Liu Chen came back from shopping and asked Youdi, "Sister, how are you two? Are you done?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Youdi punched Liu Chen in the back.

What should I say? What could Zhang Xiaodong do if he didn't show off first? He couldn't tell others that he was attracted to them first. Besides, they were eating "imperial food" and he was just an old farmer. Could they do it?

It seems like he doesn’t even know it.

"Sister, are you interested in me?"

"What's the use of me being interested in others? They are eating 'commercial food'. I don't dare to climb high."

Youdi's face turned red and her eyes were full of sadness.

"Oh, sister, don't worry. As long as he is sincere to you and treats you well, don't think about anything else. Just tell me whether you like him or not?"

As long as you are sincere, nothing else matters.

"You little brat, ride your bike well."

Youdi said and punched Liu Chen on the back again, blushing.

I arrived home soon, handed my things to Wang Mudan, finished my meal, and quickly fell asleep.

The next day, Liu Chen got up early. Today, a feng shui master came to see the wind and rain, just to see where it was and where the door was facing.

Wang Mudan burned incense, worshiped the father-in-law and mother-in-law of the land, and worshiped the gods from all directions to pray for the health of the family.

"Uncle, uncle, we are here."

The eldest sister's family, the second sister's family, and the third sister's family all came. The eldest brother-in-law and the second brother-in-law were carrying something with wooden sticks, and the third brother-in-law was carrying two buckets, which were filled with loaches and eels. The three sisters were carrying

Those with wooden barrels, others carrying pheasants and hares, and others carrying things in snakeskin bags.

Huzi came very early and had breakfast at Liu Chen's house.

A few people went out and saw the large army coming in force.

"Uncle, uncle, we are here."

"What are you carrying?"

When I walked in, I saw, oh my god, the eldest brother-in-law and the second brother-in-law were carrying most of the wild boar on sticks.

"Wow, it's a wild boar, and you actually brought it here."

"It's awesome. This house will have meat to eat."

Liu Chen really didn't expect that the meat he bought was quite a lot. Compared with this, he realized what it meant to be worth a small amount of money.

"I shot him with a gun yesterday when I went up the mountain."

That's right. In this era, you can have guns, which are home-made home-made guns. Sometimes there are wild animals in the mountains, and there are also wild boars that come to the crops, and they usually wear them to drive them away.

Wang Mudan looked at the wild boar meat carried by her son-in-law. Although the wild boar meat was not very tasty, the wood was very poor, and it was waste wood and difficult to burn, but because there were many people building houses, it still tasted good.

Liu Chen has never eaten wild boar meat. His restaurant sometimes sells it, but it is all farmed and fed with pig feed.

"Uncle, I want to eat candy."

"Uncle, I want to eat watermelon."

Wu Yiyi wiped his nose and reached out for Liu Chen to hold him.

Liu Chen held Wu Yiyi on one side and Zhang Xiaoli on the other, the two youngest.

After entering the house, Liu Chen took out candies and cans, put them on the eucalyptus board, needless to say, what a boy, a few children solved them in minutes.

Youdi boiled a lot of water and put wild tea picked in the mountains into it.

At this time, people from the team came one after another.

Captain Liu and his three sons, Liu Fugui, deputy captain Liu Hongwu, warehouse manager Liu Hongjun, etc. all came, a dozen of them.

Li Qiaozhen came to deliver picked mushrooms and fungus to Liu Chen, and was left to help. Anyway, if there are more people, work more.

All the children in the team came to watch the fun. Several children's faces were still swollen, but they had subsided a bit.

Later the Feng Shui master will dig the foundation after reading it. Now digging the foundation is purely manual and it is hard work.

Liu Jiefang went to the warehouse manager early to receive the tools, and each person received a handful.

Liu Chen took out the firecrackers. These were brought by Liu Chen from 2022 and he spent a lot of effort to get them.

"Set off firecrackers."

The children surrounded Liu Chen, waiting to pick up the firecrackers that had not exploded.

"Get out of the way and be careful."

Light the firecrackers, the crackling sound of firecrackers, and the children shouting.

"Don't squeeze me, don't squeeze me."

The children all want to stand in a powerful position and wait to pick up the firecrackers.

The firecrackers scattered on the ground are red, like red petals scattered on the ground.

"Be careful. Don't prick your hand."

The children ignored Liu Chen's attempts, avoided Liu Chen, and went straight to pick up the firecrackers.

"Haha, I picked up two."

"I picked up three."

Wu Yiyi and Zhang Xiaoli watched the older children pick it up, and they also ran over to pick it up.

Liu Chen grabbed the two children. There were too many children, and Wu Yiyi and Zhang Xiaoli were too young. They were afraid that they would be injured if they were squeezed.

"Uncle, I also want to pick up cannons."

Liu Chen is holding two children. Girls should play less. It's too dangerous.

"We're not going to pick them up, we're here to give them candy."

Liu Chen shared a few candies with each other, so the two children stopped shouting to pick up the candies.

Wang Mudan prepared some candies and red-dyed peanuts. After the firecrackers were set off, they started to scatter them.

This is the first time to sprinkle it, and it will be sprinkled again when the beam is put on.

"It's time to pick up candies."

The children took the firecrackers they found in their hands, some put them in their pants pockets, and ran to pick up candies.

A lot of people gathered around, waiting for the host to sprinkle candies.

"It's sweet and your family is healthy."

Wang Mudan was tossing it and chanting in his mouth.

Good guy, the children in the village crowded in and Wang Mudan was squeezed out.

There were also women in the village who went up to pick them up to get some luck.

The key is that most people build houses with fruit candies, which is good enough. Liu Chen’s fruit candies are White Rabbit toffees. Many people have never eaten White Rabbit toffees. Some people think they are made of milk. I picked one up.

Save it for your children to eat during the New Year.

Some of the children picked up two or three, and some picked up one or two, and happily held the candies and cheered.

Wu Yiyi and Zhang Xiaoli also picked up one, and happily brought it to Liu Chen to claim credit.

"Not bad, not bad."

It's amazing that these two kids can pick up so many people.

"start."

Captain Liu gave an order and more than a dozen laborers started digging.

Here, Youdi, Niandi, Pandi, Li Qiaozhen and Captain Liu, Chen Xiuhua, started cooking.

The eldest sister Zhaodi, who was pregnant, didn't push in to help, so she had to watch from the side.

People are cutting meat, washing vegetables, cooking meat, steaming rice, and baking noodles. The scene is so lively.

Anyway, Liu Chen said, please bring more people and come to help. They are just taking care of the food anyway. Everyone is willing to help, as long as they can do some work, they are all here. Anyway, the person who takes care of the food will only eat one less meal at home.

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When a family builds a house, the whole team helps.

Liu Fugui took Liu Jianjun and Liu Jiang to cut down large beams on the mountain. Anyway, there were a lot of fir trees on the mountain and it didn't cost any money. Anyone who wanted to build a house could just cut them down.

Liu Jiefang took Liu Chen and several brothers-in-law to pull bricks, cement and other things.

Zhang Yanjun and Zhang Xiaodong were not at work here, so they came to help.

After all, Zhang Yanjun's father was a commune cadre, so it was better to buy bricks, cement, etc.

Everyone performed their duties and worked enthusiastically.

The kitchen was filled with fragrance. There was a big pot of rice, several big pots of steamed buns. A big pot of wild boar was stewed, and Liu Chen taught Youdi how to make braised fat-headed fish, and taught him how to use the food he brought.

Left-hand ingredients. Also mixed a large pot of cucumbers and cooked tomato and egg soup.

In this era, everyone works harder and there is no one to grind for you. You can almost dig the foundation in one morning.

The food here is almost ready.

Liu Chen brought several large watermelons, each weighing more than ten kilograms, and cut them into pieces and placed them in a basin.

"Everyone, take a break and come over to eat watermelon."

Hearing Liu Chen shouting to eat watermelon, this guy is very capable. Last time he got a cart full of watermelon and invited the whole team to eat it. Now he has to build a house with so much.

"Okay."

One by one, they wiped their hands randomly, rubbed their hands on their pants, and started eating the watermelon in big mouthfuls.

"Sweet."

"His grandma's is so sweet."

The group of children were assigned to pick up stones by Liu Chen. He wanted to pave a gravel path in the yard.

More than a dozen children arrived carrying baskets.

He poured the pebbles on the ground, picked up the watermelon, and gnawed it.

Liu Chen cut five watermelons, and when he saw that the watermelons were finished, he picked up three more.

"Eat less, we will have to eat later."

When they heard that they were going to have dinner, some children raised their heads and asked Liu Chen, "Uncle, can we eat at your house too?"

These children thought that since the adults in the family were helping here, they could no longer eat here. Generally, when other people built a house, it was impossible for children to still eat there.

As the saying goes, if you are half-grown, you will be poor.

These are half-grown children. Who has so much food to eat?

"It's okay. Let's all stay and eat."

When the children heard that they could stay, they all surrounded Liu Chen, shouting and cheering.

It doesn’t matter anyway, I cook a lot of food. Every family is usually poor, and it’s impossible for the children to eat good food. Some even wait until the Chinese New Year to have a meal of meat. Now I cook a lot of meat dishes at home.

The children can eat whatever they want.

Many helpful adults nodded in praise when they heard Liu Chen asked the children to come to eat. Naturally, they worked harder. Otherwise, the rations for the children would be too much for the family.

The children surrounded Liu Chen, shouting and jumping.

The kitchen was very busy, and there were almost not enough tables, chairs, and bowls, so several aunts went back to move them.

The food was served, and there were four tables in total. My dear, I caught up with someone else doing something.

This is like the era of eating from a big pot, everyone is smiling.

I filled a big bowl of rice, got a big steamed bun, and soaked it in fish soup and broth. There were not enough stools, so many people squatted on the side to eat.

"This food is as good as a big pot meal. It tastes really good."

"It's so bad."

Everyone was talking while eating, many of them hadn’t seen the Meat Star for a long time, but it was full of meat dishes than vegetarian dishes.

One bowl after another, one steamed bun after another.
Chapter completed!