Qinling got up at dawn in the morning. It was very hot during the day, so he planned to go there early today and work more while it was cooler, so that Tian Cai would not be exposed to the scorching sun while he was working.

While brushing his teeth, he heard a hurried knock on the door. Who could it be so early in the morning? Qin Ling thought to himself, and opened the gate with his toothbrush in his mouth.

A strange man was standing outside the door. He looked to be in his early twenties, with an anxious look on his face. His trousers were mostly wet with dew, and it seemed that he had come here overnight.

Qin Ling raised his eyebrows and spit out the foam in his mouth, "Who are you?"

The man saw Qin Ling and grabbed his arm as if he had found a life-saving straw. "Sanzi is in trouble, please save him!"

Qin Ling suddenly looked up, staring at him with a sharp gaze, and asked coldly, "Who are you?"

The man was startled by Qin Ling's gaze, and when he came to his senses, he quickly introduced himself, "I am Sanzi's cousin. Before he left, he told me to come here to find you if anything happened."

Qin Ling relaxed his guard a little and looked around. Many people had already made noises. He stepped back and opened the door. "Come in and talk."

After a while, the two of them came out together. Sanzi's cousin came on a bicycle. Qin Ling was about to go up when he suddenly remembered something and turned around to head towards Tian Cai's house.

Tian Cai also woke up. Her idea coincided with Qin Ling's. She also planned to use the morning time to finish the work that could not be dried in the shade. As a result, Qin Ling came while she was washing her face.

"You're here so early too?" Tian Cai turned around and said with a smile while wiping the water off his face.

Qin Ling's gaze paused on Tian Cai's upturned hair. He coughed slightly uncomfortably and said in a deep voice, "I have something to do in the county. Leave the backyard work there for now and do it when I come back."

Tian Cai raised her eyebrows. She saw a stranger waiting at the gate and knew now was not the time to talk, so she nodded and said, "I'm not in a hurry. Go ahead."

Qin Ling then hurriedly left with the people at the door.

Tian Cai happened to be out with a basin of water when he saw Qin Ling riding a bicycle with the man towards the village entrance.

She stood at the door for a while, then sighed and went into the yard. She thought she could move in and sleep tonight, but it seemed there was no hope. However, Tian Cai felt that she should be able to give it a try. She had watched Qin Ling working a lot in the past two days. Anyway, there were still so many bamboos at home. At worst, if they were useless, she could just burn them as firewood and go back to the mountains to cut more.

Tian Cai took action immediately. He dismantled the window that Qinling had half-finished yesterday and studied it carefully. He found that the structure was actually very simple. It was just a bamboo pole with four holes dug on it, and four bamboo strips were inserted into it. Then, like weaving a bamboo basket, he took the sawed bamboo strips and pulled them in at intervals from top to bottom. Finally, he pushed the bamboo strips to the bottom and put them close to the previous ones. He repeated this process.

She was clumsy and slow at first, but after a while she became familiar with it and her movements became faster and faster. Soon she had finished an entire window.

Tian Cai pushed the last bamboo stick in, looked it over, and then removed them one by one.

I was just focused on making sure they were neat and dense, and didn't pay attention to the color of the bamboo strips. Some were on the front and some were on the back, and they were a mess when put together. It would look good if none of them were facing outwards.

It looked much more beautiful when she finished weaving all the bamboo strips with the front side facing outwards.

"I didn't expect I'd be so talented," Tian Cai said smugly, feeling that he truly had a pair of deft hands. "This thing doesn't seem that difficult, right, Mimi?"

"Ah!"

Tian Cai worked hard and made another window. Then he hung two bamboo strips on the window with ropes and found a thin bamboo pole to support it from the bottom. A simple window with an antique style was completed.

She planned to use the same method for the door, but all the bamboo strips she had chopped before had been used up. Tian Cai measured the width of the door, moved a small stool over, sat on the side and chopped the bamboo strips while wearing gloves.

After the bamboo door is finished, they have to plan to make some furniture. Tian Cai is someone who has watched short videos after all, and she can barely remember the process of Li Ziqi making the bamboo sofa. Making the bed is roughly the same. Anyway, it’s just her and Mimi sleeping together, so the bed doesn’t need to be too big.

By the time Tian Cai finished making the bamboo door, the sun had come out. She went back to have a simple breakfast and then ran to the backyard to work.

Tian Cai first drew a simple sketch on the ground and estimated the number of bamboo tubes needed for each position. Then he sawed the bamboo into sections according to the size he wanted, and used coarse cloth to wipe off the layer of substance attached to it.

Her hands were moving and her mind was working rapidly, estimating in her mind where she should speak.

"Cai Cai, are you home?"

The sudden sound from the front yard startled Tian Cai, and he immediately responded, "I'm in the backyard!"

When Qu Ting heard the sound, she came to the backyard. They hadn't seen each other for some time. After the meningitis, Qu Ting went to live at her grandmother's house for a while and had just returned.

As soon as she turned around and saw the drastically changed backyard, her mouth opened wide and her eyes almost popped out.

"Ah—I like this!!"

Qu Ting ran over quickly, circled the bamboo house twice, and couldn't help but look at Tian Cai eagerly, "Cai Cai, can I go in and take a look?"

Tian Cai smiled at her. Having a small house was probably every girl's childhood dream. When she was little, she didn't have such conditions and built one herself with broken wooden boards. "You can go in anywhere, but there's nothing inside."

After getting Tian Cai's permission, Qu Ting immediately put down the basket in her hand, quietly opened the door of the bamboo house and went in.

"Wow--"

“It’s so cool!”

“This is so comfortable!”

Qu Ting walked around the bamboo house several times, tried out several doors and windows that could be opened and closed, touched them everywhere with an envious look on her face, and it took her a long time to come out reluctantly.

"Wow, I want it too," Qu Ting took another small stool and sat next to Tian Cai. She watched Tian Cai's movements and was amazed. "You did all this by yourself? You are so amazing!"

Tian Cai shook his head. "It's not me. It was Qin Ling who helped me. I don't have these skills."

"So what are you doing?"

Tian Cai Bangbang split the last connecting point in two moves, and a hole was made. "I want to try to make a bed. I can put it inside, spread out the bedding, and sleep here at night. It must be very cool!"

The more Qu Ting listened, the more envious she became. She often slept with the window open at night because it was too hot, and mosquitoes would come in with the window open. If it weren't for the mosquito repellent bag given by Tian Cai, she would have been bitten badly.

Qu Ting's eyes rolled around, and her expression immediately changed. She said pitifully, "Cai Cai, then I want to come over and sleep with you tonight."

Tian Cai couldn't help laughing when he saw her eyebrows trying to move downwards. "Where did you learn this weird look? These scowl eyebrows make it look weird. Change them back to normal right now. They're so ugly!"