This can be considered a serious famine year. There is not even enough food to eat, and there is no extra money to build a house.
After hearing Cheng Hanyan's words, Hu Lizheng was afraid that Cheng Hanyan was temporarily overheated, so he was ready to persuade him to go back and think about it carefully.
"Li Zheng, I have actually wanted to build a new house for a long time, but I just didn't have time for a while. Now that everyone is free and have nothing to do, I might as well take advantage of this time to ask the folks in the village to help me build the new house. I
Calculating wages for everyone also allows them to make an income."
Logically speaking, Hu Lizheng should not stop a good thing like this that can benefit the villagers.
But looking at the half-bag of food and the difficulties that the child Cheng Hanyan was having, he felt sympathy in his heart and wanted to give him some advice out of selfish motives.
"During this period, I also provided a meal, which also helped every household to save some food. No one knows when the drought will be over. Some of the vegetables my family grows cannot be stored, so just asking the villagers to help eat can also help save some food."
My family will contribute."
Cheng Hanyan has already planned everything, and he doesn't need others to persuade him to think clearly.
Hu Li was smoking a dry cigarette: "Okay, I'll go with you."
Cheng Hanyan led Hu Lizheng to the foot of the mountain to see the piece of land he had selected. After measuring the size, it was no big deal. Hu Lizheng took him to the county seat to find the land deed for approval by the late grandfather.
The piece of land at the foot of the mountain was originally wasteland. Someone used it to build a house, and the county magistrate could still receive land money, which was considered a good income.
After discovering that the visitor was Cheng Hanyan, he didn't even ask for any filial piety money, and approved the land to him with a wave of his hand.
This progress is not unusually fast. Hu Lizheng was stunned. This process would take at least a day, but he did not expect that the county magistrate would directly facilitate it.
The land deed was completed in less than half a day. Cheng Hanyan wanted to treat Hu Lizheng to a bowl of wontons, but Hu Lizheng couldn't take advantage of him after taking the food, so he said hello and went back first.
So Cheng Hanyan first went back to the restaurant in the town, found the shopkeeper, and asked him to ask someone to get the food tonight.
On the way back, I went to two more blue brick factories and bought a large amount of blue bricks.
Song Yutong was pulling weeds in the field in front of the kitchen, but she didn't expect Cheng Hanyan to work so efficiently.
Almost everything is ready in one day.
Hu Lizheng came back early and went to the village chief's house in Chengjia Village. He told Cheng Hanyan that he was going to build a house and asked him to gather the villagers to go to Cheng Hanyan to help build the house.
Giving them a meal at noon can also save them a lot of food, and their wages will be calculated every day.
This is a rare fat job.
So, when the green bricks and stones were delivered to the village, the villagers were ready to help Cheng Hanyan lay the foundation.
Everyone has had lunch now, so we only count the wages and not the food, and we will only start taking care of the food from tomorrow on.
When Cheng Hanyan returned home, he repeated what he had said to Hu Lizheng and Song Yutong, and mentioned the matter of taking care of the meal.
"Daughter-in-law, do we have enough food at home? I haven't told the county magistrate yet. I just informed the shopkeeper to come and pick up the food in the evening."
At present, they need food to make a big pot of rice, but they promised the shopkeeper that they would give him three baskets of vegetables.
From the wasteland at the foot of the mountain, a total of 12 and a half baskets of vegetables were harvested, and together with the half basket of vegetables at home, the total was 13 baskets of vegetables.
Cheng Hanyan gave the key to the cellar to Song Yutong for safekeeping and asked her to put all the dishes in the cellar into the system space to prevent them from spoiling.
I agreed to give 3 baskets to the shopkeeper. I included a meal for the villagers at noon, which could probably use 1 basket in three days. They had to leave at least 3 baskets for their family and the entire Song family.
No matter how much he thought or calculated, Cheng Hanyan didn't have enough room to spare, and he was already starting to feel a little worried.
Song Yutong opened the system panel in front of Cheng Hanyan, but unfortunately Cheng Hanyan couldn't see it.
So Song Yutong looked at the quantity of everything and reported it to Cheng Hanyan one by one to reassure him.
"That's enough. I've sorted it out in the past two days. Apart from the 13 baskets of vegetables we grow, we also have 80 bags of white rice and 50 bags of white flour. There are more than 130 bags of whole grains and multigrain noodles. Pork, beef and mutton are also packed in baskets.
Yes, there are 30 baskets in total.”
"We bought 20 baskets of vegetables at the market, 1,000 eggs, 2 sacks of various wild mushrooms bought on the mountain, and only 2 baskets of chickens and ducks in total."
After Song Yutong finished reporting the quantity, she looked at Cheng Hanyan and blinked, as if asking him if it was enough?
I didn't feel it when I bought it, but now that I saw so much food left, Cheng Hanyan suddenly didn't feel panic at all.
The night before, they also sent 12 bags of grain and half a basket of vegetables and meat dishes to the Song family.
I didn't expect there were so many left.
"You go to the county magistrate tomorrow and we'll sell ten baskets of vegetables and 50 bags of whole grains and grain noodles. It's not easy to take out other things, so it's better not to attract too much attention."
Song Yutong thought about it and thought that the villagers had seen them grow the vegetables they sold, so they were not afraid of being investigated.
They had bought a lot of rice noodles before, and the villagers had also seen them, which was perfect for her to use as a cover.
But Song Yutong really couldn't take out the many meat dishes. The worst he could do was keep them and exchange them for food with people later.
It took three days to lay the foundation. Song Yutong used charcoal pencil to draw the design of the house early in the morning.
Since there was no pen and paper at home, she drew on a rag, gave the rag to Cheng Hanyan, and told him which room was the main room and which two were side rooms.
The kitchen room and the firewood room are adjacent to each other. Behind the kitchen room and in the corner is a large hut, which can be used for showering and flushing.
Cheng Hanyan looked at this whimsical house structure diagram and lamented more than once that there was great wisdom hidden in his wife's little mind.
The location of the backyard happened to be the vegetable field they had opened up. Song Yutong planned to cover the extra space next to the vegetable field with stone bricks, bury the bamboos that diverted the mountain spring water underground, and then dig a larger reservoir and put it on it.
stone bricks.
Add a cover to the reservoir. If you want to drink mountain spring water in the future, you can go to the reservoir to get water. Although it is a bit more troublesome, it is much more convenient than going to the river to get water.
Just looking at this picture, Cheng Han Yan already felt that living in such a home was too wonderful.
"Have you hired a carpenter to make furniture?" Song Yutong thought about the many things she would use in the kitchen, and planned to draw a picture when she went back and give it to Cheng Hanyan so that he could ask a carpenter to make it.
"I'll be there soon," Cheng Hanyan said.
"No need to make the bed, look at the picture I drew. Let's make a kang. When the weather gets cold, as long as we burn the kang, it won't get cold."