Chapter 32
Qin Fangniang said she wanted to send some vegetable seeds to Sang Luo. After the lunch break, Mrs. Chen packed them herself and delivered them, along with two ceramic basins that the Chen family had vacated.
She didn't go in either. She just stood outside the hut and called Sang Luo out. She brought in the pottery basin that Chen An and Chen Ning had followed out. Then she handed the vegetable seeds to Sang Luo and explained in detail what each one was. Then she got to the point and asked Sang Luo if she wanted to build a kitchen.
Sang Luo: ???!!!!!!
Isn't this like giving a pillow to someone when they feel sleepy?
Of course you have to!
She smiled brightly: "How could it be such a coincidence? I was thinking about this this afternoon. There are so many things to do, and my little house is really a bit shabby. To be honest, I want to build another wall around the yard, otherwise it will be unsafe in winter. I was thinking of saving some money and then discussing with you to help me find some helpers."
Granny Chen looked around and sighed, "We should fence it in. It would be ok if there is no heavy snow in winter. If there is heavy snow, the wild animals in the mountains will probably come out to look for food."
Isn't the thatched house built by the eldest branch of the Shen family, a single-family house in the mountains, the best target to be attacked first?
"Since you have this plan, you have to hurry up and do it before the busy farming season. No one will be able to spare the time when the busy farming season comes. You don't have to worry about how much money you can save. The village doesn't care about paying workers when building houses. People who get along well with you can lend a hand. Your grandfather and uncle can come over to our house, and the village will help you recruit a few people. You just need to prepare the materials and take care of the meals."
"As for the materials, it's simple. You can cut the wood on the mountain, or you can cut the ownerless wood in the mountains. Then find some good yellow clay. I have straw at home. Ask Uncle Tian to pick it for you later."
Thinking that they have nothing now, not even a man in charge, he said, "You can ask Uncle Tian to call a few people to help you cut down trees. It's hard work if you are willing. The food should be a little better. Don't eat dry food, cook it thicker and cook a few home-cooked dishes."
These days, being able to save food for the family is considered a profit.
This is all because of her worries.
Sang Luo smiled and agreed immediately. After thinking for a while, she said, "How about we start the day after tomorrow? I'll go to your house in the evening to borrow a mortar to pound rice. I'll ask Grandpa and Uncle Youtian for specific preparations."
With the money she earns from the stall tomorrow, she will be able to buy food the day after tomorrow.
"Before the stove is built, we may have to borrow your space to prepare food. We only have a small clay pot at home, and we really can't make decent food."
"Okay, it's no problem." Mrs. Chen agreed readily.
After the matter was settled, Mrs. Chen looked at the land that Sang Luo had opened up behind the house, and gave some instructions on which vegetables had to be planted and grown by what time at the latest. She told Qin Fangniang to ask more questions if she didn't know, and then went home.
As soon as Mrs. Chen left, brother and sister Shen An and Shen Ning almost jumped up on the spot.
If you want to build a house at home, even if you just build a kitchen and surround a yard, it is still building a house.
"Sister-in-law, where should we build our kitchen? How big is the yard?"
In fact, the yard cannot be very big. After all, the house is built on the hillside. No matter how flat the terrain is, how big can the space for building a house be?
Sang Luo was watching too.
She had just forgotten one thing. In addition to the kitchen, the bathroom was also very important. She really couldn't stand the one on the hill behind the house. Not to mention how dirty and disgusting it was, she also had to be careful not to fall in...
"Let's take a look."
She didn't do anything else. She picked up some small stones and took her two little ones to start planning a house around their own open space.
Where is the courtyard wall, where is the gate, where is the kitchen, after they have agreed on one, they use small stones to mark a line on the wild grass, until they talked about building a new toilet closer to the house, Shen An and Shen Ning were full of astonishment, and then shook their heads harder than rattles.
"Sister-in-law, this won't do. It stinks."
“It’s still disgusting.”
Sang Luo thought that she had a way to make this toilet not smelly. In her previous life, she had renovated a small shabby house on the mountain. She knew the structure of a septic tank and how to build it. She didn't say it out loud. Thinking about the yellow clay used to build the house here, she closed her mouth silently.
Bricks are definitely available for sale, and cement substitutes that are higher quality and more waterproof than yellow clay should also be able to be found, but does she have the money?
Okay, it’s okay to save up a little, but is it appropriate?
It's not suitable. It will attract too much wind.
A while ago, a person who almost died of illness and starvation came back to buy bricks to build a hut and a septic tank just a few days ago...
Forget it, think about alternative ways. I already feel guilty about traveling through time, and now I should just set up a stall to make money quietly, and quietly store some food and buy some belongings. It's not a good thing to be too busy.
"Okay, let's make it a bathroom."
As for the toilet, just be patient and put a toilet in the corner of the bathroom instead. It’s not too late to do it when you have more money.
Seeing that their sister-in-law stopped talking and no longer mentioned building the toilet next to the house, Shen An and Shen Ning breathed a sigh of relief.
As they were talking, Shen Jin, carrying his small hoe, followed by Shen Yin and Shen Tie, came up and started working, and Sang Luo stopped talking.
Shen An and Shen Ning went to open up the land, while Sang Luo carried a basket on her back to pick the leaves of the fairy tree.
Today she had to explore one or two more hills inside. She and her brother and sister had almost picked all the suitable leaves of the magical trees that could be found on the nearby hills. Even Chen An and Shen Ning knew that they must not pick up too many leaves, lest others notice something was wrong. Sang Luo naturally knew this as well.
Shen Jin watched Sang Luo carrying the backpack down the mountain and then climbing into another mountain. He approached Chen An curiously and asked, "Chen An, where is your sister-in-law going?"
Chen An frowned, instinctively disliking Shen Jin's disrespectful attitude towards his eldest sister-in-law. He thought to himself that she is also your eldest cousin's sister-in-law. Then he changed his mind and realized that his eldest sister-in-law would not bother with Shen Jin, so his brows relaxed.
"Nothing, just looking for wild vegetables."
Shen Jin's mouth twitched: "You guys still eat wild vegetables every day? Where do you get the money to buy meat and oil residue?"
Shen An glanced at him: “You care so much, are you still going to open up the wasteland?”
"Open, of course." Shen Jin was speechless immediately. Shen An looked as if he wouldn't be able to eat the oil residue if he continued to eat it.
It was a threat, a definite threat, but he was threatened at once and turned around to go to the land that Shen An had allocated for him.
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As for Sang Luo, this time she walked a little further than usual. Picking fairy leaves was her main task, and she also picked other wild vegetables she saw along the way. She stayed in the mountains for more than half an hour and picked a whole basket of fairy leaves and also picked a lot of ferns. On the way back, Sang Luo pressed the leaves hard, and then put the ferns on the surface of the backpack, covering the fairy leaves underneath tightly.
Calculating the amount of tofu to be made in the evening, she ran back and forth to the mountain three times and carried back three baskets of things, including some large leaves suitable for packaging.
Shen Jin was indeed very smart. When he saw the mulberry leaves from a distance, he wished his neck could be stretched into a goose's neck. But when he saw clearly that they were just ferns and lotus leaves, he retracted his neck and continued to work on his land.
He used good tools, and before Shen Zheng had even started, he had cleared the small piece of land that Shen An had allocated to him. Shen An and Shen Ning looked at it together and thought it looked pretty good. Even Shen Ning, who particularly wanted to find fault with him, had nothing to say after scratching it a few times with a stone hoe.
"Just watch, I guarantee that the hoe I made will be much cleaner than that stone hoe of yours!" Shen Jin was so proud that if he had a tail, he would have wagged it by now.
Shen An did not break his promise. He waited for a while, then turned around to wash his hands and went back to the house to get the lard residue.
The two younger ones, Shen Yin and Shen Tie, immediately became anxious. Their second brother hadn't marked the ground for them in the morning, but they were small and weak, so they had to dig with bamboo strips. The ground they dug...
Shen Yin looked at his own and then at his third brother's. He was a little dumbfounded. There was such a huge difference.
Now the third brother can get the oil residue, what about them?
Shen Yin got anxious and got up to pick up the hoe that his third brother had thrown aside. Shen Ning was so scared that he hurriedly stopped him: "You are not even as tall as the hoe handle, and you dare to use this. If you dig your own feet, I will see how you cry."
Shen Yin pursed his lips and looked at the sharp contrast between the two pieces of land. He and Shen Tie stood there dejectedly.
Shen Jin smiled happily: "Don't be in a hurry, dig slowly, it's still early anyway."
As he spoke, he glanced towards the house from time to time. When he saw Shen An coming out, he rushed over in a few steps and stretched out his hand: "Hurry up, give me the oil residue."
Chen An took a look at his half-black and half-flowered hands, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "Don't you want to wash your hands?"
"No need, why wash it? It won't make you sick if you eat it dirty."
Shen An was too lazy to care about him and took a piece of lard residue and put it in Shen An's hand.
Shen Jin's eyes were sharp, and when he saw that Shen An still had some in his hand, his eyes lit up. When Shen An walked over to his two brothers and asked Shen Yin and Shen Tie to wash their hands and eat the oil residue, he immediately shouted, "Shen An, they have it after digging such a small area?"
Shen Yinchentie, who had just been pleasantly surprised, did not expect to be stabbed in the back by his own brother, and he froze in place.
Shen Jin didn't notice that his two younger brothers were hit by his howl and had 100,000 critical hits, and they were questioning their lives. He excitedly caught up with Shen An and bargained: "Then you have to give me two more pieces. I have opened more land than the two of them combined. They each have one piece of land, so I should get at least three pieces."
Chen An glanced at him: "What are you thinking about? This is the price I agreed with you."
Shen Yin and Shen Tie heaved a sigh of relief when they saw that their second brother didn't say no to giving them the food. They ran to the small spring on the mountainside, washed their hands, and rushed back quickly. Seeing that their hands were wet, they wiped them dry on their clothes in two strokes: "Second brother, wash your hands now."
Shen An smiled and gave one piece to each of them.
The two brothers were afraid that their third brother would snatch it away, so they stuffed the pieces into their mouths as soon as they got them. They chewed them for a few times, and their eyes curved with delight at the delicious taste. The younger one said happily, "The oil residue is so fragrant."
The hard work of digging soil, stones and grass roots for several hours suddenly disappeared.
Shen Yin was older and ate happily. He thanked Shen An happily and did not forget to thank Shen Ning who was standing beside him as well.
Shen Jin couldn't do it anymore. He had already finished a piece of oil residue. Seeing his two brothers chewing, he jumped up and said, "Shen An, this is not fair. Why should it be the same whether you hoe more or less?"
Shen An smiled: "Based on their sweet talk and obedience, they are definitely different from you who always talk about begging."
Sang Luo, who was spinning hemp under the eaves, almost laughed out loud when she heard this.
Grab the bamboo shoots.
But if the target is Shen Jin, she just wants to say: Well done!
Sang Luo didn't laugh out loud, but Shen Ning laughed, and laughed very loudly. Ever since her second brother promised to give Shen Jin lard to eat when he reclaimed the land, the little girl has been upset. Now seeing Shen Jin jumping up and down, she felt so relieved and refreshed.
Shen Yin chewed a piece of oil residue and ate it. He licked the palms of his fingers that had just pinched the oil residue. The two brothers were very happy. However, seeing that their third brother kept complaining about the small amount of land they opened, Shen Yin, who already knew some things, hurriedly said: "Second brother, I will continue with the land I haven't opened yet. I will come tomorrow, a little slower, but I can open as much as the third brother."
Chen Tie was his fourth brother's little follower, and he nodded quickly, saying in a baby voice, "Second brother, I'm good too."
Shen Jin stared at the two boys, and was so angry that he really wanted to ask who they were being nice to, who is your real brother! ?
However, he smacked his lips and teeth to taste the rich fragrance, then tactfully swallowed the words.
The one with the oil residue is my brother.
As soon as he lowered his eyes, he saw Shen Tie sticking out his tongue to lick the palm of his hand, with an intoxicated look on his face. Shen Jin's hand couldn't help but move, and then he raised it up. As a result, when he lowered his eyes, he saw black...
This is a bit hard to lick.
Shen Jin swallowed his saliva, looked up at Chen An, looked at the small plot of land opened by his two younger brothers, and then looked at the large plot he opened. He was unwilling but couldn't resist the delicious oil residue, so he finally gave in and said, "I'll open another plot, will you give me the oil residue?"
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