Chapter 7: A New Home Completed
Nearly a month and a half, the house built in Fengxiang Village was finally completed in the expectation of the two. On this day, the two packed up all their belongings in the county inn, hired a carriage and went to their new home in the village.
Looking at the clean and tidy house, Keke couldn't hide her excitement and joy, this place may be the place where she wants to live for a lifetime. Inside and out, looking at the sofa, bed, wardrobe and other furniture made according to their own ideas in the house, everything is obviously so familiar, and I feel a little strange in a trance.
"What does Keke think?" Qingwan saw Keke stunned and shouted by the closet.
"It's nothing, we will live here with peace of mind in the future, and we will definitely live better than before!" Hearing Qingwan shouting to herself, Keke replied.
"Hmm." Since leaving the palace, Qingwan's temperament has become more and more cheerful, and now she is in a state of excitement, from the beginning of stepping into the house, she has been saying "so beautiful, it must be very comfortable to live in...... at this time, no longer complaining that it took a lot of money to repair the house." I still remember that at that time, I kept complaining about using too much money, and I still talked about saving, and we had no source of livelihood in the future, what should we do when we run out? Wait a minute. However, Qingwan's worries are not unreasonable, the women of this era rely on men to live, plus the entire house was built, including all the furniture decoration, a total of three hundred and twenty taels, this number is undoubtedly an astronomical number for the peasant families who are staying now, even the average rich person in the town can't use so much money to build a house, and it is estimated that it is about one hundred taels to buy a ready-made one. But for the two of them, the money they have now is only a small part of it, after all, the original princess's dowry is very rich, although the realization at that time was only a part of the dowry, even this part, there are five thousand taels of silver, excluding the expenses along the way and the current expenses of repairing houses and selling land, there are now more than four thousand nine hundred taels left. Even the rest of the money is enough for herself and Qingwan to be a proper rich woman. But he is also Bai Fumei in modern times, his father is the CEO of a listed company, and his brother also opened his own company, he studied in the United Kingdom at the age of eighteen, and in order to exercise himself during his study abroad, he opened a bakery next to the school, and then changed it to a flower shop due to poor management, and the flower shop has been open, and then opened a handicraft shop, and at the same time co-founded a company with his classmates, but the result is the same as the bakery, and it is closed due to poor management. The flower shop and handicraft shop were open until he returned to work in his brother's company after graduation, and the income from the flower shop and handicraft shop was fully enough for his living expenses abroad. Later, when I returned to China, I worked at my brother's company. The salary is naturally a lot, why don't you go to my father's company, mainly because of some of my own innovations, my father can't accept it. was originally a happy family, but who knew that disaster would come.
The two of them cleaned up the house quickly, but it was very simple, that is, to put away the things brought back from the inn one by one, and there was nothing else that needed to be done, of course, this was also due to the fact that the people from the village had been invited to clean the house inside and out. Soon packed up the things she brought back, Keke leaned back on the sofa to rest, looking at Qingwan still loading the quilt, she couldn't help but think that women in ancient times were a silk flower, and this silk flower at home had to be fed by me, which could be regarded as completing Ling Yanfei's entrustment, and also repaying her for taking care and maintaining herself after coming here. There are only two people in the family, life is simple, and there is a generous deposit that can be used as start-up capital, so there is no need to worry about not being able to mix in this era, and besides, I have opened a handicraft shop, and I can be regarded as a person with craftsmanship, and I will definitely be able to earn a lot of money in the future.
"Keke, what do you want to eat at noon, I'll do it?" Li Qingwan came out and asked after making the bed for the two, now she is used to calling Keke the name.
"All the beds are made?" Keke asked casually.
"It's done, you're still smart, it's much more convenient to make the bed now, put the quilt in it, and then lay it flat and tie the straps, saving a lot of needlework. How did you come up with the idea? It used to be a real hassle to make a bed. But now it's okay, and it won't have to be so troublesome in the future. Li Qingwan said. Now it is much more convenient to make the bed and change the quilt than before, thinking that the young lady is indeed very smart as the prime minister said, the prime minister used to always say that the young lady is very smart, but at that time, the young lady read a book or played the piano all day long, or looked at the sky motionless and did not speak, I don't understand why the prime minister said that the young lady is smart? Now I finally know, what the prime minister said is not bad at all, and the young lady is very smart.
"You can do whatever you want!" Keke said to Li Qingwan hopelessly, she is not good at cooking, and she doesn't like to cook, but Li Qingwan, who used to be a maid, also has low skills and needs to be strengthened! I really miss the old meals, and it seems that I need to hire a cook in the future.
Looking at Keke's lack of interest in the food she cooked, Qingwan also felt helpless, when she was in the palace before, after the big kitchen was ready, she used to serve it to eat, and she had never cooked at all, and now she also asked the women in the village for advice, and even invited people to come to the house to teach, and she always did it with her heart, but in the end it was still ...... Don't talk about the taste!
Listening to what Qingwan just said, you can try to make a bedding store! But this needs to please embroider the girl, I definitely don't embroider, modern learning a lot, from kindergarten to learn to dance, pipa, piano, swimming, painting, and then to primary school, junior high school, high school, university various disciplines, etc., is no embroidery, even cross-stitch has never played, no patience. Qingwan is so gentle that she can barely sew and mend it, and embroidery is not good. The two major skills that she and Li Qingwan relied on to survive in this ancient woman were serious failures.
The days go by day by day, but fortunately, the people in the village are simple and get along very casually. On this day, Keke was writing and painting in the house when she heard a shout from outside the courtyard: "Is Miss Keke at home?" ”
Keke walked out of the courtyard and saw that it was the village chief's little daughter-in-law, Yu, so she shouted, "Here!" Sister-in-law Yu, come in and sit. "Most of the Zhuang families are relatively simple, and the village chief and the village chief have given great help when they bought land and repaired houses, and the people in the village are also very enthusiastic. Seeing Yu come to the house, I thought it was to gossip about home, but when I came to the village, I realized that people in this village like to go to the east and the west to gossip and talk about homely things.
"No, I'm here to invite you to Zhang Daliang's house, Zhang Daliang's family is making a fuss about driving her daughter-in-law out of the house and divorcing her wife. Now that my father is in Daliang's house, I would like to ask you to write a letter of resignation. Yu said, and said a little embarrassedly: "My father knows a few words, but he can't write well, in the past, everything was written by the chief, but today the chief is not at home, and the other people in the village are illiterate, so let me invite you to go." ”
"Okay, Sister-in-law Yu, wait a minute, I'll go get the pen and paper." Keke said, this village is not poor, there is not even a single scholar, right?
Yu looked at Keke who went into the house to get a pen and paper, and was envious in his heart, worthy of being a girl from a big family, when he first came, he did look thin, but this month, the two girls looked smart, beautiful, literate, and such a good house, and then thought about their own children, except for a large family of frugal food and clothing for the eldest nephew to study, the other children are at home, the older ones help to do the work, the younger ones know that they are crazy to play in the village, and the two daughters are also busy at home. In my spare time, I also embroidered some handkerchiefs and made some purses to subsidize the family.
After taking a pen and paper and some ink, he followed Yu to Zhang Daliang's house, at this time there was a lot of quarrel, Zhang Daliang's wife Qian sat on the ground crying helplessly, holding the frightened little daughter who was crying excessively in her arms, and the thin eldest daughter on the side also stood beside Qian and cried non-stop. And Zhang Daliang's old lady was full of energy and pointed to the Qian family on the ground and scolded: "You are a slut who can't give birth to a son, and you have two money-losing goods, and your family has let the three of you lose money and lose money, so get out of this house for me immediately." ”