Farming and reading family

Isn't this regret?

When she was at Chen's house before, she thought Chen Ke was quite determined.

Chen Ke was silent for a long time after hearing Gao E's question: "Nothing."

Although Gao E's performance in the past two days exceeded his expectations, he did not dare to tell Gao E that he did not plan to take the imperial examination.

Gao E knew that Chen Ke didn't want to say it: "That's good, let's deal with the current matter first."

The cave needs to be sealed, and it is best to build some partitions inside.

It is best to enclose the yard outside, even if it is just with a fence.

It is already late autumn, and we need to stock up on firewood and other things for the winter.

Judging from the fact that Chen Ke can't carry anything without lifting his hands or shoulders, he probably needs to find someone to do it.

Fortunately, she did everything at home when she was a child, so even though she hasn't done it for many years, she still knows how to do it.

Now that I have seventy taels of silver in my hand, I must find a way to make money as soon as possible.

When Chen Qing and his friends returned home, their mother had already prepared dinner and, for the first time ever, had put in some extra food.

Lei thought that her mother wanted to eat up all the food bought by her second sister-in-law and not let her take it away.

"Dad, Mom, my second brother has nothing. My third brother and I have discussed going over to help for a few days and asking them to fence off the cave." Chen Qing said cautiously.

Chen Fansheng was silent for a moment and then nodded: "Okay."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, they didn't know that their father was just stubborn. Gao was too disrespectful to him in the past few years, and he was angry.

Now that this has happened, his son would rather live in a cave in the mountains than live with him, and his momentum has weakened.

Chen Ke and Gao E both got up very early. There were too many things to do today. They had to find a few craftsmen to discuss sealing the cave.

As a result, before they even left the house, Chen Qing and Chen Jie arrived, and Lei was behind them carrying a wooden barrel.

"Hurry up, hurry up." Lei brought the wooden barrel over. "Mom said you can't cook yet, so she asked me to bring the food over so you can eat it while it's hot."

Chen Ke looked at the porridge in the wooden barrel and felt mixed emotions, including a sour taste.

"Dad asked us to come over and help seal the cave. The weather is getting colder day by day, so we should seal it up as soon as possible." Chen Qing looked at Chen Ke and told him not to hate his dad.

"Really." Chen Jie nodded with certainty.

"We are planning to hire a craftsman, but we don't know which craftsman is good in our area." Gao E said casually.

"I'm familiar with this." Chen Jie became interested. "Just hire a mason and a carpenter, and let my brother and I help. I can help him buy bricks and save some money."

"Look at what you can do." Lei rolled her eyes at her husband and turned to look at her second sister-in-law. "Sister-in-law, if you want door knockers or door knobs, just tell me. I can't give you anything else, but this is no problem."

Gao E laughed and said, "I don't quite understand either. We drew a rough diagram yesterday. Take a look."

Hearing that there were pictures, several people gathered together to look at them.

Chen Qing knows a little bit about everything and pointed out several things that could be improved.

Chen Jie really knows everyone, which means finding someone is not a big problem.

After discussing these, Chen Qing and Lei stayed in the cave to clean up, while Chen Ke, Chen Jie and Gao E drove to look for people and went to the city to buy some things.

The carriage was fast, and they hired two masters in the morning. They agreed to go and check it out the next day, and then the three of them went into the city together.

There was no carriage to be stored today, so the three of them went directly to buy things, including food and some tools.

Gao E also wanted to make winter clothes for the children, but it was not her turn to do that at the moment.

Chen Jie was a little envious, but only for a moment. The cave house his second brother's family lived in was also quite difficult.

It was already late when we finished all this work. When we were leaving the city, we saw some people carrying food away.

"Why buy so much food?" Gao E saw that the man was wearing shabby clothes and did not look like someone who had the money to buy so much food.

"I'm here to sell grain," Chen Jie explained. "The harvest is good this year, but the grain shops are constantly undercutting the prices. Anyone who hasn't sold yet is being ripped off."

Gao E thought for a moment and looked at Chen Ke: "How about we buy more food?"

Chen Ke was stunned.

He was trying to find an excuse to buy more food.

Gao E thought Chen Ke didn't want to buy it: "We don't have any land either, and that cave house is big enough, so let's stock up while it's cheap."

"Okay." Chen Ke agreed immediately.

Chen Jie listened to their conversation and didn't object. His second sister-in-law used to eat only clean grains. "Then wait until the market in a couple of days. There will be many farmers selling grains, and the price will be cheaper."

"That's right." Gao E almost forgot about going to the market.

It was already late when I got home, and the outside of the cave had been completely tidyed up.

The scattered stones around were also piled together.

"Brother, come and help." Chen Jie shouted as soon as he got out of the car.

Chen Qing and Lei both came out.

"How much did you buy?" Lei saw Chen Jie moving things outside.

"Of course we have to buy a lot of things when moving to a new house." Chen Jie didn't say what his second brother and the others bought.

"My eldest brother and I built a simple stove so that my second sister-in-law can have a drink of hot water." Lei said with a smile.

At the same time, I am very envious. It is good to have money in hand and you can buy whatever you want.

"Thank you." Gao E said as she stuffed a bag of candy into Lei's hand.

"This..." Lei felt the candy and stuffed it into her arms, smiling even brighter. "Sister-in-law brought lunch at noon. Thanks to you, we don't have to go into the mountains for the next two days."

"Thank you for the trouble." Gao E felt that she had delayed their work.

"What's the big deal? We're all family." Lei said nonchalantly.

As they were talking, Chen Qing and Chen Jie had already moved all their things into the cave.

According to Gao E's plan, each cave is divided into three sections. The outermost section is the main room, the middle section is for sleeping, and the innermost section is for storing things.

If time permits, she also wants to paint the outermost section with lime, so that it will be much brighter.

As for the stoves, she planned to build two, one for use inside the cave in winter so that the cave would also be warm.

One can be built outside for use in the summer so it won’t be too hot.

After putting everything away, Chen Qing and the others were about to leave.

"Stay for dinner before you leave," Chen Ke tried to persuade her.

Chen Jie wanted to stay because his second brother and sister-in-law bought a lot of food today.

"No." Chen Qing refused directly. "Your sister-in-law and others are busy at home." He left after he said that.

Chen Jie and Lei Shi didn't want to stay, so they followed Chen Qing and left.

Chen Ke knew that the Chen family was in financial difficulty and had to rely on picking up things in the mountains to make a living. Now that he came to help them, his family must be having a hard time.

"What's wrong?" Gao E saw Chen Ke standing there motionless.

"My wife..." Chen Ke said hesitantly, "If our life gets better, please help the family."

In the past, Gao E was unwilling to interact with her hometown. Since she built the house and moved out, people from her hometown would come to see her, but she still looked impatient.

Now that it seemed somewhat reasonable, Chen Ke dared to say this.

Gao E looked at Chen Ke's cautious expression and said, "I don't think you're right."