Chapter 72 Sawing Bamboo Tubes

There is no final decision yet regarding pricing.

It was getting late, so everyone went back to their rooms to rest.

The next day, the morning glow painted half the sky red.

Chen Yongliang came out of the main room and saw Wang Shi busy in the kitchen. He asked, "Mother, have my eldest brother and the others gone out?"

Wang shook her head, also finding it somewhat strange.

Normally, Chen Yongnian would be up early at this time to gather wild herbs, but he wasn't up today.

The others remained silent as well.

Wan Qiqi lay on the bed, watching her two little ones dress themselves, not wanting to move at all.

If she hadn't known that she had gone hiking yesterday, she would have suspected that she had gotten into a fight last night, and that she was so sore all over that she couldn't even lift her next door.

When she opened her eyes and saw that Chen Yongnian was still asleep, she knew that he had overslept!

Pingping and An'an climbed out of bed, walked to Chen Yongnian's side, each on one side, and pulled on Chen Yongnian, shouting, "Dad, get up, the sun's already high in the sky!"

Chen Yongnian sat up abruptly, his face still showing some fear. He only came to his senses when he saw the two little treasures beside him and Wan Qiqi, who was secretly laughing on the bed.

Turning his head, he saw the fiery red sunrise through the tattered window paper, and suddenly realized what was happening. He hurriedly put on his shoes and went outside.

He took two steps, then turned back, picked up the two children from the ground, helped them put their shoes on, and then walked out again.

Looking at Chen Yongnian's energetic appearance, Wan Qiqi felt a pang of envy.

If only she could wake up the next day as if nothing had happened, but unfortunately her body wasn't cooperating. She didn't intend to exercise; health was all she needed.

After struggling for a long time, she finally got off the bed.

Chen Yongliang leaned close to Chen Yongnian and asked in a low voice, "Brother, what did you do last night? Sister-in-law doesn't seem quite right."

Chen Yongnian followed the gaze and looked over there.

Wan Qiqi was slowly walking forward, supporting herself against the wall, with her other hand on her waist, her face contorted in pain.

"Climbing mountains." After saying that, he tossed the axe in his hand to Chen Yongliang and walked towards Wan Qiqi.

"Huh? Hiking? At night?" Chen Yongliang asked, puzzled.

After hesitating for a long time, I finally understood that my older brother was referring to going up the mountain to cut timber yesterday.

Immediately afterwards, he heard painful screams coming from his second brother's room.

"Oh dear, my legs... my arms... my wife, I feel like I'm going to be useless..."

Chen Yongliang couldn't help but shake his head.

Sure enough, I'm the most reliable one. If it were me going, I definitely wouldn't have done what my second brother did!

However, one should not speak too definitively, or one may easily be proven wrong.

Because Chen Yongxing and Wan Qiqi were in pain all over, Chen Yongliang and Chen Yongnian went up the mountain instead.

The next day, Chen Yongliang lay in bed, unwilling to move.

Looking at his older brother, who was jumping around in front of him and massaging his sister-in-law's shoulders, he thought that his older brother was really amazing!

Wan Qiqi also admired Chen Yongnian, and even after visiting him for two days, he remained as normal as ever.

But she also felt sorry for Chen Yongnian, as he was the eldest son in the family and bore a lot of pressure.

With no male elders in the family, Chen Yongnian was the head of the household. He had to take care of the family's food, clothing, shelter, and transportation. He not only had to support his mother, but also his younger brother, sister-in-law, and two children.

Wan Qiqi found it hard to imagine how he could tolerate the original owner's behavior back then, and even risk his life to save him after he fell into the water.

If we really need to make a reasonable explanation for this, it should be that Chen Yongnian loves his wife very much!

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel jealous again, because Chen Yongnian's kindness to her stemmed from his love for the original owner of this body!

But so what? She is Wan Qiqi now, and she doesn't plan to fall in love in this era; she just wants to make money.

On the third day, Chen Yongnian and Chen Yongxing went to cut timber, Chen Yongliang stayed at home, and Wan Qiqi was thinking about ways to make money.

She took Chen Yongliang to cut two bamboo stalks, and the two of them dragged them all the way to Yang Mu's house.

When Yang Mu saw the two of them and the bamboo, he was stunned for a long time before asking, "Qiqi, what's going on?"

Wan Qiqi didn't know what to do with her hands, so she finally raised them and asked Yang Mu where there was water. After washing her hands, she said, "Uncle Yang, I would like to ask you to make a few bamboo cups for me."

Looking at the pile of timber in the yard and the half-finished wooden barrel next to the chair, she said, "Or you could lend me a saw, and I can do it myself."

"You do it yourself?" Yang Mu asked curiously, handing the saw to Wan Qiqi and giving her room to work.

"..." Wan Qiqi didn't expect that Yang Mu would take her seriously when she was just joking.

If she really knew how to use a saw, why didn't she just come and borrow one?

We also need to bring bamboo!

She suddenly realized that she had dug a hole for herself, but since she had already said it, she couldn't take it back, so she and Chen Yongliang got busy.

Chen Yongliang, supporting the bamboo, couldn't help but ask, "Sister-in-law, are you really going to do it yourself?"

He was afraid that his sister-in-law might accidentally hurt him, and then he would be punished by his older brother!

"Or you can take over?" Wan Qiqi looked like she was going to give way to Chen Yongliang, which scared Chen Yongliang so much that he shook his head.

Yang Mu sat to one side, hammering the wooden board tightly, occasionally glancing up at the two men sawing bamboo in the yard.

"Engineer Yang, you've taken on a female apprentice?" A passing villager couldn't help but stop and take a look.

Yang Mu smiled faintly, "No, they came to pick up the tools."

The man peered around at the door for a long time. “This person looks familiar. She looks like the eldest daughter-in-law of the Chen family.”

Wan Qiqi spent half a day unable to saw a single cut, only leaving a few marks on the bamboo, while her back was soaked with sweat.

She stopped what she was doing when she heard people talking about her.

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