The fire wall and the fire dragon of all the houses of the new house, under the great enthusiasm of the bricklayer Yang, were all completed in just ten days, and there were a few days of sweeping work, and when the midsummer was approaching, the large courtyard next to the tea shop of Cui'er's house was completed.

"Qingshan, our house has been built, and the new yard here and there can be a name." Cui'er followed Lian Qingshan to stand in the courtyard, looking at her spacious yard and tall house, with indescribable excitement in her heart.

"It's true, before we called it the new yard, we were talking about the courtyard in the east, and now there is this updated yard, and many people are confused." Even Qingshan couldn't help but laugh when he heard Cui'er mention this.

"Well, this courtyard is where we want to live in the future, it is the main courtyard, the courtyard on the east side is called the East Cross Courtyard, the tea house is also called the tea house, and the backyard of the tea house is behind the tea house, if it is called so, it will not be chaotic." Lian Qingshan rubbed his chin and groaned for a moment, and replied.

"The main courtyard, the east cross courtyard, the tea house and the backyard of the tea house ......" Cui'er pondered the names of several courtyards carefully, and felt that the name was more straightforward, but it was easier to understand, everyone knew what was going on as soon as they heard it, so they nodded, "This is very good, simple and easy to understand, whoever hears it will know which yard it is." ”

When it was first designed, the foundations of the three rows of main houses in the main courtyard were higher than those of the wing houses, and the middle row of the main houses had a higher foundation than the other two rows of houses. It's also a little more than the yard next to it.

Looking at the wide and flat main courtyard built by her family, and then at the teahouse full of blue eyes, as well as the Dongcrossan courtyard full of children's laughter, Cui'er's heart was very satisfied, "Qingshan." Now that our house has been built, shouldn't we invite the villagers to come over for a meal? ”

"It's really going to be invited, my godfather mentioned it to me yesterday, our new yard has been built, and we have to invite people who are familiar with the village to be lively. It's good to add a little popularity to your new house. Lian Qingshan nodded, agreeing with Cui'er's idea.

In the days that followed, in addition to buying pots, stoves, kang mats and other things for the new house, the cabinets, tables and chairs that had been ordered before were also delivered to the store. The silver was spent like flowing water, and Cui'er was shocked when she closed the account in her spare time, and it cost more than 100 taels of silver to build the main courtyard at home.

Not to mention anything else, the brick and tile money alone cost forty taels of silver, as well as twenty taels of wood, and fifteen taels of silver for the work of the bricklayer. And the cabinets, tables, chairs, and the like purchased in this place, the sum of the silver spent before and after is fifty taels, although these are not very much for Cui'er's family. But it's not less.

Thinking that when the new yard was built, I only invited acquaintances to burn the bottom of the pot, and it cost almost one or two silver, and now this big yard invites people to warm the house, and it must cost more money, Cui'er pulled the silver in her own money box. The dozen or so large silver ingots that were holding fifty taels and one ingots did not move, and took a small silver ingot of about three taels and came out. Then he took two large strings of money, thinking that it should be enough.

It is necessary to set up a warm room mat. It's not the first time that Cui'er's family has done it, and now there is Aunt Lu in the village to help her, a rich lady and sister-in-law in the town, and Xiangmo, Sister-in-law Mu and a group of apprentices at home.

Because the famous chef of the nearby Shili Eight Villages was invited to take charge of the spoon in advance, and the female workers of the dim sum workshop were invited to help, Cui'er's family had already prepared the dishes to be used for the banquet a lot of time in advance, especially what made people feel that it was very powerful, that Cui'er's family actually bought a whole pig's pork back for the banquet, which was a rare generosity in the village.

On the day of the feast, when the sky was just dawning, the main courtyard of the Lian family was busy, a row of four open-air stoves were in the courtyard, the fire under the stove was burning, two of the cauldrons were placed on the high steamers, the two cauldrons were boiling meat, and the thick aroma of wheat flour mixed with the aroma of meat wafted in the yard.

If someone opens the tall steamer, they will find that it is full of fist-sized white flour steamed buns, Xuan Teng is hot, if you open the cauldron, you will see that the pot is full of stewed large pieces of fat and thin meat, whether it is white flour steamed buns or this big meat, it is a rare delicacy of ordinary people in the village.

Even Qingshan and Cui'er are taking the people at home to make preparations at the moment, because they want to warm the house and invite guests, the tea shop will not start today, and the apprentices and children at the head of the family are temporarily transferred to help.

Uncle Zhong is responsible for welcoming visitors, Aunt Lu is responsible for coordinating the overall situation, Aunt Chunzhu, Xiangmo, Zhang, and Sister-in-law Mu are responsible for cooking in the back kitchen, and the most critical part of greeting guests to eat, even Qingshan and Cui'er have arrangements.

Even Qingshan and Cui'er as the hosts, naturally want to toast and talk at each table, so walking around, it is inevitable that the guests will not be greeted well, the last time the new yard was warmed when the people came to the nearest people do not pick care, do not need to find someone to accompany, but now it is not good, the relationship between the near and far will come, and the banquet has opened as many as ten tables, it is not good to arrange it.

The older men in the village are the male escorts of Uncle Lu and Aunt Chunzhu, and the old men and ladies in the town are responsible for the shopkeeper and Mrs. Qian, and the head of the village and the town are the same generation as Lian Qingshan, so they are handed over to Lian Qinghe and Songzhi and their daughters-in-law, so that the main people in the town and the village will have someone to take care of them, so as not to lose their manners.

As soon as the situation of their respective responsibilities was arranged, even Qingshan and Cui'er and his wife didn't wait to take a breath, they saw the people in the village outside, coming to their homes in groups, the husband and wife glanced at each other, hurriedly drank a sip of water, and walked to the gate, standing at the door to welcome the arrival of the villagers.

"Congratulations, Qingshan is really developed, look at this yard, it's really beautiful, it's better than the old man's house in the town!" The first to come were all villagers who were distant relatives of the Lian family, looking at the spacious and beautiful new courtyard of Lian Qingshan, and their faces were shining as if they were honored.

"How did I say it at the beginning, I saw that Qingshan, this child, was different from others when he was a child, that is, he was smarter than others. I hugged you at the beginning, but now that this is a big man, I can't forget my third cousin! A slightly chubby woman next to her was busy picking it up.

"Even if it is, we can't forget Aunt Batang!" When the other woman heard this, she also spoke hurriedly, as if she had spoken slowly, and all good things had been snatched away by others.

"How can it, if I have a good thing, I naturally have to think about the village and everyone, Qingshan naturally dare not forget!" Lian Qingshan said with a smile, and motioned to Lian Qinghe and them to take the people over and transfer them to the house.

"Third cousin, eighth aunt, let's go here, my eldest brother's yard is very big, I'll take you around!" Lian Qinghe received Lian Qingshan's eyes, and hurriedly followed the words of the women just now, and brought the people to the courtyard smoothly.

Even Qingshan and Cui'er glanced at each other, and couldn't help but shake their heads and laugh, the meaning of the smile is self-evident, these people who claim to be their own relatives, when Lian Qingshan was down, they didn't see any of them last year, and now they see that the Lian family is prosperous and profitable, so they come up one by one, for fear that the good things will be missing their share.

No one asks about the poor in the downtown area, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains, which is really not wrong at all! Even Qingshan and Cui'er looked at each other, although they didn't say a word, their minds were the same.

Originally, when they were sad, they were good to their own families, and they naturally had to be treated preferentially, and they didn't show up when they were poor, and they only posted it after they had money, and those were just face-saving feelings, and it was no problem to get a job from their own home, as long as you were willing to work hard, there was a job that could be provided, but if you wanted to go through the back door to get oil and water, it was not so cheap.

This person is in contact with each other, you respect me, I respect you, even Qingshan and Cui'er are also in line with this idea, they will invite the villagers in the village on the table of the conservatory.

Of course, most of the people who came to participate in the conservatory banquet were still good, watching the family get rich and not forgetting the villagers, one by one they were very moved, with the things produced by the family, even if it was two handfuls of greens, a basket of radishes and the like, as long as they came sincerely to congratulate, even Qingshan and Cui'er were warmly welcomed, and invited people to go in and entertain them.

When it was close to noon, the guests had basically arrived, the old men of the town sat in the middle of the main courtyard of the Lian family, and the villagers sat at the table in the open space between the three rows of main houses.

Cui'er kept greeting and talking to the guests who came, although her face was a little stiff because she had been laughing for too long, but she was very happy in her heart, not for anything else, just for the kindness released by the village leaders when her family was poor, which was enough for Cui'er to willingly invite the whole village to have a beautiful meal.

The big bowl of meat, the big plate of vegetables, the big pot of white flour steamed buns and the wine were served on the table like flowing water, and everyone looked at the rich dishes, and their impression of the Lian family was a little better.

Even Qingshan and Cui'er walked from table to table with wine to toast, one is to thank the guests for their help to their own family, and the other is to thank them for being so sincere to warm the house for their house, and of course, more importantly, to shorten the distance between each other through such a toast.

Although the wine was light, even Qingshan and Cui'er were still a little drunk after a round of wine, and they were about to go back to the table in the main room to eat some food, when the two suddenly heard a crisp and loud sound of beating boards at the door. (To be continued)