After dressing up as a stepmother, I transformed the whole family into working in the fields

The twelfth lunar month is here, 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 basis of the original house, two rooms were added on the east and west sides.

To the west are two larger tile-roofed houses, each 20 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 measuring 1.5 meters, a wardrobe measuring 1.5 meters wide and 2 meters high, two square boxes, and a set of desks and chairs.

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

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

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

The office desk and chair are just a rectangular table measuring 1.2 meters by 60 centimeters. The table has two drawers and a simple wooden chair.

Bronze mirrors are very expensive, and Qin Yao is reluctant to buy them, so they are temporarily vacant. In addition, everything needed for daily life is available.

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

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

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

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

Between the two beds, there are two newly built cabinets, which can be used for storage and some daily necessities can be placed on the flat surface.

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

Under 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.

Because Siniang 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 she made a threshold slot in the room for four people in which wooden boards could be inserted.

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

Moreover, the door has been reserved in advance. It is locked now, and when opened later, there will be another door, a completely independent space.

In terms of the room layout of the four siblings, Qin Yao had evened out a bowl of water.

Because the carpenter thought the style of the bunk bed was exquisite, he removed all the furniture in the house and gave Qin Yao a big discount.

The two new houses on the east side are much smaller, with thatched roofs, one is fifteen square meters, and the other is only six square meters.

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

The original stove was knocked out, 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.

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.

I bought a new water tank, and together with the previous water tank, the two are placed 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.

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

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

The small room of six square meters is the bathroom.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

He is obviously 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.

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

Now all the furniture in the new home is in log color, and the green mud floor is hammered tightly with a hammer. The floor is bright and smooth, making the whole home feel warm and bright.

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

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 on it is outrageous.

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

The sink uses a stone pig trough, which my uncle’s family no longer needs.

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 a full one meter long.

Uncle Jiu helped find four short pieces of wood to make a support, eighty centimeters above the ground, and placed the stone trough on it. It fit perfectly and became a perfect sink.

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

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

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 drained along the ditch to the barren slope outside the house.

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

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.

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

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

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

On an auspicious day, I asked my two sisters-in-law to cook a meal together and invited people from the village to come 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.