At the first rooster crow in the morning, Liu woke up on time and packed up to prepare breakfast for the family.

Guo Chengling coaxed her daughter-in-law for a long time last night, and it was easy to coax people, and she didn't dare to ask her again. I had to discuss it with someone in a good voice, and he couldn't act so recklessly in the future, he would be worried.

The little crying bag looked at him with teary eyes and said yes, and his heart melted when he looked at it, and he hugged the person in his arms and kissed and kissed.

He also got up at this time, said hello to Liu, who got up early, and went to pack up the prey he had caught the day before yesterday, planning to go to the county after breakfast to sell the prey.

It's hot, and it stinks after a long time.

Yesterday he put everything in the cellar, but it was only a stopgap measure, and it had to be dealt with in time.

Thinking about coming back and taking the Liu family and them to see the place where the house was built, they should be able to go to the mountain again to try their luck.

After breakfast, Lin Xiaowan told her father and mother about the decision they had discussed last night. Liu and Lin Zhen disagreed at first, the land belonged to their son-in-law's family, and it was not suitable for them to build a house there.

In the end, the daughter and son-in-law finally agreed, but the two insisted that they should pay for the money to build a house and hire people.

When Liu came yesterday, he knew that his daughter and son-in-law had no money in their hands, and there was not much food left in the family.

She originally planned to give her daughter fifty taels of silver from the division of the family, and the rest went back to her parents' house to give five taels to her mother as filial piety, and the rest was kept for buying a house, and she also discussed it with Father Lin last night.

I didn't expect my daughter to say such a proposal today, and the land is already very good for them, and of course the money for building the house can no longer be used by the son-in-law.

"When we split up yesterday, we divided a total of sixty-nine taels of silver, and I originally thought that your father would take the money and go to the village to ask if anyone had sold the house and buy it back. Since you have a place, then the two of us who are elders will live cheekily. It's just that we have to pay for this house, and if you refuse, we won't have the face to live anymore. ”

The Liu family said semi-threateningly, and Lin Xiaowan and the others saw that they looked resolute, so they had to give up.

Liu's face was only now revealed, and Father Lin still looked sad on the side, and he had been like this since he came back yesterday. The separation of the family hit him too hard, and he couldn't accept it for a while, and it took time.

The Liu family didn't see the bento and didn't poke his sore spots. Sooner or later, he will figure it out.

Guo Chengling went out with her things, and Liu took the embroidery and came to Lin Xiaowan's house to embroider a handkerchief while talking to her.

Just now the son-in-law said that he was going to sell the prey, and she remembered that this month's embroidery work was not finished yet. Fortunately, I brought it with me when I came over yesterday, so I thought about taking advantage of the leisure to get out of the work.

Lin Xiaowan stared at her mother curiously, watching her pair of skillful hands fly up and down, and the silk threads are cleverly and flexibly presented on the handkerchief.

Liu's study is Su embroidery, Liu's mother used to be the chief embroiderer in a large family, and then the family dismissed the servants, and she met Lin Xiaowan's grandfather when she had nowhere to go.

After giving birth to her daughter, she taught her this skill.

Seeing that Lin Xiaowan was interested, Liu took out the leftovers from the sewing basket and taught her how to embroider hand in hand.

Lin Xiaowan embroidered stiffly for a long time and was still embroidered in a mess, looking at her twisted and crooked threads, and then looking at Liu's neat and dense formation, she finally gave up.

Sure enough, this kind of meticulous work is not suitable for her, she is still more suitable for digging herbs and doing an operation.

Angrily throwing the material aside, she pouted and complained to Liu: "It's so difficult, mother, you are really amazing, you can embroider so beautifully." ”

Liu pursed his lips and smiled: "I'm not very good, your grandma is amazing, she taught me this embroidery." Your grandmother also said that I didn't open my mind, and I didn't even learn eighty percent of her. ”

Lin Xiaowan was shocked, Liu's is not good like this, how powerful her grandmother is, it has to be a heavenly hand! The kind that makes it seamless!

"How long have you been studying, I played elementary school, and your grandmother didn't beat me at that time. She said that the most exquisite thing about Suzhou embroidery is the fine embroidery, and the feet should be 'flat, even, smooth, harmonious, and light', and only such embroidery can be regarded as good Suzhou embroidery. ”

Speaking of her mother-in-law, Liu's tone was full of memories, and Lin Xiaowan knew that her mother was missing her grandmother.

"Wait a few days for my injury to get better, I'll accompany you to grandma's house, I just listen to you when I grow so big, I like a fairy who grandma praises, I have to take a good look when I meet!"

Lin Xiaowan deliberately teased her mother, Liu was amused by her, and she was not immersed in the past, what her daughter said was that everything is fine now, she can go back whenever she wants, and she no longer has to worry about anyone's thoughts.

Rubbing her wrist, which had been stiff and sore for a long time, and then looking at Liu's appearance that she had nothing to do, Lin Xiaowan couldn't help but sigh again that she was really not this material.

No longer entangled in others, concentrate on Liu's embroidery.

After looking at it for a while, she remembered the thing she had seen before about the heroine selling embroidery in the text, her eyes lit up, and she hurriedly knocked on the side to inquire about Guan Liu.

"Mother, did you embroider the way someone gave it or what?"

"It's all the patterns given by the shopkeeper, and we embroider them." Liu didn't know why, but she was curious and said it truthfully.

Lin Xiaowan was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked: "Then mother, when you went to sell embroidery, did you see that kind of special patterns, or did you see a lot of patterns in the store?" ”

Liu frowned in embarrassment and thought for a while, and replied: "I don't know, your father usually sells embroidery." I'm usually busy and don't have time to go, so I don't know if there's anything special. ”

Lin Xiaowan shrugged her shoulders in disappointment, and when Liu saw her daughter drooping her head listlessly, she pursed her lips and comforted: "When your father comes back, you ask him, he may know how much he went." But why are you asking about this? ”

Lin Xiaowan regained her spirits at this time, "It's okay, I'll just ask casually, a little curious." ”

If you're not sure about this kind of thing, don't tell her mother.

Liu believed it was true, and did not ask any more questions, so the mother and daughter embroidered one by one, and the time was quiet.

At noon, Lin Zhen went to run and divided the land after the family was not at home, and Guo Chengling did not come back, so Liu did something simply.

After eating, Lin Xiaowan began to feel sleepy when she was in poor spirits, and fell asleep on the bed, Liu couldn't be idle, so she washed and dried her daughter's dirty clothes yesterday, and cleaned up the yard again.

After a while, Lin Zhen and Guo Chengling came back with their front and back feet, and seeing that Lin Xiaowan had not woken up yet, knowing that it was normal for her to be injured and lose a little bit of blood, Guo Chengling was relieved.

couldn't bear to wake up Lin Xiaowan, who was sleeping soundly, and the three of them locked the courtyard door, and Guo Chengling took them to see the place where the house was built.

The vacant piece of land is just east of Guo Chengling's house, also near the foot of the mountain, a little further away from the village.

The place is quite large, but because it has not been tended for a long time, there are weeds growing all over the place.

Lin Zhen inquired about the price of asking the people in the village to help with the work today, and at this time he measured the land and estimated it, and when the house was completed, it would be about seven or eight taels of silver to ask someone to add others.

He told Liu and his son-in-law his thoughts, and he was going to Zhang Luo to find someone.

As soon as Guo Chengling heard it, he knew that Lin Zhen was calculated according to the thatched roof of the earthen embryo house, and there was no need to buy bricks and tiles for such a house, which saved money for materials.

He stopped Father Lin and said his considerations: "Dad don't worry about this, Wanwan told me yesterday, if you build a new house, build a better one, so that you don't need to renovate it in the future, and it is comfortable to live in." ”

Lin Zhen and the Liu family are still a little hesitant, he and the Liu family have been thrifty for half their lives, and they still dare not let go for a while when it costs such a big thing to build a house.

Hearing that it was his daughter who said it, Liu's expression was a little relaxed.

Guo Chengling observed the words and added again: "Wanwan also said that my father and mother shared a lot of silver, and I suffered so much in the first half of my life, and I can live a better life in the second half of my life." ”

Lin Zhen was also a little loose, but when he thought of building a brick house, he didn't know the bottom of his heart.

"I'm afraid it costs a lot of money to build a brick house."

"It's a little more expensive, and if you ask someone to add the material fee, it will cost you more than 20 taels of silver."

Lin Xiaowan told him yesterday, Guo Chengling remembered it, and after selling something today, he went to the place where the bricks and tiles were sold and asked the price.

"More than twenty taels!"

Liu Shi gasped, she hadn't spent so much money at once.

"It's too expensive, or let's just do what his father said, and make one like everyone else."

Lin Zhen nodded, which is also what he meant.

"Yes, Chengling, it's really too expensive, neither of us is a delicate person, and it's a waste to live in such a good house."

Guo Chengling pursed his lips and patiently explained to the two the benefits of building a brick house.

"It's a little more expensive, but the brick house is strong and not easy to damage, and it will still be strong after a few decades. Moreover, your second elder lives here, far away from the village, and it is not easy to call people for anything, and the yard of the house is stronger, so Wanwan and I can rest assured. After all, the world is not peaceful now. The brick house is also comfortable to live in, the soil embryo house is heavy in rain and humidity, and the mother is not in good health, and living in such a house will only get worse and worse, or spend more money now and don't bother in the future. ”

Lin Zhen and Liu were talked to by Guo Chengling, and the last hesitation in their hearts was gone.

The son-in-law is right, the house will not run here, they will not be able to live in the future, and they can leave it to their daughter and son-in-law, in the long run, it is still cost-effective.

I just happen to have silver in my hand, so let's be more expensive.

Liu figured it out, she was reluctant to eat and drink before, but the money was all taken away by Zhou and raised the white-eyed wolf.

If you spend it, you spend it, anyway, you live by yourself, and you don't spend it on others.

Lin Zhen thought about his wife's old problem and her face turned white when she was sick, and he no longer hesitated.

The three of them made a decision, settled the matter, and Liu went home first.

While it was still early, Father Lin stayed here to get rid of the weeds, and Guo Chengling took the tools and went up the mountain.