Ji Nuan will go to the place where the wheat grains are dried every day to see the birds and poultry, and every once in a while they will use their little feet to go through a few ditches in the middle of the wheat grains.

When the wheat was almost beaten at home, the sons also came back, Ji Ruinian urged his younger brother to hurry home and take a look, and the wheat could only be relieved when he returned home, otherwise he would always be worried.

"Then Lian Hua and I will go back first, when will the house be built at home, we will come over again!"

"Ruifeng, why don't we build a house together, you are always an outsider in Cuiping Village, how can you not compare to you in Crescent Valley!" Ji Ruinian persuaded his younger brother.

Ji Ruifeng was silent for a while and shook his head and said: "No, unless I find my daughter, Wan Yun won't come back if I say anything, brother, don't persuade me, every time I see Ji Liu, I think of the child...... Okay, I'll go, let Lian Qiu tell me when I build the house, otherwise I'll be angry. ”

Ji Nuan walked over and grabbed the second uncle's hand: "When we grow up, we will all go to find our cousin, and we will definitely be able to get her back." ”

"Okay, let's look like a blessed child, your second uncle believes it!"

The wheat harvest season was very short, and after the end of the house, the matter of building a house was put on the agenda, because the family had limited money, and the Ji brothers decided to go up the mountain to cut wood, build adobe, tear down the old house, and dig the foundation.

Borrowing the second grandfather's ox cart and going to dig clay on the hillside two miles away from the village, Gu Shuzhen and Ji Nuan cut the wheat stalks into sections at home, and the billets mixed with the loess were stronger.

The wood was cut and the bark was scraped off, and a carpenter was hired to make the house first.

"Nuan Nuan, you want a dresser, no, let's get two big logs and come back enough to make a dresser for you." Ji Lianfu asked his sister.

"No, you can cut down enough trees to build a house and rest, I will buy that kind of dresser with a large bronze mirror and a pattern." Ji Nuan saw that his brothers were tired and sweating every day, and they didn't dare to eat mixed noodles and cakes and wild vegetable soup, so they were willing to suffer for themselves.

The house is now on the verge of not being able to open the pot, what do you put when you get a dresser?

My sister doesn't want a dresser, so find her something to eat, bird eggs, wild mulberries, sometimes if you are lucky, you can catch a pheasant, and the brothers go up the mountain every time they bring some game back to Ji Nuan.

Just when the raw materials for building the house were almost ready, the village struck a gong and began to collect rent!

Ji Nuan thought that as long as the rent was handed over to the state, it would be good for the mother and eldest brother to take out all the bamboo baskets at home that it would be good for the farmers to have two and a half to three layers of grain left at the end of the year.

Every year, a certain amount of grain must be handed over to the county, the prefecture, and the capital, and if the landlord's land is rented, there is at most one layer of grain left.

"After paying the rent, sell the rest of the wheat, and we will have enough money to build a house and treat your father!" Gu Shuzhen is quite satisfied with this result.

Ji Nuan squatted on the side and rowed on the ground with a small wooden stick, the grain yield was low in ancient times, and one mu of land could be beaten at most 250 catties of wheat. If there are seventy catties left in each mu, twenty-five times seventy...... According to the price of grain she inquired about, she can only have about ten taels of silver left in a year, and there are still several acres of land at home planted with soybeans, so she can only have a few taels of silver left in the whole year.

That means that the family will have to continue to eat mixed noodles in the coming year, and they don't even want to eat dumplings during the New Year.

"Shuzhen, leave some wheat, let's wrap dumplings for the children to eat during the New Year, my legs are much better, I don't need to grab medicine anymore." Even if you take the most ordinary medicine, you will have to pay more than one or two silver a month, Ji Ruinian is distressed!

"The medicine must be taken, you have to get better quickly, there are a lot of things in the family that point to you to make ideas, these boys are getting bigger and bigger, you have to be a father to take care of it." Gu Shuzhen promised to leave some food and make dumplings for the children to eat during the New Year, but the medicine had to be bought, and this matter was not negotiable.

"Daddy, when the family finishes harvesting soybeans, a few of us will go to the county to work, how can we have an income of dozens of dollars every day, when the time comes, let's buy a big strip of meat, fill a big pot of meat buns, and eat it open!" Ji Lianfu dreamed of eating fragrant meat buns.

The eldest son is only fourteen years old during the Chinese New Year, Gu Shuzhen is reluctant to let them go to chores, and those who work in Daqi have to sign an agreement, life and death are fateful, and the other party doesn't care if there is an accident in the main house. Those who happily go out to work, and those who come back with their disabled bodies are good, how many go out and never come back!

"We can do our own side hustle at home...... I mean doing work at home to make money, such as weaving baskets, making shoes, and selling firewood. Seeing her mother's reluctant look, Ji Nuan knew that it was not so easy to work in ancient times.

"Little sister's idea is good, we can chop wood to sell, and we can also make baskets." Ji Lianqiu squatted beside her sister, pointed to the earthworm-like numbers she drew on the ground and asked, "What is this?" ”

"I'm drawing and playing!" Ji Nuan hurriedly erased the handwriting on the ground with a wooden stick.

The grain was sold, Ji Lianqiu took his triplet brother to the county seat to purchase a batch of grain, bought pork bone sticks and heart, liver and lungs, and asked someone to build a house, how could he provide a meal, at least he had to fry two vegetables to make two rice!

It's time to build a new house! Ji Nuan really wanted to make a request, can you give yourself a single room, it's too inconvenient to live with her parents!

There are so many brothers in the family, Ji Nuan wants to make a request but is embarrassed to speak, listening to the brothers discussing how many rooms to build and how big a yard to get Ji Nuan was completely deflated, and from their tones, they really didn't hear the meaning of leaving a room for themselves.

Now the conditions at home are not good, so let's do it first!

Just when Ji Nuan no longer had any hope, Gu Shuzhen gathered her sons together and asked them to leave a separate room for their daughter, the little girl is not like a male baby, she must have her own room.

"Yes, yes, yes, we were negligent, we must leave a separate room for Nuan Nuan, when the time comes, let's dig up some flowers for her, and then make a curtain, it's best to make another bed, and when we have money, we must buy Nuan Nuan the kind of dresser she wants!" Ji Lianqiu said.

I chose a date for the old man in the village, and I also sent a letter to Ji Ruifeng, and the date for the family to build a house was set in eight days.

The brothers would pull yellow clay to make adobe every day, and they wanted to build more rooms.

Choose a sunny room for your sister, don't all little girls like flowers and plants, the flowers raised in such a room will be bright; Then get a larger kitchen for my mother, there are many children at home, a big stove and a small stove are not enough at all, and the kitchen must be spacious and bright.