Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 17

Chapter 17: Chapter 017 The Layout of the Xie Family Courtyard

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Xie Jingchen took Zhang Shanni away from the kitchen. Before leaving, he heard his mother and father teasing him. He glanced at the little girl who was still looking down, her small face still shining black. He wondered if she had heard them!

Tiesheng's house has a large courtyard. Zhang Shanni followed Xie Jingchen and roughly scanned the area using her spiritual power. She realized that the place enclosed by stone walls alone was more than two acres, and since it was close to the base of the mountain, there really were no other houses around.

As for choosing to settle at the base of the mountain, it was the foresight of the ancestors. If the Xie Family had not been situated at the very foot of the mountain, it's unlikely that all the children would have survived as well as they had.

With no other households nearby and the surrounding areas being wild mountains, Tiesheng, who was the village accountant, really didn't have to worry about how much of the wildland he enclosed. After all, with many sons to accommodate, even over two acres of land felt cramped once divided.

The front courtyard consisted of three rooms, built when Tiesheng first got married. Later, as the children grew up and Xie Jingchen became capable, Tiesheng also took the initiative. When his eldest son, Xie Jingwei, started a family, he built another row of three rooms on the vacant land near the road. These rooms were suite-style, approximately thirty to forty square meters each, divided at his own discretion.

By the time his fourth son, Xie Jinggang, nicknamed Xiong Dan, was to marry, the house was unconsciously short of space again. Consequently, three more suites were added on the mountain side. To differentiate, the first-built three rooms were called the Right Wing Courtyard, and the later built three were called the left wing.

Originally, Xie Jingchen was supposed to be assigned the second room in the Right Wing Courtyard, but since he was in the military and unmarried, he let the room to his older brother. By the time his younger brother got married, the rooms there were just filled.

Xie Jingchen rarely returned home to stay, and since there was no room for him, and although Xie Jingqing had married off, Xie Jingzi was still only in her teens and would need the room for many more years. At that point, Xie Jingchen decided to build a house. Since he paid for the construction entirely out of his own pocket, using a substantial amount of silver, and even produced the architectural plans, the left wing ultimately belonged to Xie Jingchen.

This arrangement was clear to all the siblings and carried no controversy. When the house was built, a certificate was drafted stating that this house would belong to Xie Jingchen in the future.

For future convenience in entering and exiting, Xie Jingchen simply opened up a back door and also enclosed the land near the mountain in the left wing, thus significantly enlarging the Left Wing Courtyard.

As the divisions of property had not occurred, this rural family courtyard came to resemble a compound of three sections.

Xie Jingchen was seldom at home; he only asked his parents to plant some seasonal fruit trees near the mountain side in his Left Wing Courtyard and left both the front and back spaces of the main hall open for potential vegetable planting or perhaps setting up a shed to raise poultry, which would be beneficial.

"Your home is so big!" After fetching Xie Jingchen's large backpack from the main house and turning the corner by the kitchen, Zhang Shanni saw a fork in the path with one branch leading left and the other right. The left was horizontal while the right was vertical facing the village road. Though it was said to be one courtyard, it had already been divided by bamboo fences and tree branches.

"This is our home. The Right Wing is where the eldest brother and younger brothers live; the left wing is ours. As the little sister is not yet married, she currently resides on our side. Additionally, Xiao Yi, Xiao'er, and Xiao San, several elder nephews, are also temporarily staying in our vacant guest rooms."

With an increased number of people, room availability became tight. Moreover, his frequent absences from home meant that the rooms needed occupants to prevent decay. Besides, the property ownership in the village had been certified, so letting the nephews stay was no issue for Xie Jingchen, who was not so petty.

Though he had no great affection for his brothers' wives or sisters-in-law, his nephews, after all, carried the Xie surname. ƒreewebɳovel.com