Song only went home in a good year, and he was busy.

Although the fields and houses at home are all taken care of, and they are all ready-made when they come back, the pickles in the jar and the bacon under the eaves have to be made by themselves, and the bed tents in the house are furnished, but if there is something unsatisfactory, they have to be replaced in the same way.

Then there was the autumn harvest last year, only one was at home for the spring, she bought little grain, and now the granary cellar is empty, and the family is obviously not enough to eat, and she has to discuss with Master Liu to buy rice, noodles, vegetables and vegetables from his grange.

Lily is still pregnant, Song Haonian does not ask her to do heavy work, only allows her to give advice on the side, and he takes care of the work.

But after all, he is a big man, and he can do rough work, but he can't do too delicate work: for example, if he wants to sew a bib for Ruzhen, where can he use a needle? A small embroidery needle is heavier than a grain pocket of several hundred catties.

The two Lily sisters laughed so hard that their stomachs hurt, and Song Haonian discussed with his daughter-in-law: "Why don't we hire two people to help?"

Lily said: "It's easy to hire someone, but where to live?"

When they were repairing the house, Liu Yi also said that the family had a small population, so what did they want those houses for, and Song Haonian thought about it in the future in case there were many children. I didn't expect that it had only been a few years, and the house was not enough.

There are three main houses, the east house and the east chamber they live in the husband and wife, and then there is a kitchen, the west house is now back to the spring, but if the old man and the mother-in-law move to live temporarily, there is no reason to ask them to live in the west wing, and they have to move to the west chamber in the spring.

There are two rooms in the west chamber, and some sundries were originally placed, and recently they put the cage they brought back from the capital to make room for Yingchun, but I am afraid that she will have to squeeze it with the real nurse.

This is still the same age as living in a room with his father and mother, and when he is older, the house is even more insufficient. Therefore, Song Haonian said: "It's better to add a row of back covers to the back of our house, and when the time comes, the old father-in-law and mother-in-law can live, and a few more people can be hired to help." The Jinyi guard escorted them to the place, and explained clearly to the county order and the squire, no matter how to protect the safety of Song Haonian's family, they had to return to Beijing to restore the original letter to the king and the princess wanted to leave a team of guards for Song Haonian, Song Haonian insisted: "In the countryside, everyone lives peacefully,

I suddenly got a number of guards, and they looked glaring. ”

In recent years, the court has been clear, and there are few bandits and robbers in the countryside. The prince of the letter made it clear to him that after returning to his hometown, he recruited a few young and strong family members who could be used, and he must know the roots, so as not to be caught off guard when something happens.

Although the two brothers were a little dirty, in the end the relationship was good, Song Haonian knew that the prince was also kind, so he agreed, and asked Qingsong to ask the shopkeeper Liu to choose a few people for him, and took advantage of the fact that Jinyiwei had not left, sifted through two rounds, and removed those who were not right-minded or whose relatives were unconscious.

This has to be said to Mr. Liu, who heard that Song Haonian was going to recruit a few family members, and he thought that Song Haonian was not enough to recruit people, and he was afraid that he didn't know the way to recruit people

The inside should be combined with the outside, not to mention robbing the master's money, but also harming the master's life. ”

Song Haonian was willing to listen to people, so he entrusted the matter of recruiting family members, watched another round by himself, selected a few pleasing young people, and said to them: "I want to build a house in my family, but you can come to help if you have time, and if you don't come, you will be asked to live for a long time when the house is repaired." ”

There are a total of eight family members, all of whom are from the county, and they are innocent, most of them are the second sons and three sons of the family.

Some of them are familiar with Song Haonian, and some have only heard the name but have never seen it before, and they all know that Song Haonian has a wealthy relative in the capital, and he returned to the countryside to live, and even the county magistrate has to kneel to greet him, and he is very satisfied with this errand.

It happened that Li Qingsong also wanted to repair the house, and Song Haonian discussed with him: "Just delay a few days, I will build a row of back cover houses here, and I can get it in a month, and when the time comes, I will move my father-in-law out, and you will demolish the house at home." ”

Qingsong nodded in agreement, and begged Song Haonian: "Brother-in-law, I don't recognize those who sell wood and bricks, and I still have to take me around, and I am familiar with my face." ”

Song Haonian agreed: "When we buy wood and bricks, we will buy yours by the way, what are you going to build the house?"

"Just repair the house as you have now, if it is big, it will not be convenient for my father and mother to clean it up. "Song Haonian used to build a house, and Mr. Yin and Yang, masons and others are familiar with each other, but now they want to build a back cover house, say hello to them, and then let out the words, their family to build a house to recruit people to help with the work, fifty or sixty money a day, three meals to ensure two meals with meat, silent for more than a year Song Jiadun

It was lively.

In this way, I have to cook for thirty or forty people a day, and Lily's body can't hold it now, she also said: "It is said that the more people raise, the more delicate they become, I used to be more capable, but now I just want to be lazy." ”

Song Haonian said: "You just suffered too much. Then he discussed with her that he would hire a cook and two more girls to help. There are many capable women in the town, looking for a cook to cook a big pot of rice, and Lily only takes care of her own small stove. The fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls were not yet married, and they couldn't do farm work at home, so the family wanted them to find a job outside, so Baihe said that he would hire two girls to help

, a group of people ran to say something.

The girls in the town, Li Caifeng and Wen Waniang are very familiar, help pick two who are down-to-earth, diligent and have few quarrels, help at home, and send something when they are old enough to get married, which can be regarded as sending them out. If the real nurse followed from the letter to the king's mansion to Qingliu Town, Lily was afraid that she would be far away from her relatives in her hometown, and she was reluctant to give up, and she only knew when she asked later, it turned out that the nurse was pregnant and her husband died of illness, she struggled to give birth to a baby girl, but she fell to the ground and died, and the confinement was not full to her in-law's house

, the firstborn son did not allow her to admit it. There is no one in her mother's family, fortunately, there are two Su Ri sisters working in the Xinwang Mansion, so they asked to be a nurse, who knows that the luck is good to give to Ruzhen, among the three nurses, Ruzhen loves her the most, Lily also looks at her well, she sees Ruzhen as if she is her own son, so she followed to Aoyagi Town and a half

There was no complaint.

Lily sighed for a while, and said: "Although you have no complaints, in the end, the life in the town is not as good as the palace, if you are unhappy one day, and tell me, you are so bad, if you are true, we will not treat you badly." ”

The nurse said: "The lady is going to torture me, I only follow my brother." ”

Although Ruzhen didn't eat much of her milk, and now she started to eat serious meals again, in the end, she took care of Ruzhen cleanly, and how much trouble did she save Lily.

Lily asked her again, "Will you be able to condition the girls?"

"Although I don't know, I've seen the grandmothers of the palace conditioning the girls, and I know a few things. She said modestly, and Lily asked her to take the two girls to learn some rules, "There are not many rules, they are all girls in the town, and they are not restrained by puppet clay sculptures, but I am sorry for their fathers and mothers." Just teach you what you should know, be diligent with your hands and feet, and don't talk nonsense about what you shouldn't say

Make. ”

The nurse agreed, and went to teach the two girls by herself.

The cook is a clean person, her husband's surname is Liu, and her mother's surname is Song, but she is a relative of the old Song family and Liu Yi's family many generations ago, and she is not familiar with each other now.

When she was in her mother's house, she was called a barbarian girl, and because she was a few years older than Lily, Lily simply called her "barbarian girl" sister. Lily taught her how to cook a few dishes, and gave her the work of buying meat at the butcher stall and buying tofu at the tofu shop every day.

The tofu shop gave Wenwa's father and mother and Li Caifeng in the morning, and when they saw that the Lily family came to buy vegetables, they naturally refused to accept the money, but the barbarian girls were strong, so they had to collect the money and come back and talk to Lily.

After that, Lily went to the store by herself and said, "If I pass by and ask you for bean curd to eat, you don't charge money, it's our love." Now that my family is building a house, I use those tofu and meat dishes every day, and if you want to give me a favor, won't you lose money?"

Wenwa's father and mother had to accept the money for the dish, and really let Lily sit down and taste their new flavor of bean curd, Lily praised: "This taste is better than me, Ming'er asked Da Nian to bring a bowl early in the morning and make breakfast with me." ”

Wenwa was behind when she heard a voice probe coming out and saying, "No, I'll go to help tomorrow morning and bring it to you." ”

Li Qingsong took a year off and came back to get married, Xu Caiwen also had half a year off, and there was nothing else to do except help at home, just when he heard that Song Haonian was going to build a house, he wanted to help.

Originally, Song Haonian only planned to add a row of back cover rooms casually, and it was good to repair it strongly, but later, the family population was increasing, men and women, and it was not beautiful to live in one place, not to mention, I was afraid that something would happen, so it was better to add another into the courtyard, tear down the original courtyard wall, and expand it more than a zhang outside.

Finally, the first one enters the courtyard with five brick bungalows, and two wings on each side, and the courtyard is separated from the middle, and two gates are installed, leading to the front yard respectively.

After the repair, on one side of the nurse and maid, on the other side of the house, and when the two of Li Mingjiang and the old couple moved in, they lived in the main house in the middle of the half of the yard of the nurse, which was no worse than the hall house.

As soon as the door closed at night, the two girls were named Lan Niu and Xiao'e, no matter how brave they were, they didn't need to be afraid. Besides, there are also real nurses and maidens and barbarian girls who take them, and everyone is easy to be companions, and it is also convenient to take care of Li Mingjiang and the old couple.

In less than a month, the foundation was deeply rooted and the foundation of the wall had been laid, Liu Sanping commanded the wooden shelves to be erected, and went to the house to make beds and furniture, and the masons watched the people ram the earth walls and lay floor tiles.

The house was repaired and dried for a few days, and then the furniture was moved inside, and the muslin cloth was bought from the shopkeeper Liu to make bed sheets and bedding, and the father and son of the Tao master who played the cotton were called to beat the quilt. The family is full of excitement all day long, and the work is stopped for a few days for the rain in the middle, Rao is so, and it is only a month and a half that everything has been prepared, and the first person can move in the yard.