As the saying goes, after Laba is the New Year, and after the Lantern Festival, it is over.

To calculate the long mile, after the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, this year is over. However, since the fifth day of the new year, the people in Aoyagi Town have been returning to normal life one after another.

On the fifth day of the first month, it is called breaking the fifth, especially to wash the hair, wash the feet and cut the nails, the knives and scissors must be taken out and moved, and the hoe and the hoe should also be taken to break the ground, so as to make a good omen.

After the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Song Haonian went to Liu Yi and talked about his plan: "While these two months are not yet busy with farming, I want to repair the house and ask my eldest brother and brothers for help." ”

Liu Yi knew that he was going to repair the house, so he hurriedly asked, "Is the money enough?" Then he asked, "What kind of house are you going to build?"

Song Haonian had already written a good draft in his heart, "It's not too big, there are three brick main rooms, two side rooms on each side, and there is a side room outside the shadow wall." ”

Liu Yi silently calculated and laughed: "There are three people in total, do you want these houses?" What's more, Lamei will get married in a few years, and there will only be two people left in the family at that time.

"Hehe, your nephews and nieces will always live in the future, fix it in advance, so as not to be in a hurry. Song Haonian confidently felt that he and his daughter-in-law would have many children in the future.

Liu Yi smiled and said, "Since you already have this idea, let's go to the carpenter, mason, and Mr. Yin and Yang separately and ask them to plan together." ”

When to break ground, when to go to the beam, when to move, all have to be Mr. Yin and Yang to choose the date. In less than a few days, Song Haonian can prepare bricks and tiles and wood first, and these must be discussed with masons and carpenters.

The carpenter in the town is Liu Sanping, and their brothers know each other well, so it is very convenient to ask him for help. The mason and Mr. Yin Yang had to bring two catties of wine and a pair of meat to the door, Liu Yi and Song Haonian went to invite them separately, and it didn't take long for several people to meet at Song Haonian's house.

Song Haonian invited a few people to sit down, and said that Liu Sanping was his brother, and asked first: "Then where do you live these days?"

If this house is demolished, Song Haonian will have to find a place for his family to live. According to common sense, it is most appropriate to go back to the old Song family to live, but Liu Sanping knows that Song Haonian does not have a good relationship with his family, so he is worried about his residence.

Song Haonian said: "This house will not be demolished, and the new house will be built on the vacant land next to it, what do you think?"

Mr. Yin Yang is used to showing people the foundation and the yin house, and he has seen a lot of lawsuits for the title deed, so he frowned first when he heard the words: "Although there is no owner of the vacant land next to it, if someone says it in the future, it will be a trouble, you should first discuss with the villagers and write the title deed." ”

Song Haonian nodded and was taught: "I'll go to get the title deed tomorrow." ”

So a few people carefully planned, how much thick and thin wood they wanted, where to buy it, how many green bricks and green tiles, where the bricks and tiles were cheap and of good quality, how much labor was needed, how to ensure the food of these craftsmen, and how to beat the furniture

Mr. Yin and Yang calculated the auspicious days, wrote down two red pieces of paper that would be pressed under the foundation and hung on the beams of the house in the future, and left first with the red envelopes.

After calculating the accounts, it takes twelve taels of silver, and a rough estimate of fifteen taels of silver is enough, Liu Yi and Liu Sanping are not outsiders, and they are both worried about Song Haonian's family background, "If it is not enough, just talk to your brothers." ”

**, it costs sixty taels of silver to buy a Jiangning stepping bed. In the Dream of Red Mansions, fifteen taels of silver are enough for Grandma Liu's family to eat for a year.

Here in Song Haonian, fifteen taels of silver is the savings of their husband and wife for several years, and they can build a neat tiled house in a courtyard and a room full of beautiful furniture.

The brother treated him with sincerity, he only had gratitude, and said with a smile: "This time the leather goods sold well, and Uncle Wang gave us a thank you gift again, and now the money is still enough." If there is someone who doesn't make it for a while, I will definitely tell my brothers that I will not be polite again. "The recent good day was picked on the eighteenth day of the first month, and it was said that Liu Yi would go back to gather his brothers first, and tell them that he would come to help when the time came, and the mason went to find a familiar brick kiln to order a batch of green bricks and tiles for Song Haonian, and Song Haonian and Liu Sanping also had to go to the nearby wood-producing mountains to buy suitable wood

Expect to come back.

Before going to the mountains to look for wood, Song Haonian first found the villagers and explained to them that if he wanted to build a new house, he needed to occupy a piece of land next to the house.

Previously, he had separated from his family and built three small huts with the help of his brothers, but because the land was not large, and it was not a strong house, the villagers did not take care of it.

Now if he wants to build a sturdy house and live in it for a long time, he must sign a title deed.

That piece of land was originally ownerless vacant land, and he only needed to pay a few contract money, write the land deed and put his handprint, and a piece of land would become his Song Dynasty.

The patriarch of the Song family is also one of the villagers, and specially reminded him: "Your daughter-in-law's vegetable plot is also written on the deed." ”

Song Haonian had an idea, and wrote the title deed for the vegetable field where the lilies were planted and played, and the Song patriarch was partial to him, and Tete wrote the two points of land into two acres. Because that piece is mostly ownerless wasteland, since more than 20 years ago, many people died in the flood, drought, insect plague and rebellion, and now Qingliu Town has enough arable land, the imperial court has repeatedly encouraged the people to open up the wasteland, but the folk land is too much to plant, and the villagers don't care about the Song patriarch playing a little trick, only

At that time, their achievements were much clearer, and by the end of the year, the imperial court still had rewards.

Song Haonian took the title deed home, asked the lily to receive the bottom of the box densely, and took the money to go into the mountain with Liu Sanping to find wood. Liu Sanping told him: "Money is certain, and it is better to bring some salt, people in the mountains lack salt, and this is the most important thing." ”

Some families in the mountains will cut some good wood every year, go back, dry it into wood, and then sell it outside the mountain.

To build a house to erect a beam, the wood used to erect the beam must be strong and stout, Liu Sanping's house has a variety of common rafters, wood for furniture, but the material of this beam is not always available, must be selected personally.

At this time, it shows the magic of a capable daughter-in-law, there is only one man in the family, Song Haonian, if he wants to choose wood, go to see bricks and tiles, and find the villagers to make a land deed, it is too busy to cut him into three sections.

Fortunately, Lily can be half the master at home, and Song Haonian went to pick wood, so she and the mason went to see the bricks and tiles, and there would be no more delays.

On the sixteenth day of the first month, Song Haonian and Liu Sanping came back with wood, they brought a mule when they went, and when they came back, the mountain people took three or four mules to send them, not only the girder was there, but the column was better than the few that Liu Sanping kept at home.

Liu Sanping said: "Brother Da Nian doesn't look obvious, people love to deal with him, how many times I have been to the mountains, they have never treated me so affectionately." As soon as I asked, people said that Brother Da Nian was like a good person, and he would never lie to people again. I'm a liar?"

Song Haonian laughed: "Good brother, thanks to you this time!"

Song Haonian said his recent achievements: "I ran three kiln factories, one of the green bricks is the best, and the other tile is burned strong, I have ordered enough amount, they have opened the kiln and fired, and they can all be delivered in a month at most." ”

Song Haonian wondered: "Why do you use less money than you calculated before?" He was only reluctant to spend money when he was a lily woman, "Repairing a house is a big deal, but you can't save money on it." ”

Lily smiled, "I'll settle accounts." ”

She is good at mathematics, and it is still possible to calculate the number of bricks and tiles and the optimal ordering plan, and the specific steps do not need to be told to Song Haonian, just tell him: "Don't worry, you can't be wrong again." ”

On the morning of the tenth day of the first lunar month, three craftsmen presided over the groundbreaking, set off firecrackers, and Mr. Yin and Yang burned incense and paper, and buried the red paper written to appease the land into the foundation that had been selected long ago.

Liu Yi had already gathered a group of brothers, and these brothers each brought their little brothers, brothers-in-law, etc., all of whom were young and middle-aged men, and lilies made scallion pancakes, pimple soup and spiced tea eggs to entertain them.

Liu Sanping and the mason stretched the line on the ground, and then sprinkled lime along the line to outline the prototype of the foundation of the house. The brothers first dug five feet down in the area of the demarcated foundation and dug deep trenches.

The trench was five feet deep and nearly three feet wide, and the foundation was built with stones under the leadership of the masons, and the middle of the stones was cemented with yellow mud, which did not look very strong, but in fact the foundation built by a good mason would not be a problem for sixty or seventy years.

Liu Sanping also took a few people to erect the wood, chop and chisel, and did not use an iron nail, but only used wood mortise and tenon to put together the beam structure of the house.

The size and depth of each mortise and tenon joint have been calculated very accurately, if the calculation is not accurate, the house will be crooked in the future, Liu Sanping built a house for his brothers, and redoubled his efforts, naturally this situation will not occur.

Li Caifeng, Song Ermei and others help Lily every day to regulate their diet.

If this was changed to Lily's previous life, and people helped her so much, she would definitely be uncomfortable, and always wanted to repay others with money. At this time, unless people work on Master Liu's Zhuangzi, they usually help their brothers, and they are unwilling to ask for any remuneration.

Song Haonian and Lily only keep everyone's favor in mind, and they will have the opportunity to repay them in the future.

It's still winter, it's cold, and a group of young men are sweating profusely and have to take off their big padded jackets. Lily is afraid that any of them will be infected with the wind cold, and there is a hot ginger soup at every meal, and it will be warm from the stomach to the feet.

Every two days, she boiled a pot of bone broth, or pork bones, or mutton bones, put more peppercorns, ginger, a few pieces of meat in the soup, a few pieces of radishes, drink a bowl, the soup is delicious, full and warm. Everyone said that Song Haonian was benevolent and righteous, and when others helped him, he never treated people badly. Not only Liu Yi and the brothers were eager to help, but they were idlers who didn't have much contact, and they were also a little moved after hearing about it, just for the two-day pot of bone broth, they were also willing to help!