When Li Ziyu said goodbye, it was already dark outside, and He Dashan wanted to send her but she refused. There was just one street in the village, and the villagers lived scattered on both sides of the road, and she could see the lights reflected in the windows and even hear the voices of the people talking as she walked down the street. So walking on the dark and cold village streets, she was not afraid or cold, on the contrary, her heart was warm. She didn't expect the elders in the village to have such kindness to their sisters and brothers, which moved her heart and made her wonder at the same time, but she couldn't figure out what was going on, so she had to hide this doubt in her heart.

When Li Ziyu arrived home, she heard laughter in the house outside the courtyard. Listening to the laughter of her younger siblings, Li Ziyu felt that her whole body was full of strength, and her heart was full of warmth and stability brought by strong blood and family affection.

She walked into the courtyard, and carefully tied the strip of cloth in the dark, and then walked towards the house with some peace of mind. Because there was a lot of commotion in the house, Xiaoshan and none of them heard Li Ziyu come back. After Li Ziyu entered the hall, he carefully inserted the door of the hall in the dark, and then shouted loudly: "Why are you so lively?" Why don't you light the wax on the hill, don't you see the wax on the box? As she spoke, the room became even more lively, and she cried out:

"Big sister is back!"

"Eldest sister, our house doesn't leak the roof!"

"Eldest sister, you're back, I'm hungry."

"Eldest sister, I'm hungry too."

As soon as Li Ziyu entered the house, the younger brothers and sisters on the kang threw themselves on the edge of the kang, so frightened that she quickly stretched out her arms to catch it, and ordered Xiaoshan to light a candle: "Xiaoshan, hurry up and light wax." I bought wax at night, so why don't you buy it? Hurry, hurry! ”

The hill fumbled for a candle and lit it with a flint, and immediately, the room was shrouded in a dim light. The children cried out in surprise:

"Boom! It's on! ”

Li Ziyu hugged the two happiest little ones who jumped in her arms, kissed their excited little faces in turn, put them on the kang, and hugged Xiao Wu, who was watching greedily next to him, and kissed him fiercely on the face, before he smiled and said, "Okay, don't go crazy, let's eat." As he spoke, he didn't look at Xiao Wu's satisfied and shy smile, lifted the new quilt on the kang and folded it aside, and lifted the old quilt that was laid out and folded it. Xiaoshan and Xiaowen brought a pot of sorghum rice and the mixed flour cake baked in the morning to the kang, brought the salt jar and mixed some salt, handed the bowls and chopsticks to everyone, and everyone quickly ate them. Because it was too late to eat, everyone was hungry, so the meal was eaten quickly, and everyone finished eating in a while.

Li Ziyu packed up the dishes and chopsticks, looked at the stove that was still on fire in the West House, stuffed the two stove holes with wood, and blocked them tightly with adobe bricks. So that the fire will burn all night, and tomorrow it will burn for another day, and it will be able to live in. I scooped hot water from two pots, mixed some cold water, and carried it back to the house, wiping the hands and faces of a few small ones. Li Ziyu, Xiaoshan and Xiaowen also wiped it. He turned around and added a few scoops of cold water to the West House pot, covered the pot, and then returned to the East House and plugged in the door. At this time, Xiaoshan and the others had already laid out the kang, and a few small ones had closed their eyes while lying on the kang, and Xiaoshan and Xiaowen also lay down. Li Ziyu went to the kang and felt that the kang was cold. Only then did I remember that I had lit a fire in the morning, and the kang should have been cold a long time ago. The roof still leaked from time to time, and the house was not as warm as the hall. Fortunately, there was still a new quilt cover, Li Ziyu secretly breathed a sigh of relief and closed her eyes. Tomorrow will be fine, and you can live in a house without leakage.

Li Ziyu felt that she was very useless, she had all her strength, but she didn't know how to use it. How can I also be the head of two lives, how to change the situation of this family, I seem to have some ideas. Alas, take your time, now the first thing is to fix the house, and then you can think of anything else. Well, you have to make shoes to fix the house. I feel ashamed to see the broken shoes on my younger brothers' feet today. As the eldest sister, it is unforgivable to let the younger siblings wear broken shoes. In the past, there were no conditions, but now those two bags of cloth and broken cotton will definitely not be used to make shoes. Thinking about it, Li Ziyu fell asleep.

The next day, Li Ziyu got up early and went to see the Xiwu kang first, and it was okay to touch it, but the kang was already dry. Then he took away the adobe bricks from the stove, and added firewood to fill them up again. Use a small broom to sweep the kang clean, and then use a large broom and shovel to shovel the floating soil on the floor of the house to the outside, and clean the West House hastily. Because of yesterday's sorghum rice, Li Ziyu didn't make breakfast. I just woke up my siblings early, got dressed and washed. Li Ziyu, Xiaoshan, and Xiaowen carried the wooden box in the east house to the southwest corner of the west house and put it in place, and then successively moved the wooden table and the rice bowls, bowls and chopsticks, water scoops, and rice scoops on the wooden table to the west house, all kinds of grain bags, bamboo baskets, sickles, axes, and hemp ropes. Straw ropes and other ropes were also moved to the Westinghouse.

Li Ziyu hugged the thatch that was useless yesterday from the courtyard and spread it evenly on the Xiwu kang. The broken kang mat on the east house kang was spread on the thatch, the old quilt of the east house was spread on the kang mat, and the oilcloth covering the east house pot was no longer used today, so it was wiped clean and spread on the west house kang with a rag, and the new quilt and pillow were folded and placed in the northwest corner of the west house, so that the west house was completely cleaned up. Let the younger siblings stay in the Westinghouse, play on the kang, and don't come out. The main thing is that there are many people who are afraid that they will bump into it, and they are also afraid that it will affect the construction of the work.

Li Ziyu had just cleaned up, and at that hour yesterday, Zhao Qing came with everyone.

There are fewer people today than yesterday, Zhao Zhenmin didn't come, and went back to the city. He Shigui and He Dahai didn't come, they made wooden doors at home. There are also two young men who didn't know yesterday who didn't come, and the rest came.

Li Ziyu took Xiaoshan to greet everyone one by one, Zhao Qing explained the reason for the small number of people, and everyone was busy with the same division of labor as yesterday.

Wang Chunqiu still took Da Zhuang and Xiao Zhuang to the river to pick up soil.

Wei Qibin and his son took a half-sized son to cut the thatch.

Wang Chungang and Gazi took the two of them to bundle sorghum targets, and the rest of them dismantled yesterday's wooden shelves and re-erected them in front of and behind the East House.

Li Ziyu took out the little sorghum rice that was left, and weighed the amount of it, which should be able to be done today. As soon as I wanted to brush the pot out, I heard Xiaohua's voice ring at the gate of the courtyard:

"Xiaoyu, I'm here!"

Then came the voice of Xiaohua Niang: "This child can't grow up, this is in our small ravine, and it has to be laughed at elsewhere." ”

"How good is Xiaohua's temperament? You're so dissatisfied. It would be nice if our willow had such a temperament as a small flower. Aunt Yang's voice then rang out.

"You are not satisfied, if my little flower has the ability of your willow, I will wake up laughing in my dreams."

The group walked up with a smile and a smile.

"Xiaohua, are you here? I'm thinking about you. Li Ziyu hurriedly caught up and grabbed Xiaohua's hand, turned around and said embarrassedly: "Auntie, Aunt Yang, because our family's affairs are always troublesome to you, in fact, I can do it myself, your family is also very busy, Uncle Yang is not well."

"Okay, okay, who built a room a few times? Am I annoyed, this kid? Xiaohuaniang said half-truthfully, and laughed first after speaking.

Aunt Yang reached out and touched Li Ziyu's head, and said pitifully: "Don't say such things again, with the affection between me and your mother, Yang Liu also wants to come over to help you, but you know your Uncle Yang."

Li Ziyu knew that it was too late, so she obediently stopped squeaking.

Just when he walked to the pot table, he pointed to the bag of sorghum rice left over from yesterday and said, "Auntie Yang, look, is this rice enough today?" ”

Xiaohua Niang picked up her pocket and said to Aunt Yang: "I think it's about the same, Yang Liuniang, what do you see?" ”

Aunt Yang looked at the sorghum pocket and nodded: "I think too, there is only one room today, and I don't need much, it should be enough." ”

"Hey, what's not enough, that's it, let's add a few more scoops of water." Xiaohuaniang waved her hand happily and made the final decision. So a few people brushed the pot, added water, washed rice, and lit the fire in an orderly manner, and the rice soup was quickly boiled.

At this time, the mowing and picking of soil had already made several trips, and the thatching, soaking, and mud in the yard were in full swing. A few young men were telling jokes as they worked, and the atmosphere in the whole courtyard was unprecedentedly lively.

He Dasen took He Dashan, He Dashu and a few half-sized children to complete the roof of the East House, He Shixiang took He Dashan, He Dasen, and He Dashu to the roof, and cooperated with the people below to go up the beams, rafters, and tie sorghum targets. Then He Shixiang was in the south, and He Dashan in the north began to lay thatch and mud.

Wang Chunqiu and Gazi extinguished the fire in the stove in the yard, raised the pot with thatch, and splashed the hot water in the pot on the yard if everyone couldn't use it up, and then the two carried it to the pot table on the north side of the east house. Gazi hoeed a shovel of mud from the yard, Wang Chunqiu carefully smoothed the gaps, and lit a fire to see if there was no smoke.

It was about yesterday, or even earlier, that the repair was completely completed.

Li Ziyu looked at the neat and beautiful mud and straw house, and was really excited. Yes, don't look at it as a mud and straw house, it's really beautiful. The slotted roof has two chimneys on both sides of the roof, and the roof is smooth and flat on both sides of the roof. The most commendable thing is that the front and back of the house are left with wide eaves, no matter whether it is windy, rainy or snowy, the window paper will not be wet.

Li Ziyu found Zhao Qing, communicated with him about the number of people working and the total amount of wages, and paid him on the spot. Xiaohua Niang, Aunt Yang and Xiaohua, Li Ziyu did not pay the salary. She wants to wait for the opportunity in the future to return this favor, just remember it in her heart.

I would like to thank the fans for their support and encouragement such as the return of the Dragon King, especially Miss Ambo for her careful guidance, and finally thank you to all the fans and book friends who like this book, your support is the motivation for my writing, thank you!

In addition, the description of the mud and grass house is a reference to the ** blog "mud and grass house" of the "Nine Color Stone", and I would like to express my gratitude, thank you!