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In the following days, the pace of life in Zhuangzi obviously accelerated, and everyone was busy and fulfilled.

They began to divide the work and cooperate with each other. Some people were responsible for contacting the raw materials for building the house, while others were in charge of hiring people to start digging the foundation.

Liu's mother and her friends were the first to get busy. While muttering "Every autumn rain brings a chill," she began to rummage through boxes and drawers, sorting out winter clothes for her family.

Now that so many people have come to the village, Liu's mother has to arrange all these things properly. She arranges all these people's clothes and shoes all year round, as well as the family's meals.

Fortunately, Liu's mother had managed a company before, and she formulated a series of rules and regulations and promoted four managers.

The character of the seven people in the Liao family passed Liu's mother's assessment, so Liu's mother asked Old Man Liao to take his eldest son to buy daily necessities for the family and arranged two mule carts for them. Mrs. Liao asked her to take her daughter-in-law to manage the affairs of the two farms.

The few people were able to complete the tasks that Liu's mother asked them to do very well, saving her a lot of trouble.

In ancient times, building houses in rural areas was easy, but building houses for wealthy families or princes and nobles in the city was very difficult.

After all, the two are not on the same level.

The house designed by Liu's father is located between the two, combining adobe and blue bricks, with wood and stone.

The wood needs to be carefully selected, and the rotten parts must be removed before the essence is retained. After being dried, planed, and carved, it becomes the beams that support the house structure and the exquisite components that decorate the doors and windows. Lin Weizhong found the two largest woodcraft workshops in the city to place orders.

The stones were ordered from nearby villages, mined and polished, and used to build a solid foundation.

Earth bricks are also ordered from nearby villages. Every household in the village will mix clay with a certain proportion of water and straw to make some earth brick plugs by hand for use.

A batch of blue bricks were ordered from a blue brick factory near the city. The blue bricks are fired at high temperatures and are both waterproof and heat-insulating, making them an indispensable material for building walls.

The houses where the family lives are all built with blue bricks, and the barns or firewood houses can be built with earth bricks to save costs. As for the farms, they use stone blocks, which are more solid and most suitable for raising pigs.

After the rain, Liu's father took Liu Caixia and Liu Xiaolu to the provincial capital and bought the hill behind.

The registered hilltops in the prefecture city are 2,680 mu. Beyond that are deep mountains and old forests. The prefecture city has not measured the deep mountains, and no one would buy such rolling deep mountains and old forests these days.

Liu's father paid five thousand three hundred taels.

When he was leaving, he was invited over by the prime minister who had received the news.

Father Liu followed the yamen runner to the chancellor's office.

"Master Liu! I heard that you came here to buy land this time?"

"Your Highness, I am here to buy some land. It is the barren hill behind the farm. I will dig a hole and plant some potatoes, sweet potatoes and peppers next year. When the autumn harvest comes, I would like to invite Your Highness to come to the farm as a guest."

"Master Liu, this is easy to talk about. I asked you to come here to discuss something with you. When you start planting potatoes, I will send a lawyer to the farm to record the whole planting process, from planting to harvesting. Then the prefect will have detailed evidence and submit some memorials to the prince for review. After the prince has reviewed it, he can submit it directly to the court. If the situation is true, the court will promote it nationwide, and your contribution will be indispensable."

"Sir, even if you don't tell me, I also need to record the planting process. It would be great if a special master came to help record it. After all, the article we write is definitely not as good as the one written by the master. When the planting time comes, I will report to you."

"Okay, Master Liu, if this can be accomplished, the prefect and the prince will not treat you unfairly."

"Thank you for your support, sir!"

Everything was ready, and Liu's father found an auspicious day to start building the house.

During the construction process, the craftsmen had clear division of labor and each performed their duties.

Carpenters are responsible for constructing the skeleton of the house. With their exquisite craftsmanship, they cleverly connect each piece of wood together through mortise and tenon structures, making the house both sturdy and beautiful.

Masons are responsible for building walls and laying roofs. They skillfully mix mud and pile bricks or tiles into solid barriers to protect their families from wind and rain.

After discussing with Liu's father, Liu Xiaolu and Sun Zeyuan drew a simple diagram of the house structure.

Sun Zeyuan and Zhu Lei are in charge of the overall command.

"This house is well designed. There is a passage between the independent houses that can accommodate a horse-drawn carriage or ox-cart."

Father Liu: "Yes, after calculating the size, we can build 16 houses. There will definitely be more and more people in the family in the future, and the extra houses will always be useful."

According to the requirements of Liu's father and others, the design of the house is indeed very good. Each house has two entrances.

There are three bedrooms in the east and west of the backyard, a main room, and a toilet and bathroom in the front and back yards respectively.

There is a kitchen, a dining room, a utility room and a woodshed in the front yard, three bedrooms and a back house. There is also a laundry pool and a water tank at the entrance of each yard.

After all the houses are built, spring water will be brought from the mountains and led down to the reservoirs of each household using bamboo tubes.

On the other side of the reservoir is a small vegetable patch where you can grow some onions and vegetables.

The sewage treatment is done by digging a channel underneath and leading it to the pit at the back, where the sewage is used for composting. Behind them are fields and the mountain where they live, so it is very convenient to kill two birds with one stone.

As for the construction of the workshop, it was placed next to another manor, and the work and living areas were separated as much as possible. The design of the workshop was much simpler, with three work rooms on the left and right, a large kitchen and toilet, and a reservoir in the middle.

At present, it is enough to build a workshop like this, and there is still vacant space next to it, so as to expand the scale in the future.

As for the breeding farm, it was all built at the foot of the mountain behind. The layout was similar to the previous one, with three rows of factories, one row of pig pens, one row of rabbits, and the last row of chicken pens near the barren mountain behind.

After the barren hills behind are reclaimed and some fruit trees are planted, the chickens in the chicken coop can be taken out to roam freely. They are called free-range chickens, and they taste much better than caged chickens.

Because of the construction of houses, there are crowds of people at the foot of the mountain every day. In addition to the villagers from the two nearby villages who come to work, there are also some who come to watch the fun.

It becomes noisy when there are too many people.

There were voices everywhere, mixed with the shouts of workers working.