Farming and reading family

Gao E was not being polite, nor did she want to tie herself and the villagers down. If everyone was happy and harmonious, it would naturally be a good thing.

The next day, Gao E went to see Master Xie to calculate how much it would cost to build the gatehouse.

Master Xie was drawing the details of Tao Meiyu's garden. When he heard that Baotou Village was going to build a gatehouse, he laughed.

"They haven't even finished building the doors and windows of their house, yet they want to build a gatehouse. Do they want your Chen family to pay for it again?" Master Xie said angrily.

Regarding the dissolution of the village collective, Master Xie and others felt that the people of Baotou Village were ungrateful.

"Uncle Zheng said that the villagers are going out." Gao E knew that Master Xie was unhappy because he had disbanded the village collective.

"It sounds good, but I don't know how long it will take for them to build it." At this point, Master Xie warned, "Don't be so generous this time. Just charge according to the price for the bricks and tiles."

"I know Master Xie is doing this for my own good." Gao E said with gratitude, "In fact, the villagers are quite nice too. They haven't ignored our Chen family's affairs."

"You're just too kind." Master Xie was a little angry. "You always get hurt."

Gao E didn't say anything about that: "What about building the gatehouse..."

"I see." Master Xie agreed. "You don't have any style, so how can I give you a quote? You don't have to come to me later. I'll go to Lao Zheng to see how to get a quote myself."

"Okay." Gao E thought it would be better for them to discuss it directly rather than having her get caught in the middle.

After coming out of Master Xie's house, Gao E felt a chill. Thinking back, it didn't seem so cold before.

I happened to see Uncle Guo carrying a load of pine needles to the field.

Pine needles have many uses, such as making fire, bedding, chicken coops, and composting manure in pig pens.

"Is Uncle Guo busy?" Gao E greeted him.

"Yeah." Guo Dafu smiled innocently. "This weather is unusual this year. It's already freezing cold at this time. I guess it will be even colder then. Let's prepare some pine needles to cover the ground."

Gao E shuddered: "Then Uncle Guo, go get busy."

"Hey." Guo Dafu responded and left with his load on his shoulder.

Gao E stood there for a while, then turned around and went to find Luo Dagang to go into the mountains with her to see the grafted mulberry trees.

Because mulberry trees are propagated by cuttings in the summer, we choose shady places, which will be colder at this time.

The two men were stunned when they arrived at the place where the mulberry trees were being grafted. There was no frost above or below, but the mulberry leaves already showed signs of being hit by frost.

Gao E looked carefully and found that those were tender buds that had not fallen yet. The tender buds that were severely hit by the frost had died, but fortunately the tree was still alive.

Luo Dagang didn't understand this either: "Why not move it down before it gets too cold?"

"Then we're completely dead." Gao E put her hands on her hips and looked at a field of mulberry seedlings.

I guess even if Lu Er Niang was here, there would be nothing she could do now. The climate is different in every place, and even in the same place, extreme weather is inevitable.

When Luo Dagang heard what Sister Gao said, he didn't know what to say.

"Forget it, let's go back first." Gao E thought that if there was no other way, she could only lay a thick layer of pine needles to protect the roots from freezing to death.

It was already noon when Gao E returned to the village. She saw her elder brother carrying a load of firewood back.

"I asked the kiln to burn a lot of charcoal. Big brother just needs to prepare enough firewood for cooking." Gao E reminded.

Chen Qing didn't want to use the charcoal from the second brother's family. After all, the second brother's family had really divided it out.

Before, the two lived in the same yard without making clear distinctions, but now they all lived separately, and as the eldest brother, he could not take advantage of his younger brother.

"We also need to prepare firewood for our parents." Chen Qing put down his burden. "My second brother needs to study and take care of school affairs. My third brother has started a business at home and needs to go to the kiln to look after it. I can do this."

Gao E was a little confused as to how the Chen family, with their partiality for each other, could raise three children who were so respectful to each other. "I just have something to ask my eldest brother."

"You say." Chen Qing untied the firewood and spread out the wet ones to dry.

"I met Uncle Guo today. He said that since it's cold this year, we need to spread a layer of pine needles on the ground. I went to check and found that the leaves of the grafted mulberry seedlings were indeed frozen. I want to ask what to do, brother." Gao E said directly.

Chen Qing stood up straight after hearing Gao E's words. "It's indeed a bit cold this time of year, but it's common for leaves that don't fall off quickly to get frostbite. If you're worried, I'll go get some pine needles and use them as a blanket."

"The main reason is that the mulberry seedlings are still small, and the place where they were transplanted is cold and dark in winter." Gao E expressed her concerns.

Chen Qing thought so too.

But in his understanding, trees would not be frozen to death, at most only some tender buds would be frozen to death.

"You're right. I'll go get some to cover it up later." Chen Qing agreed to this matter.

The mulberry seedlings did not belong entirely to Gao'e's family. They also bought sloping land, which would be used when they needed to plant mulberry trees.

"Brother, you don't have to go there yourself to collect pine needles. The children in the school have work to do. We can just find a few people to go. But you have to watch over them. It will be faster this way." Gao E said with a smile.

"Okay." Chen Qing didn't hesitate.

Gao E went home only after giving these instructions. Chen Ke had hinted before that this year would be very cold, but now it was like this even before the cold arrived. Gao E felt that she had to make preparations in advance.

After lunch, she took out the Yun family's secret recipe for making charcoal. Since she was going to make charcoal, she had to make good charcoal.

She didn't know if she was sleepy or what, but after reading for a while, she felt a little dizzy. Just then, Master An brought people in to install the bunk bed, so she put down the book and went out to greet them.

"With so many children in the family, it would be easy to make a bunk bed." Master An felt that this was a bit troublesome, and not all of them were children of the Chen family.

"Living conditions change one's spirit, and raising children changes one's body." Gao E said with a smile, "When children grow up, they all want to have their own room. Now that we don't have that many rooms at home, I hope each of them can have a bed."

"You are so good to them." Master An sighed.

Gao E didn't think it was that good, but at least she couldn't treat him harshly.

After meeting Master An and asking him to supervise the assembly of the beds, Gao E went back to read the book about charcoal making in the Yun family.

I didn't feel anything when I flipped through it last time, but when I read it carefully this time, I felt dizzy for some reason, and also felt that it was not making sense. I put it down again after reading it for a while.

It seems that the reason why the cheat book is called a cheat book is somewhat mysterious.

But this was written by Yunshuang, so there will be no problem with the paper or the words.

When Yunzhou came back from school, Gao E called Yunzhou over alone.

"Are you used to being in school?" Gao E had just asked when she heard the cheers of children in the yard.

When Yun Zhou heard the cheers, his eyes squinted and he wanted to look back.

Gao E had already looked up and looked out.

"Mom, is that our bed?" Chen Zhengyan excitedly ran to the door of the main room and lay on the door frame.

"Yes." It was the first time that Gao E saw the boss so excited.

"Well, well, well..." Chen Zhengyan couldn't hide his excitement.

"You guys discuss how to divide it among yourselves first, and then tell me when you've made up your mind." Gao E saw that her son was so excited that he couldn't finish his words.