sbdcsierra Chapter 183 Take the lead
Chapter 183 Take the lead
"Cooking?" Zhou Dacang asked in surprise, "Your stone slab is only this small, how many dishes can you cook? It's just enough for me to eat."
Zhou Guo said: "Then I'll find a bigger one."
"Well, we need to find a bigger one. Can you eat slower? There are only so many slices in a pot. I roast one slice and you eat one slice. Even if I have two hands, it's not enough." Zhou Gu complained while adding more mushroom slices on the pot. He had to brush them with oil, sprinkle salt, turn them over, and pick out the roasted ones. He was very busy.
Zhou Guo and others burst into laughter.
Zhou Xing smiled and said, "You decided to do it because you thought it was interesting. Now you are too busy to handle it. You can't just give up."
After having a lively meal of fried mushroom slices, everyone went to sleep one after another. Finally, only Zhou Guo and the old man were left. The old man had drunk some wine and didn't want to sleep.
Zhou Guo took out a five-liang silver ingot and said, "Master, here you go. Today, I sold four sacks of pine mushrooms for more than fifteen liang. I'll give you five liang."
The old man laughed, "What do I need these five taels of silver for? You guys also contributed to picking mushrooms. If you divide everything up so clearly, then don't I have to pay for food? Just consider this money as my contribution to building the house. I can't live here for free."
Zhou Guo stuffed the silver into his hand and said, "Take it, use it to buy wine. When our old lady was alive, we set a rule that everyone should keep some money for themselves in addition to the part that is paid to the public. This is the rule. If you refuse again, you will have no income except for the monthly salary."
When the old man heard about pouring wine, he waved his hand and said, "Then take it. When I finish drinking, you can buy more." After that, he stood up, put his hands behind his back, and went back to the house.
Zhou Guo looked at the five-liang silver ingot in her hand, thinking about how she had spent more than two strings of silver today to fill the two gourds. This amount of money was only enough for five pots, which was not much. She put the money in her bag, sighed and looked up at the sky. From now on, she had another reason to make money, earning money to buy wine for the old man.
The next day when she got up to practice, she went out and found that her brother Zhou Mai had also gotten up and was already doing horse stance in the yard. She didn't know how long he had been doing it, but his legs began to tremble.
She walked over with great curiosity. You know, he had done the horse stance before, but he couldn't stick to it. Why was he doing the horse stance again now?
Zhou Dacang and the old man also got up. When they saw Zhou Mai, they didn't show any surprise and started practicing their skills separately.
Zhou Guo stopped talking.
After finishing the practice without fail, it was already bright in the sky. After the family finished breakfast, people who were working came one after another.
Zhou Gu took people to drag back the dried bricks. There were bricks made by various families there. It didn't matter whose family they belonged to. As long as they were dry, they would be dragged home and returned to them later. They worked for a whole day yesterday and had enough to build a house, so they were enough to return the money.
Zhou Guo and his group built two temporary thatched sheds in the yard, moved all the things in the house out and put them into one shed, and used the other shed for eating and resting.
Before the repairs began, oxcarts pulling wood arrived. There were four carts of wood, some thick and some fine, and two doors.
Zhou Guo looked at the two doors. She knew that one of them was the main door, but what about the other one?
The courtyard gate? They now use branches to prop up the courtyard, so there is no need for a wooden door. Don't let someone steal it later.
She didn't know what her uncle was going to use it for, and she didn't ask, she just bought it.
Everyone was busy until the end of the Chen hour before they started working. The first thing they did was to climb up to the roof with a ladder. They had to lift up the roof. The thatch on it had been exposed to wind and sun for so many years and was no longer in good condition. Some of it broke at the slightest touch. The beams also had to be removed as they were all moldy and rotten.
But everyone didn't know how much load the beam above could bear, so they didn't dare to go up.
Zhou Guo had no choice but to do it herself. She was strong, small and light, and had good skills, so it didn't matter if the beam collapsed. If they let others do it, and someone got hurt, they couldn't take the responsibility.
She took a stick, climbed up the ladder to the roof, and used the stick to pick up the thatch on the roof one by one. A gust of wind blew, and the thatch flew everywhere in the wind.
The efficiency is higher, but the follow-up work is more difficult.
In a few seconds, she had removed all the thatch on the roof, and then started to remove the beams. Since no one had taken care of them for many years, the beams were almost useless.
She picked up the beams, each as thick as her thigh, and threw them down easily. With a bang, they broke into countless pieces, just like throwing wooden boards.
The scene was so astonishing that everyone below looked up with their jaws almost dropping to the ground.
"… I say, um, Sanlang, has your Guoguo become stronger again?"
"Yes, although this beam is rotten, it's not that light, right? When I build a house tomorrow, I will ask her to help. She can do the work of three or four people! If we were to lift the roof, it would take several people a whole morning."
Zhou Dacang touched his nose and said, "I can't make the decision on this. This girl has her own ideas. You have to go and talk to her yourself."
"Okay, I'll just say what I want. I'll ask the guy in my room to make her something delicious. We can't let people work for nothing."
Zhou Guo didn't know yet that she had been booked by several companies. Not long after, Liang Quan threw her out. Now only the frame was left in the house. It looked empty and the frame was not in good shape, with pieces collapsed here and there.
Zhou Dacang and his men officially began to repair the house.
Zhou Guo would take advantage of any free time and walk around the place. She would rush to do any work that required physical effort, as she didn't have the skills to do anything else.
When she didn't have heavy work to do, she would go out with a basket to dig wild vegetables. At this time, there were still a lot of wild vegetables in the fields. In fact, if she didn't care about the taste, they would be everywhere in the fields. In her eyes, everything was edible.
But now is not the time of fleeing, food is not as scarce as it was then, and there are so many people at home to help. Let alone feeding them meat, we can't feed them this stuff.
She walked away with the basket, walking along the river. After walking for a while, she found some fresh and tender shepherd's purse growing by the ditch. She squatted down and dug them out one by one. From time to time, she could see a small wild onion in the field. They were not big and very thin, but she did not dislike them. She dug them out and put them in the basket. These vegetables can be eaten after blanching them in a pot. They taste much better than ordinary wild vegetables.
She walked along the river bank for more than half an hour before she found a basket of shepherd's purse and two handfuls of wild onions. There were many children in the village picking wild vegetables, and she followed behind them and didn't pick up much.
She washed a basket of wild vegetables by the river before carrying the basket back home. There was no well at home, so she had to go to the village to fetch water. She usually used river water to wash things, which was too inconvenient, so she still had to dig a well.