NOVEL NEXT 69: Attracting Trouble
After Gu Yu pulled out another twenty taels of silver from his robe, the master craftsman didn’t say another word and directly began directing his men to work on the foundation.
Money talks—build however you want!
To build a good house, the foundation had to be solid first, but this didn’t require too many people at the moment, so the master craftsman had the idle workers prepare for wall construction.
As for the wall materials, the master craftsman had already arranged for them, and would soon send someone to call the brick and stone carts here.
However, because he hadn’t expected… Gu Yu would need so many bricks and stones for the wall, he would need to order several more batches.
Although the master craftsman earned some commission from this, it wasn’t much—just enough to buy a few more pieces of meat for his family and have a cup of wine, which was satisfactory.
When Gu Yu saw they were already planning to build the wall, he suddenly remembered wanting to place nails on the wall, so he mentioned this to the master craftsman, telling him to prepare the materials.
Since iron was quite expensive in ancient times, Gu Yu took out another five taels of silver from his robe, instructing the master craftsman to install the nails properly.
Afterward, Gu Yu didn’t linger at the site. After giving the master craftsman a few more instructions, he left the construction area.
Since Gu Yu was funding everything, the master craftsman could just come here to build the house, and when the money ran out, he would ask Gu Yu for more.
Gu Yu was now like an uninvolved boss—he didn’t need to manage anything, just provide silver. Once the new house was built, he could directly move in with Gu Mengyao and her brother.
As for the appearance of the new house, Gu Yu felt that ancient houses all looked roughly the same, with no real distinction between beautiful and ugly.
Moreover, those grand mansions in ancient times required the family head to hold an official rank… that is, one needed to have status.
Otherwise, common people weren’t even allowed to use large doors.
So it was no wonder Gu Yu didn’t care about the house design. Furthermore, Gu Yu had no emotional attachment to Yang Village.
If he earned more money in the future, Gu Yu had even considered… taking Gu Mengyao and her brother away from here.
But those were matters for the future. At present, it was more prudent to build the new house first.
Living in that drafty thatched hut every day made Gu Yu feel cold when sleeping at night, causing him to stay curled up in the blanket for a while after waking up each morning before he could warm up.
This was absolutely true, not just an excuse Gu Yu made for staying in bed!!!
While the construction was in full swing, Gu Yu strolled up the mountain, planning to bring back some prey to store.
Since his spatial storage had already doubled in size, Gu Yu figured he could catch more to store. After all, things in the spatial storage didn’t rot or spoil and would still be fresh when taken out.
With this attitude of catching whatever he could, Gu Yu caught many wild chickens and rabbits on his way up the mountain, and even encountered another roe deer.
Perhaps because autumn offered more food, these animals seemed stupefied. Once Gu Yu’s eyes spotted their silhouettes, he unfailingly put them into his spatial storage.
Of course, not everyone had a convenient spatial storage like Gu Yu, so he was overthinking this… Before people could even approach, these wild chickens and rabbits would slip away as if their feet were greased, making them impossible to catch!
Gu Yu happily caught creatures along the way, but stopped when he gradually approached the deep mountain area.
With his current spatial storage size, he wouldn’t fear even a tiger… but Yang Cao’s earlier visit to Gu Mengyao had sounded an alarm in Gu Yu’s mind. He thought he shouldn’t let villagers see that he had also gone up the mountain.
And into the deep mountains, no less!
Otherwise, if those people stopped asking his wife for help and started asking him instead, that would be troublesome.
“Do you think Gu Mengyao will really come?”
“Definitely! I told your daughter this morning, if she wants to save you, she must get Gu Mengyao to come up the mountain.”
Just as Gu Yu was about to turn and leave, he faintly heard voices coming from ahead. After catching the three words “Gu Mengyao” in the conversation, Gu Yu immediately stopped, holding his breath and continuing to listen.
He didn’t know if he was just attracting trouble lately, but why were so many people causing problems for his family? It was really fucking ridiculous!