Farmer's eldest sister becomes rich

Chapter 151 Planning to Build a House

"Yueyue, how come you guys came back so quickly?"

When An Nian saw that it was his sister, he quickly put down the book in his hand and ran towards An Yue.

As An Yue walked, she said, "Uncle Lin Hua from Uncle Lin's family works in the county government office. We just happened to run into him today. With Uncle Lin Hua helping us run around, signing various documents will naturally be much faster."

An Nian ran up to An Yue and said with gestures: "Sister, come and see, this is the vegetable you planted before, it has grown very tall!"

An Yue looked in the direction of An Nian's finger and saw that the eggplants, tomatoes, spinach and potatoes in the field had all grown several leaves.

She walked into the vegetable garden, looked at the seedlings growing well, and couldn't help but reach out and gently stroke them a few times.

Grandmother squatted down and continued to pull weeds, saying, "According to what Yueyue said, your uncle Lin Hua is an important official in the county government!"

Jiang Chenghai stopped the hoe in his hand, stood in the field and responded: "Brother Lin Hua is really amazing." Then he turned around and asked An Yue: "Yueyue, did you get the land deed?"

"Not yet. We have to measure the actual area and pay the money before we can get the land deed."

An Yue continued, "However, Uncle Lin Hua has arranged six yamen runners to come back with us. They are now measuring the back mountain!"

An Yue walked to the edge of the ground and asked, "Grandma, you haven't had lunch yet, right?"

"We've already eaten! Village Chief Li's wife asked us to have lunch in her main room. We saw that there was no place to cook in the east room, so we didn't refuse."

Uncle Jiang Chenghai raised his hand to wipe the sweat off his face. His sleeveless coarse cloth clothes had already been soaked with sweat.

I have to say that the spring sunshine in recent days has a bit of the flavor of early summer.

"That's fine. Yueyue, put these dry food and tea on the ground first. If you are thirsty or hungry, you can take a break and eat some."

After An Yue finished speaking, she gently placed the dry food and water bottle in her hands on the ground.

After putting it away, An Yue continued, "Yueyue, go take a look at the wasteland first."

The grandmother squatting on the ground asked, "Yueyue, have you decided what kind of crops you want to grow in this vegetable field?"

"The geology here is fertile. Yueyue wants to plant some sweet potatoes, corn and other things. The yellow land further away will be planted with wheat."

Uncle Jiang Chenghai waved his hand at An Yue and said, "Come on, come on, Yue Yue can get busy first!"

Afterwards, An Yue walked towards the wasteland.

An Nian saw his sister was about to leave, so he quickly called out, "Sister, wait for Nian Nian. Nian Nian also wants to follow you to see the wasteland."

An Yue turned around, waved and nodded to An Nian.

The wasteland has been measured, and now she needs to plan the next step.

What materials should be used to build a house? How to build it?

The brother and sister came to the wasteland.

An Nian tilted his head and said, "Sister, Nian Nian wants a big room."

"Okay, okay, then let's build a super big room for Nian Nian, big enough for her to read and write quietly in the room, how about that?"

After hearing this, An Nian jumped up and down with excitement: "Great! Great! We will have a big room every year from now on!"

Ever since An Yue came here inexplicably, she always found it extremely inconvenient to take a bath.

I have imagined this countless times, thinking that if conditions permit, I must build myself an independent courtyard and bathroom.

An Yue secretly rejoiced in her heart: [Now, I can finally build a house according to my own ideas. ]

Suddenly I thought of the original owner's family, who had lived in the east room, which was cold in winter and hot in summer, for many years. Their life was really depressing.

Therefore, An Yue wanted to design the rooms for the siblings on the west side of the courtyard.

She imagined that she was in the center of the courtyard and was facing the main hall.

Two large rooms are built on the west side, and each room has a large double window. In this way, the room is bright and ventilated, and it can also achieve the effect of warm in winter and cool in summer.

Was the fire in the An family's old house caused by someone else? Or was it just because one of the three families' kitchens had a fire that was not extinguished, which led to the fire in the entire An family's old house?

There has been no definitive investigation to date.

Therefore, because of the previous fire, An Yue now wants to set up the kitchen, toilets and bathroom on the east side.

In this way, with a small courtyard in the middle, the main hall and the east and west side rooms are to the north, and the siblings live in the two west wing rooms to the west.

An Yue turned around and faced due east. Thinking that there were not many people at home, she set up the kitchen, toilet and bathhouse on the east side.

The toilet and bathhouse didn’t need to be too spacious, so I thought of building a pigpen and a chicken coop.

There is no need to build a back house on the south side of the courtyard. First, it can save money. Second, the family will not need it. Moreover, the land can be kept as a vegetable garden. Later, spinach, cabbage, radish and other vegetables can be planted in the courtyard.

Just like that, a simple farmyard was planned.

An Yue thought that since the plan had been made, she would draw a sketch immediately, and discussed it with her grandfather and the others while they were still here.

So, she turned to An Nian and said, "Niannian, give me the writing brush in your cloth bag."

Although An Nian was a little confused, he quickly returned to normal. He took off the cloth bag slung over his shoulder, took out the book and pen one by one and handed them to An Yue.

Then, An Nian said, "Sister, Nian Nian wants to go find grandpa and watch them measure the barren mountain."

An Yue nodded at him and said with a smile: "Go ahead! But be careful and don't fall!"

An Nian blinked excitedly, turned around and climbed towards the back mountain.

An Yue stood alone in the middle of the wasteland, holding a pen and paper in her hand. Her eyes, hands and brain worked together. The courtyard she had conceived earlier appeared in her mind. She began to wave the brush in her hand and slowly sketched it.

I don’t know how long it took, but An Yue’s sketch was already completed.

An Yue, who had just finished drawing the sketch, sat on the stone slab. She scratched her head and said to herself, "What kind of material should I use to build the house?"

She thought that since coming to this era, she has only seen three types of houses, namely thatched houses, adobe houses, and blue brick and tile houses.

Green brick and tile houses are, needless to say, the most expensive. Looking around the entire Baili Village, there are not many houses built yet. Green brick and tile houses are too expensive for ordinary people. Usually only wealthy families can afford to build green brick and tile houses.

Inferior to the blue brick and tile houses are the adobe houses, which are the most common in the village.

It is the most economical and practical. However, adobe houses are built with dried yellow mud. Compared with blue bricks, their solidity, waterproofness, durability and other aspects are much inferior.

If there is a long period of heavy rain and water accumulates, adobe houses will be most likely to collapse if they are soaked by water.