Chapter 16 Building New Houses
When the village chief Wang Xuhuai heard that the young son in front of him was going to settle in their village, he touched his beard and thought about it and said, "I don't know where the prince of Chu is from, why did he migrate here?" ”
Jing Yi knew she had to make up a reasonable and sympathetic story for herself. She had already thought about it. She'd heard some gossip on the road before, so let's borrow it now.
Jing Yi sighed and said, "This is my sad thing, since the village chief asked, then I will tell you about it."
My family has been practicing medicine for generations, and I have opened a local medical clinic, which is also a little famous. I grew up with medical books. In my father's generation, my father's medical skills and understanding were much better than those of my uncle. My grandfather had the idea of focusing on my father.
This caused my uncle's dissatisfaction, and coupled with the provocation of ill-intentioned people, my uncle and my father almost reached the point of turning against each other.
Later, my father was seriously injured by robbers while shopping for medicinal herbs, and died soon after. My grandfather couldn't take the blow and was devastated, and soon passed away from grief.
Without my grandfather's protection, my uncle kicked me and my mother out of the house. I had long suspected that my father's death was not simple, and I was afraid that my uncle would harm me and my mother again, so we had to go incognito and leave the country, and this is how we came here. ”
Jing Yi sketched a picture of the grievances and hatreds of a large family fighting for family property to the village chief, and portrayed herself and her mother as tragic victims, so as to arouse the sympathy of the village chief.
She said that she knew how to heal, also to increase her leverage. Nowadays, people who know how to heal are very popular.
Sure enough, after listening to Jingyi's story, the village chief and his wife both showed sympathetic looks. As soon as Wang Xuhuai heard that Jing Yi knew how to use medicine, he also had an abacus in his heart.
If there is a doctor living in their village, wouldn't it be much more convenient to see a doctor in the future, and they don't have to go all the way to the town?
Thinking of this, Wang Xuhuai said: "What happened to Gongzi Chu is really sympathetic. In this way, since Chu Gongzi wants to settle down in our village, of course I welcome it, and you see when you have time to go to the county government to settle down. ”
When Jing Yi heard this, he said, "We will now settle down in an inn in the county seat." It depends on when the village chief has time. ”
Wang Xuhuai simply said: "This matter should be sooner rather than later, didn't you come by carriage?" Then let's go to the county seat today to apply for household registration. By the way, do you still want to build a house, I think you can measure out the foundation together, and then do the title deed together. ”
Jing Yi was very happy to hear it, it seems that she didn't give this gift in vain. Immediately, Jingyi followed the village chief to the village to see the foundation. In the end, Jing Yi chose a piece of land more than three acres on the edge of the village and paid the silver directly.
Yunxi Village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the environment is very good, and the foundation she chose is not far from a river.
Because the time for selecting the foundation was a little late, Jing Yi and the village chief made an appointment to meet in the county seat tomorrow and go to the county government to go through household registration and land deed and other procedures. Jing Yiyan will send a carriage to pick up the village chief tomorrow.
For Jingyi's thoughtfulness, Wang Xuhuai is also very satisfied.
The next day, Jing Yi and the village chief met at the county office, and spent more than a dozen silver cars to quickly complete the household registration and land deed. From now on, they will be from Yunxi Village.
Jing Yi personally sent the village chief back to Yunxi Village, and also discussed with the village chief about building a house. In order to have a future neighborhood relationship, Jing Yi sought the advice of the village chief, hired some strong laborers in the village to help build the house, and she also asked the village chief to introduce her to several masters with good house building skills.
If there is a wage to be earned, of course the villagers are willing. And I heard that the new Chu Gongzi is a doctor, and the villagers all want to have a good relationship, and it will be convenient to see a doctor or something in the future.
Jingyi is not afraid of many people, and the speed of building houses is faster when there are more people.
Jing Yi drew drawings for her house, and built it according to the kind of courtyard houses in the north that she had seen before. Three main rooms, with ear rooms on both sides of the main house. Wings were built on the east and west sides of the yard, as well as kitchens and toilets.
She felt that the population of the family was simple, and it was enough to have a main house and a side room, and only two rooms were planned to be built in the inverted house on the south side. She was going to use it as a place to see patients in the future.
After all, the county seat is far away from Yunxi Village, so Jing Yi and his family moved to an inn in Huidong Town, which is closer to Yunxi Village. Then Jingyi left her mother and Qiao Yan at the inn to rest, and let Qiao Hong follow her to Yunxi Village in a carriage every day. She also intended to train Qiao Hong and let him get in touch with more things.
Jing Yi gave the drawings to the master who the village chief helped to find, and asked the masters to build a house according to her drawings.
Although Huizhou Mansion is located at the southern end of the Jin Kingdom, it is still relatively cold in winter, and Jingyi feels that it is better to build a fire kang.
In this era, the most used is to use charcoal for heating, but putting a charcoal basin in the house is not good, not to mention that it is easy to be poisoned by carbon monoxide, so she is going to build a dragon in the main house, and the two bedrooms are built with ondols. The rooms of the people living in the wing rooms are also built with earth dragons and fire kangs.
For this reason, she also plans to build a small house that is not very wide in the back of the main house, so that she can build a stove room, a bathing room, a bathroom, etc. It is also convenient to boil bath water in winter, and it will not be very cold to take a bath.
There are four wings to build a fire kang, and a small stove room for burning kang and earth dragon is also specially built, and two rooms can be used for a small stove. When it's cold, you can also use the big pot in the stove room to boil water for cooking, and you can also save firewood by burning the kang.
With a fire kang, you don't need to burn a charcoal pot at night when you sleep in winter, and it should be warmer.
Now in this era, Jingyi doesn't know if there is a fire kang, anyway, she asked the master who built the house, but people don't know.
The master who built the house was very interested in listening to the fire kang described by Jing Yi, and he also thought it was a very good idea.
The house began to be built, and many villagers came to work, and Jingyi paid money on a daily basis.
Jingyi also found someone to customize furniture, mainly wardrobes, tables and chairs, boxes, screens and so on. Some of the furniture Jingyi also drew her own and asked people to follow it. Once the house is built and furnished, they can go in and will not delay their move.
Jing Yi, a strong laborer who helped in the village, did not take care of the food, and gave more wages, and the people in the village were even happier.
The team brought by the masters who built the house has their own cooking, and Jingyi doesn't have to worry about it, as long as he is paid more. In many places, Jingyi is personally guided, mainly to build the fire kang, the earth dragon, the toilet and the bathroom.
The toilet to be built by Jingyi is rebuilt according to the style of the future, which can be flushed, and is much cleaner than the aqua toilet. The bathroom is also more convenient, leaving the drain behind. Since this condition is in place, Jingyi certainly hopes that her life will be more convenient and comfortable.
Because of the high salary given by Jingyi, many people in the village came to help. In this way, more people built houses, and the houses were built quickly, and the main body of the house was built in less than a month.
Jing Yi sighed in her heart that there are many people and great power, and the speed of building a house is fast enough. They can also move into their new home as soon as possible.