Song Sanniang's Journey to Wealth

Chapter 115 Looking at the new house

The mother and daughter returned home happily. Song Laoer and his wife had already returned home. Song Ersao said with a smile on her face, "My parents just said that our house is well built. Let's go take a look after dinner."

"Okay," Song Lao Er was also happy to hear that, so he started to cook lunch. The food at home was left for the chickens, so Song Er's wife went to Aunt Cuihua's house to buy some rice. Originally, Song Mei and the others didn't want to charge, but they couldn't persuade Song Er's wife.

Song Sanniang went to the backyard to pick vegetables. There were lettuce, beans, eggplants, Chinese cabbage, and cucumbers planted in the backyard. Song Sanniang picked eggplants and Chinese cabbage.

Song Lao Er wanted to go to the backyard to catch a chicken and kill it for food. The four women knew that the chicken they had worked so hard to raise was going to be eaten, and they couldn't help crying. Song Er's wife happened to come back and heard them begging Song Lao Er not to kill the chicken.

Mrs. Song then asked with a straight face, "We spent so much money on the chickens, and they ate so much food and vegetables, so is that a waste? We just feed them every day?"

Have you two no idea how to live through hard times after a few days of good times?"

Song Ersao seldom lost her temper, but if she did, Song Laoer would not dare to say anything. However, he was the head of the family after all, so he did not dare to say anything to Song Ersao, because Song Ersao was not wrong either.

So he said to the four mothers, "Okay, chickens are raised to be eaten. Your mother is right. They eat grain and vegetables every day. If we keep raising them, it will be a waste of food. You two be good. I will buy you a few more when the time comes."

The four women's eyes were red with grievance, and they felt that they had done nothing wrong. They were the ones who raised the chickens and had developed feelings for them.

Hearing the noise, Song Sanniang came out from the backyard with some vegetables. After learning what had happened, she smiled and said to Si Niang and the others,

"We are not going to eat all the chicks now. We are only going to eat one or two during these two days at home. The rest need to be kept for laying eggs, right?

In a month or two they will start laying eggs, and they can hatch new chicks. Don't be sad, or you won't get any chicken legs later."

These words made the two of them burst into laughter. Song Lao Er and Song Ersao couldn't help but sigh that only Song Sanniang had a way to deal with them.

So at noon, the family had a meal of fried tender chicken, garlic eggplant, and stir-fried choy sum. The four daughters and their husbands enjoyed the chicken so much.

After lunch, the family cleared the table, washed the dishes, and did some work to digest the food. Song Laoer went to fetch water. The water in the water tank had been there for so long that it needed to be replaced long ago.

So everyone waited until they had digested their food before taking a nap in bed. When everyone woke up, they wiped their faces and went to the new house as a family.

From a distance, we could see a newly built house standing there. We couldn't help but quicken our pace. As we got closer, we could hear everyone's lively laughter and the sound of bricks being knocked. However, it was surrounded by a newly built wall, and everyone was working inside the wall.

The family walked in through the main gate, which had not yet been installed. The entrance was 1.6 meters wide and had three steps made of large blue slabs of stone.

There were corridors extending from the eaves of the gate to the walls on all four sides, because Song Sanniang hated the muddy roads after rain.

Although the floor of the house would be paved with slabs of stone or gravel, she was still determined to build a corridor so that when it rained, she could walk through the corridor to move around the house without getting wet.

After entering the gate, a moon gate divides the house into two sides. The right side is where Song Laoer's family lives, and the left side is where the kitchen and bathroom are.

The main door is on the left, so there is a huge courtyard as soon as you enter. On the left side of the courtyard is a black-tiled wooden pavilion that can accommodate three tables. The floor is made of large wooden planks.

Then on the north side of the courtyard is the indoor dining area, kitchen, bathroom and toilet, which are all connected together in a horizontal L shape without being separated.

The houses all had white walls and black tiles, and because the doors, windows and floors were not finished yet, they were all empty.

There is a door between the indoor dining area and the kitchen, which leads to the backyard.

The backyard also has a corridor. The backyard is very large and is not separated from the right side like the front yard.

Most of the backyard and front yard are reserved for vegetable garden or other purposes.

The chicken coop and pigpen are located on both sides of the upper left corner of the backyard, and the horse stable is built in the upper right corner. The materials used for the chicken coop and pigpen are relatively simple, using mud bricks, but the roofs are all covered with tiles.

The family came in and walked to the backyard. The people working on the roof saw them. Someone shouted loudly, and Song Lao Er responded loudly. Then the family walked towards where they lived.

There are three doors from the front yard to the back yard, one of which is the one that led out of the kitchen.

One is a large moon gate between the indoor dining area and the residence on the right, which is for horses and donkeys to pass through. The other one is on the residential side.

Song Laoer and his family entered the house through the back door. When Song Sanniang and her family saw it before, it was just a half-built house. Now it has been built, except for the doors, windows, floor and bathroom.

The interior layout arranged by Song Sanniang is a modern one. She does not plan to go for a central hall layout.

Song Sanniang and her friends came in from the back door and saw a corridor with a toilet and a utility room on both sides.

The room across the corridor is the study, and the innermost room next to the study is the room of Song Laoer and his wife.

The living room is outside, and the living room is divided into a living room and a dining room. Now there is nothing in it, and it is empty.

On the other side of the living room is a guest room and utility room. When we got here, more people gathered.

Some people were carrying bricks and mud from the side of the wall that had been left unfinished to the front yard and the second floor. Some were building walls on the second floor, some were repairing the unfinished areas on the first floor, and only the first floor was built on the second floor.

Although everyone knew that Song Laoer and his family had arrived, they all had work to do, so they continued to work.

Song Lao Da and Fourth Uncle's eldest son Song Hongbo appeared out of nowhere. They happily came forward to talk to Song Lao Er.

"The second brother is back. How is it going? Is the house built okay?" Song Hongbo asked with a smile.

You have to know that Song Laoer didn't give them the blueprints at the beginning. They just listened to Song Laoer and Song Sanniang's oral instructions on how to build it.

They then went back and drew the blueprints based on their own experience, and then started to build.

"It's built very well, exactly as we wanted. Thank you for your hard work." Song Lao Er was indeed very satisfied.

He himself was a bricklayer by profession, and he could tell at a glance that everyone had put their heart into their work, and that the work was done beautifully, without a word of complaint.

After hearing what he said, Song Hongbo didn't want to interrupt the conversation between Song Laoer and his brother, so he continued to do his work.

"Brother, you've become darker and thinner. I've really troubled you during this period." Song Lao Er said with a bit of guilt, looking at his brother's face which was darker than before.

He used to work in the blacksmith shop every day and didn't get much sun, so he was relatively fair-skinned. Now he has become darker and his previously strong body is now obviously shriveled.

"What are you talking about? What's a man like without a bit of blackness?" The big hand of the Song elder brother slapped the shoulder of the Song elder brother heavily, and the force made the Song elder brother almost stagger. Well, even if the elder brother is thinner, he is still taller and stronger than himself.

Song Sanniang and the others greeted Song Lao Da one by one. Song Lao Da smiled and said, "It's been a while since we last met. Sanniang and the others have all grown taller and look stronger. Great."

Hearing the word "strong", Song Sanniang and Si Niang looked at each other, their hearts breaking.

Which girl likes to be strong? Although they are eating well and drinking well now, their faces are rounder than before.

My body used to be skin and bones, but now it's full of flesh and I've started to grow. But is it really right to describe it as strong and sturdy?

The two brothers here were unaware of their complaints and were talking happily. They were talking about the completion ceremony of the new house and who would be invited to the move-in banquet.