On the second day after Zhao Siniang's family officially moved into Jiangjiatan, the whole family began to be busy building a house.

Originally, she planned to build the new shop near the old shop, but in order to make Zhao Yongzhong feel at ease, Zhao Siniang decided to buy some land in Jiangjiatan, so she went to consult Lizheng Jiang Wu, which made her change her mind.

It turned out that the field owned by the Jiang family was still some distance away from the wharf, and although the large overgrown land next to the wharf belonged to Jiangjiatan, that land was too desolate, and it was still a borderless land that no one wanted.

After thinking about it again, Zhao Siniang persuaded her family to agree to buy all the wasteland.

Because Zhao Siniang's family had disclosed the recipe for sweet potato flour to the whole village, Li Zheng was very grateful for her family's kindness to the villagers, so she happily sold the wasteland of more than 20 acres to her family at a low price of 30 taels of silver.

And because Mr. Jiang insisted on giving the piece of land near the wharf to Zhao Siniang's family, all the fields near the wharf in Jiangjiatan suddenly belonged to Zhao Siniang's family, and her family became a small landlord with nearly 30 acres of land.

"Landlord's wife" Zhao Siniang chose a place with hard geology and high terrain to build a new shop on the wasteland closer to the wharf.

After the site selection problem is solved, the next step is the question of who will build the house. The best bricklayer in the ten villages and eight shops is the Cao bricklayer of Qiaojiazhuang, and of course his family charges the most expensive. In line with the principle of "quality first", everyone eliminated their differences and finally decided to ask Cao bricklayer to build the house.

Now it was the time of the slack time, and it happened that Cao Bricklayer had no other work in his hands, so the day after he went to invite him, he took two apprentices to Jiangjiatan to start work.

It is definitely not enough to build a house with three masters and apprentices, so everyone decided to ask some villagers for help.

Since this time their family had to build a shop and two houses, it was not a matter of one or two days, and it took a month or two to talk about it. Therefore, it was decided that in addition to providing breakfast and lunch for the helpers, they would also pay 30 yuan a day.

Don't look at the 30 yuan is lower than the maximum wage on the dock, but the work on the dock is extremely heavy physical work, although after getting used to it, it will not wear out your shoulders as when you first started doing it. But at the end of the day, my hands and feet will still be swollen, and I don't know how many times more tired than helping idle. And it's not a good job. The number of poor people who came to the wharves in search of work was increasing, and with the exception of a few who knew the stewards of several trading houses well, there was no guarantee that they would find work every day. Most people can only work for ten or twenty days a month. And the work of helping idlemen can be done for at least a month, except for rain, there is work every day, which is relatively stable. Therefore, many people in the village rushed to help their families, including many young and middle-aged people.

Unexpectedly. In the selection of a large number of enthusiastic applicants, several people selected by their family are either elderly or half-aged. Although the villagers who lost the election were a little regretful, no one was dissatisfied, but was full of respect for their family.

The villagers are well aware of each other's family backgrounds, and those who are selected have a common feature that their families are surrounded by walls, and there is no strong labor in the family. At their age, even if they want to go to the docks to earn their lives. People will also dislike it. Even if they are reluctantly recruited, they will never be paid enough, at most they will be given more than ten or twenty dollars. The villagers can see that their family is willing to help people who are about to live a bad life.

In addition, their family not only disclosed the recipe of sweet potato flour, but also saw the villagers getting up early and queuing up at night to use the stone mill, and also pulled the newly bought grinding disc directly to the old stone mill for the villagers to use together. For a while, the villagers were full of praise for their family.

Don't look at the old and young villagers who invited to help, but their hands and feet are very quick, and they are grateful for the kindness of Mr. Jiang's family, and they work hard. So it took less than half a month. The new shop is almost finished.

On this day, everyone in the shop was busy with the morning meal, Zhao Yongzhong and Zhao Sanlang went to the construction site to help the handle, and Zhao Siniang also followed.

Since these nearly thirty acres of land have been returned to Zhao Siniang's family. Zhao Siniang will go around every day at this time.

If others see that their fields are full of weeds, 90% of them are full of potholes, large and small ponds everywhere, and even a large piece of river beach land that can't even grow sweet potatoes, they will definitely not laugh. But Zhao Siniang is not an ordinary person, and she is happy every time she sees it. Over and over again, she was planning for this land that she was very optimistic about.

Today, Zhao Siniang walked a little farther than usual and came to the place closest to the dock, which made her see a very unbearable scene, and then looked at the ground covered by weeds, which made her face black immediately.

After hurriedly returning to the shop, Zhao Siniang sat in a daze for a while, and immediately got up to prepare for lunch for everyone on the construction site. As soon as the meal was ready, Zhao Siniang asked her mother and aunt to send her mother and aunt to the construction site, and called her father and eldest brother back without delay.

Jiang and the others saw Zhao Siniang with a small face, thinking that Zhao Siniang had something important to discuss with the family, so they hurriedly responded, and pushed the food on the trolley and ran away. After a while, Zhao Yongzhong and the others rushed back in a hurry.

Seeing that there were no guests in the shop, Zhao Siniang asked everyone to sit together, and then said solemnly: "The shop is about to be completed, don't be busy building our house, let's build a thatched house near the dock first!" ”

Zhao Siniang's voice fell for a long time, but she didn't get a response from her family. For no other reason, everyone was stunned.

Seeing that no one responded to her, Zhao Siniang coughed lightly twice, and glanced at her father with a sharp gaze.

Zhao Yongzhong was intimidated by the gaze of his little daughter, and hurriedly asked: "Siniang, what are we building a thatched house for no reason?" ”

"yes, it's okay to spend this unjust money for what?" Finally came back to his senses, and Jiang Shi also asked.

"Sister, although we originally had more than 100 taels of silver, we can build a shop and two houses, and then deduct the cost of decoration and wages, and our family also advanced ten taels of silver from the shop to buy land. As soon as a few items come, there is not much silver left in the shop, so don't build this thatched house! Zhao Sanlang saw that his sister looked firm, not like she was joking, so she hurriedly opened her mouth to persuade.

In everyone's opinion, Zhao Siniang is sometimes shrewd and capable, and sometimes unobtrusive. Before, Zhao Siniang tried her best to persuade her family to spend thirty taels of silver to buy wasteland, which made people feel very unreliable. But considering that although the land was rotten, it could guarantee the exclusive business of the shop, so he gritted his teeth and agreed. However, the idea of building a thatched house is too unreliable, and everyone does not approve of it.

Seeing this, Zhao Siniang said sadly: "Don't you see, the land on our dock is full of yellow and white things, and it is ruined for others, can this be done without building a thatched house?" ”

Although he had never heard of "yellow and white things" before, Zhao Yongzhong still guessed the meaning and persuaded him: "It's a good thing to have that 'yellow and white thing'!" Our land is very barren, just pick it up and use it as fertilizer! ”

Zhao Shilang guessed good-naturedly: "Sister is worried that the uncles on the dock have nowhere to relieve themselves?" It's okay, we men are not like you women, I suddenly wanted to go to a thatched house in the shop, and I specially ran to the Zhang family's grandmother's house in the back, let's just find a place to get together! ”

Zhao Siniang squinted her eyes dangerously, and said in her heart: I almost stepped on a lump in the back of the shop yesterday, it turned out to be a good thing for a few of you!

However, in order to canvass for votes, Zhao Siniang decided not to care about it for the time being, and persuaded her: "That's what I said, but everyone doesn't want the new shop with such a high cost to be dirty all around, right?" It doesn't matter if we see it, what if the guest sees it and affects his appetite? ”

Although Zhao Siniang persuaded so hard, although everyone did not express their opinions, they all looked disapproving. Seriously, in ancient times, there was not a strong sense of hygiene, and it was normal to apply organic fertilizer to the fields, and they really didn't feel the need to pay for it.

But in Zhao Siniang's opinion, it is absolutely intolerable to have yellow and white things everywhere, and this place of grain reincarnation must be built. In the end, seeing that the persuasion was fruitless, Zhao Siniang pressed the broken silver in her arms, and decided to pay for the thatched house by herself.

The family knew very well that the silver would be lost by Zhao Siniang sooner or later. After thinking about it, let's just thatched house, so I can leave a real thing, so I will go with her.

Although Zhao Siniang has achieved her goal, she can't help but feel a little distressed when she thinks of having to pay out of her own pocket. So I started my work with a little emotion, humming and chirping.

Suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves from far and near, and finally stopped at the door of the shop, Zhao Siniang did not turn her head to look as usual, but remained as it was, pretending not to hear. (To be continued.) )