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After things were settled, everyone went back to rest. Lin Qingxue followed Old Man Lin back to their own base and saw that everyone else was waiting there.

"Qingxue, you just said that our family will provide three meals a day when we build a house, so you have to go to the city to buy some vegetables tomorrow," asked Mrs. Lin as soon as Lin Qingxue and her group came back.

"Grandma, Mom, Qingxue, we still have some vegetables, enough to last us two days. What should we make for breakfast? Noodles or buns and pancakes?"

Li Yanniang followed up with this question. She was in charge of cooking at home and knew better than anyone what vegetables and grains were available at home.

"It's all fine. Sisters-in-law, just make the arrangements. Give me a list of what you need and I'll go to the city to buy it. Can you guys tell me which of our family members will go to open up the wasteland?"

Lin Qingxue held her two daughters in her arms, leaning leisurely on the donkey cart, and asked slowly.

"Your grandmother and I will take Xiaoshan and the other brothers to open up wasteland. You three sisters-in-law and the Liu family's niece and their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will stay home to help with cooking. Everyone else will go build the house. When the land is cleared, we will give one-third of it to the Liu family. Do you agree?"

Old man Lin thought about it and realized that the Liu family had nothing, so the house could only be built together with his own. They could eat together and live separately.

"Of course. It's embarrassing to say that our entire family is supported by the Lin family. How can we be qualified to share the wasteland? We are lucky to be alive."

Liu Jiayong said with an embarrassed look on his face that he didn't dare to ask for anything from the Lin family. When his family came here, they only had the clothes on their backs. They were very satisfied to be able to survive until today.

Even if the Lin family drove them away now, they would not have any complaints. What's more, the Lin family was responsible for building houses for them and allocating wasteland to them. They were already very satisfied.

"There are no outsiders here. Old man, let me be frank. We can come this far thanks to Qingxue who subsidized us with her own money. I don't ask for anything else, I just hope you can remember this friendship. If Qingxue is in trouble in the future, you can help her a little. Look at our family, look at the other families in the village, and look at the corpses we have seen along the way. In our family, the one who was injured the most was Qingxue, and the one who was the most tired was also Qingxue. I don't want you to be ungrateful in the future."

Old Man Lin had a serious face and spoke very directly. Everyone else understood what he meant and knew what he wanted to express.

No one spoke, but listened attentively to Old Man Lin's instructions, including Lin Qingxue, who actually wanted to say something.

However, she didn't want to interrupt Old Man Lin at this time. She was not an ungrateful person and knew very well that Old Man Lin was doing this for her own good.

"Okay, the kids all know what's going on," Mrs. Lin glanced at everyone and spoke with a smile, easing the atmosphere.

Lin Qingxue originally wanted to talk to Old Man Lin and the others about the gold, silver and jewelry, but the Liu family was there, and there were villagers nearby, so she didn't say anything.

Old Man Lin also knew that his grandchildren were all good people, and that the Liu family had no problems with their character. With Mrs. Lin to ease the atmosphere, he didn't say anything else.

Lin Qingxue told them how to build the house and what to do after it was built. She said that the foundation would be laid tomorrow and construction would begin the day after tomorrow. She didn't let Lin Qingming and the others figure out what was wrong with the house, otherwise it would be difficult to change it after it was built.

Soon, around lunchtime the next morning, the bricks and tiles for building the house were delivered, a total of twenty donkey carts.

After unloading the things at the foundation, Lin Qingxue paid part of the money, and the rest of the money would be paid after all the bricks and tiles for building the house arrived.

The villagers' initiative and execution capabilities are still very strong. On this day, they not only laid the foundation of Old Man Lin's house, but also built a room.

Old Man Lin's house was built very quickly and the quality was guaranteed. This was all thanks to Lin Qingxue's daily entertainment of treating the villagers to delicious food and drinks. With such good meals every day, the villagers naturally worked very hard.

The house that was supposed to take twenty days to build was completed in just half a month. The day when the beam was raised was very lively.

In order to have a good meaning, Lin Qingxue went to the imperial city specifically to buy candies and peanuts, and mixed in copper coins worth half a tael of silver, and threw them down for everyone to pick up blessings and say auspicious words.

After the beams were put up, the doors and windows were installed quickly. It took eighteen days and Old Man Lin's house was completely built. He just had to put the furniture in before he could officially move in.

On the nineteenth day, which was the twenty-first day after the Lin family villagers settled in Linjia Village in the southern suburbs of the imperial city, the wooden beds, tables, chairs, benches and cabinets that Lin Qingxue had ordered in the imperial city were all delivered and installed.

On the twentieth day of building the house, Old Man Lin and his family officially moved into the new house. As for the heating of the house and so on, the whole village will do it together after everyone's house is built.

At the same time, the Liu family's house was also built, with five rooms in the front and back yards. It was a mud brick house, and Old Man Lin's family was responsible for the meals.

Every day thereafter, a villager's house would be completed, and at the same time, the foundations of the two villagers' houses that were about to be built would be laid.

Within 52 days of settling in the southern suburbs, all the houses of the villagers in Linjia Village were built. Except for Old Man Lin's house, which was large and made of blue bricks and blue tiles, all the other houses were made of earthen bricks.

On the fifty-fifth day after settling in the southern suburbs, all the villagers moved into their new homes. Except for Old Man Lin's house, which had both kang beds and wooden beds, all other families had kang beds.

On this day, Lin Qingxue and her four siblings and the brothers Lin Qingchu and Lin Qingxun took the horses from the village to the imperial city to sell them.

There was no point in the villagers keeping the horses; they might as well exchange them for silver to buy food. No one had much food or silver left.

The silver we collected from the bandits before was not even enough to pay for the earthen bricks. You have to know that when building the house, everyone went out to buy meat and vegetables, and also bought a batch of coarse grains.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon and it is already very cold. They not only have to buy New Year's items and winter clothes and quilts, but also have to prepare enough money to buy seeds for planting after the New Year.

Except for the six horses from Old Man Lin's family, all the other horses were bought. Each horse only cost twenty-five taels of silver. They were just ordinary horses and not worth much.

After paying the balance for the bricks and tiles with the money from selling the horse, he bought 20,000 jin of coarse grains, 5,000 jin of rice, grain seeds, and various vegetable seeds. He also bought poultry such as chicks, ducklings, and piglets, and some vegetables for tomorrow's warm-house banquet. Only 1,200 taels were left.

Lin Qingxue spent one hundred taels to buy sixty six-jin quilts, and also bought two hundred jin of cotton and coarse cloth for making cotton-padded clothes and trousers.