These days have passed, and the houses are finally all finished.
Then, the Su family, after settling their wages with everyone who had helped them with the work, returned home and took their family members to visit.
Su Muyao was held in her father's arms as they arrived at the front of the courtyard and looked up at the house in front of them.
There were several bluestone slabs laid in front of the courtyard gate, and there were even places to tie up oxcarts on both sides of the gate.
Although my family hasn't bought an oxcart yet.
Old Man Su took out his key, opened the door, and let his wife in first.
This is our new home.
As the group crossed the threshold, they found that there was no hidden wall inside the gate, and in front of them was a huge courtyard with a lotus pot in the middle.
It looks like it was found by Old Man Su somewhere.
Several little ones were running around wildly in the yard! "Little sister, come down quickly, big brother will play with you."
"You guys go first,"
When the little kids heard their little sister tell them to go play first, they ran off to the back of the house without looking back.
There are three main rooms, with wooden pillars and eaves in front of the main rooms, and three tiled rooms on the east and west sides.
There is another room on the west side, which doesn't look very big.
The kitchen was on the east side, and the room was completely empty.
Su Muyao was extremely satisfied with the house. She planned to take some cement tiles from her spatial storage and lay them on the floor, making it absolutely gorgeous.
Luckily, I was smart enough to use that much money to hoard almost all the resources in my world.
Otherwise, we really wouldn't be living such a comfortable life.
After thinking it over, he realized there was no well and couldn't help but sigh.
"Dad, when you have time, go to town and ask some people to come back and dig a well in the yard. It's too inconvenient to always go over there to fetch water."
“Goodness, there’s a river right next to us, do we really need to dig a well? I’ve checked the river, and the water is quite clear.”
"Dad, the river water is fine for washing clothes and vegetables, but it's not good for drinking. We still need to get well water, otherwise we'll easily get sick."
Su Sanlang nodded. "I'll go ask about it in a while."
The main reason is that although he listens to his daughter, he still can't help feeling a little reluctant to part with her.
Drilling a deep well will cost at least several taels of silver! Not everyone knows how to drill a well; it's a technical job, and those who do usually ask for exorbitant prices.
The village chief's family had previously dug a well, which cost them a full three taels of silver.
With three taels of silver, they could easily afford to get married.
But he didn't want to disappoint his daughter, so he agreed.
Several women outside also walked this way.
"Wow, this place is so beautiful! Come on over, congratulations on your housewarming!"
Grandma Su smiled and accepted the things handed to her by the women.
When are you having your housewarming party?
"It can't be done now; I plan to do it after the snow stops in the next few days."
"That's true. I don't know what's wrong with the snow. It's been falling heavier and heavier lately, and it hasn't stopped."
"Yes, we don't know when it will stop. If it keeps going like this, the road out of the village will be blocked."
Sure enough, the snow kept falling until it blocked the roads leading out of the village, and the snow was now knee-deep.
Su Muyao was having a snowball fight with her brothers. Every morning, the first thing they had to do at home was shovel snow.
Snowmen were piled up one after another in front of her house. Su Muyao was a southerner in her previous life and had never seen snow since birth. The only time she had seen snow was when it snowed lightly.
I vaguely remember being overjoyed to see snow back then, and even fantasizing about building a snowman when the snow got heavy, but it stopped after a short while.
I also thought about going to the north to see the snow, but at that time I had a lot of studies to do and my grandmother kept a close eye on me, so she wouldn't let me go anywhere.
I never imagined that I would be born in the North if I were given a second chance.
They were trapped in the village and had no idea that the price of food outside had been driven up to exorbitant levels.
It wasn't until two days later, when Zhao Jinhua's youngest son returned, that the villagers realized that things had already descended into chaos outside.
The village chief also held an emergency meeting. The content was very simple: warn everyone to hide their food tightly, in case outsiders got too hungry and came to the village to rob them.
Those who originally thought their parents were superstitious now sincerely thank the village's little lucky charm.
The villagers are now discussing whether some families, who have more grain than they can eat, should take advantage of the current high grain prices and sell some of it.
Some people also worry that if it snows for a while, what will happen to them after they've sold their grain?
Some people think that even if it snows, even if it snows for a month or two, it can't keep snowing forever.
The grain they've stockpiled is enough to last them a year or two without any problem.
The group argued about this issue, and finally someone suggested that they ask Xiao Fubao.
So, a whole bunch of people went to Old Su's house.
When Su Muyao learned about the questions everyone had come to ask, she couldn't help but laugh and cry.
They previously said they were stockpiling grain, and they made it clear that the rains would only last for two or three months, so they were told to stockpile more grain.
But they weren't allowed to stockpile two or three years' worth of food.
Won't this grain spoil if it's left out for too long? Mature grain doesn't taste good at all!
Thinking back on the dream, it seems they can still exchange money. Although the snow is not easy to travel in at this time, it is not as completely blocked as it was later.
In the end, Naituanzi gave everyone an answer: they could consider selling half of the food they had stockpiled, just enough to feed themselves for the next six months.
Everyone felt fortunate that they had followed the lucky doll; otherwise, they might have starved to death in the cold winter, let alone received this windfall.
Soon, the village chief gathered everyone together and asked each family to send a man.
They hauled the grain in a long and arduous procession towards the town, only to find that the grain stores weren't out of grain, but the prices were simply outrageously high.
What used to cost just a few copper coins for a pound of grain has now risen to half a tael of silver per pound.
After finding out the price of grain, everyone gasped. "That shopkeeper really doesn't care about the lives of ordinary people. He's listed so many grains and still sells them at such high prices."
Ever since Su Muyao moved all the furniture from her spatial dimension to the new house, her family has been particularly interested in her having a master, mentioning it many times and asking if they could invite him back for a meal.
But where am I supposed to get a master like this, who I just made up?
When Xibao came home that evening, she noticed a long cut on her forehead. "Ouch, what happened?"
"Won't this leave a scar?"
"Grandma, it's nothing. I just bumped into something while walking. It's a scar on my head that you can't even see if you're not paying attention."
"What did the doctor say when you went there? Will it leave a scar?"
"The milk is fine,"
Upon hearing this, Grandma Su knew that she would likely be left with a scar.
Su Muyao took out a small porcelain bottle of spiritual spring water from her spatial storage.
She poured all the water on her older brother's head.
Grandma Su was puzzled and pulled her little granddaughter's mischievous hand over.
"Sweetie, your brother bumped his head and broke it, you can't splash water on him, okay?"
The words had barely left his mouth when he saw his eldest grandson's head...
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