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Chapter 155 Popeye Eats Spinach (Two Chapters In One)

The other two rooms are opposite to each other, with a wide corridor in the middle.

How wide is it? There are two windows over a foot high at the end of the corridor, and the width of four stoves side by side is built under the windows.

It's just that there is no pot on the stove, only four big holes.

The walls on both sides of the corridor are the places where food and vegetables are stored.

Dali asked Xu Youyin: "Do we need to dig a cellar to store vegetables in the new house? Otherwise, it will be troublesome and long to go back and forth."

Xu Youyin said:

"No, I can't do it, I can't do it at all.

You don't know, when every family didn't need to wash water to block the dam, there were enough manpower to build houses.

Otherwise, these four rooms in my house would not have been built so quickly, and you will have to build a large area here. These were all tasks assigned by Uncle Li Zheng before he left. It would be very tiring for everyone to wake up early and stay late at night.

At that time, I didn't even dare to think about digging a cellar, let alone now.Each family couldn't take care of it at all, and more than 30 people 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 single house. Everyone is in the same yard. If you make a cellar to store things, it's easy to tell which one belongs to which one. If you lose something, it will be very distressing."

Xu Youyin agreed:

"Yes, I also took this into consideration, I'm afraid I can't explain clearly.

My mother said to do business together, such as selling grass seed porridge, and help the villagers if you can. It’s nothing to say, everyone’s life is not easy.

When our family dug the foundation and built the house, all the uncles in the village stretched out their hands.If you haven't seen it, they don't want to pay and leave after work, so they help a lot.

So my mother said that some elderly people in the village don't know what to sell, and they don't have much money to spend, so she can help them figure out ideas, or they can give in, and they won't make any money, which is fine.

But when it comes to business, our family speaks from the heart, some things still need to be clearly distinguished in the future, it is best to close the door and make money from each family, and not mix them together in a mess.

Just push the rice, noodles, and vegetables back and forth, so as not to make it clear that the quarrel hurts the relationship, and 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 elder brother will be left here in the new house to play shifts.

Anyway, they are little bachelors.

Besides, compared to my own home, I am now more interested in the big kang here. It is so luxurious here, and it is more refreshing to roll around anywhere than at home.

After Dali entered the house, he found that the area that Xu Youyin said was large enough to roll around, but the kang mats had not been laid yet.

Just looking at the two rooms, the layout and area on both sides are basically the same.

Leave a place at the door to take off your shoes, and then you can get on the kang by stepping on it at palm height.

Rather than saying it is the ground, it is better to say that the kang is laid directly on the ground.

Xu Youyin showed off:
"Don't dare to step on it, it's okay, step on it hard, you should feel the heat, right?
The floor kang was still damp for ten days after it was built, and the roof of the rain shed leaked again and watered it.

Don't mention it, those days I blocked this side and leaked that side.There was a tornado in the heavy rain outside, and the light rain in the house hadn't had time to install the windows. My house had many windows, so the wind was blowing from north to south, whining, exactly like a haunted house.

People who said that they were on the road for those few days were scared.

The rain has stopped in the past two days, so I will burn the new kang twice a day, morning and evening, for fumigation, and run around to warm up, so I can do it quickly. "

Dali dared to step hard on the floor kang. It was great. This brick kang was different from his.

If you don't say that a penny is a penny, good things are really worth it.

It's just too much money up front.

It's also very thoughtful, this is a one-time investment, and you can worry about it in the future, just pick up the deposited kang ash every autumn.Unlike most houses, a piece of the yellow mud kang will collapse every other year, either the top or the top of the kang, and if it collapses, it must be rebuilt.The Xu family didn't need it for five or six years.

He laughed vigorously and said, "The more you look at it, the better. This way we can accommodate more people to eat."

Xu Youyin followed Shale and said:
"Isn't it just because of this that I made such an arrangement.

Otherwise, the fire wall and the stove must be specially reserved in the room, which will result in fewer tables.

It is easy to burn people by the stove, and it is not possible to arrange guests to sit down, and there will be two or three tables less.

We all know that there is a one-and-a-half-foot-high kang pestle like our house. In fact, there can't be much space on the high kang, and it can support six small round tables.

Didn’t you just think that there were enough tables for what you could do?Making money is no joke, and caravans don't come every day. Each one leaves and one is missing. You must find a way to earn as much as you can. Simply dig the flue deep into the ground and build as many kangs as the ground allows. "

Xu Youyin gestured at the table setting and the size of the seats: "If we just put a few long tables like this, the east and west rooms combined can accommodate a hundred people. It won't be a problem. My second brother doesn't need to make wooden stools, and he can sit down with his legs crossed. Still warm.”

"Is the table finished?"

"I haven't finished playing. I can't do it at all. My second brother is almost exhausted. The legs of the table are not fixed, and the tabletop can't be polished."

While Xu Youyin was talking, he stooped to open a wooden lid like a showman, and continued: "Brother Dali, can you see where our stove is hidden? We burn a fire under the ground, and cook dumplings and steamed buns on it. The entire kang is completely heated. Think about whether our house will be warm in winter, it is probably warmer than the big house where we entertain distinguished guests."

Dali followed and took a closer look. To put it bluntly, it was like digging a cellar in the house. Inside the cellar was a stove for burning fires. There were six stove pits in total. Some firewood was stored there, and the six pots above were level with the floor kang.

Anyway, this kind of design is fine if there are no children, and children are easy to fall asleep and roll into the pot.

Xu Youyin smiled and said that it is impossible to have children.

Looking at his second brother, he doesn't look like he's going to have a child anytime soon.

"Ah, Brother Dali, don't misunderstand me. I don't blame your sister and my sister-in-law for what I mean. Everyone in our family knows this. My mother once said it herself. She doesn't want to give birth to a baby. If you have the ability, you can give birth if you don't." If you pull it down, it's because of my brother that you can't do it."

His mother also said, if you are really in a hurry, you can't go to see it tomorrow if you have spare money.

Because Guan Ertu doesn't treat this aspect mainly, and the level of andrology and gynecology delivery is not good, so he will give others drugs.

As for boys and girls, I don't even pick them.

Can peppers be grown from eggplant seeds?I will never rely on my daughter-in-law not to have a son.Just by looking at her treatment of Tian Xin, you can tell that boys and girls are the same in her eyes.It’s not like there’s a lot of wealth to inherit, but there’s more than 70 taels of famine.

But Xu Youyin could only think about the following words in his heart. He couldn't explain them clearly because he was his brother-in-law.

Dali: "..." He was not comforted at all.

And this is true that the emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuch is.

His mother was very anxious about his sister not having a baby. Every year, she offered incense and worshiped gods, kowtowed and leaked several pots.Unexpectedly, the mother-in-law didn't rush at all.

As for how many miles away the village is from the shop, children will not be allowed to come here to make trouble, so there will be no problem of children falling into the pot at all.

Xu Youyin hurriedly changed the subject: "Currently, the east and west houses combined have a total of twelve stoves, but... there are no pots."

Dali: I understand.

It can be seen that Mrs. Xu's statement "It's not that our family can't afford a pot" is a lie. She just can't afford it and is trying to be brave. She wants to go out to earn money and take it easy.

At this time, Dali's face was also full of joy. Although it was stressful to owe money, he really looked at what was better.

I have never seen such a neat house before, and I feel that it is easy to look down on the houses built by other houses in the village.

However, there is also a problem, Dali said vaguely: "It just stinks, no wonder you have so many windows in these few rooms."

Xu Youyin nodded: his feet alone can make his niece frown, and it is conceivable that more than a hundred people carry goods and walk.

To put it bluntly, the Xu family opened these few shops, and in terms of internal layout, in mother's words: it is still people-oriented.

I thought it would be really cold in the Northland in winter, and if I walked on the road for so many days, I would be freezing.

You can’t consider whether it’s smelly or not. Let’s open the windows to release the smell after every group of people leave. Everything should be based on the warmth of the guests.It's better if it's too hot to lie on the kang of his house and don't want to go, that's even better.

At that time, the long tables will be withdrawn, and a list will be set up to sleep all over the floor at night. Even if you don't pay for accommodation, you can still earn breakfast money for the next day.

Xu Youyin has been trained by Mrs. Xu in recent days, and he has gradually become accustomed to using his brain to think about problems. He also wondered: Who said it, why the mutual trade suddenly happened in winter.We, the people at the bottom, don’t understand what the people above us mean.

If this is the summer exchange market, why bother to spend so much brick money.

In summer, I can set up a big shed outside to do food stalls as my mother said.My niece said that if it is summer, I will buy teppanyaki and make teppanyaki, and he wants to eat it.

Above, the four houses of the Xu family have been read.

Xu Youyin took Dali's arm and went to the back. At one moment he pointed enthusiastically at the livestock shed behind the house, and at the next he pointed out the stone house to Dali and said, "That's the shared water well there. Our house is in the middle. The well is closest to our house."

"Let's go, I'll take you to see the hut again. There's a big hole dug, and the men and women are divided into the north and the south. Do you have any now? If you want to squat, next year you don't have enough manure in your house, come here to pick."

I didn’t look at the hut, and I didn’t have time to take a look at the houses built by other people. Dali stopped doing it first. When are you going up the mountain?"

When Xu's second son left with his brother-in-law and Yu Qinniang, Xu's fourth son was full of regret.

To be honest, he didn't show off enough to introduce the kung fu of a cup of tea.

He wasn't elated, but it was the first time his relatives were able to talk about it in detail.

Xu Youyin climbed the ladder and continued to put tiles on the roof silently.

Xu Youyin is the one who is the least afraid of fighting with his grandma, as long as his grandma dares to come to find fault with his mother, he will do it.

In the words of the third brother who couldn't quarrel with his grandmother once: "Let the fourth child go!"

Among his three brothers, the second brother is the most benevolent and easily soft-hearted.

A few days ago, it wasn't just the two brothers and the second sister-in-law left at home.

His second brother suddenly said after eating:
"It's raining heavily and windy, and our family is still guarding the river.

Logically speaking, grandma is a person. Even if she is angry, she will come to see her as usual.

Besides, there were so many relatives in the village who got into trouble with each other, and quite a few of them clamored to sever ties, but things were still the same after that.From now on, just don’t bring your eldest aunt to our house to take advantage.

She is an old man, can we kick her out if she really comes to the door?When it's time to enter the house to eat, eat, she eats whatever we eat.

So I wondered why it was such a big deal for our family to build a house. If you don’t believe me, I haven’t heard of it. "

At that time Xu Youyin said:

"It's better if you don't come, if someone cares, it will add to the chaos.

This kind of relative doesn't move around so you don't have to worry about it. Don't make trouble for your mother. It's more important to be filial to your mother than to be filial to your mother.

What's more, if our family keeps in touch with the nurse diligently, we will inevitably have many quarrels with the other side of the house.

Who made us think that our elder brothers were not strong without a father, she insisted on relying on her son, saying that our grandchildren in this house could not be counted on.

Let's count on that side, I hope she will always be reliable.If she can't help it, she just doesn't want to come, whoever makes the big house cannibalize her mouth. "

But afterward, Xu Youyin couldn't help but wonder: Could it be that his mother was sick?

After thinking about it, he groaned angrily and rolled his eyes: Don't care what's going on, don't expect him to run to the old house to ask, unless the other side comes to pass a message to them.

His family has so much work, who will take the initiative to help his house.

Xu Youyin thought again, this time his family is a bit ugly, if something goes wrong in the exchange market, the first one who can't stop the joke is Dafang's family, maybe his grandma will make sarcastic remarks and scold him Mother is a broom star tossing around.

Thinking of this, my heart hardened and I stopped worrying blindly.If you have some free time, you might as well think about where your family has gone and whether they have suffered any misfortune outside.

However, it can also be seen from this incident that the two brothers of the Xu family really thought that they had hoped for a real relative to come to visit.

Especially when the village evacuated most of its strong laborers to rescue flooded houses and dams, and many relatives from other families came to continue to help build houses.

Fortunately, when Dali came, the villagers would return to continue to help after washing the water slowly.

Although it is not a surname, it is the same as a real relative.This is what Uncle Guan said.Uncle Guan may have noticed 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.

It really came according to the words.

Yu Dali's joining made Xu's second child even more powerful.

The brother-in-law and brother-in-law each carried a big thick log on their shoulders, and a lot of horsetail grass was tied around their waists. The wood polished with this grass would become smooth, and they went down the mountain far away.

When the young and old in the village saw it, they threw the water ladle on their hands and gave their hands.

Xu Laoer came to Liu Laozhu's house and gave Pepper a fingerprint of a lumber IOU. The wood he bought before to build a house only had leftovers, which was not enough to do anything. Now he would have to buy two more logs to cause famine.

Pepper was so distressed, he patted his thigh and said, "Why is your nose bleeding? Wipe it off."

He accidentally hit his nose when he was carrying a piece of wood, Xu Er Er is not as strong as his brother-in-law.

Pepper took the IOU and scolded again: "We are guarding so many forests, but there are always some debtors who come to check our beams, tables and chairs. Otherwise, can we cut wood secretly, and how much money do we have to pay? Auntie turned around and told your uncle to write Two small roots."

Xu Laoer thought: If no one checks, his wife will make him tired of logging in the mountains every day.Only his family can cut down half of the forest.

Pepper specifically called out to Xu Youliang who was in a hurry to leave: "Boy, wait a minute, you can take these eggs back. In fact, my brother-in-law and his family didn't have much to eat when they came to work, and they only saved a dozen eggs in total." dislike."

"Auntie, this is not acceptable!"

"How long does it take for your brother-in-law to come back? What's wrong with your auntie adding some food? Don't do such a foolish thing, just treat yourself to a good meal at the end, or you will embarrass your mother and scold you when you get home. How many people want face."

"Auntie, I'll make a note of it." When I turned around and finished my homework, I would add a few stools to Uncle Lizheng's house with leftovers.

Xu Youliang didn't expect that when he left Uncle Lizheng's house, he would be stopped by Aunt Wan's family again.

Aunt Wan's wife gave her four pieces of soybean curd: "My relatives are here to help with the work at the new house and they can't eat. I happened to grind a few more pieces of tofu. You can take it home quickly."

He glared again: "This thing is cheaply ground by our own beans. If you dare to ask your wife to give you copper coins, I will beat you up."

Xu Youliang: Later, he used leftover materials to make some stools for Wanjia.

"Second brother!" Hao Yinhua next door stopped him again.

Hao Yinhua heard that Yu Qinniang asked her if she had any extra coarse-grained salt, and said she wanted to buy some.

Yu Qinniang wanted to exchange loach for salt, but they had no choice but to take advantage of the fish.If you really do things like that, it's like opening your mouth to ask for salt from the next door, and you don't pay attention.

Yu Qinniang didn't dare to tell the truth to her neighbors, there is only fine salt left in my house, anyway, at least that's what her mother-in-law left for her.

Using fine salt to make the loach spit mud, Yu Qinniang feels distressed when she thinks about it, isn't that a prodigal?
While buying some coarse salt with Hao Yinhua next door, when Yu Qinniang was asked what she was doing at night, she casually said that her brother was here and wanted to fry some peanuts, and her brother-in-law and her man wanted to eat too.

Hao Yinhua thought to herself: Salt is not our own product, so we really have to take salt money from my nephew-in-law.Because she also has to use cash to buy outside.But the peanuts are grown at home, so if she calls her aunt, she can still afford a handful of peanuts.

Just like that, Xu Youliang gathered four dishes for himself, it was useless for his wife to spend money and hurry up to cook.

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That day, the Xu family was busy until nine o'clock in the evening modern time.

Dali helped his brother-in-law break all the wood, and went to the new house to finish all the windows with his sister, and finished all the tiles with Mr. Xu and brought back a lot of firewood at the same time. These four dishes were served on the table.

Tomorrow, Dali will help his sister harvest autumn cabbage and green onions from two acres of land.

(End of this chapter)