1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 203 Rapid Progress

It was almost noon, but Zhu Tianpeng didn't let him go. He took him to the dining shed at the brick kiln and invited him to have lunch together.

After finishing his meal and leaving the brick kiln, Liang Ziqiang was walking on the road when he realized that the six seaweed buns in his cloth bag were of no use today.

The tile kiln and the brick kiln are not in the same village. Liang Ziqiang continued his journey in the afternoon and finally found a tile kiln. He paid a small deposit and decided on the tiles for building the house.

Because the locations were relatively scattered, by the time he finished these two things, it was already late and he couldn't go to the county town. He returned to Pomfret Village, eating seaweed buns all the way.

When I got home and met my father, I learned that he had gone around the village today and had already identified 22 laborers who would come to start the work.

Among them were small laborers who dug soil, carried mud, mixed mortar, and carried bricks, as well as large laborers who could wield knives and build walls. Liang's father had a good grasp of the proportions.

Seeing that it was not yet dark, Chen Xiangbei quietly pulled his sleeve:

"Aren't you going to take me to see the place called Orange Hill? What a wonderful place you chose. I have never even seen it once!"

It was rare for Chen Xiangbei to be so impatient. It seemed that her expectations for building a new house were no less than his.

He looked at the sky:

"Let's do it tomorrow. Before we go to the county town tomorrow, let's get up early and I'll take you to see our new home. The view there will definitely be better in the morning than it is now!"

"Okay, then tomorrow morning. Don't forget about it as soon as you get up and run to the county town!" Chen Xiangbei reminded.

In fact, it didn't matter whether Liang Ziqiang forgot or not. Anyway, the next day, as soon as the sky was getting light, he was woken up by his wife.

Liang Ziqiang still hadn't gotten enough sleep, and protested with a dissatisfied look on his face:
"Why are you poking my kidney? You're poking me instead. I haven't poked you in a long time!"

"Huh?" Chen Xiangbei was stunned by what he said, "Have you poked me before?"

"Why not? Before you got pregnant, every night you didn't? Every time you seemed to be crying and laughing, it made me feel like I was neither serious nor gentle. I don't know whether you were feeling uncomfortable or enjoying it..."

"You're itching again!" If Chen Xiangbei still couldn't understand this, her married life would be wasted. She was so angry that she didn't poke anymore. She changed her one-finger Zen to random punches, hitting and kicking.

If she hadn't kept him to take her to Juzipo to look at the land this morning, he believed she would beat him to death without leaving him a single breath.

The couple dressed, ate a quick breakfast, and went outside. It was windy as usual today, but luckily they both wore new winter clothes.

He was afraid that she was cold, so he held her little hand in his own and then walked along the path together.

She struggled a bit, feeling very embarrassed: "How can you walk like this? If someone sees us, we will be laughed at!"

"She's my wife, not stolen from me. Whoever wants to laugh can just laugh!" Liang Ziqiang didn't let go.

She accepted her fate and her face turned red, not knowing whether it was because of the wind or because of her own swelling, but it went all the way to the Orange Hill.

He first showed her the entire piece of land, the soft and undulating slopes, as graceful as a woman's lines.

Then he helped her walk up the hill, and stood on the hill to watch the winter sunrise. The sun gradually rose from its dormancy and hung on the branches, like an oversized orange belonging to Orange Hill.

"This place is so beautiful. Why didn't I notice there was such a place in the village?" The daughter-in-law's hair was messed up by the morning breeze, and her words were confused by the scenery in front of her. She didn't know how to praise it.

"I didn't expect that you, with your stupid head, are quite picky and only pick the good-looking ones!" Chen Xiangbei both belittled and praised him.

"Of course, otherwise why would I pick you to bring home?"

"You're such a chatterbox!" There was no one else here. Standing on the gentle slope, she was very happy to be praised by her man for her good looks. She scolded him for being such a chatterbox, but a smile remained on her lips.

If she knew that he chose this place not because of the beautiful scenery, but because it would bring in appreciated wealth in a few years, wouldn't she be standing on this slope and laughing?
But some things were destined to remain unsaid, so he could only look at her silently and chuckle.

Even so, she already had two dimples on her face from smiling.

Coming down the gentle slope, he brought her to the bamboo grove.

"Look, our house is built here, facing south. This is the main room, where we sleep and continue to make babies. A little further over, this is the place to take a bath, and this is where we poop..." He explained everything he knew in detail.

When she heard about making a baby, she gave him a look so charming that it could pull out silk.

Then the next thing I heard was poop, and my whole state collapsed instantly. I clenched my little fists and continued to beat him up...

Liang Ziqiang enjoyed a morning massage and said with a refreshed look:
"Look, my wife, if you sit here and take care of your baby, looking at the beautiful mountains and rivers for a long time, the baby you give birth to will be handsome."

"Anyway, he's better looking than his father!" Chen Xiangbei glanced at him with a smile.

A new house, welcoming a new life. Thinking of that scene, both of them could not help but feel fascinated.

Fortunately, there is no custom in their area that prohibits pregnant women from moving. If there is a custom, it is only said that you cannot move to a new house in the last three months of pregnancy, because it is said that it will disturb the fetal spirit.

In fact, this custom has certain practical reasons, because people are afraid that pregnant women will have to deal with various inconveniences when moving with a big belly in the last three months.

Considering the progress of my new house, I definitely don’t have to wait until the next three months.

Liang Ziqiang pointed to the stream behind the plot and showed it to her. The water supply for cooking and washing clothes, which she was most concerned about, was not a problem here.

After returning from Juzipo, he went out again, this time to the county town.

The sea was rough and not suitable for sailing, so we walked to the town and then took a bus to the county seat.

Cement, lime, sand and soil were all settled on this day.

Sand is actually the most abundant thing when living by the sea, as there is plenty of it on the beach. But this kind of sand cannot be used to build houses.

Sea sand has a high salt content. If it is really used to build a house, it will not bond bricks together but will corrode walls and steel wires.

Therefore, if you want to use sand to build a house, you have to buy river sand specifically.

In the following days, we started to level the land. Starting from the 23rd, we hired about villagers to come to the selected land near the bamboo grove, remove the shrubs and weeds, and level the entire land in preparation for the official start of construction in a few days.

At the same time, I went to the streets to buy various dry goods that could be stored for a long time, and also bought a batch of bowls and chopsticks for more than 20 people to eat. As for fresh vegetables and meat dishes, they could not be stored for too many days, so I had to wait until the official start of the work and go to the town early every morning to buy them temporarily.

Two days before the start of construction, the weather improved a little, with little wind and few big waves.

Li Liang has been busy with his wedding recently. Maybe he found that there are too many places to spend money. When he saw that the weather was good that day, he took the initiative to find Liang Ziqiang and asked whether he wanted to go out to sea today.

The Lesser Snow solar term has passed, and Liang Ziqiang no longer holds out much hope for the winter flood in Longjuling, but since the weather is calm, he still has to try his luck.

We boarded the boat and wandered to Longjuling again...

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