Because Wei Baoshan has a skill as a bricklayer, Wei Baoshan's family used to have similar conditions to hers, but now the Wei family's money has been used to fill the bottomless pit of Wei Xingxi, which is far worse than hers.
Dong Shitou said to Dong Anguo, "Listen to your mother."
Because the two families have a good relationship and have arranged a baby marriage, they have visited more than other families over the years. Dong Anguo has some feelings for Xingxi, but what his parents said makes sense.
He married his daughter-in-law to take care of the family and his parents. If he married Xingxi, wouldn't he let his parents take care of Xingxi instead? How would that work?
Dong Anguo hesitated for a while and finally nodded.
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Seeing that Juhua was much better, Miao Dalan was reluctant to lose her work points and went to work in the afternoon.
She has a lot of strength and works quickly. She usually gets the same ten work points as young men, but she can get five for half a day's work.
Wei Xingyu went with her, and Miao Dalan went to help her hand over the pigweed. After handing it over, she went to cut it in the afternoon.
The only idle member of the family is Yuhua.
Juhua was not idle, she spent most of the afternoon practicing.
My health is not good and I can't do anything.
So the body still matters.
Too bad, she didn't spend all her time practicing.
The original owner would do whatever he could at home, and Yuhua did it.
The houses in Weijiagou are not built next to the back wall, so basically every house has two yards in front of the house and one at the back.
In fact, there isn't much to do. The original owner doesn't have to cook, and all the original owner can do is bits and pieces.
Zihua took some sorghum rice with a gourd to the backyard and put it in a chicken trough made of a length of bamboo. Three reed chickens ran over and started pecking at the chicken trough.
Most of the eggs laid by these three reed chickens went into the belly of the original owner.
The family had a small population and the backyard was not used, so it was half deserted and overgrown with weeds, perfect for the reed chickens to eat grass seeds and insects.
It's wild and not pretty enough.
They are all planted, and flowers and plants can also be arranged.
After feeding the chickens, I returned to the front yard to see that the beans had grown. I picked them and caught insects for the vegetables. The insects were not wasted and were thrown to the three reed chickens.
I watered the vegetable patch and arranged the yard.
Returning to her room, she picked up the half-cut cotton shoes of the original owner, looked at them, and put them away. The original owner's old cotton shoes could no longer be worn, so she thought about making them herself, and also making a pair for Wei Xingyu, so that she would not have to use them.
The family spent money.
Miao Dalan doesn't know how to make shoes. The shoes her family used to wear were either made and delivered to her grandma's house, or she exchanged them with people in the village for items or money, or they bought them in the town.
Later, the original owner learned to make shoes, and the family owed him a lot of favors.
Yuhua has no interest in making shoes.
She will imitate the original owner's behavior style, but will not act exactly like the original owner.
After being beaten, Miao Dalan and Wei Xingyu came back together.
After the two came back, they cleaned up for a while and then went to the kitchen to cook.
Zi Hua doesn't know how to cook. The original owner can cook but the cooking is not very good. He can only say that he can eat it.
She had the memory of the original owner and knew how to cook the wood stove, and she followed the original owner's instructions and came to the kitchen to help, but neither Miao Dalan nor Wei Xingyu would let her.
Zihua had no choice but to give up and went back to her room, picked up the original owner's textbook and started flipping through it.
The original owner was in the second grade of junior high school, but his body was damaged by the cold and he was unable to return to school.
The original owner planned to go to high school, and with her grades she could get into the best middle school in the county, but this accident put an end to her studies.
Not long after, the courtyard door rang, and someone opened the door and entered the courtyard.
Miao Dalan heard the noise, came out to take a look, and asked the visitor in surprise, "Why did you come back early?"
The person who came in was Wei Baoshan.
Weibaoshan is good at brickwork and is often asked to build houses and courtyard walls.
Although doing masonry work is more tiring and hard, he can earn more, which is more cost-effective than working in the fields to earn centimeters, so he will go when someone asks him to do it.
Wei Baoshan learned a complete set of bricklayer skills from a master, from measuring and laying the foundation to completing the house and renovating the house. In the past, he was a master master who led the work, so he earned more money.
Nowadays, the environment has become more relaxed, and more people have more money. Rural people have simple ideas. When they have money, the first thing they think of is building a house. Therefore, Wei Baoshan has been receiving jobs continuously in the past year, and being a bricklayer has almost become his main occupation.
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Relying on the craftsmanship of the bricklayers in Weibaoshan, the family did not have to borrow money to recuperate from the original owner's illness. With the original owner's illness as a bottomless pit, it was impossible to save money without borrowing foreign debts, and food was scarce.
A while ago, a house was being built in a neighboring village, and Wei Baoshan was asked to go there. He went there early in the morning every day, and could only get home when it was completely dark at night.
Miao Dalan asked because she came back early today.
Wei Baoshan, a thin middle-aged man, put the canvas bag containing the bricklayer's tools in the shed next to the kitchen and replied to Miao Dalan, "The work is almost done, we don't need too many people, I came back early."
"Just...forget it, come back as soon as you come back." Miao Dalan originally wanted to say, 'Why don't you stay and let others go?' But thinking about Wei Baoshan's unwillingness to take the initiative to fight with others, it was pointless.
Say it, just don’t say it anymore.
It's also because Wei Baoshan's wages are high and the houses are almost built. In order to save labor, people who build houses often leave only one master to look after him. Wei Baoshan doesn't want to compete with others, so why don't he fire him first?
"Xing is fine today. The fever has gone down and she seems to be energetic." Miao Dalan quickly shared the good news with Wei Baoshan, "I ate a big bowl of pimple soup with two candied eggs at noon."
After Wei Baoshan heard this, a smile appeared on his tanned face, "It's good if you can eat it. I think Du Laoqi's medicine will work this time."
Miao Dalan also smiled and said, "Who says it's not the case? After I finish drinking this medicine, I will go to Du Laoqi's place tomorrow to grab another one to consolidate it. You go and wash it quickly, and the meal will be ready in a while. I'll do it again
Steam more steamed buns."
Wei Baoshan responded and went to scoop water from the water tank under the kitchen wall.
The meal is cooked quickly.
Zihua stopped eating alone and went to the main room.
She lives in the east room of the main house.
The Wei family's house is an old adobe house. Fortunately, the Wei family has its own room.
There are three main rooms, the middle one is the main room, where guests are entertained and ate.
People live in the east and west rooms.
The west room is connected to the main room. The entrance and exit are through the main room door. This is the house where Wei Baoshan and Miao Dalan live.
The east room was originally entered and exited from the main room.
The three main rooms are of an old style, and the beams above are all open. There is not much sound insulation in the first place, and the doors are also open, let alone soundproof.
Later, when the original owner grew older, Wei Baoshan built the wall connecting the east room to the main room and the top door. He opened an independent door from the outside of the east room, so that he did not have to go through the main room when entering and exiting, giving the original owner a relative privacy.
Better space.
Wei Xingyu lived in a newly built west-facing room, and the east-facing room was the kitchen.
When Zihua entered the room, Wei Baoshan asked her again and saw that she was really well, and the vertical lines on her brows were much looser.