Traveling through time and space to meet a replacement bride? But I’m a man!

Because I bought too much rice.

Xu Wenyan didn't want to show off, so he paid one more penny and drove the ox cart into the yard before starting to unload the goods.

"What's wrong? You looked unhappy since you came out of the cloth shop." Chen Sanlin brought out the medicine prepared by Chen Xiaohua, blew on it and handed it to Xu Wenyan, thinking to himself that he didn't make him angry.

Xu Wenyan drank the bowl of bitter Chinese medicine expressionlessly: "Brother Lin, the house needs to be renovated. The weather is too cold."

"Okay, change it however you want."

Afterwards, Xu Wenyan asked Chen Sanlin to call Xiaohu over, because he needed help in renovating the house and would be paid on a daily basis. After thinking about it, he only knew Xiaohu, and Chen Sanlin didn't play well with anyone in the village.

As for Zhao Tiezhu, it was good enough that Xu Wenyan didn't beat him up, and even asked him to help.

Since they had the idea of ​​moving away, Xu Wenyan naturally didn't want to make any major changes. He just wanted to ensure heating in the winter. After dinner in the afternoon, Xu Wenyan asked the two of them to dig more clay and limestone. He was drawing on the wall with the charcoal blocks at home.

His idea was to build a fireplace. Chen Sanlin's house was very small, and with only a few square meters, building a kang was not as cost-effective as a fireplace. As long as the fireplace was lit, the whole house would be warm.

Dig a hole in the middle of the two bedrooms and build a fireplace here. The side for adding firewood is set on the adult room side. Just change the direction of the bed and put the small table at the head of the bed. The other side is the fireplace. Xu Wenyan simply drew a blueprint to determine the position of the chimney, and the two people who carried stones came back.

"Take Xiaohua and Xiaodong to the mountain to chop firewood, and you two little ones just pick up small branches." Xu Wenyan knew that he was responsible for the lives of the entire family, and all the children, no matter how old they were, had to go to work.

Throw these small stones into the earthen stove in the kitchen and keep the fire going. It took a whole hut to burn all four baskets of limestone. Both men were not lazy people and they brought back a lot of firewood in the afternoon.

Xu Wenyan invited Xiaohu to have dinner with him and gave him fifteen cents as wages. Although it may not seem like a small amount, it was already a high salary in the village: "Sister-in-law, I don't need so much." Xiaohu waved his hands repeatedly, ready to give him five cents back.

Xu Wenyan frowned. Xiaohu's calling him sister-in-law caught him off guard. "Tsk, just take it and work hard for me. Also, call me Brother Xu, not sister-in-law."

"Okay, okay, Brother Xu."

Xu Wenyan packed every bowl of white rice for dinner tightly. If he didn't eat more, he wouldn't have the energy to work tomorrow. So he made the dish simpler by stir-frying a large plate of mushrooms. This time, with chili powder, it tasted much better.

Until lying in bed at night, Xu Wenyan was thinking about how terrible wars were in ancient times.

Chen Sanlin saw that Xu Wenyan had his back to him, and his face looked really bad today. He must have been sad, but why didn't he tell him? How could a couple keep secrets?

After making up his mind, Chen Sanlin reached out and embraced Xu Wenyan from behind.

"Fuck, what are you doing?" Xu Wenyan hit Chen Sanlin with his elbow. He had regained some strength after these days of recuperation.

Chen Sanlin was hit several times in a row but he didn't say a word and just let Xu Wenyan hit him: "You seem unhappy today. I called you but you ignored me." Chen Sanlin rested his head on Xu Wenyan's back and felt more aggrieved the more he spoke.

Xu Wenyan was slightly stunned, wondering in his heart whether Chen Sanlin took their marriage seriously. Judging from his behavior in the past few days, it seemed that he had compromised and had a male wife.

For a moment, Xu Wenyan felt like that scumbag, using cold violence on his partner.

In fact, I don’t feel particularly repulsive when Chen Sanlin hugs me like this, but I still feel awkward.

I have been a straight man since I was a child. I have never dated a man, let alone a woman. I only pursued a woman in college, but she gave me a nice guy card.

Could it be that I am actually bi?

Xu Wenyan exhaled deeply and let Chen Sanlin hold him from behind: "I'm not unhappy, Brother Lin, I think this year will be very turbulent."

Chen Sanlin tightened his arms around the person in his arms: "Why?"

This rough man asked Xu Wenyan in a child's tone, which made him feel a little funny. He was obviously a rough man of about 1.9 meters tall, but he was pretending to be young.

"Nothing, I'm not sure yet, go to sleep."

Chen Sanlin nodded and closed his eyes. Xu Wenyan felt the warm breath on his neck with a barely perceptible smile on his face, which even he himself did not notice.

It seemed that I didn't feel so cold when he held me. Chen Sanlin's body was very warm, just like a big stove.

Today is the day of frost.

There are only a few days left until the beginning of winter.

Xiaohu came to the Chen family yard early in the morning after dinner and waited. Xu Wenyan first asked the two of them to fetch a few buckets of silt, and then he took Chen Xiaohua and Chen Dong to the mountains to pull up a lot of dried thatch.

The last batch of porcini mushrooms did not grow after all. They all died after being hit by the frost. Xu Wenyan couldn't help feeling a little sorry when he saw it.

When they got home, the two of them mixed the silt and thatch with the quicklime that had been burned yesterday. Looking at the light gray semi-solid mass on the ground, Xu Wenyan knew that the work was done.

Apply a layer of light gray mud on the outside. Xu Wenyan demonstrated it first. He held a wooden board, scooped some mud from the edge and then applied it from top to bottom.

It’s not a difficult task anyway. We can work together after we learn it.

It took a whole morning just to paint the walls. Looking at his gray and white house, Xu Wenyan felt a sense of accomplishment.

In the afternoon, Xiaohu and Chen Sanlin were asked to bring back stones. They had to be flat, and limestone was not allowed. These stones would be used to build fireplaces. If limestone was used, it would be burned into quicklime.

While the two were out, Xu Wenyan went up to the roof and took a rough look at the structure of the roof. The middle beam was quite strong, so he used a longer piece of wood to measure the length and width of the two slopes. Then he took the two children to the mountains again.

This time we mainly cut some pine branches. The roof needs to be reinforced. If there is heavy snow, the current roof will be easily collapsed. The firewood that Chen Sanlin brought back yesterday contained long wooden sticks that can be placed on the roof for support.

Xu Wenyan climbed up the tree in two moves. Chen Dong under the tree was full of envy: "My little uncle is so awesome!"

Xu Wenyan was also happy to be flattered by the little guy, and began to cut branches from the tree. The two little ones under the tree piled the cut branches together, waiting for Chen Sanlin to carry them tomorrow.

These pine branches are used to cover the house, which keeps it warm and waterproof, even though it is not raining now.

When Xu Wenyan returned to the house at night, he still felt that the stones piled in the yard were not enough. But when he saw Chen Sanlin and Xiaohu's hands, they were already a little broken and had serious calluses.

The next day, Xu Wenyan asked Chen Sanlin to borrow an ox cart from Uncle Wen for sixteen cents a day, which was exactly the amount Uncle Wen Qiang earned from driving passengers for a day.

"You two should move slowly. If you cut your hand, you will have to spend money on medicine. Don't be too anxious." Xu Wenyan frowned and instructed.

Chen Sanlin just smiled foolishly and nodded at Xu Wenyan.