The Ding family's house is located at the very back of Shanshui Village. It is usually quiet and peaceful, with few other houses around, and the space is spacious, making it convenient to dry medicinal herbs.

But she gets very worried when the world is unstable.

Especially since there are few family members and only one daughter.

This is the main reason why she responded positively to the proposal to build a wall and cooperated earnestly.

With the wall protecting us, how much danger can it keep out? At least it can't keep bad guys from breaking in in waves. If they try to climb over one by one, we can kill them one by one.

As Qin Yilin pondered, she suddenly wondered if she and her husband had taken the time to prepare some toxic, itchy powder.

Fish have their own paths, and shrimp have their own paths. Shui Qing is looking for an empty space to build walls and traps to recruit people and buy horses. She could totally use her expertise to make lots of medicinal powder!

Although Shuiqing and Yanqiu both said that Jiajia would move in with them, if any bad guys attacked or broke in, they would have to kill them, right?

Otherwise, keeping it would only cause trouble.

Without hesitation, Qin Yilin and Ding Heli agreed on their idea and spent the day searching for poisonous herbs all over the mountains and fields with their provisions.

Jiajia continued making dried yam at Shuiqing's house, and the two of them picked each other up and went back together when she returned in the evening.

Without Qin Yilin and the other two's help, Hu's mother and Yan Qiuxing were able to fill in for Zhao Di and the others since they didn't need to go up the mountain to plant cuttings.

The process of making dried yam is not complicated; it mainly involves washing, steaming, and cutting, and is mostly physical labor, which Hu's mother handles with ease.

Yan Qiuxing and Zhao Di were both experienced workers, and they learned quickly, cutting evenly thick slices in just a few tries.

Ding Jiajia spends most of her time watching the heat, the steaming time, and so on.

The five of them worked together with perfect coordination.

Shui Qing and Fan Jin were always in harmony, one responsible for buying things at the mall and the other for doing the work.

In the days that followed, everyone was busy.

With the experience gained from their first trip, and with the roads becoming drier and easier to travel, the men were able to shorten their round trip time considerably, generally returning to the village before noon on the fourth day.

After a nap, they can help their family make some adobe bricks in the afternoon to speed up the construction of the wall—the more they see outside, the more anxious they become, wishing they could finish building the wall for the entire village overnight!

Otherwise, even when he goes out, he is worried about his wife, children, and elderly parents at home, fearing that evil people might break in while they are away, and he lives in constant fear.

The men from Zhulin Village were overjoyed to hear that they would be building mud-brick and tile houses for them.

Even if they only had half a day after returning, the eighteen men couldn't bear to waste it. They seized every moment to dig ditches and make adobe bricks, hoping to build their new home.

The house in the east has brick walls and high tiles, making it very comfortable to live in, but they still want to have their own home.

Li Dani and five other women used their mornings and evenings to cultivate a large vegetable garden around their house. Some of the seeds were given by their employer, while others were donated by other women from the village.

They had a good relationship with their employer, who treated them very warmly.

They also told them that potatoes could be grown in the vegetable garden, and that if they planted more, they could use them as both a vegetable and a meal in winter, which would be delicious and filling.

They planted lots and lots of vegetables, carefully tended their garden, and lived their lives with care.