"Grandma Zhao, is Uncle Wan at home?" The courtyard door was not closed. Chen Wanbai stood at the courtyard door and asked Mrs. Zhao softly, for fear of disturbing Wan Nianhuang, who was sleeping sweetly.
"Xiao Bai is here, come in and sit down." Mrs. Zhao broke her leg last month and is still unable to walk. She can only sit on the bamboo bed and wave to Chen Wanbai.
Chen Wanbai walked into the courtyard, put down the things he brought, and then came to Mrs. Zhao and asked with concern: "Grandma Zhao, are your legs feeling better?"
"Come here as you come, what are you doing with the things? Take them back later!" Mrs. Zhao glared at Chen Wanbai with a look of disapproval. When has this happened, what else does it matter?
Chen Wanbai smiled and said nothing.
Mrs. Zhao thought she had agreed, so she touched her legs and said, "It will still take some time before I can walk. If not, I would have gone to visit you two yesterday. "
Mrs. Zhao sighed again and continued: "Oh... what a sin..."
Seeing that Mrs. Zhao seemed to be talking at length, Chen Wanbai He quickly took Mrs. Zhao's hand and interrupted in time: "Grandma Zhao, my mother and I are fine. By the way, where is Uncle Wan? I have something to ask him for help."
Mrs. Zhao then stopped talking and said: "Agui, he has gone out and should be back soon. You sit down for a while and drink some water."
As she said that, she slowly Moving towards the small table next to the bamboo bed, I saw an earth-colored teapot on the table, and several small cups next to it.
"Grandma Zhao, don't bother, I'm really not thirsty." Chen Wanbai quickly stopped her.
At exactly this time, Wan Chaogui came back.
"Xiaobai, why are you here? Is there something wrong?"
"Uncle Wan, there is something I want to trouble you with."
"Then let's talk while we walk."
"No, let's talk here." There is no need to go to her house to talk about this.
"Okay, tell me." Wan Chaogui then moved two bamboo chairs and sat down one at a time.
"Now, autumn is already halfway through, and seeing winter approaching, I thought about building a thicker house. I originally wanted to build an adobe house, but I didn't have the adobe and I didn't have the money to buy someone else's house. We have adobes, so we thought we might as well build a wooden house first, but my mother and I don’t look like people who can build houses.”
“I still have some adobes at home. But the quantity is only less than half..."
Wan Chaogui frowned. His family had planned to build a warmer cowshed, so he made some adobes when he had time, but the remaining adobes were indeed not much.
"Uncle Wan, let's forget it. We two don't seem to be able to afford adobe bricks."
"It's what Xiaobai said, but can this wooden house withstand winter?" Mrs. Zhao listened to the side with a worried look on her face.
Who doesn’t know that the two of them left the Chen family empty-handed, a widow with a child, where did they get any money?
"Grandma Zhao, pick thicker trees, don't split them, just use them whole. In this way, the warmth retention will not be bad."
This is true, In his previous life, Chen Wanbai had seen many Russian and Canadian bloggers on YouTube. They lived in wooden houses. In the extremely cold weather of dozens of degrees below zero outside, they all wear short-sleeved clothes indoors, so the thermal insulation performance is not bad.
"Then are you planning to let me help you build a wooden house? But I'm not very good at this, and I can't make it alone." Wan Chaogui was a little worried that he wouldn't be able to help Chen Wanbai. they.
"I really want to ask Uncle Wan for help. I already have ideas and plans on how to build this house. I also want Uncle Wan to help invite a few people to come with me. It is best to have a good relationship with my father. I will be here He was always paid, twenty-five cents a day per person."
When Chen Da'an was alive, he was still a pretty good person, whether in the village or outside the village. It shouldn't be a problem to hire a few people to help with things, but it's just that it's not easy for her and Liu to go to the village to hire people.
Everything I do is manual work, and twenty-five cents a day is a lot. For example, the busy farming season has just ended, and many men have gone out to do physical work, carrying big bags and the like, for only twenty cash a day, and they don't even have to eat.
"Uncle, I will go find someone for you right now." After Wan Chaogui said that, he stood up immediately, planning to find someone as soon as possible.
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He also felt that it was necessary to hire people, otherwise he would never be able to build the house before winter came by himself.
"Then I'll trouble Uncle Wan." Chen Wanbai was not polite.
Wan Chaogui hurried out the door, and Chen Wanbai said goodbye to Mrs. Zhao and went home.
Mrs. Liu saw that she was back and asked, "What are you doing in such a hurry?"
Chen Wanbai stroked his forehead with his hand and said, "Mom, what do you think now?" How is the weather?"
"It's quite hot."
"What about morning and evening?"
"It's a bit cold. "Ms. Liu just finished speaking, and then continued, "But did you catch a cold at night? I told you to sleep on the bed before, but you still don't agree. You must be catching a cold now. ”
“Mom, autumn is already halfway over, and this shabby house we live in can’t survive the winter.” "
"Ah..."
"So I went to Uncle Wan to help build a house. "
Mrs. Liu listened with a worried look on her face, "It will cost a lot to build a house. How can we have so much money? ”
“Mother,We still build wooden houses, which don’t cost much. And I've asked Uncle Wan to hire someone, I just need to pay the wages. "
"Why don't you discuss it with me? "
Chen Wanbai was silent, just looked at her quietly for a while, then sighed helplessly, turned and left.
"Where are you going? "
"I'm going to take the fish basket back and see if there's anything harvested in it. I'll add some vegetables for tonight. "
Chen Wanbai said, picked up a small basket, turned around and left again.
She first came to the farthest fish basket and took the fish basket out of the water. Lift it up, then open it gently and look at it carefully.
I saw a few small shrimps and a few small crabs in the fish basket. Although the number was not large, the mosquito legs were also meat.
p>She poured the shrimps and crabs into the small basket she brought, and then threw the fish basket back into the water.
When she came to the third fish basket. , I was surprised to find a palm-sized crucian carp inside. Yes, this crucian carp can be used to make soup.
Finally, the four fish baskets were inspected, and the harvest was quite small. .
Chen Wanbai squatted by the small ditch, cleaning the small river shrimps and crabs skillfully.
Then, she walked back with the cleaned basket, thinking to herself. Yes, these river shrimps are delicious when fried with leeks. Unfortunately, it is not the season for leeks now.
However, they also taste good when stir-fried. I will give it a try next time.
As soon as I walked to the front of the house, I heard someone shouting.
"Xiao Bai. ”