Everyone on the Songjia'ao residence was very busy.
The men were sweating profusely while laying mud bricks; the women were sweating with shovels in their hands and digging into the mud; the old and the children were unable to use their strength and were transporting stones from the river to the homestead over and over again.
Everyone is working hard and no one is complaining.
"Quick, quick, everyone, work harder and put up the beams at Uncle Erliang's house before lunch!"
Following a loud shout, several young men speeded up their movements again, lifting the heavy bricks onto the base, while a group of women continued to lift thick beams here.
There are a total of forty-one households in the village, and forty-one houses have been allocated, but forty-one houses are not being built at the same time.
Several families separated before fleeing the famine. They thought that they didn't have much money on hand and had to spend a lot of money to buy food to survive before the fields could be harvested. So they merged into one family again. In this way, they could save money and get through the current difficulties.
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In addition, the weather is getting colder day by day, and it may suddenly freeze one day and it will be impossible to build a house. The villagers took stock and decided to build houses in batches according to the population of each household.
The larger the population, the more spacious the houses built. Once it gets cold and the cave cannot live in, everyone can immediately move down the mountain and squeeze into the big houses built to cope with the cold winter.
When the weather gets warm next spring, we can build the remaining houses, so we don't have to worry about people having no place to live and getting cold.
With a large population and no shortage of money, the Song family and four other families became the first families in the village to build houses.
After more than ten days of hard work, the main body of the five adobe houses is almost completed. After the beams are raised, the purlins are nailed down and thatched, all that remains is to paint the walls, seal the small gaps between the adobe bricks, and let them dry for half a month.
You can move in now.
Even though it is an adobe house, if the foundation is solid and it is well maintained, it will not be a problem to live in it for thirty or forty years.
When you have money in the future, you can replace the thatch on the roof with tiles, and your life will be more comfortable.
Song Xixi walked to the Song family's homestead and looked at the five large earthen houses, and she felt a sense of anticipation.
In her previous life, she lived in a big house that ordinary people might not be able to afford if they worked hard all their lives. She only felt cold and lonely. She never regarded it as home and did not know what "home" felt like.
Now, she looks forward to living in this mud house, which is full of poverty and roughness, and having three meals a day with her family here.
She also wants to release the two hundred and five, Xiao Huang, chickens and geese in the [Pet Space], so that they can live here freely, become a part of this place, and work together with everyone.
Probably, this is the real home.
"I'll do it." Song Xixi took the shovel from Niu Hua'er, who was a little tired, and stirred the thick and sticky mud unskillfully.
"My dear, why are you here?" Niu Hua'er was very surprised. She wiped the sweat from her forehead, grabbed the bamboo tube and drank a lot of water.
"The meal is ready, I asked you to come up and eat." Song Xixi replied, slowly speeding up and letting Zhang Chunlan and Huang Qiuyun on the opposite side also take a rest.
"Wait a moment, your grandpa Erliang's house is going to be built with beams." Niu Hua'er wiped her mouth, squinted her eyes and looked at the house that was about to be beamed not far away: "Tomorrow it will be our turn to be beamed.
very nice!"
The upper beams are particular, especially the top main beam.
According to the saying passed down, if the main beam is not installed properly, it will be detrimental to the owner.
No matter when, building a house is a major event, and everyone cannot be careless and dare not be careless. Therefore, the day and hour for the construction of the beam are carefully calculated.
"When our house can be inhabited, it will probably freeze." Zhang Chunlan stared at her big house with a different kind of light in her eyes: "It would be great if we could build more houses before the freeze."
Huang Qiuyun nodded, lowered his voice and said: "It's best not to freeze, otherwise the cave will be uninhabitable, and the unbuilt houses will crowd into our house."
Niu Hua'er and Zhang Chunlan looked at each other, thinking the same thing.
In my new house, apart from the main room, the remaining four rooms are shared by my parents-in-law, and they have three bedrooms each. It feels a little awkward to let outsiders move in.
The three sisters were hoping that God would show mercy and not suddenly freeze, so that everyone could build their houses smoothly.
Half an hour later, Erliang's family finished hoisting the last beam, and everyone present cheered in unison and congratulated Erliang's family.
The old man, who was over fifty years old, his eyes red with excitement, wiped his tears and thanked everyone, and stared at his new house with his children and grandchildren in silence for a long time.
While eating, Song Wufu reminded: "Xixi, our family will be going to the Liang Dynasty tomorrow morning, and the whole family will be present. You don't want to run around."
Song Xixi asked about the time of going up to the beam, and she would go to the newly laid trap today without delay: "Well, I understand."
The matter of cooperating with the wolves was so terrifying that no one would believe it if she told her. She didn't want to make her family worried, so she didn't mention it at all.
The Song family knew that she liked to run to the mountains, but they never thought that she would be related to the ferocious wolves.
Thinking that his granddaughter had not gotten back the prey these days, Song Wufu comforted him in a low voice: "Our family only spent five or six taels to build a house. Now your grandma still has thirteen taels of silver in her hand, which is enough for several years.
Xixi doesn’t have to worry about supporting her family.”
Song Xixi didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I'm not in a hurry to get angry, I just want to earn back the money I spent on buying cattle as soon as possible."
However, in addition to the money for "buying a cow", there is also money for food and transportation, which is no less than "buying a cow".
It was originally agreed with 001 that when she settled down and no longer had to worry about food, 001 would take back the [Gourmet Pack] and no longer provide her with water and food.
In her past life and this life, her stomach has been filled with food. She can't bear to eat braised vegetables every day. A meal of white rice and meat and eggs are the basics. She must work hard for this small goal.
The same goes for dressing and traveling. You can't let winter come and you don't even have any clothes to keep out the cold. To go to a slightly farther place, such as Huai'an Prefecture, you have to rely on two legs, so you have to have a scooter, right?
In addition, she also promised Niu Xiaohua that she would make more money to hire people to find Niu's family, but the money would be spent...
In short, the more money is, the better.
Song Wufu was persuaded and rubbed his granddaughter's little head: "That's not your problem alone. If you do everything carefully, your father, your eldest uncle, and your second uncle will all be useless."
Now it was the turn of Song Cai's three brothers to be speechless. It's true that they can't make any money for the time being, but they also don't have free rice. They are useless!
Is it their fault that their daughter (niece) is too capable?
Facing the resentful looks of the three brothers, Song Xixi couldn't help but curl her lips: "There are many skills but it is not overwhelming. Once I have mastered the hunting skills, Song San'er and my eldest uncle and my second uncle can also learn it."
Hearing this, the three brothers immediately beamed: "That's right, even if you can't make any money, it's not bad to add something to the table."
Song Wufu had nothing to say and urged them to eat quickly so that they could go down to work in the mountains.
Mindful of the matter of climbing the beam, Song Xixi woke up very early the next day, said hello to Zhang Xiaomei, who also got up early, and rushed to the place where the trap was laid yesterday.
She didn't go very far when she noticed something was wrong. Someone seemed to be following her.