You are unlucky and I am tough

The two men who earned two hundred taels were happily preparing to go shopping, as their house was built yesterday.

The furniture we bought in town was delivered last night. There were several carts carrying tables, chairs, benches, wardrobes, etc.

Then they calculated that tomorrow is an auspicious day, so the family prepared to move in tomorrow.

According to the rules of the village, guests need to be entertained on the day of moving. The host family needs to invite the elders of the clan, brothers, relatives and friends to celebrate the move, and several tables must also be prepared for the craftsmen who helped build the house.

Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang did not want to invite relatives from both sides, but they were still related. Cheng Lizheng advised them that it was just a meal to save face, otherwise there would be a lot of gossip in the village if they did not invite them.

The villagers who come to watch the fun can't just sit there and watch. They need to distribute some wedding cakes or dumplings, so there are a lot of things that need to be bought today.

The first thing to do was to buy food. There was not much rice left from the first purchase Wei Qinglang made, so the two of them went to buy two hundred kilograms of new rice, and then they had to buy white flour to make wedding cakes.

Based on their understanding of the people of Chengjia Village, they estimated that 90% of the villagers would come. So they directly bought 200 kilograms of white flour. White flour was more expensive than new rice, costing 22 wen per kilogram, which cost 224 qian.

The 400 kilograms of rice and flour were all bought from the same shop, and since they had other things to buy, the donkey cart couldn't carry so much. They paid a little more money and asked the shop owner to arrange an ox cart to help them deliver the rice and flour.

After agreeing to meet at the city gate, the two went to the grocery store to buy two sets of new bowls, some seasonings and 70 kilograms of sugar, and then went to the meat market to buy vegetables.

We need to prepare six or seven tables for tomorrow's banquet. The vegetarian dishes will be bought from the villagers, and we have braised meat at home. Last night, we bought a 30-jin musk deer from a hunter.

Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang discussed it and decided that they were still short of chickens and ducks, so they went to the market and bought eight live chickens and ducks.

Finally, they went to the market to buy bedding. Wei Qinglang was not good at buying these things. Cheng Shuang picked for a long time, but could not afford the silk quilts of sixty or seventy taels each, so she could only buy ordinary quilts. She chose quilts of eight hundred wen and bought seven of them, for a total of five taels and six cents.

The mats we chose were all bamboo mats. A six-foot-wide bamboo mat cost three hundred wen each, and we bought seven of them, which was two taels and one qian.

Then there were seven buckwheat pillows, which cost four hundred and twenty coins.

When they came out of the market, the donkey cart was already piled high. The two men spent a few taels of silver in the snack shop to buy a few boxes of snacks, preserved fruits and dozens of kilograms of melon seeds, and then drove out of the city.

The clerk from the grain and oil shop had already parked the ox cart at the city gate and was waiting. After the two carts met, they returned to the village together.

Entering the village undoubtedly attracted a lot of people's attention.

The old ladies at the bridgehead who always sat in the same place chatting, saw two cars coming in and asked loudly, "Wei Laosan's family, I heard you are moving to a new house tomorrow, right?"

Cheng Shuang, who was sitting in the front with Wei Qinglang, responded, "Yes, mothers-in-law, remember to come to our house tomorrow."

"Okay, I'll definitely go."

All these things were directly transported to the new home. Two trucks passed through most of the village, and soon everyone in the village knew about it.

Some calculated how much these things were worth, some discussed how much Cheng Shuang had sold the ginseng she dug, and some speculated whether Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang had made some lucrative business in the county town by going there every day.

Cheng Shuang no longer paid attention to these things. Let them talk as they please. Gossip is human nature.

After sending all the things to the new house and putting them in order, Cheng Shuang returned home and took Cheng Pan to the village head's house to get clothes. The clothes that she had asked Yang to make were already finished yesterday.

This time Cheng Shuang learned her lesson. She first asked Cheng Pan to ask Cheng Lizheng's family to tie Wangcai somewhere else, and then she walked into Cheng Lizheng's house smoothly for the first time.

The clothes are all ordinary styles. Yang's craftsmanship is very good and the stitches are very dense. You can tell at a glance that she put a lot of care into them.

Cheng Shuang gave an extra twenty cents as wages, and she and Cheng Pan took the clothes home so that everyone in the family could change into new clothes when they moved tomorrow.

The Wei family's new house was being built day by day, and the villagers, with nothing better to do, would flock to the foot of the bamboo mountain to watch. A few elderly women even found a spot to sit and chat at the construction site, only to disappear from view a couple of days later when the yard was fenced off.

All the houses built in the village are made of adobe. Even a small three-room adobe house will take at least ten days to half a month to build.

But the Wei family's bamboo house was so big and had a large yard, but it was completed in just six days.

The yard was also surrounded by bamboo, more than seven feet high, and was surrounded tightly. The gate was locked, and you couldn't see inside at all without opening it.

The villagers were curious and were waiting to join in the fun when the Wei family moved into their new home the next day. So early the next morning, a large group of old men and women gathered at the foot of the bamboo mountain to chat and gossip.

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"Xinyi, your hair is messy. Come here and let me comb it for you." Cheng Shuang called Wei Xinyi, who had changed into new clothes, over to comb her hair.

The whole family took a bath and washed their hair last night, and put on new clothes as soon as they got up this morning.

Cheng Chen and Cheng Xu happily put on their new clothes and went out to look for their friends in the village. Cheng Shuang saw that Wei Xinyi's hair was messy and asked her to come over and comb her hair.

She untied all of Wei Xinyi's hair, combed it straight, and then braided the upper half into two braids on both sides. She then crossed the braids at the back and tied them with a hairband, just like her current hairstyle.

After combing her hair, she looked up and saw Cheng Pan, who had changed his clothes and was standing at the door watching her.

Cheng Shuang waved, "Pan'er come here too."

Cheng Pan felt a little embarrassed, but still went over and sat down with a slight smile on his face.

Cheng Shuang combed her hair in the same way, and then went back to her room to change into new clothes. The style was the ordinary cross-collared skirt worn by the villagers, with a belt tied around the waist. There was no embroidery or pattern, just a bright pink color.

Fortunately, her original body was only seventeen years old, otherwise she would be embarrassed to wear such pink clothes.

As soon as he opened the door and went out, Wei Xinyi rushed over, "Third sister-in-law is so beautiful."

Then he took Cheng Shuang's hand, turned around and called Wei Qinglang, "Third brother, doesn't it look good?"

Wei Qinglang was busy moving things to the donkey cart outside. He glanced at it and nodded hurriedly, "Yeah, it looks good."

Cheng Shuang pouted, really being perfunctory.

The time for moving into the new house was calculated in advance. The things in the old house that were still needed were moved onto the donkey cart, and those that were no longer needed were left behind. Then the whole family would pack up and follow the donkey cart to the new house.

As they passed by, some people from the village stopped what they were doing and came to join in the fun.

Cheng Lizheng, the village head of Chengjia Village and also the patriarch of the Cheng family, had already prepared firecrackers at the entrance of the new house. When the Wei family arrived, he said loudly, "Moving into a new house, a blessed place brings good luck. May the family be blessed and at peace."

Then there was a crackling sound, the firecrackers were lit, and sparks flew everywhere.

The villagers who came to join in the fun were chatting and laughing with each other, and the children covered their ears with their hands and jumped up and down excitedly.

No one can enter the new house empty-handed. Wei Qinglang, the head of the family, held a bag of rice, Cheng Shuang held a bag of flour, Wei Nanxing and Cheng Pan held a pot and a bowl respectively.

As for the three little ones, each of them held a little duck, and everything was tied with red ribbons.

A well-off old woman in the village was invited to help with the housekeeping. After the gate was opened, the family lined up to enter.

Then a dozen children who wanted to join in the fun rushed in, and some adults squeezed in. If the village head had not stopped them, the yard would probably have been so crowded that there would be no room left.

"Wei Lao San has made great progress. His new home has five rooms."

"This house looks so beautiful. Every room has a window. If I had known this earlier, I would have built a bamboo house when I built my new house last year."

"The table and chairs in the yard are beautiful too. They're all made of bamboo."

"Aren't there five rooms? What's that small room next to the kitchen used for?"

"I heard it was for taking a bath."

"There's even a special room for bathing."

"The floor is made of rough bricks. Didn't they say they built the bamboo house to save money?"

"Not only that, the house is also paved with wooden floors. This must have cost a lot of money. How much money did Cheng Shuang make from ginseng?"

"Someone calculated it and said it might be one hundred taels."

"Good boy, that's a fortune."

The villagers who were watching the fun chattered outside. Inside, Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang put down their things and said to their brothers and sisters, "Chen'er and Xiao Si will have a room, and the three of you will each have a room. Go and choose."

They happily ran to choose rooms, and consciously reserved the largest room for my brother and his wife. Each room had a bamboo bed, a new wardrobe and a desk, and the bed was covered with a newly bought bamboo mat, quilt and pillow.

The room is spacious and you can add anything you need later. Each room has a window that can be opened by propping it up with a stick and then locked when it is lowered.

After everyone had chosen their rooms, the next step was to prepare for the afternoon banquet.