It took two days to cut bamboo, another day to build and repair it, and it was not until the fourth day that the chicken coop was finally completed.

A circle that looked quite spacious was built, with a small bamboo door for easy entry and exit. Two square bamboo cages were placed inside, with a canopy on top to protect them from wind and rain. The bamboo cages were the homes of the chicks.

Because they raised poultry, they were afraid that the chicken coop was too far away and they would not know if something happened to the chickens, so they built the chicken coop in the corner of the backyard. As a result, they spent half a day clearing the weeds.

After a lot of hard work, I finally finished the work on the chicken coop and had some free time to start working on the fish pond.

She thought building a chicken coop wouldn't be that difficult, but she didn't expect it would take her three days to finish it...

The next morning—

The five of them sat in the empty yard and had breakfast.

Breakfast consisted of hot soy milk, fried dough sticks and meat buns.

It took Hua Shi and three others more than an hour to complete this.

The first time I made it, I wasted a lot of time just grinding the soy milk, and then kneading the flour and frying the dough sticks...

At first, Hua Xiao thought she was wasting oil. She only fried a few dough sticks in a pot of hot oil. It looked painful and wasteful.

Only after the hot fried dough sticks with a fragrant aroma came out of the pan did Hua Xiao swallow her complaints.

Really... smells so good...

After a simple breakfast, Hua Xiao and Hua Li quickly cleaned up and washed the dishes.

After the busy work, Hua Shi began to announce today's work...

"Today, let's go to the backyard and clean up that abandoned lake!"

Hua Shi said with great vigor.

On the side, Hua Xiao and Hua Li looked at each other.

"But, shouldn't we go to the fields and prepare the land? There's still rice to be planted."

Hua Xiao remembered that at this time of year in previous years, her grandmother would take them to the fields to prepare the land and plant the rice seedlings in advance. When the season came, they would plant the rice seedlings in the fields.

Moreover, she also saw that many people in the village had begun to prune their fields and were about to plant rice seedlings...

Hua Shi clapped his hands and said, "It's only February now, it's still early, there's no rush."

Although she had never grown rice, she knew the specific planting process and the suitable climate season. Combined with the villagers' movements, she already had a general idea in her mind.

April is actually the most suitable season for transplanting rice seedlings. Villagers seem to be accustomed to raising seedlings in February and transplanting rice seedlings in March, but the time for harvesting rice is actually almost the same, around mid-July.

On the contrary, seedlings planted too early are likely to die in the first two months. She guessed that this is because the snow in February and March has just melted and the climate is not yet suitable for the growth of seedlings.

Therefore, Hua Shi was not too anxious. He wanted to build a fish pond first and then start raising seedlings. There was plenty of time.

Since Hua Shidu said this, the others didn't worry about it anymore.

“Bang, bang!”

Suddenly, someone knocked on the closed gate.

"Hua Shi? Are you there? I'm He Er Niang..."

A strange woman's voice came from outside the courtyard gate.

There is a slight pause when the flowers bloom.

He Erniang?

She searched her mind quickly, but couldn't find the man's face.

I don't think...

"Is it He Erniang?!"

Hua Xiao, who was standing by, reacted, but suddenly widened her eyes and exclaimed in surprise.

…