Chapter 206 Earth Bricks

The furniture in the compound had not been used for very long, so it was at least 80% to 90% new.

If there was really no place to put it, Liu Yinyin would be willing to sell it.

They didn't have to move out immediately. Gu Cheng made an agreement with his colleague that the furniture would be given to him in a month.

Liu Yinyin held the pork and turned to ask Gu Cheng: "How about we make dumplings for dinner? Let's make dumplings filled with pork and cabbage?"

We haven't eaten dumplings at home for a long time, so it's a good time to change the taste.

Gu Cheng naturally had no objection: "Okay."

Colleague Gu Cheng was very polite. This piece of pork weighs at least two kilograms, enough to make a lot of dumplings.

Liu Yinyin scooped up a few bowls of white flour and mixed it with noodles.

Gu Cheng was helping to chop the meat...

After working for a while, the couple finally finished wrapping the dumplings stuffed with cabbage and pork, and it was already dark outside.

Liu Yinyin quickly boiled a pot of dumplings.

She counted them and found that they had made a total of 140 dumplings.

Liu Yinyin plans to cook forty of them.

The remaining one hundred dumplings were placed in a basket and hung outside to freeze.

The weather is cold, and the dumplings will freeze after being left outside for a short time, so they won't go bad in a short time.

It's very convenient to just cook some when you want to eat it.

Liu Yinyin thought that she could make more dumplings and store them to eat slowly, and she could also make some buns.

This saves her from having to cook every day. It’s quite cold to cook in such a cold day.

A few days passed by unknowingly, and today Gu Cheng took a rest.

Early in the morning, he went to Liu's house to help build an earthen stove.

The snow has been a little lighter these two days, but the temperature is still as low as usual.

Liu Yinyin added two pieces of firewood into the earthen stove and picked a handful of pea seedlings.

The pea sprouts in the field are ready to eat, and most of the other vegetables have sprouted as well.

Liu Yinyin served very attentively, and the vegetables in the pigpen were growing well.

Liu Yinyin carried a basket to Liu's house and gave the pea seedlings to Jiang Cuihua: "I just picked them. Let you taste them."

Jiang Cuihua said in amazement: "Wow! They look almost the same as those grown in the fields. This is really great."

Jiang Cuihua was extremely excited at the thought of being able to eat fresh vegetables all year round.

She even had a secret plan in her mind to build another house specifically for growing vegetables.

Liu Yinyin asked in surprise: "Build a house?"

She didn't expect Jiang Cuihua to have such an idea. It seemed that she attached great importance to growing vegetables. You know, when the Liu brothers got married, she never thought of building a house.

"Yes." Jiang Cuihua nodded. She made this decision after careful consideration.

"I thought, if we grow more vegetables at home, not only can we eat them, but we can also take them to the county town to exchange for food. I heard that the housing conditions in the county town are very tight, and they definitely don't have a place to grow vegetables."

In this way, only the country people have the conditions to grow vegetables at home, and they will definitely have no trouble selling the vegetables they grow.

Besides, growing vegetables in one's own home does not count as digging into the collective wall.

As long as you are careful when selling vegetables, nothing will go wrong.

Liu Yinyin didn't expect that she would even consider this, but she thought Jiang Cuihua's idea was good.

"Mom, I think it can work."

If this is true, the Liu family will definitely live better and better in the future.

Jiang Cuihua smiled and said, "I'll ask your father to go to the village and borrow some bricks later."

It is not suitable to build a house in cold weather because the soil underneath is frozen, so we cannot dig the foundation or lay bricks. We can only borrow some.

But when building a house for growing vegetables, of course you have to make it as simple as possible; a thatched house will be enough.

As long as they could borrow bricks, everything else would be easy. Liu Lai Fu and his sons could build the house by themselves without having to hire anyone for help.

Liu Yinyin was silent for a moment, then said, "Oh, by the way, Mom, what if others knew that we were growing vegetables this way and refused to lend us the bricks?"

Not to mention others, with such a big move by the Liu family, it is impossible for the neighbors to not have any suspicion.

If other people knew that they could build an earthen stove in the house to grow vegetables, wouldn't there be a craze for building earthen stoves in the village?

By then, earthen bricks will be in great demand.

The fact of growing vegetables could not be hidden from the villagers.

It is not difficult to borrow earthen bricks, but what Jiang Cuihua is afraid of is that even if she borrows the earthen bricks, what if someone else asks to take them back later?

We can't tear down the house again, can we?

Jiang Cuihua pondered for a moment, gritted her teeth and said, "How about... spend money to buy it?"

There's no reason to take back something you bought, right?

I just don't have much money at home, so buying earthen bricks is not a wise move.

Liu Yinyin thought about it and suggested, "Mom, actually, if you want to buy bricks, you don't have to pay."

Jiang Cuihua was stunned: "...If you don't give me money, what can I give you? They can't just give us bricks for free!"

Jiang Cuihua would certainly be reluctant to give food to him. If that were the case, she would rather spend money to buy it.

Food is life these days, no one can sell food.

Liu Yinyin thought: "However, I see Gu Cheng is teaching the brothers how to build an earthen stove. The rest of the village probably don't know how to do it yet."

"When the time comes, I can teach them how to build an earthen fireplace in exchange for the bricks I borrowed."

Since the villagers don't know how to build earthen stoves yet, the Liu family can take advantage of this opportunity to gain some benefits.

Jiang Cuihua's eyes lit up when she heard this: "...That's fine too, but it's too early to talk about it now, let's talk about it later."

The most urgent task is to build the earthen stove and the house first.

The Liu family had an empty room for growing vegetables, which was exactly the room where Liu Lai Fu and Jiang Cui Hua slept.

There was no other way. There were only four main rooms in the house, and the old couple and their sons each had one room.

The other sons are all married, and it would not be appropriate to ask any of them to give up the room.

As a last resort, the old couple had to give up their room and build an earthen stove in the room to grow vegetables.

As for where the old couple lives now, it is very simple. They just set up a bed in the main room to sleep.

Liu Yinyin was a little worried when she heard this: "Will it be cold?"

It's so cold now. If I get frozen while growing vegetables, it would be a waste of time.

"Why are you cold?" Jiang Cuihua said nonchalantly, "Put a stove next to you, it's warm."

It's just because the weather is cold that they need to do this. The old couple can just hold on and get through it.

Liu Yinyin: “…”

When she moves out, I can let the old couple move in with her and help her look after the house.

However, the matter has not been finalized yet. Liu Yinyin thought about it and decided not to mention it to Jiang Cuihua for the time being.

The Liu family's room is large, and the earthen stove they build is relatively large as well.

Gu Cheng was now very experienced. He brought several brothers from the Liu family and worked for quite a while before they finished building the earthen stove.