That night, in the new kitchen, a plate of fried golden mountain crabs made Luoluo very happy, although Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying felt that the taste of this mountain crab was really average, but the little girl just liked it, maybe these mountain crabs have her credit in it.

"Uncle, can we still catch crabs in the future?" Luoluo asked.

"Of course we can, we can raise our own crabs in the future, that kind of big crab." Zhao Yuan nodded and said.

The fish pond has been dug up, but there is no water leakage prevention treatment, there is only a little water at the bottom of the fish pond, Zhao Yuan has not thought of a good way to block the water, it is difficult to get the cement out of this good thing?

"Can you still keep crabs?" Meng Ying asked suspiciously.

"Of course you can raise it, just like raising fish, sometimes those who sell fish in our town, some of their fish are raised by themselves." Zhao Yuan nodded and said.

"What do crabs eat?" Luoluo asked.

"When the time comes, you will know Luoluo, and Uncle will make feed for crabs." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

Luoluo is now very curious about some things she doesn't know, it's just a hundred thousand whys, but fortunately, Zhao Yuan has brought enough knowledge from the afterlife, and he can always find the answer, and the little girl admires her uncle more and more.

When the wasteland was reclaimed, people from Zhaojiazhuang and several surrounding villages came to Zhao Yuan's house to work, cut down trees and built a lot of sheds, and after the wasteland was over, the other sheds were demolished, and the house where Zhao Yuan and the three of them now lived was rebuilt from the wood removed from the sheds when they were working, and even the roof was covered with new tiles.

The next day, Zhao Yuan woke up early in the morning from the cabin, because the carpenter and bricklayer who worked for Zhao Yuan's house today would come, Meng Ying had already started cooking in the kitchen, and he had been busy during this time, and Zhao Yuan couldn't get up when he was free.

The little girl next to her was still asleep, and she couldn't accompany this little guy well during this time, and after recognizing the words to be recognized every day last night, she pestered Zhao Yuan to tell the story for a long time before falling asleep.

Zhao Yuan got up gently, came to the kitchen, and saw Meng Ying washing the dishes.

"Xiaoying, why don't you sleep more?"

"Get up, wash your face, the water is already hot, Carpenter Li and Tian Bricklayer have already come, go and have a look at the new house." Meng Ying turned her head to look at Zhao Yuan and said.

"It's so early, okay, I'll wash my face and take a look." Zhao Yuan nodded and said.

"I'll scoop water for you."

After Zhao Yuan washed his face, he came to the new house, and saw a middle-aged man gesturing by the new house, it should be Carpenter Li, and a few young people were helping, it should be Carpenter Li's apprentice.

"It's Master Li, I'm Zhao Yuan." Zhao Yuan walked up to him and said hello.

"The lord's house is here, isn't your house small?" Carpenter Li saw Zhao Yuan and said.

"It's okay, the wood I have here is all ready, is Master Li enough?" Zhao Yuan asked, pointing to a pile of wooden planks piled up in front of the new house.

"It should be about the same, where did you get these planks, they are all good wood?"

"It took a lot of effort to get these planks, they were bought from people in various villages, these are dried cedar planks, and there is a lot of pine planks over there." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"Good stuff, it cost a lot of money, right? Ordinary people will not sell such good boards, which are just right to make wooden rafters, and other pine boards can be used to make floor slabs. Carpenter Li nodded and said.

"Okay, Master Li, you look at it, it's not enough, tell me, when will my house be completed?" Zhao Yuan asked.

"Your house is too big, just me and a few of my apprentices, it may take a month, and my second brother can also come, but temporarily by the previous master of the town to make a set of furniture, it may take five or six days, and when his side is over, bring his apprentice's wave of people to come and work with us, about twenty days, you can almost finish here." Carpenter Li said after thinking about it.

"Okay, don't worry, anyway, there are still more than two months before the New Year, there is plenty of time, and I will ask you to help make some furniture at that time." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"No problem, put the wooden rafters on first, let Lao Tian cover the tiles, in case it rains, we won't get drenched." Carpenter Li said with a smile.

"You carpenter Li, you can be faster, if you don't put the wooden rafters well, how can I build the tiles?" The bricklayer who was inspecting the structure of the house on the roof came down the stairs and said with a smile.

"Master Tian, can you estimate how many watts you need?" Zhao Yuan saw the bricklayer come down and asked with a greeting.

"It's about 20,000 if it's thinner, and 25,000 if it's better." Tian Bricklayer clapped his hands and said.

"Is there anything in that?" Zhao Yuan asked suspiciously, how can this cover tile still be thin.

"You know that the tiles on the roof are overlapping each other, and the length of overlap is different, and the tiles needed are different."

"I see, isn't it better to cover it thicker?" Zhao Yuan asked.

"Of course not, it's just that if a tile is too thin, it will be easy to leak, and if it is too thick, the load of the house is too large, and it is not safe, your house, it is best to build 25,000 tiles."

"All right, just cover it with twenty-five thousand tiles." Zhao Yuan said.

The main cost of building this house was to buy bricks, lime, wood, and labor, and spent a total of 300 copper coins, and a 4-cent iron coin for a tile, and 25,000 copper coins for 25,000 yuan, and the roof, wooden floor, furniture, and floor laying, and wall painting, the money in his hand was more than enough.

"Okay, carpenter Li and I are paid 150 copper coins a day, and the apprentices are paid 100 wen a day, and the master's family has to eat, and there must be a meal of meat every day, and a small pot of wine at night, this has to be told to the master's family." After looking at the situation of the house, Carpenter Li and Tian Bricklayer glanced at each other and said directly.

"No problem, the elders in the village told me, and it's ready, breakfast should be ready, let's go wash our hands and eat first." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"Okay, you know, we see that you are still young, so if you talk more, don't mind." The bricklayer said with a smile.

"Yes, let's go to dinner first, is the salary settled once a day or counted together after the work?" Zhao Yuan asked.

"Just count it together after finishing the work, they are all border people, you can still build such a big house, it's not simple."

"I'm just tossing around, let's eat first." Zhao Yuan gestured with his hand.

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Another month, Zhao Yuan's new house was finally completely completed, the small courtyard formed by red bricks and green tiles, plus the courtyard area in the middle reached more than 1,000 square meters, it was definitely a mansion. Each room, with its red brick floor, pine plank ceiling upstairs, fine river sand and lime stucco on the walls, and furniture built entirely according to Zhao Yuan's ideas, is exactly that, the forefront of the times!