Yang Changfu's face was a little better, and he nodded, "Then forget it, but this big brother hasn't split up yet, and when the time comes, he will really become an official, and he has to find a way to see how he can not take them." ”

Lin nodded anxiously, she didn't want to take the old family with her, and it was best for her father and mother not to bring it. Then it will be your own master, and that day will be a comfortable one. "Otherwise, when the time comes, tell my father and mother to let the eldest brother's family stay and watch the house and the ground, and it is best that my father and mother can stay."

Yang Changfa glanced at the Lin clan gloomily, "Let's see when the time comes." Recently, I had to go to the town to run around with the county lord's brother-in-law, and finalized the matter. ”

Lin closed his mouth when he saw that Yang Changfu didn't want to say more, and he was still making plans in his heart.

For Xiao Yue and Yang Changfa, they don't want to take care of the affairs of the Yang family and can't take care of it, the people of the Yang family treat them like outsiders, not to mention that now they are separated into two families, so when Yang Changfu came back, Xiao Yue and they just said hello and continued to do their own small business.

More than a month has passed, and Xiao Yue and they have been doing small business for 2 months, earning 30 taels of silver.

Xiao Yue also discovered in the past two months that when his business had an assembly in the town, he could earn more than one or two taels of silver a day, or even two or three taels of silver, and when he didn't have an assembly, he could only earn about 500 wen and no more than 800 wen at most. He and Yang Changfa have been rotating almost every day for the past two months, and sometimes they have to walk to the town without an ox cart, so they are not only tired but also have no time to do other things, so they simply concentrate on doing business during the meeting, and they can also do other work at ordinary times, so that Yang Changfa also has time to go hunting in the mountains.

The town has a meeting every 5 days, so that he can buy and sell 6 times, and earn about 10 taels of silver a month, which is already good for a small mountain village, so that his family can also save some family business.

The money earned from doing business, plus the money earned by Yang Changfa hunting in the previous family, in addition to the money spent on it, the family now has 100 taels of silver. Xiao Yue thought about discussing with Yang Changfa to build his family's house, and it would only cost seventy or eighty taels of silver to build a brick house, so his money would be enough.

Before building the house, Xiao Yue remembered that the grapes in the mountains were ripe, so she wanted to make wine first and then build a house, so that the wine would be good after building the house. If you don't have enough money to build a house, you can also sell the wine.

The next day, the weather was cloudy and it didn't feel too hot, so the two of them went to the grape grove that Yang Changfa knew, and sure enough, the grapes were ripe. The two men carried two baskets on their backs, and in one afternoon, the two of them went back and forth three times, picking almost a third of the grapes.

The next day, Xiao Yue was packing grapes at home, and Yang Changfa went to the mountains alone.

Wash all the grapes with cold boiled water and pick out any moisture from the surface that has gone bad. Xiao Yue was working alone at the door of the house, and when Yang Changfa came back, she had already finished all the grapes at home, and then the two of them went to the mountains together. In this way, it took two whole days for Xiao Yue and Yang Changfa to get all the grapes in the mountains back.

Yang Changfa went to the town to buy 6 100-pound wine jars, pinched the grapes and put them in the wine jar, spread a layer of rock sugar when it was one-third, and then continued to put the grapes to two-thirds of the way, spread a layer of rock sugar, and then continue to put grapes, and the grapes in the wine jar should be at a certain distance from the mouth of the altar.

After finishing all the grapes, he made 5 jars, and Xiao Yue got the remaining little into a 20-pound wine jar.

Cover the mouth of the jar with a piece of clean gauze and leave it for three days. Stir with a clean wooden stick every day, add sugar after three days, 10 catties of grapes and 1 catty of sugar, and wait for three days after adding. Scoop out the fermented grape residue with a wooden spoon and filter it with clean gauze, just enough to use the remaining jar. Put the filtered wine in the wine jar and cover the lid, open the lid regularly every day to release the gas produced by fermentation, filter it for the second time after seven days, and then seal the wine jar, it will take at least a month to drink, the longer the taste, the better the taste, and the whole brewing process can not see the oil.

The wine has been ready, as long as it takes a month, Xiao Yue is ready to discuss with Yang Changfa about building a house.

That night, Xiao Yue and Yang Changfa were lying on the kang, and Xiao Yue said: "Changfa, we have 100 taels of silver now, let's build the house first!" So we have our own home to move out, how about that? ”

Yang Changfa was surprised that he already had 100 taels of silver, "There are already 100 taels, so let's build a house!" What kind of houses do we build? ”

Xiao Yue wants to build a brick house, it looks neat and clean and doesn't have to worry about snow and heavy rain, "Let's build a brick house, how about it?" ”

"It's okay, only Li Zheng, Yang Xiucai and Uncle Tofu in our village are brick houses, and we can also build one like that, about 50 taels of silver."

Xiao Yue said: "It's a brick house, but it's not the same as theirs, I think it's seventy or eighty taels." ”

The brick houses here are just bricks to cover people's rooms, like courtyard walls, they are made of stone, and the firewood houses and kitchens are adobe houses. Xiao Yue was thinking of the kind of farm yard she had in the countryside in her previous life.

"What kind of brick house is that?" Yang Changfa scratched his head suspiciously, there were other ways to build the brick house.

"I can't say it, if you build it when the time comes, I'll draw a drawing for you."

Yang Changfa nodded and agreed, it doesn't matter what kind of house he lives in, as long as he is with his daughter-in-law, since his daughter-in-law already has an idea, just listen to her.

The young couple started to act with a plan to build a house. The next day, Yang Changfa went to Wang Village next door, the quality of the green bricks in Wang Village was good, and Yang Chang ordered 50,000 bricks.

Because Xiao Yue wants to enclose the whole yard, people here are used to building courtyard walls with stones or mud bricks, and the courtyard walls are only up to the waist of adults.

Two bricks cost a penny, and all the bricks cost 25 taels of silver, and the tiles were also bought for 10,000 taels of silver. After discussing with the brick seller, Yang Changfa paid an extra 1 tael of silver for them to send to Linshui Village. Now that the construction has not started, there is no hurry to send it, so Yang Changfa will go home first.

To build the timber for the house, Yang Changfa asked several people in the village to help, 50 yuan per person per day, and prepared all the timber in 10 days. There is also a main beam missing, this main beam wood should be strong and straight, Yang Changfa has been looking for several days and has not met a suitable one, so he is ready to buy one. It just so happened that the people in the village had it, so they bought it back for a tael of silver.

When the two went to the town to do business, they bought glutinous rice and lime powder. The stones to be used were also bought, and when the materials for building the house were almost ready, the two of them picked an auspicious day and were ready to build the house. The auspicious day is five days later, so the two of them have to think again about what else they are not prepared for.

Xiao Yue didn't know how to use a brush herself, so she burned a few charcoal pencils with the thin branches of the willow tree and found a piece of paper to design the structural diagram of the house by herself.

Yang Changfa entered the house and saw his daughter-in-law lying on the table, drawing on paper with a burned branch, and he also walked over, "Daughter-in-law, what are you doing?" ”

Xiao Yue didn't raise her head and said: "I'm thinking about how to build our house, this is the design drawing, you can see what else needs to be changed." ”

Yang Changfa took the drawing, and Xiao Yue pointed to explain it to him. The two of them talked and thought about changing the bad places, and the two of them didn't go to sleep on the kang until late at night.

Xiao Yue's design drawings are more complicated, and it will definitely not be good to hand them over to the people in the village, so after the two discussed, they asked someone from the town to help them build a house. It was a team led by a foreman surnamed Wang, invited good people, prepared materials, and Xiao Yue also bought cooking materials and sent them to Xiao's house. Xiao's family is separated from the new house by more than a dozen homes, and he borrowed the Xiao family's land for cooking.

On the auspicious day, Xiao Yue and Yang Changfa got up early in the morning and went to the new house after breakfast. Xiao Yue took out the prepared incense candle yellow paper, worshiped the gods in the southeast, northwest and four directions of the new house, and then worshiped the land god in the middle of the new house. After worshipping God, he took out a new broom and swept it on the ground a few times, and Yang Changfa set off firecrackers at the door.

The craftsmen who built the house came, and Yang Changfa shoveled the first shovel of soil with a shovel at the position of respecting the god of the land. Then the workers began to work in full swing, and Foreman Wang brought 5 people, who were 50 yuan a day, and these 5 people were skilled workers who specialized in building walls. Yang Changfa found 5 people in the village who did odd jobs, 30 wen a day, and one lunch a day.

At this time, there were no machines, and all the work had to be done manually. Xiao Yue is not stingy when cooking, there is meat every day, and people with oil and water are also energetic when they work.

After the foundation is dug, it is filled with stone, which is equivalent to the modern ring beam. The house was built with a mixture of yellow mud, lime and glutinous rice. In about 10 days, the walls of the house are ready to be beamed.

When the people in the village saw that Yang Changfa's new house was a brick house, they would make a few jokes, and of course there would be people who asked how they made money openly and secretly, Yang Changfa and Xiao Yue made some money by doing small business in a unified voice, and also borrowed money from Xiao Yue's mother's family.

Shangliang is a big deal, Xiao Yue and Yang Changfa went to the town to buy vegetables and things to use in Shangliang, and when they went home, they were preparing for Shangliang the next day, when the two were discussing things, they heard Yang Sanbao's voice outside, "Second uncle and second aunt, grandma told you to go to the hall." ”

Xiao Yue and Yang Changfa glanced at each other, and both of them remembered that when they were in the town, they saw Yang Changfu and a rich boy together, and it would definitely be no good for them to go over at this time, but they couldn't help but go.