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Chapter 276: Food in Hand, No Panic in Exile 19

It rains a lot in spring. Nanli Village had just experienced several days of continuous light rain a few days ago, causing the dilapidated houses in the west of the village to leak and become moldy, making them no longer habitable.

The prisoners who originally lived there were moving out one after another. Most of them were arranged to stay in the villagers' homes. The remaining few families had some surplus money and were preparing to build their own houses in the village.

Their two families are now in the same situation. They either have to stay in the villagers' homes or hand over part of their food rations as living expenses.

Or you can build a house with your own money, a mud house, which can be built in only three days if you hire a few workers. It has been sunny recently, so you can move in soon.

Chu Yuan was not short of money, so of course he chose to build his own house.

Unexpectedly, Lu Xiuzhu and his family had to stay at a villager's home.

It seems that the person behind this has a long reach and can even infiltrate a small town like this one in Shu. If he is not a trustworthy family, how could Yunbei let him live with someone else.

As soon as he proposed to stay with him, a villager who was watching the fun nearby stood up and said that he had vacant rooms in his home that could be used for accommodation.

If this wasn't arranged in advance, then what was?

Since they want to stay here temporarily, they can just follow the villagers who are going to take them in. Those like Chu Yuan who want to build their own house have to go to the village chief's house to discuss the details.

In fact, what she wanted most was to buy a spacious brick house like the previous family, but she didn't know if one still existed.

The group followed the village chief back home, and Chu Yuan ordered Xia Yu to present the gift that had been prepared long ago.

In fact, there was nothing valuable, just a jar of wine and a few pounds of dried meat. However, this wine was a collection in Chu Yuan's space. She secretly opened the lid of the jar a crack before entering the room.

In just a short while, the aroma of wine had filled the entire room.

"It's just a small gift. I hope the village chief can accept it. My aunt and her family will rely on you to take care of them in Nanli Village from now on."

The village chief is named Wang Man. His only hobby is drinking a little wine. Chu Yuan’s gift really touched his heart.

However, he still understood the principle of not accepting gifts without merit. If he couldn't do what these people asked for, or didn't want to do it, he would definitely not accept the gift: "Please explain your intentions first."

"It's nothing, actually. I just heard that there was a precedent of exiled prisoners buying houses to live in the village, so I wanted to ask the village chief if there are any vacant tile houses in the village? We would also like to buy a few."

Wang Man took a few deep breaths of the wine aroma in the air and said, "There is an empty house. It is right next to the family you mentioned. There is a tiled house with three rooms and a small courtyard. If you want to buy it, give me 60 taels of silver."

"I wonder if the village chief could take us to see the house? If it's suitable, we'll buy it."

"Okay, I'll go get the key, you guys wait a moment."

During the time when the village chief was away, Chu Yuan had a brief discussion with his aunt and the others, and they all agreed that if the condition of this tile-roofed house was good, 60 taels would be a very suitable price.

Chu Tingshu also confirmed with Chu Yuan again and again that she still had a lot of money left, so she agreed to the proposal of buying a house.

After all, this is the place where you will live for many years in the future, so it would be better if it is spacious and comfortable.

Not long after, the village chief came out with a bunch of keys: "Let's go, that house is not far from my home, I'll take you there to have a look."

After walking for about ten minutes, they saw two tiled houses side by side. The houses were much better than Chu Yuan had imagined.

At least it wasn't as shabby as she thought. Instead, it looked like it had been built in recent years or had been renovated.

After entering the house, the layout is also very good. As soon as you enter the door, you can see three bedrooms side by side, a kitchen on the side, and a bathroom and toilet in the corner.

After looking at it once, the family was quite satisfied with the house. Chu Yuan immediately took out three silver ingots of twenty taels each and said, "Village Chief, we want this house."

The house was registered under Chu Yuan's name because Chu Tingshu and the others were still prisoners and could not purchase real estate.

Moreover, Chu Yuan paid for the house, so it was only natural.

Now that they had a new home, Xia Yu drove the carriage parked in front of the village chief's house over. Inside were the daily necessities they had prepared. The most urgent task now was to clean the place up and make it habitable.

There was no need for the female comrades to do things like cleaning, as Lu Zhan and Lu Haoyuan took care of it all.

Even Xia Yu, who was a maid, only needed to help them pass things. In Lu Haoyuan's words, in his mind, Xia Yu was not just a simple maid, but his future master.

How could an apprentice just sit there and let his master do the work?

Xia Yu still admired this half-baked apprentice. Chu Yuan said something right, Lu Haoyuan is really a good candidate for martial arts.

It's a pity that the current court values ​​civil over military. In order to have a good future, Lu Haoyuan entered school at the age of 7. He had almost forgotten the skills he learned from his grandfather when he was a child.

If you want to pick it up again now, you will have to work hard.

On the second day after settling down in Nanli Village, Lu Haoyuan insisted on getting up at the hour of Mao every day to do horse stance and then practice the various body movements taught to him by Xia Yu.

At the hour of Chen, they would prepare breakfast for the family, wash up simply, and go to work on the fields assigned to them.

If he does more, his parents can do less.

Especially since the mother is pregnant now, she cannot overwork herself.

There was no way around it before when she was on the way to exile, but now that we have reached our destination, it is definitely impossible to let her work so hard in the fields.

Anyway, the village chief only requires that everyone complete the assigned work, and there is no requirement that everyone must go to the fields. This is the experience Lu Haoyuan learned from the neighboring family.

Living next door was the high-ranking official that the officers had mentioned when they arrived. As new neighbors, they went to say hello that same day.

There are a total of 7 people in his family. When he first arrived, the two elderly people in the family were seriously ill and the only daughter was young, so they were unable to work in the fields.

The labor assigned to them can only be shared and completed by the men in the family.

The village chief had no objection to this. As long as the work could be completed on time, he didn't care who did the work.

So Lu Haoyuan also planned to learn from their approach. Chu Tingshu only needed to stay at home and take care of her pregnancy, and the work in the fields would be done by the two men.

Chu Yuan went to town the next day after arriving here. She wanted to see if there was any way to make money.

There is still a long way to go, and living off one's savings every day is not a solution.

After all, the money in her pocket is not inexhaustible. If this continues, it will definitely arouse suspicion.