Lao Qi's family bought a large homestead, but they didn't plan to build a house as large as the land they bought. There are less than ten people in total from oldest to youngest. If they really want to build a house on an area of more than ten acres,
It would be dehumanizing for that family to live there.
The villagers are not ready to buy a group of servants for the time being. The main reason is that Mrs. Tian and Ye Sanni are not happy. They feel that if they build a big house and hire outsiders to join in the fun, it is not the same as spending money to build a house for others, no.
Therefore, the total area of the new house will only occupy a little more than one acre. If it is not enough in the future, it can be built again. Anyway, the land is your own.
The front yard has been built, and now a group of people are struggling in the middle yard.
The middle courtyard is a place where the whole family is going to live. Lao Qi's family doesn't pay attention to the separation of men and women. The whole family decided to live in the middle courtyard. It is lively and more like a home.
The old man Qi held his granddaughter in his arms and did not come near. It was covered over there, and the dust was heavy. He couldn't bear to let his granddaughter go there and eat the dust.
The two of them are only on the side that has been covered.
Old man Qi pointed to a location and said, "My dear, that will be your yard from now on. I originally wanted to build an attic, but Foreman Pang and the others didn't dare to build a two-story building. I went to inquire about it. Is it possible to build a two-story or even a three-story building?"
It would have to be built by the Ministry of Industry of the imperial court."
Foreman Pang belongs to a private engineering team, not a public construction team. It doesn't matter whether he understands it or not. He is not qualified to build it anyway.
Moreover, if you want to build a house with more than one floor, there are also requirements for the identity of the homeowner.
Qi Baoer's current status is quite qualified, but she was not qualified when they started building this house.
After receiving the imperial edict that Qi Bao'er was made the county head, the old Qi family had not thought about building an attic. However, after everyone thought about it together, they decided to just build an ordinary one-story building.
We are from the countryside, and even if we have a title, we have no backers, so it is better to keep a low profile so as not to cause trouble for Guaiguai/Baoer.
It's pretty good just for one layer. Let's make it look more atmospheric.
Qi Bao'er didn't have big requirements for the house. It didn't have earth walls and a low roof like the one she lived in when she first came to this world. It just had to be spacious enough and comfortable to live in.
As for whether it's on the second or second floor, it doesn't matter.
"Master, I can do it. Where are my parents, eldest brother and third brother?"
"Your father took people into the city to buy grain. There happened to be an oxcart coming into the city. Your mother also took your brother and the others to visit the city."
No wonder she hasn't seen them since she's been back for so long.
"Master, is it because the relief food is not enough?"
"Designation is not enough. How can relief food be enough?"
This is not Yong'an City's fault. The imperial court is only providing relief, not enriching you.
What is relief? To put it bluntly, it means to ensure that one will not die.
Yong'an City is already very kind. Each person is given one pound of food a day.
"We only guarded one-third of an acre of land before and we really didn't know anything. The past two years have not been easy for our court. Many places have been hit by disasters, either drought or floods, and even earthworms have turned over."
No wonder they saw a lot of refugees when they were applying for household registration. Obviously not many of them escaped from Yingzhou, and as far as they knew, there were even fewer people who went to Yong'an City.
It turns out that many refugees from disasters in various places ran to the capital, and those who were taken in by towns along the way stayed. Those who were able to settle in a big city like Yong'an City were those with connections like them.
Either/all they have relatives in the receiving city, or they have connections in Beijing and China.
So they are lucky. Because of this special nature, the government will not make things difficult for them as refugees, and the people will not look down upon them.
The relief food is also the most abundant.
"I heard that in many places in the north, refugees can't get relief food even after they settle down. Even if they do get it, it's all stale soybeans, which they can't eat at all."
Alas~
He thought they were the only ones suffering from the disaster, but it turned out that they were extremely lucky if no one was in trouble.
"Master, you are so powerful, how come you know so clearly?"
"This is all thanks to your third grandfather's family. Your fourth cousin has not settled on a girl from the Wang family in Xiaolin Village. The Wang family is the Qianli Zheng family of Xiaolin Village, and Xianli Zheng is also a relative of his family.
The two families have been going back and forth since they got married, which is a lot to talk about."
The six nearby villages in their area all belong to Jiuchang Town but are close to Yong'an City. Where is Yong'an City? People come and go from all over the country, so the news will naturally flow.
Qi Baoer was a little confused: "Fourth cousin is a very naive person, how can he be so capable?"
The fourth cousin of the third grandpa's family is very bored and can't hold it in for a long time, but he is an honest person. If you come to him for anything, he will always do a good job for you.
Old man Qi smiled and nodded her little nose, "Your fourth cousin is really lucky this time. He and your father went up the mountain and encountered a herd of wild boars. The Wang family girl also followed her brother up the mountain to collect game..."
It is a story about a hero saving a beauty. The girl from the Wang family was frightened by a wild boar and she was immobilized. It was the fourth cousin who knocked down the girl before she was hit by the horns of the wild boar and saved her.
At that time, more than a dozen men from Qijia Village were present, and they watched it really well. There were also three brothers of the girl from the Wang family, who also watched it really well.
You save people, but you knocked down a young girl. This is a fact.
It just so happens that the man is unmarried and the woman is unmarried. If the two families are combined, there is no way to add them together. In this case, it won't work if they are not together.
Otherwise, the reputation of the Wang family girl will be ruined.
The world is ultimately unfair to women.
Qi Baoer still felt strange: "Our village has always been unlucky, but why is the girl from the front family willing to marry in?"
She was worried that the boys and girls in the village would be at war with each other.
"The three brothers-in-law of the Wang family have been coming to help your third grandfather's house to build a house after they got engaged. I was worried about whether they had any problems at first. After asking, I found out that our village had not invited Daoist Li to come over. After Li Daozhang and the others returned,
Not long after, word came from Yunhua Temple that we had no problem.
Speaking of which, some strange news has been spread in the city recently, saying that there is an expert in our village.
Be good, will this be okay?"
"Sir, did this rumor come out before or after I became the county lord?"
Old man Qi thought for a while, "It seems to be later, there were no such rumors before."
As soon as Qi Baoer thought about it, he knew that this news must have been spread by someone from Judge Lu Tong.
It's no secret that Qijia Village is an unlucky place. They were all refugees in the past and were settled in such an unlucky place by the government. You can imagine how everyone will view them.
If you are not welcomed by the government, will the common people treat you?
If a group of outsiders are not welcomed by the locals, how easy will their life be in the future?
But if there is an expert in this village, it will be different.
With the news coming out of Yunhua Temple [Qi Bao'er had to suspect that this was also the work of Lu Tongpan, after all, real Taoist priests don't care about worldly matters], it is difficult not to make people doubt that this master from Qijia Village is...
He is an expert in the same profession as the Taoist priests.
In this way, the unlucky rumors about Qijia Village will gradually weaken.
Furthermore, since she had already been made the county head, there was a county head in the village who was personally made by the emperor, so the fact that the government did not want to see her no longer existed.
When these elements are combined, Qijia Village can be completely revived.