cattle pen, where important cattle and horses are raised.
Wang Yi was unwilling to think about the issue of room allocation. Besides, the children who were raised in the wild knew their own ranking.
"Choose your own room."
Sure enough, everyone tacitly chose houses from largest to smallest.
Including Liugen, everyone brought their wives to choose a room, until Li Qubing came, and Wang Yi grabbed the collar and dragged him back.
"When you get married, you can live in the front yard and go to the back with your mother."
Everyone was not in a hurry to go back to their own room. After choosing their rooms, they ran to the backyard.
The first thing you see in the backyard is a two-story building. It is the same width as the seven rooms in the front, with twice the number of rooms, and there is also a half terrace on the top floor.
They were all modified according to Wang Yi's ideas.
The other half of the terrace will have some water storage equipment. Strictly speaking, this is a two-and-a-half-story design.
Buildings of that era were all made of wood, and almost all the carpenters on the construction site were called over to complete the project as quickly as possible.
At this point, the ground inside the courtyard wall is paved with blue bricks, clean and tidy.
They don't need to enclose soil in the yard. If they want to plant flowers, they just need to find a flowerpot and scoop soil from outside. But here, they can do whatever is clean.
After Wang Yi's design, the layout of the backyard is very different. The largest room can see the second floor, and the brightness inside is as bright as outside.
But it was not as cold as the palace. There was even a ground dragon designed inside the kang. Wang Yi racked his brains to use all the magic he could.
Now, her room has a separate design, with access to the first and second floors and the terrace. She does not need to go out to the toilet, and the water and heating are guaranteed, making it very comfortable.
Besides her house, there were more than a dozen other rooms and six side rooms in the backyard, none of which were connected to her house. Next to the main gate at the end were two huge empty warehouses.
There's nothing inside.
This was specially reserved by Wang Yi and it is useful.
Lan Miao Silly Sister lived on the right side, Mo Xin and Qu Bing lived on the left side, and the rest of the rooms were left empty for the time being.
Everyone entered the room with Wang Yi. There was a back door on the side. After opening it, there was a small room where wardrobes and miscellaneous items could be placed. Only then did they enter the backyard.
As soon as the door was pushed open, everyone exclaimed in amazement at the spaciousness of the backyard.
A total of two acres of land were enclosed within the courtyard wall, half of which was where Wang Yi had previously planted herbs, and the remaining one and a half acres were still wasteland, which Li Shenggen had asked the refugees to turn over and organize into ridges.
There are scattered weeds growing here and there, swaying in the breeze.
Wang Yi sighed in his heart, enough, enough, for a flower and vegetable grower, a living room like this is the complete set in his mind.
Turning around, she looked at her excited sons and waved her hand:
"Now, move!"
"Long live mother!"
"yeah!"
The group of people then burst into cheers and ran out in a hurry.
They have to sort out all their broken pots and bowls and move them into the new house. From now on, they will all have their own homes. Those tents can be taken down and they will never live here again!
"Filial piety value +100!"
"Filial piety value +100..."
Wang Yi covered her mouth in surprise to hide her smile.
Everyone contributed another 100 points of filial piety to her, replenishing her dwindling points.
"Total filial piety value is 1314 points."
Next is the very simple moving of things.
Wang Yi did not use the space to cheat, but just let her sons be filial and put the things in her tent on the cart and pull it back to the backyard.
Actually, it was just simple bedding. We had been living in a tent at home, so we didn’t have many things.
After making the bed again, the bedding and bed size were not suitable, so I could only make do with it for now.
Lan Miao and the other two continued to carry firewood back to burn. Although the weather was still hot, the house was filled with steam.
Today was also the day to warm the hearth, and all the women in the family were busy preparing food in the front yard. Tables, chairs, and benches filled the entire yard, preparing a feast for the main craftsmen. The other migrant workers also had food, which was better than what they had eaten on the day of the beam raising.
The front yard was bustling with activity. Li Shenggen was in charge of all these matters, so Wang Yi didn't have to worry about anything. She had some peace and quiet and had already started looking at the land in the backyard, thinking about planting some cotton.
Suddenly, Li Shoucheng came running over from the front yard: "Mother, the prince has sent someone back!"
The visitor turned out to be Hong Que. He and his brother Hong Jiu were always by the prince's side. Upon entering, they first congratulated Wang Yi on the completion of the farm. Wang Yi responded with a few words, then asked worriedly, "What happened?"
"Good news, Shengyun City has been taken down."
"So soon?"
Wang Yi was worried for ten days, and he actually won?
"Yes, but the prince said that it is not stable yet and it will take some time before he can come back."
"That's right."
"Also, the prince asked me to buy food from you."
"How much?"
"The city and its surroundings are overflowing with refugees, and the army is running low on food. The prince said we should buy as much as we can, and that more people will come to deliver food later."
Buy as many as you can?
Wang Yi smiled slightly.
"That's easy. However, you need to bring your own food. In an hour, go to the granary at the back door of the manor to get the food."
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