The south of Laowei County has always been a very lively area, especially in the area near Drum Mountain and Shouhu Lake, because bookstores and post stations are in the vicinity, and from here, it is the most convenient way to get to Drum Mountain and Shouhu. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Is there anything unusual about this Drum Mountain and Shou Lake?

In Qinglan's opinion, both are very ordinary, and she prefers Fuyan Mountain, which goes further southwest.

Although it is called a mountain, but the drum mountain is only a hill that is not high, but there is the only temple near Weixian County on the mountain, every year and festival, the fifteenth day of the first month, the incense is very prosperous. Shouhu Lake is at the foot of the mountain, which is the best choice for people in the county to travel in spring and summer, climb high in autumn and skate in winter.

The newly rented yard of the Qinglan family is near here.

During the time when Qinglan was busy with the entrance exam, Pan Erniang and Shu Lao Er were not idle. Out of the New Year, the two began to touch the façade of the restaurant everywhere, and it is best to bring a backyard and live at home, which not only saves the daily errand work, but also facilitates taking care of the children.

The location in the center of the city is naturally expensive, and the two of them retreated to the next best thing, and wanted to rent near the post station, which was relatively cheaper, and second, it was convenient for Shu Lao Er to go to work, and he could help take care of the store and home closer to home.

The post station in Weixian County is located in the south of the road on the health street in the south of the city, and the north of the road is the bookstore where Shu Lao Er goes to work.

The post station covers a large area, divided into three parts: post, station and shop. "Yi" is the transportation organization of the government to receive guests and arrange government materials; The "station" is an organization that transmits important documents and military information, and is dedicated to the military system; The "shop" is led by the local county government and is responsible for the delivery of official documents and letters.

In addition, the post station in Weixian County also has a special place for ordinary people to rent horses, rent cars, send letters, and carry goods, and gradually become the land wharf of Weixian County, where peddlers and pawns, mule carts and carts pull goods, and even masonry potters and porters gather here every day to wait for work.

On the fifteenth day of the first day of each month, the people who come from the south to catch the big market and go out of the city to burn incense on the drum mountain are even more busy, and the voices of the people are boiling. Because of the large number of visitors here, the small facades are lined up one after another, and the price is acceptable to Shu's family, with a rent of sixty taels per year, but the degree of use and construction quality of the house is relatively poor, and it is much more dilapidated than the old house of the Shu family.

However, this is difficult for the hard-working Pan family, especially the skillful old man Pan and the all-round talent Shu Lao Er, Weng and his son-in-law cooperated tacitly and quickly cleaned up the house.

On the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, Qinglan Mu Xiu had to pester Pan Erniang to see her new home, but Pan Erniang couldn't, so she had to take her two children and a group of people who helped to work to the new house.

The newly rented shop of the Qinglan family is facing the back of the post station, about a few dozen meters to the south, and there are small traders all around, the one on the left is the one with teeth, and the one on the right is the tailor shop.

The shop of Qinglan's house is about forty or fifty square meters, and the door is five or six meters wide. There was originally a small stove inside, and it was definitely not enough to open a restaurant, so Pan Erniang was going to build a large stove with three stoves.

Pan Erniang finished the kitchen work and led the two children to the back.

The back door of the kitchen is connected to the yard, which is not large, and the thin bricks on the ground are cracked in the east and west, and the thick moss is stuck in the brick joints. The yard is relatively clean - nothing, about a dozen square meters, at most you can raise chickens, and nothing else. There was no well in the yard, so you had to go to the well in the backyard of the post house to fetch water - most of the backyard was occupied by the families of the post staff.

Qing Lan looked at the small house in front of her with a little surprise - it was really a little low, she glanced at the small door that opened on the right side, if Mr. Yao was at the moment... I can only hehe.

This cottage is Qinglan's new home, as wide as the yard, the roof is covered with black tiles, it looks relatively complete, but when you enter the house, you can see the sky outside through the jagged straw, the roof must be repaired well, or it will rain outside, and the house will be like a shower head. The amount of work in this house has increased a lot, and it is much more troublesome to repair than Mr. Pan imagined.

I don't know what the landlord thinks, the door was oiled green, and there was no good wood used to build the door at that time. The room was not large, about thirty or forty square meters, and was divided into two rooms, and the doors were in the same position, both against the wall on the right.

On the left-hand side of the door are the two windows next to each other, Qinglan opened it, and it can still be used, but the window paper has to be replaced. There was a musty smell in the house, and the outside was now empty, and the place where the stove had been burned at the door was black and ash, but the whole wall looked pretty much the same—the places without black ash were also covered with mold.

There were no bricks on the ground, and the dead grass and rotten leaves that had fallen on the ground had been swept away by Shu Laoer, leaving only the black-brown soil.

There is a wall between the outer room and the inner room, the wall is not thick, the old man Pan is afraid of the cold in the house in winter, so he added a layer of wood to the front and back of the wall, and after sweeping the house today, he will repaint all the walls several times.

As soon as I entered the inner room, a large kang was built on the left-hand side, the corner of the kang was somewhat damaged, it seemed to have been knocked off, and some parts in the middle had collapsed into it, and this kang had to be rebuilt.

On the right-hand side is the aisle, and there is nothing. In the middle of the room, there is a large window, which is still double-leafed, and occupies two-thirds of the wall. Old Man Pan is a little worried, should this window be built? In winter, the wind is so strong, I am afraid that it will be very cold. There is also space between the window and the kang where you can put some wardrobes, cabinets, wooden boxes, and the like.

Pushing open the broken window, Qinglan was pleasantly surprised to find a small semi-circular backyard, not a big place, planted with a plane tree, piled up with some messy broken furniture, but there was no door, and she might have to go through the window in the future.

Old Man Pan measured the size behind Qinglan, and when he looked up, he also found it, and said to Qinglan with a smile: "For the time being, I'm not afraid of running out of firewood." ”

Qinglan nodded, she liked this little backyard.

"Mother, let's live here in the future?" Mingyu has been following behind his sister, and after visiting the small house, he happily raised his head and asked Pan Erniang. They finally have a home of their own! Although living in the Pan family is many times better than here, everyone in the Pan family is very kind to themselves, but Mingyu still hopes to have a house of his own, and his heart is a lot more spacious.

"Well, this will be our home from now on!" Pan Erniang's tone was brisk, the taste of being the master of the house was really good, and she felt that her waist was straight. "But Qingqing," Pan Erniang turned to look at Qinglan, "I discussed with your father, you still live in your grandfather's house, it's convenient to go to school." ”

Qinglan's heart was warm, "Mother~~~ I want to be with you, isn't it good for us to be together as a family." Qinglan shook Pan Erniang's arm and said coquettishly.

"But... It's too far away here..."Pan Erniang frowned, the only disadvantage here is that it is a little far away from the county school, her family has no car, and she has to walk for nearly half an hour just on Qinglan's short legs, and Pan Erniang is not worried that she will go alone.

"I'll get up early~" Qinglan didn't mind, anyway, she also made up her mind to get up early to help the family.

"Mother~~~ I want to be with my sister." Mingyu was on the side to help, he really hoped that the family could live together.

"You..." Pan Erniang ironed in her heart, how could she not know the thoughts of her children, and she was reluctant to let the children go.

"That mother started to clean up, you two covered your heads and covered your mouths tightly, I don't know how many years old gray this is..."

Qinglan and Mingyu had already tied the cuffs of their trouser legs, took the cloth handed over by Pan Erniang, and wrapped it around their heads.

This house is indeed quite a bit old...

The three of them began to clean up the room first, Pan Erniang moved the stool to the kang, stepped on the stool to sweep the beams of the house, and the broom went down, like gray rain.

Qinglan is in charge of cleaning up the windows. The window paper was in tatters, broken pieces of it, most of it was wet by the rain, and it was covered with black mold spots. Qinglan tore off the window paper, but it was too old, and some places were too sticky, and the paint on the window edges was glued off. There were still a lot of insect and mosquito corpses on the windowsill, and Qinglan swept them down to the bottom, and later cleaned them up with the window paper.

Mingyu's task is to sweep the kang, the kang is badly damaged, and he will have to rebuild it later, so he has to clean up the fine bricks and soil, and save it again when the time comes. Mingyu carefully pushed aside the collapsed place and cleared out the moving bricks.

In addition to Mr. Pan and Uncle Pan, the sons-in-law of the Pan family were also all there, and Mr. Shu also invited some of his brothers to help with the work. The men moved neatly, cleaned the shop, built the stove, and divided into two groups, one group of people to clean up the yard, and the other group of people to enter the house to sweep the wall.

Lunch was sent by Chen Ling, there was nothing in this courtyard, and Old Man Pan asked Fan to prepare it early at noon, so as not to miss the meal. After the meal, the men began to paint the walls.

Shen Shi, the yard has been transformed with the efforts of everyone, Qinglan looks very satisfied, wait for the wall to dry for two more days, February 16 can move in!

Qinglan can't participate in the move, she has to go to school a little bit, but the whole family gathers in the Shu's courtyard in the evening to burn the kang for Qinglan's new home, she is still very welcome and very excited!

In addition to the Pan family, Ding Xiaobao and Li Shisan also came, and they also sent a lot of daily necessities, which moved Qinglan very much.

Ding Xiaobao and Li Shisan looked at the dilapidated and low hut, and their hearts were different. (Haruran: It's been renovated a lot, okay!) ）

The next day, the Ding family's carriage came to pick up Qinglan from school, Ding Xiaobao and Li Shisan patted their chests, and repeatedly assured Qinglan of Qinglan's safety with Shu Lao Er and Pan Erniang, and promised to pick up Qing Lan from school every day to reassure them. Qinglan was grateful in her heart, and treated Ding Xiaobao and Li Shisan more and more as close friends. Although the three of them kept fighting, they all remembered each other's good in their hearts and regarded each other as their best friends.

Shu Lao Er also notified the Shu family, but Old Man Shu said that no one was allowed to go, "Don't study well!" What kind of restaurant does a Xiucai family open! Deal with people every day! Under the three indiscriminate! “

However, Zhao Bingsheng sent a kang burning gift, and said that he would be there to congratulate him on the opening day, and Shu Lao Er happily responded.

On 18 February, Poon Kee Restaurant was officially opened.

At three o'clock in the morning, Shu Lao Er and Pan Erniang woke up, climbed down lightly from the kang, quietly dressed themselves, and went out of the room with the basin. Shu Lao Er slowly pushed open the door, and the husband and wife crept to the courtyard, at this time the sky was very dark, and the moon did not know where it went.

Shu Lao Er pressed the scoop, poured water into the basin, and went to the kitchen in front of Pan Erniang to freshen up, for fear of noisy two children sleeping outside.

Because of today's opening, the Li family kept Brother He by his side, afraid that Pan Erniang would not be able to keep busy, so now only the sleeping sisters and brothers are left in the hut.

The two of them cooperated tacitly, Pan Erniang's washing kung fu, Shu Lao Er picked up firewood and started to build a stove, and when the fire rose up, Shu Lao Er went to wash, and Pan Erniang began to make noodles. After washing, Shu Lao Er went to wash the green onions and chop the green onions, for fear of affecting the rest of the two children, Shu Lao Er moved the board to the stove at the door and chopped.

This stove was designed by Mr. Pan, with three layers inside and outside, and the chimney is two circles larger than an ordinary stove, which can roast dozens of meat at the same time. After chopping the green onions, Pan Erniang's fungus over there was also cut, and Pan Erniang began to stuff it. The meat was served in the sauce yesterday afternoon, and now the meat has absorbed all the sauce, Pan Erniang dug out a small pot, quickly knocked a few raw eggs, and then mixed in minced green onions, and the stuffing of the wonton stew was ready. Pour the remaining minced green onions and fungus into a large pot of minced meat, then stir the finely diced chicken cakes well, and the roasted meat filling is ready.

Shu Lao Er cleaned the hens that he sorted out yesterday again, stuffed them with shiitake mushrooms and wolfberries in his belly, and stewed them in an oversized casserole. After doing this, he took out the zero line pen and ink of the account book, put it on the tent, went out to get a basin of water, wiped the tables, chairs and stools, and put the chopsticks on the table after wiping.

Waiting for the house to clean up inside and outside, the two looked at each other and smiled: It's early...

Pan Erniang has always been diligent, since the hour is still early, it is better to make breakfast first. Shu Lao Er was not idle, put the door panel down, swept up the street in front of the door, and hung up two long strings of red whips after sweeping.

The sky was dark. Qinglan and Mingyu were worried about getting up early and didn't sleep much. At this moment, the siblings were sitting under the covers and getting dressed.

After moving to the hut, Qinglan and Mingyu slept on a small bed in the outer room. In fact, the kang in the middle is very large, and my father and mother also let themselves sleep with them. But Qinglan and Mingyu were unwilling. First, my father and mother have to get up early and go to bed early, and I still have to write homework and tutor Mingyu to study, which will definitely affect my parents' rest; Second, the sisters and brothers are older and have their own spatial awareness.

The small bed that Qinglan and Mingyu slept on was the one that her aunt-in-law gave her a hundred days ago, about 1.2 meters wide, and it was still loose to sleep two dolls. The head of the bed is close to the wall on the left, there is a bedside table next to the bed, which Uncle Pan bought for Qinglan, there is a shelf for the basin bucket at the end of the bed, and there is a large desk under the window opposite the bed, which is a kang gift given by the eldest aunt, there is a chair on each side of the table, and the stove is still installed in the old place.

"Sister, can you finish watching the firecrackers before leaving?" Mingyu asked Qinglan who folded the quilt while putting on his shoes.

"Yes." At that time, even if they don't want to, Xiaobao and Thirteen will definitely not miss this kind of excitement.