The splendid years of a talented lady

Chapter 220 The New Home, The Old Show (1)
This time when the house was rebuilt, Su Xiazhi made a lot of changes.

Because the road that used to be separated from Aunt Gao's house has been reaped into the backyard, the yard of Min's house is really not small now!

The three connected rooms from the main room to the east room of the five main rooms were all built with heated kangs. The canopy bed used by Min Lansheng was moved to the west room by Su Xiazhi, and some sundries that were not needed for the time being were piled up on it.

A very spacious firewood house was built in the backyard against the courtyard wall on the east side. The winter in the north is cold and the days are relatively long. There is a fire kang at home and cooking and boiling water on weekdays. Now the firewood house is neat and tidy. They stacked firewood for half the room, and stacked eight tanks, large and small, against the walls. A rather large firewood room also appeared crowded.

The latrine built against the courtyard wall had collapsed when the courtyard was not overturned, and this time it was moved to the west side of the backyard, and the cesspit that accumulated manure was also moved out of Min's yard by Su Xiazhi to the backyard wall. outside the wall.

When this septic tank was built, she put her mind to it. The bottom of the pit was filled with a whole stone pool, and the four sides were covered with stone walls, which ensured that the excrement in the septic tank would not soak into the ground and pollute it later. Well water not far away.

Next to the latrine, a small room was purposely built, with stone as the foundation and stone bricks on top, and an exit was left, and a long ditch with stone grooves was left under the room, leading to To the small river chazi outside the village.

And in a room that took such a lot of effort, there are only two bathtubs in it!This made the people in Shanxia Village who helped the Min family build a house very incomprehensible.They all feel that the money spent by the scholar's family is not worth it!
In the eyes of farmers, it is the most useless decoration to take a bath and build a room alone!
Even Gao Zhongwu secretly asked the scholar: "Why don't you save this money? The stone troughs buried underground for water leakage cost several taels of silver!"

Xiucai immediately shook his head at that time: "My wife must not be spared if she wants to build. I wronged her when I married her. Now she has the intention to build this house better, so let her do everything. ..."

The third day of the twelfth lunar month is the day of the official move.

Before the tables, chairs and benches enter the door, a ceremony of setting the stove must be performed.The process seemed to Su Xiazhi to be very funny and unreasonable!
First of all, the memorial tablets of the ancestors of the Min family had to be offered in the yard, because they didn't know this beforehand, so they only put the memorial tablets of Min Lansheng's father on the incense table.

Putting incense on the lonely father's tablet, Min Lansheng first shouted a few times in the yard according to the rules: Jiwu Xinli, Min Lansheng, the unfilial son of the Min family, prayed for the protection of the ancestors of the Min family!
So, hearing the scholar with the charm of a banished fairy yelling like a magic stick in the yard, Su Xiazhi burst out laughing!

"Look at the joy of the scholar's house! I finally live in such a grand house! I can't even close my mouth..." The villagers who crowded into the yard and watched the bustle and waited for the 'housewarming meal' also felt that Su Xiazhi laughed. This is excusable.

After Min Lansheng yelled in the yard for a while, Uncle Six, the oldest in the village, solemnly put a new iron pot in his arms. Inside the iron pot was a square piece of snow-white tofu with A piece of red paper with the word 'Ji' written on it.

"Jiwu Jizao, the blessings of the descendants will last forever!" The sixth uncle shouted loudly, "Anzao!"

Because he shouted too loudly, the sixth uncle finally broke his voice, looked at his husband holding a cauldron with a serious expression, and entered the kitchen step by step. Su Xiazhi, who was standing in front of the crowd, had already burst into tears from laughter, and said in his heart: He doesn't cook, and I use the stove when it's installed. Isn't this a mess!
But customs are customs, especially among the people, some customs must be done meticulously!
In the newly built kitchen, there are two stoves against the wall. Su Xiazhi, who is used to two gas stoves in modern society, has always felt that it is too inconvenient to cook with only one stove at home, so this time I added another stove in the kitchen.

In the future, there is no need to waste time waiting for a steamed rice and a stir-fried dish.

So Min Xiucai placed an iron pot on the stove under the eyes of everyone, and then took another iron pot that Uncle Six handed him...

After a lot of fussing about it, everyone hurriedly moved everything outside the yard into the yard, piled it under the eaves of the new house, and left it alone.

As for returning these things to their proper places in the future, that would be a matter of tidying up slowly, and outsiders would not be able to help.

"Aunt Gao, Aunt Six, you two help me prepare meals, Gao Yue, help my sister-in-law to borrow tables and chairs from each house, and put them in the yard!"

The showman's pretentious work has been done, and Su Xiazhi started to work with his arms and sleeves rolled up.

She winked at Xiucai, signaling him to greet the neighbors who gathered at home to join in the fun in the yard, while she was going to cook the first meal after the housewarming!
This is what she promised everyone when the house was completed.

When Su Xiazhi said hello, the neighborhood neighbors who joined the fun in the yard took action together. They went home and brought tables and chairs and placed them in the yard of Min's house.

In the yard here, everyone was chatting and laughing, waiting to eat the food from Xiucai's family, and promised everyone a "big meal", and the kitchen where the stove was installed over there was already busy in an orderly manner.

The two stoves were fired at the same time, and the large kitchen became hot after a while.

Su Xiazhi, who had made full preparations before moving, had been busy in the yard for two days, steaming steamed buns, making sauced meat, frying rice noodles, pulping chicken, dicing meat, preparing the same ingredients... …Nowadays, most of the main dishes waiting to be served have become semi-finished products, which can be eaten after reheating or frying.

So don't forget to hold the ceremony of setting up the stove in the morning and then move, which didn't affect the time when the 'big meal' started.

The dishes were packed in large bowls and served on the table one by one.The people who were sitting together just now, talking about homely things, immediately shut their mouths, staring at the vegetables in the bowl and swallowing their saliva.

Rice vermicelli pork, pork knuckle in sauce, diced chicken in sauce, fried diced pork, spicy cabbage, jelly pork skin, four hot dishes and two cold dishes, a total of six bowls, not too many, but each dish is well prepared Appetite, plus a basket of steaming steamed buns, a pot of hot and sour soup, the table is full!

(End of this chapter)