Chapter 171： Stretched

Chapter 171: Being stretched thin

Mrs. Cui nodded and saw that all the villagers were there, and said, "Uncle Village Chief, I caused trouble for the village before. Hu Laosan and his wife were sold to the southern seaport to work as coolies, and the Jiao family village next door was also sold. Pay it to me.

“I planned to sell the village, but there was a lot of grain, farm tools and other items stored in the village that I couldn’t use, so I brought them all to the village. This is my apology to everyone!”

"Mrs. Jiao is too polite. We haven't lost anything. It's just because of that white-eyed wolf Hu Laosan scolding a few more times."

The village chief quickly declined. After all, Hu Laosan's plan was exposed before he even started. They really didn't help much.

But Mrs. Cui made up her mind, "Uncle, these grains and things are for everyone, just agree to accept them. I will still live in the village from now on, everyone, don't apologize, I have no shame in coming here again." ”

Seeing that she was sincere, the village chief thought for a while and said, "Okay, let's just keep it. There have been many craftsmen hired recently, and they provide one meal every day at noon, so the food is really not enough."

Everyone saw that the long carriage contained tens of thousands of kilograms of grain, and they did not have to worry about running out of grain throughout the spring and summer.

Therefore, both young and old were extremely happy and started to express their thanks one after another.

“Thank you, Mrs. Cui, this food is really a big help.”

"Yes, Mrs. Cui, we are a family. Please don't say anything to cause trouble in the future."

"So, Hu Laosan did a great thing by coming to cause trouble. If he hadn't come to cause trouble, we wouldn't have gotten so much food."

“Haha, that makes sense. If anyone doesn’t like us, if we have a few more, our village will become rich.”

Everyone was joking and joking, and it was very lively for a while.

Mrs. Cui patted the good news in her arms and spoke to Mrs. Li and her family.

"Auntie, this time Fu Niu, brothers Qiu Sheng and Hong Ying are all wronged. I know you can't accept the money and food given. Fortunately, the Jiao Family Manor has a full set of high-quality wooden utensils. I asked everyone to Put it away. When our family moves to a new house, I will send it to you. It will be considered as my apology and a congratulatory gift, okay?"

She thought carefully and did not spend money specially, so she still collected the Jiao family's wool.

Sure enough, Mrs. Li agreed immediately, "Okay, this thing is just for use. Auntie took it."

Mrs. Cui felt relieved and asked everyone to unload the truck.

I have to say that the Jiao family is living a good life. There is more grain in Zhuangzi than in the Zhuangzi in charge of the Marquis.

Coarse grains such as sorghum and millet weighed more than 8,000 kilograms. One thousand catties of japonica rice, three thousand catties of husk rice, and about six hundred catties of fine flour. There are also more than a dozen bags of beans of various colors, and countless cabbages and radishes.

The villagers were like ants, and it took them a full hour to finish moving.

The village chief was afraid of rain, so he ordered the villagers to urgently build a large shack to temporarily serve as a warehouse.

Each family donated linoleum and covered it tightly with the shacks for fear that rain would leak and the food would be wasted.

With such a busy schedule, it’s already mid-afternoon.

But everyone looked at the shack and felt particularly at ease.

Food is life, especially for people who have no foundation. This temporary granary is like the first root they have planted, finally giving everyone some confidence.

The village chief waved his pipe and gave some instructions to the women, and the dinner was extraordinarily sumptuous.

 Mixed japonica rice and millet to cook two rice, plus cabbage and tofu stewed with pork belly, making everyone happily holding the earthenware bowl while eating and giggling.

Jiayin couldn't help but get greedy after eating egg custard mixed with rice. She opened the snack box that Mrs. Cui brought and took a piece of walnut cake.

She was afraid that her grandma would nag her, so she stayed close to Mrs. Cui, gnawing attentively like a little mouse, and even knew how to catch the crumbs with her little hands.

Mrs. Li saw her and nodded her granddaughter's forehead dotingly.

Mrs. Cui smiled and held Jianyin in her arms, put a handkerchief on her legs, and let her eat as much as she wanted. After dinner, the village chief and the first few escorts, Uncle Zhao and Liu, also came over to the Li family and talked around the fire.

They also knew about the tragedy of the Guo family, and Mrs. Cui told them that the Guo family might buy the village next door.

At the end, she sighed and said, "When the time comes, I'm afraid I'll have to talk to Chief Guo about what happened. After all, neither Senior Brother Wen nor I saw it with our own eyes, so we shouldn't bother Brother Qiu Sheng and Liu Biao to go there and make personal witnesses."

Li Laosi and Liu Biaotou quickly responded, "This is right. We helped bury the Guo family. We must tell them where their bones are buried and the books. We must take them back if we have the opportunity in the future."

The village chief and Uncle Zhao are a few years old, and they sympathize with the equally old Mr. Guo Shanzhang, who lost all his children and grandchildren at once despite the white-haired man giving away the black-haired man.

"I must advise the Guo family to express their condolences. This is the way the world is. You must think more about the living people."

"Yes," Mrs. Li also nodded, and asked the fourth child and the **** Liu, "When the time comes, you should be more tactful and don't go into too many details. The old man will be even more sad after hearing this. If you only know that he was killed, the bones should be buried properly. , it will be better.”

The village chief, Uncle Zhao and others were also thinking about this, so they said, "The elder sister is right. When the time comes, Lao Si and Liu Biaotou will act accordingly."

Li Laosi and Liu Biaotou quickly agreed and told Mrs. Cui that they would come over in advance to send a message.

Since the matter was settled, everyone put it aside for the time being.

Construction inside and outside the valley is now the busiest time.

In the village, half of the foundations of each house have been laid. If nothing else, they will be ready to move in in another month.

Originally, I wanted to build an independent courtyard for each family. At most, I would build three main rooms if there were fewer people in the family, and a wing room if there were more people in the family.

But the more than one thousand taels that I had collected earlier turned out to be a bit stretched.

The villagers discussed it and decided to build four rows of houses with ridges, so that each family shares the east and west Fangshan. For those who also want to build wing rooms, the east and west wing rooms are back to back and save a wall.

In this way, the advantage is that the cost is greatly reduced, but the disadvantage is that each company and each company are too compact.

But in this extraordinary period, it is good to be able to settle down and put down roots, but it is not easy to insist on perfection in everything.

However, there are exceptions. The houses of Mr. Ye and Mrs. Cui, together with the Li family, are a self-contained whole and are located at the entrance of the village.

The main courtyard is the Li family courtyard, with three main rooms, plus the east and west wing rooms, which are very spacious and generous.

The courtyards of the Cui family and the Ye family are slightly smaller, and they also have a main house and east and west wings.

From a distance, the three courtyards look like swallow wings, vaguely guarding the entrance to the village and protecting every family in the village behind them.

 Mrs. Cui and Mr. Ye's courtyard is nothing more than that. The family took the money themselves, and the family is the protector of the whole village.

But the Li family felt that they had taken advantage of the village, and the old lady always wanted to make some compensation.

But most of the money saved by the family was used to build the valley, and there was not much left. I still need to keep some for emergency use, and I plan to let Jiaren continue his studies. In short, I really can't get too much money.

So, after a long time, Fu Niu, this precious granddaughter, played the bed magic trick with her grandma again and conjured up ten fifty-tael silver ingots.

This was obtained from Master Ye in exchange for a pill and a silver ingot. She hid it for a long time, but now it comes in handy.

Mrs. Li hugged her granddaughter, but she didn’t know where the money came from. She was even more worried that her granddaughter was young and didn’t know the importance of it, which would ruin her longevity.

But when I asked my granddaughter to take it back, she refused. She really didn’t sleep much all night.

(End of this chapter)