Jiang Zhou showed his drawings to Liu Erlang again.

Liu Erlang took a closer look and hesitated.

Jiang Zhou looked at his face and asked, “Can it be built?”

Although Liu Erlang didn’t want him to look down on him, but looking at it, he encountered difficulties, saying, “It’s difficult!”

Jiang Zhou naturally knew it was difficult.

“All buildings with more than two floors are made of wood. If a mountain rain comes down, everything may collapse,” Jiang Zhou sighed. “Wood is too perishable and too unsafe. It is better to use stone. It is safer to use bricks and stones to build a mold underneath. It is safer to use cement to paste the wall outside.”

He explained carefully to Liu Erlang.

As Jiang Zhou explained, Liu Erlang’s eyes became brighter and brighter.

He even forgot to drink the tea in his hand, exclaiming, “Good stuff!”

It was indeed good stuff.

Over the years, he had taken on a lot of house repair work. Those houses had been repaired, broken, and repaired again, and they were no longer suitable for people to live in.

Over time, they would have to move and build new houses.

Although he made money as a mason, he didn’t like it.

Therefore, if what Jiang Zhou said was feasible, they could use these materials when building houses in the future—and because they were the only ones, they could almost monopolize the market in the early stages of this industry.

And they didn’t need to consider market issues. If the first person in the village built a two-story brick building, others should consider building one too. If you tinkered with your own house, others would fix it once and for all.

Did you want to fix one yourself? If one village had been repaired, should other villages be repaired?

The village had been repaired, but what about the town? What about towns further afield?

Liu Erlang had already imagined the scene where countless people would come to ask for a house in the future.

Looking at Jiang Zhou’s smiling face, Liu Erlang took a deep breath and said, “Jiang Da.”

“Huh?”

“You are really a talent!”

Jiang Zhou blinked, “Oh?”

Liu Erlang was still a little excited, “You helped me a lot!”

Liu Sanlang was a little confused, but Jiang Zhou understood the meaning of his words, so he smiled and said nothing.

Although Liu Erlang was excited, he did not forget about the business: “Don’t worry! I can contact you about the craftsmen and materials in these two days! Construction will start on the seventh day of the new year, but I still don’t understand what you said. You have to supervise the work from time to time after the construction starts.”

Knowing that Jiang Zhou was selling oden, and occasionally his wife would buy one to try when passing by the town, Liu Erlang was hesitant about whether Jiang Zhou could find time to supervise the construction.

Jiang Zhou mainly relied on oden cooking and the dividends plus rental fees of Lu Xiangxi’s sponge cakes. The oden business was almost done by February, more profitable in winter but less effective in spring.

Thinking about ways to make money, Jiang Zhou hadn’t figured it out yet and planned to think carefully after the new year. However, the issue of supervision raised by Liu Erlang was not a problem for Jiang Zhou.

At worst, he could go out earlier, and if he had free time at noon, he would check on the construction in the afternoon.

So, he said, “It’s not a big problem; I’ll come over at noon and take a look.”

After discussing about the materials, he declined Liu Erlang’s invitation to stay as a guest, saying, “My wife is still waiting at home, so I won’t stay.”

The Liu brothers had expressions that said, ‘You have such a strict wife’ but Jiang Zhou didn’t bother to explain and headed home.

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When he got home, Wen Yan had finished with Jiang Zhou’s clothes and was sewing a hat for Xiao Yi.

Made of hare fur, the pure white variety was rare. Jiang Zhou had bought gray rabbit fur, which was also scarce. Ordinary gray rabbits had some white fur mixed in, but this one was a true gray rabbit, with fine and soft gray fur.

As it was caught with a cage net during hunting, none of the fur was damaged. Wen Yan took the rabbit’s body, folded it, and sewed it up with thread. After turning it over, it became a rabbit head hat.

While sewing, he added two rabbit ears.

Jiang Zhou, leaning against the door, smiled when he saw Wen Yan at work.

Wen Yan paused and bit off the thread without changing his expression: “What are you doing standing here?”

Jiang Zhou confidently said, “Look at my wife!”

The tips of Wen Yan’s ears turned slightly red: “Look at what I’m doing?”

Jiang Zhou sighed suddenly.

Wen Yan tilted his head and looked at him, “Huh?”

Jiang Zhou said seriously, “Look at my wife’s good looks, my wife’s cuteness, my wife’s well-behaved.”

Wen Yan blushed completely, “Nonsense.”

Although he blushed, the corners of his mouth were slightly pursed, and his eyes were clear and bright.

Jiang Zhou knew that he was happy.

When his wife was happy, he also felt happy.

In the evening, he was even happier when he got his wish.

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The next day, the second day of the Lunar New Year, it was time for the married daughter-in-law to return home. Early in the morning, Jiang Zhou accompanied Wen Yan back to Wen’s house carrying large and small bags of things.

Although Wen Yuanxing was not as openly welcoming as he was at the beginning, he was still calm and apparently still ‘held a grudge’ against Jiang Zhou.

If Li Yue hadn’t pinched him when he got up to ask him to have a better attitude, he would have been impatient to show off his indifferent expression.

Jiang Zhou was not annoyed. When Wen Yan just married him, Wen Yuanxing had the same expression when he came back home. He could greet him with a smile at that time, so naturally he can do the same now.

Li Yue personally welcomed the person back and smoothed things over at the same time, “Why are you here so early? The baby is still asleep on the bed.”

Father and Mother Wen were afraid that Xiao Yi would get cold if they followed Jiang Zhou and Wen Yan, so they kept the baby at home during the New Year.

“It’s normal for children to be sleepy.” Jiang Zhou put down everything he had brought, including a box of candies, a bundle of noodles, and a pair of live chickens with their feet tied.

This was a custom in the village when people return to their parents’ homes. Basically, those who return to their parents’ homes took these with them. Jiang Zhou added another gift for Father and Mother Wen.

Mother Wen’s was a necklace.

At this time, there was no such thing as a necklace, and there was no such thing in town. Children usually wore longevity locks, not a necklace.

Jiang Zhou specially asked the silversmith to make this necklace.

The silver ingot was heated and beaten and slowly stretched into filaments. The two strands were then twisted into one. The ruby ​​Jiang Zhou picked up before was embedded in the bottom. The appearance was novel and the thought was clever. What was rare, the craftsman’s craftsmanship was also skillful. This necklace was particularly special.

Li Yue loved it very much.

She touched it several times and refused, “Why bother doing this? I’m so old; how can I be so extravagance.”

While talking, she urged Wen Yuanxing to put it on her, and Wen Yuanxing was convinced.

Jiang Zhou hurriedly handed over his gift.

They were two walnuts, but they were not whole. The walnuts were hollowed out, and what was carved inside were two dragons biting each other’s tails.

Wen Yuanxing squinted his eyes and glared at Wen Yan.

He recently fell in love with walnuts, and only Wen Yan knew about it. Now that Jiang Zhou gave this as a gift, it was obviously Wen Yan’s idea.

He muttered, appearing indifferent but actually happily plated up the walnuts.

‘Tsk, it looks really good!’