After sending off the three contract foremen, the godfather sat at the tea table in the courtyard, beckoned Pei Yao to come and sit down and asked her: "Xiao Yao, the three houses are all built with blue bricks, and the road surface has to be widened and paved with stone slabs, is it too wasteful, I think that in addition to the high-ranking families in the county, most people also live in stone tile houses." ”

"Dad, the blue brick house is more durable and cold-proof than the stone tile house, and the house is built for a lifetime, we now have the ability to build a better one, and when the store business is stable, we will also have silver in the account, and there are relatives and friends to visit the door, the house is more beautiful and gives our family a long face, isn't it?" Pei Yao poured her father a cup of tea before saying.

Godfather has always wanted to save money for her, Pei Yao knows it in her heart, but she also knows that it is right to give and give, forget if you don't have silver, it's not wrong to use silver in the right place.

The godfather also knew that he couldn't persuade this girl who would enjoy it, so he endured the heartache and thought of a way to save it: "The wall is so big, let's use stones, there are a lot of stones in the ravine in the mountain, and there are even more in the big river outside the mountain." When the time comes, the godfather and the family will be picked up by Li Jun, and they will always be able to save a little. ”

Seeing that Li Jun next to him was also nodding there, I wanted to come to the farmhouse to build a house in ancient times, you helped me in the village, and I helped you build a stone house, and the materials and everything were accumulated over the years.

Pei Yao sighed secretly, why is it so difficult for herself to be more convenient, in addition to this material, there is still a lot of work to be done at home, could it be that the three of them want to exhaust themselves!

Pei Yao saw that Godmother and Wu Man also brought food up, and knew that they were going to eat at noon, so they thought about making a long story short and said: "Godfather, Brother Li, not only are we in a hurry to build a house, but there is still a lot of work at home that we haven't done." The wasteland on the gentle slope of the mountain is now drying, don't you want to plant seeds in the past two days? Now the vines and herb seeds are planted, and the other dozens of acres of land have to be planted by a few of you, this kind of meticulous work is more laborious and slower than clearing the wasteland, isn't it? If you plant it, you have to weed, and you know that there will be a lot of grass in this newly opened land! ”

She helped the two of them spread the chopsticks and continued: "Not only do you have to supervise the work while farming, in addition to building the fire kang, I still have things for everyone to do, so we don't have time to pick up stones, but we can ask the villagers of Xiaohuangzhuang to pick up stones and send them, how much is a car, it should be cheaper than the house building team to buy ready-made." ”

The godfather nodded with satisfaction when he heard this, the wall is built with stones, and when the time comes, he can also help the neighbors of Xiaohuangzhuang, not only save money, but also save manpower, it is really the best of both worlds!

Seeing that Father Wu was satisfied with the provincial silver, Li Jun asked: "Xiao Yao, the house has been hired to do it, what else do we have to do besides overseeing the work?" ”

Pei Yao didn't procrastinate, hugged the little orchid and let Vanilla eat first, and then said: "I'm going to change the shape of the window according to the style of my hometown, and when the carpenter from the house building team comes, you guys have someone to show people to make new windows according to the drawings."

"Okay, you look at the arrangement." Li Jun doesn't care, it should be better anyway to get rid of the current window style.

The family was eating lunch around the round tea table in the courtyard, because Pei Yao didn't have time to cook in the morning, so she didn't eat fried leeks with eggs at noon, but steamed buns and wild vegetable soup, and a large plate of spring onion dipping sauce.

This Pei Yao really likes to eat, although her mouth is full of onions after eating green onions, but she can't help but like to eat that taste, if the spring onions with less fat and more water are not spicy and sweet, she can sit on the edge of the vegetable field and eat at the same time, very cool!

Give the little orchid a piece of steamed bun to bite and eat casually, feed a mouthful of soup from time to time, see that she doesn't like to eat vegetables, and encourage her to be awesome while feeding her, as a result, a small bowl of vegetable soup is eaten clean, and Wu Vanilla is so happy that she also smiled and squinted.

After the herbs were eaten, she took the child down to walk and play, and she also learned from Pei Yao's example, put down her sleeves, and let her explore freely in the yard, pouting her ass to pick up stones, and holding the weeds in the corner of the mountain wall to show her mother, just like a little pony who spreads the reins!

At this time, Chen Jiacheng also sent people back, parked the carriage and washed his hands and ate.

He sat down at the table and said, "I checked it when I sent them back, and when the time comes, they will be responsible for sending bricks and slates, and one cart will count the money." In addition, because we were in a hurry, they sent out 40 craftsmen, divided into two teams, one to build walls and one team to build houses, and finally paved the ground and expanded the road together, striving to clean up and build it neatly within half a month. ”

After speaking, he grabbed the big steamed bun on the table and took a bite of it, and then drank half a bowl of soup, but he was really hungry!

Pei Yao also nodded in agreement, anyway, she said that she would pay a total of 50 taels of silver as wages, and other house materials would be counted separately, and they would do it quickly to save themselves time to take on new jobs, so they also got their own place.

Men eat quickly, especially when they have been soldiers, and it doesn't take them five minutes to eat a few steamed buns and a few bowls of soup.

Pei Yao saw that he had finished eating and said: "Brother Jiacheng, we have to go to the town and the county seat again in the afternoon, I want to settle the matter of the window, and then go to the stonemason to order a stone platform that can produce water, and then sit on the spring, let the spring water flow out of the hole above, so that the water in the lower courtyard can be connected with the bamboo that opens up the bamboo joints, so that there is no need to run up to fetch water to drink, and we are not afraid of dirty water upstream." ”

With that, she got up and went into the house and drew a stone platform resembling a fountain on paper with a carbon branch, and then drew a wooden double-opening window on another piece of paper, similar to a double-opening door, but much smaller and just a window frame.

She took it out and spread it on the table that had been cleaned up to show the Chen family to them, and then pointed to the drawings and explained: "The middle of this stone platform is empty, and water can be discharged from the four long mouths above, and there are two half-circle sinks below, half of which are used to wash vegetables, half of which are used to wash clothes, and then the sewage flows from the inclined sink into the dug sewer, and finally flows into the waterhole to feed the fish." Moreover, the water flowing from it will not be polluted at all. ”

After listening to her point to the drawings and explaining, the godfather slapped his thigh violently and said excitedly: "This is good!" The water flowing out of the stone platform is so high, not to mention that the lower courtyard is connected with a bamboo tube, and the upper courtyard can also be used! ”

Seeing that a few people were excited and satisfied, Pei Yao was also very happy, the water flowing out in this way was like twenty hours of uninterrupted tap water, convenient and clean, it was a wonderful idea! But fortunately, this is a fountain with a large flow of water, if it is well water, Pei Yao has no tricks, so she can only honestly use the water, this is the so-called right time, place and people!

(To be continued.) )