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I should also thank you. If it weren't for you, Ah Yue's family would not be living so well. "He bowed his hands to everyone.

"You are so polite. We, the villagers, are lucky to meet you." Li Zheng said to him, which received unanimous approval from the villagers.

"Since it's fate, let's get together here! How about treating it as our housewarming party?" Wei Ci smiled.

Everyone looked at the little food they had left and felt that they were short of money and embarrassed to agree.

Li Zheng also thought it was a good idea to let each family cook whatever they had, mainly for the sake of good luck, so he asked everyone to bring some vegetables and grains.

For a time, it was very lively.

The women were responsible for washing vegetables and cooking, while the men went out to look for wood and planned to build a simple shed to sleep in for a few days.

The food at home is naturally left to Nian and Shen Nan. Mr. Nian put together the rice, noodles and dishes sent by each family and asked two families to be responsible for steaming rice and making steamed buns.

The wives and children from other families helped pick vegetables, wash them, and cook them. Everyone worked together, and in less than an hour, a decent banquet was ready.

Every household took out all the boards they could use, put together a big table, put all the prepared dishes on it, and invited the men to come over for dinner.

At the dinner table, Li Zheng took out the jar of rice wine that he had treasured for a long time and poured a sip for the men in each family. They all drank it in one sip to get a taste of it, which was enough to satisfy their appetite.

Li Zheng picked up the pottery bowl and clinked glasses with Wei Ci, "Thank you so much for today. I'd like to toast you."

"Uncle, you don't have to be polite. We are all from the same village, so there is nothing we can do to help." Wei Ci said.

Li Zheng no longer shied away, picked up the bowl and drank it all in one gulp.

The next morning, Li Zheng took his three sons to the city.

The difference from the original is that their village is very close to Lingzhou City and can be reached in less than half an hour.

After the ox cart stopped, Li Zheng asked his third son to keep an eye on the ox cart while he took the other two people to inquire about building a house.

Shen Yan was not interested in these things at first, so he just waited for others here.

Li Zheng went to the grain store to buy twenty kilograms of brown rice, and asked the boy about the masons.

"You want to build a house. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of our Lingzhou City masons. What kind of house are you building?"

"It's Xinmin Village." Li Zheng quickly told the boy the name of their village.

"Xinmin Village? But a new village designated by the government? Are you refugees?"

"That's right." Li Zheng nodded shyly upon hearing this, for fear of being looked down upon by the waiter.

"That's great. I heard that the fields and homesteads in those new villages are very cheap. If my household registration hadn't been here, I would have brought my family to buy a piece of land to live in." The young man looked at it with envy. Looking at the three of them, father and son.

Hearing this, Li Zheng's embarrassment completely dissipated, he was in a good mood, and he couldn't help laughing.

"Yes, it's all thanks to the king's understanding of the people's sentiments and giving me and other refugees a way out. The people here are also kind, which makes me feel like I'm back home."

These words brought the relationship between Shengji and him closer.

"I have been running around in Lingzhou City for more than ten years. Brother, if you don't have much money and want to build a good house, just go to the west of the city to find Chen Lazi.

"Chen Lazi? Who is this?" Li Zheng looked at the waiter in confusion and asked. He really couldn't think of anyone who would give this name.

"Chen Lazi is the eldest daughter of the Chen family." When he said this, he glanced at Li Zheng, fearing that he might think women were not good enough, and quickly added: "Although Chen Lazi is a woman, she has a group of workers under her. Not to mention his quick hands and feet, he does a good job. He is much better than those men who cheat and cheat, and the price is also reasonable. I can go and ask."

"Okay, I'll go right away." Li Zheng asked for Chen Lazi's address and returned with a bag of thick noodles and his two sons.

"Dad, are you back so soon? Have things been settled? Have you found a suitable mason?" Shen Yan asked impatiently.

"Get in the car first, let's go to the west of the city." Li Zheng waved his son to come up quickly.

After hearing this, Shen Yan jumped on the bullock cart and drove it to the west of the city. It was their first time here and they were not familiar with the road. They asked many people along the way, so they wasted a little more time.

When they arrived in the west of the city, they asked passers-by for their address, and finally reached Chen Lazi's house.

"Dududu!" Shen He knocked on the old wooden door, and could vaguely glimpse the scene in the courtyard through the crack in the door.

"Who is it?" A woman's voice came from the door.

"Hello, we were introduced here by others and would like to inquire about building a house." Li Zhengdao.

"Here we come." Not long after, a very smartly dressed woman appeared in front of the four of them.

Looking at the woman in her early twenties, dressed cleanly and plainly, several people couldn't believe that this was Chen Lazi, the mason mentioned by the boy.

"Hello, let's look for Chen..." Shen He scratched his hair. He didn't know whether Lazi was her original name or someone else randomly picked it, so he was embarrassed to ask.

"I'm Chen Lazi. You guys want to inquire about the house, right? Come in first and I'll get you a cup of tea."

After Chen Lazi finished speaking, he invited several people into the room. "Sister, who's here?" An old voice came from the room next to her. Chen Lazi smiled apologetically at a few people and quickly helped an old man over.

"Grandma, be careful. We have a guest. I will help you lie down on the bed and come over to give you medicine later."

"Okay, okay, business is important, business is important, go quickly, sister." The old man said with a kind smile, his cloudy eyes full of expectation and joy.

Shen He's family didn't know what the old man looked like, but just by listening to his voice, they knew he must be an old man.

Why is this Chen Lazi so filial? This makes them feel that their choice is not wrong. What bad things can a filial person do? It seems that the people in the village can feel more at ease if they find her to work with.

The main room of Chen Lazi's house is very simple. There is nothing except a table, four chairs, and a windmill. The room is a bit dark, and the only thing that can transmit light is a small window.

Chen He sat on the stool, rubbed his hands in embarrassment and said, "We are from other places and have just settled in Xinmin Village. We would like to ask you how much you charge for building a house."

As soon as Chen Lazi heard that they came from other places and were placed in Xinmin Village, he knew that they were refugees, and he already knew the valuation of their house.

"That's right. The house can definitely be built. After all, that's what I do. Besides, I don't have any business recently. But it depends on what kind of house you want to build."