Chapter 57: Temporary Cabins
With Old Man Hu's assurance, the layman's purple jade is no longer an expert.
The few people in front of them were all dressed in coarse cloth and short brown, and there was no shortage of patches on their bodies.
It stands to reason that families with craftsmanship inheritance and labor will not be so poor that all ages wear patched clothes.
Especially the old man Hu, who is an elder, it seems that Xin'an County is really poor.
People with a little family background must have moved, so it will create a county town and a county order, and they have to rely on their own labor to be satisfied.
"Lao Hu, if you want any materials and workers to help, you can go to Steward Sheng.
I just don't care if the house will be built in two hours.
As long as you do it well, you are in charge of building a house, ten taels of silver a month, do you dare to take it? ”
Ziyu's words shocked the legs of the old man Hu's grandson and grandchildren, and the youngest Hu Quan still looked up at the sky.
Let's see if the silver really falls from the sky!
"Dare, I can't build a house, as long as the son can tell me a rough idea, I can build it."
Old man Hu, who was the first to wake up, responded in one bite, and he was really the smartest.
"Okay, it's up to you here.
Two wooden houses to live in, and a bath and a bow were built in the corner. ”
Ziyu didn't leave after she finished speaking, she hadn't seen how the ancients built houses, so she had to get a sneak peek.
Old man Hu personally ran to Steward Sheng to ask for people and materials, and when he came up, he had a small bean in his hand.
Well, it doesn't look like a house can be built now.
"Brother, hug!"
The little guy who had just woken up, his eyes were half-squinted and not very awake, and he yawned and stretched out his hand towards Ziyu.
"Xiao Luo, why don't you play with Cheng Yuanju and them."
Ziyu took Xiao Luo and pinched him on the face, and the little guy grinned in front of him.
Lying on Ziyu's neck, he said cutely: "Find my brother!" ”
"There's a lot of people on the construction site, and you can't stay outside for a little one.
Forget it, my brother will take you to the back mountain to play! ”
The scene was messy, and there was still a little guy, and Ziyu didn't want to see it here.
"Lao Hu, you are busy!"
"Hey, Childe walks slowly, I promise to satisfy you!" Old man Hu stood on the edge of the ground, watching the Ziyu brothers walk behind, and sighed.
"I didn't expect a noble son to take a baby like a common person's family."
The children and grandchildren of the Hu family breathed a sigh of relief, the young master was staying here, and they were under a lot of pressure, for fear that if they didn't do well, they would ruin the old man's job.
It's absolutely inevitable to go home and smoke it!
…
"Cheng Yuanju, Chen Xiaoshan follows." The purple jade head did not return to the tunnel.
The two little girls didn't come with them, but just brought the two boys with them.
"Yes, young master!"
Ziyu was not strict with her subordinates, so that the two young boys no longer cowered in front of her.
Especially Chen Xiaoshan, who is much bolder than when he first arrived at home, and speaks more neatly.
"Go get three arm-thick sticks and grab them, and we'll go and have a look at the back."
Passing through the mouth of the valley, there is a three-foot wide sandwich ditch.
A shallow ditch dug by the lake, leading to a shallow pit one zhang away from the valley, has fresh animal footprints on the edge of the shallow pit.
Seeing this, Ziyu tied Xiao Luo to his back with a soft whip and said to the two boys behind him.
"Keep up, don't stay away!"
"Young master, give you a stick, Uncle Bao Jiu caught a rabbit for us here."
Cheng Yuanju cleverly sent the thickest stick on, and by the way, leaked the source of the little rabbit.
"Brother, the gray bunny is cute!"
"Cute, let Cheng Yuanju help you raise it, don't make a sound."
Ziyu took the stick in her hand and startled the grass in front.
A road has been trodden out in the middle of the ditch, and there are rut marks of a wheelbarrow.
Three mules and five calves were leisurely gnawing on the grass, and Sheng Xueyi was holding a big knife and staring ahead vigilantly.
Sheng Xueyi, who heard the movement, nervously raised the knife and turned around, only to see that it was his own young master who put down the knife.
"Hello young master!"
"Do you often have wild beasts coming to drink from this?" Ziyu thought of the footprints on the edge of the shallow pit and asked.
"Back to the young master, few wild beasts come during the day, maybe they come at night.
My dad said that at night he would add a fence gate and a few big stones at the mouth of the valley. ”
"That's good, as long as you take care of the livestock, it's a great achievement." Ziyu nodded, and walked forward.
The slopes on both sides are dominated by shrubs and weeds, and the trees begin to grow thicker the further you go.
Ziyu followed the footprints to find the cave, and there were two stones of about 100 catties outside the dense fence.
"You guys stay guard outside, I'll go in and get something."
Ziyu bent down and moved the two stones away one by one.
In almost a year, all the skills and strength of the previous life have returned to their places.
Moving a hundred or ten pounds of stones is really not a big deal for Ziyu.
In the dim cave, with the help of the light at the entrance of the cave, it is vaguely visible that there is a gap between the placed goods and a gap for two people to pass.
Ziyu took out a fire fold from the space and blew it on, and found that there was a layer of wooden shelves on the ground.
At intervals, on the wooden stakes, there is a homemade white paper book, on which the daily shipment is recorded.
Ziyu found a bunch of luggage rolls, all of which were cages and rattan boxes that Sister-in-law Chen had packed back from Qingyang Mansion and had not moved.
There were fifteen of them, large and small, and Ziyu didn't expect that there would be so many things in the temporary residence.
She put the fire fold into the space, and as she walked out, she had an extra box one foot square, wrapped in black cotton cloth.
"Cheng Yuanju, take it!" Ziyu handed the box to the man guarding the entrance of the cave.
Cheng Yuanju lifted it with one hand, and his small body was crooked, and the embarrassed face turned red.
"Lack of exercise, first thing in the morning, carrying a two-liter stone, running around Daxia Bay for half an hour.
With Chen Xiaoshan, one by one they are as weak as chicks, what big things can they do in the future! ”
"Young master, I can do it!" The red-faced kid said stubbornly.
Ziyu, who had blocked the entrance to the cave, ignored him and walked in front with Xiao Luo on his back.
"Cheng Yuanju, give you a difficult task, guard that box and don't allow anyone to move.
Can it be done? ”
"Yes!" Feeling that he was in front of the young master, Cheng Yuanju, who had lost face, responded loudly.
"Well done!" The corners of Ziyu's mouth showed a fox-like smile.
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In the middle of the unitary hour, Ziyu looked carefully around the built wooden house.
It is a square room with a length and width of one foot and a half, and a corridor three feet wide under the eaves.
The foundation is half a person high, the gaps in the logs are filled with triple soil, and the entrance is a wooden staircase.
The floor of the house was covered with a layer of freshly sawn wooden planks with obvious signs of polishing.
There is a small wooden window in the front that can be supported, and sunlight spills into the wooden house through a two-finger-wide gap.
There was a linoleum cloth in the gaps in the roof, and Ziyu exited the wooden house to look at the roof.
The upper and lower layers of green leaves were sandwiched with a layer of triple soil, and it was the first time she had seen a roof made of mud with her own eyes.
Isn't this way of building a house unique to a certain tribe in Africa?