The next day, Zeng Ruixiang was just about to go out, Qiu Yu came to deliver a letter, saying that Xia Yu was going to make a decision on August 18, and Shen asked why he was in such a hurry, and he didn't give a letter in advance.

"When the Zhou family came to give the festival gift on August 14, they discussed it, saying that they had found someone to calculate, and they thought that you would come over yesterday, but who knew that you didn't come, so my father asked me to come over today and let you all pass." Qiu Yu said.

Ziqing listened to it and thought to herself, have a good holiday, the festival gifts have also been given, and no one said to leave a meal, who can be embarrassed to come together? What will this say, "I thought you would come", it seems that this Qiuyu is really not an ordinary talker.

Tian's meaning was to let his son take a day off, but Ruixiang said that he didn't say it in advance, so he couldn't notify other gentlemen to substitute for the teacher, so he still left.

When Ziqing's family arrived, they found that Chunyu's family had also come, Shen hurriedly went into the stove room to prepare meals with Zhou's, Zilu carried Zixi and put it on Xia Yu's bed, and Chunyu also sat on the bed with Simao in his arms. It didn't take long for the Zhou family to come, and the old lady of the Zhou family took her three sons, two daughters, and the matchmaker to accompany her.

Ziqing saw that the second and third children of the Zhou family picked a pair of red gift boxes, various colors of snacks and four pieces of fabric, among which there was a piece of red satin, and a bundle of cotton, one set may be silver-plated, it is really simple.

Ziqing didn't understand what they said to change Geng stickers, but she understood it, and the day of marriage was put on February 2. At this time, when they heard that the meal was set, Ziqing and they naturally had no chance to go to the table, the old man and Yan Renda sat at a table with the male guests, Tian, Zhou and Shen, and the women of the Zhou family sat at a table, and the children waited for the adults to finish eating before going to the table, Ziqing took a bite and didn't dare to move forward, the children of her aunt's family were too strong.

Ziqing saw that after Yan Renda was full of wine and food, she sat there and pointed at her feet, feeling bored and wanting to go home. Who knew that Shen said that he would discuss with the old man if he had something to do after sending off the guests.

It turned out that when Shen was thinking about building a house, it was really inconvenient to have no man in the family, and his husband really couldn't get away, so he wanted to ask the old man to go to the construction site every day to watch it.

Yan Renda heard these words, and said: "Second sister-in-law, it just so happens that I don't have anything to do, the second brother is not at home, why don't I take care of it for you?" I know how to build a house, buy bricks, buy tiles, buy wood and so on. I don't know what kind of house my second sister-in-law plans to build? How much money are you going to spend? ”

"Then how embarrassing, my brother-in-law's family also has a large family, and it is in time for the autumn harvest, and his aunt has just given birth a few days ago, so my brother-in-law should take care of his own family first." Shen refused.

Yan Renda wanted to say something more, but the old man said: "Your sister-in-law is right, let's go home and take care of your own home." ”

When Shen was asked when he started, Shen said that now that the wood has been prepared, he can go to the green bricks and tiles tomorrow, and the workers who built the house are the ten who built the courtyard wall last time.

Coming out of the old house, Shen took Ziqing to the third mother-in-law's house, talked about building her own house, and asked her five sons to help. The third mother-in-law was very happy for Shen's, patted Shen's hand and said: "Yumei, Sanniang is really happy for you, you can be considered to have survived, Sanniang won't say anything, don't worry, my sons will definitely go." I often tell them that our Zeng family is a small surname in the village, there are few people, and the family should be more united, and we must help each other when there is something. Don't worry. It's just one thing, you are not allowed to spend any more money, I know about the last time you bought cloth for them, Sanniang knows that you have just settled down, it is not easy. When you split up, Sanniang didn't help you. "In the end, it was smeared.

Ziqing felt that the third mother-in-law was very good at talking, and it was really warm in people's hearts, and Shen sat with her for another half a day before going home.

The next day, the old man found the head of the village who often built houses for people, Master Luo, and looked at the drawings left by Zeng Ruixiang together, and the key places have text descriptions, but unfortunately, Master Luo is illiterate, Ziqing took the drawings and explained them in detail, Zeng Ruixiang painted the courtyard in the north, the main house is five, sitting north and facing south, the main house is 60 feet long, 15 feet wide, the middle room is used as a living room, the length of one side occupies one more foot, because it is in the south, to consider the problem of summer heat, the house is set at nine feet, and the highest part of the middle roof is ten feet, With wooden ceilings, Ziqing knows that the houses here are all ceilinged with wooden boards, which are arranged into a small attic and stacked with firewood, straw, etc.

The east and west wings each cover four rooms, the size is the same as the main house, the east side lives people, the west side is the stove room, one side is connected to the restaurant, one side is connected to the clean room, three rooms are connected, the net room has an independent stove to boil hot water, Shen thinks that the stir-fry pot how to wash also has the smell of oil, and one next to the main room is used as a study. The inverted seat is the same as the main house, four large rooms, two on one side, a courtyard gate in the middle, the whole house is a concave word, Shen said that it is not good-looking, Ruixiang later changed it, and the courtyard door added a gatehouse, into a complete mouth. The large windows were all facing inward, and there were eaves, a three-foot-wide corridor, and an open space in the middle, and the well was just outside the hallway at the door of the stove.

Ziqing converted, the entire building covers an area of about 600 square meters, the construction area is 304 square meters, and the yard has 200 square meters of open space, of course, not including the corridor. ”

At this time, Zeng Ruiyu, the third son of the third mother-in-law's family, came over, and the old man, Zeng Ruiyu and Master Luo went to the only brick kiln in the town.

In the afternoon of the same day, several cousins of Ziqing brought several carts of big stones, saying that they were bought to build the foundation, and the stones were cheaper than the green bricks.

Early the next morning, ten workers came to work, first drew the line to lay the foundation, this time Shen asked for their opinions, or willing to take forty wen a day's wages and no food, however, Shen would usually steam a pot of steamed buns at noon, stew a pot of bone broth and send them to them, and they would work more dedicatedly. This year's wheat harvest has not been sold, which will come in handy.

Old man Zeng would come over every day to do some trivial things within his ability, and he would usually stay for a lunch meal. Shen took the time to take Zilu to collect the soybeans in the field, and he was busy for five or six days before he got them home.

Ziqing felt that this time it was easier than harvesting rape wheat, because the pods burst open by themselves when they were dried, and they didn't need to be hammered with a mallet, which saved a lot of effort.

When Zeng Ruixiang went home at the end of the month, all the foundations had been laid, and the slope of the clean house had been done, and the old man secretly asked Zeng Ruixiang where he got so much silver, and learned that he earned it by selling watermelons, and praised it, "Or your daughter-in-law has a plan." "I didn't say anything else.

The foundation is good, and the wall is much faster, after all, the green bricks are flat, unlike the stones, which can only be pasted on the leveling, so it took half a month, the wing room and the inverted seat room are basically completed, and the ground is also paved with neat green bricks, and the main house is still short of the roof.