take a wife to support the family

Chapter 106 Breaking ground to build a new house 1
As the saying goes, the New Year is after Laba, and it is not over until the Lantern Festival is over.

To calculate in the long run, the year will be over after the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.However, people in Qingliu Town have returned to normal life one after another since the fifth day of the lunar new year, when the market opened and the market opened.

The fifth day of the fifth day is called Po Wu, and it is especially important to wash your hair, feet, and nails. You have to take out the knives and scissors, and use the hoe to break the ground, as a good omen.

After the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Song Haonian went to Liu Yi's place and talked about his plan: "Because these two months are not busy with the farming season, I want to repair the house and ask my elder brother and brothers for help."

Liu Yi knew that he was going to build a house, so he quickly asked, "Is the money enough? If not, we'll make some money for you." Then he asked, "What kind of house do you plan to build?"

Song Haonian had already prepared the draft in his mind, "It shouldn't be too big, there are three brick and tile main rooms, two side rooms on each side, and a side room outside the screen wall."

Liu Yi calculated silently and laughed: "There are three people in total, you want these houses?" What's more, Lamei will get married in a few years, and there will only be two people left in the family.

"Hey, your nephew and niece will always live in the future, so fix it in advance so that you won't be in a hurry." Song Haonian confidently felt that he and his wife would have many children in the future.

Liu Yi laughed, and said: "Since you have this idea, let's go to the carpenter, mason, and Mr. Yin Yang separately, and ask them to come and plan together."

When to break ground, when to erect beams, and when to move, Mr. Yin and Yang must choose a date.In less time, Song Haonian can prepare bricks, tiles and wood materials first, and discuss these with masons and carpenters.

The carpenter in the town is Liu Sanping, and they know each other well, so it is very convenient to ask him for help.The mason and Mr. Yin Yang had to bring two catties of wine and a pair of meat to the door. Liu Yi and Song Haonian went to invite them respectively. It didn't take long for them to meet at Song Haonian's home.

Song Haonian invited a few people to sit down and explained his plans. Liu Sanping is his brother, so he asked first: "Where do you live these days?"

If the house is demolished, Song Haonian will have to find a place for his family.According to common sense, it would be most appropriate to go back to old Song's house, but Liu Sanping knew that Song Haonian didn't have a good relationship with his family, so he was worried about his residence.

Song Haonian said: "If this house is not demolished, a new house will be built on the open space next to it. What do you think?"

Mr. Yin Yang is used to showing people the foundations and shady houses. He has seen a lot of fights and lawsuits over land deeds. Hearing this, he frowned and said: "Although there is no owner of the open space next to it, it will be troublesome if someone talks about it in the future. You should be a fellow villager first." The elders discuss it and write the title deed well."

Song Haonian nodded and was taught: "Tomorrow I will go to apply for the land deed."

So a few people made careful plans, how much wood was needed for each thickness, where to buy it, how many bricks and tiles were needed, where the bricks and tiles were cheap and of good quality, how much labor would be needed, how to ensure the meals of these craftsmen, and how to make furniture. ...

Mr. Yin Yang calculated the auspicious day, wrote down two red papers that would be pressed under the foundation and hung on the beams of the house, and left first holding the red envelope.

After calculating the accounts one by one, at least 12 taels of silver are needed, and a rough estimate of 15 taels of silver is enough. Both Liu Yi and Liu Sanping are not outsiders, and they are both worried about Song Haonian's family background. Talk to your brothers."

In "Jin Ping Mei", it costs 60 taels of silver to buy a Jiangning Babu bed. In "Dream of Red Mansions", 15 taels of silver are enough to feed Grandma Liu's family for a year.

In Song Haonian's place, 15 taels of silver is the couple's savings for several years, which can repair a neat tile-roofed house and build a whole room of beautiful furniture.

The brother treated him sincerely, he only felt grateful, and said with a smile: "This time I went out and sold the leather goods well, and then Uncle Wang gave us a thank you gift, and now the money is still enough. Tell the brothers, don't be rude again."

The most recent good day is on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month. Maybe Liu Yi will go back and gather his brothers first, and tell them that he will come to help when the time comes. Nian and Liu Sanping also had to go to the nearby wood-producing mountains to buy useful wood.

Before going to the mountains to look for wood, Song Haonian went to the villagers first, and explained to them that he wanted to build a new house and needed a piece of land next to the house.

Earlier, he separated from his family and built three small thatched huts with the help of his brothers. Because the land was not large and it was not a solid house, the villagers did not take care of it.

Now if he wants to build a solid house and live in it for a long time, he must sign a land deed.

That piece of land was originally unoccupied land, just pay a few contract money, write the land deed and put your fingerprints on it, and the piece of land became Song Haonian's.

The head of the Song family is also one of the village elders, and he specially reminded him: "Your daughter-in-law's vegetable field should also be written on the deed."

Song Haonian had an idea, and wrote the land deed for the vegetable field where Lily was planting and playing. The patriarch Song was partial to him, and Tete wrote the two points of land as two acres.

Because that piece of land is mostly unowned wasteland, many people have died in floods, droughts, famines, insect plagues and military riots more than 20 years ago. Now there is enough arable land in Qingliu Town. The villagers didn't care that Patriarch Song played a trick, but their performance at that time had opened up more wasteland, and the court would reward them at the end of the year.

Song Haonian went home with the land deed, asked Baihe Mimishi to put it under the box, and went to the mountains with Liu Sanping to find wood with the money.Liu Sanping told him: "Money is a must, and it is best to bring some salt. People in the mountains lack salt, and this is the most important thing."

Some families in the mountains would chop some good wood every year, dry it into wood, and then sell it outside the mountain.

To build a house, you need to erect girders, and the wood used for the girders must be strong and strong. Liu Sanping has all kinds of common rafters and wood for furniture, but the materials for the girders are not always available, so you must choose them yourself.

At this time, the wonderful use of a capable daughter-in-law appeared. There is only one man in the family, Song Haonian. If he is required to choose wood, look at bricks and tiles, and find villagers to sign land deeds, he will be cut into three sections. They are too busy.

Fortunately, Lily can be half of the master at home. Song Haonian went to pick wood, and she and the mason went to see the bricks and tiles, so there would be no delay in the work.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Song Haonian and Liu Sanping came back with wood. They brought a mule with them, and when they came back, people from the mountain brought them three or four mules. A few are good.

Liu Sanping said: "Brother Da Nian is not easy to see, people only like to deal with him, how many times I have been to the mountains, they have never treated me so affectionately. When I asked, they said Brother Da Nian is like a good person , don’t lie again. Am I a liar?”

Song Haonian laughed loudly: "My good brother, thanks to you this time!"

Bailian and Song Haonian talked about their recent achievements: "I went to three kilns, one made the best green bricks, and the other made the most solid tiles. I ordered enough quantities, and they have already opened the kilns. At most It will be delivered in a month."

Song Haonian wondered: "Why is the money used less than what was calculated before?" He just pretended to be a lily woman who was reluctant to spend money, "Building a house is a big thing, you can't save money on it."

Lily smiled and said, "I know how to settle accounts."

She is good at mathematics, and it is still possible to calculate the quantity of bricks and tiles and the optimal ordering plan. You don't need to tell Song Haonian the specific steps, just tell him: "Don't worry, you can't make any mistakes."

On the morning of the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, three craftsmen presided over the groundbreaking and set off firecrackers. Mr. Yin Yang burned incense and paper, and buried the red paper written to appease the land in the foundation that had been selected long ago.

Liu Yizao summoned a group of brothers, and each of these brothers brought their younger brother, brother-in-law and so on, all of whom were young and middle-aged men. Lily made scallion pancakes, pimple soup and spiced tea eggs to entertain them.

Liu Sanping and the masons stretched the line on the ground, and then sprinkled lime along the line to outline the foundation of the house.The brothers first dug five feet down within the designated foundation area, digging deep trenches.

The trench was five feet deep and nearly three feet wide. Under the leadership of the masons, the crowd built the foundation with stones. The middle of the stones was glued with yellow mud. 70 years is no problem.

Liu Sanping led a few other people to set up the wood, chopped and chiseled, and did not use a single nail, but only used wooden mortise and tenon joints to put together the beam structure of the house.

The size and depth of each mortise and tenon joint have been calculated very accurately. If the calculation is inaccurate, the house will definitely be crooked in the future. Liu Sanping built a house for his brother and put more effort into it. Naturally, this situation will not happen.

Li Caifeng, Song Ermei and others help Lily every day to improve her diet.

If Lily had helped her so much in her previous life, she would definitely feel uncomfortable and always wanted to repay him with her wages.However, people at this time would not want a little reward for helping their brothers unless they were working on Mr. Liu's village.

Song Haonian and Baihe could only keep everyone's favor firmly in their hearts, and help them repay when they have the opportunity in the future.

It's still winter, and it's freezing cold. A group of young men are sweating profusely when they do their work, and they all want to take off their big cotton jackets.Lily feared that one of them would catch a cold, so every meal was served with boiling hot ginger soup, and she drank it to keep warm and keep her feet warm from stomach to feet.

Every two days she boils a pot of bone soup, either with pork bones or lamb bones, with more pepper and ginger, a few slices of meat in the soup, and a few juicy radishes, drink a bowl, the soup is delicious Rich, filling and warming.

Everyone said that Song Haonian was benevolent and righteous, and he never treated others badly when others helped him.Not only Liu Yi and his brothers were eager to help, but even idlers who hadn't had much contact with each other were a little moved when they heard about it, and they were willing to help just because of the two-day pot of bone soup!
(End of this chapter)