Space Food Storage: Daily Travel

Mao time (7:00 am).

Village chief Lin brought a few of his men to measure the residential land that the villagers wanted to buy. The head of the town brought people to be responsible for recording and collecting the money.

The head of the town was named Zhang (the head of the town was similar to the current mayor) and was an old student in the town. He was not only the head of several nearby villages, but also opened a school in the town to teach elementary students.

Zhang Lizheng's son was a scholar. He took the imperial examination for almost 10 years but failed to pass. In the end, he followed his father to teach in the town.

Zhang Lizheng was about 50 years old and spoke and acted in a very polite manner. This made the two village chiefs afraid to speak loudly to him. They were used to speaking loudly to the villagers.

Most of the money obtained from selling the homestead must be handed over to the county government, and 10% can be kept for public use in the village.

The village head only needs to record the total number of households and total area of the homesteads in a general ledger and then submit it to the county government.

Liu Yuhan's house is at the very end of the village and is measured from the very back.

The Liu Shihu brothers stepped forward and bought the land that the family had agreed to in advance, including the house they were currently living in. It was a full five acres! It could be said to be the largest in the village.

Four mu of land costs eight taels, plus the land with a house costs three taels, so it cost a total of eleven taels to buy the land.

Five mu of land is a lot. People in the village generally buy one mu. If the population is small, they buy five mu of land.

In the village, every yard is built with a wall. It costs a lot of money to build a wall around such a large residential plot.

However, the Liu family has a large population and many boys, so it is understandable that they buy more when they have money.

After buying the land, I asked Village Chief Lin where to buy adobe bricks and tiles. There was a small stall selling bricks, tiles and adobe in the town.

Bricks and tiles are brought in from the county town. If you need them, you can pay a deposit at the stall and give the address above. They will be delivered to your village the next day. You just need to pay the balance. If you want to buy a lot, you need to pre-order in advance.

Liu Shinan hurried to the town to order bricks and tiles.

Her daughter said that she wanted to build a big house, which would definitely require a lot of bricks and tiles. She also said that she wanted to find a professional house builder, and if there was no one in town, she would go to the county to find one.

Everyone in the village is busy building houses, and I'm afraid no one has the time. It's better to leave professional matters to professionals.

Liu Yuhan had agreed with her grandparents that if they were going to build it, they had to do it well, not just a brick and tile house, but also at least one room for each person.

Xiaosi and Xiaowu also had their own rooms each, and then they had a large main room and two kitchens, one for cooking and the other for eating and storing food and sundries.

Build two more guest rooms as backup. The most important thing is a modern, simple bathroom. We need two of them, one for men and one for women, one for women and one for men, one for women and one for women.

Liu Yuhan drew a simple design of the house with a pencil. After listening to the opinions of the two elders and others, he decided to separate the house into small families.

Liu Shihu's family had five rooms. The elders said they wanted to build an extra room for Liu Yang to get married. If they worked together, they might be able to have a child soon after they got married.

Liu Yuhan……

Liu Shinan's family got 6 more rooms for their children.

The two brothers' small homes were located one in the south and one in the north. In the middle was the room for the two elders, the main hall, two kitchens, two guest rooms. There was also a large room for storing food, and a cellar was dug underground, making a total of seven rooms.

Excluding toilets and shower rooms, there are 18 houses in total, so it’s a huge project.

Liu Yuhan listened as he drew, roughly mapping out the layout and marking the dimensions of each room. Each room was about 20 square meters, with a width of nine feet and a length of twenty feet. The main room was 12 feet wide and twenty feet long. The warehouse was 14 feet wide. The kitchen...

In this case, the room alone would need to be more than 400 square meters.

Entering from the main courtyard gate, on the left is Liu Shihu's family, on the right is Liu Shinan's family, and in the middle are the rooms for the two elders and a main hall.

The distance between the two sides plus the distance between the houses and the gate makes a large courtyard.

In addition to the main gate, they also had to build a wall around the compound. Their house and yard together occupied almost an acre of land.

I'll just enclose two acres of land with the wall, and use the extra land behind the house for vegetable farming. One acre is enough for vegetable farming. I'll build a gate in the backyard, and I'll deal with the extra three acres later.

She thinks this is a good idea. If the fence is too big, it will make people feel insecure. The gate should be larger, and the fence next to it can be slightly shorter. The other fences should be more than 2 meters high.

The entire yard should be paved with stone slabs, which is not only convenient for drying things, but also prevents it from getting dirty when it rains.

Leave a little more space on the porch so that rainwater won't splash into the room or get in through the windows.

Should we raise the foundation a bit? That would also help prevent moisture. They live at the foot of a mountain, so drainage around the house should also be improved.

Also, should we reserve space in front of the yard to plant some fruit trees? What kind of fruits should we plant? There are orange trees, cherry trees, pomegranate trees, apple trees, pear trees, plum trees, and peach trees in the space, all of which are the fruits she likes to eat.

During her three years in modern times, she'd found fruit tree seedlings or bought them online and planted them around the rice paddies. Three years had passed, and the fruit trees were six years old. She'd already harvested two crops from the cherry, pear, and apple trees, and would give some of the extra harvest to the orphanage.

The orange tree also grew small fruits this year, which can be picked in a while. She also habitually saves the fruit cores after eating, which will be convenient for breeding later.

She slowly wrote down whatever she thought of on paper. She didn't know if her father could find an ancient architect and understand some of her ideas, especially the renovation of the toilet and bathroom.

If water could be brought down from the mountain, it would be more convenient to use water in the toilet, bathroom and kitchen.

Also, the chimney in the kitchen should be made as high and good as possible so that you won’t be choked by a lot of smoke when burning a fire.

In the kitchen, we should build another row of spaces for washing and cutting vegetables and storing cupboards. We should also widen the eaves behind the kitchen a little so that we can store more firewood.

There are also windows in each room. Ancient people valued privacy, so they raised the windows a little higher and made the front and back windows better for light.

Every bedroom must have a bed, a bedside table, a standing wardrobe, a dressing table or a desk, and one (or two) chairs. This is standard.

You can talk to Grandpa, Li Dazhu and Li Erzhu to see if they can do it.

It seems that we have to find someone first.

This was the house that truly belonged to Liu Yuhan and her family in ancient times, so she really hoped that it could be built better so that she could live comfortably and safely.

It seems I need to go for a run myself. I'll go to town tomorrow to have a look. I have horses at home so it's quick to get there.

Oh, I forgot, we also need to build a stable for the horses. Maybe you want to raise some chickens, so we need to build a chicken coop beside the vegetable garden wall. Liu Yuhan started to add to the paper again, and he made some corrections and revisions until he decided on it and showed it to his family.

"This will cost a lot of money." The two elders looked at the drawings and were amazed as they listened to her explanation.

The two elders took out 19 taels, deducted the money for the land purchase, and gave Liu Shinan 100 taels to order bricks and tiles. They were afraid that the taels would not be enough for their granddaughter's house.

"Grandpa and grandma, I still have some money, don't worry, just live a good life. Tell your granddaughter what you want to eat or drink, and I will do my best to satisfy you, hehe..."

"Girl, you are so young, I'm sorry for the hard work. But having a well-built house at home is also a benefit. It will be easier to find a husband when you reach the age of marriage."

Liu Yuhan... withdrew...