eurekapd Chapter 142 Moving to the county seat and repairing village houses?
Chapter 142 Moving to the county seat and repairing village houses?
"Hmph, I said my cousin should come, so he should come. Others can come too, just have them come and talk to me."
Gao Mengli snorted coldly and slammed her hand on the table, instantly amplifying her aura to a towering level, intimidating everyone!
This immediately made everyone around them cower and shrink back, not daring to move an inch.
The eldest son's wife has been too nice to them lately, making them forget that their eldest son's wife has always been difficult to get along with.
Gao Mengli's shot was incredibly powerful.
It literally pounded their hearts out of their throats.
Old habits die hard, and Gao Mengli and Lin Xi, both known for their recklessness, had completely forgotten about this...
Yang Qing and Zhu Mei were drenched in sweat and quickly tried to make themselves as inconspicuous as possible, wishing they could be two reclusive mushrooms.
If they had any potential before, now the seeds they planted in their hearts have been crushed into dead ones.
It's impossible for it to sprout.
"Big sister-in-law, don't worry, we definitely didn't mean for your family to come over."
"After all, we've married into the Lin family. We're family members in life and in death. Please, please don't be angry," Zhu Mei quickly reassured her.
The attitude should be as sincere as possible.
Yang Qing nodded in agreement, fearing that Gao Mengli might cause trouble and give them a good beating in the old house.
Gao Mengli glanced at the two of them and smiled warmly!
However, in Yang Qing and Zhu Mei's eyes, this smile was no different from that of a devil from hell.
The two of them shuddered, tensing their skin.
"As long as you know your limits." Seeing that she had achieved her goal, Gao Mengli glanced at everyone in the old house, then turned and left the courtyard.
She glanced at the crowd still stunned in the courtyard of the old house, then quickly ran back to her own yard.
“It hurts so much!”
As soon as Gao Mengli returned to the courtyard, she grimaced and shook her hand, which she had used too much force, and quickly blew on her reddened palm.
This is an attempt to intimidate others, but it's a loss for them.
To injure the enemy by a thousand while harming oneself by ten thousand—this is unacceptable, absolutely unacceptable!
So when Lin Xi returned, she saw Gao Mengli holding up a swollen hand and breathing heavily.
"Hey, Mengli, what happened to your hand?" Lin Xi quickly ran over and examined her hand from all angles.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch, be gentle, be gentle..." Gao Mengli frowned and grimaced.
He quickly pulled his hand away from Lin Xi's and blew on it twice, saying, "I wasn't just trying to scare people; I slapped it on the stone table in the old house."
"what?"
Mengli's actions were truly amazing...
Lin Xi quickly ran to the backyard, from the three-tenths of the backyard to the acre of land the old house had given them, and picked some mint leaves.
After crushing it, Lin Xi cut the gauze and quickly wrapped Gao Mengli's hand like Thanos's hand.
So at dinner time.
Four old men came over and sat down at the table. Gao Mengli, with a dark face, placed the bowl on the back of her "thick" hand and then picked up some food with her left hand.
The others dared not speak, much less ask, and buried their heads in their rice bowls.
Bowl after bowl was added, and chopsticks were picked up one after another.
The food at Lin Xi's house is just so delicious!
Saying one more word means getting one less bite to eat—it's not worth it!
Yu Yuan was also frantically shoveling rice into her mouth, but her "sneaky" eyes kept glancing around.
Seeing that no one was paying attention to her, she picked up a few pieces of chicken from the stew and "secretly" put them in the handkerchief on her lap.
Lin Xi held the bowl, scrambling at it noisily, but looked at Yu Yuan with a face full of curiosity.
Jiang Yuandao sensed that the atmosphere at the table was a bit awkward. He looked up and saw his wife hiding chicken meat.
Terrified, she screamed as she stood beside him.
"Old woman, what are you doing? Hurry up and take it out and eat it."
Jiang Yuandao quickly put down his chopsticks and took out Yu Yuan's handkerchief, but Yu Yuan grabbed it.
Yu Yuan clutched the chicken in her handkerchief and nervously ran to the side.
Looking at Jiang Yuandao with a wary expression, she said, "Don't take my chicken. Xixi and Mengli love chicken, I'm taking it back for them."
Upon hearing this, Gao Mengli and Lin Xi exchanged a glance, both seeing a mixture of amusement and heartache in each other's eyes.
Their aunt remembered the time when the two of them were little and stole chicks...
Lin Xi put down her chopsticks and waved to Yu Yuan, "Aunt, come back and eat. I'll go call someone for you."
Lin Xi quickly ran next door and called the three little ones over to eat together.
When Yu Yuan saw Fu, Lu, and Lin, the three little radishes, she happily ran back to her seat and pushed the chicken in her handkerchief in front of them, saying, "Eat, eat chicken."
However, he looked at Lu and Lin with a dilemma, unsure which one was Gao Mengli.
Tilting its head, it sized up the two little radishes.
It was Yu Yuan who was "calling a deer a horse," and no one around her explained it to her, let alone could explain it.
Therefore, everyone remained silent.
Fu, Lu, and Lin looked at the chicken wrapped in a handkerchief that Yu Yuan handed over, and without any hesitation, each of them took a piece and ate it with relish.
They thanked Yu Yuan in unison, "Thank you, Grandma!"
Yu Yuan selectively "deaf" and didn't find anything wrong with how the three people addressed her!
He happily fed the three little radishes with vegetables.
The meal was quite lively and enjoyable.
After the meal, we saw the group off.
Gao Mengli lay on the bed, holding up a "Thanos Infinity Gauntlet," looking utterly hopeless.
The windows were small and the room was dimly lit, which made one feel drowsy.
Just as she was about to close her eyes and drift off to sleep, Lin Xi ran in.
"Oh, Mengli, are you going to sleep?"
Gao Mengli rolled her eyes, which had been drooping, and then opened them again. "I'm not sleeping, I'm just lying here playing!"
Lin Xi touched her nose and walked in with a chuckle. "I was just asking, what's wrong with that?! But the room is pretty dark."
After Lin Xi finished speaking, she laboriously pulled out the bamboo basket containing copper coins from under the bed.
He sold 300 catties of loquat syrup and earned about 150 taels of silver.
The Sang family pharmacy paid in silver, which wasn't a heavy amount.
"Mengli, how about we repair this dilapidated house first?!"
The room was filled with rammed earth, was very dusty, poorly lit, and cramped.
The main problem is that the outhouse is located behind the house.
On sunny days it's fine, but on rainy days, it rains heavily outside the latrine shed and drizzles inside; the darkness of Emo is darker than the sky.
"Mengli, is your stuff ready? If it is, how about we move to the county town and use these two rooms to build a new house?"
Lin Xi counted the coins while muttering to herself about her plans to renovate the house.
Gao Mengli propped herself up, yawned, and looked lazy. "Repairing the house? Sure!"
Upon hearing about repairing the house, Gao Mengli's eyes lit up instantly, and the last bit of sleepiness vanished!
As for the musket she wanted to make, it was just one piece away from being finished. She could have it made in the county town instead!
So he got up, grabbed Lin Xi, and ran towards the village chief's house.
Gao Mengli gave the village chief a design blueprint for a courtyard house and paid him one hundred taels of silver.
The house matter will be entirely handled by him.
The two returned home and quickly buried the three chayote fruits they had brought back in the yard before going inside to pack their luggage.
Gao Mengli carried a table and pushed open the courtyard gate of the old house with her bottom.
To everyone's astonishment, the wooden table and benches in the old house were left in the yard.
Lin Xi followed closely behind, carrying pots and pans.
"Don't just stand there like idiots, hurry up and help!" Lin Xi put down her things and slapped Lin Fei and Lin Chi's arms twice as they stood there dumbfounded.
The two quickly followed behind and helped tidy up.
Yang Qing and Zhu Mei exchanged a glance and then followed them to the neighboring courtyard.
Jiang Shuzhi tugged at Lin Yong's sleeve and pointed at the things in the yard, "What is Eldest Sister doing?"
Lin Yong scratched his head, his eyes wide open like saucers, round and full of doubt and astonishment. "I don't know."
At this moment, Gao Mengli moved the large soy sauce vat from her home and placed it in the courtyard of the old house.
The two old crickets under the eaves stopped chirping as soon as she entered.
Jiang Shuzhi quickly stepped forward and asked, "Eldest daughter-in-law, what's going on?"
Gao Mengli wiped the sweat from her forehead and fiddled with the large vat. "Mother, Lin Xi and I are planning to move to the county town tomorrow. We'll clear out our yard to build a new house."
She was eager to upgrade from a slingshot to a cannon, which was undeniably proactive.
Moreover, you can pay in full and avoid becoming a mortgage slave.
That feeling was absolutely amazing!
As he spoke, he rushed back to continue moving things.
"Big brother, are we building a new house?!" Lin Yong clapped his hands, his face full of excitement.
He ran out quickly, taking two steps at a time, to help carry things.
Jiang also quickly joined in to help.
You can see the whole house from top to bottom at a glance; there are very few things there.
The only things that take up space are those six soy sauce vats.
They all know this stuff; Lin Xi said it's soy sauce, and she treasures it terribly.
So they carried it very carefully.
As for clothes and shoes, each person only had two or three sets of cotton clothes.
Gao Mengli was somewhat disgusted with her old clothes, so she dug them all out and threw them in the yard.
Seeing this, Jiang Shuzhi felt a pang of heartache and quickly ran to the yard to fold the old clothes, saying, "Eldest daughter, let me tidy up these clothes for you."
Gao Mengli came out of the house carrying a pile of old clothes and put them in the yard. "Mom, I don't want these clothes anymore. Could you please help me get rid of them?"
Although Lin Xi washed the clothes clean, Gao Mengli still disliked the sloppy clothes that the original owner had worn.
"Oh, these, these are all unwanted?"
Jiang looked pained. Gao Mengli and Lin Xi were never the type to compromise their own comfort; most of their clothes were made of cotton.
Gao Mengli looked at her mother-in-law and nodded, "Yes, no need. You can decide what to do with it, or you can just throw it away."
Upon hearing this, Madam Jiang quickly waved her hand, "No, no, it would be a shame to lose it."
"Let the second and third children's families choose two outfits later, and the rest can be altered for the three younger children, Fu, Lu, and Lin!"
Gao Mengli smiled; those were exactly the words she wanted to hear.
If I just say I'll give it to you, I might end up being seen as picky.
Now that my mother-in-law has taken the initiative to speak up, everyone's happy!
Gao Mengli was secretly delighted, but pretended to be calm on the surface: "Mother, you are really good at managing the household. This is a great idea."
I'm worried that my second and third sons' wives will look down on my old clothes, and that my three little ones might think I'm just giving them handouts.
Jiang smiled and glanced at her: "You silly girl, you're always talking nonsense."
"The fabric of these clothes is excellent, and they've been washed so clean. They're overjoyed; how could they possibly complain!"
Zhu Mei and Yang Qing, who were tidying up their things nearby and listening intently to the two's conversation, were secretly delighted.
They usually only have two sets of cotton clothes, which they only wear when visiting relatives or during festivals.
Suddenly, a giant pancake fell from the sky, and from then on, they achieved freedom in wearing cotton clothing!