Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

After arranging the work, Grandpa Lin would walk around the house with his pipe in his pocket and his hands behind his back, waiting until breakfast was ready before coming back.

He had to take a close look at the condition of the house and see what needed repairs.

Before, because it was not my own farm, I did not have the time to pay attention to these details. Now that I have spent money to buy it, I have to give it a thorough inspection.

I never thought that when he was very old, he would still live in such a big manor.

Okay, okay, great.

The old man strolled around for a long time before returning to the front hall. Just then, breakfast was served and the female family members invited Grandpa Lin to come to the table to eat.

At the moment, there are many people and the lobby is large, so everyone simply set up four large round tables in the lobby. Each table is large enough to seat eight to ten people, and it is not too crowded.

Grandpa didn't bother to be polite with anyone and happily sat down to eat.

Now there is no shortage of food or water. For breakfast, everyone cooks some light porridge with some crispy pickled vegetables. It is light and simple and very delicious.

Farmers do not believe in talking while eating. So, at the dinner table, grandpa told the women about the places that needed repair that he saw during his round trip, and asked them to wait until the men woke up and talk to them. Once the pit was dug, it was time to fill up the gaps.

The female relatives listened attentively and responded once or twice from time to time.

No excuses.

Now this is my own home, there is no reason to shirk my responsibility to repair whatever needs to be done.

Don’t worry about who works more and who works less. Those who live under the same roof are all family. How can family members have different opinions?

Moreover, if you really want to be so fussy, come and look at San Yatou, who has contributed more than her? If you really want to pick out someone who can work harder and contribute more than San Ya, it is the one who sits in the room with his legs crossed every day, eating, sleeping and lying flat, and they are all happy to serve him.

Of course, as Grandpa said, there aren’t many places that need repairing.

Most of them are side rooms and backyards, probably small rooms for storing sundries, and animal sheds.

After all, this place used to be the farm of a wealthy family. Those rich people were not short of money, but they wanted face, so they were willing to spend money to build solid houses.

After Grandpa finished talking about the repairs, he knocked on the pipe and also coordinated the allocation of the next tasks.

First, let the female members of the family find the location of the cellar when cleaning the house. Before, they were borrowing someone else's house and could not just walk around and look through it. Now that the deeds were in their hands, the farm belonged to them, and they were still not sure where the cellar was in the farm.

After finding the cellar, we have to ask the men to move the supplies and food bought yesterday into the cellar. The ground is too hot, so it is better to store food in the cellar.

Then there is the matter of distillation. After they received the deposit, they owed the inn 50 jars of distilled liquor.

The pot in the kitchen cannot be occupied. After all, distillation is not something that can be done in a short time or in a day or two. We still have to build a simple shed, build an earthen stove, and start the fire at the same time.

It was just yesterday that they customized the distillation tools in the town, and it would take another few days to get them back. But for now, there are two that Lin Xiaoyue had previously customized in Yongzhou City, so everyone will use those two first.

The others first built the stove, lit the fire, and put out the wine and distillation tools. The rest of the fire-watching work could be left to Xiao Si, Xiao Wu, Aunt Baotian, and Qi Qiao, the daughter-in-law of the Dashan family. If anything was needed, a few people would shout, and the others would come over to help when they heard it.

After the meal, the table was filled with sounds of "yes, yes, yes", "win, win, win", and "zhong, zhong", and no one said anything to spoil the mood.

Are you kidding? It's my own nest that I'm in charge of. What's wrong with that?

So stupid that it's smoking.

After quickly clearing away the dishes, everyone went to the backyard to use the two earthen stoves. Although their cooking skills were not as good as men's, when it came to getting serious about what they wanted to do, the women and children were no worse than men.

After a busy morning, it was already noon when the men woke up. The women not only cleaned up their own rooms, but also washed all the clothes they had saved for the past few days and the quilts that the master had not thrown away, and hung them on long poles in the backyard to dry.

But because they were so busy and exhausted, they had no time to look for the cellar that grandpa mentioned.

It just so happened that all the men woke up, but it wasn’t entirely natural, most of it was due to the heat.

On a hot day, although the women had put up a shed over the men's heads to provide shade, everyone was still inevitably tanned. If you didn't know the situation, you would have thought they had just come out of a hot spring.

But no matter what, when you wake up, you get up and eat. After you eat, there are still a lot of things waiting to be done.

Just the work of digging the hole is enough for everyone to roll up their sleeves and work for two or three days.

The excavated earth will not have to be put to use any more. It can be used to fill low-lying areas, raise the ground level and improve the drainage conditions of the village.

In short, in their eyes, nothing is unusable.

During the whole afternoon, the men not only dug holes but also strolled around the farm during their breaks, and they found two cellars in total.

There was a place in the basement of the backyard utility room, about 50 square meters in size, used to store food. They climbed down the ladder and checked with torches. There was still a lot of rice, flour, grain and oil in it. They thought that the original owner had forgotten to take it away when he asked the servants to leave.

Well, if a wealthy family wants to take something, they would first take care of gold, silver, jade and the like. Who would specifically remember daily necessities like rice, flour, grain, and oil?

Even if they remembered it later, the government had sealed it, so they couldn't come in to take it. Of course, it's also possible that they didn't need the money for the food, so they wouldn't care even if they remembered it.

This is great, it’s a good deal for them.

Another place, in the rockery in the patio, the entrance is hidden very obscurely and you may not be able to find it if you don’t look carefully.

It's no wonder that only the mule from Lin Laosan's family, which was smarter than a human, was unwilling to be tied up in the barn. After Xiao Si and Xiao Wu had finished their lunch, they saw the mule throwing a tantrum. They thought that the gate of the farm was locked and the mule couldn't run anywhere, so they let it out of the barn.

Wow, as soon as this guy is out of the pen, he walks around with his hooves sticking up.

I don't know how it wandered to the rockery and found this hidden place.

After that, Mule Master came and called people over, and only then did everyone discover the extremely well-hidden cellar.

This cellar is only half the size of the one in the backyard. It is completely empty and doesn't look like it is used to store grain.

Could it be hiding gold, silver and treasures?

Everyone walked around and their imaginations ran wild, and they started to speculate.

However, whatever the original owner built this cellar for was none of their business.

Now the whole farm belongs to them, and they can put whatever they want in it.

capricious.