Chapter 60: Groundbreaking

Today is the first day of construction of Xiao'er's new house, Shen Chengyao and Liu got up early in the morning to prepare worship supplies, Shen Chengyao bought a big rooster yesterday and came back, and is now plucking in the yard. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info Liu is cooking sweet rice balls in the kitchen, the rice balls are rubbed by Jing Rui and Jing Hao, and the peanuts and sesame seeds are used as fillings, because the father and son love to eat rice balls, and they all ask to make a little more, so Liu cooked a big pot. I'm going to send some to Shangfang and the fourth uncle's family.

Xiao'er helped cook a plate of vegetarian dishes, and then went to wrap the shou bao, which was made of sugar, cooked flour and lard soaked tangerines mixed with sweet oranges. She made the shou bao into the shape of a peach, and after wrapping it, she took out a red-fleshed dragon fruit, cut it, took out a piece of pulp and painted a little red on the shou bao, and a white and red shou peach appeared. Before Xiao'er went home the day before yesterday, she secretly put nine apples, nine oranges, three red-fleshed dragon fruits and a grapefruit into the basket, all of which were fruits used to worship the gods. The red-fleshed dragon fruit that is being taken out now is the one that was taken out of space that day. Xiao'er only steamed one basket, twelve. She put nine on a plate and worshiped God for a while, and the two brothers saw such a peach-like longevity bag for the first time and shouted to eat.

"These can't be eaten, there are three more in the pot. ā€

Liu Shi put out the remaining three with a bowl, "This bun looks so pleasing, I guessed that you must be clamoring to eat, you three sisters and brothers should have one each." ā€

"Mother is the best!" Jing Hao ran over and picked up two first, one handed to Jing Rui and one to Xiao'er, and then picked up his own and ate it, and said vaguely while eating, "Well, it's late, it's late!"

"Are all the things ready?" Xiao'er glanced at the sky outside, it was already about seven o'clock in the morning, and their family had been getting up since four o'clock in the morning to prepare.

"It's almost, I'm boiling lotus seeds, lily syrup, and boiled pig's head, and it's okay for a while. ā€

"Let's put it in the box and put it on the ox cart, for the hour is almost up, and we must hurry to the field." ā€

Liu glanced at the sky, and quickly put the prepared sacrifices into the food box, Shen Chengyao put the boiled pig's head into the plate, and put the sugar water into the big bowl, and then put it into two food boxes respectively, and carried it out and put it on the ox cart.

"Dad, go and ask Grandpa to come with you. "Today is a good day for her family to start building a house, and it is reasonable to invite Old Man Shen to appear.

"I'll go. Shen Chengyao answered and walked to the upper room, he mentioned it to Old Man Shen several times last night, and Old Man Shen also responded.

Shen Chengyao walked to the upper room, and Old Man Shen was already dressed and waiting there, "Dad, let's go." ā€

Old Man Shen smiled and said, "Okay, I just wanted to go out." ā€

Shen Chengyao asked Shen Zhuang who was sitting on the kang again: "Mother, do you want to go together?"

Shen Zhuangshi lifted his eyelids, "What am I going to do, it's not a house for me to live in." ā€

Shen Chengyao was stabbed, and forgot how to react for a while, Old Man Shen glared at her, "Early in the morning, what are you smoking? Leave her alone, let's go over, don't delay the auspicious time." ā€

Shen Chengyao sneered, "That mother, let's go first." ā€

Shen Zhuang snorted.

Shen Chengyao took Old Man Shen's hand and walked out, and Old Man Shen shook off his hand, "Dad is not old enough to be helped before he can go, let's go." ā€

The two walked out of the courtyard, and Liu had put all the things to be used on the ox cart, and the family got into the ox cart and went to the village.

On the wasteland at the head of the village, Foreman Liang was already waiting there with more than a dozen workers, and there were already people clearing the wasteland in other wastelands.

When Foreman Liang saw Shen Chengyao's family, he hurriedly stepped forward to say hello to Mr. Shen, and then said to Shen Chengyao, "Hurry up, the auspicious time has arrived, it's done, and we can start work." ā€

Shen Chengyao nodded in response, and then moved the Eight Immortals Table off the ox cart and placed it in the middle of the open space where the house was to be built, facing the auspicious direction of today.

Liu also took out the offerings one by one and placed them well, including chickens, fish, pig's heads, sweet rice balls, longevity buns, lily syrup, apples, oranges, grapefruits, and vegetables, a total of ten things, indicating that the life of living in this house in the future will be perfect.

Liu lit incense and candles, poured tea and wine, and began to worship, first in the middle of the house, and then moved the table of eight immortals to the four corners of the house to worship one by one. After worshipping the foundation, I went to worship the two mountains again, and the Liang foreman dug a shovel of mud in the ground with a shovel, "It's good to start!"

Shen Chengyao lit the firecrackers, and it was done.

The workers hired to build the house were to pack rice, and the Liu family couldn't be busy with the meals of these dozen people, so they invited Lu and Xu Wenhui to help, fifteen wen a day, three meals and three meals.

Xu Wenhui knew that she was very happy to ask her to help cook, and kept thanking her, Liu knew that she was alone, and her life was difficult, so she had the heart to help, and Lu took the initiative to help, and she didn't want to be paid, but Liu knew that the fourth uncle's family also used more silver and less places to earn silver.

If there is any big event in the village, many people will come out to see the excitement, not to mention that now the wasteland is being cleared, and almost every family is out to open up the wasteland, so there are many people around the old man Shen, and everyone praises the children and grandchildren of the old man Shen. The old man was so flattered that he smiled all over his face, and his mouth never closed when he opened his mouth.

Recently, the Li family has shown everywhere that Shen Chengzong followed his maternal uncle to the south to do business, and when he came back, her family would also build a big house.

After the construction started, Shen Chengyao set up an ox cart and prepared to go to the town to buy vegetables, Xiao'er also had to follow, there were many vegetables in her space, and if she didn't take them out to eat at this time, she would wait for a while, so she would also follow, and then find an opportunity to transport the vegetables out.

"Dad, you go buy meat first, I'll see what good dishes are here, and you can pick me up on this street after you finish buying." ā€

"Okay, then be careful yourself. ā€

"Well, I will. ā€

Not long after their family separated, the vegetables grown in the vegetable garden are definitely not enough to supply so many people's vegetables, Xiao'er glanced at the vegetables in the vegetable market, and then found an unmanned alley, took out two baskets of mustard greens and spinach in the space, and then took out a sack of radishes, half a sack of chestnuts and caught two pheasants, last time I caught a pair of pheasants, and now there are many pheasants in the space, she put the radishes and chestnuts on the basket, and then dragged the two baskets of vegetables out of the alley, standing on the side of the road and waiting for Shen Chengyao.

Shen Chengyao came back soon, and in addition to meat, he also bought some rice noodles and seasonings such as oil, salt, soy sauce, etc.

She saw that the food Xiao'er bought was so watery, so she praised: "I didn't expect to be able to buy such a watery dish now, how much is a catty?"

"Two pennies, these two baskets of vegetables, is the best dish in the whole street, originally the old man was selling three pennies a catty, and when he saw that I asked for them all, he was cheaper. I also bought two pheasants. ā€

"Xiao'er is really capable, just right, today's good meat is sold out, and I only bought five catties of meat, plus two pheasants. Shen Chengyao hurriedly returned to the village after loading the vegetables on the ox cart, after all, the vegetables had to be cleaned and cooked when they were bought, and any delay would delay the workers' meals.

Back in the village, Liu, Lu and Xu Wenhui Ma took the ingredients to the stream to clean, while Shen Chengyao went to build a temporary stove, just built one with adobe bricks, he built a total of three, and then went to cut a few bamboos, made a few bamboo rows, and erected them on benches to use as desks and dining tables.

After lunch was ready, Liu spooned a big bowl of vegetables to Jing Rui and asked him to send them to Mr. Shen and Shen Zhuang's, their family built a house to cook a lot of meals, a large pot of white rice, a large pot of corn steamed buns, and two kinds of meat dishes, fried chicken with chestnuts, stewed radish with meat slices, mapo tofu, and mustard greens in soup. A dozen workers who ate called the master kind, not only did they pay a lot of money, but they also had enough food, they had never eaten so much oil and water, so much meat, and it was very delicious, just look at those pots, there was not even a grain of rice and a drop of vegetable juice left.

After everyone eaten, they went to dig the foundation again, Shen Chengyao asked them to rest, they didn't want to, this master is kind, they have to work harder, these are honest and kind people, they know how to be a man with their hearts.