Chapter 14 Moving into a new home
In an open space about five meters away from the courtyard wall in the backyard, three grapefruit trees, two longan trees, a yellow fruit tree, two lychee trees, and two peach trees were planted.
Zhao Xiang circled a small piece of land, saying that it was time to plant some bamboos.
At this point, the family finally has a family and has officially taken root in Lingnan.
On the day they moved into the new house, the hearts of the whole family fell to the ground, and they felt at ease like never before.
Everything in the house was sorted out, and Zhao Liya asked someone to dig a well.
It was also lucky that the well diggers were optimistic about the location and selected the backyard. After drilling down less than two meters, there was water. Now, it will be much more convenient to use water in the future.
These six taels of silver are worth the money.
According to Zhao Liya's request, Aunt Li Shiyi did not go back for the time being, and stayed at Zhao's house.
What Zhao Liya said was very pitiful. My family has no foundation here, and I don't have anyone to help and point out. I don't have time to work, so I asked Aunt Li Shiyi to stay for a while and help out.
Of course, Aunt Li Shishi is willing to stay and help, including food and lodging, and a monthly salary of 200 Wen.
Aunt Li Shiyi agreed without much hesitation.
The Zhao family is good, and she and the Deng family can get along quite well, and this pair of young children are even more sweet-talking and cute, and they are extremely painful. Aunt Li Shiyi is actually willing to stay.
What's more, her husband has long passed away, and her daughter got married a few years ago, and she is the only one in the family. Life is not easy, and it is very boring.
Being able to stay in the Zhao family, there are many people, the atmosphere is good, and you can get paid, where can you find such a good job?
Mr. Deng was quite familiar with them, and she was very happy to see her agree.
Aunt Li Shiyi went back to pack a few clothes that day, entrusted someone to take care of the vegetable garden at home, and came here happily.
And early this morning, Zhao Liya and Hu Ling went into the city again.
Although most of the things in the house have been added properly, I still need to buy some more.
In Zhao Liya's words, if you don't take advantage of this time to purchase quickly, it will be inconvenient to purchase in the future.
They have already released words to cry about being poor, saying that in order to build the house firmly, they have spent all the money in the family and have no money!
Then at least make it look like you have no money in the future.
The Gu family is still holding back their energy and looking for something to do. The money is too conspicuous, so they must not buy it frequently.
So today, Zhao Liya bought another three hundred catties of rice, various seasonings of oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, herbal tea herbs, anti-mosquito and heat stroke and other commonly used medicines, fine cotton cloth, coarse cloth, Gebu, needles and threads, etc. also bought a lot.
Min cotton cloth is cut into middle clothes and worn inside, and coarse cloth clothes are put on outside, and two patches can be made after a while.
I also bought 20 adult chickens and kept them in the chicken coop. They should be able to lay eggs in a short time, and I can kill one if I want to eat meat.
She wanted to buy ducks, but they were not sold.
The two hired a bullock cart to bring a cart full of supplies home. Instead of going directly into the village, they unloaded all the goods and piled them next to the path, and then transported them back from the path one after another, and entered the yard through the back door.
Fortunately, their family lived on the edge of the village and no one saw them.
50 catties each of sun-dried soybeans, red beans, mung beans, and peanuts. Kohlrabi, pickled vegetables, dried vegetables, etc. are stored in a row of knee-high jars in the small storage room next to the kitchen. There are also dried fungus, dried shiitake mushrooms, dried tofu skin, dried sea fish, eggs, etc.
It's a pity that it's only June now, so there's no way to store meat. Otherwise, Zhao Liya would buy half a fan of pork and store it up to eat slowly.
Don't panic if you have food in your hand, you can pretend to be poor in a low-key manner.
At noon, Aunt Li Shishi came.
The main house of the Zhao family and the wing rooms on the east and west sides are two-story buildings. The bedrooms of Zhao Xiang and Deng's couple, Zhao Liya and Zhao Lixiang are all on the upper floor of the main house.
Hu Ling led Zhao Lin to live in the upstairs bedroom of the East Wing.
There is another bedroom upstairs in the main house, so Aunt Li Shiyi is invited to live in it.
The Zhao family wanted to make friends with Aunt Li Shiyi and Zaihu Village behind her, so naturally they refused to treat her badly.
Aunt Li Shiyi was very happy, she made some excuses and stayed.
The house built of blue bricks is clean and tidy. In the bedroom, there is a bed with a white cotton gauze mosquito net, a rectangular table beside the bed, a large wardrobe, and a chest of drawers, all of which are new.
The house is built, it's time to fence the vegetable garden.
There is a large open space at the gate, and vegetables can be grown by surrounding it to open up wasteland.
The next morning, Zhao Liya was going to go up the mountain to chop bamboo and vines to surround the vegetable garden, but Zhao Xiang insisted that she should go by herself, "Your girl is at home, let dad do this kind of hard work! Although dad can't, But I gradually learned that these things must be learned sooner or later."
Zhao Liya thinks it makes sense, her father is not yet forty years old, and when he comes to this place, he will have to do farm work sooner or later!
"Okay, then take your time at first and be careful."
"Hehe, don't worry, your father is learning quickly!"
Hu Ling also smiled and said, "With me here, I will take good care of my adoptive father."
Zhao Liya's heart warmed, and she smiled brightly: "Well, it's lucky to have brother here!"
So, after breakfast, Zhao Xiang and Hu Ling went to cut bamboo and wood with hatchets on their backs.
Aunt Li Shiyi couldn't stay idle, so she looked for a **** and a sickle, "Let's tidy up the land first, and it will be ready for planting when it is fenced. Oh, this season is going to pass, don't hurry, there is nothing to plant , have to wait until autumn"
Zhao Liya agreed deeply: "Aunt Eleven is right, let's open the land!"
It’s the beginning of June now, and the cucumbers, eggplants, beans, lettuce, corn, pumpkin, loofah, etc. in other people’s vegetable fields have already blossomed and fruited, and many things have passed the season for planting.
But the vegetable field still has to be opened, so what can be planted.
Mrs. Deng met and asked the two children to play in the yard and not go out, and went to help.
Without waiting for Zhao Liya to say anything, Aunt Li Shiyi stopped with a smile of "Hey": "Sister, you should stay at home and watch the children, don't be tired of the work here."
Ms. Deng hurriedly said: "Then how can I do it? I also have to do the work at home!"
"Mother," Zhao Liya said with a smile: "We have worked so hard all the way from the capital. You are not in good health. Take a break first, take it easy, and then work after a while. Otherwise, what if Wouldn't it be worse if you were sick?"
Aunt Li Shiyi nodded: "Yes, that's right, what Aya said is right, sister, you must not be brave. The work in the field is not easy, you should rest first!"
(end of this chapter)