Because there were so many people, everyone sat around in the courtyard that evening and cooked chicken in a large iron pot.
So many people ate three chickens, and five pots of cornbread were also made.
With the side dishes and hot pot ingredients added to the stew, everyone was very satisfied with the meal.
After finishing his dinner, the Taoist priest patted his stomach and said, "It tastes better when there are many people eating together. I've eaten too much without even realizing it."
Grandpa Zhao rolled his eyes at the Taoist priest and said with a look of disgust, "I told you not to eat too much at night, but you just wouldn't listen. Don't come looking for me if you have an upset stomach later."
Xu Han smiled and said to defuse the situation, "Everyone ate too much tonight. Dan Niang, why don't you go and make a pot of hawthorn tea for everyone later?"
"Take a pot with you when you go back later, and have some hawthorn tea to aid digestion."
Dan Niang replied, "Yes, madam, I'll go cook right away."
Grandpa Zhao then advised, "Don't go to sleep right away when you get home tonight. Overeating will upset your stomach. Take a break before you go to sleep."
Everyone agreed in unison, and after Dan Niang finished cooking the hawthorn water, they went back to the valley together.
Today is the first time everyone is sleeping separately. From now on, everyone has their own room. Although it's not a private room, at least we don't have to squeeze together in a large group anymore.
Everyone is satisfied with the current room arrangement. The couple with their young child are sleeping in a separate room.
The remaining men and women were assigned rooms according to their numbers. Of the ten rooms, three couples shared one room each, while the other group shared four rooms.
Liu Erzhu, Liu Sanzhu, Li Si, and Wang Lin shared a room; Zhu Chuntian, Han Qi, and Zhang Yi shared a room; Zhu Chunmei, Zhu Chunchan, Qi Yu, and Dan Niang shared a room; and Granny Ma and Granny Zhao shared a room alone.
With so many people using seven rooms in total, there are still three rooms left unused. Since the storehouse is not yet completed, it will be used as a storehouse for the time being.
If we buy more people later, the remaining three rooms will also be useful. If we don't buy any more, we can use them as storage rooms; they'll never be idle.
Because the original intention was to use them as dormitories, each room here is much larger than a normal house, and the space inside the room is very large, with more than enough room for four people.
Currently, the room is empty except for a large kang (heated brick bed), making it seem a bit deserted.
Once we've lived here for a while longer, we can gradually add some furniture, and it will look a bit better.
However, there's no time to make furniture now; we can only add it gradually later.
By the afternoon, they had packed everything up and were now back in the valley, each returning to their room.
That night, Han Qi lay on his own kang (heated brick bed), feeling content. He realized that he had found a sense of belonging.
I never dared to imagine that I would live such a good life one day, no longer having to be beaten or scolded, not only having enough to eat, but also having new clothes to wear. My current life is something I never dared to imagine before.
She thought to herself, "How wonderful! If it weren't for the master and mistress buying me back, giving me clothes to wear, a house to live in, and enough to eat, I can't imagine what kind of life I would be living now. I don't even know if I would be alive or dead."
Not for any other reason than for the sake of our current life, I will do my utmost to serve my master and mistress in the future.
The others had similar thoughts. They assumed that coming back with the lady meant working day and night in the deep mountains, but the opposite turned out to be true.
The master did not treat them harshly. Although they could do work, they were servants, so how could they not do any work? What was the master's purpose in buying them?
Moreover, they don't work non-stop now. When the temperature is too high, the host will let them rest. Not only that, but they will also give them meat and make them enough to eat. They will also make new clothes for them and now they have even built them a house with blue bricks and tiles.
This would have been unthinkable before. Since coming here, every day has felt like a dream, every single day has been wonderful.
They are all people who have suffered hardships, and this kind of life is like a paradise for them, so how could they not cherish their current life!
Everyone was thinking that they must work hard in the future, live up to everything the master had given them, and not disappoint the master and mistress.
Of course, Xu Han and Lu Chuan were unaware of all this.
After the servants left, the Taoist priest closed the courtyard gate, and the family continued to sit in the courtyard to cool off and chat until late at night before they dispersed and went back to their rooms to rest.
The next day, Lu Chuan got up early and led them to continue building the kitchen equipment. The reason was simple: none of the others had any experience in this area. Zhang Yi was very eager to learn during the house construction, but he was indeed not proficient in building the stove.
Zhu Qiang, who was slightly older, did know a bit about it, but what he built was completely different from what Lu Chuan built.
Zhu Qiang could only make very simple ones, while Lu Chuan's were much more exquisite.
When Zhang Yi saw that Lu Chuan was going to teach him how to build a stove, he was the first to run over, eagerly waiting for Lu Chuan to begin his lesson.
Zhu Qiang called all three of his sons to Lu Chuan and instructed them, "You all need to learn from this. In the future, if there are similar matters, you will be the ones to handle them. We can't let the master do it every time."
Lu Chuan did not refute the fact that it was true. He was, after all, their master. He was taking charge now because they didn't know how. He couldn't always be the one to take charge in the future, otherwise what use would they be?
Even if Zhu Qiang didn't bring it up, Lu Chuan would still call them to learn, and from now on, these tasks would all be assigned to them.
Gradually, you should stop worrying about it and learn to detach yourself from it. Of course, you can ask them questions if they don't know the answers.
As Lu Chuan laid the foundation, he taught, "Building these things is very simple. As long as you study hard, you can learn it in one go. What you've built before are all simple ones. This is a bit more refined than what you've done. Just be careful when you're building it."
As they talked, Li Lin and the others gathered around. Clearly, they were all eager to learn. After all, who wouldn't want to learn when the host family was personally teaching them?
Putting everything else aside, the skills you learn are all yours to keep, so you can't possibly lose out!
Lu Chuan didn't say anything when they came over, and continued to explain. However, he was quite satisfied. After spending so much time together, Lu Chuan also found that the people he bought were all pretty good. Putting aside everything else, at least they were not bad-hearted and didn't cause much trouble.
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