Uncle Qin's house is not far from the village chief's house. In fact, the entire Linjiang Village is only that big. After walking for less than ten minutes, Pei Shaorong arrived at Uncle Qin's house.
Unlike the village chief's house which was covered with green tiles, Uncle Qin's house was just average. Like most villagers, it had walls made of mud and stones and a roof covered with straw, but the yard was quite large and had a lot of onions and garlic planted in it.
However, before he entered the door, Pei Shaorong heard a woman shouting and cursing in Uncle Qin's yard, and the voice sounded like Aunt Qin's.
Sure enough, as soon as I entered the yard, I saw Aunt Qin yelling at another older woman with an angry face.
"Damn it! Everyone in the village knows what kind of person Er Gou is. Mom, I don't mind if you want to be a Bodhisattva's wife, but we all need help. How can we help others with Yuliang? Besides, can Er Gou help? Don't you know that he borrows but doesn't return?"
"Wife, you can't say that. If we help others when they are in trouble, others will also help us when we are in trouble. This is doing good deeds and it is a good thing..." The woman who was taught a lesson by Aunt Qin retorted with a look of disagreement on her face.
"Besides, Ergou is also a relative of ours, so we should help him if we can..."
"Help, help, help, what the hell? We don't have any relatives like Qin Ergou. Now is our family's difficult time!"
Aunt Qin seemed to be very angry. She threw down the things in her hands and was about to go into the house. Suddenly, she saw Uncle Qin and Pei Shaorong coming in and stopped.
Staring at the woman in front of her with hatred, Aunt Qin suppressed her anger and ran over and said with a smile, "Brother, have you settled your household registration?"
"Well, it's settled. Thank you so much, Uncle Qin and Aunt Qin. This is just a token of my appreciation. Please don't despise me, Aunt Qin..."
Pei Shaorong nodded and handed a bed sheet that had been prepared in his backpack to Aunt Qin. This was a printed bed sheet as a thank you gift as agreed in advance.
“I don’t mind, I don’t mind…” Aunt Qin hurriedly took the bed sheet. The comfortable feel and exquisite pattern made her very satisfied, and even her anger just now subsided a lot.
"Sulan, my uncle has already registered Brother Pei. Brother Pei also bought the house from the Tian family. The roof needs to be repaired, so he will be staying at our house for the next few days..."
"Live in our house?" Aunt Qin's face changed when she heard Uncle Qin's words. She was obviously a little worried, but she hesitated as she touched the bed sheet in her hand.
Seeing this, Pei Shaorong hurriedly said, "Aunt Qin, don't worry. I'm not staying here for free. I'll take care of my own meals. You can figure out how much the accommodation fee is, and I'll pay you when the time comes..."
"Hey, big brother, you are just being polite. Why are you standing there? Hurry up and take big brother into the house..."
When Aunt Qin heard that Pei Shaorong was going to give her money, her expression improved a lot. She asked Uncle Qin to greet Pei Shaorong and she ran back to the house carefully holding the bed sheet.
By the way, he pulled away his mother-in-law who wanted to come over to talk. After a while, Pei Shaorong heard bursts of noise coming from the house again, it was very lively.
Pei Shaorong was a little curious, but didn't ask much. He followed Uncle Qin to his room, thanked him, and closed the door.
"call……"
Pei Shaorong let out a sigh, put down his backpack, and looked around the simple house. Although it was shabby, it still looked clean. He decided to just make do with it for now, which was better than worrying about attacks from poisonous snakes and wild beasts in the wild.
Since everyone said they had taken care of the food themselves, Pei Shaorong did not attend the dinner at Uncle Qin's house.
I took a stainless steel basin and asked Aunt Qin for a basin of hot water. I went back to the house, soaked two bags of instant noodles, and cut a bag of braised meat and eggs for dinner.
When asking for hot water, Pei Shaorong took a look at the Qin family's food and was immediately glad that he was not sharing the meal. He had no appetite for the black dough and pickles.
After experiencing the end of the world and living again, Pei Shaorong would never mistreat himself in this life, but he would never mistreat his stomach!
In the next few days, Pei Shaorong had a deeper understanding of his environment and also got to know Uncle Qin's family.
Speaking of which, Uncle Qin's family is quite famous in the village. It's not because he is a relative of the village chief, but because of his mother. Besides, this small village is so small that it is not uncommon for any family to be related.
Uncle Qin's wife, Mrs. Liu, is a kind person if you put it nicely, but a pushover if you put it bluntly, and a very rare kind at that!
Being a good person is actually very commendable, but the strange thing is that Liu is simply pathological. He is the kind of fool who would rather starve to death than help others.
If you say you want to help, then I will help. But you have to look at who you are helping, whether it is worth helping, and whether you have the ability to help. Can you help the village scoundrel who does nothing all day long?
The lazy and gluttonous people in the village could often coax Liu into giving away the food at home with just a few nice words. She also often went to the town to help beggars, so that the Qin family could only drink clear soup even though they could have eaten dry rice.
Aunt Qin was so angry that she really wanted to eat her up, but she couldn't do anything about it. There was nothing she could do. Etiquette was there, and as a daughter-in-law, no matter how aggressive Aunt Qin was, she could not be more powerful than the elders in the family, her parents-in-law.
In theory, Liu's good deeds are admirable, but there is something wrong with the people she rescued. They are all lazy hooligans in the village and the beggars with the worst behavior in the town. From beginning to end, they treated her as a sucker and never remembered her for anything good.
But Liu couldn't realize that the other person had never even looked at her or thanked her in the slightest. As long as someone said a nice word to her, she would be so happy that she didn't know which way to go. She didn't help anyone and instead provoked a group of vampires.
Besides, the Qin family is not a wealthy family. The food and drink of the four people in the family, young and old, all depend on Uncle Qin farming alone, and Aunt Qin does some simple odd jobs to earn money to supplement the family income.
The Qin family lives a tight life, so how can they have extra money to help others?
Liu was so good, she spent the whole day tinkering with things at home and giving them away. From beginning to end, Liu never thought that her doing good deeds and being taken advantage of was all based on the pain and helplessness of other people in the Qin family...
At first, the Qin family was considered a wealthy family in the village, but because Qin's father married Liu, such a good-for-nothing, the family fortune was squandered by her bit by bit.
In the end, the old man of the Qin family died because Liu used the family's money to help beggars and then fell ill and had no money to buy medicine...
After Old Man Qin died and Uncle Qin was still young, Liu became even more generous and charitable without any scruples, and she completely ruined the Qin family's remaining assets.
When Uncle Qin grew up, he was a very filial and honest man, and he believed everything his mother said.
In the village, as long as someone is in trouble and there is work to be done, Uncle Qin will be instigated by his mother to help, and it is free. Not only does he not get paid for helping, but he also has to pay for his meals.
The Qin family had an overly nice mother and a foolishly filial, honest and obedient son, which naturally made the family poorer and poorer. It was not until Uncle Qin married Aunt Qin that life began to get better little by little.
Aunt Qin is from the next village. Because of her hot-tempered temper, she couldn't get married even in her twenties. In the end, she was married to Uncle Qin.
Fortunately, Aunt Qin was a strong-willed person who was able to control the strange mother and son of the Qin family. Although she could not completely cure Liu's saintly complex, she at least made her restrain herself.
After the marriage, Uncle Qin also listened to her and gave all the money in the family to her. This made the Qin family better off and they bought land and property again.
Otherwise, which family in the village could tolerate Liu's kind-hearted personality? In a wealthy family, she would be considered a living Bodhisattva, but in a poor family, Liu would be a disaster!
No, Liu is a disaster in the Qin family at this moment. Pei Shaorong has lived in the Qin family for a few days and has already witnessed how saintly Liu is.
The speed at which Liu family gave away money and grain for free was as amazing as the crops in the south, with three harvests a year and never a break!
He had seen Liu secretly giving away Qin's things countless times. Before, when he saw that the Qin family had poor food, he thought that the entire ancient common people were like this. It turned out that it was all caused by this saintly Liu.
No wonder Aunt Qin is so calculating and calculating. When she heard that he wanted to stay overnight, her face changed immediately. It seemed that she was frightened by the Saint Mother Liu, and now the thing she hates most in her life is doing good things for free!
After getting a general understanding of the situation in the village, Pei Shaorong's mind was still on his newly bought house.
He had already seen the house and found it had indeed been empty for many years. The weeds in the yard were almost as tall as a person. Fortunately, the walls were built solidly and had not been weathered, but there were some problems with the roof.
According to what the village chief and Uncle Qin said, the roof was just leaking a little bit, but when Pei Shaorong went to check it out, he discovered that it was not just a little bit, the entire roof was almost gone...
It was impossible to repair it, so Pei Shaorong decided to simply re-roof the house. Instead of using straw, he would directly use the same green tiles as the ones used in the village chief's house, which were strong and long-lasting.
He also had to clean up the house. Almost all the furniture was unusable, so he had to buy new ones. Things like the kitchen also had to be repaired.
After finishing the calculation, Pei Shaorong wailed in his heart. It turned out that in the end he spent three strings of money just to buy a few walls. Who said that people in ancient times were honest? Just stand up and punch them to death!
Pei Shaorong was too busy building the roof and cleaning the house by himself, and he didn't know many people in the village, so he had to ask the Qin family for help.
Uncle Qin was a kind and honest man, so naturally he didn't refuse. Aunt Qin got his bed sheets and a pound of noodles from him, so she liked him even more and started to arrange things for him enthusiastically.
Although the work of building the roof and cleaning the house looked troublesome, it actually did not require many people. Aunt Qin found two strong men from the village to help him.
After all the workers were found and Uncle Qin also helped to deliver the materials, Pei Shaorong asked Aunt Qin to help organize the workers to work, and he went to the town to buy furniture. There was no other way, everything in the house had to be bought new!
In ancient times, there were very few ready-made furniture for sale, let alone specialized furniture markets like we have today. If people wanted to buy large items, they had to go to a carpenter to have them custom-made.
Although he had a lot of silver on him, Pei Shaorong had no intention of spending it all at once. He had not found a job to make money yet, and it was impossible for him to keep selling things in the space, so he had to use the silver wisely.
Large pieces of furniture in ancient times were not cheap. It cost Pei Shaorong nearly ten taels of silver to make necessary items such as beds, cabinets, tables, and chairs.
No wonder people in ancient times didn’t buy furniture easily, and no wonder the village chief sold the house to himself at such a low price.
The soil and stones used to build the house were all locally available and had little cost. The furniture that came with the house were valuable. Even the furniture that originally came with his house was a pile of junk.
After customizing the large pieces of furniture, Pei Shaorong wandered around the town for a while and then returned to the village. After the house was ready, he would add some small items and start living there.
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