After Dressing Up As a Stepmother, I Transformed the Whole Family Into Working In the Fields

 Chapter 39 New house built

 The twelfth lunar month has arrived, and the house that took a month and eight days is finally ready.

The walls of the original two rooms were re-plastered, and the new walls were neat and smooth. After the roofs were reinforced, the thatched roofs were removed and covered with blue tiles.

 On the original basis of the house, two rooms were added on the east and west sides.

To the west are two larger tile-roofed houses, each twenty square meters. One is Qin Yao's bedroom, and the other is the new bedroom of the four Dalang brothers and sisters.

The furniture in Qin Yao's bedroom is all newly made.

 A bed of 1.5 meters, a wardrobe of 1.5 meters wide and 2 meters high, two square boxes, and a set of desks and chairs.

Except for the beds and boxes, which are simple styles popular here, the rest of the wardrobes and bookcases were all designed by Qin Yao herself.

 It must be very pleasant to use it for washing dishes, washing clothes and so on.

 The water tank uses a stone pig trough, which the uncle’s family no longer needs.

Qin Yao dug a hole for drainage in the middle of the stone trough, which can be blocked with a wooden plug to store water.

 Obviously he is the one doing the laundry, cooking and cleaning in this house, but his treatment is not as good as that of four children running around every day.

 Liu Ji moved from the main house to the side room. This will be his room from now on. The room is full of old furniture from the original home.

 When Siniang grows up, she can plug the door panel and create a small independent space, which is big enough for a single bed, a dressing table, and a small wardrobe.

All the furniture in the new home is now made of solid wood. The green mud floor has been hammered tightly with a hammer. The floor is bright and smooth, making the whole home feel warm and bright.

 The larger one is a combination of the kitchen and utility room, which separates the two rooms and is next to the original side room.

The interior is divided into a hanging area and a stacking area. There are also four drawers below, and there is room at the top for placing quilts.

 At the door of the kitchen, Qin Yao made a large sink to facilitate laundry and vegetables.

After the sink was completed, the tribesmen who came to help said it was very useful and planned to go back and make one for their own women, so as not to have to move a large basin of water to drain it and be exhausted.

 In this way, each of the four siblings has his or her own independent bed.

 After the entire new home was built, Qin Yao finally felt a little more convenient in life.

 Under each bed, there are two drawers and cabinets. The four siblings all have the same storage space.

In order to prevent the ground in the yard from getting wet, bamboo was used to make water pipes, which were directly connected to the drainage ditch under the eaves, and then drained along the ditch to the barren **** outside the house.

Moreover, the door has been reserved in advance. It is locked now. When you open it later, you will see another door, a completely independent space.

 In this regard, although Liu Ji envied the new house and new furniture, he did not dare to say anything. He only complained in a low voice about the unfairness while cooking.

  But because the amount of work is too large, we can only put it aside for the time being.

 The former main house has become the main room for reception and the dining room for eating. There are only some tables, chairs and benches in it, and there are no other decorations.

Below the window, there is a table two meters long and eighty centimeters wide, with four high stools, one for each of the four brothers and sisters.

 In the middle of the two beds, there are two newly made cabinets, which can be used for storage and some daily necessities can be placed on the flat surface.

 The desk is a rectangular table measuring 1.2 meters by 60 centimeters, with two drawers and a simple wooden chair.

Uncle Jiu laid all the tiles that were broken during transportation on the ground, and used a wooden hammer to knock them all flat and smooth, so that even if the ground was wet, there would be no fear of turning it into mud. Qin Yao planned to use this place specifically for bathing. She could also put a pail here at night to make it easier to go to the toilet at night.

Those that were no longer needed were chopped down by Qin Yao to set fire to.

 The remaining space can be added slowly when she wants it in the future.

 If it rains, the accumulated water in the sink can also be used to water vegetables.

Qin Yao carried the heavy stone trough back alone. After cleaning it, he used a pickaxe to flatten the four walls, and there was a ready-made large single trough, which was one meter and two long.

The front yard is very spacious, and a lot of the previous open space has been enclosed. Old man Liu specially surrounded two vegetable plots with stones he picked up. Mrs. Zhang also gave a pack of vegetable seeds and told Liu Ji to grow some vegetables to eat every day. Spending money to buy it is outrageous.

Because the style of the bunk bed was exquisite, the carpenter took it away and knocked down all the furniture in the house, giving Qin Yao a big discount.

 Fortunately, she also has a shower room. If she is lazy, she can make do at home and wait until dawn to take it to the latrine to dump it.

When you go to the toilet, you have to go through the back door of the newly built wall. After exiting the door, you walk through a wasteland before you can get to the latrine.

I bought a new water tank, and together with the previous water tank, I put the two in the kitchen. Filling the water once is enough for the whole family for three days, which is much more convenient than having to fill it several times a day.

Bronze mirrors are very expensive, and Qin Yao is not willing to buy them, so they are temporarily vacant. In addition, everything needed for daily life is available.

 Of course, there is also a distance of fifty meters.

Every household in the village has a thatched house, but due to superstitions such as Feng Shui, the thatched houses are built far away, usually at the back of the house, about thirty meters away.

In order to match this sink, Qin Yao moved one of the two water tanks in the kitchen to make it easier to use water.

Of course, it would be better if there is a natural spring on the back mountain that can be introduced.

Qin Yao could only follow the local customs in the countryside and built his hut at the foot of the mountain more than 20 meters away from home.

In order to grab the upper bunk, the four brothers and sisters cast lots for a long time. Finally, the upper bunk was taken by Sanlang and Erlang, while Dalang and Siniang slept in the lower bunk.

The original stove was knocked down, and a bricklayer was hired to build a new stove with two burners so that cooking and stir-frying could be done at the same time.

In terms of the room layout of the four brothers and sisters, Qin Yao has evened out a bowl of water.

In the bedroom of the four siblings, there are two 1.35-meter bunk beds that Qin Yao asked the carpenter to make.

Qin Yao specifically asked Liu Ji if he had any opinions. He shook his head and said no. This is good, and there will be no changes.

 The two newly added houses on the east side are much smaller, with thatched roofs, one is 15 square meters, and the other is only 6 square meters.

The backyard is slightly smaller and is currently vacant. Qin Yao plans to erect a few wooden stakes and the like to make a martial arts practice ground.

Since Si Niang is a girl, Qin Yao also considered that it would be inconvenient for her to sleep in the same room with her brothers when she grew up, so in the four-person room, a threshold slot was made in advance for inserting wooden boards.

 The wardrobe is boxy and does not require any carvings. It is exactly the same as modern minimalist furniture.

Uncle Jiu helped find four short pieces of wood to make a support, eighty centimeters above the ground, and placed the stone trough on top. The holes fit tightly together, creating a perfect sink.

　　A new two-meter-high fence was built to protect the entire courtyard in the middle, dividing the front and rear courtyards.

 The small room of six square meters is the bathroom.

Calculated an auspicious day, asked the two sisters-in-law to cook a meal together, and invited the villagers to come over and warm the house.

 Everyone was envious when they saw these sinks, shower rooms, and simple and beautiful log furniture that they had never seen before.

 (End of this chapter)