Chapter Twenty-Six: Repair Room I
When they returned home, they found that the Song family was waiting under their roof, and after the old illness in early spring, their bodies were even thinner.
"Aunt Song, why are you here?" Xiao Han hurriedly invited the Song family into the house, the road was slippery in the rain, and he fell carefully.
"It's okay, just come out for a walk." Song said, feeling very happy. He said to Xiao Han, who was making tea, "Brother Han, don't be busy, I'll sit down and leave for a while." “
Xiao Han was pleasantly surprised, "Aunt Song, you can see me." “
"Yes, my eyes are getting better, and I don't need crutches anymore." Song said happily.
"Really, that's great." I sent space water to Aunt Song for two months in a row, and I was finally better, and I was sincerely happy for her.
"yes, I have to feel good about you." Song took Xiao Ming's hand and said gratefully. took out a cloth bag from his bosom and developed it layer by layer, and inside it was actually copper and silver, mixed with two very small pieces of broken silver.
"These are my savings for so many years, and I heard that you have bought land to repair a house, and you will have more places to use the money in the future, and you will take these. It's not much, but it's all my heart. Song said, stuffed the silver into Xiao Ming's hand, and sincerely thanked her, this is her coffin book, she thought she was going to be blind until she died. Since she had Xiao Ming, she has seen hope in life again, and her eyes are better and she can sell vegetables and make money.
"Aunt Song, this can't be, you can keep these." Xiao Ming refused, how could she accept Aunt Song's savings.
"No, you take it, you are sending me food and vegetables, I can't finish eating, and I won't need any money at all." Song insisted that she accept it, and she went out to sweep the grave today to know that Xiao Ming and they had bought land to repair the house, and she could only use this way as a thank you to Xiao Ming.
After a postponement, Song's attitude was resolute, and Xiao Ming finally had to accept the money.
The village chief greeted the villagers in advance and asked those who were willing to help to register with him.
The village suddenly bought such a lot of discussion about the Xiao family, guessing where the silver came from, and they don't believe the village's statement, you must know that the Xiao family sold the only two acres to cover the burial expenses, how could Xiao Dalang still have silver.
Many people have different ideas, what Wang wants is to get along with Xiao Ming, Da Wang is really happy for Xiao Ming, and Aunt Li muttered in her heart that Xiao Ming's family has silver, how much will she bring to marry in the future.
Despite this, everyone was very satisfied with Xiao Ming's salary and food, and they all said that they wanted to come, and many people went to Xiao's house to ask when the work would start.
During this period, the old Li Tou of Lijia Village came to visit, saw the auspicious day, negotiated the price, and decided to start the house on that day on the 16th of this month.
According to the layout of the modern Suzhou garden, Xiao Ming prepared to build a three-entry courtyard, and pulled Xiao Han to listen to his opinions and make adjustments. She also thought about it, since she decided to settle down here, she would be an ancient landlord's wife and a rural tyrant, so she simply repaired the house to ensure that she was stable and comfortable.
They plan to rebuild the house next to the hut, and when the new house is repaired, the old house will be fenced off and used as a firewood house. Otherwise, now they have pushed the hut, and they don't have a place to do it for a while.
Xiao Han didn't know much about these things, so he mentioned a little bit, build a high wall to ensure the safety of the family, these days Xiao Ming has handed over everything to Xiao Han to deal with, and under her slight guidance behind her back, Xiao Han has made great progress.
Xiao Ming explained to Xiao Han the personnel safety, material allocation, and staff management that should be paid attention to in repairing the house, as well as how to deal with accidents.
The village chief was efficient, and he sent the title deed in two days, because there were no elders in the Xiao family, Xiao Han wanted to write the land in his sister's name, but Xiao Ming was too young and a woman, so he had to write Xiao Han's name, and Xiao Han felt a little guilty about this, after all, the silver was earned by his sister.
On the fifteenth day, it was the day when Xiao Ming sat for a consultation, at noon Xiao Ming went out on an excuse, went to the market to buy half pork and big bones to put away, she came to pick it up in the afternoon, the butcher's surname was Li, it happened to be Lijia Village, Xiao Ming was a doctor, her family repaired the house, and the master invited was from Lijia Village, he happened to know Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming simply asked him to send half of the pork every ten days, and the butcher Li promised again and again, and the money was confiscated, and he promised to send the best.
I went to the grain store again, ordered ten bags of flour, and dozens of empty bags, and because I bought a lot, the man was happy, and promised to help load the car for free when the time came.
Min Fangqi knew that Xiao Ming's family had a lot to do with the house, so he deliberately asked the coachman to send Xiao Ming home earlier, and asked the Guangjitang coachman to help transport it back, in the carriage, Xiao Ming put the flour into the space, put five bags of wheat and five bags of rice out, these only need to be taken back and asked the village people to process it, she bought flour before was just an excuse, in order to take out the things in the space and use them.
On the morning of the sixteenth morning, Old Man Li came early with two people, greeted Liu Jisheng, and came over directly, and the people in the village who were willing to come to help rushed over with their own tools.
Almost the whole village contributes to the repair of houses in the countryside, and the master only brings those who know how to command.
The old man Li presided over the excavation ceremony, burned incense and cleaned his hands, solemnly bowed three times in the place where he was going to excavate, begged God to bless all safety, and let Xiao Han, the head of the family, dig a hoe on the ground first, and after the ceremony was completed, he officially started digging the foundation.
Old man Li looked at Xiao Ming's drawings, he was very surprised, he didn't expect them to do this, it looked complicated, in fact, it was like a modern farmhouse brick house, Xiao Ming was not very demanding, as long as it was strong, and he also specially designed the moon gate to separate the front and back yards.
Taking advantage of the time to dig the foundation, Liu Jisheng, the village head, took the initiative to instruct his eldest son A Niu to take Xiao Han and a few people to the town to pull bricks and tiles, and he took a group of people up the mountain to cut down trees.
Xiao Ming greeted several women who were familiar with each other in advance, and asked them to come and help cook, and also gave the salary, ten yuan a day, everyone said that they did not want to take the initiative to help, you must know how many eggs are on top of ten yuan, which is the female red who embroiders for a day, but so, but few people in the village can embroider.
Wang came early in the morning with his daughter-in-law Wang, knowing that Xiao Ming did not have cooking equipment, he specially brought the stove for making a big pot of rice, and Da Wang even brought the steamer used to steam steamed buns at home.
The three of them, plus the Song family, worked together to set up the stove and get busy. Song's eyes were just right, Xiao Ming didn't let her come, but she couldn't stay idle and still came.
Several people are diligent people with neat hands and feet, first boiled a large pot of water to make tea to drink, while boiling water and noodles to make steamed buns, quickly made a large pot of meat dishes, and a large pot of bone broth, steamed white rice, people who see the living drool, you must know that there is only this treatment during the New Year's Festival, usually their own food is miscellaneous grains, basically half a month to eat a meal of meat to fight teeth.
At the end of work at noon, a group of people automatically lined up with their own bowls to eat, which was greeted by the village chief in advance, and asked them to bring their own dishes and chopsticks, but fortunately, they had to catch it by hand.
Stir-fried vegetables, radish stew, bone broth, white rice, plus a white flour steamed bun per person, a group of people eat fragrantly, all praise the generosity of the main family, you must know that they often do work and know that omnivorous rice, not full, do not give food to the main family, like the Xiao family is still the first one.
The main family is generous, the food is good, a group of people are full of food and drink, and they work hard, and the foundation is beginning to appear in one day.