Chapter Forty-Eight Changes
After that, An Songlin and the other two didn't even have time to enter the house.
An Songyu then led him on a tour of their newly added chicken coop and goose shed.
They even got to experience their own newly drilled hand pump well.
Watching the clear water flowing out, they felt a refreshing coolness as it washed their hands.
An Songlin couldn't help but say regretfully, "If only we had known this place was so suitable for digging a well, we wouldn't have waited until now!"
Having just been instructed by her younger sister to lower her head and remove the chicken feather from her head, An Songyu couldn't help but nod in agreement.
She lived in the village and knew the difference between well water and tap water.
It's a pity that, apart from the old well that has always been there, there's nothing else in the village.
I haven't had the habit of drilling wells for many years.
This time, I don't know where my uncle and grandfather found the well-drilling master.
In less than a week, each family had finished digging a well.
As An Songyu was thinking, she saw An Songxiang pick up the water pipe that had fallen to the ground.
She turned to look at her sister and asked, "Sis, what kind of water pipe is this?"
"Those are the water pipes used to water these trees and clean the chicken coop."
"Huh, will it work? Where do I open it?" An Songxiang became even more interested.
She felt that this trip back to the village seemed to allow her to see more changes in the village.
"Turn it on from here!" An Songyu turned on the water pipe with An Songxiang, and added, "But I already watered the tree this morning."
"Now we need to clean up the chicken coop!"
"It's okay! Sis, can you teach me how to do it?"
"Did our family dig a lot of wells?" An Songlin asked An Songyu thoughtfully, shaking the water off his hands.
An Songyu shook her head: "This is the only thing we eat in our family."
Drilling a well is not an easy task.
Moreover, it's really not appropriate to blindly bet too much when you don't know if you can get compensation.
An Songlin secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Their family owns three plots of land here, so it's reasonable to only make an offer for one plot.
“And these chickens and ducks…” An Songlin looked at the two chicken coops that comprised the three plots of land.
There are two types of chickens raised: the common free-range chicken and the famous black-boned chicken.
“Someone in the village is familiar with the chicken farm, so they just brought back two truckloads for everyone to share.” An Songyu was speechless when he talked about this.
What's even more absurd is that before the chickens were even distributed, everyone had already built their own chicken coops.
So even the later truckload of chickens wasn't enough to go around.
The man then went and brought back another whole truckload.
This is also why An Songyu's family has two different breeds of chickens.
After the group had looked at the situation here, An Songyu led them to the old house.
Apart from the houses, which are no different from those here.
That group of five or six large white geese, leisurely wandering around, was particularly eye-catching.
“The old house here is not as well-organized as ours, so Grandpa and the others simply had the well-drilling team bring over a dozen geese, which our family and Fourth Uncle’s family each raise separately.”
An Songyu continued to explain the situation to her family.
Next, under An Songyu's guidance, his family traveled to almost the entire village.
Overall, none of them were idle.
Those who follow the rules a little better, like their family, have added some poultry and chicken coops.
Or they might pour cement over all the unpaved areas in the yard that weren't originally paved.
At most, they would simply replace the makeshift chicken coops and duck sheds with bricks and tiles, making them neat and tidy.
As for those who break the rules, they do a lot of things.
An Jianping looked up at one of the Jiang family's households, where tiles were being laid on a house that had been partitioned off in the courtyard.
I couldn't help but say to my family, "I wonder when this demolition will officially begin."
"Soon!" An Songyu secretly calculated the time and answered affirmatively.
After saying that, she looked at her parents and said, "Dad, Mom, why don't you talk to Grandpa and the others later?"
"What are you talking about?" An Jianping turned around and asked.
“Several of our families have already drilled wells.” An Songyu pointed to An Jianguo’s agritainment business not far away:
“Like my uncle’s family and my grandfather’s family, they originally had wells.”
"We also drilled new wells in the orchards and agritainment areas."
"Now it seems they're planning to take a few more shots."
"But Dad, our Jiangcun village has the least water shortage!"
After all, those mulberry-dike-fishpond systems developed over the years have been neglected for many years.
It's perfectly adequate to pump some water to irrigate the orchard or something.
Furthermore, An Songyu was quite certain that the demolition team's arrival in the village was likely imminent.
Otherwise, how could Jiangcun have completed the demolition compensation before National Day?
An Jianping turned to look at his daughter.
Looking at her slightly pursed lips, I could see a very obvious worry in her eyes.
He thought for a moment before saying, "I'll tell your grandfather and uncles at noon today."
"Tell them that whatever they've been assigned, they should ideally finish it within these two days."
"If you can avoid starting work by Monday, then don't."
An Songyu was slightly taken aback and subconsciously looked at her father.
Could it be that her father really has a way of finding out the information?
An Songyu's overly straightforward reaction made An Jianping raise his eyebrows again.
He also wondered why Xiaoyu was so certain about the demolition issue back then.
It seems that the information she knows is not just what it appears to be.
So... what my daughter is worried about now is whether the demolition team will catch them red-handed with all the commotion they're causing in their village.
Then the demolition team will have a way to directly deny these later-built structures?
With that thought in mind, An Jianping decided that what he was looking for today was not just his parents!
After lunch, An Jianping called his brothers, parents, and two sisters who had come over that day to discuss important matters.
As for An Songyu and other younger generations...
Let alone her daughter who has only graduated less than six months ago.
Even An Songlin's son, who had already started working and was married, didn't have the opportunity to participate.
An Songyu didn't care.
Together with his older brother, sister-in-law, and younger sister, he visited their silkworm house and orchard.
This time, the orchard they visited was not the one they had contracted earlier this year.
Instead, it refers to the orchards that were recently contracted, which together cover a total of 800 acres.
This 800-acre orchard is not entirely contiguous.
Instead, it was divided into several areas based on the type of fruit.
Coincidentally, when An Jianping signed the contract, he had his children divide the land among themselves and then signed another 200 mu.
These orchards have already undergone initial preparation this month.
Currently, many fruits are ripening.
These days, An Songyu hardly has to worry about anything at home.
And the silkworm rearing room is not at its busiest time.
So An Songyu simply called the workers to the orchard and picked all the ripe fruit that could be picked.
Even so, it would be appropriate to bring three more people along to search for treasure.
"This vineyard is huge!" Xuan Ying looked up at the purple grapes hanging from the vines and exclaimed in amazement.
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