The new house was being built in full swing. The workers wanted to finish the house before the spring planting so they could go home and farm, so they all worked very hard.
Pei Shaorong was very satisfied to see everyone working so hard. Every time they ate pork, he would prepare some extra pork, and occasionally add a few bottles of soju for everyone, which made the hardworking men full of motivation.
A few days before spring planting, the new house was finally completed. From the outside, it looked like an ordinary brick and tile house, except that the earthen wall of the yard fence had been replaced with a protective wall made of blue bricks.
But when you walk into the house, it is absolutely amazing. The layout and furniture are mostly in the style of here, but some small details have been changed.
First of all, the floor of the entire house is covered with bluestone floors like the courtyards in the town. Both the visual effect and the tactile effect when stepping on it are definitely not comparable to the mud floors of ordinary farmhouses.
The second is the bedroom. On top of the bluestone floor, Pei Shaorong added a layer of wooden floor, which everyone found very novel.
Many workers thought that they would do the same when renovating their own houses in the future. After all, the wood for the floor can be cut in the mountains, it doesn’t cost money, and it looks beautiful and is comfortable to walk on.
As for the toilet and bathroom, Pei Shaorong also designed and built them carefully. He was determined not to use the ancient method of digging a pit and building a shed for the toilet, which was really too torturous!
Because Pei Shaorong was willing to spend money, most of the houses were renovated with blue bricks and huge stones. The blue bricks here were actually cut out of stones, not burned, so they were very strong, and the houses built with them were also exceptionally solid.
Since there are few family members in the family, Pei Shaorong did not build a too big house. It only has three bedrooms and a large living room. One room is for adults, one is for future children, and one is reserved as a guest room to entertain guests.
In addition to this, there is a kitchen, toilet, bathroom, and a small utility room. As for the place to store food and other things, we will just use the old house and cellar where we live now.
The new house has been basically repaired. We just need to wait for it to air out for a while before moving the remaining furniture and other items in and we can move in.
Renovating the house was indeed a huge expense, especially since Pei Shaorong picked up all the good stuff, so the money spent was even more than expected.
According to the general cost of building a green brick and tile house in the village, it is about fifty taels, but for the Pei family, it is completely different...
First of all, there are blue bricks. When ordinary people build houses, the most money spent is on blue bricks. But people are just building a house, and most of the supporting pillars are replaced by wood, so it would be good to spend at most twenty taels.
But when it came to Pei's house, the cost doubled. There was nothing he could do about it, because he had built a protective wall, which cost him forty taels of silver!
In addition to the blue bricks, another expense for the Pei family to repair the house was the anti-theft iron teeth on the gate and the protective wall. You know, ironware is not cheap here, but Pei Shaorong also replaced all the doors of his house with iron...
There are also the tiles on the roof, the furniture in the house, the wages of the workers, the cost of providing meals for everyone during the work, etc. Adding together, the Pei family spent a total of more than one hundred taels of silver on repairing the house.
This amount of silver is not much for the Pei family now, it is definitely a small amount, but for the villagers it is a big number.
Fortunately, everyone guessed that the Pei family spent a lot of money on repairing the house, but they didn’t know the exact number, otherwise the Pei family would definitely become the focus of the village!
But even so, Pei Shaorong's newly built house has become a hot topic in the village. Now no one dares to say that he is poor. Now the Pei family is a well-off family with houses and fields.
Because the house they built this time was so grand and showed off their wealth, many people in the village started to hang around Pei Shaorong and Mo Xiaobao recently.
He tried to find out in various ways how much his family had earned during this trip to Yueyang City. His intention to extort money was too obvious. Even Old Man Mo came to his house because he wanted to know the results of their business.
Pei Shaorong also knew that the house he built would definitely become the focus of everyone's discussion and be labeled as "rich".
But this house is indeed a big deal and cannot be dealt with casually. Therefore, when facing people from the village who came to inquire, Pei Shaorong was ready to deal with it and pretend to be stupid and poor!
Only Abao and I know how much money our family has earned. As long as they don't tell us, who would know how much they have earned?
The villagers asked what kind of business they did in Yueyang City, and Pei Shaorong did not hide it. Some villagers had seen their hawthorn preserves before.
If these people are willing to invest money and dare to take the risk of losing money to make preserved fruits, he has no objection.
He couldn't guarantee whether he would make a profit or a loss at that time, but he believed that few people in the village would be willing to make such a large investment in buying sugar...
In the following days, Pei Shaorong and Mo Xiaobao acted in front of others as if they had spent all the money they had just earned and were worried about the future, which made many villagers believe them.
It is reasonable to use the money earned to buy fields and build houses. Other people in the village would do the same. After all, the men of the Pei family moved here from outside and didn't even have any fields at the beginning. Now that they have settled down and married, they naturally have to prepare for their living.
Moreover, many villagers also reacted when they recalled how Pei Shaorong looked when he first came. Although everyone had been talking about the poor men of the Pei family at that time, they never said that they were poor from beginning to end, and they usually wore fine cotton clothes.
Look at her figure and appearance, she doesn't look poor at all. Her "unique" temperament doesn't look like someone who comes from a poor family at all!
No matter what everyone thinks or sees it, once spring planting arrives, no one has time to chat or gossip, and all their energy is focused on farming and sowing.
When he started farming, Pei Shaorong finally understood why farmers in ancient times attached so much importance to male adults. All the work in the fields had to be done by men, otherwise the whole family would starve.
He had ten acres of land, and it was impossible for him and Abao to cultivate it all. Even if they could finish it, they would be exhausted. Pei Shaorong had no choice but to spend money to hire someone to help.
Originally, Father Mo had planned to have Pei Shaorong, his adopted son-in-law, and Mo Xiaobao go home to help him farm the land, but who would have known that Pei Shaorong would buy the land so quickly.
Not only did he buy a field, he also bought ten acres. He couldn't go home to help him farm anymore, which made Old Man Mo very depressed. Why couldn't any of his previous plans come true?
After finding two honest men in the village to help, Pei Shaorong and Mo Xiaobao also started to get busy.
After staying in the village for so long, Pei Shaorong also knew how to farm, but this was his first time putting it into practice, and the results were not as good as he expected.
But the young man Mo Xiaobao was much better than him at farm work. Ever since the sowing began, Mo Xiaobao began to show his prowess, justifying to Pei Shaorong the name the villagers had previously given him as a 'capable' young man!
Once all the grain seeds and fruit seedlings have been sown and planted, the busy spring farming season is basically over. Every household finally has a little free time, and all that remains is the daily maintenance of the fields.
The Pei family was no longer busy. The newly renovated house had been dried and ventilated. Pei Shaorong and Mo Xiaobao moved into the new house on an auspicious day with good weather.
There was no such thing as a housewarming party in Linjiang Village, so Pei Shaorong didn't plan to host any banquets. On the day of moving, they just set off firecrackers and had some fun before moving in!
Seeing that the Pei family was living better and better, everyone in the village was envious and jealous, and the most jealous one among them was Liu Meihua.
Thinking back to the time when she had snatched her man away from someone else, Liu Meihua felt particularly uncomfortable seeing that Mo Xiaobao was eating and wearing better than her, and that he had been called poor before but was now buying land and building a house.
She also recalled that during the Chinese New Year, because of Pei Shaorong's trouble, her family didn't even have pork to eat. Later, Mo Xiaobao and Pei Shaorong went for a stroll in Yueyang City, which aroused the envy of all the villagers. Liu Meihua felt even more upset.
Isn't it just wearing cotton clothes, living in a new house, and going to Yueyang City? What's so great about that? Her husband can also earn money to let her wear cotton clothes, live in a new house, and go to Yueyang City!
Liu Meihua was not convinced that Mo Xiaobao was better than her, so she decided to build a blue brick house to make the villagers envy her.
"Boss, now that the family is not busy, why don't you go to the next village to quarry stones? You will be paid 30 cents a day, and there will be extra money for each piece of bluestone you quarry. Go ahead, and next year we will also build a blue brick house!" Liu Meihua encouraged.
"Boss, we have to make money quickly while we are still young and strong. Mining stones may be tiring, but it can bring a lot of money..."
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Wang Afu could hardly believe his ears. There was a stone mountain in the next door Xinghua Village. The bluestone on it was the source of blue bricks. The whole mountain was owned by a wealthy master, who set up a stone mining team with very attractive wages.
But the problem is that it is too tiring and too dangerous. If you are not careful, you may be killed by falling rocks from the mountain. Many people give up. Generally, people at home will not do that job unless they have no other choice. If they are not careful, they may lose their lives.
Wang Afu was somewhat unwilling. Although his family was not rich, they were not too poor either. They had fields, land, and food. It was not to the point where they had to risk their lives...
Liu Meihua also knew that it was a bit dangerous to let her husband go to work, but there was a lot of money, and she could not earn it without taking risks. Was her family going to be poor all their lives, living in such a broken hut that leaks when it rains?
When Liu Meihua thought about Mo Xiaobao's current life and her own life, she felt unfair and aggrieved. Why was she so blind to fall in love with Wang Afu in the first place?
Because of a man like Wang Afu, not only did she bear the reputation of stealing other people's husbands, but when she got married, she even wore Wang Afu's mother's old clothes as her wedding dress. She has not been able to live a good life even after being married for so long.
No, I can’t keep living in this shabby hut. I must build a house that is better than Pei’s so that everyone will envy my family!
"Wang Ahfu, you useless man, look at the life our family is living now. I have been married to you for so long and have only worn new clothes a few times, but my son can't even have a cake to eat. How can you be the head of the family when you can't even support your wife and son? Woo woo woo..."
"Wuwu, Wang Afu, you are useless. Why was I so blind to fall in love with you in the first place? Wuwuwu, I tell you, you have to do this job, otherwise we will not be together. I will take my son back to my mother's house, wuwuwu..."
Liu Meihua was not a gentle person to begin with, and now she had made up her mind that no matter what, she had to let Wang Afu go mining to earn money so that she could go home and build a big house!
She was throwing a tantrum and making threats, which made Wang Afu feel uncomfortable. When he heard Liu Meihua say that he was useless and that she was blind to like him, Wang Afu felt a little angry.
"That's enough, Liu Meihua. You keep yelling at me all day long. Are you annoying? You just make trouble all day long. If I had known, I would have married Abao back then..."
"...Wang Ahfu, you are such a heartless person. I know that you still have that bitch Mo Xiaobao in your heart. Tell me, if Mo Xiaobao wasn't married now, would you marry him back? Ah, tell me, you have no conscience. Woo woo woo, I won't live any longer, I won't live any longer..."
When Liu Meihua heard Wang Afu say that he regretted marrying her, she immediately got furious and stood up and started fighting with Wang Afu.
Wang Ahfu was also angry at this time. It was outrageous that a woman dared to fight with her man. She started to fight back in anger, and the two of them started fighting in the room...
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