The weight of Sister Meng's words was not light. Granny Li's face changed several times. After a while, she moved her lips: "Xiaoyan is the only seedling of the Li family."
Grandma Zhou frowned, but still didn't speak.
Sister-in-law Meng also knew that her ex-mother-in-law only had a granddaughter, Xiaoyan, and she was reluctant to let Xiaoyan be wronged, but she did not give up halfway: "Mom, it is precisely because Xiaoyan is your only granddaughter and the only sprout of the Li family that she should be strictly disciplined.
It is better to discipline yourself than to let others discipline you.
Do you always hope to wait until something happens and Xiaoyan is taught a lesson by others before you regret it?
We discipline ourselves, beat and scold ourselves, and at most we only get a few bruises. When it is someone else's turn to discipline us, others won't feel bad, and they may not even be able to save their lives.
When that time comes, it will be too late to regret."
Granny Li was almost speechless and muttered to herself: "But, Xiaoyan... she has always been very good and obedient..."
"Mom, Xiaoyan used to be very obedient. That's because she has always lived in a small village and her family was poor. Except for going to the homes of classmates who are almost as poor as ours, she has never been to other classmates' homes, nor has she seen the wealth of other people's homes.
Now that she has seen other people's wealth, she has developed jealousy and a vain attitude. If she is not properly disciplined, if she grows crooked, our family will not have the money for her to squander her lavishly, and if she turns to evil ways, it will be all over.
"
Sister Meng's words made sense, but Granny Li was speechless.
Xiaomeng's mind was clear, and Grandma Zhou was relieved. If Xiaomeng couldn't figure it out, she would rather be slapped in the face than her son would be a bachelor for the rest of his life.
In order to give Grandma Li a step down, she came up with negative teaching materials and said on the spot: "My granddaughter Zhou Chunmei used to do it because her mother was too spoiled and she did everything she wanted. She didn't notice that she had a crooked posture.
By the time it was discovered, it was already too late.”
Grandma Zhou talked about her granddaughter. Grandma Li remembered the scene in the morning when the Zhou family disliked the girl, and she immediately shuddered. The girl from the Zhou family was crooked, and her biological father was cruel to break up the relationship. Xiaoyan was not a biological child of the Zhou family.
If she also grows crookedly, how can the Zhou family accommodate Xiaoyan?
Thinking about it, Granny Li no longer dared to protect her only granddaughter no matter how much she cared about her. She was so embarrassed that she said, "My mother-in-law, I am an old fool who has caused trouble for you."
"People are always confused sometimes. If you encounter a similar situation in the future, just don't do it again." Grandma Zhou reminded her earnestly.
Grandma Zhou probably also understands the reasons for the differences between Granny Li and Granny Li. Granny Li is not immune to vulgarity. As long as it has nothing to do with her granddaughter, she is a sensible person. Once it has something to do with her granddaughter, she will definitely put her granddaughter first.
In the past, I always felt that Granny Li was simple and kind, because everything was beneficial to her granddaughter. If she felt that her granddaughter had suffered a loss, Granny Li would turn to her granddaughter regardless of the circumstances.
Grandma Zhou touched Granny Li's destiny and sighed secretly. If Li Xiaoyan was not educated by her mother and did not correct her attitude in time, she would most likely follow in the footsteps of Zhou Chunmei.
Granny Li was preached, her face was a little hot, and she nodded bravely: "My mother-in-law is right, it's all because I have never seen the world, and I was fascinated when I saw other people's families..."
Grandma Li brought up the topic again. Grandma Zhou chewed her teeth with her. The marriage was already done. It was unrealistic not to associate with Grandma Li. She couldn’t look too ugly on the face. Anyway, she knew what she was thinking. If she wanted to open up her heart, she would have nothing to say.
It is impossible for a good sister not to say anything.
The old mother and Lao Meng's mother-in-law started chatting "carelessly" again, and Brother Zhou also breathed a sigh of relief.
The two mothers-in-law settled their differences again, and Sister-in-law Meng was relieved. Instead of comforting her daughter, she talked in the kitchen and discussed what to prepare, because Zhou Xialong's buddy had made an appointment to have dinner at his house on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
After Mr. Le Xiao finished tutoring the children, he went upstairs to teach his younger brother how to practice plum blossom piles, and then went downstairs with his younger brother holding the heart-warming brand.
Zhou Tianming didn't know that the Li family had offended Le Yun. He practiced English conversation with Chen Fengnian. When it got dark, when Le Yun took her brother downstairs, he and Chen Fengnian asked her for some advice on oral pronunciation. It wasn't until dinner was served.
Go to the north building.
When dinner was about to begin, Zhou Tianming saw a large group of people coming down from upstairs. He was startled. Le Yun actually had so many friends from the world come to her house?
After making a meal of medicinal food at his aunt's house, Zhou Tianming returned to his home in a good mood and found that his family was still eating. He also went into the kitchen to talk to his grandma.
His reflex arc was a bit long, and it took him a while to realize that his stepsister Li Xiaoyan didn't come to dinner, and he didn't ask.
Moreover, Zhou Tianming didn't notice anything wrong. He chatted with his grandma for a long time and didn't go to bed until about nine o'clock.
Mr. Yi, the head of the Tang family, Mr. Xuan, and others in the Le family also knew that the Zhou family's in-laws, grandparents, and grandchildren had been scolded by Miss Le because of their little thoughts, but they all pretended to be dumbfounded and pretended not to have heard.
Le Xiao’s classmate will not embarrass herself for others. Her mood is not affected by Li’s grandparents. She eats well and sleeps well. She is in good spirits.
Winter nights are long and days are short. When the long night passes, the fifth day of the lunar new year is ushered in.
On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the Spring Festival annual leave prescribed by the state has also been taken. Most units across the country go to work on the same day, and government departments, state-owned enterprises and other institutions carry out work as scheduled.
Private enterprises or individual units set their own start date, and some set it on the fifth, sixth, or eighth day of the lunar month.
Because the brothers were coming home for dinner, Brother Zhou and Sister Meng got together after breakfast.
The villagers were busy visiting, and Le Xiaoluoli was also busy. After breakfast, she announced a new decision to her family - to build a granary, and she also calmly arrested Mr. Yi, and the Tang family and Xuan family monks worked as hard labor.
Of course, Xiao Loli's decision to open a position was not a sudden whim, but she had the idea two years ago.
Lejia has eight acres of paddy fields, and based on normal yields, it can harvest about 12,000 kilograms of rice every season. It also has dry land, and can harvest several thousand kilograms of rice and legumes every year.
The west room on the south side of the North Building of Lejia was used to store grain. Due to the load-bearing problem of the wall, only one season's worth of rice could be stored. Later, a room was also allocated in the south building to store grain.
The Le family has two buildings, the north and the south. If it is an ordinary family, even if food occupies two rooms, there are still a lot of rooms. The Le family often has friends from all walks of life visiting, and even a total of eight guest rooms is not enough.
If you build a warehouse specifically for storing grain, it will not only free up two guest rooms, but will also make it easier to store and manage grain.
When the little Loli was idle in Dongchen Continent, she got the materials needed to build the warehouse and selected the address. After returning, she went through repeated deliberation and finalized the plan.
She originally wanted to wait until the summer vacation after graduation to start construction, but after yesterday's incident with Li's grandparents and Li Wenwen's incident, she felt that she might consider hiring security personnel to come back and serve as a deterrent.
If you want to hire a security guard, you have to provide food and accommodation. The teacher and his wife will come on vacation during the summer, so the room will be even tighter.
Therefore, it is better to build a granary sooner rather than later.
After a night of careful consideration, classmate Le Xiao decisively decided that it would be better to choose a day than to hit the sun. He took advantage of the Tang family and Xuanjia monks at home to start work quickly.
Zhou Qiufeng, the daughter-in-law's father, had no doubts about Xiao Mian Jiao's decision. He didn't ask anything and just went to find something.
Mr. Yi, Mr. Xuan, Mr. Tang, Mr. Tang and others were more happy to be caught than to pick up money. They gathered around with great interest, studying the drawings and discussing the wall-building techniques.
After talking for a while, we went to see the address where the granary was built.
There is a saying in rural areas that "Be afraid of pig pens in front and warehouses in the back", which means that if you don't build pig and cattle pens in front of the house and don't build warehouses behind the house, building pig and cattle pens in front of the house will ruin the feng shui, and building warehouses behind the house will break the spine or damage the house.
waist.
Little Loli chose a location for her granary on the slope in front of the south building. There is a road in front of the south building, a garden on one side of the road, and a piece of dry land with a slope next to the garden.
Below the slope is also a vegetable garden.
The slope and the garden below the slope are the property of the Liu family.
The garden in front of the south building now belongs to the Le family. A student from Le Family chose a slope to build a barn and designed it in the style of a stilted building with an elevated bottom to maintain ventilation around the barn.
And because it is a sloping land, if the warehouse is built higher, some shade-loving plants can still be planted on the ground under the building, and the land will not be wasted.
The property rights of that sloping land were secretly acquired by Little Lolita, and she had already greeted the owner of the garden below the slope.
As for the land use permit, you don't need to seek approval from the land resources department as long as it does not exceed a certain area.
Of course, if one day the land resources department comes to verify the house area, all dung sheds or warehouses with official roofs, toilets, etc. will be counted as the actual house area. The shed and toilet are counted as the pig and cattle pen house area, and the warehouse is the house area.
You have to pay some tax.
There is no need to apply for an approval certificate to build a warehouse, you can start construction whenever you want.
A group of monks followed the young head of the Lejia family to visit the site in front of the south building of the Lejia family. They compared the terrain and drawings to determine where to build the pillars and where to build the door.
For convenience, the granary faces east and west, with the door opening at the northeast corner. The vegetable garden in front of the South Building of Lejia is retained, with only a width of 60 to 70 centimeters being left open as a path to the warehouse.
The overall design of the granary is 2.8 meters higher than the lowest point of the sloping dry land and 1.6 meters higher than the highest point of the sloping land. The overall design is 1.2 meters higher than the level of the garden in front of the building.
Mr. Yi, Mr. Tang and others inspected the venue, went back to the guest room and changed into a set of practice clothes that were convenient for work, put on rubber shoes and gloves, and immediately removed the fence on the slope and the fence in the Lejia garden.
The monks did not let the little head of the Le family die personally. There were so many of them, and they were all men. They were all very capable, so how could they let a little girl do rough work?
Chen Fengnian wanted to help but was forced to study.
Classmate Le Xiao also followed the guests and gave his younger brother study assignments. He first marked the place where the foundation was dug and cooked steamed cakes, beggar's chicken and clay-roasted rabbit.
Liu Lu's home was close to Le's home. He heard the noise and ran out to check and found that Le's home was going to build construction. Liu Lu also changed into a set of stain-resistant clothes and went to Le's home to help.
Dad Le first carried a gift and ran to the owner of the vegetable garden down the slope to say hello. When building the warehouse, the foundation had to be dug. In order to facilitate the transportation of soil, the excavation was from the slope with the vegetable garden, so he had to borrow the Liu family's house.
Access to the vegetable garden.
The owner of the vegetable garden is Grandpa Liu Lu's cousin. When the Liu Lu family learned that Xiao Lele had bought a slope to build a warehouse, they went to say hello to the family members in advance.
If Lejia did not come to start work, the owner of the garden would not say anything. When Lejia started working, he came to say hello. The Liu family felt valued and were very happy to accept the gift from Yueqing.
Le's father came back from a trip and began to tear down the fence of Liu's vegetable garden.
The owner of the vegetable garden arrived soon after, and he pulled out the green vegetables and some radishes in areas where Lejia's foundation would be trampled and moved them home. He then returned to help remove the fence, spread straw on the ground of the garden, and then covered it with a layer of plastic paper to prevent it from breaking.
Stones or leftover materials from transporting materials fall to the ground and are mixed into the garden mud, affecting the soil quality.
Zhou Qiufeng first caught a rooster and locked it up, prepared offerings, incense, paper burning and firecrackers, and went to help dismantle the fence. She only did the work for a while, and some villagers came to visit and went home to greet the guests.
The guests who visited Lejia heard that Lejia was going to build a warehouse. After drinking tea and eating some dried fruits, they rolled up their sleeves and went to the fields to help with the work.
With more people and greater strength, with a group of monks as the main force and some helpers as laborers, the demolition was completed in less than an hour.
Dad Le brought a small table to the construction site, set out drinks and fruits, offered incense, killed a rooster, burned paper, prayed to the gods of heaven and earth and the earth, and set off a bunch of firecrackers.
He is the master, carrying a hoe and digging a hoe at each foundation column to indicate that the work is well underway.
After the male host of the Le family collected the table and offerings, the monks started work.
Before officially digging the foundation, shovel aside the surface soil in the area where the pillars are built and the area where the road is to be built. The soil is relatively soft and will be returned intact in the future.
Shovel away the soil on the surface, then lay a layer of straw in areas and gardens that may be trampled, and then cover them with plastic paper. Some areas are covered with wooden boards for trucks transporting soil.
Do the preliminary work well and formally dig the foundation.
The warehouse is supported by three rows of nine pillars. Whether from east to west or from south to north, there are three rows of pillars. When digging the foundation, three grooves are opened from the west slope of the garden below the bottom of the slope to the west.
You can dig out the foundation.
Three pillars are evenly distributed in each slot.
A group of monks were divided into two groups and started working at the same time. The small laborers were responsible for loading the soil into bucket trucks and transporting it to the main road of the village and stacking it first.
Liu Lu, Chen Dalian, Zhang Poluo and others made an appointment to go to Brother Zhou's house for dinner that day. Liu Lu went to Le's house, and his family went to Zhou's house at nearly ten o'clock. Then Cheng Youde and others also knew that Xiao Lele was going to build a house.
Warehouse, ran to watch.
They wanted to help, but there were too many people, so they couldn't help, so they wandered around and returned to Zhou's house.
At noon that day, there were nine tables of guests at Zhou's house, including the two three-wheelers yesterday. There were many people visiting Le's house. There were nine tables for the villagers alone. Plus Mr. Yi and others, there were twelve tables at noon.
Most of the villagers who came to visit went back to their homes after lunch, leaving a few to help out at Lejia. But Zhou Qiufeng had no time to spare. In the afternoon, there were still two or three villagers who came to visit, and in the evening there were still six tables of guests having New Year's Eve dinner.
Dad Le went to the store where he bought steel bars in the afternoon and brought back a truckload of steel bars.
The owner of the Yi Lao Tang family and others were very strong. They took turns digging the foundation and tying the main steel bars placed in the middle of the load-bearing columns. The villagers who helped the workers did odd jobs and went to the river to pick up more than a dozen carts of stones and put them on the village road.
