After finishing the meal, Aunt Qi sent a stack of packing boxes and packed most of the remaining dishes for Lin Xiaoman. She packed a dozen large and small boxes and asked her to take them back to eat with her brother.<

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Originally she wanted to put it in the refrigerator and eat it slowly if she couldn't finish it, but seeing Lin Xiaoman's appearance, she was afraid that her home didn't have a refrigerator and would embarrass her, so she said: "You have to eat the food as soon as possible. If you can't finish it, don't eat it if it goes bad."

After eating, if you want to eat, come to Auntie, and Auntie will ask her to cook it for you."

Lin Xiaoman thanked her. Although Aunt Qi was polite, she couldn't be so shameless as to come here to eat.

However, she and Erhu are not short of money now, and they have seen many business opportunities with Aunt Qi. Once the house is built, they can come here often to have a taste.

Aunt Qi found the driver in the villa and asked him to take Lin Xiaoman back to the city.

Lin Xiaoman got into the car at the villa. Halfway through the journey, she received a payment prompt on her mobile phone. Aunt Qi transferred the mushroom money directly to her. A total of 2,100 yuan was given to Lin Xiaoman for several types of mushrooms.

Lin Xiaoman thought about the food she ate and packed for the table, which must have cost several hundred.

Alas, Aunt Qi is also a real person.

Chatting with the driver on the way, Lin Xiaoman became interested when he learned that the local specialties at the entrance of the villa were very popular and that most of the people who came to the villa would buy some to take home.

In addition to thorn cones, there are also many wild fruits and hazelnuts on the mountain behind Hedong Village. In the past, people only picked them as snacks when they were idle at home in winter. I never thought that they could be sold for money.

The mushrooms on the mountain were almost harvested a while ago, and it didn’t rain during this period. There are not many mushrooms, so you can take them with you to pick them. However, you can let the idle people in the village go up the mountain to pick hazelnuts and wild fruits and exchange them with her for money.<

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The hazelnuts are roasted and sold, and the wild fruits can be made into the kind of dried fruits sold at the entrance of the villa. Even if Aunt Qi doesn't charge so much, she can also carry them and sell them herself.

This time, she said no need to exchange salt for anything.

After asking the driver to park not far outside the park, Lin Xiaoman entered the park carrying a heavy packing box.

When he got behind the tree, he saw Lin Erhu sitting there surfing the Internet. Lin Xiaoman raised his leg and kicked him lightly. The boy came to his senses and was startled. Seeing that it was his sister, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Sister, you are scary."

, scary! Don’t you want your favorite brother?”

Lin Xiaoman spat at him angrily, "What have you learned online every day?"

Lin Erhu smiled happily and received another kick from Lin Xiaoman.

It was already noon when the siblings returned home. Seeing that Lin Erhu was trying to fool him with the steamed buns he bought there, Lin Xiaoman poured the packed vegetables into a pot and took them to the kitchen to cook.

Not to mention that the taste is no worse than freshly baked, and there is an indescribable aroma.

The food is hot in the house, and people outside who smell the smell are asking: "Xiaoman, Erhu, what are you two doing?"

Lin Xiaoman said: "I have some folding baskets at home. I'll heat them up. If my uncle doesn't mind, I'll eat some later."

How can anyone be dissatisfied at this time? My mouth started to water when I smelled it. It happened to be meal time, and everyone went to wash their hands and wait for the meal.

Steamed buns and steamed buns, each person can share a bowl and a basket.

Seeing that there was meat and vegetables inside, one person was reluctant to eat it, so he discussed with Lin Xiaoman, "Xiaoman, I won't eat these vegetables for now. Is it okay to take them back to your sister and her mother at night?"

Thinking of the past when her parents were around, they would think of their siblings when they had delicious food. Lin Xiaoman was a little sad, but she still nodded with a smile, "Okay, I will put it in the kitchen later and take it back when I get off work in the evening. I will bring it back tomorrow."

Just bring us the bowl."

The man showed his big white teeth happily. Lin Xiaoman took his bowl to the kitchen, took out a few pieces of meat from the pot and hid it under the bowl.

After listening to the conversation between him and Lin Xiaoman, a few people also asked Lin Xiaoman to help put the dishes in the kitchen after a few bites.

But there were also a few who ate everything in big gulps. Some of them were so full that the whole family was not hungry. Some of them were the breadwinners of the family. There were many children in the family, and life was hard. They could not work even if they were not full.
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Lin Xiaoman saw Lin Erhu and asked Lin Erhu to get another bowl of shredded pickles.

Salt and gold are expensive at this time, and most families are reluctant to pickle pickles, especially Lin Xiaoman's shredded pickles soaked in soy sauce and added with chili and sesame oil, which no country man has ever seen before.

Everyone even ate two more steamed buns than usual, which made Lin Erhu feel distressed. While eating quickly, he whispered to Lin Xiaoman: "Sister, I usually have five steamed buns in a meal, but I ate seven this time. I'll pay for it."

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Lin Xiaoman rubbed his head and said, "Look at what I've done to you. Anyway, if you don't finish eating these, they will get spoiled. Don't count them so much, lest people think we are stingy."

Lin Erhu didn't say anything anymore, but what he was thinking about was not buying steamed buns tomorrow. They were expensive and not enough to make him hungry. He might as well save the money on buying steamed buns and go to a street lunch shop to buy some vegetables and cook them back up.

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In the afternoon, the walls of the main room were built, and there was no need for so many people in the east wing. Lin Xiaoman asked Lin Erhu to invite Lin Daqiang, and in the afternoon he would first put up the kang in the west wing where she and Lin Erhu lived.

There are two rooms in the west wing, and because there is only one bed, Lin Xiaoman and Lin Erhu live together these days.

Now that we have to make a kang, we have to make one plate per house, and then the sister and brother can live separately.

When Lin Erhu came back, there was no one behind him. "Sister, Uncle Daqiang has gone to the county seat. Grandpa Er said he would come right away."

Lin Xiaoman was not in a hurry, and called a few smart people, showed them the drawings, and explained according to the drawings. When Lin Youwang came over, these people had roughly understood what Lin Xiaoman meant.
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Afterwards, Lin Xiaoman directed them to set up a kang, while Lin Erhu and Lin Youwang looked on.

First, make a hole in the wall and build a stove in the outer room connected to the hole.

A frame was built with bricks inside the house, then a flue was built in the corner of the other side, a hole was opened in the roof, and a chimney was built.

The kang board that was made a few days ago was dried, and it was put on the frame and smeared with a layer of yellow mud.

Lin Xiaoman always felt that something was missing, and he finally remembered after patting his forehead that he had forgotten to make the kang edge.

It’s too late to make it now, so just leave a place for the edge of the kang and let the carpenters in the village finish it in a few days before installing it.

After the two kangs were finished, it was almost night, so Lin Xiaoman lit a fire to test whether the smoke would escape.

The yellow mud used to build the kang has not yet dried, and as soon as the fire started, the kang began to smoke, which made people cry.

When the smoke dissipated a little, Lin Xiaoman took a pot of yellow mud and put it on wherever the smoke was coming out, almost blocking all the places where the smoke was coming out.

Soon, the stove fire started to burn vigorously, and there was no more smoke. The yellow mud near the stove had begun to dry. Someone reached out and touched it, and said in surprise: "It's really hot. I don't have to worry about sleeping on it in winter."

It’s cold.”

After hearing this, everyone came over to touch the kang, all the way from the end of the kang to the end. Lin Youwang also came over to touch it. After touching it, his face showed walnut lines with laughter, "This is good, this is good. When I turn around, every family in our village will be bundled up."
Chapter completed!