Farmer's daughter is also self-improvement

Chapter 56
Lei Guoyu ignored her and cooked alone.While doing it, I thought, thank goodness I didn't show you the mirror Sister Sha gave me, with your annoying and funny nature, you still don't know what to say behind my back.

When everyone was sitting around the dining table, Li Shasha found that there were quite a variety of dishes on the dining table. Even the wild rabbit that Li Xianzhi hunted today was burned, and there were seven or eight of them. vegetable.It seems that grandma is really willing to spend money today!
Lei Zhengtang greeted politely: "Everyone, let's eat, but there are no dishes!" Li Yulan also said politely: "Uncle, you are too polite about the dishes on this table." Li Shasha said with a smile: "Auntie, don't talk about it." You're welcome, my brother's stomach started to growl when I heard this." Li Xianzhi glared at Li Shasha angrily after hearing this, and everyone knew Li Xianzhi's love for food, so they all burst into laughter.

After dinner, Lei Zhengtang made an appointment with Li Shasha. He would go there two days in advance to tell Li Shasha the start date, the number of people who will start work, their wages and so on.Mrs. Wu also picked a lot of things for Li Yulan to take back, but Li Yulan refused to take them back, so Lei Zhengtang was a little angry: "Then take away the things you sent!" walked away with things.

Lei Zhengtang and Li Xianzhi sent their nephew and aunt together for a while. When it was time to part, Li Xianzhi told Li Shasha: "Go back and tell grandma that I am fine here, and let her rest assured that I will definitely go back after I have practiced the basic skills. You You have to listen to grandma and aunt when you go back, don't be naughty!"

Hearing what he said, Li Shasha was pleasantly surprised, this little guy has learned a lot after only half a month away!She replied with a smile: "Brother, don't worry, as long as you don't get naughty with Grandpa's family, it's fine, your sister and I are definitely the most obedient." When she said this, Lei Zhengtang and Li Yulan both laughed endlessly.

Li Xianzhi was so angry that he stared at her with big eyes. When they both waved goodbye, Li Xianzhi watched his aunt lead his sister away with some reluctance, and just wanted to go with them.But I also remembered that I finally found a good master to learn Kung Fu, and I couldn't give up halfway, lest my sister would laugh at me for not being able to do anything for long.Lei Zhengtang patted Li Xianzhi on the shoulder, Li Xianzhi looked at Lei Zhengtang, and walked back holding Lei Zhengtang's hand with a smile.

When Li Shasha and Li Yulan returned home, Wang hurriedly asked, "How is Zhige doing there?" Li Shasha pulled Wang to sit on the chair: "Grandma, don't worry, he's only been away for half a month. I feel that he has grown a lot taller, and he has more energy when he walks. When I look at his eyes, his eyes are brighter than before. And oh, he is a lot more sensible. When we were about to break up, he kept pulling me Let me listen to you, don't be naughty."

When Wang heard what Li Shasha said, she couldn't see her teeth with a smile: "I am relieved that Brother Zhi is like this, it seems that it is right to let him learn martial arts!" Li Yulan also said beside him: "Yes, now Brother Zhi is physically fit. Well, people are obedient too, mother, when the time comes to go to a private school, it might be a good idea to have both civil and military skills!" Wang was even more happy.

On the third day, there was actively looking for the door.Mrs. Wang politely asked him to sit down, and asked Li Yulan to serve Lizheng a cup of brown sugar water first, and then two boiled brown sugar eggs.Li Zheng squinted his eyes and looked at these things, thinking that it seems that Li's second son's family has really made a fortune, and he can serve boiled eggs with brown sugar on weekdays, and he is absolutely sure of this house in his heart.

Li Shasha understood what was going on when she saw that Zheng was coming, and she stepped forward to salute and asked, "Grandpa Li Zheng, thank you for your trip." Li Zheng waved his hands with a dignified look: "Hey, you're welcome, I Since I have been the Lizheng of this village, all these hard work should be done. Let’s talk about business. I have measured the land yesterday. There are two acres and three, five taels of silver per mu, and the total is 11 taels of silver. You guys If you have time, go to my house, hand over the money to do the paperwork, and then you can start working and start the house after finishing the paperwork." After finishing speaking, he said goodbye and left.

When Mrs. Wang heard that the barren land actually cost five taels of silver per mu, she immediately felt a little reluctant to buy it.Li Shasha persuaded her: "Grandma, we all know that Lizheng is taking advantage of the fire. The problem is that we don't buy land. The land of our house is too small now, and it's no big deal if it's flipped over. Besides, I really don't want to talk to you." The next door is a neighbor." Hearing what she said, Mrs. Wang could only nod her head in agreement.

Li Shasha took the silver from the box, and went to Li Zheng's house with Li Yulan to hand over the silver, and asked Li Zheng to write the name of the land deed as Wang's. They agreed that they would be given two months to move into the new house from this day, and the old house would be taken over two months later.

On the second day after getting the title deed, Lei Zhengtang came over, and they agreed on a date to start construction, which was to officially start two days later.The masons and carpenters who came agreed on wages, two taels of silver a month for skilled workers, and one tael of silver for laymen. There were 16 people in total, and the total was less than 30 taels.

All kinds of tools were brought by the craftsmen themselves, and the raw materials for building the house, blue bricks and black tiles, were all contacted by a mason to a familiar kiln factory. Wood is the best, and there are many trees in the mountains. Lei Zhengtang led Lei Guoan Just go to the mountains with a few carpenters and chop.

The craftsmen would build a few huts to live in. Thanks to the hot weather, Li Shasha was afraid that the craftsmen would be cold in the huts at night.The three meals a day were prepared by Li Shasha's family and delivered to them.In order to cook meals for more than a dozen people, Li Shasha asked Wang to hire Zhusheng's daughter-in-law below and another daughter-in-law who cooks delicious food with quick hands and feet to help out for more than a month, and the wages are also one tael a month.

Li Shasha also told Lei Zhengtang some of her own ideas, such as not wanting to make the threshold so high, there should be walls around, her room should have a kang, and the backyard should have a dry toilet, these are different from the local houses Lei Zhengtang persuaded him for a long time about the style, but Li Shasha felt that he should do it according to his own ideas.

On the day when the work started, Li Dehai led all his family members to set off a long string of firecrackers on the wasteland, causing all the villagers to come here to watch the commotion.Many children waited for the firecrackers to be set off, so they could go and check to see if there were any explosions.For rural children, firecrackers can be played only during the Chinese New Year. Now it is very satisfying to be able to pick them up and play at this time.

All of a sudden, the wasteland was full of people, and it was very lively.On behalf of Li Shasha, Li Dehai yelled to the people in the village: "Invite all the old and young in the village to eat the flowing water mat on the day when you go to Daliang." These words received a burst of cheers from the crowd.

Li Shasha was a little speechless. It is a local custom to invite the whole village to eat the flowing water mat on the day of going to the beam. It is said that if the whole village is not invited to eat the flowing water mat, the beam will fall even if it goes up.But since it is a local custom, if she is different, she will be a different kind, and she should be born with everyone.

One day, the old lady suddenly asked Wang to go over and talk for a while, and Wang came back a little sullen.Seeing Wang's appearance, Li Shasha comforted: "Grandma, what did the old lady say? Why don't you seem very happy?" Wang sighed: "Why didn't the old lady ask your fourth grandpa to help you build a house?" .”

Li Shasha understood that the old lady wanted Li Dejiang to earn some money.In fact, you can also find him, but he is a kind of person who usually doesn't see people, and if there are benefits, he can't come and talk about it himself, and he has to let the old lady overwhelm him, so he looks down on him a bit.

Seeing that her grandma was still frowning, Li Shasha persuaded her: "Grandma, don't worry, this is actually nothing. If the old lady asks again, you can tell her that we hired a construction team that specializes in building houses." , It’s a whole, and people can’t just insert people in it. If the fourth grandpa has any opinions, let him come to us directly, maybe there will be some work in the future that will allow him to earn some money.” Wang replied: “ Now it can only be like this, I can't let people go back after doing half of it!"

The people Lei Zhengtang found were indeed very good, with quick hands and feet and beautiful work.With half a month's work, it's time to prepare for the girder.The day before going to Daliang, Li Shasha asked Xiao Shunzi to bring a whole pig from the town, and ordered ten boards of tofu from Wang Fugui's family. Li Dehai also brought more than ten big fish from the fish pond, and invited the villagers A few aunts and aunts who cooked delicious food worked for a whole day before they were almost ready.

It was the day when the girder was put on the next day. Li Shasha saw that the log that was going to be used as a girder was tied with a red ribbon and placed on a wooden shelf. She was about to reach out and touch it.Lei Zhengtang shouted from behind: "Sister Sha, you must not touch it!"

Li Shasha turned around in doubt and asked, "What's the matter?" Lei Zhengtang said with some embarrassment: "This, this is like this. The old people said that women should not touch the girder. If women touch it, the girder will not be able to go up." Go up. And when you go up to the beam, you can’t have a woman present, otherwise you won’t be able to go up.”

Li Shasha was furious when she heard that, there were only three women left at home, and even the master couldn't watch the beam go up with his own eyes, what kind of shit custom is this!It's too patriarchal!But what if she didn't obey, she couldn't get the big log by herself, so she had to walk away with a smile.

When I got home, the house was so busy that she couldn't help it.Li Yulan was taking a group of daughters-in-law to various houses to borrow tables, chairs and benches. There are not many such furniture in this country house, so if you have a big business, you usually go to various houses to borrow them.After all these things are borrowed, they have to be moved to the new house, where the running water mat on the upper beam must be opened.

Suddenly there was a burst of firecrackers, and it was officially on the girder.Li Shasha pursed her lips, this time she couldn't see with her own eyes what was going on with the girders on the house.

(End of this chapter)