vstars Chapter 186 Shopping in the City
Chapter 186 Shopping in the City
The woman shook her head and refused, with a somewhat embarrassed look on her face. This little girl was so pretty, but her words were so annoying!
"No, no, I'm going back to cook. Next time, next time."
After saying this, he didn't even look at the father and daughter, but ran back to his own place.
Shen Li saw her enter the third courtyard on the left side of her house, then she withdrew her gaze, pushed open the gate, and let Shen Changshan drive the carriage in.
In the yard, Lin Cuicui and Shen Jingyuan were dealing with wild rabbits. They had encountered them while weeding at the homestead today.
I was thinking that I would live here in the future, and it would be bad to leave the rabbits digging holes here, so I spent some time catching all the rabbits, a total of 18 rabbits.
There are both large and small ones. The big ones are eaten, and the small ones are raised for a while before being eaten.
The woman who was outside just now saw them carrying so many rabbits back, so she leaned over the door frame to peek.
Shen Qian'an and Shen Yuanzhou made a cage out of wood and put all the big wild rabbits in it. They couldn't finish eating them all at once, so they saved them for the next two days.
As for the little rabbits, there was a pigsty behind them. They had already picked up some slabs of stone on the riverbank and lay on them to prevent the rabbits from digging holes and escaping.
"Ali, who were you talking to outside just now?"
Lin Cuicui just heard her daughter outside, seemingly talking to someone, so she asked casually.
"Just now, an auntie was peeking over our front door. She was the third one on the left. Mother and sister-in-law should be more careful."
The others all frowned, not knowing what kind of person this was. He actually lay at someone's door and peeked in.
"Okay, Mom knows, I'll pay attention."
"Dad, Ali, have you found a craftsman?"
Shen Qianan asked about the progress of their business trip into the city today and changed the subject.
"We have found the bricks, wood and tiles, and we can start construction tomorrow."
"So fast!"
"Well, our yard is big, so it's a bit urgent to finish it before the snow comes. We need to start work as soon as possible."
Shen Changshan looked at his wife and said, "Cui Niang, these people are not from the village. The craftsman asked us to cook a meal at noon. What do you think..."
Shen Li has already thought about this, "Dad, Mom, this is a small matter. We can just find two people in the village to help cook."
Lin Cuicui shook her head. "Ali, no need. It's just a meal. Mom can handle it."
Bai Yao quickly spoke up: "Miss, I will help Madam."
Shen Li still somewhat disagreed. She didn't want to make Lin Cuicui so tired.
Lin Cuicui saw what her daughter was thinking and said softly, "Ali, it's just cooking a meal, how tiring can it be? Besides, we have to eat too, don't we?"
Another reason is that Lin Cuicui knew that it would cost a lot of money to build the house, and they had no source of income at the moment, so she felt uneasy about spending the money, so she wanted to save every penny.
"That's fine."
Seeing that she was so persistent, Shen Li stopped persuading her and decided to help her mother a little. As for her father and brothers, they would definitely go to help build the house.
Shen Li walked into the room where she kept her grain. There were still eight bags of grain, each containing half a stone.
Take advantage of this period of time to consume all the food, and after eating, take out the food you have grown from the space.
The jerky is basically sold out, but there is some bear jerky left, but it is not very popular, so there is still a little left.
Piled next to it were the thank-you gifts from the Lu family, including a lot of cloth.
After lunch, the family went to pull weeds again. Shen Li also went. This time the family went out together. By the evening, they had pulled out all the tree roots and weeds on the homestead. The speed was so fast.
All the usable things were piled aside, and the grass that could be eaten by horses was also piled aside and taken back to feed their own horses and mules. The rest of the unusable things were all piled together, added with some hay and burned.
Not only Shen Li and his family were weeding, several other families were also weeding. They had already gone to see the village chief in the afternoon.
Their houses cannot be built at the same time, so they can only do it in groups of three. However, their houses are small, so they are not in a hurry as they are sure they can be completed before the snow falls.
At night, the light in Shen Li's room was still on. She was seen sitting at the table with some papers and pens on it.
At this moment, she was looking at the words on the paper with a dark face, looking constipated.
She had been here for quite some time, and she could recognize quite a few characters, but this calligraphy was simply unbearable to look at!
Also, how do I write with this soft brush?
If only pencils and ballpoint pens were useful!
Bai Yao saw it and asked softly, "What's wrong, Miss?"
Bai Yao's words brought Shen Li back to her senses, as her mind was full of random thoughts. She suddenly remembered that this girl should be literate.
"Bai Yao, can you write?"
"meeting."
"What about drawing?"
"A little bit."
Although she didn't know why Shen Li asked these questions, she still answered truthfully.
"Great, come, sit over here," Shen Li walked over, pulled Bai Yao over to sit down, and put the brush in her hand, "Come, I tell you to write."
She reached out and took away the paper she had just written. Bai Yao saw it and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly. It turned out that the lady was worried about the problem of writing just now!
One of them spoke while the other wrote. Shen Li carefully told Bai Yao the parts she wanted to change. The girl reacted very quickly and easily understood what she meant.
The next morning, the craftsmen hired by the village chief had already started working. At this time, more than a dozen horse-drawn carriages drove into the village, all carrying things.
Chen Jian sat in the first carriage, because Shen Changshan said that his family's new house was planned to be built at the end of Qingxi Village. So when he entered the village, although he didn't know much about it, he still drove the carriage inside.
Sure enough, when I walked to the end of the village, I saw people gathered together.
Shen Changshan had been waiting for them to arrive. When he saw them coming, he went forward to greet them.
"Artisan Chen."
Chen Jian nodded at him: "Master Shen, take me to have a look. When the time comes, we will start working."
Shen Changshan carried Chen Jian around the homestead and he had a rough idea in his mind. At three quarters past noon, after the owner Shen Changshan started to pry the soil for the first time, the forty people he brought with him also started to work.
Not only the Shen family, but the other three families also started to work after breaking ground, but most of the laborers they hired were from the village or nearby.
After a while, the blue bricks that we went to see yesterday were pulled into the village one after another, attracting the attention of many villagers.
Shen Li and Lin Cuicui went into the city together. There were so many people to feed, and there were not enough vegetables at home, so they had to buy more.
The mother and daughter went all the way into the city, and the carriage went straight to the busiest street. This street was basically occupied by ordinary people, so there were many people selling vegetables, backpacks, and snacks on the street.
The carriage couldn't get in, so it found a spot not far away on the street and stopped. After paying the 5 cents parking fee, the mother and daughter left.