Zhou Xiang pointed to the scattered courtyard outside and said, "Such a beautiful courtyard has become a mess just because people are not good at planting flowers and trees. Let the two children try. If they grow something special, they can say it's their work."

"You! The two children are grown up now, and Kang Kang has smelled your deception several times, and you still don't change?"

"What do they need to change? I'm just fooling them. It's good that they can tell the difference. It means they've put their brains to work."

"How crooked."

"You're the crooked one!"

"Yes, I'm crooked!"

After planting the fruit core healthily, I would often go to observe it. Sometimes, out of anxiety, I would dig up the soil to take a look. Zhou Xiang looked at me and smiled secretly, saying, "I just want to see if you can actually grow it."

The middle section of the river channel has been completed. During the drying period, the workers were asked to take a few days off. They have been working for two months in a row.

The workers received their wages and went to the street to buy meat and fish for a snack.

All the meat dishes at the market were sold out in a short time. The meat sellers were confused as to why, but were told by someone who knew the inside story, "The Zhou family gave them a day off today, and they used their wages, which were several hundred yuan, to buy meat dishes to take home to replenish their energy."

"So, do they usually eat very poorly? Doesn't the Zhou family provide them with food?"

"10 yuan a day with meals included? Are you dreaming? Boss Ma has people prepare the food and deliver it to them. Boss Ma is a conscientious contractor. He records the food costs every day and splits them equally. He doesn't make any money from them at all."

"Oh! If I had known, I would have done it too."

"Come on! You're just talking. If I really asked you to do it, you wouldn't be able to do it. It's too tiring."

…

Ren Hui's injuries had healed enough and he could get out of bed and walk. He heard that Zhou Xiang and Ling Ran had come to see him again, so he asked Erniu to help him out of the room.

He personally apologized to Zhou Xiang, "Miss Zhou, I'm sorry. I really can't shirk the mission. I apologize to you for what happened that day, and thank you for everything you have done for all my teammates."

Zhou Xiang waved his hand nonchalantly, "It's okay. If you hadn't accepted this mission, Ling Ran wouldn't have known about your difficulties, and I wouldn't have thought of setting up the foundation. Instead, you did a good thing for your teammates."

Ren Hui was stunned. Why did it sound so reasonable?

Ling Ran chuckled. When the little girl spoke, even the unreasonable things became reasonable.

Seeing that he was walking well, Zhou Xiang asked, "How's your recovery going? If there's anything wrong, please speak up. You must recover as before, otherwise, we will all feel guilty."

Ren Hui nodded. "I know. Everything is fine. There's nothing wrong. I can walk without any pain. Doctor Cao is a very good doctor."

"Of course. This is a blessing for the people of our town. It's a pity that he has no successor."

Ren Hui's eyes flashed, and he asked Ling Ran to help him in. Erniu knew that the two had something to say, so he went to the kitchen to work.

Ren Hui told Ling Ran about his sister, Ren Qing. She loved following the barefoot doctor in the village since she was a child. The barefoot doctor thought she was very talented, so he taught her.

But how much could a barefoot doctor teach her? Ren Qing wanted to study at a medical university, but not only could her family not afford it, but her average grades wouldn't have kept her up.

Ren Hui thought that since Doctor Cao had no successor, could she ask her sister to learn from him?

"My sister felt that she had no hope of passing the entrance exam, so she dropped out in her first year of high school and went into the mountains to dig medicinal herbs all day. My family and I were worried about her. She was only 16 years old, so it's not too late for her to study medicine. She didn't dare to ask Doctor Cao to be her teacher, so I wanted to ask her to come and get some guidance from Doctor Cao.

We can't let her learn half of it and not even be able to treat a cold or fever, right? Doctor Cao is old and it won't work if there is no one to take care of him.

My sister came to take care of Dr. Cao, not asking for any wages, just food and lodging, and learning a little bit at the same time, thus fulfilling her dream of becoming a doctor."

Ling Ran asked him, "Can you make the decision for your sister? Do you think she would agree to this idea? Talk to her first, and then we'll ask Doctor Cao. What if Doctor Cao agrees, but she doesn't come?"

Although Ren Hui felt that his sister would definitely be willing to come, Ling Ran was right, he had to confirm his sister's side first.

"Yeah! I'll call back and ask."

Ling Ran returned to the clinic in front and asked for Zhou Xiang's phone, handing it to him, "Call!"

Ren Hui called the village and asked the village accountant to help him call his sister Ren Qing to answer the phone, but the village accountant told him that his sister had come out to look for him.

He hung up the phone and immediately called his teammates in Shencheng, who had already been recruited by Ling Ran and given five mobile phones, including phone numbers.

His teammates told him that his sister had just left and came to the town to see him.

Ling Ran smiled at Ren Hui who had hung up the phone, "Why do I feel that your sister is not suitable for Doctor Cao? Doctor Cao likes quietness."

Ren Hui quickly defended himself, "She must have come because she knew I was injured. She's not that kind of person."

Ling Ran waved his hand, "I'm already here anyway. I'll ask him in person when the time comes, and I'll have Doctor Cao see him in person."

"Okay, okay, when she comes, I'll ask Erniu to tell you."

On the way home, Ling Ran told Zhou Xiang about Ren Hui's idea. Zhou Xiang didn't care. "It depends on Doctor Cao's wishes. Also, it depends on whether she is in Doctor Cao's eyes. Eye contact is very important."

"Yeah! That's what I meant. People are already coming this way anyway."

Water could be diverted from the middle section of the river, leaving only the southern section. Zhou wanted to ask Ma Gua to repair the road in the staff quarters as well.

Ma Gua laughed and said, "Even time can't stop your determination to build roads!"

"Then, you and Station Master Xie were both against it before, why don't you object now?"

Zhou Xiang's question made Ma Gua choke. Yes! What time cannot stop is the pace of progress.

"Okay! I'll go do my work. Ling Ran knows how you plan to repair it, right?"

Zhou Xiang nodded, "He knows, go ask him, there's also a parking lot."

"Parking lot? Where?"

"The stinking ditch."

"Oh my god, you're interested in such a smelly and rotten piece of land?"

"Well! Once you see the design, you'll understand what it means to turn decay into something magical."

"Aren't you a little too confident?"

"Haha, go look at the picture."

Ma Gua found Ling Ran by the river and said, "Your fiancée asked me to come to you to look at the blueprints."

Ling Ran handed him the paper roll in his hand and said, "Look at it! Then get to work. You've been building this river channel for two months and it's still not finished. You're too slow."

Ma Gua ignored his complaints, saying that digging a canal was not like building a house.

He opened the paper roll. Is this a parking lot? Is this a flower bed?

Ling Ran laughed when he saw his disbelief. The little girl just liked to do something unexpected.

"Let's go to the scene of the stinking ditch."

Man Gua followed behind him, looking down at the blueprints. Zhou thought that the blueprints he drew were not always standard, but he could understand them. Maybe it was because they were both laymen in drawing?

Ling Ran pointed at the scene. From the west wall of the Zhou family's south building to the west, there was a parking lot with 30 parking spaces. Because the space was large enough, the parking spaces were separated by a brick-high flower bed.

Because the concrete road needs to be widened, the original budget of 32 parking spaces has been reduced to 30.