Chapter 90: Preparing to build a house
Although they are busy every day, but the days are full, the honeysuckle that the Liu family buys from the villagers only earns the difference of five copper plates, but they can't bear the amount of money purchased by the Liu family, and the Liu family can make a lot of money.
On this day, after the Liu family sold the last batch of honeysuckle, Liu Yiyu's family sat at the stone table outside the bamboo house, calculating how much silver they had earned in the past month.
"Eldest sister, how much money has our family made in the past half a month." After the fifth brother looked at the eldest sister and counted the small silver horns and a few silver ingots and copper plates, Liu Yihao looked at his eldest sister with shining eyes.
As for the rest of the Liu family, after hearing Liu Yihao's question, they looked towards Liu Yiyu with a pair of eyes one by one.
"This year, our family didn't make much, and last year is almost the same, selling honeysuckle and honeysuckle vines earned six taels and five hangs, plus picking some loquat leaves and loquat to sell, these for about four hangings, a total of six taels of silver and nine hangings."
"It's a little less than last year, but it's almost the same, eldest sister, now that our family has saved money, and we have settled in Shangu Village, we even have the foundation to build a house, so our family should also consider building a house?" When Liu Zhang heard Liu Yiyu's words, he nodded and said.
"Eldest sister, if we build a house, will we build an earthen embryo house or a blue brick and tile house?" Speaking of building a house, the third sister Liu Yishuang suddenly became excited, couldn't sit still, and walked into Liu Yiyu.
"This piece of land belongs to our family, grandma, mother, eldest sister wants to fence this land, build a house in front, build a hall house in the middle, two master bedrooms on the left and right, six wings on both sides, the foundation allocated to our family has more than two acres of land, and the backyard is afraid that there are a lot of vacant places.
In the backyard, the eldest sister plans to temporarily build a chicken coop, pigsty and cowshed on the right, and dig a pond in the middle, in which you can plant some lotus flowers and put some fish fry in to raise, so that we can be self-sufficient.
The innermost, build a three-story embroidery building, when our family is fine, we can do other things in the embroidery building, reading books, embroidering and soles.
Plant some fruit trees on the left, after the season comes, our family can pick some fruits to eat, fishing, serving flowers and plants, now our family also has money, to build a little better, one step in place, to build a blue brick house, in the future when the fifth brother and the seventh brother are older, there is no need to renovate the new house, directly to the fifth brother and Xun'er and the seventh brother to get married, it is enough, grandma, mother, what do you two think." Liu Yiyu used a piece of charcoal to draw circles on the ground, drawing the houses he built and where to build them, and the way to the family.
"Eldest sister, why are you talking about it, and then you say that my head is up." Liu Yihao's face was slightly red, and he glanced at Xun'er out of the corner of his eye, and after seeing Xun'er looking at him, Xun'er's face turned crimson, and he lowered his head quickly, not daring to look at Liu Yihao.
But when the other brothers and sisters heard Liu Yiyu say this, they laughed one by one.
"Fifth brother, I'm sorry, Fangzheng, the matter between you and Xun'er has been decided, what can't you say, eldest sister, you said that our family built such a big house, but it is enough money." Liu Yishuang first joked a few words about Liu Yihao, and then, after Liu Yishuang thought of building such a big house at home, and didn't know if he had enough money, he said to Liu Yiyu.
"Yes? Eldest sister, even if our family has the money to build a big brick house, our family has just settled in Shangu Village, and we will build such a big house, will anyone gossip." After Liu Li thought of this, he also said with some worry.
"Now the people in the village, through the fact that our family can sell honeysuckle from the mountains, the villagers have made some money, and they have inherited our family's affection, so they should not talk nonsense, and besides, we close the door and live our own small life, they can't say it, they can't hinder our family.
Also, the eldest sister is thinking in her heart, our family can be said to be in the eyes of the villagers, recently, but there are many people staring at the recent situation at home, when the time comes in May and June, our family to pick up cicadas and molt their shells, and from time to time to the town to sell to Derentang, the eldest sister is worried that sooner or later this matter will be known by the villagers.
Eldest sister, I am thinking in my heart, otherwise, our family will pick up cicadas and molt their shells and be able to sell them to the town for money, and say it, on this condition, our family will ask every family in the village to send an adult labor force to build a house for our family, no salary, no food, grandma, mother, what do you two think."
"In this ......, I'm afraid that the people in the village are not willing to work for nothing! Don't have anything to eat for day work? ”。 Liu Zhang said.
"Grandma, how can you think like that? Think about it, if our family doesn't tell the story of picking up cicadas and molting their shells, our family will hide this way to make money, and you calculate how much money our family can make.
Now if it weren't for the purpose of building a house, asking for help, and our family was in the eyes of the villagers, they were always staring at our family, and our family was afraid that it would be a matter of picking up cicadas and molting their shells, and they wouldn't be able to hide it for long. After Liu Yihao heard his eldest sister's words, he was reluctant at first, and then, after thinking about it for a while, he felt that what the eldest sister said was also reasonable.
"What the eldest sister and Gorou said is also reasonable, eldest sister, it's just that our family fenced off the foundation of two acres of land and built such a big house, in case of thieves, our family is a few women and children who can't take care of it, what can we do?" After Liu Zhang thought of this, he was a little distressed.
Now that his family is well fed, warmly dressed, has money, and has a foundation, he only needs to build a house, and the house is still a big house with blue bricks and tiles. In the past, Liu Zhang's never dared to think about it.
"There are only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves, grandma, even if someone is worried about our family, our family has no choice."
"Eldest sister, why don't we have a few dogs and take care of the house, so that if someone is worried about our family, they will also weigh it?"
"The sixth sister has this method, and our family will raise two dogs first." After Liu Yiyu heard Liu Yimeng's words, Liu Yiyu's eyes lit up.
However, Liu Yimeng saw that his own words were adopted by his eldest sister, Liu Yimeng straightened his waist proudly, and glanced at Liu Yiyang and Liu Yile from the corner of his eye.
After Liu Yiyang's brother and sister saw that the sixth sister was so proud, the two brothers and sisters held back their mouths and turned their heads not to look at Liu Yimeng.
After that, everyone in the Liu family discussed the matter of building their own house in detail, and after seeing that everything was finalized, Liu Yiyu took Liu Yihao to Wang's house and asked Uncle Wang to give advice to his family.