"You can get there by bus, changing buses twice. It's quite convenient, but it takes a little longer."
"We weren't here when you moved. We just came back a couple of days ago and wanted to come see you."
"Are you used to living here alone? Has anyone given you any trouble?"
Cui Zheng felt a little embarrassed. They had agreed to come and help Ye Zi when she moved, but who could have known that it would be such a coincidence that they both happened to be on a mission.
"That's great. I'm so powerful, how could anyone bully me? Are you two okay?" She knew that these two people were often injured.
Cui Zheng patted his chest and said, "I'm fine. I'm not hurt at all. Your sister-in-law even arranged for me to come over to see you. I didn't agree to come in this cold weather. The child can't stand it."
"Just wait until summer. Ask your sister-in-law to wait until the weather warms up and then bring your little girl over to play when she's free."
"Okay, I'll tell your sister-in-law about this when I get back."
Gao Yuan didn't sit down in a hurry. He turned around the whole room and said, "Is this something you made yourself? Can you go up to the second floor and take a look?"
"Sure, go up and see for yourself. The second floor is dark now because there are no windows. I'll open the windows in the spring. Just turn on the lights when you go."
Chen Ye had no idea that the boudoir could not be seen. When he was in the village, he didn't even knock on the door when visiting someone. There was no need to be so particular.
Gao Yuan went up to the second floor but didn't walk inside. He turned on the lights and looked at the main decoration. He had never thought that a one-story bungalow could be converted into a two-story house, which would double the area of the house.
If a family with a large population makes this change, they can create a lot more space.
"That's really great. You're amazing. You accomplished such a big thing by yourself." He heard from his younger brother that Ye Zi built the house by herself.
"What! Ye Zi, you did all this by yourself? I thought the house was always like this." He couldn't sit still anymore and carefully observed how the second floor was built.
"Tsk tsk tsk, it's also thanks to the fact that the roof of this house is much higher than that of an ordinary bungalow, otherwise it really wouldn't be possible to build a second floor."
"Ye Zi, what are you thinking? Why do you need such a big place if you live alone?" For him, having a house to live in is already good enough, there is no need to make it so elaborate.
"It's because the roof is too high. The room looks empty, and I'm worried it'll be cold in the winter. So I thought of dividing it up to make the space smaller so it can better maintain the temperature."
Cui Zheng roughly estimated the height of the roof and said, "Really? A house that's too high won't be warm. You have so many ideas in your head. If it were me, I'd think of getting two more stoves or fire walls, but I'd be worried about burning too much."
"Does this floor heating cost a lot of firewood?"
"It's not bad. It's just one furnace, how much can it cost? Besides, everything is separate. I only open the valve in the room where I live. I don't want to burn it in several rooms."
"Have the other rooms been renovated as well? Can I go and take a look?" Cui Zheng was really curious. The house didn't look very big from the outside. Could it really be twice as big after the renovation?
"Let's take a look," Chen Ye put on her coat and took the two of them to look. She had cleaned up the place but hadn't let anyone see it yet, so she was a little bit showing off.
After looking around the whole house, Cui Zheng gave a thumbs up and said, "Ye Zi, you are this, tell me what you are thinking. The old house looks old on the outside, but the interior is so well done, it looks clean and bright."
"What a pity! I live in a building, so I can't do that. The ceilings of the building aren't that high."
Gao Yuan also agreed with Cui Zheng's words: "Gao Fei also said that Xiao Si is not satisfied with this house and is thinking of looking for a better one in the future. This way, this house will look good."
Cui Zheng objected: "You're not right. It's not the house that's good, it's Ye Zi's skill. Look, after all this tidying up, the house that looked a bit cramped has been turned into a two-story building."
Gao Yuan...this guy's words are so annoying. If you want to praise me, just do it, but do you have to step on me to praise me?
Chen Ye was happy to hear this: "It's almost noon. What do you two want to eat? Let's have a good meal at noon." There was still a lot of meat that her fourth brother brought over last time, and she really couldn't eat much by herself.
"Speaking of eating, Ye Zi, I brought a bag full of meat. We got it from cleaning up the back mountain. Where do you think we should put it?"
The meat they harvested belonged to the army, but it was possible for them to use money to buy more from the canteen for their own consumption. He had used the shares of several of his comrades to buy that large bag of meat.
"These are the shares between me and your brother Gao. You can keep them and eat them slowly," Cui Zheng went to the yard and brought in the meat.
"Why did you bring so much? You have sister-in-law and children at home. Take it back for your family and leave the portion for Brother Gao." After all, Gao Yuan is a bachelor like his eldest cousin.
"Don't worry, I couldn't possibly forget my wife and kids. I've left some food at home for you to eat. Just think of it as a housewarming gift from us."
Chen Ye didn't refuse the sincere gift: "Okay, then I won't be polite."
"Hey, why are you being so polite to me and your brother Gao? We've eaten a lot of the meat you hunted."
Chen Ye was already in a good mood today, and with two more customers coming and praising her cooking skills, she was in an even better mood. She directly made a stir-fried pig heart and cut a large piece of wild boar meat to make braised pork.
The wild boar meat was not as bad as described in the book, but it was not easy to stew. She went to the cellar to cut a piece of bacon and fried a small bunch of garlic sprouts from the kitchen shelf.
There were enough stoves in the kitchen, so she cooked the big bones. She would use the bone soup to stew some sauerkraut, which would be considered a soup.
There are a lot of people here today. If she were alone on other days, she would just cook one dish, which would be enough for the whole day. But she would never go to the trouble of making several dishes.
"Oh, aren't there too many leaves here? Just stir-fry some cabbage and potatoes or something. You can keep these and eat them later." Cui Zheng felt distressed when he saw all the meat and vegetables.
"How much can I eat by myself? Last month, my fourth brother came over and brought me a bag of meat. There's still a lot left."
"Is hunting so easy in your West Mountain?"
"No, it's not easy to climb the mountain in this heavy snow. Last month, the villagers found traces of wild boars, so they asked the armed forces to go up the mountain and hunt wild boars together. I heard there were more than ten of them."
"It's snowing heavily this year. Did you go down the mountain because you couldn't find anything to eat?"
"Maybe. Anyway, this is the first time I've heard of a big wild animal coming down from the mountain behind the village. It's not like the west mountain over there, where some dangerous things occasionally come down."
"Hey, where's Brother Gao?"
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