Chapter 155: Popeye Eats Spinach (Two Chapters in One)
The other two rooms are opposite east and west, with a wide corridor in the middle.
How wide is it? At the end of the corridor there were two windows more than a foot high, under which were four stoves the width of the side-by-side.
It's just that there are no pots on the stove at present, only four large holes.
The two sides of the corridor against the wall are the places where the grain is stored.
Vigorously asked Xu Youyin: "Do you have to dig a cellar to store vegetables here in the new house?" Otherwise, it will be too much trouble to toss back and forth."
Xu Youyindao:
"No, I can't do it, I can't do it at all.
Don't you know, every family doesn't need to dig for water to block the dam, and the manpower to build a house is quite enough.
Otherwise, how did these four big houses of my family be built, and then you look at the large area built here, which are all tasks assigned by Uncle Li Zheng before leaving, and everyone is tired enough to get up early and be tired of being late.
At that time, I didn't dare to dig a cellar, and now I can't do it. They couldn't take care of it, and more than 30 of them were flooded, and most of them were evacuated to block the dam to catch fish."
Nodding vigorously: "Actually, it's okay not to dig, after all, it's not a separate courtyard, everyone is in a yard, and then it's easy to tell which one is which." If you lose something, it hurts."
Xu Youyin nodded in agreement:
"Yes, I also consider this, I'm afraid I can't tell.
My mother said that we can do business together, such as selling grass seed porridge, and we can help the people in the village, which is nothing to say, and it is not easy for everyone.
When our family dug the ground to build a house, the uncles in the village all stretched out their hands. You haven't seen it, and people don't want to leave after the wages are done, so they don't help less.
So my mother said that there are some elderly people in the village who don't know what to sell, and there is no cost of money, so she can help think of ideas, or she can back down, and some money will not be earned, which is no problem.
But if we really do business, let's talk from our hearts, there are some things that need to be clearly divided in the future, and it is best to close the door and make each other's money, and not mix it together.
Just push the rice and noodles back and forth and toss them, so as not to be unable to make a clear quarrel and hurt feelings, anyway, a few people will go back to sleep at home every day."
Xu Youyin thought to himself: At that time, he and the third brother will be left to fight in the new house.
Anyway, they are little singles.
Besides, compared to my own home, the big kang here is even rarer now, how generous it is here, and it is more refreshing than at home.
After vigorously entering the house, he found that he could roll as Xu Youyin said, but he had not yet laid the kang mat.
Just look at the two rooms, and the area of the layout on both sides is basically the same.
Leave a place at the door to take off your shoes, and then you can go on the kang with the height of your palm.
It is not so much the ground as the kang being laid directly on the ground.
Xu Youyin pendulum:
"Don't you dare to step on it, it's okay, you should be able to feel the heat if you step on it hard, right?
The kang has just been built for more than ten days, and the roof of the rain shed is leaking again.
Don't mention it, I blocked this side and leaked that side in those days. There was a tornado in the heavy rain outside, and the light rain in the house had not yet had time to install the windows, and there were many windows in my house, so the north and south were transparent and the wind was whining, exactly like a haunting.
It was said that the people who had been in a hurry for a few days were frightened.
In the past two days, the rain has stopped, so I will burn a new kang twice a day in the morning and evening to smoke it, and run and run to get hot, so that I can do it quickly."
It's good that he dares to step on the kang hard, this is a brick and his kang.
Otherwise, a penny is worth a penny, and good things are really worth it.
It's just spending too much money in the early stage. It's also a point to think, this is a one-time investment, and it will be worry-free in the future, just pick up the kang ash deposited in autumn every year.
Unlike most people's homes, every one or two years the yellow mud kang will collapse, either the tip of the kang or the head of the kang, and it will have to be rebuilt if it collapses.
He smiled vigorously and said, "The more you look at it, the better, and if you do this, you can also place more people to eat."
Xu Youyin followed silly and said:
"It's not just that thinking about it.
Otherwise, the house should be deliberately set aside for the fire wall and the place of the stove,
This will result in fewer tables.
It is easy to burn people by the stove, and guests cannot be arranged to sit down, and there are two or three fewer tables.
Build a one-and-a-half-foot-high kang pestle there like we do, and we all know that there is not much on the actual high kang to support six small round tables.
Didn't you just think that those tables would be enough for something? Making money is not a joke, and the caravan does not come every day, one less than one, you must find a way to make more money if you can, simply dig deep into the flue, and make as much ground as you want."
Xu Youyin compared the size of the table and the number of people seated: "If you put a few long tables like this, it is not a problem to place 100 people in the east and west rooms together. I don't need my second brother to play a wooden stool, I just sit down cross-legged, and it's still hot under my buttocks."
"Is the table finished?"
"If I haven't finished fighting, I can't do it at all, I'm about to tire my second brother to death, the table legs are not safe, and the table top is not polished."
While Xu Youyin spoke, he bent down to open a wooden lid and continued, "Brother Dali, look where our stove is hidden? Burn the fire under the ground, boil dumplings and steamed buns on top, and the whole kang will be hot. Think about whether our house will be warmer in winter, I guess it will be warmer than the big house where we entertain distinguished guests."
Dali followed and looked at it carefully, to put it bluntly, it was like digging a cellar in the house, and inside the cellar was a stove for burning fire, there were a total of six stove pits, and then some firewood was stored, and then the six pots on it were level with the ground kang.
Anyway, this design is not for children, and children are easy to fall asleep and roll into the pot.
Xu Youyin said with a smile that it is impossible to have children.
Looking at his second brother, he doesn't look like he can be a child for a while.
"Ah, Brother Dali, don't get me wrong, I mean nothing wrong with your sister and sister-in-law, everyone in our family knows this. Back to what my mother said herself, she didn't give birth to a baby. If you have the ability, you will be born, if you don't have the ability, you will be pulled down, and if you don't have the ability, it will depend on my brother."
His mother also said that if she is really in a hurry, she can't catch Ming'er and have spare money to take a look.
Because Guan Erbald does not treat this aspect, the level of andrology and gynecology delivery is not good, and he will give people medicine in a daze.
As for giving birth to boys and girls, they are not picky.
Can eggplant seeds grow peppers? It will definitely not be that the daughter-in-law can't give birth to a child. Just look at her to Tian Xin, you know that the male and female babies are the same in her eyes. And it is not that there are many great possessions to inherit, but there are more than seventy taels of famine.
But the latter words, Xu Youyin can only ponder in his heart, he can't say it thoroughly, he is a little uncle.
Vigor: "......" was not comforted at all.
And this is really the emperor is not in a hurry, and the eunuch is in a hurry.
His sister didn't give birth to a baby, and his mother was in a hurry, and every year he had to chant a few words to bless and bless the birth of a child for his father and grandfather and grandmother, but he didn't expect his mother-in-law to rush at all.
As for the fact that the village is a few miles away from the shop, children will not be allowed to make trouble here, so there will be no problem of children falling into the pot at all, that is, it will be embarrassing.
Xu Youyin hurriedly diverted the topic and said, "Right now, the east and west houses are added together, and there are a total of twelve stoves, which is...... No pot."
Dali: Understood.
It can be seen that Mrs. Xu's sentence "It's not that our family can't afford to buy a pot" is a lie, she just can't afford it, and she is thinking about going out to earn money and slowly picking it up.
At this time, Dali's face was also full of joy, although the pressure of owing money was great, but it really looked good.
I've never seen such a neat house, and I feel that it is easy to look at the houses built by other families in the village.
However, there is also a problem, vigorously vague: "It just stinks, no wonder you have so many windows in these rooms."
Xu Youyin nodded: His feet alone can make his niece frown, and more than 100 people can carry goods and walk, which can be imagined.
To put it bluntly, he opened these shops in the Xu family, and in terms of internal arrangement, in his mother's words, it is still people-oriented.
Thinking that it would be really cold to come to the Northland in winter, and I am afraid that I will freeze through after walking on the road for so many days.
You can't think about whether it stinks or not, and then open the window to let the smell go every time you leave, and everything must keep the guests warm.
It's better to lie on the kang of his house and not want to walk, that's better.
At that time, a few long tables will be removed, and a list will be set up at night to sleep all over the floor, even if you don't pay for accommodation, you can still earn breakfast money for the next day.
Xu Youyin has been practiced by Mrs. Xu recently, and he is slowly used to using his brain to think about problems, and he also wonders: Who is the way, why is it that there is a sudden mutual market in winter. We people at the bottom don't understand what the people above mean.
If it's a summer market, why bother spending so much brick money.
In the summer, you can build a big shed outside and do a food stall as my mother said. The niece said that if it was summer, he would buy an iron plate to make teppanyaki, and he wanted to eat it.
The above, the four major rooms of the Xu family have been read.
Xu Youyin took Dali's arm and went to the back, and for a while he enthusiastically pointed to the livestock shed behind the house, and then pointed to Dali to see the stone house and said, "There is a well in the whole village, our house is in the middle, and the well is the closest to our house."
"Let's go, I'll take you to see the thatched house, a big digging pit, north and south are divided into men and women. Do you have it now? If you go squatting, next year you won't have enough manure at home, so you will come here to pick it."
I didn't look at the thatched house, and I didn't have time to take a look at the houses built by other people's families, so I stopped doing it first, which delayed a lot of work, and I said after the days were long: "I don't, and I don't look at it." Brother-in-law, when are we going to go up the mountain?"
When Xu Laosi took his brother-in-law and Yu Qinniang to leave, Xu Laosi was full of regret.
To be honest, he hasn't shown enough to introduce a cup of tea.
He didn't raise his eyebrows, but for the first time when he came home, relatives could talk about it carefully.
Xu Youyin climbed the ladder and continued to tile the roof silently.
Xu Youyin is the least afraid to fight with his milk, as long as his milk dares to come to the door to find fault and bully his mother, he will go up.
In the words of the third brother who once quarreled with his grandmother: "Let go of the fourth!"
And among his brothers, the second brother is the most benevolent and soft-hearted.
A few days ago, it wasn't just their brothers and second sister-in-law left in the family.
His second brother was eating and suddenly said:
"It's raining heavily and it's windy, and our family is still guarding the river.
Grandmother is the person, even if she is angry again, she will come to see it as usual.
Besides, how many relatives in the village scratched together, and there were many who shouted to break off the relationship, and it was still so dripping after that. After that, don't bring your aunt to our house to take advantage of it.
She's an old man, can we still get out if she really comes to the door? When you should go into the house to eat, you can eat, what we eat, what she eats.
So I wonder if it's such a big deal as our house building, I don't believe my grandmother hasn't heard about it, why don't you come."
At that time, Xu Youyin said:
"It's better not to come, when someone is rare, it will add to the chaos when you come.
This kind of relatives don't move around to worry, you don't have to find trouble for your mother, filial piety is important, filial piety is important, and filial piety is important.
What's more, if our family is in contact with milk diligently, it is bound to have a lot of quarrels with the big house, not a matter of two bites of food for the old man.
Who let her dislike our brother at the beginning without a father and not be hard, she had to rely on her son, saying that the grandchildren of our family can't count on it.
Count on that side, I hope she can always be relied on. I can't wait for her, I just don't want to come, who let people eat people in a big house."
But later, Xu Youyin couldn't help but wonder: His grandmother can't be sick.
Turning his mind and snorting angrily, he turned over and pondered: No matter what's going on, don't expect him to take the initiative to ask the old mansion, unless that side comes to send them a message.
His family has so much work, who will take the initiative to help his family's house.
Xu Youyin thought about it again, this time his family has to be a little ugly, if there is something wrong with the mutual market, the first joke is the family in the big house, and his grandmother will say cool things and scold his mother for being a broom and a star.
Thinking of this, my heart hardened again, and I didn't think about it anymore. If you have that spare time, you might as well ponder where your family has gone, and whether you have suffered any sin outside.
However, it can also be seen from this incident that the two brothers of the Xu family still looked forward to a real relative coming to the door in their hearts.
In particular, most of the strong laborers in the village were evacuated and returned to the rescue
When the houses and dams were flooded, many relatives from other families continued to help build the houses.
Fortunately, the village people will return to continue to help after slowly scooping up the water.
It's not a surname, but it's about the same as a real relative. What Uncle Guan said, Uncle Guan may have seen it, when he came to deliver the thatched roof that day, he said, don't look at others, your Xu family has more than 100 relatives in our village.
That's true.
Yu Dali's addition made Xu Lao Er like a tiger.
The brother-in-law and brother-in-law each carried a large thick piece of wood on their shoulders, and a lot of horsetail grass was tied around their waists, and the wood that had been ground with this grass would become smooth, and they would go down the mountain far away.
When the old and young masters in the village saw it, they threw the water ladle on their hands one after another.
Xu Lao Er came to Liu Laozhu's house and wrote a wood IOU for Pepper, the wood that he bought before building a house was only leftovers and not enough to do anything, which would lead to famine and buy two more.
Pepper was distressed, slapped her thigh and said, "Why is your nose bleeding? Wipe it off."
When he carried the wood, he accidentally hit his nose, and Xu Lao Er was not as energetic as his brother-in-law.
Pepper scolded while taking the IOU again: "Guarding so many forests, but there are always those who come to check our beams, tables and chairs, otherwise we will not be able to steal the logs, and what money will we pay." That aunt will also count you as a little root."
Xu Lao Er thought to himself: If no one checks, his daughter-in-law can make him tired of going up the mountain every day to cut wood. His house alone can cut down half of the forest.
Pepper deliberately shouted to Xu Youliang, who was in a hurry to leave: "Second child, wait a minute, you can take these eggs back." It's really that my brother-in-law's family didn't eat a lot when they came to work, so I only saved a dozen eggs, don't dislike it."
"Auntie, this can't be done!"
"How long has your brother-in-law not come back, why did your aunt add some dishes? Don't do that stumbling thing, get up at the dock and have a good meal, don't ink, otherwise it will be easy to embarrass your mother and turn home to scold you, your mother will have a lot of face."
"Auntie, then I'll make a note of it." When I get back to my house, it's a big deal to use leftovers to add a few stools to Uncle Lizheng's house.
Xu Youliang didn't expect him to leave Uncle Lizheng's house and be called by Aunt Wan again.
Aunt Wan gave four pieces of tofu: "Relatives at home who are working in the new house can't cope with eating, I just grind a few more pieces, you can take it home."
glared again: "This thing grinds its own beans cheaply, dare to ask your daughter-in-law to send copper plates, I will beat you."
Xu Youliang: Go back and use leftovers to make a few stools for Wanjia.
"Dick!" Next door, Hao Yinhua intercepted again.
Hao Yinhua heard Yu Qinniang ask her if there was any excess coarse grain salt at home, and said that she wanted to buy some.
Yu Qinniang wanted to exchange loaches for salt, but they had no choice but to take advantage of the fish. If you really do things like that, it is equivalent to opening your mouth to ask for salt next door, and you don't pay attention to it.
Yu Qinniang didn't dare to show off with the next door that my family only had fine salt left, anyway, at least what her mother-in-law left her.
Using fine salt to make the loach spit out the mud, Yu Qinniang felt distressed when she thought about it, isn't that a loser? .net
And when Yu Qinniang was asked what she was doing at night, she said that her brother was here and wanted to fry peanuts, and her brother-in-law and her man also shouted that they wanted to eat it.
Hao Yinhua thought to herself: Salt is not our own property, so I really have to accept salt money from my nephew and daughter-in-law. Because she also has to use cash to buy outside. But the peanuts are home-grown, and if she is called an aunt, no matter how much she can afford a handful of peanuts.
In this way, Xu Youliang put together four dishes for himself, and he didn't use his daughter-in-law to spend money and didn't hurry up to cook.
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The Xu family was busy until nine o'clock in the evening of modern time.
vigorously helped his brother-in-law break all the wood, and ran to the new house to finish all the windows with his sister, and Xu Laosi laid all the tiles while carrying a lot of firewood, and these four dishes were served.
Tomorrow, Dali will help his sister harvest two acres of autumn cabbage and green onions.