Chapter 58: Liu Lang's marriage, Yun Niang's heartache
Su Liulang is very sensible, and it is really not easy to talk about the original owner. After the scholar husband died ten years ago, the family has given birth to children one after another. No matter in which dynasty, especially in ancient times, three matchmakers and six employments are like ransacking the house, not to mention the ins and outs.
He managed the marriages of five sons and two daughters.
"Let's do this. It's easy for you brothers to talk to each other. You also tell Lao Liu not to think too much. It's really easy for the family to marry him a wife. The only difference is that there are too few houses. If there is a suitable person, book it first.
It won't be too late to get married after our family has built a house." When Chen Yu said this, he said to Su Erlang: "Don't think too much, you guys all have to live, and the money to build the house will be paid by the mother.
Just use your help."
Su Erlang held his knees with both hands and thought for a while before asking: "Do you want to flip it or expand it?"
It will definitely cost a lot of money to flip the cover, and the expansion is not neat and good-looking. It will be unfair if it is not kept intact. The family and everything will be prosperous.
Chen Yu gritted his teeth and said: "Turn over the cover. I looked at the land behind the house and the land to the west of our house. They are all empty. I will draw a blueprint and you will prepare the materials later."
"Sure." Su Erlang simply called his brothers to sit down with Chen Yu to draw the drawings.
It was also here that Chen Yu knew that under the strict hierarchical system in ancient times, there were various rules for building a house. In a portal like theirs, if there was a scholar, the door could be three feet wider and three feet taller than ordinary people.
Feet, any more will not work.
And the number of people entering and leaving the house must match the status, so even if there is a scholar there, it is not enough for the house to be too big.
Chen Yu had an idea: "Let's do this, let's use the door that the sophomores enter, and you guys rush to the main room of the house through the door, but the west courtyard opens to the east, and the east courtyard opens to the west. Is that okay?"
"Three courtyards on one side?" Su Erlang asked.
Chen Yu nodded: "The main courtyard is in the middle. There are corridors on both sides of the main courtyard. The backyard is the vegetable garden, stove and woodshed. Just open the front door and the back door."
This is just taking a step outside the rules.
Su Erlang didn't want to have a spacious yard, so he picked up a pen and started drawing and budgeting.
Chen Yu directly called Wu Lang and Liu Lang over to help. The three brothers have been working together all year round, so they were more thoughtful.
"Mom, eldest brother's yard..." Su Erlang looked up and saw Chen Yu, his face dropped, and he quickly suppressed what he said next.
Chen Yu patted his knees: "You brothers, listen up. Since the eldest family has changed their surname and married into the family, there is no place for them in our family. The private school opened by the third child needs space, and there is a vacant yard in front of the third child's yard in the west.
Become a private school."
Su Erlang quickly responded: "Cheng, mother, it's cheaper to ram the earth."
"What about rammed earth?" Chen Yu asked.
"There are also adobe and stone materials, as well as green bricks. The price of green bricks is high. For stone materials, the nearest quarry is a hundred miles away, and the price is not low." Su Erlang said.
Chen Yu frowned slightly. Green bricks are made of clay. One brick costs five cents. Stone is cheap, but the shipping fee must be included in it. The size of one stone can be worth five bricks, and the price is ten cents.
In other words, it is impossible to build such a big house without two hundred and three hundred taels of silver.
"We can go into the mountains to cut the wood ourselves," Su Wulang said.
Next to him, Su Wulang was also very excited. He suddenly remembered something: "Second brother, I heard from Aunt Pan's wife that the old ancestral hall in Nanshan Villa is going to be sold. The old ancestral hall is made of blue bricks and stones. It's not easy to buy it."
It’s just ten or twenty taels, we can buy it and remove it, and then take the stones and bricks home for use. Anyway, we’ll have some free time after the autumn harvest, and everyone has time, so it’s cost-effective to hire someone to remove the house.”
Su Erlang slapped his thigh: "That's right! There are many such shabby houses around. If you take back the ones that are used, you can save a lot of money."
With this method, Su Erlang also knew that building a house was not difficult. The brothers carefully designed the house. Chen Yu watched from the side and occasionally said a few words. Whenever Chen Yu spoke, Su Erlang would listen and understand.
After thinking about it carefully, he finally said: "I didn't expect Mom to understand this."
Chen Yu smiled and said nothing, and it was over.
"Lao Liu, you go to Nanshan Villa tomorrow to inquire about the ancestral hall and estimate how much useful materials you can get back." Chen Yu looked at Su Liulang and asked, "What is the name of the little lady of the Pan family?
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"Call Qiuniang." Su Liulang said casually, and subconsciously looked up at Chen Yu. Seeing Chen Yu's smiling face, Su Liulang's face turned red.
Chen Yu knew more than these people. The border wars continued and the people were in panic. However, all the wealthy families tried their best to stay away from the world. In villages like Sujiazhuang, the court would issue recruitment documents every year.
It's the so-called "catching young men". The reason why the Su family didn't have any big troubles was because of Su Sanlang's status as a scholar.
Under such current circumstances, let alone the ancestral halls of wealthy families, there are many houses. However, there are always some dissatisfactions in buying other people's houses. It is more appropriate to build your own.
"Our family's fields need to be redeemed bit by bit." Chen Yu said slowly.
Su Erlang's hand holding the pen tightened suddenly, and he lowered his head: "Mom, we will start recycling this winter. The price can be higher."
Chen Yu didn't know that Su Erlang was heartbroken because he sold a little bit of land to his fourth son to pay off his gambling debt. It was just that he couldn't let go of his old and confused mother, so he didn't leave like his elder brother.
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No matter how good the family's life is, it won't be enough if they don't have land in their hands. Su Erlang is determined to earn more money and redeem the land!
Late at night, Chen Yu was lying on the bed tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. Su Yunniang got up and came over with her clothes on, and asked softly: "Mom, can't you sleep?"
Chen Yu said yes, and Su Yunniang went to light the lamp.
Chen Yu simply got up, sat cross-legged on the bed, looked at Su Yunniang sitting beside the bed, and said: "Yunniang, it is not easy to open a restaurant, and it takes time to make wine. Everything we want to bring out is unique."
For one portion, this wine cannot just be sorghum wine."
Su Yunniang looked at Chen Yu: "Do you want to use medicinal materials to make wine?"
"This is a method that uses sorghum wine as a base, and soaks it with Chinese medicinal materials such as Acanthopanax bark, ginseng and cinnamon. It can promote qi and blood circulation, dispel wind and dampness, and relax the muscles and activate the muscles. It doesn't matter if the price of this kind of wine is higher.
Furthermore, this wine is said to be the best medicine. Angelica wine, Rehmannia glutinosa wine, Salvia miltiorrhiza wine, Rehmannia glutinosa wine, there are too many. According to different diseases, different wines are paired with them, and they can be adjusted accordingly in different seasons.
, these are incomparable to others.”
The more Su Yunniang listened, the more excited she became. She couldn't help but rub her hands: "Mom, if this is the case, let's open another shop specializing in selling wine."
"Okay." Chen Yu narrowed his eyes slightly: "There are also fruit wine and wine. These are sweet wines, and women will be willing to drink them."
"Mom, those women from wealthy families drink osmanthus wine, and there are also a lot of peach blossom wines." Su Yunniang was no longer sleepy at this moment, and walked over to Chen Yu: "Mom, I don't want to drink wine for the time being anyway.
Open a restaurant, use the money to build a house, and build a soju workshop behind our house. These are what I give to my family, and I will definitely earn more in the future."
Chen Yu shook his head: "You remember, the purpose of dividing the family into small groups is to prevent chaos. You and Fu Niang are both the children of your mother. You have your own money. When you open the restaurant, you will provide the money yourself.
It's yours, don't make random decisions in a hurry."
Su Yunniang felt so sad in her heart. It was her mother who was making plans for everyone in the family, but who was planning for her in turn?