A few days later, Tietou summoned the four brothers of the "water ghost", so and so, where are the four brothers willing to believe, all Tietou is daydreaming, how can there be such a good thing? In desperation, Tietou had no choice but to invite Li Shanren to tell the four brothers about the construction of the stilted building in public, and the four brothers would be suspicious and kowtow first to thank him. The next day, in order to dispel the doubts of the "water ghost" brothers, Li Shanren scooped out good wine in the wine jar and summoned the "water ghost" brothers to sit on the ground on the shore beach next to the boat. The brothers all said that they accumulated virtue in their previous lives, and only then did they have great blessings in this life. Start work on a certain day, build a house on the beach for Li Shanren, and no longer do the "water ghost" to make a living. Seeing that the corpse hanging from the wooden pole had not been claimed so far, Li Shanren discussed with Tietou to bury it. Tietou hurriedly apologized, and in the past few days, he forgot about the matter of building a stilted building, and ordered his brothers to put down the body and bury it on the spot. Who knew that it was the son of the official who was buried, and when he got up in the future, he still got a lot of money, which is a later story.

The "water ghost" brothers are in full swing to build a stilted building on the beach, and Li Shanren is treated with good wine and meat. The iron head was grateful, and gave away all the timber he had hoarded, and took sand and smashed stones from the river beach, working together as if building his own home. After only ten days' work, it was completed, and a towering stilted building was erected on the beach, and the upper floor was ventilated, dry and moisture-proof, and used as a living room; The lower floor was originally used to pen pigs and cattle or pile up sundries, and is now used as a wine cellar. All seven jars were brought from the ship, marked ones were buried under the bottom sand, and the four jars of wine bought were pressed on the ground. The five brothers drank the wine openly, and after drinking, they added new wine and did not hesitate. On the day of completion, he invited his wife to get off the ship, go upstairs to the bedroom to settle down, pick up and stop, and set up a banquet to celebrate. That night, the "water ghost" brothers came to congratulate each other, and they were noisy and muttered, and they were bound to ask Li Shanren and Mrs. Li to drink a glass of wine and enter the cave room, and the trouble did not disperse until the moon was on the west mountain. Li Shanren was also happy, and he didn't feel that he drank a few more glasses. When I woke up in the morning, I saw that in the morning mist outside the window lattice, the mountains were undulating and unrevealed, and the sky was flushed with a touch of dark red, and a ray of morning light penetrated into the house. The charcoal fire was simmering in the house, warm as spring, Mrs. Li was still sleeping on her side with her pillow arms, Li Shanren couldn't help but hug her from behind, her front chest was close to her back, like two spoons stacked together, without any gap. Looking out the window again, it was already spring, Mrs. Li woke up, looked out the window, and didn't feel the fragrance of her mouth: "This place is very good, you can watch the sunrise from the bed, it's beautiful." Li Shanren smiled: "How is the beautiful scenery outside the window like a beautiful bed?" The lady lazily turned sideways, and then turned the phoenix upside down, and did her best to love.

After the first stilted building was built, the land was carved out on both sides of the main building to build two auxiliary buildings, one for the family and servants to live in, and the other for the five brothers to live in. After more than a month, the left and right annexes have also been completed, all embedded with lime, smeared with tung oil, shining in the sun, and resistant to wind and rain erosion. The people moved into the new house and moved a few tall trees in front of the house to keep out the wind and rain. Three stilted buildings, the main building in the middle is high, the auxiliary building on both sides is low, the green dragon on the left and the white tiger on the right, guarding the main building, Li Shanren is very satisfied. The best thing is that there is a row of seats leaning out of the building outside the window on the second floor, which is called "beauty leaning" and also called "flying chair", Mrs. Li sits on the "beauty leaning", looking at the green mountains and daisies from afar, and seeing the vast smoke and waves of the Yellow River and the sparkling canal up close, she is overjoyed and praises this is a paradise and a fairyland on earth.

Li Shanren also asked the five brothers to drag the wooden boat to the shallows, and build a shack outside the wooden boat to avoid damage from the sun and rain. After everything was settled, Li Shanren instructed Zhao Da to go to the town to rent two fast horses, and then repair a book, and sent Zhao Da north to the mansion of Lord Li in the capital, and informed the family that the housekeeper had plotted against him, and that the concubine had illegally embezzled the property of the Li Mansion and that the Li family compound had been burned down, and asked Lord Li to send arrests to arrest Jin Xiangyu and Li Xiaoniang. In addition, Niu Laosi was sent along the Yellow River to detour through Binzhou to northern Jiangsu to Shanghai to find out the current situation of the arsenal.

Let's talk about Niu Laosi quickly and quickly, day and night, and come to Shanghai in a day, according to the map to find the arsenal, where can I find it. Due to the urgency of military demand since the beginning of the Gengzi years, the Shanghai Arsenal has been looking for land in Gaochang Temple to build a new factory to produce new Mauser, and also opened more than a dozen branch factories and institutions, such as a steam furnace factory, a machine factory, a wrought iron factory, and a foreign gun building, and the volume is getting bigger and bigger. Niu Laosi came to the new factory of Gaochang Temple, handed over the shareholder warrant documents, and learned that Master Li had died in Xianliang Temple in the capital, and the overall situation of the imperial court had been replaced by Yuan Datou. Niu Laosi hurriedly took the change documents of the arsenal, and was anxious to return to the shore and beach to resume his life, but the revolutionary party called on the shipyard workers to strike, and the road was blocked, so he was delayed in the city for a few days. On this day, the roadblocks were withdrawn and the workers resumed work, Niu Laosi did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly rushed back to the shore and beach non-stop, met Li Shanren, and told the above incidents one by one. Li Shanren saw that the news was good and bad, the good news was that the arsenal was expanding, and as a shareholder, he could reap the benefits; The bad news is that Master Li has passed away, Yuan Datou is in power, and he is still in the dark. Due to family changes, the ears and eyes are blocked, and the failure to go to Beijing for the funeral is a great loss, and the consequences may be unpredictable. Yuan Datou has coveted the arsenal for a long time since he trained in the small station, and Zhao Da has gone to Beijing, otherwise, he should go to see Yuan Datou instead, but Zhao Da has already set off and cannot be changed, so he can only wait for him to turn around and then make plans. Judging from the news brought back by Niu Laosi, Shanghai is not very peaceful, and it is not a good time to move his family to Shanghai rashly, so he decided to rest assured that he would see what would happen in the future.

But it is strange that since the stilted buildings were built on the beach, the water of the Yellow River has become clear, and there are few floating corpses floating in the upper reaches. The "water ghost" brothers did their best to take care of Li Shanren's family and home, and in their spare time, they reclaimed wasteland on the embankment, grew food and vegetables for self-sufficiency, and lived a comfortable life. Immediately after that, several more buildings were built, and podiums were built between adjacent buildings, connecting all the stilted buildings into one. A dark brown castle building appeared on the sand, and the stilts were volleyed up close, and an eaves flew into the sky; Looking at the tiger standing on the dragon plate from afar, it is scattered, it is magnificent, it has the charm of Qin and Han dynasties, the beauty of tranquility, like a beautiful screen.

As the saying goes, good things come in pairs. On this day, Li Shanren got up early to wash, Mrs. Li felt lazy, and asked in bed: "Why did you get up so early today?" It's not dawn yet. Li Shanren pushed open the window to look at the sky, and sure enough, the morning star was hanging high, and the sky was not yet bright, but the magpies were already "chirping" under the eaves and arguing. Usually, Li Shanren always waits until the rooster crows three times, and when his wife gets up first to fill the water to wash up, he sits on the bed and smokes a puff of cigarettes before getting up. To-day, the diligent magpie woke him up, and before his wife could wake up, he got up to smoke. When Mrs. Li saw that the old man got up early, she quickly got up and went downstairs to fetch water from the stove room. Wu's mother was already busy working on the stove, preparing breakfast, and when she saw her wife going downstairs, she hurriedly stepped forward to serve and said: "Don't wait for Mrs. to go up and down the stairs, just give an order, and Wu's mother can go upstairs to serve, don't be tired of running around in person." Mrs. Li said: "Don't worry, it is still necessary to climb up and down every day." Wu's mother said, "How do you feel today?" Mrs. Li said: "There is no movement, I'm afraid Bai Huan will be happy." Mrs. Li took the water upstairs, Li Shanren took the basin, wiped his face and rinsed his mouth, took the cigarette holder to light the candle, just put on the cigarette holder and took a puff, suddenly heard the lady behind him make a strange sound, looked back, Mrs. went up and down the stairs, and her stomach churned and vomited. Unconsciously he put down his cigarette stick and asked:

"Ma'am, what's the matter?"

Li Shanren saw that his wife vomited a lot of tears and snot, and he didn't stop it, and hurriedly called out to Mother Wu. The lady was overjoyed, and replied: "The master is probably happy!" ”

"What did you say, why am I happy?"

Mrs. Li owed a debt and said, "The concubine is happy...... Isn't it just that the lord is happy? ”

Lee asked, "What did you say?" ”

Mrs. Li said: "The concubine is happy! ”

Li Shanren asked, "Really?" ”

"Really. Yesterday, Wu's mother took the pulse of the concubine and checked the urine color...... Said it was a joy. The concubine has not had a menstrual period for more than a month, and the day before yesterday she began to feel uncomfortable in her stomach, thinking that she had just eaten sour plum and was nauseated, so she didn't dare to tell the master, she felt lazy this morning, and she was nauseated before she got up in the morning, and she was afraid that it was really there. ”

Li Shanren was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth after hearing this. At this time, Wu's mother had already walked upstairs quickly, and Li Shanren asked her: "You see that she vomits all over the place." Wu's mother said: "Sure enough, there is joy." Don't worry, wait for me to clean up with water. Li Shanren asked: "How do you know that the lady is happy?" Wu's mother told Li Shanren that Mrs. Li told her that her menstrual affair last month was the eighth day of the first lunar month, and today she has not come to the twenty-eighth, and she does not eat her favorite dates, but only eats sour and toothless plums, and she guesses that nine times out of ten she is happy. Li Shanren laughed after hearing this, thinking that the magpie was talking to each other outside the window just now, and it was really a happy event, so he couldn't help but squat down and put his head on his wife's stomach: "Let me listen, is there any movement?" Mother Wu laughed: "Congratulations to the master, congratulations to the master!" Then he turned around and went downstairs. Mrs. Li hurriedly dodged, unable to hide her joy, and said coquettishly: "What kind of words, let the subordinates see if they are still a person, where to put the master's face." Besides, it's still early, where will there be movement, do you think you're pregnant with the monster Nezha? Li Shanren was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth: "If he doesn't bring his wife back to life, I can't wait for him to come back to life for three years and six months." After saying that, he closed the door and said to his wife, "You should not have gone to the stove, for everything is taken care of by your subordinates." From today onwards, don't go to the stove room again, just enjoy the happiness in the room, and tell the next person what you want to eat, take good care of your body. ”

Mrs. only promised and agreed with a smile.

Li Shanren picked up the cigarette stick, re-lit it under the candle flame, and thought about it while smoking. Here the mountains hug the people and the water hug the secluded, a tranquil, a corner of the quiet, Mrs. very fond. I was going to rest here, more than a year, less than half a year, but now the building has just been built, my wife is pregnant, and this place is a blessed land for the Li family. However, the Lingxun is about to pass, and the Yellow River will be navigable. If you still stay here, and the child is born in the spring of the next year, will you still live in a stilted building? If you don't leave now, it will be inconvenient to wait until the child is born. Although Liang Yuan is good, it is not a place to stay for a long time, and the scenery should be long-term, so it was decided that as long as Zhao Da came back, he would leave for Shanghai to ensure the safety of his mother and son