After arriving at Willow Village, the woman and the children continued to the wasteland to clear the dead grass and stones.

The men were divided into two teams, one was led by Hu Songbai to buy sand and gravel and materials for building houses, and the other group was led by Shen Dacheng to cut down trees and dig loess in the mountains.

The dug loess is mixed with straw and formed into mud.

While the weather is good, it is taken off into adobe and dried.

Although they have a lot of people, it is not realistic to build all the houses before they freeze.

Shen Xinyue proposed: "Uncle, we have food in our hands, why don't we ask the villagers to help, how about taking the grain to pay for the wages when the time comes?" ”

Shen Dacheng felt that this method was feasible, and after asking everyone, no one objected, so he went to knock on the door from door to door to ask.

At this time, it was the agricultural slack, everyone was idle at home, and they heard that they could exchange food for helping to build a house, so they came out to help.

From then on, they all lived in a village, and they didn't see anyone looking up, and the men went to work, and the women occasionally came to help with what they could.

In just three days, the woman and the children took off four or five thousand adobes.

The men also bought back the stone they had used and tamped the two foundations.

The preparation is well done, and the speed of the wall is very fast.

A total of more than 20 strong laborers were divided into two teams, and in just three or four days, two upright adobe houses were built.

Considering that the injuries on Shen Laoqi and Zhao Manchu had not been completely healed, they let the two families move in first.

Just when everyone was in full swing to build the house, a group of more than a dozen people who fled the famine entered Baiji Town in rags.

"Didn't you say there are your relatives here? How did you become dumb now? Slut, if you dare to lie to Lao Tzu, see if I don't sell you to the kiln! ”

A tall man pulled a woman's hair, unceremoniously raised his hand and gave her two big slaps.

Seeing her mother being beaten, Zhao Yuxiu shrank into a ball in fright, and whispered in defense: "Don't beat my mother, she really didn't lie to you, we really have relatives here, but we haven't been in contact for many years, and I can't remember it clearly." ”

The family managed to escape in the town before, but her father Zhao Yongshun was beaten to death by the gang.

After Shen Xiao'e escaped from the city with her son Zhao Yuming and her daughter and son-in-law, she met neighbors who also escaped.

learned from the other party that Mrs. Shen actually took those dead girls and left with the Hu family.

Because everyone is a neighbor, Shen Xiao'e naturally knows that Liu Sumei has a younger sister who is married to Jin'an Mansion.

In this way, the desperate family also chased in the direction of Jin'an Mansion, but they didn't see the Hu family along the way.

And there were too many victims, and they had nothing to eat, Shen Xiao'e could only endure nausea and follow a strong man named Liu Qiang, and the family barely survived to get here.

"I've heard them mention it before, it seems to be a village called Hehe, I didn't lie to you, you go and inquire, there must be this village." As if grasping a life-saving straw, Shen Xiao'e hurriedly said.

Liu Qiang stopped his hand, scolded and turned to leave.

Seeing him walk away, Zhao Yuxiu leaned over tremblingly: "Mother, are you okay?" ”

"The Hu family is kind-hearted, if they can take you and leave them, they will definitely not ignore us. As long as we can find them, we will be saved. ”

Thinking of what happened during this time, the mother and daughter came from grief and hugged their heads and cried.

Zhao Yuxiu's husband and younger brother stood indifferently to the side, even with a hint of disgust on their faces.

It didn't take long for Liu Qiang to come back after inquiring about the situation, and his face seemed to be in a good mood.

"There is a Shanghe Village and a Xiahe Village to the west of the town, which village are your relatives in?"

Shen Xiao'e looked entangled, and just when the other party was about to get impatient, she shook her head and whispered, "I forgot." ”

Liu Qiang's younger brother Liu Xuan said: "Big brother, it's all here anyway, the two villages are not far away, let's just go and ask if we can go to both places." ”

Liu Qiang didn't object, called a few of them, and walked towards the west gate together.

……

It was already a month later when the last house was built.

Everyone's household registration has also been completed, and five acres of land have been recorded in the name of each household.

Because of Shen Dacheng's joining, Willow Village can be regarded as a small and large-scale village.

learned that Shen Dacheng was the village chief before, and the official in charge of household registration asked him to continue to be the village head of Liushu Village.

In November, it snowed outside for the first time of winter.

Although it has not settled, the temperature has dropped to several degrees below zero.

Even at the height of the daylight at noon, the ice on the ground did not melt.

In order to keep warm, Shen Xinyue not only built a fire wall in the house, but also built a fire kang.

Some of the others were afraid of trouble and didn't get this, but Shen Dacheng and Hu Songbai felt that Shen Xinyue would definitely not do this in vain.

After carefully asking how to construct the project, they also made the same thing at home.

With a fire wall and a fire kang, as long as there is a little fire in the stove, the whole room will be warm like spring.

At this moment, Mrs. Shen was only wearing a jacket and sitting cross-legged on the kang, and the needle and thread on the sole of her hand were being dragged and sneered.

There seemed to be mouths on a few small feet, and after only a long time of wearing, there was a hole in the front.

This time, she put on a few more layers of paste, not only made the soles of her shoes thick, but also added cotton wool to the cloth, which will definitely warm up.

Shen Xinyue propped up the table with one hand, staring boredly at Mrs. Shen's soles, but she was thinking about how to make money.

Now that everything is settled, it's time to think about how to make money.

No matter how many things are in the space, a large part of them is not suitable for taking them out.

In her previous life, she spent most of her time either on a mission or on the way to a task, and there was very little time to really stop and rest seriously.

For a while, I wasn't sure what I could do.

"Eldest sister, I heard Aunt Qi say that there is a big gathering in the town tomorrow, should we go and take a look?"

Shen Yueyue rushed in by pushing the door in, and the cold wind wrapped around her body made Shen Xinyue couldn't help but shudder.

"How old a person is, he will be thirteen years old after the New Year, and his temperament should be retracted." The awl in Mrs. Shen's hand pulled her scalp, and then the rope in her hand began to sneer again.

Shen Yueyue quietly stuck out her tongue behind her back, and then said with a look of hope: "Eldest sister, let's go to the town to have a look." ”

It's better to go to town and see what good business opportunities are than to sit at home and dream about it.

So she nodded in agreement.

Mrs. Shen was old, and she didn't want to go out even more when it was cold, so Shen Xinyue went out with a few younger sisters and Wang Liang on the second day.

As soon as I walked to the entrance of the village, I met the Hu Chunsheng brothers who were driving a mule cart and preparing to go to the town to sell tofu, and hurriedly beckoned the sisters to come over.

"Sister Yingyue, my mother deliberately put this in the car, come here, my position is still warm." Hu Dongsheng jumped out of the car and pulled Shen Yingyue to let her sit in her place.

While several people were talking, Shen Guian also drove the mule cart over, and jumped out of the cart just before they arrived.