A craftsman who looks honest and honest on the outside may have a lot of thoughts on the inside.
Just like building and decorating a house in later generations, there are pitfalls everywhere. It's actually the same now. You don't know it yourself. There are also a lot of pitfalls. It's really difficult to find reliable craftsmen.
Ye Chuqiu once heard someone say that when the emperor asked someone to build a palace, the name of a certain craftsman should be engraved on the bricks. If there was a problem, the craftsman could be held accountable directly.
It is conceivable that if the emperor, who holds the power of life and death, slacks off, they will dare to fool ordinary people.
Ye Chuqiu used to trust Huang Yougui and let him make the decision in everything, but since he used the floor tiles from someone else's tomb to fool her, she has become more cautious.
She had to look at every piece of wood, mud, and paint, and check it carefully. She was no longer lazy and supervised the construction site every day. She didn't learn anything else, but she did understand a lot about building a house.
Ye Chuqiu estimated that she would not need help from others when building a house in the future, as she and her sons could handle it all.
But there's no next time. If nothing else happens, this house is enough for her to live in.
Because he had high expectations for the house, the construction period naturally took a lot longer. Ye Chuqiu built two more wooden houses on it to accommodate several children. He also built a cowshed and kept the family's cows and horses in it.
, and also built a small kitchen for cooking.
Although it is not known how long it will take for the new house to be built, this wooden house is enough for them to live in peace.
In a blink of an eye, Sanhu and Sihu have been moving bricks at the construction site for half a month. They have deeply realized the difficulty of work, and their temperaments are much better than before. The obvious change is that they are more practical.
Lin Sihu still came to beg Ye Chuqiu every day, but Ye Chuqiu did not relent and only encouraged him to work hard.
She wanted to train them more and polish their temperament before sending them to school.
The house is slowly being built, and the camellia oleifera in the back hill is ready to be harvested.
Ye Chuqiu noticed that Sister-in-law Qiao started to walk around the back hill frequently. Ye Chuqiu saw her several times, so she walked over and asked her, "Sister-in-law Qiao, what are you doing?"
"Ahem, I have nothing to do. My family is poor. Before winter comes, I'll come up here to pick some wild vegetables and mushrooms." Sister-in-law Qiao replied.
"Oh." Ye Chuqiu nodded and asked, "Are you just picking mushrooms?"
"Of course." Mrs. Qiao nodded.
Ye Chuqiu vaguely saw that there seemed to be black tea seeds in her basket, so he pointed to a camellia oleifera tree and asked: "Do you know this kind of tree?"
"I don't know, I don't know." Sister-in-law Qiao shook her head repeatedly.
"I don't know her, just forget it." Seeing her like this, Ye Chuqiu laughed, turned around and left.
That night, she called the second and third bedrooms and her sons to pick all the camellias from the mountain. The next day, Sister-in-law Qiao came to the mountain with a basket and saw the mountains of oil tea.
There was nothing on the tea tree, and she was stunned.
Where have all the tea seeds on this camellia tree gone?
She thought for a moment and soon understood, and angrily came over to Ye Chuqiu, "Have you picked all the camellias on this mountain?"
"What oil tea?" Ye Chuqiu turned around and asked.
"Hmph, stop pretending to me. Didn't you ask me yesterday?" Sister-in-law Qiao was filled with indignation and spit, "We are still neighbors, but you are so cunning. You know this Camellia oleifera, but you pretend to be so.
I don’t know them, and they didn’t even say hello to me, so they picked them all off.”
"I've already asked the chief. Everything on this mountain is owned by no one. Anyone can pick it. If you hide it yourself, who can you blame?"
Ye Chuqiu glanced at her and said calmly, "When I asked you yesterday, I originally thought it would be acquaintance with you. If you knew me, then we would pick it together. But if you said you didn't know me, then I
Of course I won’t wait for you.”
Sister-in-law Qiao snorted coldly, of course she knew the camellia oleifera, but she didn't want to tell Ye Chuqiu, but she didn't expect that Ye Chuqiu also knew it. In one night, she led the people to pick all the camellia oleifera.
"You can wait and see if you can."
There was no more oil tea, and there was no point in getting angry. She could only carry the basket and return home angrily.
When she got home, she was still very angry. Just for the mountains of camellia, she gave up her homestead by the river and lived in the mountains. Fortunately, before she could pick them, all the Lin family had picked them.
She could not swallow this breath in her heart, so she turned around and went to her relatives' house and cried to her relatives.
Sister-in-law Qiao's relative was her husband's sister. It was precisely because she married into Lin'an Village that Sister-in-law Qiao and her family came to join her.
After hearing her cry, Mrs. Qiao was stunned for a moment, "Sister-in-law, you mean, you know that these camellia trees all over the mountain are valuable, but you never told me?"
"Ah? I..." Sister-in-law Qiao was stunned when she heard her sister-in-law's words. How could she have forgotten this time? She wanted to devour this mountain of camellia oleifera trees to herself.
There are so many tea trees. After pressing the oil, she can feed herself for a whole year. She can even sell it for money. How can she be willing to share it with others?
She originally wanted to live in the mountains without anyone disturbing her, so she secretly picked them all, took them to the city, and secretly squeezed them into oil without telling anyone.
But he didn't expect that when he came to look for his sister-in-law in a hurry, his sister-in-law turned an army around.
"I wasn't thinking that I would tell you when I could pick it off so that I could give you a surprise. But who knew that before I had time to tell you, someone else would get there first."
Sister-in-law Qiao said indignantly: "It's fine if the villagers picked it. What does her surname Lin mean? She's just a new mover. She has no foundation in the village, and she dares to play tricks on me."
Sister-in-law Qiao didn't know Ye Chuqiu's surname, she only knew that Ye Chuqiu's husband's surname was Lin. In fact, people in the village now called Ye Chuqiu Auntie Lin.
"Is the tea oil you mentioned really that good?" Qiao asked.
"Of course it's good. Nowadays, oil is so expensive and so rare. This camellia oil for cooking still has a fragrance and is delicious. In the past, in the restaurant in my hometown, the shopkeepers charged a high price." Sister-in-law Qiao said.
"In this case, let's go to her house and ask her. We must make her spit out these things." Mrs. Qiao said, and she came to the door with Mrs. Qiao in a menacing manner.
She first went directly to Ye Chuqiu's wooden house and walked around, but found no camellia oleifera. Then she went to the construction site, found Ye Chuqiu, and called out, "Mrs. Lin."
"Is this Mrs. Qiao, the proprietress of the village grocery store?"
Ye Chuqiu jumped down from the ladder and took a look at her. He saw that she had a melon-shaped face. She must have looked good when she was young, but her eyes were twinkling and she was extraordinarily shrewd.