The sale of sour bamboo shoots has come to an end, and there is nothing to do at home for the time being. Li Xin looked at the crumbling appearance of several houses in his family, and thought about building a new house. It just so happened that I only got fifty taels of silver by selling sour bamboo shoots, but I couldn't use up just to build a house in the countryside.

It's not raining much at this time, so it's a good time to get a house. When it comes to the rainy season, there is no way to build a house, not to mention, their house is afraid that it will be difficult to survive the rainy season. On weekdays, as long as it rains a little, the house will leak everywhere, and there will definitely be no way to live in the rainy season.

Li Xin told Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang about the idea of building a house, and the two still agreed with it. Although it costs money to build a house, in the countryside, it is generally necessary to live in a good house for a lifetime, so in their hearts, the house is a big family business. Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang asked their sisters and brothers to clean up and move to Zhang's house to live, and the dilapidated house here was demolished first, and then they planned how to build a house.

Just do it, Li Xin took his younger brothers and sisters to pack up their things and moved to Zhang's house. Uncle Zhang went to contact the craftsmen who built the house, and ran around to buy bricks and tiles from the place where the bricks and tiles were burned. Because the wood had not been prepared before, they all had to be bought, so Uncle Zhang was busy running around the surrounding villages to see which one had suitable wood.

Li Xin spent the whole day drawing the design of the house in the house. She still likes the style of the courtyard, the courtyard is open, and when the gate is closed, there is a separate small world inside. In the past, there was some wasteland around the house, and in the village, it was allowed to expand the house on such wasteland, so the house was built larger. She designed the traditional courtyard style.

The door of the house is in the southeast corner, parallel to it is a row of inverted houses, and the shadow wall is set up in the gate, and then there is the courtyard wall and the hanging flower door, and the front yard and the inner courtyard are separated by the hanging flower door and the courtyard wall. Then enter the inner house, the north is the main house with three ears and two ears, and the east and west are three wings. On both sides of the main house are two cross-courtyards in the east and west, and at the back is a row of rear cover rooms. The outer edge of the house is surrounded by a hand-copying verandah, which is connected with the hanging flower door.

Such a courtyard is very characteristic of the north, the courtyard is wide and sparse, the houses on all sides are separated, and there are corridors connecting each other, and it is very convenient to live. The courtyard is spacious, and you can plant trees and flowers in the courtyard, raise birds and fish, and stack stones to create landscaping.

When Li Xin's design drawings came out, Uncle Zhang had already found the materials and craftsmen. After demolishing the Li family's dilapidated house, you can build a new house. No one in the local area has built a courtyard house, so the craftsmen who are looking for to build a house have never built a courtyard house, and it can be said that they have never seen it. Li Xin explained to those craftsmen in detail, fortunately, they are all in this business, and it is not difficult to understand. The materials came one after another, and the house began to be built in full swing.

Li Xin has to go over every day to look at it, one is to watch the progress; The second is to watch those craftsmen do their work, and if there is an inappropriate place, it is convenient to raise it in time. After all, everyone in the village knew how poor the Li family was before, and now they suddenly have money to build a house, so they naturally want to come and see the excitement, and by the way, they wonder if the Li family suddenly made a windfall. Some good people who can't look down on others will inevitably say something acidic after watching the excitement, and Li Xin doesn't care much about it.

Uncle Zhang went over to help every day, and the village chief would also go over to watch most of the day, and if there was any work that could be done, he would also help. Aunt Zhang took Wenbo, Wenhao and Yuexiang to pick vegetables and cook, and provided food for the craftsmen every day. Because it was a hard work, Li Xin took out a lot of money and made good dishes every day to entertain those craftsmen. Yueting is still young and can't help with anything, and Yuexiang is too busy to take her, so Li Xin takes her to see the house every day.

The materials have been supplied, and the craftsmen have been invited a lot, so the progress is very fast. By the time of May, it was already very hot, and the wheat in the fields was golden, and it was already harvest season. All of a sudden, the village began to get busy, and every family went down to the fields to harvest wheat. The Li family built a house, and Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang were busy with this side of the matter every day, and they were too busy to harvest the wheat. She watched it playfully, and sometimes carried a basket with moonincense to pick up ears of wheat.

The children in the village hardly go to school, so when they are older, they help the family work, and the younger ones play all over the mountains. At this harvest season, when the adults are busy in the fields, they will also catch their own children to pick up ears of wheat in the sky. Li Xin took Yueting to the wheat field, and saw children everywhere carrying baskets to pick up ears of wheat, some of them were picking up seriously, and some of them were impatient after picking up for a while, and they ran around to play.

Aunt Zhang's Xiaowang and Niuniu also went to the field to pick up ears of wheat together, although the two children were still young, but they were very obedient and had been picking up ears of wheat seriously.

"Eldest sister, your face hurts." After picking it up for a while, Yue Ting shouted. Li Xin looked over, maybe it was too hot, Yueting's face was flushed, and the sweat was dripping down. Maybe she was sweating, so she wiped it with her hand, and the ear of wheat in her hand poked her face, and she kept screaming in pain.

"Don't pick it up, go play to the side!" Li Xin pulled Yueting to the edge of the field. There are some willow trees growing on the edge of the field, which must have been planted for several years, so they grow luxuriantly, and the long willows hang down, and they are verdant and verdant at this time. It was cool in the shade under the tree, so Li Xin asked Yueting to sit under the tree. Then he poured water from the kettle he had brought and gave her a drink, and then he wet her handkerchief with water and wiped her face, and when he saw that she was getting better, he gave her some snacks and let her play under the tree by herself.

Li Xin returned to the sky, and saw that Niuniu was also flushed with sunburn and sweaty, and it was pitiful for a four-year-old child to work so hard, so she didn't let Niuniu pick it up, and let her play with Yueting.

Although it was very hard, Li Xin still felt very happy looking at the golden ears of wheat in the basket. At a glance, there are golden ears of wheat everywhere, which is the color of the harvest.

Farmers in the countryside never think about how much money they have to earn from the fields under their feet, but only want to harvest the food they grow every day, so that their families can eat. In this era, the grain yield was not high, in fact, it was possible to barely satisfy the stomach by planting a lot of fields, but some families only harvested half a year's grain after planting a year's fields. And they all depend on the sky for food, whether it is drought or flood, it is a disaster.

Although no one is very wealthy, it is also warm in this countryside. There won't be too much deception here, and many people are very simple. It feels so good, it seems that even the air is unusually fresh.

However, the harmonious atmosphere is always easy to break, and Li Xin and Xiao Wang didn't pick it up for long before they heard Yueting and Niuniu's cries. (Ask for a recommendation ticket!) ）