Chapter 385: So valuable? Is it made of gold?

"My wife is smart. She even knew to bring a backpack."

As Chen Hui spoke, he carefully avoided the long quills on the porcupine and put it into the backpack.

He lifted the straps on both sides of the backpack and weighed it. "This one is estimated to be 24 or 25 pounds. It is considered a big porcupine that we caught."

"Great!"

"The roof will be capped tomorrow, and everyone in the village will come to help."

"With so many people, I was just wondering if there would be enough dried fish left at home. With these twenty-odd kilograms of meat, it will definitely be enough."

An Wenjing clapped her hands and said happily.

Topping out is a major event in building a house. One has to choose an auspicious day and time, set off firecrackers, and have many people come to increase the popularity of the new house.

As long as you have a good relationship with the village and the employer.

On the day of roof completion, I will set aside half a day to help with some work.

The host needs to prepare a lunch and everyone can have a lively meal together.

The new house has both the popularity and the feel of home.

"After lunch, let's go to the vegetable garden to get some vegetables. If there's not enough, we can go to town to buy some tomorrow morning."

"There should be quite a few people coming to eat tomorrow. I'll go to town this afternoon and get 50 kilograms of rice."

Chen Hui began to think about his plan.

"Brother Chen Hui, do you mean that we will use rice only tomorrow?" An Wenjing asked in surprise.

After all, at times like this, other families would think of consuming more sweet potato rice and less rice.

What's worse, some people just cook their own sweet potato rice without even a little rice.

"It's all rice and it doesn't cost much!"

“The main thing is that everyone in the village knows that our master eats rice when he works, but he uses sweet potato rice to cap it, which doesn’t look good!”

Chen Hui explained.

The smaller the place, the more careful you have to be in considering the ways of the world.

If you accidentally offend someone with a narrow mind, he might try to trip you up.

"Well, you're right!"

"I'll go to the vegetable garden this afternoon. You should go practice shooting with Uncle Guo Biao."

"You are the kind of person who works for three days and rests for two days. Uncle Guo Biao hates having such disciples the most. I don't know how long his patience will last."

An Wenjing joked and lifted one side of the backpack.

Porcupine quills are very long. If you carry them on your back directly, you may get stabbed in the back at any time.

"it is good!"

Chen Hui picked up the other side of the belt tacitly, and the two walked out of the forest.

I walked home along the dirt road that the villagers used to go up and down the mountain to farm, and I just made it in time for dinner.

The rice buckets for steaming rice have been moved to the construction site.

Chen Huihong and Wu Shuisheng came out, one carrying a large bucket of fish soup and the other carrying a bucket full of bowls and chopsticks.

Chen Huihong noticed Chen Hui coming down the mountain, waved and said:

"Are you back? I was worried that you were late. Come in and have dinner."

The people who washed their hands and gathered around to prepare for dinner followed Chen Huihong's gaze and also saw the two of them.

Master He smiled and joked, "Boss, I don't see you every day, but you always show up at the right time for dinner."

"That's what I said."

Chen Hui strode down, put the backpack on the ground, and said:

"Look! I, the boss, am busy getting meat for you guys every day."

"Today's fish head soup is made from fish I caught myself!"

"This fish is delicious. I sell it to people for ten yuan per pound. The boss generously gave me half of the fish head."

There was only soup today, and several workers were a little unhappy.

When he heard that the fish cost ten yuan per pound, he immediately became eager to try it.

"Ten dollars a pound. Is this fish made of gold? Just add some and leave!"

Tian Ajun rubbed his hands and impatiently urged the people in front of him to hurry up.

"Half a fish head? Half a fish head is this big!? Then the whole fish must be 40 to 50 kilograms?" Master He said in surprise. "What do you mean 40 to 50 kilograms? 87 kilograms!"

"It took three of us to catch it. We couldn't catch just one or two!"

Speaking of this, Wu Shuisheng is still very excited.

I simply decided not to go back to Wu Jinhua’s house for dinner.

I have to eat with the workers on the construction site and tell them about going down to the sea to catch this fish.

There are two more dishes at home than at the construction site.

Chen Hui and Chen Huihong tried to persuade him, but seeing that he insisted, they gave up.

Several people were eating at Wu Jinhua's house, listening to exclamations and laughter coming from the construction site.

Chen Huihong felt itchy after hearing this.

Finally, he picked up two pieces of food with his chopsticks and put them in the rice bowl, then ran away with the bowl in his hand.

"Huihong, wait for me!" Lin Jiao also ran after him.

"Mom, where are you going?"

An Wenyi rolled over and got off the stool to follow, but An Wenjing grabbed him back and put him on the stool, "Eat well!"

"Mom, what a fool! She even wants to join in the fun."

"Doesn't my aunt already know the whole process? Why do I need to listen?" An Wenjing smiled helplessly.

"That's what they call two different kinds of people sleeping in the same bed."

Chen Hui joked, feeling that there was something wrong with this statement.

He smiled and ate his meal.

After lunch, several people gathered together to discuss tomorrow's affairs.

The auspicious time for the enlarged beam to be capped is 8:15 in the morning.

There are still three or four hours before lunch time, so there is plenty of time to make arrangements.

"Go buy some rice tomorrow, and practice your shooting skills well in the afternoon."

"I'll deal with this porcupine after I finish my meal and save it for tomorrow," said Chen Huihong.

Chen Hui nodded.

"Wenjing, come and look after the store this afternoon. I'll go pick the vegetables."

"I've already made an agreement with Shi Lan. If there's not enough, we can go to her house and pick some."

"This year she and the neighbor planted vegetables together. She was afraid that you couldn't tell them apart and picked the wrong ones." Lin Jiao tapped An Wenjing's hand and said.

"That's great! Then sister can accompany me in the afternoon!"

An Wenyi smiled happily and hugged An Wenjing.

An Wenjing smiled and rubbed An Wenyi's head.

He put her aside and stood up to clean up the dishes with Chen Huihong.

"I'll collect these, you go and open the door."

"If someone comes to buy something, it would be bad if the store door is closed!" Chen Huihong stopped her and said.

"Okay, then I'll go."

An Wenjing said this, stopped what she was doing, and left with An Wenyi.

"Then I'll go find Uncle Guo Biao. Oh my god, I feel a little guilty when I talk about looking for him!" Chen Hui said with a smile.

"It's a good thing to feel guilty. I'm just afraid that you can still be so playful in front of the teacher!"

"Go quickly, look at your skills, your skin is all broken." Chen Huihong said with a smile.

"No one wants to buy the porcupine skins, so let them rot."

Chen Hui ran out of the door with a smile on his face and caught up with the An Wenjing sister.

The three of them walked forward, joking and joking on the road.

When I meet fellow villagers who I have a good relationship with, I will chat with them for a while and remind them that my family will put up the beams and complete the roof at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning and invite them to come to my house to have some fun.

Tell me about what you encountered in the village.

After dinner, go sit on the bridge for a while and spread the news.

If you are willing to come, you will know to arrange time to help tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)