Right now in the village, rich families buy bricks and ask outsiders to help lay the foundation to build their houses. One look at the appearance of the building shows that the scale of the building is not small. Poor families also have money-free ways to find someone to water the soil themselves.
Bricks, build two rooms first to make do, and then slowly move on to other things when you earn money later.
Sister Du's house next door is obviously reminiscent of several bright brick houses.
It's just that these three villages have recently settled in, and the price of red bricks has been rising. Sister Du originally calculated that she could afford at least five brick houses, but she only had enough money to afford three.
Sister Du sighed, but she had to build it. There were many relatives in the village, but it was a critical moment to build a house at this time, and no one had enough money.
When Qiao Huaping found out, he took twenty taels of silver to Sister Du. He was afraid that Sister Du wouldn't take it anymore, so Tite said that he should treat it as if she had lent it to Sister Du.
Sister Du and her family helped them a lot during their escape.
Sister Du was deeply moved, but she still declined: "You have five children now, and you are spending money everywhere. You want to build a house yourself, so you can keep the money - I have thought about it, build it first
Three brick houses, and the remaining two adobe houses, one used as a firewood house and one used as a stove house, are enough." She took Qiao Huaping's hand, "Anyway, Xiao Qiao, you
I will keep this friendship in my heart."
Qiao Huaping thought for a while, but didn't force it, and said: "Sister, I recently took an order and it's a bit tiring to do it by myself. How about I pay you for the work and you come and help me?"
Sister Du became more and more moved and said angrily: "Look at what you said. I don't need to pay you to help you. It's not a public opinion! Just say it!"
Qiao Huaping refused, saying: "If eldest sister doesn't want wages, then I will be exhausted by myself and won't ask eldest sister for help."
Sister Du was so anxious that she stamped her feet: "You!"
She reluctantly agreed.
Qiao Huaping smiled and taught Sister Du step by step how to boil medicine and how to judge the progress according to the color of the medicine in the pot.
Sister Du is a well-known neat person in the village. Although she has a carefree temper, she is very careful and patient. The boring but demanding work of making medicine is just right for Sister Du.
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Qiao Huaping is busy with the house work these days, so she guesses she can't spend too much time on the fitness pills. With Sister Du helping her, she can save a lot of work.
Sure enough, Qiao Huaping was right. Sister Du was in a hurry when she first came into contact with this, for fear of making mistakes. However, the more she did this, the easier it was to make mistakes. Sister Du also made several mistakes; fortunately, Sister Du became more proficient later on.
, knowing the status of the liquid medicine thoroughly, there has never been any mistakes.
Sister Du has been busy for several days, and the refining of the Strengthening Body Pills has become more and more perfect.
Qiao Huaping tasted one and nodded repeatedly.
The pills this time do not have deer blood as an ingredient, so the efficacy of the medicine is a bit weaker - but precisely because of this, this body-building pill is more suitable to be used as a daily skin care product.
Of course, this is also consistent with the documents signed by Qiao Huaping and Tongshan Medical Hall at that time.
When no one was around, Qiao Huaping put these pills into the space, planning to keep them for ten days and eight months, and then give them to the Good Doctor Hall, where the effect would be better.
She gave Sister Du ten taels of silver as wages.
Sister Du's eyes widened and she almost stumbled over her mouth: "This, this, this, this, why are there so many?! I just stir things up, how can it be worth so much wages!"
Qiao Huaping explained patiently: "Sister, these pills of mine are very valuable. You have an excellent command of the heat. You deserve this."
Sister Du still couldn't accept it. It was rare for such a refreshing person to show a bit of embarrassment: "...it's not worth ten taels of silver after all."
Qiao Huaping could only say: "Sister, these ten taels of silver are not much. You have to know that this involves a top-secret formula. If you don't accept these ten taels of silver, I will have to find someone else, but I don't trust them.
, if they leak my exclusive secret recipe...even a little bit, someone may use it to come up with a complete recipe. Sister, only you and I are the most at ease. You must accept these ten taels of silver—
-The value of your work is completely worthy of these ten taels of silver, sister, just don’t worry!"
Sister Du was moved to tears. She held Qiao Huaping's hand and finally accepted the ten taels of silver.
Qiao Huaping has been busy these days. She drew a rough distribution map of the houses, and her initial idea was to build a large courtyard.
There are three rooms in the main house, three rooms in the east side, and three rooms in the west side. Then build a woodshed for storing sundries and a stable.
She thought that she would have to go to the county town in the future. She would have to buy this carriage after all. If she had a carriage, she would have to build a stable and raise horses.
Yesterday, Mei Qingying saw that the villagers had bought chicks from other people to raise, and she was very envious. Although she didn't tell Qiao Huaping, Qiao Huapin also remembered it, and she would give it to the child specially when the time came.
Build a chicken coop.
Almost all the helpers from the nearby native villages were hired. Qiao Huaping simply went to the county to hire a team. The price was more expensive, but the advantage was peace of mind. Qiao Huaping only had to take care of one lunch.
Qiao Huaping is not short of money right now.
In addition to hundreds of taels of cash in her space, there is also a pile of heavenly materials and earthly treasures that can be sold.
Qiao Huaping picked a night and moved their two tents out of the yard.
I heard that the leading engineer in the county was very experienced. Qiao Huaping gave him the drawings and explained his needs. The engineer waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, boss, we have built yards for the county magistrates.
I’ll definitely get this done for you.”
Qiao Huaping invited Song Yuelan again to cook for these workers at noon.
After Song Yuelan reconciled with Zhou Heishi, she was also allocated a small piece of land in the village.
That piece of land seemed to be her whole hope. She got up early in the morning and worked hard in the dark to cultivate the land. Almost every piece of dirt was crushed by her hoe, and the land was cultivated beautifully.
She didn't have much money. The only money she had was what Zhou Xiaoqing gave her while fleeing the desert, or what she earned from helping Qiao Huaping make clothes.
A real penny has to be broken into two pennies.
The small piece of wasteland she cultivated was completely planted with herb seedlings.
The fields had just been watered two days ago, and the seedlings were growing very strong. When Song Yuelan was free, Qiao Huaping asked her to help.
Thirty cents a day and a lunch.
Song Yuelan was very grateful to Qiao Huaping.
She knew that Qiao Huaping was helping her, and she cherished this job and worked very hard.
However, this morning, just as Qiao Huaping was going to fetch water from the stream, she saw Song Yuelan stumbling over with a look of collapse and despair, and she even somersaulted in front of Qiao Huaping.
"Miao, my Miao..." Song Yuelan couldn't ignore the embarrassment on her face. She lay on the ground, raised her head, and Tong Qiao's picture screen collapsed and cried in despair, "...my Miao was destroyed!"