In addition to the forty yards, the ten cowsheds are also built with blue bricks.

Liuliu and Huihui built a separate room with the door open so they could come out and wander around at will.

Of course, the cowshed is closed when it is not in use. After all, the cows are not as smart as six or six, so what if they run away?

Liuliu Huihui now not only follows the children and women up the mountain to protect them, but sometimes the two donkeys will wander into the mountains themselves, probably to fall in love.

After everything was built, everyone calculated the accounts together and paid the masons' wages, plus the money for bricks and tiles, as well as the subsequent purchase of farm tools such as plows and iron pots for each household.

Now that we all have our own yard, we will cook and eat separately from now on.

Counting all these miscellaneous money together, they basically spent all the money and banknotes they collected from the bandits.

After finishing the calculation, everyone took a breath. It was several thousand taels! I didn’t expect to spend so much.

But looking at the neat large tile-roofed house, the furniture and furnishings inside the house, and even the stone tiles on the floor, I felt it was worth it.

Now we only need the ancestral hall and the village wall. The wall must not be made of blue bricks anymore.

One is not as strong as stone, and the other is too conspicuous.

When the time comes, people will see that the village is rich, and the walls surrounding the village are all brick walls, so why don’t they just say that they are fat sheep?

In this way, in addition to clearing wasteland and cultivating land, everyone collects stones nearby or on the mountain every day.

The stones on the mountain are all in flaky shape, which is perfect for paving roads. The stones picked up from the nearby mountains are piece by piece, and the large pieces are broken into similar small pieces for the wall.

There is no need to dismantle those bamboo and straw walls, just surround them inside.

Now there is a low stone wall surrounding the bottom, and a bamboo grass wall above. This is a big project, so you can take your time.

Because of the construction of houses, not much of their land can be reclaimed by the old people alone.

The original idea was to let the masons build the houses and they would open up wasteland and cultivate the land themselves, but it turned out that because the masons promised to do it before the rainy season, it had to be delayed.

I was in a hurry to finish building the house first, after all, we couldn't work even if it rained continuously.

Fortunately, the box of gold I got at the Dragon King Temple has not been touched yet, so I don’t have to worry about buying food or anything.

However, the vegetables that the women started to grow have already been eaten for a few crops. In addition to helping with cooking and boiling water, they also opened a vegetable field. In the future, they will need to buy a lot less vegetables, and they will have them at home.

I have nothing to do now. As long as it’s not a heavy rain day, I will continue to open up wasteland and dig ridges. Anyway, you can grow vegetables here all year round, no matter what season it is.

Fang Youwei's yard is assigned the one closest to the village entrance. Fang Youwei used to make a living by hunting, so it is convenient to get in and out of the mountains.

After many months, everyone was sleeping on the warm kang again, looking at the spacious and bright big tile-roofed house, and felt very good.

Jiayin was still racking her brains to think about how to get the money out of those spaces.

The hole she was looking for before seemed to be very conspicuous and easy to find with her spiritual consciousness.

But after they entered the mountain several times, Jiayin discovered that the cave was halfway up the mountain, and ordinary people couldn't go up there at all.

If you hide something there, you have to hold on to the vines and climb up to see it.

Who would climb up there without any trouble? It would be too obvious if she climbed up there on purpose.

In the end, Jiayin had to find another way.

That day she heard someone say to the patriarch, why don't you dig a cellar here?

She immediately became energetic, right! She could bury these in the place where they dug the cellar, and then she would send them out when they dug them out!

But the patriarch's answer killed this idea.

"What kind of cellar are you digging? Didn't you hear the masons say that things are stored here, and the food is placed on shelves in the dry room.

For vegetables, either pickle them into pickles or eat them fresh. Meat can only be preserved with salt.

The cellar cannot be preserved at all. Unlike the north, the climate there is very dry underground. The cellar is warm in winter and cool in summer, so it is not easy to be damaged if left inside.

If you dig a cellar here, you will probably dig a well. If you put that thing in the cellar, you can imagine that not only will it not be preserved, but it may also accelerate its decay."

Upon hearing this, Jiayin felt a little downcast.

Alas...this trick doesn't work either.

There is no need to think about digging wells.

Everyone has followed the method she mentioned before, using thick bamboo tubes to catch a stream of water from the small waterfall.

Then use a wooden frame to raise it up, directly to the east side of the row at the back. Although it cannot be connected to the yards of each house, it is very convenient for the two rows of houses to use water.

A small reservoir was built at the back and a ditch was dug, leading directly to the outside of the wall.

In this case, if there is too much water, or if it rains heavily, it will not escape everywhere and will be discharged directly outside.

The rainy season is here, and it rains basically every day, sometimes heavy and sometimes light, and sometimes it clears up for a while in the morning. Everyone rushes out to pick vegetables or do laundry.

Clothes are basically hung indoors and cannot be dried outside.

Fortunately, they had stored a lot of firewood in the shed they had built before. Although there was some moisture, it was still much better than cutting it freshly.

If you want to go hunting, you don't have to think about it. People's prey are not stupid, and they will hide in caves to take shelter when it rains.

The clan leader sent people to buy food several times and distributed the food to each family, so he could just cook at his own home.

Now every morning, strong laborers and children still practice knife skills, trying to make up for what they missed before.

They haven't practiced since they were on the road with the other two teams. Now that there are no outsiders and there is a wall blocking them, everyone picks it up.

I felt a little unfamiliar in the first few days, but now I feel better again.

Xu Hong and others have also set a wedding date with the younger generation in the village, and they will get married as soon as the rainy season is over.

With Xu Hong's cooking skills being hidden in this village, Fang Yunping and others discussed with the clan elders and prepared for the clan to fund them to open a restaurant in the county when they got married.

If the business is good, young people who don't want to farm can also help out and be paid.

They also saw that farming and hunting could only provide food and clothing, but they could not make a fortune.

If you want your family to prosper, you must either become an official or do business to make money. If you want to be an official, you must first take the imperial examination. If you want to take the imperial examination, you must first study, and studying requires money...

So the old people discussed it and decided to make the best use of everyone!

Not only Xu Hong and his wife opened a restaurant, but Yao Ruolan and his wife opened an embroidery shop. Her embroidery skills are exquisite, and she can also train girls in the clan who are talented in this area.
Chapter completed!