Chapter Twenty-Eight: Moving into a New Home
The strong man did not answer Zhong Libai's words, but squinted his eyes and looked at Zhong Libai defiantly, admitting her guess, with an attitude that he left everything to the master to decide.
Zhong Libai became passive and couldn't help but laugh softly, "You're quite interesting, do you have a name?" ”
Zhuang Han was silent and replied honestly, "Fushu." ”
Zhong Libai silently recited it twice in his mouth, and asked this time, "What are those two words?" ”
"The subduing of demons is special." The strong man explained with a good temper.
Zhong Libai didn't continue to ask, but he was guessing in his mind, the surname Fu has neither the local atmosphere of the peasant family nor the nobility of the royal family, so?
Because of the large number of people and the fact that there are more children than adults, she didn't ask for their names one by one, and beckoned Lu Fan to take them to the ready-to-wear store to buy new clothes.
Zhong Libai took Fushu to buy vegetable seeds, because the land she bought was used to plant, and she had to pick the seeds first.
After buying seeds, Zhong Libai went to the previous ranch to buy two strong cows and a cow, and the cattle needed to pull the cart for farming, and a cow at home would definitely not be busy.
After buying these things, he couldn't get busy anymore, Zhong Libai beckoned Lu Fan, who was waiting at the entrance of the town, and asked a group of people to go back in three groups in an ox cart.
There are so many people in the family at once, the Lu house is definitely not enough to live, if it doesn't rain, they can make a bunk in the yard first, and it will definitely not be possible on a rainy day.
When he got home, Zhong Libai beckoned everyone to get food first, and after arranging, he took a bunch of people to the mountain to cut down a lot of branches.
It was not a lot of trouble to have a lot of people, and a simple shed made of branches was quickly erected next to the Lu house, and the family drove all the animals away.
After dinner in the evening, Zhong Libai arranged tasks for everyone, bought twenty acres of land, and asked the prime of life and others to turn over the soil, and Lu Ping followed to supervise.
Women, children, and teenagers also need to help get the land, Lu Fan, Zhong Mu, Zhong Yi and others are busy cooking, Zhong Libai takes Zhong Xin and Lu An to continue to go to the town to buy what they need.
The twenty acres of land she bought next to the land house can be renovated, otherwise the family will have too many people to live in.
Uncle Lian knew Zhong Libai's plans from the beginning, and waited in the town with someone early in the morning, and led a middle-aged man dressed as a foreman to come over.
The two sides explained the situation, and the middle-aged man heard that Zhong Libai was going to build a mansion, and drew up a contract with her, saying that he could help build it within half a month.
Zhong Libai was also not childish, saying that he could pack Chinese food, and the workers would eat it at home in the morning and evening, and the Lu family would cook it at noon, and take Lu An Zhongxin to Boss Zhu's to carry pork.
The Lu family's construction of a new house can't be concealed at all, after all, workers need to go in and out of Xujia Village every day, and they can guess it by just asking.
The Zhong and Xu families relied on their relatives to try to come over to help, but Zhong Libai sternly refused, and even Xu Mao didn't recruit him, leaving the villagers with nothing to say.
She went to buy materials once, and Lu Fan took Lu Ping to buy the rest of the materials, and she has been nesting in the village to guard the workers to build houses, occasionally mentioning them.
I didn't expect Boss Mu to come to Xujia Village to find herself in person, in order to let her try ice cream, and talked about the Midyear Festival, asked Xiaobai how to attract customers, and claimed to teach Fei Yunyun.
Zhong Libai gave the hidden family support, introduced the maid deacon to let the guy look like that, and prepared some Mid-Autumn Festival gift packages, small gifts, and discounts.
The specific way to do it depends on Boss Mu's own meaning, she can't leave the house here, and she can't go to the town to help in person.
As for the teaching fee or something, Zhong Libai naturally refused to accept it, and she hadn't thanked Boss Mu for borrowing money for her to squander!
The house can't wait to be completed before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and on the day of the Midyear Festival, Zhong Libai gave the workers a day off and took the family homemade mooncakes.
The family gathered around to make dumplings, Zhongli Bai taught Lu Zhiqiong how to make them, used sour fruits to mix fruit vinegar, deliberately coaxed people to drink, and then the two of them spit on each other.
The others didn't believe in evil, and they were all fooled into trying, and the yard was full of babbling and laughing, which sounded so lively.
The biggest joy of the Lu family was that Lu Mu rushed back in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and as soon as he got home, he cried on Zhong Libai's body, and talked about his experience while eating dumplings.
Hearing that the person was leaving home to learn martial arts, Zhong Libai was happy, and sent Fushu to compete with the person, but the two of them almost destroyed the outer courtyard.
Lu Mu is indeed a lot more powerful, but he still can't beat Fu Shu, and the kid cried for a long time when he learned this result.
The Lu Mansion was built, Zhong Libai had no banquet guests, first, it was too troublesome, and secondly, he was too lazy to have a relationship with the best, so after cleaning up, he picked a good day and moved with his family.
Boss Mu personally brought people to congratulate him, even his uncle sent Ah Yuan to give a gift, Xu Shan's father and daughter brought a deer to eat, and Xu Mao and his original friend also came.
The family moved to a new house, and the new house was divided into three courtyards with three entrances and three exits, and the backyard was still reserved for Zhong Libai to grow herbs.
Lu Zhiqiong, Lu Mier, Zhong Libai, and Lu Gongzi's study in the inner courtyard also have a bathroom.
The middle courtyard lives Lu Fan, Lu Ping, Zhong Mu, Zhong Yi, Zhong Xin, Lu An, Lu Mu, and Fu Shu, a total of four rooms, one for each of them.
There are eight small rooms in the outer courtyard, 22 people are divided into three people, the kitchen is in the middle courtyard, and the bathroom is in the outer courtyard.
The old house is used to raise animals, cattle, horses, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese are all locked up here, and all the useful things in the room have been moved to the new house, which is not a waste.
Zhong Libai specially built a large wall courtyard, which directly included the old mansion, and there was no need to go to the entrance of the village when he went out in the future, and he changed another road to reach the courtyard gate.
When the house was built, the twenty acres of land were also renovated by the Lu family, and she also bought manure fertilizer from people she knew in the village.
After the land was fermented, she began to lead people to dig grass to plant, but the villagers learned that she bought land to plant grass, and many people in the village laughed at her.
Twenty acres is a lot and not a lot, and there is not much land after the batch, two acres are zoned to plant medicinal herbs, two acres to plant vegetables, two acres to plant fruit trees, and two acres to dig up to grow fish.
The remaining 12 acres are reserved for farming, and the land after autumn generally has to be barren for a period of time before planting rapeseed, just in time to fertilize the land for vacation.
In order to facilitate watering, Zhong Libai took people to erect bamboo to get water for the field, and the river water was directly pumped into the pit, digging bamboo ditches, and building a small hot spring pool for his home.
Because there were too many cubs in the family, Zhong Libai bought six dairy sheep and one ram in one go, and all the people in the family were required to drink milk to replenish their bodies.
The 10,000 taels of silver borrowed from Boss Mu have already been spent, and if they don't enter the project in the coming year, the Lu family will definitely finish.
Zhong Libai's whole body was full of pressure, but her relatives didn't let her take a breath, so she had to come up to death.
The original owner, her cousin Zhong Ming, wanted to say goodbye, and her second aunt and grandmother wanted Zhong Libai to give half of the bride price, I really don't know where the two of them came from to open their mouths to make this request.
"At least there can be an income in business, I can't do this business, where can I get spare money." Zhong Libai refused.
"You've been selling meatballs for so long, you must have some extra silver on you." Second Aunt Zhong said shamelessly.
"If you don't ruin my meatball business, my cousin gets married, and I, who is my sister, don't say help and give half, but give all of it."
Zhong Libai said a few polite words, looked at the two elders with a happy face, and then said with a regretful face, "It's a pity, it's a pity, you didn't expect today, right?" ”
Without waiting for the two of the Zhong family to talk, she asked directly, "Find me for the silver, I still want to borrow some from you!" ”
Where is Aunt Zhong willing, before she could speak, the old woman roared back, "Ask us to borrow it, didn't you give you all the money in the house last time!" ”
Zhong Libai glanced at the old woman as if he hadn't heard it, "My mother wants to grab medicine to see my body, my husband also wants to take medicine to treat my legs, and I can't open the pot anymore." ”
"I can't afford to eat, and you still buy so much land!" Second Aunt Zhong had a good idea, "If you sell the land, the silver will come back, and you can still help with the money for the Ming dowry." ”
Zhong Libai was still polite to the two of them at first, but when he heard this, his face immediately changed, "You Zhong family has so much land, why don't you sell your own?" ”
The old woman immediately replied, "Our family uses it for farming." ”
"If your land is the land, isn't our land?" Zhong Libai looked at the two of them and sneered.
Aunt Zhong snorted, and taught her with the face of a person who came over, "You might as well sell it for silver anyway, if you plant those useless grasses anyway." ”
"I'm willing to let my land be barren, why did I sell it for silver to outsiders, how big is your Zhong family's face, you are still so unreasonable when you need us, you are born to a lady! One by one, they thought so well. ”
"I have time to sleep a lot, and I have everything in my dreams."
When she was really bullied, she really didn't expect that the Zhong family could be so shameless, and she had to come up to beg for cheapness if she died.
The Zhong family is obviously embarrassed, and they can't ask for money with a white face, so they come to the door of the Lu family's house to make trouble, which makes everyone in the villagers know.
The villagers helped the Zhong family to ask her for the silver to give the old man filial piety, Zhong Libai said that his father died, and threatened to give it if he broke off his relationship with the Zhong family, even if he didn't enter the ancestral hall, and the behavior of the Zhong and Xu families last time.
The villagers don't know who to help now, the thing is indeed that the Zhong family is doing something wrong, and Zhong's mother has no reason to give her nephew a dowry.
Not to mention, the relationship between the Zhong family and Zhong's mother is very bad, the relationship is not close, and family affection and filial piety cannot be pressed on the nephew's head.
It's just that the Zhong family is not used to it, so they have to ask Zhong Libai to give silver, and they don't want a son after choosing silver, and would rather sign off the family documents.
Now the villagers don't want to speak for the Zhong family at all, it's really not worth it for this kind of vicious family, why should they waste their mouths.
Zhong Libai gave the Zhong family ten taels of silver in exchange for a meaningless letter of severing relatives, and Zhong's mother was chilled by leaving the house.
It's a shame that Zhong Mu's body is not as delicate as before, otherwise she would definitely have to faint again if she made such a fuss.
comforted Zhong's mother and coaxed people to sleep, Zhong Libai went to the field to see the situation, and when he returned to the hospital, he was blocked by Lu Zhiqiong at the door of the inner courtyard.