Chapter 29 Relief, build a house
Dong Yunlan looked at everything in the cave seriously, and now she had no memories of her past. Dong Chenghu had even made a partition in the cave and placed some tools.
Dong Yunlan sighed and walked out of the cave with some sadness. From today on, she will really say goodbye to the past, say goodbye to the poor Dong family when she was a child, say goodbye to the red silk in the temple. From today on, she is just Dong Yunlan of the Dong family.
After thinking through all this, Dong Yunlan suddenly let go, feeling like the vast sky and the sky was wide. Seeing the busy people outside the cave, she rushed over to help, and she was also happy even if she helped to carry some water.
Yang Yi watched her work from a distance, smiled and became busy.
After the kiln is built, it will burn it for a day and a night to ensure that there is no moisture inside to burn the bricks.
Dong Yi, who went to the mountain to cut wood, transported the wood back and put it all in the valley to dry. Only then did Dong Chenghu start to teach everyone to make bricks like adobe dumping.
There are many people and great power. In just one day, the entire Cuizhu Mountain is almost covered with bricks. These bricks will take about three days to dry before being sent to the kiln for fire. After it is fired, it will have to be cooled before it can be used. It will take about six or seven days to build a house. In addition, it will take another seven or eight days to put the beams on. In this way, you can probably lay the tiles before it snows. It is a bit time to lay the floor tiles, and it will waste a few more days.
As a last resort, Dong Chenghu had to go to the Zuo family of the Qin family to ask Uncle Qin and Zuo Qingsong and others for help, which made the trip much faster.
This was the first time Yang Qiong and Dong Yunlan saw the complete process of building a house. They were so excited that they were like something. They circled around the construction site every day. If it weren't for her hungry, she wouldn't want to go back to her house for dinner.
Shen Shikang was very interested in that kind of seaweed and went to experiment with it for a few times. He found that this thing was really not something he could touch, so he stopped thinking.
Everyone in Cuizhu Mountain was busy, and Linhai County also started a large-scale war with the imperial court.
Gu Shuixiu and his men didn't know what happened outside. Twenty days later, the two houses of the Dong family were finally completed. One was similar to Dong Shan and the others' living area. The area occupied twice as much, and the rooms increased from twenty-four to forty-eight single rooms.
The layout of another house has changed. Because this house is specially built for couples to live in, the houses are built in rows, with six rows in total, all facing the same direction, with eight rooms in one row and forty-eight rooms in total.
According to Gu Shuixiu's meaning, there are no such many servants in Cuizhushan, but if you have the opportunity, just build more, and maybe you will have more opportunities to use them in the future.
The happiest thing about this house was Dong Yi and the others. Because they were about to get married at the end of the year, they had their own private space with this house.
After the house is completed, some furniture must be added to the room. Dong Chenghu knows how to do these things, so he simply calls Dong Yi and others to help. After about a month of work, he barely equips some rooms with complete furniture.
Now the men and women can officially live separately. Dong Shan and the others moved from their original house to their new house, and the original house was left for Cui Xi and others to live in.
At this time, the first snow in winter had already come down, and Gu Shuixiu and others all breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the house was built, they could breathe a sigh of relief.
"Chenghu, I think you can go to the town to buy some supplies before the snow has been closed. In another month, the New Year will be held. In addition, Dong Yi and his friends must buy all the things they get married. These things must not be missing. You can follow us, and we will pay the money. No matter how they are loyal to our family, we cannot let their hearts be disappointed."
Dong Chenghu nodded, took the small account book around Gu Shuixiu and looked through it. This account book was the secret of the couple, which recorded in detail the money he had returned from Dongyang County last time, the annual profits in their shop, as well as some important expenses.
In order not to let others reveal the secrets of the account book, Gu Shuixu specially recorded it in Arabic numerals. Only she and Dong Chenghu could understand the number. Even those gold, silver and jewelry, she only wrote a concise code name. When others got this account book, it was really like reading a heavenly book.
Dong Chenghu looked through it and found that they had almost spent all the money they earned in the past few years, and they also used some of the money they had saved for selling red corals and prey. As for the money that was more shameful than they dared not touch them. They would not have made any idea of making money this time before the change of dynasties.
Dong Chenghu frowned and said, "Shui Xiu, our family is now a big business. There are so many people and so many mouths to eat. It is not at all possible to rely on Shili Piaoxiang."
"What do you want? Don't forget that we are in the mountains now. As the saying goes, we have to eat the mountains and the sea. We have both. However, there are our secrets on the beach. This cannot be announced to the public, so the mountains are left. Since we have done a lot of work, you have not gone out to hunt again, especially when we went out last time and did such a fatal thing. However, if we don't go out to hunt for too long, it will inevitably arouse others' suspicion over time."
What Gu Shuixiu has always been worried about is that others are peeping at the Dong family, not afraid of thieves stealing, but afraid of thieves thinking about it. Just in case, Dong Chenghu will still have to go out to hunt more in the future.
"You make sense. We can't continue like this anymore. After the spring plow next year, I will take my family's servants to hunt, and take out some older children in Xingchi. They have been practicing for so many years. After all, they should go out to play with real swords and guns. Otherwise, how can I know how much pounds I have?"
Gu Shuixiu never objected to Dong Chenghu's proposal unless he crossed his boundaries.
The two of them decided that, but it was not time to announce the news to everyone, so Dong Chenghu had to hold on.
The next day, Gu Shuixiu announced that the people who went to the town to buy supplies were led by Dong Chenghu, Dong Yi and Dong Wei and Dong Lie went out together to drive away the two donkey carts from their homes, and try to buy everything back at one time.
Before leaving, Yang Yi didn't know what was wrong with it, so he insisted on going out with him.
Gu Shuixiu didn't agree with this. Since Yang Yi was willing to be a coolie, she naturally made Dong Chenghu feel more relaxed.
Just after Dong Chenghu and his friends left, Shen Shikang also received a letter from Fei Ge. Seeing the news above, Shen Shikang was silent.
"Mr. Shen? Is something wrong?" Gu Shuixiu asked tentatively when she saw that Shen Shikang was in a wrong mood.
Chapter completed!