Li Ziyu saw a person walking around the entrance of the village from a distance outside the village, looking at the road from time to time, and when he got closer, he found that it was the old village chief Zhao Qing. She hurriedly walked a few steps and asked strangely, "Grandpa Zhao, it's so cold, why did you come out?" ”

Zhao Qing looked him up and down a few times, and looked at the bamboo basket on her back: "Jade girl, what's wrong?" Haven't eaten again? ”

"Well, I'm going to buy some food." Li Ziyu walked towards the village with the old village chief as he spoke.

"Didn't I tell you, I don't have anything to eat, so I'll get some from my house first. With such a big snowfall, what are you going to buy in the city? ”

"Hehe, grandpa, your family is also a big family, it's not easy, where can I always bother your old man."

"I know you're a girl. What, I just went to your house, is the house collapsing again? ”

Li Ziyu stopped and said worriedly: "Yes, grandpa, the hall has collapsed again." I'm looking for you, and I want you to take care of it for me, and fix this house in our house. ”

"That's easy to say." Zhao Qing nodded, "It's just that the materials are not easy to find, I'll go and touch them." ”

Li Ziyu hurriedly said: "Grandpa, I'll go home first, and I'll go to your house to find you later, and then discuss in detail." ”

"It's okay," Zhao Qing looked up at the sky, "This snow should also stop, and we will start construction as soon as the snow stops." ”

"Then goodbye Grandpa Zhao, it's so cold, you can go back quickly." Li Ziyu politely waved to the old village chief and walked home.

Zhao Qing looked at Li Ziyu's back, smiled and shook his head: "This girl, when she grows up, her little mouth has become sweeter." Alas, this girl is not easy."

Li Ziyu hurriedly walked to the door of the house, and saw the second brother Xiaoshan shoveling the snow in the courtyard with a shovel, and several younger siblings were playing happily in the courtyard. Li Ziyu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, fortunately, last night's fright did not leave sequelae.

Xiaoshan and the others saw Li Ziyu and immediately ran over happily.

Li Ziyu unlocked the courtyard door and walked into the courtyard.

Several younger siblings happily surrounded them and asked:

"Sister, is it fun in the city?"

"Sister, is it snowing in the city?"

"Sister, I'll go next time."

"Sister, go, I'll go."

Li Ziyu looked at the lively brothers and sisters happily, okay, it's okay. Touching the heads of her younger siblings one by one, Li Ziyu deliberately turned the bamboo basket upside down: "Okay, okay, let my sister put the basket down and say okay?" Let's go into the house and see what my sister has bought. ”

"Let's go, let's go into the house" Several children hugged Li Ziyu and walked into the house.

Li Ziyu carried the bamboo basket straight into the east room and put the bamboo basket on the ground. The tarpaulin was uncovered, revealing the quilt.

Xiaoshan asked in surprise: "Sister, did you buy the quilt?" Xiaowen also cheered happily: "Wow, I finally have a cover!" A few small ones also shouted: "There is a cover!" There's a cover! ”

In the cheers of everyone, Li Ziyu took out the pots and bowls, chopsticks, hemp rope, two bundles of rags, broken cotton, and all kinds of grain that he bought one by one.

Xiaoshan looked at it in a daze, and felt a little distressed about the silver: "Why did you buy this old man?" How much silver does this cost? Xiaowen's lips moved, hesitated, and did not speak. Xiao Wu's big eyes rolled, he looked at his brother, then at his sister, and stood aside sensibly, but he didn't speak. The two little ones just snuggled up to their sister happily, where else did they care.

Li Ziyu pursed her lips and looked at her younger siblings, and said seriously: "Xiaoshan, let's talk about it, but the younger siblings are still young, and they can't always be hungry." Besides, guess how much it cost to sell this time? ”

"How much more?" Xiaoshan stuttered nervously.

Li Ziyu subconsciously looked out the window, lowered her voice and said, "Six taels of more than that" Before he finished speaking, he heard the gasping sound of Xiaoshan and Xiaowen.

Li Ziyu smiled: "I was startled at first, I felt that I had become a rich man, and I was so beautiful." But as soon as I spent the money, I realized that I was happy too early. I can't help but spend this money. "It's no wonder that Li Ziyu was so happy that she couldn't find the north when she saw six taels of silver, because in the cognition of this original owner, he also sold firewood to earn a lot of money, and he didn't see too much money. Even if my father and mother are alive, life is not easy, and I can earn more than one or two silver a year. In the purse at the bottom of the box at home is all the property of the family, isn't it fifty-three dollars.

Looking at Xiaoshan and Xiaowen's red faces with excitement, Li Ziyu felt a special sense of accomplishment, she was embarrassed to say the following words, for fear that they would be hit.

Or Xiaowen came back to his senses first: "That sister, that, how much is left?" Xiaoshan also looked at Li Ziyu expectantly.

Li Ziyu touched her nose and was a little embarrassed: "There are still five taels or seven hundred Wen left." ”

Xiaoshan frowned and looked at the pile of things in the middle of the room, and asked suspiciously, "It can't cost so much, right?" Xiaowen checked them one by one, and put his eyes on the quilt: "How much is the quilt?" ”

Li Ziyu praised in her heart, this third brother is really a careful person. No, the big guys are here.

"One or two."

"What?" Xiaoshan shouted in surprise, "What about robbing money?" Is the quilt made of silver? No, let's go back, it's too expensive. Go back, go back, I don't have to cover the quilt, I'm not cold. ”

"Hehe" Li Ziyu looked at Xiaoshan's distressed silver appearance, and couldn't help laughing, "Okay, look at your wealth obsession, I want to say that these five taels of silver can't be saved, and you can't jump your feet." ”

"What else?" Xiaoshan looked at his sister warily.

"Repair the house, is it difficult to live like this?" Li Ziyu had a serious face, not angry and arrogant, "Thrift is a good thing, but you can't overdo it, it's too much." I will go to the village chief in a moment to discuss the repair of the house, and Xiaoshan will go with me. You are the eldest in the family, and you will be responsible for such things in the future. ”

"Okay." There was some reluctance in Xiaoshan's voice.

Li Ziyu shook her head and ignored him.

Next, Li Ziyu spread the old cotton quilt on the kang, and the oilcloth she bought was cut with scissors than the fire kang and spread on the broken quilt. In the future, make a kang table and eat on the kang, and drop a grain of rice or something to clean up. I wiped the tarpaulin again with a rag before I spread the newly purchased quilt on it.

Looking at the new quilt that was laid, the two little ones wanted to climb up the kang, but they were pulled down by the hill: "Little ancestor, that's a tael of silver, be careful." Xiao Wu didn't climb up the kang, but just touched the new quilt in a new way, and his smiling eyes were gone. Xiaowen comforted the two little ones on the side: "It's okay, the second brother didn't let you go to the kang, you have to take off your shoes." Okay, take your shoes off. The two little faces were now cloudy and sunny.

Li Ziyu thought that if the house was repaired, the hall and the west house would not be able to put things. So he took all the food pockets in the hall and slipped them into the east house, and folded the grain he bought today into one pocket with the same kind of grain at home. Place it next to the east wall. And he took an axe and chiseled the sticks that supported the tables in the room, and laid the wooden basins, water scoops, rice scoops, and chopsticks of the hall on the tables. Turning around and looking at the leaky window, he said with annoyance: "Alas, I forgot to buy window paper, by the way, there are candles." ”

Xiaoshan and Xiaowen also followed their sister to clean up, and Xiaoshan carried an axe and chopped the big firewood and piled it together. Xiaowen took the adobe bricks at the stove, added a few pieces of wood, and plugged them up. Seeing that there is a lot of water in the two pots, cover the pot tightly.

Li Ziyu looked at the hour, it was almost the beginning of the Shen hour (three o'clock in the modern afternoon). Li Ziyu beckoned Xiaoshan and Xiaowen to the east house, looked at a few younger siblings and said, "Your second brother and I will go to the village chief's house to discuss the repair of the house." It's a big deal, and I have to let you know. I plan to repair all three houses, first the West House and the Hall House, and then the East House. If you have any ideas, you can put forward them, our family is democratic, and everyone can express their opinions. ”

Xiaoshan sighed tangledly: "Alas, just a little money, I have to spend it again." Li Ziyu glared at him, Xiaoshan shrunk his neck and said nothing.

Xiaowen asked, "Do we take care of the food?" ”

"No matter." When building a house in the village, you will take care of the food, which is the village's own rule. Li Ziyu thought about her own conditions, she didn't plan to take care of the food, and would rather spend more money.

Li Ziyu asked, "Who still has an opinion?" ”

"Nope!" Everyone replied in unison.

"You guys are good at home, Xiaowen is at home. You don't need to lock the door today, just plug it in from the inside. Li Ziyu said a few words, and then left the house with Xiaoshan. At this time, Li Ziyu realized that the snow had stopped at some point. It made her excited, and that was a good sign.

Zhao Qing's home is in the middle of the village. There is only one road in the village, and more than 30 families live scattered on both sides of the road. This road is the only road leading to the county seat, which can walk two carriages side by side, and it is not very flat, and it is very muddy when it rains and snows. The Zhao family's six brick houses, with high courtyard walls, are very magnificent. At the beginning, Lin Shouchun, the former commander of Fuyuan County, fell in love with him because he was more transparent than others. Since becoming the village chief, his family's life has risen. It is said that Zhao Qing's family is a family with a family background, and the reason why they settled here in the first place was to hide from the rights and wrongs of their origin. Since becoming the village head, he has been impartial, impartial, and very loved by the villagers. Now his family has 30 acres of land, all of which are good land. Zhao Qing has two sons, three grandsons, and one granddaughter. The eldest son, Zhao Zhenyou, has a son and a daughter, farms at home, and is filial to his parents by the way. The second son, Zhao Zhenmin, and his two sons opened a grocery store in the county town. The three grandsons are all studying in private schools in the city, and there is only one granddaughter in the family, who is one year younger than Li Ziyu. As the grandchildren grew up, the Zhao family built three rooms on each side of the east and west wings, so the Zhao family was very spacious. A family of ten people did not divide the family. The old couple of the Zhao family lived in the east house of the three rooms in the east, and when Li Ziyu and the others went, one of the two doors of the Zhao family was open, and Li Ziyu walked in with Xiaoshan.

As soon as she entered the yard, Aunt Zhao, who was clearing the snow in the yard, greeted her warmly: "Xiaoyu and Xiaoshan are here, sit in the house quickly." ”

Li Ziyu greeted Xiaoshan politely: "Auntie, are you sweeping the snow?" ”

"Uh-huh, don't you watch the snow stop, clean up. You have something to do with your grandfather, your grandfather is in the house, go ahead. ”

"Auntie, you're busy, I'll go find grandpa by myself."

Li Ziyu was just about to enter the house with Xiaoshan, when Zhao Qing's voice came out of the house:

"Xiaoyu is here? Come on in. ”

"Hey, got it." Li Ziyu agreed and walked into the house.

Zhao Qing's wife, Grandma Li, sat on the kang with kind eyebrows, and when she saw Li Ziyu and Xiaoshan coming in, she patted the kang and said with a smile: "It's cold outside, right?" Come on, warm warm. ”

"Grandma!" Li Ziyu and Xiaoshan nodded politely.

Zhao Qing waved his hand with a dry tobacco pouch: "Sit down, let's go to the countryside, how many courtesies." Li Ziyu and Xiaoshan sat on the edge of the kang according to the words.

Li Ziyu looked at Zhao Qing and got straight to the point: "Grandpa, I want to repair all three rooms, how much do you think it costs?" ”

Zhao Qing groaned: "It's not easy to do the work in the winter. What do you think? Do you want to push the rebuild, or just fix the roof? ”

"Of course, only the roof is repaired," Li Ziyu said, "Grandpa, that's the case, you see that we have three rooms, and two of them have collapsed, and only one can live in it." I think so, first repair the West House, put the West House on the kang, and put the stove on the hall house is similar to the East House. After the Westinghouse was repaired, the hall house was repaired again. In the middle, the West House Kang was burned dry and could live in, and the hall was almost repaired. Finally, the East House is repaired, do you think this will be done?