On this night, some people in the village were happy and some were sad.

In the east room, on the kang, Chen Xiaoyi lifted the quilt on his body, turned his body to face the wall, and after a while, moved down again, facing Liu.

"What time has it been, why haven't you slept yet?" Liu, who was asleep, woke up and saw Chen Xiaoyi barebacked, wearing only a pair of shorts, and pulled the quilt and covered him again.

Chen Xiaoyi opened his eyes, exhaled, and said in a low voice: "I can't sleep, this thing is really strange." First it was the deed of the restaurant, and now it is 30 acres of mountain and woodland, I really can't believe it. ”

Liu Shi rubbed his eyes, stroked the long hair that fell on the side of his face, and took a wooden barrel bath, with the residual fragrance on his body: "Didn't you put away the deed?" The mountain woodland was selected in a few days, and the registration was real, thirty acres, how big a piece of mountainous land it must be. ”

"Yes." Chen Xiaoyi replied vaguely, and his hand reached into Liu's back, and his voice was a little heavy.

The calloused palm scratched on Liu's back, and the heavy breath blew on his face, Liu's face was already on the ordinary, his face was hot, and he said in a low voice: "Don't, the little lady is asleep." ”

"Be quiet." Chen Xiaoyi gasped.

After a long time, Chen Xiaoyi hugged Liu and sighed: "When you make money, this house will have to be a few more wide, and the little lady will be bigger." ”

The next day, Chen Ping got up early, but found that Chen Xiaoyi was still earlier than himself, standing under the uneven bars in the courtyard.

"Grandpa, why are you in such good spirits today?" Looking like that, his grandfather seemed to want to try the high bar, Chen Ping held the pottery bowl and brushed his teeth.

Chen Xiaoyi landed on the high bar with one hand, retracted violently when he heard the words, and turned his head to look at Chen Ping: "Ah, I just pulled for a while, I feel that my whole body is comfortable, and my spirit is better." What you've been thinking about is really useful, good, good. ”

While talking, Chen Xiaoyi went to the backyard.

Chen Ping poked his head, frowned, pinched some salt and put it on the toothbrush: "Why do you like to run to the backyard?" ”

On the fifteenth day of the first month, the Lantern Festival is also the Shangyuan Festival.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the fifteenth day of July, and the fifteenth day of October are the first full moon nights of spring, summer, and winter respectively.

Eat the dough in the morning, Liu's made, this thing is not the fried dough in later generations, but somewhat similar to glutinous rice balls, glutinous rice slices filled with sucrose and then turned to the side to close the mouth, and boiled in water.

Although Chen Ping was not good at glutinous rice balls, he still filled a full bowl, sat in front of the hall, and tasted it one bite at a time.

"Eating dough? It tastes so good, so give me a bowl too. Outside the courtyard, Chen Yuanliang walked in, saw Chen Ping sitting on a small chair in the courtyard, pulled the reins in his hand, and followed by a donkey.

"Brother Yuanliang, you are so arrogant, and you deliberately led the little donkey, which was bought for you by your grandfather, and it was used to reward you for your promotion to Cao Yan." The chopsticks in Chen Ping's hand clicked on the uneven bars, "You can tie the donkey there, and I'll serve you a bowl of dough." ”

came out with the dough, took a chair with his hand, and Chen Ping gave it to Chen Yuanliang.

"It's such a cold day, and I'm still eating out." Holding the hot bowl, Chen Yuanliang took a sip of soup and sat next to Chen Ping, "I can't hide anything from you, your home is far away from the county seat, and you should buy a donkey, it's convenient to come and go." ”

"It's more open outside, you can look at the sky." Chen Ping raised his head and looked towards the eastern sky.

Chen Yuanliang looked at Chen Ping and said, "Well, it is indeed not dazzling to look at the sun at this time." ”

"It's not the sun, it's the moon." Chen Ping corrected, "By the way, I have something to discuss with you, you are here this time for the matter of the seventeen acres of land, right?" I made arrangements yesterday, Brother Yuanliang, you see if this will work. ”

Moon? Where is the moon in the day? Chen Yuanliang shook his head, thinking that he had heard it wrong, and he didn't take Chen Ping's words seriously, but only listened to the arrangements for the supplementary grant of fields.

After eating a bowl of dough, Chen Ping also told Chen Yuanliang what happened yesterday clearly, and as for the matter of letting the villagers vote, he specially explained.

The dough soup is a little sweet, and Liu added sucrose to the soup, which is more.

"Just do it according to your wishes, the county order asked me to come to the book just to register, so that I can go back and change my account." Chen Yuanliang saw it clearly, "There are thirty acres of mountain and woodland at home?" ”

"Well, the chickens and ducks in the backyard have been kept like that, and the smell is a little too close to the east and west, so I plan to put the chickens, ducks and livestock in the mountains and forests." The mouth was a little greasy, Chen Ping poured half a bowl of warm boiled water with a pottery bowl, and drank it to get rid of the greasy taste, "Tomorrow I will go to the county to see the restaurant, and then I have to trouble Brother Yuanliang, you talk to Zhao Gong, and then help find some carpenters." ”

Chen Yuanliang still had a few dough in his bowl, and seeing that Chen Ping was drinking water after eating, he hurriedly put the remaining two into his mouth and nodded: "Whew...... It's really hot...... No problem, I dealt with the matter of making up the field today, and I will find Zhao Gui and the carpenter for you when I go back. It's also good to be able to get a restaurant from Xue Xiong. But I see that the decoration in the restaurant is already okay, why do you have to redo it? ”

"The ground must be covered with green bricks, if possible, it is best to lay wooden boards, of course, this depends on the carpenter's skills you are looking for, Brother Yuanliang. And the tables and chairs have to be remade, I haven't been to the second floor, and I think it will be repaired. Chen Ping simply said some changes, these things are based on the experience of later generations, the most suitable for the psychology of diners, from ancient times to the present, although there are changes in people's hearts, but it is nothing more than that.

The two chatted in the courtyard for a while, and when they saw that the hour was about the same, they went to the open space in the east of the village together.

This vacant land is between the cottage and the field at the east end of the village, one acre, the ground is compacted, and the village rotates to dry rice during farming. By the time Chen Ping and Chen Yuanliang arrived, there were already a lot of people in the open space.

In Baitu Village, there are more than 200 people in Baitu Village, most of whom are married, and most of the remaining Ding Zhuang who have not yet married a wife are poor at home and cannot afford to marry a wife, while most of the Ding women are village women who are married to Baitu Village, and Zhou Niang is the only Ding girl in Baitu Village.

Zhou Niang is twenty, and the woman is eighteen, but most of them are married before they become Ding. It is rare for someone like Zhou Niang to stay at home in her twenties. Although there is a reason, because he is taking care of his brother's two children, he has not married yet, but there are still a lot of rumors.

"Brother Yuanliang, slow down first, let me say a few words." Chen Pingdu Chen Yuanliang said, the two of them arrived, and the villagers immediately surrounded them, if it wasn't for the orders yesterday, I am afraid that they would be crowded together.

"Today is your master." Chen Yuanliang smiled and said, "Say it." ”

Chen Ping nodded, since things are the beginning, they have to follow step by step, and a good start has a flaunting effect on the follow-up, and it is not allowed to be sloppy.