After Uncle Qi finished speaking, Liu Pei stood on the stone and arched his hand at everyone and said, "Fellow villagers. Under Liu Pei! After that, I begged for a living with everyone in the village. This time, I will have to lose the help of my neighbors to build a house! I don't dare to say more, anyone who comes to help me build a house, I take care of three meals a day! In addition, there is a daily salary of 5 cents. ”

As soon as Liu Pei's words fell, the villagers became confused. It stands to reason that whoever wants to build a house in the village, if the villagers go to help, the main family only needs to take care of food and drink. There is no payroll. Liu Pei: This can be regarded as setting a precedent.

Uncle Qi frowned beside him and said, "Liu Pei, what are you talking nonsense?" If you build a house today and promise everyone a salary, will you be paid for building a house in the future? Aren't you messing around? The old man in the village nodded his head and agreed.

Liu Pei explained loudly: "It is said that the rules should not be broken this time. But I don't have a house in the village yet, so I'm not a member of the village. And I don't have any personal relations with your neighbors now, so I'm here to pay you some money, even if it's for a favor in the future! I need my neighbors to help me in the future! So I'm the only one in this matter, and the others are the same. Uncle Qi, do you think this is good? ”

The villagers were of course happy when they heard that there was money to be gained, and some people paid in the crowd. It's best to say so. Uncle Qi was annoyed that the villagers were open to money, but he didn't want to provoke the anger of the public, so he agreed to this matter. But he repeatedly stressed that this was the only time. Liu Pei thought to himself, as soon as this mouth is opened, it won't be with you! It seems that in the future, the villagers will be driven to put profit first!

After Uncle Qi finished assigning, everyone did what he told them to do. By evening, the village was in chaos again. The reason is that Qi Qitao is back! In the morning, Qi Qitao went out with a dozen young men, and when he came back, he brought back a convoy! The convoy was loaded with large bags of grain, and six sheep were led, and there were four fat pigs on the cart who were tied up and screaming!

People who saw the convoy asked what was going on? Qi Qitao told everyone that these things were eaten by Liu Pei when he was about to build a house. As a result, the whole village was in a stir! They all came out to watch the team.

With everyone's help, the procurement team finally placed everything after a while. At the same time, everyone's enthusiasm for building a house for Liu Pei also rose. After all, if you eat it every day, although you don't die of hunger, you don't feel comfortable. Although it takes effort to build a house for Liu Pei, looking at what Liu Pei has prepared, he can really eat three dry meals, which is a good thing!

When I got up the next morning, all the people who were ready to work gathered in the middle of the village. I saw that several cauldrons and baskets had been placed there. It contains rice porridge and steamed buns. Everyone who came to work received a large pot of porridge, three steamed buns, and a piece of pickle. Everyone held the porridge, wore steamed buns with chopsticks, and squatted on the ground to suck and eat. While eating, when was the last time you ate steamed buns? As a result, the most recent one was four years ago, when the Li family in the village married their daughter-in-law.

After everyone finished eating hastily, they spontaneously gathered next to the grove and began to work. In the place planned by Liu Pei, the trees were cut down and the roots were removed. Pick out the useful ones and put them aside. The useless branches were cut down and piled up, and the children took them back to dry and burn the fire. Uncle Qi also arranged for his wife to take some women to make a fire to cook, and the whole village was in full swing.

At noon, a little daughter-in-law came to the construction site and shouted: "The big guys have eaten!" Everyone packed up their tools and walked to the village. At this time, the small square in the center of the village was already full of tables and chairs. In the middle of the table is a bamboo basket with bowl-sized steamed buns. There are also six small pots on the table for dishes. There are three green vegetables, not to mention, there is also a pot of sea fish, a pot of roast pork slices, and a pot of bone broth.

Everyone praised Liu Pei's big hands! Then he sat down unceremoniously and began to eat. The little ones are most excited! Jump from this table to that table. No matter which table you jump on, you'll be stuffed with a piece of fat in your mouth, and you'll be slapped in the ass! Then the children screamed and fled to another table to repeat the process.

The villagers have been suffering for a long time, and it is rare to have a chance to let go of food. What a storm! However, these people who cook also know in their hearts, basically just enough to let everyone eat, and the plates they eat are bare, and nothing is wasted.

The villagers are still simple. After everyone finished eating, after a short rest, no one shouted, and they automatically went to work consciously. In the afternoon, the masons and carpenters were in place, and they began to measure and mark the lines according to the sketches. The villagers also went up to help, and the groundwork was quickly completed. Others began to dig logs, foundations. After an afternoon, Liu Pei circled the ground. All the trees were cut down. The roots of the tree were also cut away. A part of the population began to level the land.

At night. The craftsmen who were invited to return to the village with the villagers. Same as at noon, it was still five dishes and one soup and a big basket full of steamed buns. This time, even the craftsmen invited loudly praised the generosity of the master's family, saying that they must work hard. It caused a burst of laughter from everyone.

Uncle Qi finished eating early, sat under the tree and said to Liu Pei: "I haven't seen such a lively village for a long time!" ”

Liu Pei said with a smile: "Uncle Qi, you don't have to be emotional, the village will often be lively in the future!" ”

Sure enough, there are many people and great power! In addition, Liu Pei eats well for everyone, and everyone is willing to work hard. What was supposed to be a five-day job was done in three days. All that's left is to build the wall. Most of the villagers also knew some masons and began to work under the assignment of Uncle Qi. As a result, the favored mason had no work to do! But he's also very smart, and he doesn't even get started himself, and is only responsible for walking back and forth to guide everyone how to do it. Where he didn't do well, he took action himself. Carpenters also work on things like windows and door frames. In short, this lively scene lasted for 12 days, and Liu Pei's new house was built!

Now the most magnificent house in the village is Liu Pei's new house. Most of the houses in the village are still rammed earth and thatched houses. Only Uncle Qi's house is a brick house. But it is not as large as Liu Pei's house. The huge yard can be as big as seven or eight ordinary villagers with a house and a yard!

This was specially circled by Liu Pei. In the future, it is good to have a place to store things when pulling things from now. And everyone's fence is a fence wall more than half a person high. And Liu Pei's fence is a brick wall more than one person high. Liu Pei didn't want people to see the situation in the courtyard all the time. Because he has a huge secret to keep. And the best thing is that Liu Pei also made a fire kang and a fire wall in the house. He applied to himself the methods he had learned from the Manchus during the Qing Dynasty. The masons who saw it were amazed! After listening to Liu Pei's description, the villagers also decided to repair one by themselves after the autumn harvest was over, so as to make the winter a little better.