novelaction Chapter 420: Warming Wine
Chapter 420: Warming Wine
"It's already amazing to have a shell like this to live in. When I get rich again, I will build a few houses next to this thing. It looks really grand!"
It is magnificent, especially the courtyard paved with blue bricks and cobblestones. Everyone is envious of how spacious it is!
Having a yard like this in the countryside is much better than a mud yard, whether it is for drying crops or doing other things. It is clean and tidy. Even if it rains or snows, the yard will not be full of mud and your feet will be clean.
Everyone envies such a yard.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "What's so difficult about this? There's nothing else in the river, but there are stones. If you don't mind the trouble, go pick some flat stones and carry them back. Mix them with yellow mud and spread them in the yard. Although it's not as good as a blue brick floor, it's not much worse. It's much more comfortable than a mud floor."
"The slate in the river is very brittle. It will crack when you chop firewood. It's not useful."
A few people nodded. It's not that they haven't used it before, but it's very difficult to choose suitable stones. Either they are too small or have strange shapes and are not flat at all. If they are flat, thin and not strong.
Not to mention pebbles. If you use them to dry grain, if some grain accidentally leaks out, it will fall through the cracks in the stones. You have to turn the stones over, making it even more difficult to use. Although a mud yard is difficult to walk on when it rains, it is still very useful at other times.
"Really?" Zhou Guo was puzzled. "The stones in our yard were from the river before. They are very useful. They have been used for so long without cracking. We even chopped a lot of firewood on them."
"Then I have to try again when I go back. The small stones in the river have become treasures when they are in your house. Look, you have built a circle around them. What are you doing?"
Li smiled and said, "The kids laid it out, thinking of making a ditch, and said they wanted to catch some small fish to raise in it, and then dig some flowers from the river to plant on the side. It's all nonsense. If you want to spend so much time like this, you might as well plant some vegetables. At worst, you can plant rows of melon seeds on the side. They can be eaten and they bloom, how nice."
"Hey, it's a good thing for children to be active. The ones in our family spend all day collecting firewood and never pay attention to these things. You should be content. Besides, when the fish grow up, we can eat fish meat, which is better than your melon seeds. I wonder if you can dig one in my yard, so that we won't have to worry about fish to eat in the future."
The people next to him laughed and said, "You still want to raise fish? Where will the water come from? They have a well here, but you worked so hard to carry a few buckets of water, and it all leaked away overnight. The fish are all dead. You are still raising fish? You will die of exhaustion but you won't be able to raise any of them."
Everyone laughed, and the person who said it also laughed.
People from the village came to visit in groups. This was considered the most luxurious house in their village. Even if they couldn’t live in it themselves, they would at least come to see it for themselves.
Just a few families got together for a warm-house feast and had a lively meal.
For the first time ever, Zhou Sanyuan's wife was not stingy this time. She was very generous and gave chickens, eggs, and food. She was very generous.
When someone asked her about it, she would say, "I have always been like this. Besides, how can a worker be compared to a greenhouse owner? A greenhouse should be run in a lively manner, so that our lives after moving in will be more prosperous, with more money and better lives. Why should we care about those things at this time?"
He also warned others, "I'm telling you, don't be stingy at this time. Anyway, your family will eat it, and no one else will eat it. You should be generous, so that you can live a good life in the future. I can see that you don't know how to live. All the good things are eaten by others, and the money is earned by others. Everything belongs to others."
He shook his head with a look of hatred on his face for his failure to achieve anything. How could there be such a stupid person?
It was because she was too happy, otherwise she would never have said these words in the past. It was better to keep it secret so that everyone else would think she was a fool.
After hearing this, the other women thought about it and actually felt that there seemed to be some truth to it?
It was called house-warming wine, and there really was wine there. Each family paid money to buy a few cents a pound of inferior wine in the town. It was spicy and pungent, and tasted pungent, but everyone drank it with gusto. How could they have the chance to drink alcohol at other times?
Sometimes you can drink some at banquets, or if you have extra money to buy some, you can have this delicacy.
Zhou Guo tasted it secretly, and after just a little bit, it was so spicy that it almost killed her and cut her throat. She didn’t know what was so good about such wine and why so many people liked to drink it.
The old man took a sip, grinned, and swallowed it like a knife, unable to help but sighing in a low voice, "It's so hard to drink!"
No one at the table could drink much. After just a little drink, their faces turned red and they started talking nonsense. Some people even lay on the table and cried, talking about the dead people and the hardships they had gone through on their way north. If the people hadn't died, they would have been able to live such a good life now.
"What a pity! God is blind. All the young people are gone. What is the point of an old man like me still being alive? I can't die, and I am still occupying a position while I am alive. How can this be justified?"
When she cried, everyone started crying.
Someone from every family at the table left without making it. They had been holding it in, but as a grown man they couldn't bear to cry, so all the tears came out under the influence of alcohol.
The women's eyes also turned red.
When Zhou Guo thought of his deceased grandparents and Xiao Taozi, his nose couldn't help but feel sore and he shed tears. Yes, they were not blessed with such a good life.
The group drank until late at night. There was nothing left on the table and the wine jars were all emptied. The men from each family were drunk. Some were even drunk and crazy. After drinking, they stood up, mumbling something inaudible, and staggered out of the yard.
The family members hurriedly followed behind him, fearing that he might fall into the river.
Some were so drunk that they were unconscious and fell asleep on the table. The scene was extremely chaotic.
Li had no choice but to ask Zhou Gu and Zhou Mai to help send the person back, while they began to clean up the pots and pans. The yard was a mess. Fortunately, all the bones and other things went into Hei Dadan's stomach, otherwise it would have attracted many insects.
After eating, Hei Dadan curled up at Zhou Guo's feet again, licking his paws in satisfaction.
Zhou Guo smiled and pointed to the doghouse under the eaves and said, "It's so late, go to bed."
When she built the new house this time, she made a nest for it with leftover materials. Although it doesn't look very good, it is big enough for it to grow up.
Heidao climbed up reluctantly and moved slowly towards the nest.
When everything was packed up, the moon had disappeared.
Zhou Guo was lying on the kang. It was the first time in such a long time that two people lived in the same room. He was really not used to it.
It was so spacious, she could roll around however she wanted, she pushed the quilt aside with one foot and slept in a big letter position with her arms and legs spread out. This position was so comfortable!
Zhou Xing said from the side: "Guoguo, don't kick the quilt. It's still cold. Cover it up quickly."
The only answer she got was the sound of even breathing; the person had fallen asleep!