Chapter 144: A Rich Life
At the bottom was a linen cloth, and as for the moldy straw mats from before, they were all pulled out and thrown into the corner by taking advantage of this opportunity to tidy up.
The futon had to be re-laid at night, and after Tang Youniang folded all of these, wrapped them in a piece of linen cloth and placed them on the stone platform.
There are also several clothes that can be replaced, and these ramie clothes have been damaged, but Tang Youniang is so popular that she can make up for it as well as new. I don't know where my sister found a way to find a plant called soaphorn, which replaces the plant ash that was originally used to wash clothes, and can wash this clothes as clean as new clothes.
When the Tang family first came to break down the house, the three of them sometimes had no clothes to wear, and their mother even made clothes out of thatch. Now they have several ramie clothes, but they are still reluctant to throw away what their mother used to do.
These clothes, along with three pairs of leather shoes for winter wear, silk flowers from the villagers, and three rabbit fur hats, were all sorted into the broken treasure chest.
The gadgets that my sister and the villagers exchanged for were sent out as prizes when they set up stalls, and now the valuable things in the house, in addition to more than 20 taels of silver, there are also two boxes of gouache and necklaces made of wolf teeth, which are all placed in a lockable treasure chest.
There are eight chickens, three ducks, and two rabbits in the chicken pen in the yard, and according to Uncle Ajin, this rabbit is already pregnant, and in another twenty days, there will be many rabbits in this cage.
Tang Youniang was worried that when the house was demolished, the mud would smash the urns placed on the side, so she moved those urns away.
An urn contains salted vegetables. This dish must be washed with very salty salt water first, put it in an urn, and then pour the salt water into this vegetable urn after clarifying, and cover it. Originally, they planned to dig a pit and buy it, but they didn't have the tools to dig the pit, and it was cold enough, so they saved this step.
In the winter, you will be very happy to eat a bite of salted vegetables with flour cakes.
The other urn was filled with a freshly made meat sauce. A few days ago, they were all in the county seat, and the wolf meat didn't have time to eat at all, so they chopped up the rest of the meat, mixed it with a bucket of meat in the ratio of five liters of koji, two and a half liters of salt, and one liter of yellow steaming, and buried it in the bran pile. In a few days, when the aroma of the bolognese wafts out, you can eat it.
In addition, there was a jar of millet rice, a large bag of flour, a small bag of dogwood, a bag of orange peel, a jar of caramel made by my sister, and preserved honey fruit that my sister found out of nowhere. There was also refrigerated raw goat's milk in the well, and most of the rabbits that had been roasted and had not had time to eat.
There are two dried mountain rats and two dried rabbits hanging on the corner of the mud house, both of which are made of bacon, and wait for air drying after being coated with materials, which cannot be eaten in a short time, but the dried vegetables and aromatherapy skewers can be taken off at any time, washed and thrown into the kettle for cooking.
With such a number, Tang Youniang couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
They turned out to be so rich!
This kind of life is something she didn't dare to imagine before!
Fortunately, there are few people who come to the broken house in the north of the village, otherwise it will reach the ears of grandma, and she will probably come to grab things again.
Oh, you can't call her grandma, they're already separated!
"Second sister, we also put away the toothbrush, if it breaks, we have to do it again, the eldest sister has been doing it for a long time." Tang Dou'er brought the toothbrush and bamboo cup used by the three of them, as well as the mouthwash that Tang and Rou had mixed to Tang Youniang.
Tang Youniang took it and carefully put it in the treasure chest.
This set is used for brushing teeth in the morning, and it has never been seen anywhere else. The brushes were tied with wolf bristles, and several holes were dug in the bamboo boards, and they were sewn with tough grass after being strung in. The mouthwash is made by Tang and Rou with herbs such as honeysuckle and dandelion, and it tastes like an herb, but it is only used to rinse the mouth and cannot be drunk.
Since she started brushing her teeth, Tang Youniang only felt that the taste in Tang Dou'er's mouth was much less, and her breath never smelled bad.
I heard that this is a habit only that only young masters and young ladies from rich families have, and they are as particular as those people!
"Tang sister, come here and help!"
Tang Youniang looked up and saw that it was the board car from the bus losing workshop, and she ran out of the fence quickly, like a lively rabbit: "Okay!" ”
Three big men and a woman got out of the cart, all dressed as craftsmen. Probably because they have been working outside for a long time, they are as dark and swarthy as Brother Niu. There are quite a few scars on the hands, and the calluses are very thick.
Led by Ah Mao, he had come to deliver the wood once yesterday, and when he saw Tang Youniang's curious gaze, he knew that she was young and timid, so he enthusiastically introduced: "This is Uncle Afu, this is Brother Xiaoduan, and this is Sister Aru." The timber is almost ready, so today I will help you build a temporary wooden house to live in, and then tear down the broken house and build a foundation. ”
A few carpenters removed the timber from the cart and piled it on the path outside.
Brother Mao and Sister Aru quickly built the wooden house with pre-cut planks.
This kind of temporary house does not need a foundation, just shelter from the wind and rain, and the large wooden board on the top is covered, and the house is like a square box.
Brother Ah Fu and Brother Xiao Duan walked into the house to look around to prevent the two children from pulling something down, and then picked up the tools. One was on the roof, and the other was in the corner. After a while, the roof was knocked down, and the whole piece fell to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust. The walls had also collapsed, revealing rotting wood hidden inside, and small insects crawling everywhere.
Tang Youniang held Tang Dou'er's hand, watching the dilapidated house collapse, and her heart became entangled.
Such an old house, if you say it's going to be demolished, it's going to be demolished!
Mao said to Tang Youniang: "Little girl, today we will use the fastest speed to re-dig the foundation, but tomorrow I will be the only one." There's a place in the city where we need to fix the roof, and it's even more dangerous. ”
"Hmm......" Tang Youniang Mu Ne nodded.
Tang Dou'er watched everyone's movements with dark eyes, and asked curiously, "Where is it?" ”
Mao said, "It's okay to tell you, it's Fumanlou." It is said that a thief stole the owner's silver and replaced it with a heavy tile, so he was afraid that if he went later, the roof would be pressed down, but he would die. ”
When Tang Youniang heard that it was Fumanlou, she couldn't help but start worrying about her sister, and her voice was timid: "Then you must go quickly, my sister is also in Fumanlou." ”
Mao smiled and said, "It takes time to make the bricks and tiles, and today we have to help you build a house first!" ”
After a while, the humble wooden house was put together.
Sister Aru seemed to like children very much, praised the young lady for being very well-behaved and cute, and helped her put all the bedding used by the three of them into the wooden house and spread it, and then joined in the action of shoveling the mud and tiles.
Tang Douer couldn't help but help them carry it together.
There was a commotion in the yard.
Tang Youniang couldn't help, so she sat in a corner of the courtyard, picked up needles and threads and broken wolf skins, and quietly made her headcoat.
But I heard an insult from outside the courtyard - "Three little broom stars, you broke the old woman's fence and want to live in a new house?" Phew! ”