Joseph expanded the courtyard while he repaired the house and built high walls around the courtyard. In this way, ordinary people cannot easily climb the wall and enter. The patio path was paved with stone paving stones as the girl said, so that even on rainy days the mud and water would not touch her feet. There were six or seven rooms, including a place dedicated to drying flowers and storing dried flowers.
Joseph also planned a small room next to the fireplace. José said it was a specific room to make essential oils and blush for Selena. This room is ventilated in summer, but very warm in winter. There is even a small stone mill newly purchased especially for her to grind some saponaria seeds, which is compact and easy to use.
Selena seemed very satisfied, these days her father was letting the carpenter build her some furniture, including the dressing table and matching chairs that she wanted. Ever since she found out about this, she had been running to the carpenter very frequently, hoping that he would finish the job quickly.
The house is almost built and José has not been idle these days. He and Leo went up the mountain to collect many flowers needed to make rouge essential oil, after all, in winter everything dies and there are no fresh flowers. The preparation of blush essential oil will depend exclusively on these dried flower petals. In the eyes of others, picking so many wildflowers is not worth wasting time and cannot be sold for a few cents in the city, but in the eyes of Selena's family, this is money. If you collect more, you may produce more essential oils in the winter. Maybe all the money Joseph borrowed will be repaid in the winter, so they have to collect enough no matter what.
According to the rules of my hometown, any family building a new house must invite relatives and neighbors to dinner to celebrate. Her family was no exception, María and José discussed the dishes and the approximate number of people in the evening.
Selena, however, was packing her things alone in the house, after all, it was a slate floor, not dirt, so it was clean and tidy to walk on. Although the bed is not an exquisitely carved bed, fortunately it is large and made of solid wood, much better than the creaky old bed. Maria also took out a light-colored cotton gauze to make a curtain and placed a thick cotton mattress on the bed. It was very comfortable to sleep on and she would never feel uncomfortable again.
What makes Selena most happy is that the dressing table and carved chairs that she had been waiting for so much were finished yesterday. They moved her in the afternoon. At this moment, Selena was taking out her mirrors, wooden combs, bottles and jars and placing them on the dressing table one by one.
Finally, she sat beautifully on the carved three-legged stool and saw the table, all of which were flowers carved according to her wishes. Although the carpenter's craftsmanship was not as skilled as that of the Marquis' craftsmen, he was still the best for a peasant family.
Although things in the house are simple, they are thousands of times more comfortable than the previous thatched house that did not look like a human habitation.
Although my parents didn't show off after moving to a new house, they all smiled when faced with envious or flattering neighbors in the village every day. The two of them are also full of expectations for the future. They feel that their lives are finally getting better and better, and they believe that they will get better and better in the future.
However, what they did not expect was that during the banquet, people they did not want to interact with before would appear uninvited. Seeing people from their stepmother's side arrive, the smile on Maria's face froze.
Talking about the grievances between Selena's family and her step-grandmother, it is actually directly related to her late grandfather Hugo. Selena's grandfather, Hugo, was rich and handsome. With some money in his family, he bought dozens of acres of farmland on the outskirts of the city and a store in the city. For people in their place, this is considered a wealthy family, and once they have money, they will inevitably become a little romantic.
It turned out that Selena's grandfather's wife was Estrella, José's biological mother, but Estrella was weak and died after giving birth to José. Hugo then married his then-lover, who is now Selena's step-grandmother, Carmen, who is also Uncle Pablo's biological mother. Therefore, Uncle Pablo and Selena's father, José, are not brothers from the same mother, but rather half mothers.
Their relationship was somewhat lukewarm for a long time and Estrella died very early. Carmen became very hard on José after becoming José's stepmother. Later, when her grandfather Hugo passed away, Selena's family was expelled by her grandmother Carmen de ella, and her uncle Pablo de ella took away the family property that she deserved from him on the grounds of that Joseph did not have a son.
Selena's family really ran out of money a few months ago. José and Pablo discussed delaying the payment of alimony to stepmother Carmen for a few days. Pablo and Carmen refused, and it was even more impossible to borrow money from her family. After that This time Mary and Joseph were completely disappointed, even when their family built a new house this time, they did not invite anyone there, which meant cutting off contact with them.
Who would have thought that those people would be so brazen as to come uninvited? Although they were not welcome, in front of their neighbors and relatives from the town who were having dinner, Mary and Joseph could not block the door and prevent them from entering, and they did not He had no choice but to invite them to the new house.
"Oh, Joseph, what you did is really unethical. When your family built a new house and hired neighbors to hire helpers, why didn't you invite your own brothers and nephews to come and have fun? Are you afraid that "Let us eat all the food in your house?"
Lola, Pablo's wife, became jealous as soon as she entered the house and saw the bluestone floor. When she saw the new furniture in the house and the chicken legs and ribs on the dining room table, she couldn't help but show a envied look.
Unexpectedly, José and his family were so lucky to earn so much money and build such a beautiful house, the furniture was newer than those in his house, the jealous tone in his words could not be hidden.
Seeing that he was instead blaming his family, Mary was rude and said, "This is because some people did bad things first. What should we be afraid of? Besides, Paul made it very clear last time Joseph came to your house. From now on, our two families will cut off all contact. We only need to pay the pension money of 200 copper coins to our stepmother regularly every month. We will not interfere with each other at other times. .In The future, life, old age, illness and death will have nothing to do with each other. No one cares whether you are alive or dead. There is no need to worry about this, let alone building a new house. .."
Lola was speechless after receiving her response and couldn't help but look at the dark-faced Pablo next to her.
Seeing that Joseph, who was no better than him and too poor to eat, has actually built a new house that was not much worse than his, Paul felt very uncomfortable, at that time he became angry after hearing the words of Maria. He regretted saying the words.
It was so bad that he didn't expect Joseph to ever change, but the words had been said and because of self-esteem, he couldn't lower his head in reconciliation.
When stepmother Carmen, who was originally sitting in the main seat, saw this, she smiled, changed the subject, and said, "Maria, I think this house is very well built. In the future, you and your family will finally have a refuge from the "Wind and rain. I feel relieved too, what about Selena? Why didn't you see her when you entered the house just now?" After saying that, she looked around her.
Iris next to me looked disdainful when she heard this, looking at a new style cabinet in the room, she couldn't help but squeeze the handkerchief in her hand, thinking that she would ask her mother to make one for her when She will come back. Iris is Carmen's youngest daughter, a few years older than Selena.
They always love Iris very much and give her everything she wants. Carmen only has one daughter like that and she treats her like a treasure. Iris only treated her like a servant. Selena yes she was a little disobedient. If Iris complains to Carmen and Hugo, you will inevitably be reprimanded.
Selena, who was eavesdropping outside the door at the time, saw that she couldn't hide, so she had to pretend that she had just arrived, carefully opened the door, and then walked in. As soon as she entered, everyone in the room looked, except Mary and Joseph, when they saw her, everyone else showed different signs of surprise, no wonder, at home she wore black or gray clothes all day, and her hair sometimes It was messy, which went very unnoticed. I thought it had only been more than a year since we broke up, but the ugly and low-key girl back then turned out to be so beautiful.
As soon as people walk in, they immediately feel their eyes light up. Selena wore a peach pink muslin and thin cotton jacket on top, and a beige linen skirt on the bottom. The color of the clothes is not bright compared to the red silk jacket that Iris is wearing, but somehow it makes people unable to look away. I don't know if it's because she eats well or something, but she is taller than before. She looks slim and elegant.