◎Slippery little fox◎
Jiang Che was a grown man after all. Before he got married, no matter how much his mother loved him, there were always many things she couldn't take care of, which led to Jiang Che's clothes being all shiny.
The outer clothes are nice and impressive, but the socks inside are shabby, and the autumn and winter clothes and long underwear have obviously not been changed for a long time, and some of them are even untied.
Jiang Che usually didn't pay much attention to these things, for him, just having something to wear was enough. But since his wife was willing to spend time preparing clothes for him, he would be a fool to refuse.
He said happily: "Okay, you can just take care of these." After thinking about it, he added: "Don't just patronize me, make some new clothes for yourself." It would make no sense for his wife to still wear her old tattered clothes while he didn't dress up himself.
"Don't worry about me, I won't be cold." Indeed, although Wei Xuan didn't have many clothes, they all looked new and were enough for the time being.
After talking about clothes, Jiang Che brought up the matter of building an earthen stove.
"Wife, have you decided where to build the stove?"
Wei Xuan thought about it and felt that the yard was not big, so it would be almost the same no matter where it was built.
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"Or maybe build it in front of the little house, against the kitchen wall."
After saying that, seeing that Jiang Che didn't respond for a long time, he gave him a nudge: "Why don't you speak? Is that not okay?"
Jiang Che came back to his senses and replied, "Oh, no, I was just wondering if we could fix our kang as well, so that we won't be so cold when we eat and sleep in the future."
The kang they were sleeping on now was a dead kang with no chimney. Wei Xuan was afraid that the two of them would get gas poisoning, so she would rather keep it a little cold than put a stove inside to keep warm. Jiang Che had no choice but to follow her lead.
Now that Wei Xuan had brought up the matter of building an earthen stove, Jiang Che thought that since he had to buy materials and hire a craftsman to do it anyway, he might as well get it done in one go. Otherwise, if the weather continued to get colder, he was afraid that his wife would be frozen to death.
When Wei Xuan heard that the kang could be modified, her eyes lit up and her tone became a little higher: "Is it complicated? Don't we need to dismantle the kang we sleep on now and rebuild it?"
"No need," Jiang Che said with a smile, "I'm not sure about the details, how about I go and ask someone who knows tomorrow?"
"Okay, then remember this, and don't forget to ask. If it can be done, ask how long it will take. We can add a little more money."
Wei Xuan had always thought that building a kang would be troublesome, so she had never mentioned it. She wanted to get through this winter and wait until next summer to find a master to build one.
Now I know that she was overthinking things. There is no need to wait that long. She can't wait to find someone to do it right away.
Jiang Che was helpless when he saw that his wife had been awakened by his words, so he had to coax her to sleep himself.
Wei Xuan was still in high spirits when she went to work the next day. Sister Hong saw this and joked, "It looks like you had a good time last night!"
Wei Xuan was still very shy about these things, unlike Hong Jie, a middle-aged woman who had given birth to a child. Even though the two of them were already very familiar with each other, Wei Xuan did not respond to the conversation.
Sister Hong knew that the little girl was thin-skinned, so she stopped talking after saying one sentence. Before others could make a joke, she helped Wei Xuan stop them: "Alright, alright, stop talking and get back to work."
Wei Xuan looked at her gratefully, and then devoted herself to the day's work.
In the evening, Wei Xuan was cooking in the kitchen when Jiang Che came back with his master.
Wei Xuan listened to the two of them talking outside for a long time, and then they walked around the kitchen, gesturing with something in their hands.
Jiang Che sent his master away, went to the kitchen, rubbed his stomach, and asked Wei Xuan: "Is there anything to eat? I went out to look for someone at noon, so I bought two buns to fill my stomach. I'm starving."
Wei Xuan patted his hand that was about to reach for the food and said, "It's so dirty. Go wash it first. We'll eat soon."
"I won't get sick if I eat something dirty." He muttered to himself, but his body obediently went to get some water and wash his hands.
Section 15
After washing their hands, the two did not go to the main room to eat. No one was at home all day, and the main room must be very cold.
He asked Jiang Che to bring two chairs over, and the two of them sat by the pot, eating while roasting the fire.
After swallowing the food in his mouth, Wei Xuan asked him, "What did the master say when he came to see me today?"
Jiang Che was indeed hungry. He ate in a hurry. When he heard Wei Xuan's words, he choked himself in anxiety: "Cough... cough cough cough."
Seeing this, Wei Xuan quickly put down her bowl and chopsticks, poured him a glass of water and handed it to him: "Hey, you are so old, how can you not eat properly?"
While saying this, she did not forget to help him straighten his back.
"Uh, okay, you're going to hammer me to death!"
His kindness was taken for granted, so Wei Xuan increased her strength and slapped him on the back: "Humph, beating him to death is better than choking him to death."
Jiang Che just couldn't bear to see his wife being so fond of him, so he said happily: "Hey, how can I bear to die when I have such a beautiful wife like you."
The two of them exchanged a few words before getting down to business.
"The master said that if we want to revive the kang at home, we just need to open up the chimneys at the four corners and let the smoke escape from the corners. As for the earthen stove you mentioned, after a round of thinking, we both think that we should build it in front of the bathroom as you said the other day, but then the door of that room will have to open in a different direction."
Wei Xuan asked, "Wouldn't this make it more complicated? We would have to build up the original door and then open another one. It probably wouldn't be completed in a short time, right?"
Jiang Che nodded: "It's a bit troublesome, but it's okay. But the master said there is another way, which is to build the stove directly in the kitchen. The master looked at the kitchen and said that it wouldn't take up much space if it was built against the wall. It would only cost more bricks, and the chimney of the earthen stove would have to be built on the roof.
I think it’s better to build it directly in the kitchen. It’s too cold outside in the winter, and even with a shed it can’t block much of the wind.”
Wei Xuan also thought this was a good idea: "Okay, let's do it this way, we'll do it tomorrow, and we can't delay the delivery of the goods we promised to Brother Wu."
So, the next day Jiang Che brought his master back again, this time with two more helpers. Since the two had to work during the day and only had time to work at night, even though the three masters were very fast, it still took them three days to finish the earthen stove and the kang.
This is already the effect of adding money.
However, when Wei Xuan lay in the warm bed that night, she still felt that the money was well spent.
The next day after the earthen stove was built, Wei Xuan and Jiang Che were ready to start making the first batch of sauce. If they didn't do it, Wu Yun would probably come knocking on their door.
In the past few days, every time Jiang Che went there to deliver goods, he would deliberately avoid him, for fear that he would be caught and asked for things.
Every time the braised meat was delivered, he would slip away without staying any longer, which made Wu Yun scold him behind his back as a slippery little fox.
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