Wen Family Has a Wife

Huang Ergou's suggestion is also selfish. Now the stone walls are built well, but he doesn't know what a house will look like. He can't wait to see the effect of building a house with lime.

Wen Youshan only hesitated and agreed, thanks to the six taels of silver. As long as the money is not used up, the house will be repaired. At that time, the wife and children will be able to live better, and there will be no need for winter. Frozen in a leaking house.

Wen Youshan frowned slightly when it came to the air leakage in the house. The four earthen houses in their family were all built by his father at the time. After a long time, the walls were mottled, and the soil fell from time to time. Sweep out some dirt and ashes. In winter, when the cold wind blows, it is easy to open cracks. The cold wind drills hard through the cracks. At night, it feels cold even when wrapped in a quilt. It's time to inspect the house and repair it, but every year, the east wall is cracked and the west wall is repaired, so it's not a good winter.

And he was a little worried that such a house would be easily crushed if it encountered heavy snow. There were houses in the village that were crushed by heavy snow before. Fortunately, no one was there at that time.

When Huang Ergou saw that Wen Youshan agreed so simply, he was immediately happy, and ran over to greet a group of people to repair the house.

The people who came to help were all stunned, didn't they say that the wall of the convent should be good? The house has not been completed yet, and the house has to be repaired. When did the Wen family have such a wealth of money, they said they would repair the house.

Huang Ergou knew what everyone was thinking by looking at everyone's expressions. After all, it was he who started this matter, and naturally it would not make it difficult for Wen Youshan to do it. He immediately stopped everything on his own. After hearing the reason, everyone envied Wen There are mountains, if this stone house can rise, it will be really good, at least not need to repair the walls every year.

He did what he said. Huang Ergou had people build the foundation and ran to get lime by himself. Wen Youshan also went up the mountain to get wood. Since he wanted to build a house, he naturally had to build beams. Fortunately, he was a carpenter himself. Just do it.

The Wen family's yard has been under construction for nearly three months, and it was finally completed before the snowfall. The lively yard was no longer laughing and scolding, and it suddenly became quiet. As soon as the door is closed, it seems to be a world of its own, so you don't have to worry about being spied on, let alone small animals that come in from time to time.

This time, the area enclosed by the yard is a bit large, it is estimated to be two acres. Before, the yard was fenced with random fences, and there was no formal shape. This time, with the help of the villagers, some uneven places were leveled. The pits were also filled in and made into a square. The four old houses in front were still there, and the newly built house was in the backyard.

Originally, Wen Youshan and Huang Ergou planned to have one room, but after finishing one room, Wen Youshan's eyes were straight. Without waiting to discuss with Chen Ningya, Huang Ergou got four connected rooms. The house, the house sits west to the east, four rooms are connected in a row, one side is close to the courtyard wall, and the other side is a huge open space.

Chen Ningya was helpless, so she had to discuss with Wen Youshan, and finally asked Huang Ergou and the others to directly build the backyard into a one-entry yard, with four houses in the west, four rooms in the east, and four rooms in the south, and the ground in the middle was covered with Stones, so you don’t have to worry about muddy roads and dirty shoes even on rainy days. In addition, a cellar was built using stones and lime, which is cleaner than ordinary cellars, and it’s not damp, so it’s easier to use.

To be honest, the houses in Fushan Village are all built casually. Wherever there is space, they can fill it up. If it wasn’t for the fences surrounding the chickens and ducks, it would be hard to tell who owns the house. The villagers have never seen such a decent house. , This is a stone wall and a stone pavement. It is bright and bright, and there are many rooms. It is not a problem to live in a dozen people, and the villagers who come to work are excited.

It's just that the house was built like this, and the money was naturally spent, and the couple settled silently in the original old house.

This time I asked people to help people. One person gave ten cents a day, and ten people came to work every day. One hundred cents a day.

The wages alone cost 8 taels of money, plus the material cost of 5 taels of silver and some scattered expenses of 2 tael of silver, a total of 7 taels of silver and 8 taels of money were spent. Fortunately, when the house was being built, the couple went into the mountains to pick up two taels. The second time, they got a couple of taels of money, and now they still have fifty-one, two-and-a-half hundred pennies in their savings. This is all their belongings.

"Ma'am, I want to go to the sea tomorrow, and try to get more things before it snows. In winter, things are expensive, and we should stock up for the winter." Wen Youshan calculated.

With the cellar, Wen Youshan's thoughts became more lively, thinking that it would be best to fill the cellar, so that even if the snow closed the mountain, he would have nothing to worry about.

"Okay! Just do as you said, I'll go with you, let's bring some clothes to keep out the cold, spend a night or two over there, and try to get more things out. It happens that the floor of the house in the backyard is not paved, and the things are I haven’t done it yet, I’ll buy something when I go back to the county town next time, you can put the floor on it, let’s find a good day to move in.” Chen Ning said beautifully, this day has hope, and the whole person’s spirit is also high Not the same.

Wen Youshan also rejoiced, "Sure, listen to the lady."

At this time, there is no such thing as laying the floor when building a house. At most, the ground is flattened. This time, the stone house was built. They couldn't afford the floor tiles either, so the couple decided to let Wen Youshan go up the mountain to cut wood and paint them, and then buy some lime for Huang Ergou and lay a wooden floor, which is better than nothing.

It happened that Wen Youshan was a carpenter. This job was a piece of cake for him. Before the house was fully built, he brought back the wood, and even made more for the furniture. They were all piled with wood, and the planks used to lay the ground had already been sawn and painted to dry, but the paint had to be painted several times, so it had not yet been laid.

At dawn the next day, before dawn, the mountain wind was blowing a little fiercely. Chen Ningya walked out of the house wrapped in two thick clothes, and was immediately shivered by the blow. Her pretty brows were slightly furrowed, and she trotted into the stove. , I secretly thought in my heart, it seems that this time I have to do more preparations for the sea, otherwise how to spend the night at the seaside, in addition to bringing more dry food.

Thinking of this, Chen Ningya gritted her teeth, turned around and went to Zhang's house to get a lot of food.

Wen Youshan and a few children were hooked by the scent, and when Chen Ningya was done with her work, she found that several heads outside the stove peeped in from time to time.

"Everyone got up? Let's eat." Chen Ningya said with a smile.

"Ow, let's eat!" Wen Yuanliang was so happy like a fool, he quickly helped Chen Ningya set the table, and Wen Yuanzhen also obediently helped with the food. The place where they eat has been moved from the courtyard to the main room.