The family sat, drank milk and talked. In the morning, José looked for people in the village. Except for three people who were working outside, the others were idle at home and farming. There was still some time before the autumn harvest, so they could help build the house and it was good for them to be able to earn some money in the village, so naturally everyone agreed to it.
Joseph also asked a elder to estimate the materials needed to build the house. In addition to the large amount of wood that is free, the other things and labor costs together will cost at least 60 silver coins. If you build a few more houses to store dried flowers, the patio will be expanded and the walls will be higher. 100 silver coins may be enough.
But Mary was no longer worried, because she discussed it with José on the way, José had a good relationship with Pedro, the owner of the grocery store in the city, with the contract for essential oils it should not be difficult for them to borrow some 40 silver coins. It was enough to build a house of solid bricks. Maria was in a good mood thinking that she would have a warm, airtight house to live in this winter and that her daughter would no longer have to suffer the cold.
Selena was even happier. This thatched mud house was bearable in summer, but it was so cold in winter that it was extremely difficult to even take a bath. Such conditions in her previous life could only be like this, but this life could not. She couldn't stand it for months she only bathes once. Count the time, if you build it now, you can move in at the beginning of winter. The room with the fireplace will be full of warmth.
Jose went to the neighboring town to look for some expert craftsmen. Maria was also busy packing things around the house. In the morning, she made an agreement with Helena's neighboring house, who has an old unused house. It was originally inhabited by her family, but then they built a new house and moved in, and it has been empty ever since.
Her thatched roof house has collapsed and is no longer suitable for living. Since the house is planned to be rebuilt, it won't be finished for a while, so they have to find a place to stay first. She made an agreement with Helena that she will take a month, give her 50 cpper coins, pack up and come there at night.
Fortunately, there are not many things at home and they are not far away. Maria and Selena moved the bedding and small items there after a few round trips. Helena also enthusiastically used wormwood to smoke insects and ants in the house, and then cleaned the house after cleaning it inside and out.
A few days later, Joseph hurried back from the city and brought 40 silver coins. The house at home has finally begun to be built, the wages that José pays are not less than those outside, plus the people in the town are honest and work hard, so after the house was demolished, the foundation was quickly laid. .
Due to regulations, those who came home to work had to provide breakfast and lunch. This responsibility fell on María and Selena. It was not easy to feed more than a dozen people. In the morning he was fine, but they had thirty pancakes made at night. In the morning you can warm up a few pieces of pancakes with some pickled bacon, or you can make some vegetable porridge with a little bone broth and then eat cornmeal pancakes.
The hardest part is lunch. As he was tired from working long hours in the afternoon, they needed something good to eat. If the lunch is not good, the workers will not be able to work hard all afternoon, so Maria and Selena will cook in different ways every day, but they only have a few types of dishes and have to rack their brains again and again to find a variety and let them eat comfatable in hot weather.
For ordinary people, this food would be fine, but Marial has thin skin and no matter how poor she is, she won't let people say that she is stingy behind her back, so she actually bought some meat, cooking it in various ways. Every day, every meal made the hard-working neighbors happy.
Even one day at noon, everyone was served a spoonful of oily stewed pork, the smell made everyone give a thumbs up to Joseph, who said he had married a good wife and the dishes tasted better than their wife's. In fact, most of these dishes were Selena's idea, although Maria cooked often, there were not as many good things as what Selena had eaten and cooked when she was a mistress in her previous life and carefully considered serving the Count.
Although her skills were good, she did not learn them voluntarily and was unwilling to do so. With her parents around her in this life, she could naturally act like a spoiled child and stop doing it.
Seeing that Maria was too busy at the time, I came up with some ideas to help. I didn't expect the effect to be so good. Even Jose was sweating with satisfaction after eating it and was very proud of it. and her daughter delivered the dishes every day, especially the clear soup made with bone broth. Each time they drank until there was nothing left, the owner treated people well and the work was done quickly and without delay.
This way, the house can be built before the weather gets cold and the José family can live in their new house before the winter solstice.
Since Lucía came to help from time to time, even her ten-year-old daughter Sara came to help choose vegetables, María was very grateful and wanted to send some essential oil and rouge to thank her for her help.
Selena thought about it and felt that although her essential oil blush was good, Lucia didn't like dressing up. It so happened that she was thinking of making a bath soap to sell. Why not make some of her own now and give them to her to use when they bathe?
In addition to the essential oils already prepared at home, the soap made here also requires soap beans, olive oil, vegetable ashes, soybeans, etc. Then grind them thousands of times until they are as fine as flour, heat and mix, add floral essential oils when cooling, and then cool and compact in a mold box.
When using, soak with water to make bubbles. Rinse with water after washing and the scent of the soap will remain on your skin. Currently, this is only used by some rich families and aristocrats, while ordinary servants and civilians can only use inferior quality soap.
There happened to be some beans at home. Selena borrowed Helena's small millstone to grind them for a day. Also collected many soap beans and leaves from an elm under the carob tree next to the lotus pond, and put together the soap beans and leaves, grind it with olive oil and ground soybean powder, mix and heat, then add jasmine flowers and magic spring water, cool and make three pieces. Although it does not contain precious spices, the fragrance of flowers soaked in a few drops of magic water is fresh and pleasant, long-lasting, and can make people smell it again and again without feeling tired.
She then made three more pieces with scented osmanthus. She then wrapped a piece of each fragrance in a handkerchief and wanted to give it to Lucia when she arrived at her house.
After not seeing Lucia for a few days, she found Leo, who was actually building a house for her family, while she was delivering food at noon.
Not seeing it, she quickly took out a handkerchief package, which wrapped two scented soaps and said: "Leo, I haven't seen Lucia and Sara come after two days of waiting, so can you help me carry this back..."
When she saw Leo's confused eyes move from her face to the box, she quickly explained: "Here are the scented soaps I made for Lucia and Sara..."
Leo is quite tall, and he is more than a head taller than Selena, just blocking Selena. While she was explaining the use of soap with her head lowered, there was a man standing on the mountain not far away, looking at the two who were talking coldly.
They seemed to be calm and calm, but the handful of leaves they were holding in their hands made an unbearable hiss and were finally crushed into green juice. His face was getting darker and darker, and I don't know if it was because of the sun or something...
🎄🎄Merry Christmas!🥳🥳