jdhmnovel Chapter 185 What else? I should be dead
Chapter 185 What else? I should be dead
Although the torches shine brightly, there are still dark places that they cannot illuminate, let alone read the blueprints.
Besides, it was already late at night, and the younger children were all asleep in their mothers' arms.
Douhuaer also fell asleep in Sanwang's arms.
Yan Ming hugged the sleeping Big Head.
Li Lanzhen said, "You can wait and see tomorrow. Anyway, there is a lot of land in the Grand Canyon, so when measuring the foundation, we should make each yard larger so that it will be more spacious to live in.
It is best to build houses in rows, leaving paths between rows and yards for pedestrians and cars to pass by. This way, the houses will be neat and beautiful, and people can shout to each other if they have something to say.
"Grandma, we want to be with you!"
A sudden shout stopped everyone in their tracks!
Li Lanzhen turned around and saw Shitou and Yan Ming.
There were several children standing next to Xinghua.
The children's eyes were slightly red as they looked at her longingly.
Li Lanzhen really wanted to slap herself.
How could I forget to take care of the children’s housing problem?
She hastened to comfort the children.
“Of course you have to live with grandma!
Douhua, Datou and I sleep in the same room.
You boys and girls will live separately in the west room and the three east wing rooms."
Look at them, she continued.
"But I still want to build a house and yard for you. You have to grow up, and when you grow up you have to get married."
After hearing what she said, the children laughed.
Said cheerfully, "We listen to grandma!"
There are tree houses built on all eleven trees.
The boys sleep together and the girls sleep together.
Even the children from these families did not sleep in the same tree house with their parents, but chose to sleep separately from other children in the village.
Li Lanzhen asked Sanwang to give her the tofu pudding.
There are five people living in her tree house: Han Yuemei, Linglong Miaomiao, and Douhua.
It's very spacious and soft underneath.
There is a reed marsh here and there are many mosquitoes.
Wu asked Xue Bao to light a few more fires and put mugwort in each fire.
Xue Lao Hu also sprinkled mosquito repellent powder around 11 trees.
As for the people who were on night watch, they were also arranged by Xue Lao Hu and divided into three shifts so that everyone could have a good rest.
Seeing that the children were all asleep, Li Lanzhen suddenly realized that she had done something stupid.
How did all that wood and the wheelbarrows used on the construction site end up here? It must be quite far from here to where the house and yard are to be built.
Oh! How stupid!
It has come to this and she doesn't want to move anymore. She will go and see the situation tomorrow.
The next day was destined to be a busy day.
Each person had a boiled wild duck egg for breakfast.
These were all baskets of wild duck eggs that Li Lanzhen took out from the space.
The chickens, ducks and geese in the space lay a lot of eggs.
She planned to buy a batch and exchange it for some silver when she went to Youzhou City next time.
Or, after the houses and yards are repaired, give each family some eggs and let them put them on the kang to hatch chicks and ducklings like hens.
As long as the temperature and humidity are right, the chicks and ducklings will be hatched successfully.
After breakfast, several groups of people started to do their own things.
Han Shunde allocated all the cows to Zhang Deshui, asking them to harness the cows to plow the fields. He also gave them an ox cart, which was loaded with iron plows, farm tools, and seeds.
He called on everyone to harness the horse and donkey carts to pull the wood, which were full of saws and axes.
Several young people rushed to push the wheelbarrow.
We headed to the north side of the Grand Canyon, to the site where the house and yard were to be built.
Li Lanzhen did not go with them.
She walked first towards the north side of the Grand Canyon, observing the canyon as she walked.
The road is high in the east and low in the west. The reed marsh in the west extends all the way to the north, and the water in the river neither decreases nor increases.
There are few trees in the middle of the Grand Canyon, but there are many trees near the cliffs on both sides of the canyon.
Even if they don't go up the mountain, they can still pick up firewood and dig fresh wild vegetables in the forests on both sides.
This is good, even if there is heavy rain, there will be no mudslides.
There is just not enough drinking water. The river water in the reed marshes is fine for washing clothes and watering fields, but it is not good for drinking.
Li Lanzhen wanted to find a few more springs. If there were no springs in the canyon, she could only go to the nearby mountains to look.
She walked so fast that the people behind her could never catch up with her.
At this time, she walked to a large open and relatively flat area and looked at the river in the west. It meandered here and flowed towards the mountains in the west. There were no reeds growing here.
She saw that this area of land was relatively high, and even if it rained or rainwater rushed down from the mountains in the east, it would flow along the ditches into the big river in the west, so the drainage was very good.
This should be the place where Han Shunde and his team found to build a house and yard.
She stood on it and looked to the north, and indeed saw a forest. That should be the peach forest.
She looked around again and found that this would be the best place to build a house and yard.
The place is quite large, and all the courtyard houses can face north and south and be built neatly. It should be no problem to build more than ten rows with five rooms in a row.
While we were walking, stopping and observing there, Han Shunde and his team arrived.
Han Minghai shouted, "Mom, what are you doing standing there?"
Li Lanzhen saw that they didn't seem to be about to stop, so she slowly walked over and pointed at that area and spoke.
“Isn’t this the foundation for building a house?”
Han Shunde looked at this area and was stunned for a moment.
He looked down again and said.
"Not here, we have to go one mile down."
Li Lanzhen looked him up and down and said to them.
"I think this place is pretty good. The foundation is relatively solid. Besides, there are no reeds in the river here. It is more convenient for us to use water to wash clothes when we live here.
Also, this place is close to the land in front, so it is convenient for people to come and go during spring plowing and autumn harvest.
It is also close to the cave to the east, so it is easy to escape from here if there is any emergency."
Han Shunde and the others put down their cars and tools, walked over and surrounded the area, examining it carefully.
Finally, I feel that this place is really good.
Why didn't they inspect this area when they passed by here yesterday?
Li Lanzhen thought about it and decided that since they had chosen the area at the back as the foundation, she wanted to take a look. If it was better there, they would just build it there.
"Let's go. I'll go over there and take a look. If it's better there than here, we'll build the house and yard there."
They hurried to the chosen site in the north.
After walking for more than a mile, we saw a larger area.
Li Lanzhen took a look and found that the terrain here was not high. The river to the west was relatively far away from here and was closer to the West Mountain, which also turned a corner here.
The mountains to the east are still lush with trees. The peach forest here is about a mile away.
She didn't say anything and looked at the result of the discussion between Han Shunde and the others. In her heart, she still preferred the area in front.
After a while they discussed it and said to her.
"Sister Lanzhen, let's build the village in the area you like.
The terrain over there is high, close to the river, and not far from the cave in the east, so it is more convenient to farm and manage the land."
Li Lanzhen nodded, and she looked around again, thinking that this would be a good place to build a processing plant or some other factory in the future.
Of course, she didn't want to say it now, so she decided to wait until next spring to talk about it.
Now that the site for building the village had been chosen, the men rolled up their sleeves and first shoveled out a piece of level ground, and then measured out the courtyards one by one.
Li Lanchun did not participate, but took out two baskets from the space and filled them with wild vegetable cakes.
She said something to Han Minghai and went back to the 11 trees.
When she came, she walked along the river in the reed marsh and observed it, but she didn't see any sign of a spring.
On her way back, she walked along the mountain on the east side, but did not see any sign of a spring.
I felt very sorry and thought that I should go to the mountain to take a look tomorrow. If there is a spring water in the mountain, I should find some way to bring it down and directly to the village, which would be convenient there.
When Han Shunde and the others left, they told Xun Nizi and the others that they would not come back for lunch and would not return until the afternoon.
So at noon, Xue Nizi and the others packed food in large wooden basins, loaded them on an ox cart, and pulled it to deliver the food to them.
At noon, there was a big stew of wild boar ribs, chicken, rabbit meat, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and wild vegetables, including soup, meat and vegetables. There was also enough wild vegetable pancakes for everyone to eat.
Zhang Deshui and his colleagues were relatively close, so they were very happy working for the whole morning.
When they came back to eat, everyone's face was lit up and they couldn't stop smiling.
He kept saying that the land here was so fertile and it was so wonderful here.
After lunch, Li Lanzhen climbed up to the tree house. She wanted to take a nap.
By the way, I want to go into the space to take a look. Since Zhang Deshui and others have already cultivated the land and planted seeds.
Is there any change in the small canyon in the space?
The children did not take a nap. Instead, they followed the older children to the river to pick up wild duck eggs or dig wild vegetables.
Li Lanzhen climbed up the tree house and slipped into the space, then she was shocked!
A young man wearing a silver mask stood in front of him.
"How do you live?"
"What else? I should be dead!"