Farm widows have space, pick up a treasure on the way to escape

Chapter 49 He is a man of real ability

Lu Guilan was even more excited. She didn't expect to be able to return to her parents' family after getting married. She was naturally looking forward to it, but she had to consider Shen's feelings and asked, "Brother and sister, are you willing?"

Mrs. Shen lowered his head: "I listen to my sister-in-law."

Although it is indeed inappropriate to live with the sister-in-law in her parents' house, they know that this is the Lu family's intention. What's more, along the way, they all know that the Lu family is easy to get along with, and they will not be uncomfortable living together in the future.

The most important thing is that she knows that the Lu family has become prosperous, and maybe her life will get better and better by following his family.

Lu Guilan knew that she had the same idea as him, so she said directly to Mrs. Sun: "Okay, let's live with our family first. When life gets better and we save enough money, we will move out and buy land and build a house. "

Mrs. Sun then showed her previous attitude and asked, "You have the final say? Why don't you ask Hu Zi's father?"

Lu Guilan didn't expect that her mother would be so vindictive, so she laughed out loud: "It's okay, I can make the decision. He won't disagree. Besides, we haven't always lived like this."

Lu Guilan's idea was the same as He Jiu's mother's. Instead of borrowing money from her mother's family to build a thatched house and living tightly as a family, it would be better to live with her mother's family first, and then build a better house directly after making money. There is hope for the future.

Besides, my mother's family is easy to get along with, and there is no such thing as any discord.

Mrs. Sun nodded and went to tell the village chief that she wanted to build a blue brick house, and there would be more houses.

The village chief subconsciously went to see Old Man Lu. Old Man Lu looked helpless. He felt that this family had no place for him at all. His daughter-in-law would go directly to the old lady to discuss matters. His reputation was gone.

Seeing this scene, the village chief knew it was done. Just when he was about to ask, He Jiuniang spoke first: "Can the village chief help my family find some hard-working and honest men to help build the house? The more the better, fifteen cents a day." It’s wages, regardless of food, do you think this price is okay?”

This price was what He Jiuniang had thought about when she met the village chief who gave him five cents before starting work. In this era, labor costs were low, and cleaning and repair work was easier. Five cents was about the same, but building a house was also a physical job. Then I gave him fifteen cents.

At the same time, the village chief and other onlookers were also thinking about the price. Going to the county town to help out costs [-] cents a day, and they don’t care about food. However, walking to the county town is far away, delays things, and occasionally has to spend money. Buying food is different in the village. You don't have to walk a lot, and you can go home to eat. In this way, it's not much different from fifteen cents, so I'm very satisfied.

But because of the joke that Mrs. Zhang made before, everyone did not dare to talk nonsense. They looked at the village chief expectantly, hoping that the village chief would choose them.

The village chief also had selfish motives. He arranged for his three sons and two sons-in-law without hesitation, and then selected a group of people who worked hard in the village. After all, after receiving money from He Jiuniang, he had to do practical things, right? ?
He looked at the selected group of people with a stern face and said: "Since I have chosen you, you have to work hard. If I know who is sneaking around and doing some tricks, don't let me do it next time." Choose him! Do you hear me?"

"I heard!"

Not long after, the women who had returned home to get thatch also came. There were many people in the village, and they added up to a lot. Cui'er and the others saw that they had bought enough to build a house for their own family, and the rest was bought by the Lu family. .

"Isn't this enough?"

Cui'er felt a little embarrassed when she saw the pile of thatch in front of the Lu family, so she wanted to share some of what she bought with them.

He Jiuniang said: "That's enough. I just want to build a few thatched sheds to live in temporarily. I will buy tiles to use when building houses in the future."

Everyone already knows that his family is rich, so they won't be surprised anymore.

Every household has made money by selling thatch, and most of the men in the family have been selected to help build houses. This is the slack time for farmers. Building a house at this time is equivalent to giving them money, so one by one All very happy.Only a small number of lazy people did not keep thatch at home, and were not selected for work. Some of them went home angrily.

After the homestead site was determined, it was time to pay the money and write the land deed. The village chief prepared it in advance and quickly wrote the land deed and handed it over to the heads of each family. This time, the Sun family showed respect to Old Man Lu and said that the head of the Lu family was Lu. Old man, ask Old Man Lu to take over the land deed and keep it.

Then he took the money and asked Old Man Lu to hand it to the village chief to prove that he was the head of the family.

Village Chief: ...Then just pretend that I didn’t see that Mrs. Sun took out the money bag. You can just be happy.

Don't rush to build a house. After all, many materials are not available, but the straw shed needs to be built quickly, so the selected people started to work from now on. A group of people went up the mountain to cut down trees, and a group of people started As we started to build it, everyone was busy with their own work, and it became inexplicably harmonious.

Cui'er and her family's thatched houses were more convenient, so they didn't ask the villagers for help. Instead, they asked Lu Fugui and others to help build them first. Once theirs was built, they would go to help the Lu family build it together.

From the beginning to the end of the discussion, none of them mentioned the salary, because they felt that it was nothing compared to the Lu family's help for them, and they already owed the Lu family money, so naturally they would not mention it. They just want to use their actions to repay the Lu family's kindness to them.

Naturally, the eldest and second eldest brother of the Lu family and the Zhang family brothers also helped build the thatched shed. They just wanted to build a roofed one. With so many people helping, it could be built before dark.

However, He Jiuniang handed the puppy to Mrs. Sun and said, "Mom, please greet me while I go to the county town and buy some oilcloth."

"Why buy that expensive thing? It won't rain!"

From today on, she would have to spend a lot of money to go out every day. She felt distressed just thinking about it, let alone buying something that she would not use temporarily.

He Jiuniang didn't explain much, she just said: "If it is useful, you will know when the time comes."

After saying that, he untied a horse and galloped away.

The people of Anping Village were stunned. Is this woman so good at riding a horse?

No wonder she had been the one making the decisions just now. It turned out to be someone with real abilities!

Now, the villagers looked highly upon He Jiuniang.

After the village chief made all the arrangements, he returned home leisurely, and then took out the money bag He Jiuniang had given him earlier and counted the money.

"There are 68 articles in total. I didn't expect this family to be quite generous!"

The village elder's companion, Mrs. Liu, said with some surprise, and the village chief also nodded with great satisfaction: "Being generous is one thing, but the most important thing is that they are rich but they don't look down on others. They are always polite to me and the villagers." , I would be happy to have a few more families like this!"

The village chief smiled happily and said: "His house is going to be built with blue bricks and tiles, and it costs a hundred taels of silver. Let the boss and the others work carefully and don't cause me any trouble. I'll send the paperwork in a few days." When we go to the county seat, we must inquire about the origins of the Lu family!"

Mrs. Liu agreed, put away the money bag, and the smile on her lips became even wider.

(End of this chapter)