Chapter 100 A Blessing in Disaster
"Mother, don't think too much. Let's build the house first. If Cai Dashan comes again, if you don't want to show up, just let us handle it."
"Okay!" Cai agreed.
The children can rely on it.
very nice.
She is indeed a blessed woman.
She has endured all the hardships in the first half of her life, and now she is content with everything as she has a child.
Dabao and the others went back to work.
I won’t mention Mrs. Cai and Aunt Wang making lunch.
Xiao Yuanbao is a lively person. Erbao takes her for a stroll everywhere, but Sanbao is like a wild horse and disappears once let out.
Only Erbao takes the most diligent and considerate care of his younger sister.
The little white-haired boy still ate and slept, slept and ate. He was not yet a full moon old, and he spent ten out of the twelve hours of the day sleeping.
On the first day of laying the foundation, Dabao discussed with the old craftsman sent by Shi Maner and made very strict demands on the foundation.
Hit it deeper.
The old craftsman also suggested taking this opportunity to dig a cellar to store vegetables, fruits and the like. It is very convenient for farmers to have a cellar.
Dabao also thinks it’s good.
Just next to the first courtyard, a large cellar was dug.
The foundation of the second courtyard was dug and built together, and large bluestones were filled underground.
The ox carts started transporting the stones from the town to Tangjia Village before daybreak.
The first day was mainly about stone.
The foundation is the first priority when building a house. Once the foundation is laid, the house will be solid and will not be blown away by wind or knocked down by rain.
When it was time for dinner, Mrs. Cai, Mrs. Wang and several other women brought food for the workers.
There is porridge, big steamed buns, and unlimited meat soup. You can eat and drink as much as you want.
All the villagers who went to work were satisfied and ate their fill.
At this time of year, which is not the busy farming season, many households are short of food and drink. Because they are not working, the meals at home are only half of the usual amount, so they can only eat half full and just barely avoid hunger.
I didn’t expect that I could eat to my heart’s content while working in Xiao Yuanbao’s house!
We had a rare big meal, and we worked very hard in the afternoon.
With such good food, if they were asked to come and work for free, they would all rush to do it.
The other villagers who were watching were all envious and drooling.
There were strong men who went to work and their children were not satisfied. They wanted to share their food with their children. Cai saw this and generously gave the children some buns.
The children were very happy.
This made the men who went to work feel even more grateful, and they wanted to put in their best efforts to help Xiao Yuanbao's family with the work.
The host is so generous!
After eating the steamed buns distributed by Cai, the children spontaneously organized themselves to help out with small tasks. In short, the afternoon work was bustling with activity.
The efficiency is amazing.
In one day, the cellar was dug and the foundations of the two courtyards were laid.
In the evening, we finished work early.
We still had dinner at Xiao Yuanbao's house.
Dinner was richer than lunch and the quantity was larger. Mrs. Cai was kind, especially to the children. Many children ate their home-cooked buns at noon, helped with the housework in the afternoon, and arranged dinner for them in the evening.
There was not enough food at home, so they took the food coupons and asked Old Man Wang to drive a ox cart to the town again to get some food.
Of the fine grains that Shi Man'er had sent, she kept some for Xiao Yuanbao and took the rest to the town and exchanged them for coarse grains of the same quality that ordinary families ate. This way, everyone could have enough to eat.
Many villagers praised Cai for her good conduct, and they were more motivated to build a house for them.
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Cai Dashan returned home.
My whole body aches, and I owe money for the bus ride on the road.
I finally got home.
His wife at home complained to him, "Why haven't you been home for a few days? Where have you been fooling around? And you still know how to come back!"
"What the hell are you doing? I'm out doing business. I'm so tired that my whole body aches. Come on, give me a massage."
When Dashan's wife heard this, her face darkened. "I'm telling you to stop! Did you spend all the money your parents had saved for medical treatment and medicine on fooling around?"
"Pooh, pooh, pooh! What nonsense are you talking about? You can blame me for the loss in business! Since ancient times, there have been losses and gains in business. However, I will definitely have a big gain on this trip. I'm going to report to my parents, and I guarantee they will be excited..." Cai Dashan raised his foot and walked towards the inner room.
Dashan's wife looked sad and not in a good mood.
When she got married, the Cai family still had a grocery store and they could make ends meet. She thought she had married into a good family and would never have to worry about food and drink in the future.
As a result, within a few years, the grocery store was sold and the family fortunes deteriorated day by day.
The man is no longer ambitious and is not home all day.
My parents-in-law are not very old, but they are in poor health.
My father-in-law kept coughing, as if he was going to cough out his lungs, and my mother-in-law's eyesight was not good and she was almost going blind.
Her two children were also often sick, with a major illness every three days and a minor illness every two days.
My son used to study in school. The teachers praised him for his intelligence and said he had the potential to be a scholar. As a result, he has now been suspended from school.
Her husband is often not at home, and she is the one who supports the whole family.
No wonder she looked so haggard.
If it weren't for her two children, she would have wanted to divorce.
"Wait for me, tell me what you have gained..."
He trotted two steps and caught up with him.
I happened to hear Cai Dashan recount the entire story.
The Cai family's father-in-law was lying on the kang, with a rare look of relief on his old face.
Grandma Cai was holding a cane in her hand, afraid of falling.
She sat on the edge of the kang, her head covered with silvery white hair.
She asked unsurely, "Son, is it really Cai Sanya? Didn't you say before that she became a widow, her husband died in the war, hasn't returned for several years, and has brought several children with her, so she has no food to eat?"
"Yes, mother! It's San Ya. She is very respectable now. Her clothes are all new and shiny. She is just short of wearing gold and silver jewelry. The little girl in her family even wears a fox fur cloak. That cloak must have cost more than ten taels of silver. You can't take it down. Just tell me, how rich she is! She lives better than our second sister..."
Dashan's wife heard this and sighed, "Sanya, this is a blessing in disguise."
Even without a man, you can still live a good life by relying on your offspring.
"What's the meaning of blessing in disguise? Her good life is all because of us. If we hadn't married her to Tangjia Village, would she have lived such a good life? She should be grateful. However, when I asked her for some money to buy medicine for my parents' medical treatment, she refused to give it to me. She is so stingy and even let her son beat me out..."
Dashan’s wife asked tentatively, “How much do you want?”
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