Chapter 466: Viewing the New House
The Cao family's place is very good. The terrain is high, but not too high, and the place is large. After building a dozen houses, there is also an three-acre vegetable garden around it.
The vegetable garden on the three-mu field is very large. Not to mention Lei Dafu and Jiang Yu, even a family of more than ten people can have enough vegetables all year round if they take care of it on a daily basis.
Moreover, the surrounding terrain is relatively flat, so it can be used to grow pumpkins and winter melons, which take up a lot of space. You just need to wait for the harvest, and if you work harder, you can open up the land to grow sweet potatoes. With the yield of sweet potatoes, food will not be a problem.
They are all farmers and have a natural sensitivity to the land. When they pass by, they have already calculated in their minds what can be planted in this piece of land and what can be planted in that piece of land. Whenever they see the land vacant, they feel sorry for the Cao family and always feel that the land is wasted.
"It's a good deal for you to buy this house, and the Cao family won't lose out either. If you don't buy it, and the house in the valley is not lived in, won't it just collapse?
That's worthless. "Wang Cui thought Lei Dafu was a kind person.
If that dishonest person knew that the Cao family was moving away, he would wait until they moved out and live there secretly. The mountains are high and the roads are long, so how could the Cao family come back to check on him? Wouldn't it become his own slowly?
Zhou Yan replied, "Yes, but it's also a good deal for the rich. They don't have to build it themselves, and they only spend half the money. It's a good deal no matter how you look at it!"
Everyone nodded, indeed, it was a lucky find.
Hearing everyone's praise, Liu Cuihua felt very happy and grateful to Shen Qing from the bottom of her heart.
If Shen Qing hadn't led them to earn money, they wouldn't be able to afford it even if they only had half the money!
And ever since Dafu bought this house, her mind has been opened. Why should she force her sons to live together on a high mountain?
It is inconvenient to use water, go up and down the mountain, and get out of the mountain. There are many flat places around here, which can be chosen by the sons, and then houses can be built and divided out.
In the past, we were afraid that bad guys would come, so we thought it would be safe to live in the mountains. Now that we are all close to each other, if bad guys really come, we can unite and fight the enemy together!
We are close to each other on weekdays but not completely together, the distance is just right.
Now the kids and even the old couple follow Shen Qing to earn money, so buying bricks and tiles to build a house is not a problem.
Shen Qing looked around the house carefully, noticing that the white paper covering the windows had been replaced with the same light, translucent gauze as in his own home. He also noticed that the weeds and weeds in the cracks in the yard had been cleared away, and the exterior walls had been repainted with lime...
Being poor and being lazy are completely different. The house is old, but you live your life by yourself.
Lei Dafu came back only once last month. After a short stay of a few days, he was able to clean up everything. It was obvious that he attached great importance to it and put a lot of effort into it.
Once they entered the house, many women exclaimed in delight!
In the main room, there was a newly built kang covered with a bright red mattress, quilt, and pillow, as well as brand new wooden cabinets, wooden basins, wooden shelves, and camphorwood boxes. On the wooden table by the window was not a collection of study items, but a basket filled with needles and thread.
Upon closer inspection, I discovered that to prevent the window from leaking air, there was a layer of extremely fine gauze inside, which was windproof while allowing light to pass through, so you wouldn't feel oppressively dark in the house during the day.
It also saves money on buying lamp oil.
The kang, the sides of the windows, and the door are all covered with bright red wedding characters and colorful paper-cuts, exuding the joy of marriage everywhere.
"My God, this is really good. It must have cost a lot of money, right?" a woman exclaimed.
Liu Cuihua said cheerfully: "Not much, those wooden cabinets and basins are used daily, and it's just right to prepare them all at once after getting married.
These paper-cut wedding characters are made with the money I spent on the red paper. Cutting them up when I get home is like spending a small fortune on a big occasion.”
"This is well arranged. In the past, I always felt that these things couldn't be eaten and they cost money, so what was the point of making them?
Now that I’ve seen it, I think this layout is completely different from the other layouts! And it doesn’t cost too much.”
When the second son of Shen Qing's family got married, it was obvious that the house they bought cost a lot of money, so they gave up the idea. But now, after seeing the Lei family, they finally understood that the rich have their own ways and the poor have their own ways.
Anyway, in her opinion, Lei Dafu's house is also very good! They can't do it like Shen Qing's house, but it's still possible to make it like Dafu's.
"It just so happens that the men are going to the city to do some shopping tomorrow, so I'll ask them to bring back some red paper."
"I'll go back later to clean up the yard and redecorate the house. I want to make sure the money is well spent!"
"Yes, yes, yes, I want to go back and do it now! Now that we have some money, we want to live a glorious life!"
Shen Qing looked around and was very satisfied. Liu Cuihua asked quietly: "If you feel that there is something inappropriate, please bring it up and I will ask Dafu to fix it."
If Xiaoyu couldn't come to see it, it would be the same if Shen Qing, her sister-in-law, came to see it.
Shen Qing praised: "Very good, very thoughtful, I think everything is appropriate."
She really had no objection, as it was obvious that these were arranged with great care!
With Shen Qing's approval, the wrinkles on Liu Cuihua's smiling face became more obvious.
When others heard Shen Qing think it was appropriate, the desire to arrange it became stronger!
After returning, the families preparing for the wedding became busy with their preparations.
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The next day, the men went out to buy things, the women cleaned the school kitchen, and Zhao Mingyue's family made tofu.
In the afternoon, Su Mu delivered a large amount of beef and mutton as Shen Qing said.
The villagers looked at the beef and mutton piled up like a small mountain, and were looking forward to the wedding banquet the day after tomorrow!
Su Mu and his group stayed and went to the capital together after attending Jiang Yu and Lei Dafu's wedding.
On the third day, the men began to cut the beef and mutton into slices of equal thickness according to Su Mu's instructions.
The women began to wash the dishes and vegetables. Zhao Mingyue's family put the prepared tofu outside the house to freeze it, and then started to make dried tofu.
On the fourth day, put the pig heads and stomachs into the pot and start cooking. Boil the sheep and beef bones over high heat until a milky white soup is formed. Beef skin and fungus begin to soak.
The men began to move tables and chairs from each house, arrange them neatly, and put out bowls, dishes, and chopsticks.
Before daybreak on the fifth day, the school's kitchen was brightly lit by torches and fires.
The milky white soup was ladled into a double-handled iron pot and placed in the middle of the table, surrounded by large plates of sliced beef and mutton. Each plate was generously portioned, piled up like a small mountain.
The woman in the kitchen chopped ginger, garlic and chili peppers, poured hot oil on them, then poured in soy sauce and vinegar, sprinkled with chopped green onions and coriander, poured it over the thin strips of pig ears, pig stomach, and slices of pig head meat, stirred it evenly, and put it on a plate.
The seasonings for bean curd sheets, dried tofu, and black fungus are different, but the cooking methods are similar.
At three quarters past noon, the hot and cold dishes were basically ready, and the village was already filled with the sound of gongs and drums. Every household was getting married, and it was extremely lively!
The kitchen team stepped up the charcoal fire, shoveled it into the small red clay stove, put it on the table and started heating the pot;
Separately, I started cooking the children’s portion in a large iron pot on the stove.
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