Chapter 17

Zhang Dayou and his brothers chose the foot of the north mountain, where there is a lot of wasteland. When children grow up, they can build next to them. It is also convenient to pick stones at the foot of the mountain. In addition, it is far away from the entrance of the village, so the whole family can hide in the north mountain when something happens. So the three brothers help each other build houses in the village, and they can hear them shouting from 100 meters away.

Zhang Dayou's house is the closest to the foot of the mountain, so the wall is also the highest. All the walls are cut by big green stone, which is a typical courtyard in the north.

The vermilion gate was painted just last year at the wedding ceremony. When you enter the gate, you can see that there are three fruit trees planted on both sides of the yard, two in the West are jujube trees, which have been transplanted directly from the mountain. The tall leaves can also block part of the sunlight in summer.

Not far from the west chamber, a high grape trellis were built. Under the grape trellis, a large blue stone table and several stone stools were set up. In summer, the family also liked to sit here to eat and take advantage of the cold.

The persimmon tree near the kitchen on the left is also transplanted from the mountain. Every year, the fruits of these three trees make the children at home very happy.

Not far from the tree, a well was drilled. With this well, the family didn't have to go to the village for years to carry water. In addition to washing clothes to the village mouth river, the well meets the needs of the family. Because of the small children in the family, the well head was built high, and covered with fast iron plate.

The open space in front of the East-West wing room is well leveled. Besides the corn and sweet potato dried in the air, the autumn harvest of dried wild fruits, mushrooms and fungus and other mountain products are also included. The whole yard is very clean and tidy.

There are three rooms on the left side of the courtyard near the wall. They are the outer kitchen and the second is a small warehouse. There are grains such as dried vegetables in autumn, pickled vegetables in winter, and a few coarse grains. In the last utility room, the farm tools and baskets were kept in the house. There is also a cellar in the kitchen, which belongs to Guoming Road, where the whole family's coarse grain is kept.

In the East Chamber of the main room of Zhang's father and mother, a small cellar was dug. No one knew about it except Zhang's father and mother and Zhang Guoqing. There are hidden wealth in the family, such as a pair of gold bracelets and two gold rings that Zhang's mother married with, as well as a box of jade pendants, jade cards and jade rings that father Zhang kept secret when clearing the landlords in the village. There are also some pieces of wood ornaments and jade ornaments that Zhang's father secretly collected before liberation. Some of them have cracks.

Xiao Guoqing once asked Zhang's father. He didn't know whether it was worth money or not. He followed his father to the landlord's house when he was a child. Just saw the landlord carefully wipe, he estimated it was very valuable.

Mother Zhang's gold bracelet is intended to be given to her sister-in-law in a hundred years. Two gold rings have already been given to her two sisters.

Zhang's father told Xiao Guoqing that he couldn't say it, otherwise he would be robbed, and he would be taken to prison. Also promised to let him pick half, the rest wait for a hundred years after three brothers points, people small national day is also smart, never told others.

Next to the kitchen in the past is the East Wing room, there are three rooms, this is the eldest Zhang Guofu family live. Now the child is small. The eldest nephew is over 10 years old and lives in a room alone. The 8-year-old second and third twins live in the same room. The younger niece lives with the elder brother and his wife.

Five West Wing rooms are built on the right side of the front yard. The first two rooms are for the second brother Zhang Guoqiang. Their husband and wife only have two children, so they live in a spacious room.

The last two rooms belong to Zhang Guoqing, the third of the family. Last year, they got married and arranged a new house, which directly opened the two rooms and made a suite. The villagers come and go without paying attention to sitting on the pit directly. Zhang Guoqing knows that Zhou Jiao has a small cleanliness addiction. Direct outer room decorates small sitting room and study, bedroom does not open easily, usually also enter bedroom from small sitting room.

The one left by the West Wing room was used as a granary. In the dead of night in the countryside, the cry of the child was especially loud. The second child was small, and the second daughter-in-law was a big mouth. It was just in the middle of the room that served as a granary to avoid conflicts between the two brothers.

The two rooms in the East Wing room of the main room are the bedrooms and warehouses of the old couple. Mrs. Zhang specially releases dried pheasants and rabbits. There are also some fine grains, eggs, brown sugar, dried fruits, preserved meat and mountain products. Only Mrs. Zhang has the key here. No one else can enter. The second daughter-in-law was scolded by Zhang's mother several times when she wanted to go in. Except for Zhang Guoqing, no one in the warehouse has been in.

Zhang Cuilan, the eldest daughter-in-law, only has the key to the kitchen cellar. There are only two keys there, one of which is still in the hands of Zhang's mother. It is said that it is in case that the second daughter-in-law steals food and takes it back to her mother's home.

As for Zhou Jiaogang, she was pregnant when she got married, and she would not reach out to take things back to her mother's home. Besides her grandparents, she couldn't steal it to uncle's house.

In addition, the bride price given by Zhang Jia was 300 yuan, plus 500 yuan for three turns and one ring. She only bought 220 yuan famous brand sewing machine. She had a watch on her hand and didn't buy a new one. When Zhang Guoqing went to junior high school, she still had 80% NEW bicycle. When she got married, she took the cloth and clothes from her grandmother and the wardrobe arranged by her grandfather.

There is no division of the family in Zhangjia, but each wife can keep the dowry. 800 yuan is said to be mixed from 300 yuan of the eldest brother's betrothal gift to 500 yuan of the second. I don't know how to calculate it. Anyway, the third one is 800 yuan. If it is less, he will make up for it himself, which is also privately kept by the third house.

For this reason, I heard that Zhang Guoqiang and his wife had a fight because their second daughter-in-law, Lin Juhua, did not even wear a box and got married with no patched clothes. The second one was angry. He was distressed when he thought about 500 yuan. He usually borrowed his big brother's bicycle when he went out.So Zhou Jiao's hand, with more than 300 private house money given by Zhang Guoqing later, is estimated to be much faster than the total amount of the whole family, which is close to 3000.

No one knows about the money except Zhang Guoqing, who is afraid that others will think about it. In particular, his family asked him that he had only 300 betrothal gifts and the remaining 100 yuan to buy dowry. With Zhou Jiao's private house money, it was almost less than 500 yuan. There were also examples, such as how much money Zhou Jiao spent on him before marriage, when she was pregnant, when she bought snacks, when she spent what money, and no matter how confused others were.

In fact, in addition to the grandfather's request for confidentiality of the pension, people who have a heart to work it out. For example, her mother-in-law should know how much she has, but they are smart enough to fool everyone.

In addition to dining and chatting with the whole family in the lobby, the main room is the two rooms in the West Wing room on the right. These are the rooms of the two sisters of Zhangjia. Except that they come back to live occasionally, they are basically free. All the relatives and guests from the family live in it.

Out of the main room to the back, the backyard can be large, at least three times the size of the front yard. The whole backyard is divided into three parts. In addition to planting vegetables, there is also a plot of sweet potato in the middle.

In every corner of the wall, towel gourd in summer, pumpkin in autumn and winter melon are planted close to each other. Pumpkin can be used as staple food, and it is also planted most.

There is a row of thatched cottages in the right corner of the back of the mountain. There is a simple kitchen inside, which is used for cooking pigs. There are two pigs in the pigsty nearby. There are about 10 chickens raised in a small space surrounded by bamboo near the pigsty. This is for fear that the chickens will run into the vegetable field.

The thatched cottage on the left wall of the backyard is the toilet of the family. In order to facilitate, we also specially paved bluestones on the ground to make a squatting pit like that in the city. After using it, we directly flush it with bucket water. The only thing is that it will be very comfortable to go to the thatched cottage in the north in winter.

A few steps away from the toilet, there is a back door on the wall, which is used to go directly to Beishan to collect firewood. If you want to go to Beishan, you don't have to go out to the front door, circle around and go out through the back door.

In Northeast China, the whole family starts to collect firewood in autumn. From winter to next spring, firewood is needed, not to mention several Kang at home.

It's not easy to get coal balls in the countryside. What's more, the firewood on the mountain is not expensive. No one will go to the city to buy coal briquettes. However, the city will buy firewood to burn. Now there are some people in the village who cut firewood and sell them in the city.

After the first snow in Northeast China, cat winter began. Every family tried to collect firewood and prepare clothes and food for winter. It's not convenient to go out when it's cold in winter. Now, you can go to the city to buy grain at a high price or exchange fine grain for coarse grain. In the past few days, Zhangjia has been collecting firewood and fighting pheasants and rabbits. The people of Zhangjia are working hard. Now, several piles of high-rise wood have been piled up near the back door of the backyard.

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