Please remember the domain name of this site:

60: A Home for Him and Her

Chapter 6 of Farmer's Spring

Shen Youfu asked Sun to support Shen Zhang. He glared at Shen Zian from a place where no one else could see, then turned around and followed him away. Sanlang had already run away with Silang and Wulang.

Shen Ziping was really unwilling to come here in vain. Thinking about the huge sum of money flying away like that, his heart ached.

"Fellow villagers, since you have been watching the excitement here for quite some time, you must have heard that my fourth brother is planning to build a house! He sold the thousand-year-old ginseng given by the holy beast, and plans to build a big house with a big yard, and invite the holy beast to live in his house! This is a great event! It is a glorious event for our Hebian Village! Then everyone will have the opportunity to see the holy beast, and everyone can benefit from it! Let's celebrate together!"

Shen Ziping spoke loudly to the crowd. He just didn't believe that Su Zhi could invite the Holy Beast. It was a wolf. How could a wolf listen to people? He even suspected that Shen Zian and his friends had never seen the Holy Beast. It was just a plan that Li Shi had discussed with them. He wanted to wash away Su Zhi's reputation as a loser and raise their status! Now he said he wanted to invite the Holy Beast to live with him. He didn't want to give them money, but wanted to use the Holy Beast's reputation to scare them and the villagers!

The more Shen Ziping thought about it, the more polite he felt. He planned to tell the villagers about this. By then, everyone in the village would want to see the holy beast. If they didn't bring the holy beast out, then they would be greeted by an attack from the entire village!

There was a chaotic discussion among the crowd. As long as the Holy Beast was mentioned, everyone would get excited. Especially since this was such a big deal: the Holy Beast was going to come to their village and live with them!

"Brother Shen! Do you really want to invite the Holy Beast? The Holy Beast won't bite people, right? What if he comes and bites us?"

A man asked, and he expressed what everyone was thinking. Immediately, everyone started asking, although the Holy Beast Liangguo could be said to be protected by the imperial power, no one could harm them, and even in people's minds they were deified, but that couldn't change the fact that the Holy Beast was a wolf. And wolves bite people!

Shen Zian glanced at his wife and said, "Don't worry, folks. Everyone has seen it. My wife helped the Holy Beast, and the Holy Beast gave her a thousand-year-old ginseng. This shows that the Holy Beast knows who is a good person and who is a bad person, and the Holy Beast's ancestor once saved the founding emperor. Our country has been prosperous for so many years, which shows that the Holy Beast is a wise leader. Such a spiritual Holy Beast can no longer be called a wolf, it is a Holy Beast! I believe that if it comes here, it will definitely not harm innocent people."

The villagers thought it made sense.

Su Zhi bowed slightly to everyone and said, "Fellow villagers, the Holy Beast is a good omen for Liang Country. Liang Country has not seen any trace of the Holy Beast for many years. It is a good thing that it can appear in Daqing Mountain and in our Hebian Village. Think about it. Even if I don't invite the Holy Beast to my home, if it eats our cattle and sheep, or even bites our villagers, what can we do to it?"

"Yes, it's not illegal for the holy beast to bite people. It's useless even if it bites!"

"That's right!"

Everyone agreed with Su Zhi. Su Zhi was satisfied and continued, "The people of Hebian Village are lucky. The holy beast we met is a psychic. It knows how to repay kindness. I believe it will not harm innocent people. Winter is coming. I invited the holy beast to my home. This will also reduce the panic of the villagers. At least everyone will not worry about the holy beast coming down the mountain to look for food because it is hungry!"

At this time, Li Shi and the village head arrived together. Li Shi stood in front of the crowd and said, "Fellow villagers, the holy beast has cubs here, but it has never come down the mountain to harass people. We have never heard of anyone being bitten by the holy beast in the mountains, right? The holy beast is a holy beast and will not bite people at will."

The village head nodded when he heard this, thinking it made sense. He also thought that if the holy beast lived in Hebian Village, it would be good for the reputation of Hebian Village. The village head nodded, and others also thought it made sense. They thought that even if there was no holy beast, there were other wild beasts in the mountains. The holy beast was kept by Shen Zian's family, and it was so spiritual that it would definitely not hurt people. What's the big deal about raising a holy beast? It's just a thing that may bite people when it gets angry. Who has a dog at home that sometimes bites people when it gets angry? I haven't heard anyone say that no one will raise a dog from now on!

When Shen Ziping heard that Shen Zian and Su Zhi's few words had caused the villagers to be surprised that they had invited the Holy Beast down the mountain, he was furious, but he held back. He said those words mainly to see what would happen if Shen Zian and his friends failed to invite the Holy Beast down the mountain. Then the villagers would accuse them of lying, and his parents and himself would have another reason to come and ask for money!

"Zi'an, when are you going to start building your house? You want a big yard, how big do you want it to be? This means you need to buy land, right?"

The head of the village asked, thinking in his heart that the land in front and behind Shen Zian's house had no owner and was wasteland in the village. If Shen Zian wanted to buy it, he had to buy it from him, so this would bring some benefits.

Shen Zian said, "Village head, of course we are getting better and better. I have discussed it with my wife and will tell you how much land we plan to buy. I will trouble you when the time comes."

The village head said, "It's no problem. Come and see me when you've made up your mind."

Shen Zian bowed to everyone and said, "When the house is finished, I will treat the villagers to a drink. I hope everyone will come and have a drink."

Li Shi said: "When the time comes, I'll ask you to come and help me, so come!"

Su Zhi said, "Fellow villagers, we have a lot of work to do this time, and we will really need your help when the time comes. Don't worry, we will not let you down in wages."

When people heard that there was a lot of work and that there was pay, their eyes lit up and they all said yes. Then, after watching the excitement, the crowd started to disperse.

Li Shi said, "I went to deliver some things to my father, and then I heard about your situation. I happened to meet the head of the village, so we came here together. Zi'an, it seems that you really can't stay at home with this money, or you can build a house with it! Sister-in-law, do you really want to invite the holy beast down the mountain? Can you invite it down?"

Li Shi was a little worried. Although he believed that Su Zhi had really seen the holy beast, and he had also seen the little white wolf, he had not seen the big white wolf after all. He did not know the specific situation when Su Zhi saw the holy beast, and he did not know how spiritual the holy beast was. He was really worried that Su Zhi was just lucky for a while, and was not bitten by the holy beast, and got ginseng. Then her wish to invite the holy beast was simply a dream!

Su Zhi could see that Li Shi was really worried about them. Then she saw that Shen Zian was looking at him with some worry. Thinking about how he had always stood on her side and had never questioned her ideas, she thought to herself that it was worth it to have such a husband and such a friend in this life!

"Zi'an, Brother Shitou, don't worry, I will definitely bring the holy beasts back. Even if they don't live here permanently, they can come here often. I didn't tell you that I have actually seen those two little wolf cubs a long time ago. I saw them when I just moved here. Zi'an, do you remember that day when you came back and didn't see me in the yard, so I came back from outside? That day I was playing with the two little wolf cubs outside the yard, they liked me very much, and I thought they were puppies at that time."

Shen Zian remembered.

Su Zhi said, "There is one more thing. Didn't I tell you that there is a black dog with the big white wolf? The dog looks very docile. It is the big white wolf's companion. If it is willing to live in a place with people, the big white wolf will definitely not stop it. So I am 70% sure. Don't worry. When the time comes, I will try to get them to show up. Will the villagers still come to see them all the time? The holy beast cannot be seen whenever you want. This matter can be resolved."

Shen Zian and Li Shi both felt relieved, thinking that this was the only way. Even if it didn't work, they would think of a solution when the time came!

Li Shi agreed to help build the house, he helped find people, and then went home.

Su Zhi and Shen Zi'an were a little tired after all this trouble. They took a break and discussed how big the house should be and how big the yard should be. Shen Zi'an decided how much wood and stone to prepare, how many people to hire, and how much land to buy.

"Now that winter is approaching, we have to hurry up and finish building the house before December. But I think we can't just rush to build it. At worst, we can hire more people to save time. I'll draw the blueprints later, and you can look at them and calculate how much material we need."

Su Zhi also bought some pen, ink, paper and inkstone this time. Shen Zian was not surprised that she could write, as he thought about the fact that she had been a nunnery.

It takes time to make detailed drawings. Su Zhi was eager to tell Shen Zian about her ideas for the house. She pulled him into the yard and began to gesture to him where to build the house, what kind of house to build, and how big the house should be. The more Shen Zian listened, the more he thought his wife's ideas were good, and he was looking forward to this house more and more.

"Let's keep the house this big for now. We'll build another one after the spring next year. Let's buy some land first and enclose the yard. Let's buy the low-lying land in front of the front yard and dig a pond there. This place is close to the river and it's convenient to draw water. We'll plant lotus and fish there and plant flowers and trees by the pond. Then we can enjoy the cool in the summer. Let's also buy the land to the east, including the bamboo forest. If there's not enough for the house in the future, we can build another one there and connect it to the house here with a long corridor in the middle. Both sides will be covered with green grass and planted with small yellow chrysanthemums. It will definitely look nice. There's a big tree there and I want to hang a swing on it."

Su Zhi talked incessantly, saying that this was the home she imagined, a warm home.

Shen Zian listened with a smile and asked her, "Are there people living in so many houses? Wouldn't it be too quiet if there were too many houses?"

"No, our children will grow up and get married and have children..."

Su Zhi spoke naturally, and then was stunned for a moment. Seeing Shen Zian looking at her and smiling, she blushed, patted his chest, and then turned around and went back to the house.

Shen Zian looked at Su Zhi's back with a smile. Although he was still standing in the small courtyard surrounded by corn stalks and there were only a few dilapidated thatched houses in front of him, he seemed to have seen the home that Su Zhi described, the home that belonged to her and him.

Chapter 6 of Farmer's Spring and Field is finished