Chapter 15: Moving
After planning everything, Zhou Chungui went to the village chief's house the next day and bought three acres of fertile land in the east of the village for ten taels of silver.
As for the move, he also told the village chief that because the family conditions are slightly better now, in order for Fu Yi to go to school, he is going to let Niang San rent a house in the town to live, and he still farms in the village.
After all, you can't let people feel that their family has suddenly become rich, then they must be jealous, and maybe there will be other things such as thieves and the like.
Two more days passed, and it was time to catch the market. Since I decided to buy it this time, I simply went to see the house with my family.
When she arrived at West Street, Ying Qi first asked her father to go to the neighbor to inquire about the situation of the house, after all, buying a second-hand house is like this, and it is necessary to consider whether the previous owner has left any strange entanglements, whether there are any unlucky things and so on.
Her father was soon back. Tell everyone that the owner of this family has only one daughter, who married in Fucheng last year, and the conditions there are very good, so at the end of last year, the whole family moved to Fucheng together, and this house was entrusted to the clansmen to help deal with it.
"Dad, since the family has no plans to go back to the old house, then we should talk about the price. Let's start by estimating how much price we can talk about. Ying Qi thought about it and said to her father.
After all, these are all men's things.
"According to the normal eight taels of silver for a house, he has three rooms, and it should cost twenty-one taels, of course, the courtyard dam is generally a gift. Let's see if we can buy it for twenty taels. Zhao Yulan proposed.
"Okay, I'll lower the price to eighteen taels. Let's talk about it slowly. Zhou Chungui nodded.
In the end, he successfully negotiated the price of the house on West Street with eighteen taels of silver, and gave an additional 500 yuan to the clansman as a middle thank-you gift.
After paying the silver taels, the formalities were completed in two or three days.
Ying Qi sighed a little that the speed of the county government in this era is still very fast. It is estimated that it is because of the lack of government affairs in small local counties.
Then I started preparing to move. Zhao Yulan took her two children to clean the house in advance, that is, to clean the new house.
Zhao Yulan used a long broom to clean the roof of the girders.
Asking the two children to clean the beds, tables and chairs with salt and water is said to be called cleaning up the traces of the old owner, and in modern parlance it is called cleaning up the magnetic field.
Open all the doors and windows of the room to ventilate to remove the musty smell caused by the long time no one has lived there.
Finally, we cleaned up the weeds in the yard together. Work ahead and you're basically ready.
Firewood and rice utensils are said to be in the house first, so the next step is to put the daily necessities in the new house first.
The old owners of pots and pans left some usable and added a few more.
Then Zhao Yulan went to buy a red bamboo stone ornament to hang in the door, which means that wealth and luck enter the door.
After returning home, he chose an auspicious day and greeted the people in the village, because it was said that it was not a real move, but just a house that Zhao Yulan and the three of them went to rent, so there was no need to entertain guests.
However, because everyone in my family knows that it is actually a move, everything that should be prepared must be prepared according to the relocation.
On the first day of moving, Zhao Yulan prepared six daily mascot items.
A millet bucket filled with eighty percent full of rice, and a red envelope with a little tea and nine copper coins on it.
A small bucket filled with seventy percent of water from a large tank at home.
Four new pairs of chopsticks and four new dishes.
A pair of dustpans and brooms, each with a red cloth belt tied to it.
A new set of pillowcases and bed sheets for one person.
A new stove with a piece of dirt from the house in it.
Then on the other side of the house, an old wallet was left in each of the three people's rooms, which contained five copper coins.
Two eggs were left in the kitchen, and a red envelope containing old cypress leaves.
Early the next morning, Zhao Yulan first moved the six mascots into the kitchen of the new house, and then let Fu Yi and Ying Qi enter the door. Zhou Chungui sprinkled some rice in front of the house, locked the door, picked up the quilt and sheets that the big guy wanted to cover, wrapped in silver and rushed into the new house behind the three of them.
Halfway through, the four of them all had a small snack, and in the evening, Zhou Chungui and Zhao Yulan began to worship the foundation master.
At the door of the stove house, a low table was prepared.
A vegetable, a soup, a meal, three glasses of wine, a pair of incense candles, three incense sticks, and a longevity fund and a land fund were prepared on the table. After the incense is lit for a third of the time, it begins to burn paper money next to the gate.
After the paper money is burned, the entire moving ceremony for today is completed.
Finally, the whole family has dinner.
"Mother, it's really great! We have a beautiful home. Although they have been very tired for the past few days, now that they have finally moved into their new home, Fu Yi and Ying Qi are very happy.
"yes, we've been living in town ever since. Fu Yi can also start reading. Mother, I lost you in the first two years, and we will get better and better in the future. Zhou Chungui also said happily. Zhao Yulan was a little embarrassed and said, "The child is here, what are you talking about." When I marry you, I will be a member of the family. That's what I'm supposed to do. Zhao Yulan knew that she was talking about the death of her mother-in-law, after all, when she first got married, the conditions of the Zhou family were still food and clothing, not to mention that the two of them had a little balance of money in their hands. It's just that the medicine for illness is too expensive, plus two children, so it leads to so poor later.
"Mother, don't worry, we will be richer. You must eat well and dress well, count the money until your hands cramp, and sleep until you wake up naturally. Ying Qi hugged Zhao Yulan and smiled.
"Yes, yes, we must count the money, well, hand cramps, sleep until you wake up naturally. The crowd laughed at her wonderful words.
Everyone is very happy with this new home. Since there are only two back rooms now, Fu Yi sleeps in the main room with his father, while Ying Qi sleeps in the other room with her mother.
The yard dam is very large, the middle is completely empty, and on the right is the stove house and chicken coop, which are ready-made.
There is also a peach tree, and the peach blossoms are still very bright. And under the peach tree is the well.
On the left, there is nothing, and the farmhouse sometimes has a thatched house, but the ordinary people in the town do not have a thatched house, they all use a toilet, and they put the toilet at the door of the house in the early morning, and there is a night incense to collect it. It is also sent to the farmer's house to make fertilizer.
However, Yingqi is not used to the toilet and the rotten thatched house in her house, and every time she poops, she splashes a fart poop in annoyance. It's so unhygienic.
This time, her father wanted to build another house for her, so Ying Qi decided to ask his father to work hard and make a thatched house.
The point is to make it a pipeline type.
She drew a diagram for her father, using a large stone to make a pit, and then using a long strip of hard stone to make a pipe, about a meter or so, directly connected to the toilet position, the toilet position was lowered, and when the toilet was flushed, it went directly into the toilet. In this way, you can completely get rid of the embarrassing situation of poop splashing on your ass. And you can still take the toilet out every day to pour night incense. After all, it's not suitable for too new styles, and it's impossible to make septic tanks as well.
Zhou Chungui was quite speechless after hearing about it.
I didn't expect Ying Qi to tell him about this as a very important thing, and it would also cost a certain amount of money, but in the end, she couldn't survive her request and agreed.
After the trial, it was really convenient and clean, so everyone said yes, especially Zhao Yulan, as a woman, felt that her daughter's request was really comfortable. Life is a great convenience!
Soon a room was opened on the left side of the courtyard, because most of them were done by Zhou Chungui himself.
In addition, Lin Zi's father was specially invited to help, and the relationship between the two families is relatively good. Anyway, it costs to hire people, so it's better to invite someone you are familiar with.
Fu Yi was very happy, so that he could meet Lin Zi every day again. He told Lin Zi that he was going to study, and Lin Zi was envious. But Lin Zi's family is a big family living together, and it is impossible to be like Fu Yi. So I still have to go home obediently and plant farmland.
However, Zhou Chungui was also preparing for Fu Yi's private school, so he also specially instructed him not to play too crazy. In fact, more often than not, the two children also help to move stones and tiles.
Zhao Yulan started to raise her chicks on the right side of the yard, especially the rooster and hen that were brought.
Early in the morning at the new house, the rooster began to crow excitedly, as if her rooster was the first to crow, and then the other roosters began to crow at the same time.
Then a small plot of land was opened up next to the well under the peach tree, where some shallots and vegetables could be planted, and Ying Qi also specially brought a handful of her strawberry seedlings to plant next to it.
In addition, he also told his father that he had found some grape vines in the market, after all, there were people selling all kinds of seedlings in the market, and his father specially greeted people, and sure enough, someone went back and found two grape seedlings and bought them for two pennies.
Ying Qi was very happy, so she asked her father to plant a grape trellis next to the peach tree and plant grape seedlings. Grapes are a very fast-growing plant, so if you plant them now, you can eat them this summer.
Zhou Chungui, the seedling field at home, still goes back every two or three days to see, fertilization and sowing these can not be missed, after all, the dim sum shop has not yet begun to open, and the family still needs to make a living.