jdhmnovel Chapter 218 The House is Completed
Chapter 218 The House is Completed
After Su He and Liu Bai bought some food and snacks, they headed towards Qingshan Village. This time she didn't have to rush, so she half-lay leisurely in the carriage and picked some strawberries and blueberries to eat. They made no sound when eaten and the taste was not noticeable.
The time in the carriage cannot be wasted, so Su He thought of a side job to make money, which is to write storybooks, which these southerners will definitely love to read.
During the three days after returning to Qingshan Village, Su He spent all his time writing storybooks in his own little room.
The first one is called Huang Chuner's Journey to Become a Mistress. In simple terms, it means that I have been reborn and left the poor scholar behind, heading for the pinnacle of my life.
The inspiration comes from Ms. Chen Rou, specifically, a simple and lovely rich lady Huang Chun'er, who met the handsome and talented Li Mingsheng at the age of falling in love. The two fell in love as soon as they met, and finally broke through many obstacles to be together. Ten years later, the former poor scholar turned into a third-rank official, and then successfully abandoned his wife and children, and joined hands with the daughter of the second-rank official to share wealth and glory. After the original wife died with hatred, she was reborn to the day when she met the poor scholar. Huang Chun'er ended her fate with Li Mingsheng by slapping him twice. Of course, the two of them would have some entanglements in the middle. In the end, the heroine successfully stepped on the scholar and became the mistress of a famous family with her experience in her previous life.
In fact, according to Su He's modern thinking, it would be best to get rid of the scumbag after rebirth, become rich and beautiful alone, but this era does not allow such thinking.
The mistress Su He doesn't intend to write about how to do it specifically, and she doesn't know how to do it.
The story ended after Huang Chuner gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl, and secured her position as the mistress of the house. It was a happy ending.
Su He put the draft into her space with satisfaction. Next, she would ask her brother to write for her, as her handwriting was ugly and not suitable for writing.
The next day, Mu Tou took his sister's manuscript and stayed in the room to write it in calligraphy for his sister.
In the entire Tianyuan group, only Su He and the children in the village were leisurely. The adults were busy day and night. Just two days before the house was to be completed, the victims arrived.
There were many disaster victims at the entrance of the village that day, all with messy hair and wearing tattered cotton jackets, and the stench could be smelled within three meters.
These were the first batch, and Village Chief Zhu was mentally prepared. He arranged in advance 100 strong young men to be divided into two groups to distribute porridge at the door, with 10 pots in a row.
This porridge was delivered in advance by the county government and filled the granary of Qingshan Village.
Most of these disaster victims had bowls, so their job was relatively easy. They just had to use a spoon to scoop porridge into the bowls. The women in the village would continuously bring them freshly cooked porridge.
"After you finish your porridge, go to the front and line up. The magistrate has already allocated land and residences for you. You have to build your own house. You will have food every day, so don't worry."
The victims in the front row kept saying nice things, while the victims further away spat on the ground and spoke to their companions next to them.
"The capital city can't accommodate us, how long can we last here? These people are just talking in sweet tones."
"What's the point of saying all this? Hurry up and get in line to drink and go to rest. We still have to build a house tomorrow."
Village chief Zhu was old after all, so after just a few minutes his son took over.
In the afternoon, the soldiers also arrived and did not leave at night, so they stayed overnight at the village chief's house.
The next day, they got up early and continued to distribute porridge. Although Su He and his group were busy building houses, they also assigned some people to help. They had already joined Qingshan Village and had to contribute. It was better to take the initiative in this matter. If Village Chief Zhu really asked about it, it would be embarrassing.
At this moment, Su He was glad that their house was almost finished. After asking the people from Wuyu Village to help with the finishing touches, they could move in.
Originally, Grandpa wanted to treat Wang Dacheng's family to another good meal to celebrate the completion of the new house, but now there are more and more disaster victims, and soldiers are also in the village, so feasting on fish and meat would be a bit conspicuous. The two families discussed that they could only get together later.
Two days later, Su He and his group of people also moved into their new houses. Although they did not invite guests, they still had to buy things for the house. And Wang Erming was still waiting for them at the clinic.
Everyone discussed going to the city to buy things together. The things to be purchased were so numerous that they were countless. Every household got out of the car and set out at dawn.
After leaving the village and looking at the disaster victims huddled on the sidelines, everyone's excitement dimmed a little. Many of their relatives did not come out with them, and now they don't know whether they are dead or alive.
Wang Laowu's daughter-in-law was crying with her hands covering her mouth, "If I had known this would happen, I would have dragged my brother along with me. I have raised him since he was a child, how could I bear to let him go."
The two sisters-in-law beside them comforted them softly with red eyes, saying that most of their relatives did not go with them, and all went to Jinyang City. They had no say in getting married, and no one listened when they wanted to ask their natal family to go to the south with them. Now they have no natal family anymore.
The atmosphere in the entire team suddenly became depressing, and Su He was thinking about buying a maid with Wang Qingqing.
"We cannot buy from disaster victims, for fear that they will collude and target us."
After a month of living in the countryside, Wang Qingqing has become much more down-to-earth and is now enthusiastically sharing her ideas with Su He.
Yanzhi was thinking about buying some children from the disaster victims, but when she heard Wang Qingqing say no, she wanted to fight for them.
"They only have some porridge to drink every day. How can they get enough to eat? Those children are so pitiful."
Wang Qingqing shook her head. "If you feel sorry for them, we can help them when we have a good harvest. But we have to buy people from people we know well. We have to take care of ourselves first before we can help others. I heard from the old people that there were people who ate each other during famines. There are also bad people among these disaster victims. How can we tell them apart? We are afraid of inviting wolves into the house."
Su He looked at Wang Qingqing in surprise. He didn't expect that she had such a brain.
"But if they weren't stronger, how could they survive until now? They were forced into this situation."
"What my cousin said is right. They need help, and the magistrate will take care of it. We can't take care of them now. When our sweet potatoes are planted in the second half of the year, you can sell more to the victims, and they will have enough to eat."
Yanzhi bit her lip and nodded. Wang Qingqing smartly stopped talking. She had made up her mind not to accept the disaster victims.
When they arrived at the city gate, everyone dispersed and agreed to set off in an hour.
Su He took people to buy food first, and her brother went to pick up the little grandfather. Zhou and his family would go to buy meat. People here all raise pigs, and Su He also had ideas, but of course she would not raise them, she would only be responsible for eating.
This time the price of grain has indeed increased. The original price of 5 wen per pound of old rice has increased to 8 wen.
Su He curled her lips and bought 5,000 kilograms of goods in one go. She used her reserve fund to make the purchase. If she bought more grain, she could ask for delivery. Su He ordered another 5,000 kilograms and agreed to pay the balance in half a month. The 10,000 kilograms of rice would be delivered to Qingshan Village in three batches.
Su He brought Wang Qingqing and Liu Bai to the dental clinic recommended by Zhang's mother, Hongyun Dental Clinic.
The people in the dental office were the most tactful. They came out immediately upon seeing the figures and asked, "Ladies, are you renting a yard or buying a house?"
“We don’t buy people who have been affected by the disaster during this period.”
The broker smiled and nodded, "I understand. Please come in, the three of you. I wonder what requirements the young lady has for buying someone."
Su He motioned for Wang Qingqing to choose first. Wang Qingqing didn't hesitate and said, "I want to buy two. One is old enough to be the gatekeeper, and the other one can do the laundry, cooking and chores. A family of three is fine, but I want someone who can work hard."
"Sister, how many do you want?"
Su He needs to buy more, because Qingshan Village needs people. In the future, when Mu Tou comes to the city to go to school, the house in the city will also need people.
"I'll see what the people are like first, and if they're good, I'll buy more."
The broker listened carefully and took Su He and others to the side room.
"Please wait a moment, my three guests. I will arrange for a suitable servant to come over."
Wang Qingqing came over and asked, "Sister, is this Hongyun the same ship as the one we're on?"
"Yes, this store has a good reputation. I have inquired about it carefully."
Wang Qingqing nodded and looked around. This was an ordinary reception room with an inner room next to it, probably for people to change clothes and wash.
Wang Qingqing tried hard to recall how her father had selected people in the past. Just as she remembered a little, the broker came with his men.