Chapter 18 Negotiation of the construction of houses
Dinner is still black batter, but there is an extra pot of chicken soup on the table today.
Gu Chengyu took a sip of chicken soup, although it was a little light with more water, but this delicious taste was completely different from the artificially bred feed chickens in his previous life. Without paying attention, there was an extra chicken leg in the bowl, and he looked up to see his second sister squeezing her eyes at him.
Knowing that his second sister still wanted to be close to him, of course he couldn't help but appreciate it, and he didn't want to let it, so he picked up the chicken leg and took a big bite, and the tender taste made him squint. Gu Wan saw that her little brother had eaten chicken legs, so she buried her head in eating again.
Father Gu was also quite relieved to watch from the sidelines, his daughter is always sensible, she must have figured it out, and she also knows to take care of her younger brother.
When Gu Chengyu was eating, he saw Gu Chengchi, who was sitting opposite him eating, a little absent-minded. The fourth brother came back from outside before dinner at night, as if he had something in his heart, and the whole person looked listless, so let's talk to him when I come back from school tomorrow! I'll have something to do later.
He brought the chicken soup from the table below, and as soon as he put it down, he sandwiched several pieces of chicken into the bowl, and sandwiched a few pieces for each of his two sons, and the chicken was relatively small, and a pheasant was only three or four catties! Of course, the meat on the table was snatched up, and He Shi saw the opportunity and poured a large bowl of soup, snorting and drinking.
"Daddy! The cow I bought today is strong! Can Ming'er plow the land and bring the oxen over? Gu Chengli thought that Ming'er would go to plow the field, if he brought the oxen, it would definitely be easier, and the ploughing was good.
"Ming'er, Niu is going to put on an ox cart and send Xiaobao to study, and I have to go to the town to see if there is any better land in Yazi, Ming'er and I will go!" What do you say about building a house? Is it to be capped at the back or to be recapped? Come up with a discipline. Father Gu hurriedly finished drinking the mush, and after thinking about it, he still felt that he had to implement the matter of buying land and building a house as soon as possible.
"Daddy! There is too little open space here, and there are houses on both sides, so I'm afraid the layout is too small. Since we want to build a house, it is better to build a big brick house at one time, and we have to reserve empty space next to it. Gu Chengyu heard that Father Gu had plans to build a house now, which was in his arms, and he had long wanted to sleep in a separate room.
"Our family is narrower, and there will be more people in the future, and the third and fourth children will marry wives, and it won't be like squeezing together." The Lu family also felt that this matter was troublesome, in fact, when she first got married, she felt that the Gu family was too small.
"Then why don't we choose a new piece of land in the village, and then we won't demolish it here and make it an old house?" Gu Chengyi also spoke actively, there are only two rooms in their west wing, one room is also piled with sundries, and the two sons are still squeezed on a kang with them, fortunately, Sanya does not sleep in the west wing, otherwise he doesn't know how to sleep with five people.
It's okay at this time, but if it's a hot day, it's really uncomfortable, everyone huddles together, and it feels like the sweaty body is going to stick to the mat on the kang. After building a house, there can always be one of the two babies, right?
"Daddy! On one side of our family is the Zhang family, and who is the other family? Gu Chengyu suddenly remembered that the other family on the right had never been inhabited, the house was made of mud bricks, and the house was dilapidated, but the area was not small, and the yard was quite large. If you can add the land over there, the layout of the house will not be small.
"It was your second grandfather's house, and when there was a drought here, your second grandfather and they went to his eldest brother. It's been 25 years, and there is still no news from me, and I don't know if I've been to the south, how are I doing! Father Gu remembered that when the second brother left twenty-five years ago, they all hugged their heads and cried, reluctant to give up, thinking, thinking, their eyes were a little moist.
At that time, they made an appointment, and when they arrived in the south, they would write back, and the eldest brother and he would still return to Shangling Village after the drought, but so far there is no news from the second brother's house, and they don't know the detailed address, even if they want to find the past, most of them can't find anyone, and he is not young in this life, and I don't know if there is a chance to see each other again.
Gu Chengyu saw that Father Gu was immersed in the memories of the past, and after thinking about it, he still felt that it was best not to move the place, one was that he was used to living there; Another is that there is no decent land in the village, which is divided into small pieces by houses, only the fish pond behind has an open space, and it is large. But it was in a remote place, and there was a small forest, and when he thought of what happened in the grove that day, Gu Chengyu felt embarrassed.
"Daddy! Where is the second grandfather's house empty? Wouldn't that be a waste? ”
"That land has long been reclaimed by the village, and that year there was a great drought, and many people who fled from other places came to the foot of Shangling Village, and the household registration in the village was reopened. Your second grandfather's family doesn't have anyone, and when you do the household registration, the house is considered ownerless. Of course, it was taken back to the village. At that time, Li was trying to sell the house to outsiders in the village, but how could the outsiders have the money to buy it? I'd rather build a shack and live in my own shack! This is not? It's always empty! It has been empty for more than 20 years, and even the back half of the house has collapsed. Father Gu also remembered that this land should belong to the village, so it was better to spend some money to buy this homestead, so that there would be no worries about the small place when building a house.
"Daddy! Then Ming'er will go and ask Lizheng! Gu Chengyi thought that this homestead would cost less than a few taels of silver, even if the fourth child had some festivals with the Lizheng family a few days ago, and I don't know if this forest is deliberately difficult.
"Daddy! I'll go back to the house first! Gu Cheng finished his meal with a lot of heart, and he didn't participate in the construction of the house, so he stood up and left.
"Fourth! Why are you going back to the house so early? Sit down a little longer, and when a new house is built, I'll leave you a room too. Seeing that Gu Chengchi was a little worried, he didn't say anything all day, he was really a stuffy gourd, and he didn't know what to tell his family.
Gu Chengyu originally wanted to finish the dinner and make some preparations for making soap. Now seeing his fourth brother like this, he feels that he can't delay it any longer. The matter of buying a homestead has been basically finalized, and he can't help with the rest.
"Mother! I'm full, I'll go to the fourth brother's to play for a while! ”
"Hey~ Xiaobao, you haven't eaten a chicken leg yet!" Lu Shi shouted behind Gu Chengyu.
"Give it to my mother!" The fourth brother is only the fourth brother's chicken legs, and his father and mother didn't eat it.
When He heard this, he quickly swallowed the chicken soup in his mouth, oops! Mother! Scald her! It turned out that when we were discussing the construction of the house just now, He was drinking chicken soup!
"Mother! If his uncle doesn't eat that chicken leg, give it to me! I haven't eaten a few pieces of chicken yet! He stood up and looked at the chicken legs on the table above, and sighed, she hadn't tasted enough yet!
"You've eaten a bunch of bones in front of you, and you still want to eat them? Why don't you say that both chickens have left you alone? It's really something that you can't eat enough. Seeing He's appearance, Lu Shi was angry, he only wanted to stew one at night, who thought that the old man had to stew two, and he ate up two chickens in this night's dinner, and he couldn't think about it.
The last chicken leg was sandwiched to the third child, and the four chicken legs were all on the table, Gu Wan had already got one, the fourth child injured his leg, and also gave one, Xiaobao ate one, and the four chicken legs were divided.
Gu Chengli didn't raise his head, he didn't dare to think that this chicken leg was already good to eat with meat; Gu Chengyi is used to it, anyway, there are delicious quasi-turns that can't be on his wheel.