For a whole afternoon, these house slaves who had signed a death contract with the Su family were immersed in a lively atmosphere. After just one meal, the hearts of these people were bought by Su Ziheng.

In order to greet this group of people who have not eaten enough for several days, Su Ziheng not only had a full meal at noon, but even paid money to buy a fat pig and a fat sheep from the village, and killed them to give everyone a tooth sacrifice.

Since the outbreak of the war, these people have been displaced and fled from their hometowns, and they have not even been able to eat a hot meal, let alone a full meal or meat.

Forced to make a living, in order to feed a family. They chose to sell themselves into slavery, originally out of apprehension, as long as they had something to eat, they just wanted not to starve to death. Who would have thought that the new master's family would be so good to them, and they were given meat on the first day, which was still freshly killed.

Ma Lao Liu used to be a pig slaughterer, although he was not a rich family in Chuanfu County, but he never lacked meat every day, and his two big fat boys were raised by themselves for nothing.

However, since the Mengxi coalition army fought again, in order to avenge the fiasco three years ago, they brazenly carried out a three-day massacre and plundering of the county town they attacked.

In order to flee for his life, Ma Laoliu was forced to leave Chuanfu County with his wife and children and join the fleeing team. Along the way, Ma Lao Liu and his daughter-in-law tried their best to save the food they could find for their two sons.

Even so, the more than one-month escape journey tortured the original two white and strong sons. And Ma Lao Liu secretly saw that his daughter-in-law was reluctant to eat wild vegetables and fruits, and she was gnawing tree bark and eating grass roots.

It is not the worst to eat tree bark and grass roots, and Ma Lao Liu has also seen it with his own eyes. Since that incident, Ma Lao Liu has been so frightened that he no longer dares to leave his daughter-in-law and son too far, for fear that he will go out to find food and never see them again when he comes back.

Therefore, this time I heard that there was a slave from the master's family who wanted to sell his body, and Ma Lao Liu resolutely chose to sign up. Although he signed a deed of sale and lost his freedom, he also admitted that he could support his two sons and daughter-in-law.

What's more, when signing the deed of sale, the young unspeakable son also said that he was the only one who sold himself into slavery, not a family in his family. His two sons were still free, not slaves. If you want to study for the imperial examination or something in the future, it will not affect you at all.

And the master also promised that he would open a school in his Zhuangzi in the future, and then all the children in the family, regardless of gender, could be sent to the school for enlightenment.

Not to mention other favorable conditions, just this one, can let his two boys enter the school to study, Ma Lao Liu feels that even if he sells his life to the master, it doesn't matter. Even he knew that there were many people who reported that they had the same idea and sold themselves.

At noon today, the pig and sheep were slaughtered by Ma Lao Liu and a few other helpers, which can be regarded as a hand for the new master, so that he knows that he and others are not bad goods who can only eat and can't cook.

In order to save time, Ma Lao Liu killed at the same time, and did it at the kitchen side, so there was no delay. The lord has a rule that in order not to starve the elderly and children, they are allowed to eat first.

Ma Lao Liu took advantage of the moment when he finished killing the pig and took a break, turned around and found the two boys of his family in the place where the feast was held first. I saw them holding a big bowl, eating with their mouths full of oil, and looking elated.

A satisfied smile appeared on his face, and a surge of strength welled up in his body, and he turned back to a few companions around him and said, "Let's work harder, kill this sheep, and then we can eat." ”

"Hehe, what Brother Ma said makes sense. After killing the sheep for a while, leave me a leg of lamb with the best lamb, and I will roast it for the old man to eat, so that he can see my roasting skills. A man with a dark face said with a smile.

……

……

After eating and drinking, Su Ziheng began to arrange these newly recruited house slaves.

If all of them were manservants, it wouldn't be so troublesome. Although there are not many rooms in the Zhuangzi, if you sleep in a large bunk, it is enough for a hundred people to have ten rooms.

But now it's different, it's a hundred families, four or five hundred people. According to the calculation of one yard per household, at least 100 yards are needed. And now the entire Sujiazhuang counts Su Ziheng's own main courtyard, and there are only more than 20 courtyards. Obviously not enough.

The first thing to do is to solve the accommodation problem. Su Ziheng thought about it for a long time, and felt that it was not practical to build it all into a yard. One is that the cost is too high, the second is not enough time, and the third is that it occupies too much space.

You must know that in the current Dalei Village, it is estimated that there are not 100 households. Originally, there were only about a dozen tenants in Zhaojiazhuang, but now it has expanded tenfold all of a sudden, if you don't plan well, it is easy to have problems, and it is also difficult to manage.

If you want to say how to build a house to save the most land and at the same time be the most convenient to manage, Su Ziheng feels that he has the most right to speak. In his previous life, when he was studying and working, he lived in a collective dormitory. A six-storey dormitory building, crammed with nearly 1,000 people, there is no problem at all.

It's just a pity that due to technical conditions, in this era when reinforced concrete has not yet been invented, it seems a bit unrealistic to build a house to a height of six floors.

Su Ziheng was thinking about starting to get out the encyclopedia in the base space and launching a series of inventions as needed. Although we can't make the whole society develop rapidly in science and technology, we must improve our living conditions a little better.

Thinking about it, Su Ziheng knew that this was not an overnight thing, at least not for now. If you can't build six floors, then you can simply build a two-story wooden house, townhouse mode, deal with the difficulties in front of you first, and then re-plan and design the entire Sujiazhuang after the cement is invented.

Yes! Su Ziheng is very dissatisfied with the current design of Sujiazhuang. The main reason is that it is too loose and too insecure. Now is not the peaceful era of the previous life, and there is no danger of robbery if you live in a remote place.

This is a troubled era, if there is no certain security protection measures, when encountering bandits and robbers, chaotic soldiers attacking, wouldn't you have to die at any time?

What Su Ziheng wants to do most is to build the entire Sujiazhuang into a castle-like building, and become a place for residential and military fortification. In his previous life, he had traveled to Europe and was very appreciative of the various castle buildings there, and longed to become the owner of a castle one day.

It's just a pity that his dream has never been completed. He didn't have that much money to buy a castle abroad, let alone at home, and he couldn't build it even if he had money, because it was an illegal building and would be demolished at any time.

At this moment, Su Ziheng felt that coming to this world was not as bad as he felt at the beginning, and it also had its convenient side. For example, you can create your own paradise completely according to your own ideas.