Although Lin Jin sent Daiyu to the Lin family's house in the capital when she sent Daiyu to the Lin family's house in the capital before, she cleaned up the house a little, but at that time, she was just repairing the corner of the roof, not leaking rain, cleaning and cleaning, and it was almost enough to live in it.

After Lin Ruhai's 100 days of filial piety, if there is no accident, Lin Jin will take his family into Beijing, not to mention living in the capital for a few years, so the house can't be cleaned up so simply.

Except for the lack of a bathroom in the house, Lin Jin found everything else from the library and designed it in the way of decorating houses in the countryside, but there are some things that are not available or common in this era, and they have also found alternatives. For example, because glass is expensive and scarce, it is not easy to use on windows, so it can only be replaced with bright tiles; The walls around the room are plastered with a layer of sawdust insulation mortar inside and outside, because there is no concrete in this era, and the insulation mud effect is not bad at all.

The most important renovation was to dig a pit similar to a digester fermentation under the floor before the floor was laid, with a flue communicating with the outside. In this way, in winter, something like sawdust is placed in the pit, and after it is lit, it is similar to the geothermal heating of later generations, which is a popular heating method in a bungalow in the north in the 80s that Lin Jin found from the book.

In addition, a layer of suspended ceiling is installed above the room to achieve the purpose of thermal insulation and warmth; Although Lin Jin did not install a bathroom in the room due to problems such as national conditions and customs, she still changed the sewers in the house, so in addition to building a special bathroom in the main guest room, she also repaired the bathroom for her subordinates; In consultation with professionals, several public toilets were built, and as a result, a septic tank was built; ……

In fact, if it was Lin Jin's intention, she would even want to simply tear down the house and start it again, but in this case, it would obviously not be able to be built within 100 days, so she could only make do with it for the time being. But in the eyes of others, the Lin family's house has not been moved except for the shell and courtyard wall, and it is almost equivalent to rebuilding it from the inside out.

Lin Jin knew that she was repairing her own house just in time to build a provincial courtyard in Beijing, so it was difficult to find craftsmen in Beijing; Moreover, her changes to the house are to communicate with the craftsman in advance, lest the craftsman not understand her thoughts, and something goes wrong when renovating the house, but she can't enter Beijing to stare at the renovation of the house because of her filial piety, so she is looking for a craftsman in Jiangnan, and the craftsman master explained her requirements, and the other party understood, so they were sent to the capital and let these craftsmen renovate the forest house.

According to Lin Jin's design to change the house, such a large amount of construction, and the craftsman invited is the first time to do things, so the progress is inevitably slow, but Lin Jin thinks about it, within 100 days, it can definitely be cleaned up quickly and neatly. For this reason, she specially asked Li He, the housekeeper of the family, to follow Jia Lian into Beijing to be responsible for these things.

It's just that she planned it well, but things changed here in the Jia family. Li He followed Jia Lian into Beijing, and saw good bricks, tiles, wood and stone and other building materials on the way, because Caoyun was very convenient for him, so he thought, there is no need to go to the capital to buy, after all, there are some things in Beijing, many of them are shipped from other places, since this is the case, then he meets a good one on the road, and he buys it directly. Therefore, when Li He entered Beijing, he actually purchased a lot of building materials.

On the way to the capital, Jia Lian received a message from Concubine Yuanchun and the provincial relatives, so Li He suggested that Jia Lian buy some bricks, tiles, wood and stone and other materials for house reconstruction, after all, if the capital is building a provincial family, these things will not only increase in price, but also difficult to buy. Jia Lian listened to Li He's suggestion, and took a large amount of money from the money he was originally going to buy local specialties and return to the capital to sell, and bought a lot of building materials.

After arriving in the capital, because he was grateful to Li He for mentioning all the way, Jia Lian, as the head snake of the land, took care of all the things such as unloading and storage, and as a result, the bricks, tiles, wood and stone and other materials that Li He bought were all taken away by the people of the Jia family and went to the provincial hospital.

However, Li and Li came to the capital one step earlier than Lin Jin and received the task. There was no way, he could only go to Jia Lian, and after looking for it several times, he still couldn't get the things back, but the Jia family gave him all the money he bought without a single discount.

On the surface, Li He didn't seem to have suffered a loss at all, because the Jia family not only paid according to the original price, but also included the freight. However, because many concubines want to go home to save their relatives, not only the price of raw materials has skyrocketed, but some have even risen more than ten times; Even the price of raw materials in the surrounding areas has risen several times; That's it, with the money, there is nowhere to buy.

If it was just that, Li He asked for a trustee, spent a lot of money, and finally prepared the materials for rebuilding the house, and the craftsman had a problem here.

Because Lin Jin wanted to explain to the craftsman how to rebuild the house, the craftsman arrived in Beijing one step later than Li He. After the craftsmen arrived in Beijing, because the building materials were taken away by the Jia family, and Li He did not buy new materials, although the renovation of the forest house began, the craftsmen were very idle.

Jia Lian felt sorry for the Lin family because the building materials were taken away by the Jia family before, so sometimes he would come over to take a look and ask if there was anything he needed help with, so he saw that the craftsmen invited by the Lin family were idle, and after returning home, he talked to Sister Feng like that.

Although it seems that the men outside have been busy with the construction of the Provincial Courtyard, Mrs. Wang has been paying close attention to it, and she can't wait to build the Provincial Courtyard and take Yuanchun back, so she is not very satisfied with the progress of the project. It's just that she also knows that this progress is not something she can speed up if she says it is fast, and now all the craftsmen in the capital and the surrounding areas have been invited by the maiden families of various concubines to repair the provincial relatives' courtyards, and there is no extra manpower at all.

When Mrs. Wang learned from Sister Feng that the Lin family had invited a group of craftsmen from Jiangnan was very idle, she hurriedly ordered the housekeeper to discuss with Li He, saying that she would temporarily borrow people to make envoys, and when the materials of the Lin family were ready, she would return the people.

The reason why these craftsmen were willing to leave their hometowns and come to the capital to repair the house for the Lin family was to make more money, so they were very happy when they knew that the Jia family invited them to work in the past.

Before, because the gold, silver, copper, tin, and civil engineering bricks and tiles he bought were bought by Jia Jiaqiang, Li He was not willing to lend the craftsmen, for fear that it would be difficult to turn back and ask people back, after all, the Jia family had lessons from the past, but after seeing that the craftsmen were very willing, he had no choice but to agree, so as not to be poached by the Jia family at a large price.

As a result, the matter was really expected by Li He. After he purchased the materials for repairing the house, he went to Jia's house to ask for a craftsman, although Jia's family did not withhold it and did not return it, but always made excuses, today to repair a pavilion, tomorrow to repair a cornice, the day after tomorrow to repair the ridge of the roof,...... After returning the person, borrow a few more. Anyway, when the Lin family's group of craftsmen repaired the Lin family's house, the number of people was never complete, at most two-thirds, and even a few times, only one-third.

The reason why this is so is because the Jiangnan garden is exquisite, one step at a time, which just fits the setting of the provincial courtyard designed by Mr. Shan Ziye for the Jia family; Moreover, although the Lin family transformed by Lin Jin does not seem to have moved, in fact, the place where she moved is not only relatively novel in this era, but also has relatively high requirements for the skills of craftsmen, so the craftsmen she found are very superb; Therefore, when they went to Jia's house to participate in the work of building the provincial hospital, even if they did not become the master masters, they did very important work.

With them and without them, not only greatly saving working time and work efficiency, but also the finished product seems to be more harmonious and beautiful. Therefore, if it weren't for the fact that when he borrowed someone before, he did say that he would return the person when the Lin family repaired the house, and the Jia family really didn't want to release the person.

It's just that although the Jia family returned the people to the Lin family, they borrowed a lot of craftsmen every once in a while, so that Li He had a lot of opinions about the Jia family; And the Jia family also felt that they had been wronged, and they were also very dissatisfied with the Lin family, because they felt that the Jia family and the Lin family were really relatives, and it stands to reason that his family built a provincial family courtyard and welcomed his mother home, which was a big deal, and it was much more important than the Lin family repairing their own house, so the Lin family should suspend the work of repairing the house and lend all the craftsmen to the Jia family. As a result, the Lin family didn't look at it at all, and even ignored such a major event as the Jia family welcoming the mother home to save relatives, and was busy repairing the house for their own family.

The Jia family even felt that the reason why the Lin family was like this was entirely because Jia Min, the aunt who married the Lin family, died, and Lin Jin's mother Yang Wan was straightened out and became the current wife of the Lin family, who was estranged from his family and did not regard his family as a relative. The Jia family felt that it was really not worth it for them to still remember that the Lin family had Daiyu with Jia Min's blood, and to regard the Lin family as their relatives.

Therefore, before Lin Jin and his family came to the capital and did not know it, they had already offended the Jia family. The people of the Jia family already have a bunch of opinions about them, and they are very dissatisfied. Some people, even thinking in their hearts, after they come to the capital, teach them a lesson, give them a little color.