Exile with Storage Space: Family Fortunes in the Barren Lands
Chapter 40 - 040: Find a way to build a house

Chapter 40: Chapter 040: Find a way to build a house

The Second Princess saw that her brother and sister were asleep, so she also closed her eyes and slept.

Meanwhile, the Xue Family discovered that as long as she brought along her two children, she didn’t need to do anything.

She immediately snuggled the two children closer and fell asleep herself, as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

Princess Consort Luling, born into a noble family, married Prince Luling as the principal consort at the age of eighteen. Naturally, she wouldn’t take the initiative to do anything either.

At this moment, she was closing her eyes to rest.

Li Yuzhu shook her head. This family, as soon as they start enjoying a little comfort, they get lazy!

"The weather is cold and damp right now, and the snakes haven’t fully come out yet. But in another month, this cave will attract them. It’s not suitable for living here long," she said as she looked at everyone.

Just scare you to death!

The moment she mentioned that snakes would come, the Great Princess and the Second Princess jumped up immediately.

The Xue Family also sat up in fright, looking around in terror, "Where are the snakes?"

Princess Consort Luling was also startled and didn’t dare to sleep anymore.

She quickly hugged the two children to her chest, "Your third sister is right, we should build some houses to live in, this cave can only be a temporary shelter."

"Mother Consort, but we don’t know how to build a house," sighed the Great Princess.

The Second Princess whispered, "Why don’t we ask that neighbor boy to help?"

The Xue Family sneered, "What does that little kid know about building houses?"

Li Xing’an agreed, "It would be strange if that little kid knew how to build houses, but to hire someone to build a house costs money. Third sister, we don’t have money!"

"I’ve heard that building houses is not like buying things. You can credit it and only pay when the house is fully built. By the time it’s finished, can’t we find ways to earn money?" Li Yuzhu said.

This reasoning made sense, and Li Xing’an nodded.

Li Yuzhu continued, "Let’s go to the village and ask the village chief. He surely knows who can build houses."

The Princely Heir, overhearing their discussion, said, "I’ll go ask Father what he thinks."

He brought Prince Luling back.

After a family discussion, they unanimously agreed that the cave was not suitable for a long-term stay and that they needed to build houses urgently.

Prince Luling assigned the three brothers, led by the Princely Heir, to inquire in the village.

Li Yuzhu also said she wanted to go, and Prince Luling didn’t object.

.

While washing up, the Great Princess remembered Li Yuzhu’s glazed cup from yesterday.

"Third sister, where’s your glass cup?"

"Oh, that cup? Last night I slipped and fell, and the cup rolled down the mountain and broke, I suppose."

"What a wasteful girl!" the Great Princess rolled her eyes and walked away.

.

After the family finished washing up, they began to divide the tasks to do chores.

The Princely Heir took his two brothers to gather firewood, while Li Yuzhu pulled her two sisters along to make breakfast together.

The Great Princess pouted and was unwilling to work.

Li Yuzhu said coolly, "Everyone is doing something, does big sister think she can reap without sowing?"

"Everyone’s working, but there’s obviously some fun to be had..." she retorted defiantly.

But when she turned back, she saw that indeed everyone was busy working. Her mother, Princess Consort Luling, was mending one of Guoguo’s garments; her father, Prince Luling, was taking their nephew Li Jing for a walk.

The Xue Family was washing her clothes.

The brothers were chopping firewood, and the Second Princess, plump as a ball, was washing dishes.

Only she was standing idle.

The Great Princess dared not laze around anymore, taking the clay basin handed to her by Li Yuzhu to fetch water and wash the rice.

There were still a few ribs, and Li Yuzhu, just like the night before, cooked rib porridge.

Eating only meat and porridge wasn’t ideal; it’d be too hard on the stomach.

Li Yuzhu decided that when they went down the mountain, she would dig up some wild vegetables.

After breakfast, Li Yuzhu put a small shovel into a basket on her back and followed her three brothers out.

Li Xing’an was worried she’d get tired, so he took her basket and carried it himself.