The strong laborers who were busy in the new house greeted Xu Youliang and vigorously one after another.

"Second brother, is that your brother-in-law? I haven't seen it."

"Yes, uncle, he doesn't come often, the road is too far, and he only comes once every two years.

Dali, you have to call Uncle Cao, have you heard of the four surnames in our village? Uncle Cao is one of them.

This large room is also thanks to Uncle Cao who has been guarding here. Without Uncle Cao, it would not have been possible to build it so quickly, it all depends on him Zhang Luo."

Dali really knows that the surname Cao is a family: "I have heard that there are more than 100 families of uncles and brothers, and it is rare that there is no separation. We have spread it in other villages, and none of the babies born below have been lost, and they are really big families in these ten miles and eight villages."

Dali's words are the greatest compliment to the family.

Because in these years, every family eats, wears, lives, and travels and looks similar, they all eat the same chaff and wear patched clothes.

But it can afford to raise more than 100 people, and the children here can be raised from birth, weak and sick, and none of them are thrown away by the shovel, which can completely represent the solidity of the Cao family. The fact that the Cao family is not separated also shows that they are very grouped.

And the group is also a kind of strength, and it depends on the brothers to fight the tiger between father and son.

The local people boast like this.

Hearing this, Uncle Cao happily put tiles on the roof: "In the future, you will have to move around often, and this time you will help your brother-in-law here for a while, right?" Come home after Ming'er's busyness, let's have a few drinks."

"Okay, thank you, uncle."

Xu Youliang grabbed his brother-in-law and introduced Wang Yusheng: "This is Brother Yusheng, and my brother grew up as bare-chested dolls since childhood, and when my brother was here, they were better than me."

Wang Yusheng smiled and patted his shoulder vigorously and said, "Good boy, this is really a serious in-law coming to the door. You can see that there are relatives in the next few families, and the real relatives of my aunt's family have finally arrived."

Wang Yusheng's words are true, since the day of the rain and wind, many relatives have come to the village one after another to ask if there is anything to help. Because they all know that the two rivers are guarding the river, and they are busy building houses.

Like his family, his father-in-law brought his eldest brother and brother-in-law to carry all the rations. His cousins' relatives from other villages are also in place.

For example, several girls and aunts who married out of the Wan family also came, and when they entered the village, they pulled their necks and shouted: "Father-in-law, is the family okay?"

Even a beautiful man, a son-in-law who came to the door, was still shouting and leaving some time ago, and he was able to call two marginal relatives, saying that as long as he was asked to help Meizhuang work, and then the beautiful man was responsible for cooking and doing the collective work in the village.

Not to mention Uncle Lizheng's house.

Uncle Li Zheng's younger brother's family was pulled to the village by Liu Jingdong to help Aunt Pepper harvest autumn cabbage as soon as they arrived in the town. In this season, no matter how awesome it is to study or be something else, you have to go back to your hometown to harvest cabbage first.

So there is really only the Xu family, who bought a large piece of wasteland to build a house, and no one came to lend a hand.

If it weren't for the wind and rain, Zhao Zhutou in the town was not worried about the Xu family, and specially sent his subordinates into the village to ask, only to find that the Xu family's new house had been lifted, and he helped buy tiles and hired someone to send two cars, asking Wang Yusheng to say what he wanted, the Xu family only relied on the second and fourth brothers to support the two brothers a few days ago, and it really seemed weak.

And living in the village, no matter what kind of work you have to do, it is all manual, and you live a human life, and there are few people who don't stretch out their hands to look pitiful.

Although the foundation and frame of the house are collectively touched, only repairing the roof of such a large house of the Xu family is enough for people to work for a few days.

A few days ago, there was no way, so Wang Yusheng put down his own stall and came to help Xu Youyin work.

Dali regretted a little after listening to it, it seems that he is still late, and he knew that it would be good for Erli.

Dali is smart, he didn't want to ask Xu Youliang why no one came to the other side of the long house.

didn't come, there was a reason for the designation, he just had to help his brother-in-law well. He looked at the window frames and piled them up and didn't care about the installation, there was a lot of work.

And compared to Xu Laoer, he has to pretend to be calm, as a brother-in-law, he must look like the boss, Xu Laosi Xu has Yinming

Apparently more enthusiastic about Dali.

When he saw someone, he grabbed his strong arm and said:

"Brother Dali, come on, come on, my second brother said that he doesn't understand the situation of the house, I'll take you to see it. Second brother, go to the backyard and help my sister-in-law measure how big the mule and ox pen should be."

He didn't forget to send someone to do a job.

Xu Youyin's face was as black and thin as a mud monkey, and he laughed and grabbed his arm and said, "No, it's wrong, it's not our family, it's Brother Yusheng's family, and it's not our family, it's Sister Meizhuang's family." And guess which of the rest is? That's right, the four in the middle are the most generous! On the right side of our house is a large room under Uncle Lizheng's name. We're in the best location."

Xu Lao Er glared at his younger brother and let him keep a low profile.

In addition to Uncle Lizheng's large area, it is enough to buy such a few houses in the village, and they always show off their own houses.

Speaking of buying wasteland in advance to build a house under his own name, in fact, no one from the Wang family, the Wanjia family, and the Meizhuang family gave a word in advance. At that time, I didn't dare to say more.

But they couldn't stop the family from hearing that the Xu family and Liu Laozhu had made a move, and they bought a large piece of wasteland for some reason, so they gritted their teeth and didn't ask what they were going to do, and waited there with the wasteland that bought three or four taels of silver.

That's it, now that the news of the mutual market is coming, there are a few powerful families in the village who can only laugh angrily even if they are red-eyed, who made them not have the courage at the beginning.

And now if you want to buy it again, don't mention the unclear attitude of the official office, the land price here will increase several times.

I heard that the villages outside are also watching, and they all want to come here to buy land and build houses. Because even if the price increases, it is much cheaper than the shops in the town.

If you want to do business in the town, you can buy a small house in the lively street market for more than 100 taels, and the price of the shops in the town will also rise. Here a hundred taels can build several houses and rent them out.

Xu Youyin didn't care, such a big house was there, and he couldn't hide it, but he was stunned in front of the people in the village and pretended to be low-key and said, it would be hypocritical to build a big house if it was worthless and unhappy.

What's more, whose house is that? It was his mother-in-law Hao Xianghua's house.

Hao Xianghua is the character who should occupy the middle by birth, who dares to say sour words!

If you really have something to say, then wait for his mother to come back, anyway, he doesn't dare to provoke others. The ladies and aunts in the village are amazing.

This side made a great discovery: "Your new houses are all next to each other, and they are not their own courtyards?"

Xu Youyin explained that it was not the same thing as a residence, and that on the day when the caravan came for dinner, no matter how capable the family was, they couldn't receive it, so they simply built it together from the beginning. And the wall next to the wall is not a cost-saving, but also warm.

"The mule and cattle pens, including the backyard, are lined up like the house. We are the only ones who buy houses individually, and each family will be spaced apart like a pigsty. The rest of the thatched roofs are uniform, and when all the work in the house is done, there will be a large collective fence on all sides." That's a big job, and I can't take care of it right now.

And when Dali approached and saw the four big houses of the Xu family, his face was full of surprise.

Recently, people in their village always say that his sister is really married into a wealthy family this time, and they also say that they are blind if they are not blessed, and his sister is a blessed person who does not need to be busy. Because the Xu family was so poor before, if you look at it now, it can only show that his sister is blessed in her life, and the poor family can live. And some people, their mother-in-law's family was very solid before, but it became more and more miserable.

Recently, Dali has not taken these words seriously. On the one hand, he knew that this house and the foundation money were left to his daughter by his brother-in-law's eldest brother, otherwise how could his sister and his brother-in-law have money? On the other hand, to be honest, he is always thinking about what can be built on wasteland? It's nothing more than a few thatched huts.

But at this time, I saw with my own eyes that the Xu family's house was obviously more bricks and tiles than others, and where there was the appearance of a yellow mud thatched house, the outer wall saw blue bricks, why was it so good-looking.

"Bricks cost a lot of money, right?" Dali didn't want to inquire about privacy, but he couldn't help but marvel.

Xu Youyin is really a family member.

Although his sister-in-law is always "mean" to him, and he has not given him good food since his mother left, but Youyin knows that this is the first time that his sister-in-law has taken over the affairs when his mother is not at home, and he is afraid that he will lose his mother

Hopefully, I can't wait to go back and return it to my mother completely.

Besides, didn't my sister-in-law eat well?

As the house spends more and more, some expenses go out through the hands of the sister-in-law in the later stage, Yu Qinniang is under more pressure than his brothers, and it is really a life of tightening his belt.

Yu Qinniang, the sister-in-law, didn't say it.

So Xu Youyin didn't want to hide it from his sister-in-law's younger brother, and when he was like his own family, he told the truth:

"Don't mention, at first, our family budgeted two to three taels of bricks. Later, as the cover was simply not enough, I bought several sets one after another.

Building a house is like this, always thinking about this don't deal with it, don't deal with that, or it will be more troublesome to add after moving in, then you can't smash the wall and dismantle it?

Just went back and forth until the account was finally closed, and it cost nearly five taels of silver for the brick money alone."

The exact number is not clear to Xu Youyin.

At that time, Mrs. Xu hadn't left yet, and he only estimated in his heart and never asked in detail.

The only thing Xu Youyin wanted to ask was how much money his eldest brother had left, and it was definitely not the number that his mother told him to bury at the bottom of the tree.

He's not a fool, doesn't he understand the fine accounts and the rough accounts?

My mother didn't go for those days, adding bricks and beams, wood and silver, and a bunch of Lala, his mother could take out some copper plates from her pocket and subsidize it to this house every day as if she were squeezing the blood on her fingers, you said it was strange.

This old lady must be hiding her eyes with their brothers. Okay, hide it, do you know that if you want to leave it to your granddaughter, you can't give it to your granddaughter when you go back and earn money? The little old lady thought carefully. Sometimes the Xu family chatted about it privately and couldn't help laughing.

But at this time, Xu Youyin sighed again after speaking: "After this gale, a tile roof was added, and the silver money has not been given, and I owe Brother Dashan two taels I don't know what to do." I heard that it was because they didn't hand over the money to my family last month, so I can only wait for my mother and my third brother and niece to come home and discuss it."

It stands to reason that these words should make the mood sink with vigor, and that is called a famine.

A few taels is like tens of thousands of yuan in modern times, where the peasants rely on farming to eat and have enough money, how can they repay the famine of so much money?

But as he walked into the middle room, he didn't know whether to say it or not.

I really can't replace the pain of the famine in Xu Jiala, because it looks too rich.

As if the lack of famine is more like ...... Self-inflicted. It's too much of a four-eyed call. It was many times more decent than he had seen the restaurants in the town.

Just look at the design of the middle room, and the entrance is facing a long counter.

Xu Youyin said that half of it is the place where his mother cashiers, and the other half is the place where his niece and Uncle Lang sell medicine together.

Regarding this cabinet, Guan Erbald said too much, but he had to pay for the wood and silver money and the money for hiring people to work and take care of the food, and he would also take Xu Tianxin to learn to recognize and grasp medicine, and in the future, he would stand in front of the counter with Xu Jiatianxin and make a fortune. It's just that the wood is still not in place.

Every time you ask, when to give it? So that Xu Lao Er can lead the people in the village who know carpentry to make cabinets faster.

Guan Erbald said, "Wait for your mother to come back, what to urge."

On this side, Xu Youyin pointed to the walls on the left and right sides and introduced:

"At that time, things will be hung in these two places, such as the indigo shoes made by your aunt will be hung and displayed, and I will let my aunt make more when I go back, and people will wear them after they buy them. My mother said, if it goes well, the snow here is thick, and a caravan will buy it all when the shoes are wet, you think, the heat can take off your clothes, and you can't stand it when you are cold, and you can't stand it and think about what to save money, and you will buy it. There are also pipes made by my second brother and so on, anyway, everyone in the village who knows how to work by hand will hang them here."

Dali was very moved, and even Xu Youyin was worried about his family.

But he didn't have time to be polite, and vigorously touched the round tables like his eyes were not enough, and said, "Put a pot in the middle of the big table, and don't you have wooden stools and chairs on the side of the table?" It's a seat made of bricks?" Including the table, it is also made of yellow mud and bricks.

Set up in a half circle, facing each other, and there are horizontal ones inside, and a table can seat fifteen or sixteen people.

A fish stew in a lively pan.

Xu Youyin said, "Otherwise, can the brick money be spent? It was spent on it, and the pine tower was thrown directly under the table to burn the fire, and the firewood was not burned or it would be buried, and the vegetables in the middle pot were almost stewed, and the seats under their buttocks were like hot kangs, all hot, including the partitions of the tables against which their backs were leaning, which were also made of the wall of fire, and it was also hot to lean on."

And like this, there are ten large tables in two rows in this room, six of which have been placed with stone pots, and four of which are more awkward and empty.

In Mrs. Xu's words, it's not that our family can't afford to buy a pot, but those tables want to eat stir-fried vegetables in case of a few tables, and they come to more than ten dishes in one go, and they don't want to eat stewed fish, stewed chicken, stewed goose or something, in that case, the middle pestle pot is even more obstructive.

In short, at first glance, this room is a big shopkeeper in a caravan or something.

The big shopkeeper can afford to eat expensive dishes ordered separately, and can decide whether to buy medicine, shoes and souvenirs before leaving.

That's why the specialties are displayed in this room, so that people who can make things decide can't look at it. You can sell it when you chatter. It is also the only place in Erdaohe Village on this side of the entire wasteland that can entertain distinguished guests.

This does not require modesty, and cooking prowess does not allow for a low profile.

And the facilities for the caravan keepers are next to this room, and the room next to it is stacked with goods. The Xu family was stunned to build a big house for stacking goods. For example, if you come to sell jewelry, they will be designated to unload the truck, and they will let their own guards change shifts to eat. Having an empty room to store important goods is also a point that can compete with the shops in the town to retain customers.

Xu Youyin vigorously introduced: "In this room right now, in addition to my brother and brother-in-law's wooden table, there are two big kangs. At that time, I thought that if the kang didn't pile up the goods, it would still be able to live in people."

Dali's eyes were full of admiration: "If you don't worry, you can still live here with people and goods, and even collect the accommodation money."

"Yes, yes, but if the caravan really lives, my mother said that this side can only receive a few people, unless the houses in the village can vacate the room to entertain, which is not comparable to the inns and restaurants in the town. Let's take a closer look. Let's go, I'll show you the other two big rooms, the ground kang, those two are places to eat big pot rice, no stir-frying, no boiling pot, only cooking."

Noodles, dumplings, wontons, buns, porridge.

"Selling grass seed porridge?"

"No, my mother said to go high-end, and the grass seed porridge will let the villagers do it in other houses."