At the dinner table, a group of men drank small wine and talked and laughed. Most of the women held their breath and carefully ate the dishes in front of them. The only exception is Mrs. Ning, who relies on her old age and qualifications, and interjects two sentences from time to time.

Ning Xue'er held the bowl and listened with her ears wide open while eating.

"Da Zhuang, how big of a house are you going to build this time?" Huo Fugui asked kindly. The others all looked at Ning Dazhuang expectantly, Ning Dazhuang scratched his head embarrassedly, and replied: "Uncle, the money in your hand is not rich, and you will be content to build a three-room big tile house." ”

"Well, it's okay, you only have one son and one daughter under your knees, Xue'er girl will get married sooner or later, and there will only be a boy left in the family in the future, three tiled houses, and it will be enough for him to marry a wife and have children." Huo Fugui thought so deeply and nodded heavily.

"Yes, the third child is a good blessing, the daughter is capable, and there is only one son, now that the house is built, the boy will not have to worry about marrying a wife in the future!" Ning Dachuan took a sip of wine and said meaningfully.

Looking at her uncle's somewhat gloomy face, Ning Xue'er felt a little refreshed inexplicably, Ning Dachuan is afraid that his intestines are now repentant. When they first separated, they relied on their status and made a lot of profits, and secretly rejoiced, thinking that they had taken a big advantage, but what they never expected was that within a few months after the separation, Sanfang bought land and prepared to build a house. If you knew it earlier, it would be better not to separate your family.

Knowing the son Mo Ruomu, how could Ning Pozi not understand what Ning Dachuan meant, she smiled and comforted: "Dachuan, we are a family, we will never forget your two elder brothers when we have a good life, I believe that he will definitely help you in the future." ”

Mrs. Ning turned her head to look at Ning Dazhuang as she spoke, Ning Dazhuang understood, patted her chest, and said briskly: "That's natural, big brother, if you have something to do in the future, just say it, but if I can do it, I will never refuse." ”

"Good!" Ning Dachuan slapped the table excitedly, and maybe promised: "With your words, brother, I will definitely help you if you have something in the future." ”

"Your brothers work together and help each other, and the future will definitely get better and better." Huo Fugui said with a smile, in fact, he despised Ning Dachuan, the old fox, in his heart, didn't he just see that Ning Laosan was developed, and he had soup to drink, so he was close to him? If this had been put aside, where would Ning Dachuan, who was a scholar, bend down and talk to Ning Laosan, who was a mud-legged man.

A dinner party, everyone was satisfied, and the atmosphere was extremely harmonious. At the dinner, Ning Dachuan and Ning Daniu patted their chests and promised to help the third child build the house.

Those big words made Ning Dazhuang feel very comfortable, these years, as the third child in the family, he worked hard and paid silently for the family. When the eldest couple thought about betraying his daughter, he was cold; When the family was separated, looking at the selfish appearance of his brothers and sisters-in-law, he trembled with anger, but he was powerless to argue. He used to think that brotherhood was like this, and he was already a little desperate for his brothers, but now, listening to the warm words of his brothers, he remembered the situation when he was a child, when the eldest brother stood up for him, and the second brother took him to dig birds' eggs together.

Yes, a brother is a brother, blood is thicker than water, and family affection is constantly separated. After eating a meal, Ning Dazhuang couldn't wait to dig out his heart and lungs for his brothers.

Ning Xue'er watched silently, very worried, her father is too easy to coax, just coax in a few words?

The next morning, due to a hangover the night before, Ning Dazhuang unexpectedly got up late. Therefore, the father and daughter had to have lunch and borrowed an ox cart to transport the sweet potatoes to the town.

When they arrived at the dock, Ning Dazhuang was busy unloading, and Ning Xueer went to see Foreman Cai alone.

For Ning Xue'er, who suddenly appeared, Foreman Cai seemed to have seen a savior, and God knows how he survived this day.

"Miss Cher, but there's good news?" Foreman Cai couldn't help but get up, strode up to Ning Xue'er, and asked anxiously.

Ning Xue'er nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, I went back to inquire for a long time, only to find that a big family in the same village still has a thousand catties of sweet potatoes, and I have already brought sweet potatoes today, do you want to take a look?" “

When Foreman Cai heard that there were 1,000 catties of sweet potatoes, he was immediately overjoyed and immediately went out to take a look.

Next to the ox cart, Ning Dazhuang was working hard to carry the sweet potatoes, and Foreman Cai looked at the sweet potatoes that looked like a hill, and immediately took out a silver ticket of fifty taels and handed it to Ning Xue'er.

Ning Xue'er was not polite, and accepted it directly. Ning Xue'er, who had put the silver ticket, seemed to remember something, and she smiled at Foreman Cai and said, "Uncle Cai, I still have a few recipes about sweet potatoes here, if you don't mind, I can give them to you." “

When Foreman Cai heard this, this feeling is good, the old woman has been nagging every day these days, saying that the masters are tired of eating roasted sweet potatoes, and they are about to think of a new recipe.

So, Foreman Cai took people to Wu Mansion with sweet potatoes and Ning Xue'er.

When she came to the Wu Mansion again, Ning Xue'er did not have the cramped feeling she had for the first time, on the contrary, she entered the Mansion generously, and even remembered the layout of the Wu Mansion all the way.

Foreman Cai led her to find Mrs. Cai, who heard that the little girl was going to give a recipe, and a kind smile appeared on her face.

Ning Xue'er picked up a few easy-to-operate recipes and talked to Mrs. Cai, and hurried home.

Ning Dazhuang, who got fifty taels of silver, walked with a straight waist, and as soon as he was happy, he invited the two brothers to drink flower wine.

At the dinner table, Ning Dachuan suggested finding a fortune teller to come and see the feng shui of the house, and Ning Dazhuang nodded and agreed. Ning Da Niu said that if you want to start construction as soon as possible, you have to buy bricks, tiles, wood and other building materials.

Ning Xue'er looked at the two uncles who were full of enthusiasm, and her heart was like a mirror, presumably this time they could make a fortune from it. However, she didn't plan to talk to Ning Dazhuang about this, firstly, her family really needed someone to do things, and secondly, Ning Dazhuang had a good relationship with the two uncles at this moment. Ning Xue'er would never do this kind of stupid thing.

After a few days, all the materials for building the house were ready, and this alone cost twenty taels of silver. The fortune teller also looked at it, and there was no big problem with the house, and finally calculated an auspicious day for the zodiac to break ground, and this look went to five taels. In addition, with the help of the village chief, the deed has been completed, but it costs an additional two taels of handling fees, and the house has not yet been built, and the thirty taels of silver are gone.

Ning Dazhuang is distressed, but the house still has to be built. According to the rules of the village, if someone wants to build a new house, the whole village must come to help, and the salary is not needed, but the food must be managed, and it cannot be bad.

For the logistical support work of cooking, Ning Dazhuang handed it over to Zhang and Ning Xue'er.

Zhang consulted with Ding, and generally speaking, the villagers have to take care of three meals to help build a house, from breakfast to dinner. Breakfast is easy to make, cook a few pots of white rice porridge, with a few pots of capers, and you can cope with it. But lunch and dinner are more important to the people in the village, and they are also the headaches of the host's family.

Generally speaking, these two meals must have meat, this is not afraid, a few days ago Ning Xue'er went to buy some meat left, just take it and cook it, as for the other side dishes, it makes Zhang's worried. There are many people in the village, and there are too many dishes to prepare, and if there are fewer dishes, I am afraid that people will gossip.

Ding's is so powerful, she said directly to Zhang's: "Third brother and sister, in my opinion, you just need to get more braised pork and egg custard, and the rest don't care, who in our village can't eat vegetables, and then go to the field to dig some wild vegetables." “

Zhang felt justified when he heard this, so he asked someone to buy a few baskets of eggs in the village and prepared to make boiled eggs.

Ning Xue'er looked at the basket of eggs, and came to inspiration, she can make tea eggs!

She first learned the practice of tea eggs through the system, and knew the general steps and related ingredients. Immediately afterwards, she looked for two small videos for on-site observation, and after she had completed all the processes, Ning Xueer began to do experiments.

In fact, the boiling method of tea eggs is not complicated, but on the basis of boiled eggs, star anise, fennel, tea and other multi-flavor seasonings are added, and finally cooked over low heat, and the seasoning can be flavored.

After the first pot of tea eggs was cooked, Ning Xueer couldn't wait to fish out two for Zhang's to taste, and sent two to the big room, the second room, and Ning Pozi to try it.

As a result, everyone was full of praise, after all, compared to boiled eggs, tea eggs are still delicious. After getting everyone's approval, Ning Xueer let go of her hands and feet and boiled all the eggs.

On the auspicious day of the zodiac, that is, on the ninth day of the tenth month, the whole village came to help.

The men helped to tear down the old house, some of the women helped to hand water, some helped to pick vegetables, some helped to light the fire, in short, everyone was very enthusiastic.

With everyone's help, things went very smoothly, and in just one morning, more than half of the two old houses were demolished, and the lunch meal was also very rich. Braised pork, tea eggs, pork rib soup, stir-fried wild vegetables, white rice, everything is satisfying. The villagers finished their meal and became more motivated.

Before going down the mountain, everyone demolished the old house, and even helped clean the adobe and rubble that had been removed.

After finishing their work, the villagers had a full meal after a tiring day and went home.

The next day, when the sky was still bright, many villagers came to the door and expressed their hope to help build the house.

Ning Dazhuang was naturally overjoyed by everyone's enthusiasm for help, but in terms of employing people, he didn't dare to make decisions easily, so he could only ask Ning Daniu before replying to those villagers one by one.

For those villagers who can build walls and have craftsmanship, Ning Dazhuang will not fall into full acceptance. For those who only have strength and no skills, Ning Dazhuang also asked a few good characters to help him start, and as for the others, they were all rejected by Ning Dazhuang.