SIAS Chapter 35.2

He smacked his lips and said, “This is such a waste.”

He didn’t work for free by building the wall. He could get two yuan!

No one was so generous as to give him sugar water to drink when doing work. He had to step on the mud a few more times today to make it firmer, to live up to the courtesy of others.

Yi Qingqing also knew from previous interactions that Zhao Yougen and the old carpenter were both honest people.

If you showed them some respect, they would not take advantage of you. Instead, they would reciprocate because they felt a little uneasy.

That was why she decided to treat them well this time.

In the future, she would stay in the countryside for several years, so it was necessary to build good relationships with the villagers.

Especially those villagers who were still relatively simple.

Anyway, from what she had seen during this period, although Xiangshui Village was remote and poor, it was still a place with beautiful scenery and fertile land.

When the harvest was not good, people often went hungry, but when there was famine everywhere, no one starved to death here.

Therefore, most of the villagers were still relatively simple and honest, but they still had some minor problems such as taking advantage of others, gossiping, and being jealous, all because of their poverty.

Yi Qingqing didn’t like it, but she wouldn’t say that she would stop interacting with people. She could still handle these relationships with the right method. If it really didn’t work, she was not afraid of trouble.

It was relatively easy to open the door, but making the adobe bricks was a bit troublesome.

Yi Qingqing had talked to Uncle Yougen about building the courtyard wall a long time ago. At that time, he reminded her not to plant anything after cleaning up the private plot because he would use it to place bricks later.

She saw him spread the soil he brought in on the private plot, crushed it bit by bit, dug it loose, and then soaked it with water.

He did not ask anyone else to do these jobs because the proportion of water had to be controlled well, not too much or too little. After soaking, he turned the soil over twice and sprinkled half an inch of thick grass nodes on it.

Yi Qingqing helped to chop the grass nodes, which were about 20 centimeters long.

Then, he used a spike rake to mix the soil and grass nodes together. Next, it was the step of stomping the soil, making sure to stomp it all over.

Yi Qingqing also took off her shoes and rolled up her trouser legs to go on stage. It was fun, except that the grass nodes were a little prickly for her feet, but it was much better once she got used to it.

It was quite interesting to see how she stepped on it. They had never seen anyone making adobe bricks like this in the city. Qian Lailai also joined in.

Yi Qingqing did not hide the fact that she wanted to build a wall and open a back door. Moreover, the children in the village went to and from school, and the educated youths went to the back mountain through this side.

Unlike Yun Guyuan’s side, few people passed by. He opened the back door quietly without her knowing.

So now Li Mengxue, Zheng Xiaolong, and others also came.

Li Mengxue and her friends were not interested in cleaning up their private plots. She was too lazy to even plant the public land, so she didn’t want to suffer here!

She gave her private plot behind her house to Qian Lailai and spent money to obtain the right to pick vegetables from Qian Lailai’s private plot in the future.

Even Zheng Xiaolong and Chen Zhihe did the same.

Because among these people, except Qian Lailai, no one knew how to grow vegetables.

They came to see her now because Li Mengxue wanted to open up the back alley and open a door at the innermost part to facilitate entry and exit.

Because of this door, Qian Lailai, who originally wanted to open up the house, gave up the idea. It didn’t take too long to go in and out through this back door.

So, Yi Qingqing was the only one among the educated youth who added adobe walls to her private plot.

Even Xie Shiyan’s private plot was only slightly fenced with branches.

 

 

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