The sky in the east has gradually brightened, Ye Chang got up, the little girl sleeping outside was grinding her teeth slightly, in order not to wake her up, Ye Chang quietly dressed and put on shoes, and then went to the outside lightly.

In the faint light, the little girl fell asleep with her hands and feet crossed, her clothes were messy, revealing half of her breasts - a nine-year-old girl, no breasts and no buttocks, this posture in addition to making people feel cute, but there was no thought. Ye Chang watched quietly at the head of her bed for a while, the little girl was probably having a sweet dream, her long eyelashes flickered a few times, and then she showed a sweet smile.

She also had a small dimple on the right side of her face when she smiled sweetly.

The softest part of Ye Chang's heart was touched again: Sure enough, it was the same as the daughter of his own life.

Holding back the idea of stepping forward and kissing her face, Ye Chang slowly came to the door, pulled the latch as silently as possible, and pushed the front door open.

A breath of "fresh air" mixed with the smell of chicken manure and pig feces came to his nose, making Ye Chang give up the idea of taking a deep breath.

At this time, in the Middle Ages, the rural people did not pay attention to environmental sanitation, people and animals were mixed, and garbage was littered, so that the village was chaotic and dirty. Ye Chang really couldn't bear such a situation, for example, if he went out in a Tang man's long robe, the hem of his shirt would always be stained with many strange things, and he couldn't tell whether it was feces or dirt.

Standing on tiptoe, Ye Chang carefully bypassed the various traces left by the chickens that got up early, greeted the old man who got up to pick up dung all the way, and trotted out of the village.

Previously, Ye Chang was busy gaining a foothold in this era, busy intriguing with a group of mediocre people, and had no leisure to really act according to his own plan. Now that everything is finally over, he can follow the plan in advance. For example, every morning when he gets up and goes for a morning run, Ye Chang knows how important it is to have a good body, there are no antibiotics and special drugs in this era, and a small infection may kill people!

His running also attracted the attention of the villagers, but everyone looked at his trotting body with a kind of awe, but no one opened their voices to ask. There have been so many things that have happened to Ye Chang recently, so much that the villagers who were originally familiar with him are not surprised.

Ye Chang used to go into the mountains to collect medicine, so his body was quite strong, and it took Ye Chang a total of half an hour to run from the village to the valley where he was ready to settle down, and then back from the valley. When he returned home, it was almost dawn, and a depressed Xiang Er and a confused Chun Ming had already woken up.

It was already late when he went home yesterday, Ye Chang just arranged Chunming to stay at random, and as for the matter of the Bodhisattva's trial, he didn't mention it to them. Therefore, Xiang'er and Chunming looked at Ye Chang's eyes very strangely, Ye Chang knew that they were frightened by their "asking the Bodhisattva to judge the case", and they didn't explain to them, but just smiled and said that in order to welcome Chunming to the house, kill a chicken, and prepare to cook a delicious meal at noon. This immediately turned Xiang'er's attention to the food, and for Chunming, when the aroma of cooking came into his nose, all the Bodhisattva gods were thrown out of the clouds.

When he picked up the bowl, he looked at the meat and vegetables piled up in the bowl, and Chunming had tears in his eyes as he ate it. Xiang'er just wanted to say something when she saw it, but was stopped by Ye Chang coughing.

Ye Changzhi said, he was sold into slavery at such a young age, and there was a reason for this. And in the years of being a slave, Chunming must have suffered a lot, and he suddenly met the care of others, and that kind of emotion came from the heart.

All hearts are flesh and blood, and they treat them with kindness, unless there are a few who are mad, they will also repay them with kindness. Let Xiao Chunming do things in the future, he will definitely do his best.

This incident allowed Ye Chang to temporarily get rid of the trouble of the three-room long branch, he can finally concentrate on building the "thatched house" in the valley, and at the same time teach Xiang'er and Chunming well, these two children are not stupid, they are good at teaching, and they will become Ye Chang's right-hand man in the future.

The residents of Wu Zepi are now more respectful to Ye Chang, everyone greets him when they see him, and if there is anything at home, they all love to come to him to get an idea and judge right and wrong. However, everyone was careful not to mention the Bodhisattva's trial, and Ye Chang was happy to pretend to be confused. And soon the center of Wu Zepi's discussion also shifted to another matter.

The Ye family's three-room long branch fell apart!

Ye Neem left the house, almost all the property was handed over to the Liu family, and the Liu family returned to her parents' house with the children she gave birth to, while Ye Neem stayed in Wu Zepi with the remaining two concubines.

The Liu family was also ruthless, and the long mansion did not allow Ye Neem to live, so Ye Neem could only build a shack in the village, and a family of ten people curled up in this shack and cried.

He reached such a point that he was completely faceless, so he asked his concubine to beg from house to house with a few young children, and he sat on the threshold of Ye Dan's house to entangle, and also built a shack next to the ancestral hall, threatening that if he didn't solve it, he would live in the ancestral hall, and if he was forced to hang his whole family in the ancestral hall. Ye Dan was helpless, so he had to allocate a small courtyard from the idle house in the clan to him, and gave him fifteen acres from the sacrificial field.

The matter has come to an end for the time being, but Ye Changzhi said that there is still a storm brewing behind this. The Liu family can bring the floating wealth back to their parents' home, and they can bring the servants back to their parents' home, but those fields and houses can't be moved. Wu Zepi and Xiao Liu Village, the Ye family and the Liu family, for the matter of the field house, there will be few disputes in the future.

After lunch, Ye Dan came to Ye Chang's door with a few children: "Eleven Lang, Eleven Lang, take advantage of the fact that there is still time now, let's go to the valley to get the baseline of the land ready?" ”

"Good!"

Ye Chang originally thought that Ye Dan would not be in such a hurry, but he never thought that yesterday's incident made Ye Dan deeply aware that the future of the Ye clan would only depend on Ye Chang's support, so he was extremely dedicated to his affairs. Seeing Ye Chang come out, Ye smiled lightly: "I have passed the hour, it is an auspicious day, and it is appropriate to break ground." Eleven Lang, I also asked the village, every family is willing to contribute, do you see how to control people? ”

In the past, Ye Dan was responsible for organizing work, but now that he has self-knowledge, he is definitely inferior to Ye Chang.

"Before the soldiers and horses move the grain and grass, the first priority is always ready to eat and drink. I don't have enough food at home, uncle, you can take this money and pay it, and send two clever people who can bargain to buy some grain in the city, and if a butcher kills a pig, buy half of the pig. Ye Chang was not polite, and first took the money out: "In addition, although it is a hut, there should be some beams and pillars in the end, and the rafters on the house must also be bought. ”

"Well said, well said!" Ye Dan found out that Ye Chang handed over the most important financial power to himself, and he was immediately happy: this is not only trust, but also means that Ye Chang does not treat him as an outsider at all.

If he changed the affairs of other families in the clan, he would have to fill his pockets, but when he took over the money bag from Ye Chang at this moment, Ye Dan secretly decided that not only could he not be full, but he also had to post money!

This is the Ye family's thousand-mile horse, and his future is limitless, even if it is just for his mediocre children and grandchildren to make good connections, he must fully support him.

"The second is the blacksmith...... You need to invite Uncle Zu to come, and then ask a few brothers and uncles to help, whether it is logging or digging the ground, you need iron tools, hoes, picks, shovels and firewood knives, you have to be ready. Ye Chang said again.

"Yes, I'll have someone go...... No, I'll go and tell Zu Dalang to go myself. ”

"In this way, Uncle Lao will be there." Ye Chang saluted and said: "I'll take the carpenter and mason again to see where it is convenient to cut wood and where it is easy to take soil." ”

The two had made up their minds, and Ye Chang went to the carpenter's house. The carpenter Ye Yan and he are from his own family, and he was also invited to help when he was repairing the rainbow canal some time ago, and when he heard that he was going to inspect the terrain, he put down his work and followed. And the plasterer Fan Kaishan is one of the more than 20 families who have benefited from the water diversion, and he immediately followed him. The three adults took Chunming, the child, to the valley together, and first climbed the ridge on which the valley rested, looking down on the valley.

This valley is surrounded by mountains on the north, east and west, and the valley mouth in the south is also very narrow, even if all the miscellaneous trees are removed, it is only about three zhang wide, and there is a stream flowing out, Ye Chang plans to build a fence and a gate here. The stream went up, coming from the mountain on the west side of the valley, and the water was not large, but the water was rushing rapidly.

Ye Chang pointed to the corner and said to Ye Yan: "Fifteenth uncle, I am going to build a water reef house here, and in the future, if we want to grind wheat and noodles in our village, we can use it here." ”

"Ah, I can't do this reef." Ye Yan is really not a clever carpenter, and it is not a problem to repair and build houses on weekdays, but the structure of the reef is complex, but he can.

"Don't worry, I'll draw the picture then, and Uncle Fifteen will try it more." Ye Chang smiled and said: "It's really not good, I'll spend another money to hire a famous craftsman, and the fifteenth uncle will learn from him." ”

Ye Yan laughed twice and didn't say anything, but he was a little disappreciative in his heart. He has not been a carpenter for many years, and Ye Chang only knows how to collect medicine in the past, where can he do it?

Ye Chang laid out a piece of paper, drew the general terrain around the valley on the paper, and then marked it at the place where he pointed and wrote the word "water mill". Ye Yan saw his move, as if he was planning a person who was good at construction, so his heart moved, and he secretly wrote it down.

"Then, Third Brother Fan, the reef must be far away from the dwelling, lest the noise be too loud and make it impossible for me to study, so I must make a way to the dwelling. Brother Fan has helped people build a lot of houses, where do you think it is suitable to build a house, now there are only three or four huts, but in the future it can be expanded into several yards. ”

Fan Kaishan grinned, and without hesitation pointed to the recess between the two mountains in the northeast of the valley: "Naturally it is here, this place is backed by the North Mountain, the north wind does not blow in winter, although the place is small, only about three points of flat land, but you look at its surroundings, the slope is gentle, if you want to expand in the future, you only need to flatten the slope to cushion the soil, it can be expanded to more than one acre, enough to get up several yards." ”

"What if you want more?"

"That's okay, you see here about fifteen zhang to the west, around a rock, there is another open space, after leveling, there is also about half an acre. Further south, there is the middle of the valley, although it is not easy to expand and narrow, but ......"

Fan Kaishan told the story eloquently, and he said it with a head and a brain, which shows that in the construction technique, he, a plasterer, has specialized in research. Ye Chang nodded again and again, although Fan Kaishan was explaining completely with his own experience, Ye Chang still felt that he had found a skilled craftsman with the potential of a planner.

This valley is generally in the shape of a "Ya", but the two horizontal valleys are longer, and the one that extends to the south is shorter. According to Fan Kai's idea, the side that extends to the northeast will be used as a residential area, while the northwest extension can only be empty because of the stream. The southward stretch doesn't have much room for construction because of the small space, but it can be considered in this kind of dish. The mountain is not steep, so you can plant fruit trees on the surrounding slopes.

"Third Brother Fan said well, please see, how is this?"

Fan Kaishan said there, Ye Chang drew on the paper, and after Fan San finished speaking, Ye Chang handed over the sketch in his hand. Fan Kaishan laughed embarrassedly: "Eleven Lang forgot, I can't read." ”

Ye Chang immediately patted his head, and really forgot about this stubble.

"Third Brother Fan, I think you are free, let's learn literacy and arithmetic, you are extremely talented, if you can read and count again, one day, you can build a building that you can't even think of now!"

"Ah, Ha Luha, I've been like this all my life, but Eleven Lang, you will definitely be in and out of the picture in the future, don't forget our Wu Zepi, don't forget our folks."

Speaking of this, Fan Kaishan's words were a little bitter.

How he didn't know how to do it, literacy can definitely make him further in his architectural skills, and it can even be said to be a qualitative leap, but he came from a humble background, and where he had the opportunity to read and write, it was the work in his hands, and he only learned it from the master's apprenticeship. Rao is like this, after following the master for six years, the master found that he was smart and talented, and when he saw that his skills were about to surpass him, he simply let him become a teacher.

Ye Chang pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "If Third Brother Fan doesn't dislike it, I will teach Xiang'er and Chunming to read and count in the future, and Third Brother Fan can also come and listen to it at that time." ”

Hearing this, Fan Kaishan was stunned.

Then he said solemnly: "Eleven Lang, your knowledge is taught by immortals, how dare a certain lowly person learn it?" ”

"Just come on, unless you don't want to learn, I don't have anything to say." Ye Changdao.

Fan Kaishan hesitated a little and didn't say anything more.

After drawing a picture on a high place and planning the future use of the valley, the three of them found their way down the mountain to the valley. The entire valley is nearly two miles long, and it takes a lot of man-hours to build the road alone. However, they have their own way, at this time, the wasteland is opened by fire, and then the isolation zone is cleared, and then a fire is put on fire to burn the weeds and shrubs.

"The road needs to be widened, and there may be horses and carts here in the future, but if it can't be done now, we have to set aside a place." Ye Chang said again.

"That's natural, there must be a lot of dignitaries and nobles who come to visit Shiyi Lang at that time, if you can't let the carriages and horses walk, wouldn't it be extremely inconvenient?" Ye Yan nodded again and again.

"It's going to be fully built, and it will take time, maybe a year." Fan Kaishan Road.

Ye Chang said with a smile: "How can it be so long, after four days is the Dragon Boat Festival, according to my arrangement, it will take shape in one month, and it will be basically finished in two months, just before the autumn harvest!" ”

"It can't be!" Fan Kaishan and Ye Yan spoke in unison.