Jiayin held the emerald-green straw grasshopper in her little hands and grinned at Fang Cuicui.

She said in a sweet voice: "Thank you, Sister Cuicui!"

So I joined a group of girls playing house.

"I am the third grasshopper spirit! The grasshopper spirit can jump several hundred feet high! I jumped to the top of the mountain in one fell swoop..."

Seeing the random storylines they made up and the funny children's words, Fang Cuicui shook her head in amusement and continued her movements.

She also has to help make up the houses for those little goblins.

...I am the dividing line...

The New Year's Eve dinner was very sumptuous, including braised pork, pheasant and winter bamboo shoots, stir-fried vegetables, charred meatballs, and a pot of bone soup.

The patriarch Fang Yunping even took out the honey jar that he had kept all the way and made honey water for the children, elderly and women.

The men drank a little wine. Although it was still quite cold, they barely felt it as they stood by several fires and ate hot meals.

After looking at the mostly cleared grassland and the bamboo and grass walls surrounding it, I felt more and more hopeful.

There is no shortage of money in their hands now, they don't have to worry about the next meal, and the house will be settled sooner or later, so they feel that this year is not worse than the one they spent in Fangjiacun.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, everyone sat by the fire and thought about the future, because there was still a meal of dumplings at midnight, and they could not rest until after eating the dumplings.

Xiao Ling and his family, including ten cows, were given extra meals.

Of course, good news was also added secretly.

The adults specially picked out some fresh forage today, and Jiayin directly added spiritual water to the water they drank.

Those cows couldn't stop after taking a sip, and they didn't go to eat grass until the water trough was licked clean. They swung their tails while eating, and you could tell they were in a happy mood.

Xiaoling and Liuliu Huihui were even more happy because their spiritual water was also filled with spiritual honey due to the good news.

The spiritual water and spiritual honey now are completely different from before!

Because of Jiayin's practice during this period, the spiritual energy in the Boundary Breaking Pearl space has become more and more intense, and now the food inside has a faint spiritual energy.

How did you know about Jiayin?

That's because everyone eats white rice for New Year's Eve dinner today.

When the rice was bought in the morning, Jiayin secretly replaced it without anyone noticing.

The white rice I ate today is full of spiritual energy, and I can still eat the good news. It also tastes much better than ordinary white rice.

Everyone didn't realize it, because they had eaten brown rice for many days before eating white rice all the time, and they thought white rice was so delicious. If you eat it every day, you will definitely be able to tell the difference.

Jiayin has already thought about it, and will keep an eye on it in the future. As soon as he buys white rice, he will replace it immediately. In this way, everyone can eat white rice with spiritual energy.

She doesn't dare to give everyone spiritual water directly now. Her father said that there is too much spiritual energy in the water and everyone will not be able to bear it.

When cooking at most, add it to a big pot to make the meal more delicious and to strengthen the body.

When it was almost midnight, Fang Yunping first placed the ancestral tablet on a newly built long table. He placed the cooked dumplings in front of the tablet and placed a few pairs of chopsticks.

All the men in the Fang family knelt down and bowed down together. After kneeling down, everyone started eating dumplings. It happened to be Zishi.

The next day is the first day of the new year.

As soon as everyone came out of the tent, they started to bow to each other and say New Year greetings. There was no need to visit from house to house like when we were in the village.

Anyway, everyone will come out in the morning and wait in the open space. The younger generations kowtow to the elders, and the younger ones get the lucky money.

Jiayin touched the coins in her pocket and laughed so hard like a bunch of children.

The young and strong peers said hello to each other and started to get busy again.

They had to set up a tent and live in it as soon as possible, otherwise it would be in trouble if it rained and water got under the tent.

There are no beds in the tents now, so everyone sleeps on the ground. Once it rains heavily, the bedding will be flooded.

When building a shed, choose a high-lying location near the mountainside.

After burying the skeleton, a thick layer of soil and a layer of stone slabs were laid inside to prevent water from entering easily.

Although it is a bit troublesome, the shed can be left completely undismantled and kept to store things.

In the past few days, the men have gone up the mountain to cut wood and bamboo, and then came back to build the framework and soil for the shed.

In addition to cooking, women and old people are weaving straw curtains and tying thatch bundles.

This thatch was specially brought back from a wasteland not far away. This kind of thatch is long and dense, and it has a very good waterproof effect when spread on the roof.

Fang Li and the others, who knew how to be carpenters, disassembled the somewhat shabby frame trucks and got a few more wheelbarrows out.

In this way, we can push into the mountain and push down many stone slabs from the mountain.

The slates are layered one by one. Use a chisel to split the slates from the middle. Split the thick slates into thin slates about an inch thick, knock them into about the same size, and spread them on the ground inside the shed.

They took the soil dug out from digging trenches and chopped grass and made it into adobe. Taking advantage of the fact that it hadn't rained in the past few days, they dried it in the sun and put it away, and then used it as a kang.

Anyway, if it is used inside the house, it will be connected to the stove in the future, so it can be used to burn the kang almost every day. Don't worry, these adobes will get damp.

It is better to use adobe to make the kang, after all, the bricks are too small. They also have no experience in using bricks to make the kang, so it is not easy to grasp.

When the adobe was almost dry, I stacked it on a shelf and covered it with an oilcloth to prevent it from being wetted by rain.

You have to open the oilcloth every day to ventilate it. The air here is too humid. The grass seeds inside may germinate.

Everyone worked hard until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.

On the 5th day of the lunar month, the shops in the county town have reopened, and the bricks that I promised have been shipped.

The first shipment was five cartloads of blue bricks, which were transported by oxcart. There was no rush for the tiles, which would be used on the roof after all. Moreover, it would be difficult to store the tiles if they were shipped in advance. It would be a pity if they were broken.

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The blue bricks were neatly stacked at the location where the house would be built later.

The position has been drawn by the clan leader Fang Yunping and the others. There are two rows in front and back, both facing north and south.

The size of the yard is also divided into the same size.

It means that their backs are to the country road and the fields beyond, and their faces are to the water pool and mountains.

It is said that this construction method is against Feng Shui. Generally, it is built with its back to a mountain, which means it has a mountain to support. However, it is not good to face the road, as it will leak money.

So after everyone discussed it, we decided to make sure we don’t leak any money. The mountain they have as backers is blessed by gods and is much stronger than this mountain.
Chapter completed!