Li Bokang followed the place where the owner of the carpentry shop said and found the person he said was building the house, and the two looked quite honest as a family. After telling them about the situation, the two agreed, but when he asked him if he had any materials, he suddenly realized that they didn't have them.

After the two knew that there were no materials, they said that they knew the material seller, and finally said that they would pack the materials and then followed him to the house to see the materials roughly needed. When Li Bokang took the two back to the house, Yang Xue was just waiting for him to come back, and she only thought that they didn't have any materials after Li Bokang went out, thinking that he would come back when he came back and told him.

Li Bokang introduced her to the two people who repaired the house, and then told her: "The two uncles said that they could pack the materials, and we would like to give more money." She thought that it would be okay and that they could save some trouble, so she said, "Okay." Later, she told Li Bokang what she thought before, saying: "By the way, we separated the yard and there seems to be no place to go out, and it doesn't seem good to go out where others do business." I just thought, we're at the end of the street, if we tear down the side room and we can open a door to get out, what do you think? After speaking, he looked at Li Bokang and waited for him to answer.

Li Bokang also thought about it, and it was indeed a problem, so he said: "Okay, let's tear down one of the wings on the street, and it's convenient to open a door by ourselves." Then Li Bokang went to say to the two uncles next to him: "Two uncles, we still want to demolish a side room, is it okay to open another door in this room?" How long will it take to build the partition wall between the two wings? As he spoke, he pointed to the house to be demolished and the place where the wall was to be repaired.

The two of them looked at the place pointed by Li Bokang, and after looking at each other and nodding, the eldest of them said, "Yes, it will take about five or six days, it will take a little longer to demolish the house, and it won't take long to build the wall." Suddenly thinking of something, she waited for them to finish and said, "Uncle, can the bricks and tiles for building the wall be demolished by demolishing the house, I think these are still good." ”

The two were also honest people, so they told her that they could, and they began to negotiate the wages when the materials were solved, and finally said that the two of them would have 80 lunches per person every day, and they would start working tomorrow. After saying that, the two uncles will go back first and go to work tomorrow morning.

The matter was basically settled, and the two of them began to carefully consider the planning of the house at home, and they were also a little reckless before. If the house is partitioned from the middle, there are seven rooms inside, and if one is demolished, there are still six. There are two wings outside, a storeroom and a shop, and there are two small courtyards inside and outside, although the yards are not large.

Now the question of the well is whether to keep it inside or outside. It's convenient for them to use it inside, but there's no water outside. Although there is a communal well outside, it is a bit far away, so the rent will definitely be lower. But then the two discussed it and decided to separate the well in the yard where they lived, so that it would be more convenient for them, even if the rent was less when they rented out in the future.

The next day, looking at the time, Li Bokang went to the carpentry shop to pull furniture. By the time I arrived at the carpentry shop, the owner of the carpentry shop had already loaded everything into the car, and the two cars were loaded. After taking them to the house with all the furniture, he asked the people who came with him to help move the bed and table to their respective rooms, and then gave some copper coins to the two people who came with the car alone, and as for the car and horse money, he had already given it to the boss in the store before.

When he came back, the two uncles who had come to build the wall yesterday had already arrived, and they had already begun to work to demolish the house. However, he hadn't seen Yang Xue yet, and only later did he see her come out of the room when they started to unload the car.

And here after Li Bokang went out, the two uncles who built the wall came, and after Yang Xue opened the door and let them in, they began to work. She thought that the two of them were old men, and she opened the door of the shop outside if it was inconvenient for a woman, and then she went back to her room alone.

Later, I thought that it was hot in the summer, and I would be thirsty after working for a long time, so I went to the kitchen to boil some boiling water. When the boiling water was boiled, she put it in a bucket and put it in a cool place to dry, and took out two bowls and put them together, and after talking to the two uncles, she went back to her room. It wasn't until he heard the voice of Li Bokang coming back that he came out of the room.

When I saw Li Bokang come back, I said hello to him and then went out to buy vegetables, and today they were going to have lunch for others. Because they didn't bring a basket with them, she spent money to buy a vegetable basket, first went to the meat stall to buy two catties of half-fat and half-lean pork, and then went to the vegetable stall to buy some fresh vegetables. Finally, I thought that I had nothing to fill boiling water before, so I went to buy a copper kettle, which is convenient for boiling water or filling water. However, the copper kettle is quite expensive, and a copper kettle costs a small half a tael of silver.

It took four or five days for the house to be torn down, the walls to be built, and the doors to be opened. The walls were built almost a foot high, and the top of the walls was covered with tiles to prevent rain from damaging the walls. After the house was renovated, the furniture was almost done, and it was ready to move back in two days.

In the end, thinking that the wing room in the small courtyard in front of him also had to be placed with a bed, so that it would be convenient for others to live in case they rented out, so he asked Li Bokang to book a bed, a set of tables and chairs. After another five or six days, everything was settled, but now there is not much money in hand.

This time, I used thirteen or four taels of silver to buy furniture, and it was still the simplest furniture made of ordinary oak wood. The cost of going out for furniture is more than one or two taels of silver spent on repairing the house, more than one or two taels for other odds and ends, and the cost of being in the city these days. They have spent nearly twenty taels in half a month, and there are still thirteen taels left in the family.

After the house was rebuilt, she asked Li Bokang to write a rental notice and paste it on the door of the shop. Then the two of them lived in the county for a while, and did not return to the mountains until someone came to rent a shop.

This time, it may be true that the location of the shop is not good, so they waited in the county for a long time and did not go back, until it was almost the end of June. During this period, they also went home twice, and asked the owner of the shop next to them to watch it for them in the two days they went back, and asked them to wait a day if someone came to ask for rent, but there was no news.

On June 24, someone finally came to see the shop, and finally rented it out for two taels of silver per month. Originally, the rent price they said was two taels and five cents a month, but later it was rented out for two taels of silver a month. The renter said that he rented to open a cloth village, and he paid half a year's rent first, a total of 12 taels of silver.

These silver can be used for Li Bokang's pen and ink expenses for half a year, plus his three taels of silver per month, and the basic expenses are calculated.