Vol 2 Chapter 10: Farmhouse

　　 Chapter 10 Farmhouse and Farm
　　 Zhang Dayou and his brothers chose the foothills of the North Mountain. There is a lot of wasteland in this place. Later, when children grow up, they can build it next to it. It is also convenient to quarry rocks at the foot of the mountain. In addition to being far away from the village entrance, the whole family can hide on the North Mountain if something happens, so the three brothers helped each other build a house in the village, shouting loudly after 100 meters away.
　　 Zhang Dayu’s house is closest to the foot of the mountain, so the surrounding wall is also the highest, all of which are cut walls of large blue stones, a typical northern courtyard.
The vermilion gate was painted last year when the wedding was held. When you enter the gate, you can see three fruit trees planted on the east and west sides of the yard. The two on the west are jujube trees. The trees are many years old. They were directly transplanted from the mountain. , The tall leaves can also block some sunlight in summer.
　　 Not far from the West Wing, there is a tall grape trellis, and a large bluestone table and a few stone stools are placed under the grape trellis. In summer, the family likes to sit here to eat and take advantage of the cold.
　　 The persimmon tree on the left near the kitchen was also transplanted from the mountain. Every year, the fruits of these three trees also make the children in the family happy.
　　 A well was drilled not far from the tree. With this well, the family doesn’t have to go to the village to fetch water for many years. In addition to washing clothes and going to the river at the mouth of the village, this well met the needs of the family. Because the children in the family are small, the well is built high and high, with fast iron plates covered on it.
　　 The open space in front of the east and west wing rooms is well leveled. In addition to the corn and dried sweet potatoes, the dried wild fruits, mushrooms, fungus and other mountain products are also dried in the autumn. The whole yard is very clean and tidy up is also in order.
　　 On the left side of the yard, there are three rooms against the wall. They are an external kitchen. The second is a small warehouse. There are dried vegetables in autumn, pickles in winter, and a few coarse grains. The last utility room contains farm tools and broken baskets. There is also a cellar in the kitchen, which is across the open road, where the whole family’s whole grains are kept.
　　 A small cellar was dug in the main landlord's wing of Zhang's father and Zhang's mother. No one knew about this except for Zhang's father and Zhang's mother and Zhang Guoqing. Here are the hidden treasures of the family, such as a pair of gold bracelets and two gold rings that Zhang’s mother married, and a box of jade pendants, jade medals, jade rings, etc., which Zhang father kept secret during the settlement of the landlord in the village, and some Before the liberation, the wild animals were exchanged for 3 gold bars and 2 packs of silver dollars, as well as a dozen of wooden and jade ornaments that Zhang father privately collected. Several of them were cracked.
　　 Xiao Guoqing once asked Dad Zhang. He didn’t know if Dad Zhang said it was worth the money. He followed his father to the landlord’s house to send prey when he was a child. It just happened to see the landlord wipe carefully, he estimated it was very valuable.
　　 Mother Zhang's gold bracelet for her dowry is going to be given to her sister-in-law in a hundred years, and the two gold rings have been given to two sisters to dowry.
　　 Dad Zhang told Xiao Guoqing that he can’t say it, otherwise he would be robbed and sent to jail. He also promised to let him pick half first, and then wait a hundred years for the three brothers to divide. Ren Xiao was also smart and never told others.
　　 Leaning on the kitchen, there is the east wing room. There are three rooms. This is the boss of Zhang Guofu's family. Now the child is small, the eldest nephew is over 10 years old and lives alone, the 8-year-old second and third twins live in the same room, and the younger niece lives with the elder brother and his wife.
　　 There are 5 western wing rooms built on the right side of the front yard. The first two rooms are for the second child, Zhang Guoqiang. The couple has only 2 children and lives in a spacious room.
　　 The last two rooms belonged to the third son of Zhang Guoqing. Last year, when I got married and furnished a new house, I directly opened up these two rooms and got a suite. People who come and go in the village don't pay attention and just sit in the pit, Zhang Guoqing knows that Zhou Jiao has a little cleanliness. The small living room and study are arranged directly outside, the bedroom will not open easily, and the bedroom is usually entered from the small living room.
The vacant room in the west wing was used as a granary. The cry of the child was especially loud when the night was still in the countryside. The second child was young, and the second wife had a big mouth. It happened to be a granary in the middle. The two brothers had a conflict.
　　 The two main landlord’s rooms are the old couple’s bedroom and warehouse. Zhang’s mother specializes in air-dried pheasant and hare. There are also some fine grains, eggs, red candies, bacon and wild products, etc. The key here is only Zhang’s key, and other people do not want to go in. The second daughter-in-law wanted to go in and was scolded by Mother Zhang several times. No one has ever entered this warehouse except Zhang Guoqing.
　　 The eldest daughter-in-law Zhang Cuilan also only has the key to the kitchen cellar. There are only two of them still in the hands of Zhang’s mother. I heard that it was to prevent the second daughter-in-law from stealing food and bringing it back to her family.
　　 As for Zhou Jiao who was pregnant as soon as she got married, she would not reach out and take things back to her natal home. Except for her grandparents, it is impossible for her to sneak to the uncle's house.
In addition, Zhang’s gift of 300 yuan plus 500 yuan for three turns and one ring only bought 220 yuan for a brand-name sewing machine. She already had a watch in her hand and didn’t buy a new one. Zhang Guoqing had a bicycle in junior high school. Bacheng new. When she got married, she brought her own clothes with the fabrics her grandma gave and the wooden chests in the wardrobe arranged by her grandpa.
The Zhang family is not separated, but the wife of each house can keep it for marriage. It is said that the 800 yuan is calculated from the 300 yuan of the Zhang family boss's gift to the second child 500 yuan. I don’t know how it is calculated. Yuan, if he is less, if he makes up more by himself, it is also a private possession of Xiaosanfang.
For this reason, I heard that the second wife, Zhang Guoqiang, had a fight, because the second daughter-in-law Lin Juhua married here without even wearing an unpatched clothes. The second child is angry and thinks about 500 yuan and feels distressed. He usually goes out. I borrowed my brother's bicycle.
　　 So Zhou Jiao added the more than 300 private money that Zhang Guoqing later gave. The cash is estimated to be close to three thousand less than the whole family combined.
　　 No one knows this money except Zhang Guoqing. People Zhang Guoqing is afraid of others. Especially when his family members asked him, he also stubbornly held that he only had 300 yuan for the bride price and 100 yuan for the dowry plus Zhou Jiao’s private money, which was almost less than 500 yuan. He would also give examples such as the odds and ends of marriage. How much money, such as how much Zhou Jiao spent on him before, when was pregnant to buy snacks, when and what money was spent, no matter how much others wondered.
　　 In fact, in addition to the confidential pension required by my grandfather, someone with a heart still calculates it. For example, her mother-in-law should know how much she has, but she is clever to fool everyone.
In the main room, besides eating and chatting with the whole family in the lobby, there are two rooms in the West Wing on the right. These are the rooms of the two sisters of the Zhang family. They are basically free except occasionally when they come back to live. UU reading www.uukanshu.com comes from relatives and guests. Live inside.
　　 After going out of the main house to the back, the backyard can be bigger, at least three times the size of the front yard. The entire backyard is divided into three parts. In addition to vegetables, there is also a plot of sweet potato and potato.
　　 In every corner of the wall, summer loofah, autumn pumpkin, and winter melon are planted and squeezed close to each other. Pumpkin can be used as a staple food and is the most planted.
　　 A row of thatched houses was built on the right corner of the back side of the mountain. There is a simple kitchen inside which is for roast pigs. There are 2 pigs in the pigpen next to it, and about 10 chickens are raised on a small piece of empty ground not far from the pigpen. This is because they are afraid that the chickens will run away from the vegetable field.
　　 The thatched house on the left wall of the backyard is the toilet at home. For convenience, bluestone was laid on the ground to make a squat like in the city. After using it, I flushed it with a bucket of water. The only thing is that in the northern winter, it will be very comfortable to finish the hut.
　　 A few steps away from the toilet, the wall opened the back door, which is used to go directly to Beishan to collect firewood. If you want to go to Beishan, you don't have to go out at the front door and go round the back door.
　　 The whole family began to collect firewood in the northeast of autumn. The whole winter and the next spring will require firewood, let alone a few kangs at home.
　　It's not easy to get briquettes in the countryside, not to mention that there is no money for firewood in the mountains. No one will go to the city to buy briquettes and burn them. But the city buys firewood to burn it, and now there are some laborers in the village who chop wood and sell it in the city.
　　 The cat winter started after the first snow in Northeast China. Every family tried their best to collect firewood and prepare winter clothes and food. It’s not convenient to go out in the twelfth lunar month of winter, and now you can buy grain or fine grain in exchange for coarse grain at a high price in the city right now. The Zhang family has been collecting firewood and playing pheasants and hares to relieve their greed. The Zhang family worked hard. Now there are several piles of tall wood not far from the back yard.