Cleaning the new house
The busy days passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, people took off their thin summer clothes and put on long sleeves and trousers.
It's the school year again, some are happy while others are worried.
Seven-year-old Niu Niu and Qin Sen carried their small schoolbags and stepped into the campus with curiosity on their faces. Also registered was Qin Shu, who is one year younger than the other two and is just six and a half years old this year.
The registration is very strict now, especially for the town’s central primary school. If you are seven years old, you are seven years old. Qin Wenli originally planned to wait a year and register directly to the town’s school. But seeing that all the children in the village had gone to school, there was only one little figure left who looked particularly lonely, so he went to find the principal of Xiaogou Village Primary School to register.
Qin Shu burst into laughter and happily carried his schoolbag to school.
But Qin Ling hid with the old lady and cried because she couldn't go to school anymore.
Liu Rong was determined not to let him go this year, even if Chen Xiulian offered money. No one could convince him to go. Qin Ling witnessed several waves of adults arguing about her going to school, and she gritted her teeth and stood up to say that she didn't like going to school.
Liu Rong immediately looked at everyone proudly: This damn girl can't even explain herself, so don't meddle in other people's business.
Qin Wen Zheng could see that Qin Ling didn't want to embarrass the adults, and it was because he saw it that he felt even more sad.
In the evening, when drinking with Qin Wenli, he gritted his teeth in anger: "Wenqing... I really don't know what he is thinking. Lingling is his own daughter. Anyone else could go and talk to him, but he just hid in the room without even showing his face."
As he spoke, he grabbed a few peanuts and threw them into his mouth, chewing them with a crunching sound: "Today it's just the two of us, I'm going to say something I shouldn't say. There are only two children in total, and I heard that Gangzi has changed his surname. He only relies on Lingling, and he still lets Liu Rong abuse him. Will the children be filial to him in the future?"
Qin Wenli couldn't figure out what Qin Wenqing was thinking. He is not like others who love his own children because of the love they receive from others. He loves no one. Liu Rong scolded him a lot for this, saying that he thought her child was a burden and looked down on her. You can scold me all you want, but I don't love anyone anyway.
Sometimes Qin Wenli felt that he was not like a father at all, but more like a child who had not grown up. He had no burden and did things according to his own will.
Seeing that he was silent, Qin Wenzhen also raised his glass and drank it all in one gulp.
"Well, let him be. Your sister-in-law always advises me not to meddle in other people's affairs, but I always think that we are brothers after all. Putting him aside, Lingling still calls me uncle, but...well, forget it, this is the child's fate."
"It's just bad luck that I met this unreliable pair of parents. What can I do?" Hu Yufeng's eyes were filled with tears as she looked at the crying Qin Ling.
"If you are willing, even if she doesn't let you go, you can go find your two sisters and your second uncle when you are free. They will teach you everything they know. Don't give up on yourself. You are only ten years old, and you still have a long way to go. You need to learn more words so that you can gain a foothold in the outside world."
Qin Ling wiped her tears silently and nodded with sobs.
"You are still young now, so you need to pay more attention to my expression every day. It is better to be scolded than to be scolded. When you grow up, you will have a place to eat."
Qin Ling listened quietly while the old lady rubbed her back.
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As soon as the children started school, the house became quiet. In the first few days, not only the old lady, but also Hu Yufeng was not used to it. She would look out the door before four o'clock every day.
After a while, I got used to it because it was time for the autumn harvest.
Although the pace of autumn harvest is not as fast as that of summer harvest, she is still very busy and she even wants to look up to the sky and shout: When will this day end?
When? I'm afraid he'll just die and be buried in the ground!
After all, life is a bunch of desires, and people are driven by desires as long as they are alive. Once you have money, you want more money; once you have a house, you want to live in a high-rise building. It’s endless, so it never stops.
Whenever she felt tired, she would think about the refrigerator she wanted and the food factory she wanted to start. Well, it actually worked and she immediately felt full of strength.
After the autumn harvest, I finally have some free time. I can clean up the house that has been left empty for five months and move in.
The doors and windows of the new house were all installed in June. The hand-carved wooden windows are of excellent workmanship. Hu Yufeng couldn't stop praising them and simply gave the two of them the responsibility of making the tables, chairs and wardrobes in her home.
For this, Qin Wenli even took her and the two carpenters into the city, saying that they were going to visit a furniture store to learn and see what the fashions were.
When they saw something they liked, they would ask her to point it out to them. As a professional, the two of them would look at it carefully after listening to her introduction, and nodded to Hu Yufeng when they had an idea of what it was.
After visiting several companies, Qi's brother-in-law secretly told her that he could also make sofas. Hu Yufeng looked at his bald head with shining eyes. He could learn it just by looking at it. Is this what it means to be extremely smart?
Qi's brother-in-law touched his smooth head embarrassedly.
So the two men took the carpenter and his apprentice to go shopping. Hardware such as hinges and screws were indispensable. Springs and sponges for making sofas were also bought. They also treated the two men to a meal of stewed beef and then went home satisfied.
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This was the second time Hu Yufeng came in after the furniture was finished.
When you push open the door, you will see a wide and spacious blue brick floor. The blue bricks were bought with the money earned from selling ten sheep and business. No one else was asked to pave the yard. Qin Wenli and Qin Shengtian were the only ones pulling the ropes, and the yard was paved quite smoothly.
The three rooms in the middle are the main rooms, the two large rooms on the left are the living rooms, and the small suite on the right is her bedroom. The side rooms on the left and right of the main hall are one the old lady's room and the other one Qin Shengtian's room.
Yes, she was going to officially separate from Qin Shengtian. In the past, the kang was big and consumed a lot of firewood, so people had no choice but to sleep together. Now, everyone has a small kang, so this problem no longer exists.
She thought that Qin Wenli or Qin Shengtian would object if she brought this up, but she didn't expect that both of them had no objection, and it even seemed that Qin Shengtian was a little excited? !
Qin Shengtian: Yes, I am finally not under the tiger’s nose. I am happy even when smoking.
There are three rooms in the west wing. The one closest to the upper room is the room of Qin Wenli and his wife, and to the left are the rooms of Qin Yu and Qin Shu respectively.
The children are already grown up, but Wenli and his wife are still young, so it is not good for them to live together anymore. No matter whether they can stay there or not, a room will be prepared for each of them.
A small room was left on the west side of the courtyard wall, in preparation for building a bathroom in the future.
The two rooms on the east side next to the upper house were connected to serve as a kitchen. There was also a kang next to the kitchen so that relatives could stay there when they came.
A row of houses was built next to the gate to store grain.
Isn't there a five-meter-wide corridor between the new yard and the old yard? Hu Yufeng originally planned to open a small door in each yard, and then block both ends of the corridor to store coal and firewood.
As a result, Zhao Yinyang accused her of doing things recklessly, and as soon as the square courtyard door was opened, all the wealth she had gathered ran away.
Hu Yufeng immediately stopped thinking.
In fact, it is quite good this way. The two courtyards do not disturb each other. Otherwise, if my eldest brother takes it over in the future, he will accuse her of spying on me.
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Looking around, Hu Yufeng found that there was dust everywhere. It would be abnormal if there was no dust in the Northwest after a windy autumn.
She couldn't handle it all by herself, so she simply asked Qin Ling and Qin Fang to help with cleaning and tidying up for ten yuan each.
Qin Fang stopped going to school after graduating from elementary school. She said she couldn't concentrate on learning and refused to do so no matter what, so Qin Wenzhen had to give up. However, Hu Yufeng knew that the child had secretly dated someone, the eldest daughter of the widowed mother in the second team next door who had four sons and two daughters.
Qin Ling and Qin Fang were very happy to be able to make money. Even though the money they earned went into their parents' pockets when they got home, it was truly the first reward they received for their own labor.
Because the two kids cleaned particularly hard, the three of them finished cleaning up in half a day.
The moving date is in two days, so we have to heat the kang from now on. Once the kang is heated, the whole house will be warm.
Thinking of this, Hu Yufeng picked up two baskets and went to fetch firewood. She is usually impatient to heat the kang, but is she burning the kang today? This was clearly the fire of hope for a better life for her family, burning as she hummed a tune she heard on the street. One kang, two kangs... When the third kang was burned, Hu Yufeng got annoyed. It turned out that this was not her job.
With a flick of the ash rake, it is clear that everyone has long arms, so whose kang should be burned!
Qin Shengtian just passed by the house and was surprised to see smoke coming out of the three chimneys. The next second he stopped and shouted:
"I burned your kang, you have to come back and burn the remaining two kangs!" Then he turned and left.
Qin Shengtian scratched his head: What's there to pay back? Just give orders directly. You don't act like you're pursuing fairness.
It happened to be Friday, and Qin Wenli came back with Yang Xiu and Qin Yu in the afternoon.
As soon as the mother and daughter got out of the car, they greeted the old man and went straight to the new house.
The house has a suspended ceiling, and the snow-white roof against the pink walls makes the house look large and bright. Next to the ceiling is a white electrical box about one and a half fingers wide, with a switch connected vertically near the head of the kang.
The wooden window frames and doors were only given a layer of varnish, giving off a warm wooden luster.
There is a large wardrobe in each adult's room, which looks similar to the ones I have seen in the city. There was also a set of sofas in the main room. She had only sat on them at her second brother Wenli's house. Now she couldn't help but sit on them to try them out. They were indeed comfortable and sturdy.
Yang Xiu looked around inside and outside and nodded with satisfaction.
For people in rural areas, whoever can afford to build a new house means that they live a prosperous life. So this is not just a yard, but also a symbol of her family's escape from poverty, a new beginning and new hope for the family.
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September 28th is a good day to move.
Early in the morning, Huizi came early to help the family pack.
The bedding in each room was arranged neatly yesterday, and today the main task is to move old furniture and daily necessities.
Even though it’s only a few steps away, this is a family with four generations living together. The youngest has lived in the old house for seven years, and there are quite a few odds and ends.
The large wardrobe in Yang Xiu's room was her dowry, and it was also made of fine wood. She has always taken good care of things. After using them for ten years, they are still as good as new. I couldn't bear to leave it in the old house, so I wanted to move to Qin Yu's house.
The same goes for Hu Yufeng's wooden box. Although it is not made of good wood, it is the only thing her family can show off, so naturally it has to be kept.
The rest of the wardrobe boxes were left in the old house.
The new kitchen was fully equipped with cabinets and chopping boards. Hu Yufeng left the old house untouched except for the water jars, vegetable jars, pots, pans, and bacon.
She is not good at cooking, and the old lady is too old to cook for her, so her family will have to find a cook sooner or later. Try to keep these things to avoid having to buy them later.
The women in the family pack the things, while the men pick up the small items, carry them out and wipe them clean.
After breakfast, Qin Wenzhen and his wife, and Yang Li and his wife came to help.
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