Chapter 109 The villagers come again
"I don't know about that. I don't understand these things very well. Besides, I'm taking care of two patients here and can't take care of so many things." Gu Xiaoxi evaded the question, "It's okay. I'll ask Gu An later. He should know." The villagers were obviously not giving up.
At this time, Gu Feng was planning to come over to get some water to drink, but when he heard them talking, he quietly slipped out to find his little grandfather.
Gu An knew he couldn't escape, so he simply went over to deal with them.
Seeing Gu An coming, the villagers gathered around him.
"Brother An, how's the construction going over there?"
"Uncle An, do you need help?"
"Yeah, do you need any help?"
Gu An smiled slightly and said, "Thank you for your concern. They brought over a dozen people with them, all of whom brought their own rations. The manpower is sufficient for the time being."
When everyone heard Gu An say this, disappointment was written all over their faces.
Few people in the village are willing to build houses now, and most of them just do some repairs. It is not easy for villagers to find a place to eat.
Gu An was also helpless, but he could see that these people would not give up until they could get a free meal.
Then, he came up with an idea and said to Xiaoxi, "Xiaoxi, it seems that we don't have enough wood. Why don't we ask them to help chop wood for the whole morning?"
"Okay, with so many people, we can finish the morning. But, we only have so many people, we can't add any more.
Now the chestnuts on the mountain are gone, and we don't have much money. We still need to buy tiles later. We can't build a house and then go back to being hungry like before." Gu Xiaoxi pretended to be poor.
"I understand, I understand!" Gu An nodded in understanding, registered these people, and then sent them away.
After Gu Xiaoxi sent them away, she continued to go to the kitchen to boil medicine.
Why……
Gu Yuntian looked at the ugly way these people ate and couldn't help shaking his head: "Fortunately, no one from our family came, otherwise it would be really embarrassing!"
"Don't worry, big brother, they won't do such a stupid thing." Gu Yunhai believed that even if young people wanted to come, they would be persuaded by their uncle.
Gu Yuntian asked, "Brother, how do you feel about your legs and feet?"
"It doesn't hurt as much as before. Xiaoxi said it will take at least half a month before I can get out of bed. But even if I get out of bed, I can't use force on this leg." Gu Yunhai answered his brother's question.
He knew that his brother actually wanted them to go home and live so as not to delay Xiaoxi here.
But he likes living here. He can hear the voices of several children talking every day. Occasionally, the children will come in and talk to him, which makes him feel much better.
Gu Xiaoxi went to the yard to get something, and heard Uncle Yuntian say this, "Uncle Yuntian, you guys stay in the yard. It won't delay our work. Let Uncle Yunhai stay here so that I can check on the situation in time.
If you have something to do, go ahead and do it. It’s not like before when there were so many people at home watching over you.”
"That won't do. Your family members are all working. I'm fine, but since you said so, we'll just stay here for a while." Gu Yuntian didn't want to cause them any more trouble.
Gu Xiaoxi smiled and said nothing more, then turned and went into the kitchen.
In the evening, when the sun was setting, several more villagers came, but were eventually sent away by Gu An.
It was almost midnight when Gu An and Gu Xiaoxi returned to their courtyard.
"If I had known, I wouldn't have agreed to let them come down. I guess someone else would come tomorrow." Gu An regretted his sympathy.
Gu Xiaoxi smiled slightly and said, "What my uncle did is right. Come on, there's a wall over there anyway, so they can't get in.
I'll go out tomorrow and see if I can find two puppies to raise."
"Yes, this place really needs to raise dogs. It's not a big deal now, but when the weather gets colder, more people will starve, and I guess the village will be in turmoil." Gu An was not worried about the present, but about the future.
Gu Xiaoxi also knew that there were many disasters this year, and some places even had no harvest. Many people in their village were quite hardworking, but they could not withstand the natural disasters.
"Don't worry, uncle, we have an underground secret room. Even if we encounter danger, we can leave from downstairs." She had also thought about this problem, so she designed an underground secret room in the new house.
However, the exit of the underground secret room has not been dug yet, and this kind of thing can only be known by family members, so she waits until the house is built before digging a secret passage leading to the mountain.
The two talked for a while and then went back to sleep.
Sure enough, just as they expected, many villagers came the next day.
Gu An was going to take people to work, and Gu He sat at the gate of the yard to send these villagers away.
At noon, Chai prepared a meal with meat for them and finally sent everyone away.
Someone came again in the afternoon, which made Gu Yuntian angry, so he went back and talked to his father.
When the old patriarch Gu heard about this, he called the heads of each family that night.
He spread the word that no one was allowed to go to Gu He's house to look for work. If Gu He needed help, he would come directly to him, and he would tell everyone.
On the third day, the situation finally calmed down, and the Gu family breathed a sigh of relief.
The next month was relatively calm.
Because Chen Qinian brought back veterans, the house was built very quickly.
A month later, the large courtyard of Gu Xiaoxi's family was built, and next was Gu An's.
Gu An thought that living alone didn't need to be so troublesome, but Gu Xiaoxi insisted on doing so, and finally decided to demolish the yard where they originally lived and rebuild it.
However, Chen Qinian's dantian disease has been cured and he is recovering.
It is hard to say how long it will take to recover. Anyway, you cannot use your internal energy during this period. In addition, you need to get an injection every three days and observe for at least two months.
However, Gu Xiaoxi also said that he could choose to stay at home and come over every three days.
Chen Qinian didn't want to go back to school so soon, so he decided to stay.
In this way, it took another half a month, and Gu He's yard was also built. Chen Qinian and Chen Shiliu moved in with Chen San, and everyone else withdrew.
Gu Yunhai felt embarrassed to stay here any longer, so he went back with his elder brother the day before moving to the new house.
The wooden house was empty, but Gu Xiaoxi didn't plan to stay because she knew that staying would become a nuisance sooner or later, so she demolished the wooden house before the workers left.
Chen Qinian asked in confusion, "Sister Xiaoxi, that wooden house is so nice, why is it being demolished?"
"The village is quite complicated, you don't understand these things." Gu Xiaoxi didn't intend to explain too much.
Seeing that Gu Xiaoxi was unwilling to talk, Chen Qinian didn't ask any more questions.
"Sister Xiaoxi, can you teach me your Kung Fu? I see that your movements are so fast when you fight, unlike the Kung Fu I have seen before." He made another request.
Gu Xiaoxi thought that this kid couldn't use his internal energy recently and was quite bored in this place.
In order to prevent the boy from causing trouble in the village, she finally agreed.
I have to teach Afeng and his brothers anyway, so it doesn’t matter if there is one more person.
"Mom, the scar on my brother's face seems to be almost healed." Gu Ruixue, who was sitting next to him, kept tilting her head and staring at her brother.
As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at Gu Feng who was sitting by the fire.
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