Chapter 15: After a rain, the yard can be used for farming
Towards evening, the heavy rain that had not come at noon finally came.
It rained heavily and lasted for a full hour.
Cheng Shuyi was trapped in the shop.
Since she couldn't do outdoor work, she worked with the workers to lay bamboo pipes in the shop.
After school was over, the two kids ran to the shop to find her, walking on the muddy alley after the rain.
"Shuyi, we're out of school."
"Shuyi Shuyi, everyone loves the jelly you make. It's amazing!"
The brother and sister pinned their robes to their belts and rolled up their trouser legs to their knees.
My clothes weren't wet, but my shoes were.
Before rushing into the shop, the two younger ones took off their shoes outside and walked in barefoot.
Seeing this, Cheng Shuyi hurriedly pulled the two children out.
"There are broken bamboo pieces inside, be careful not to cut your feet."
She let the two children sit on the doorstep and said apologetically, "I'm going to be busy for a while. Can you guys just play here by yourselves?"
Because the bamboo is directly fixed and laid along the wall, there is no need to dig the wall.
So the pipeline was laid very quickly.
It should be finished in another half an hour.
Cheng Shuyi wanted to lay all the pipes in the store in one go.
"good."
The two kids picked up a few bamboo sticks from the ground, and sat on one side of the shop door to play as door gods.
It was already dinner time, and Changsheng Street was full of people going home for dinner.
After sunset, most of the shops on the street close.
Cheng Shuyi also finished her work. After dismissing the workers, she locked the shop and went home with her two children.
As soon as the door of the house was opened, I saw the muddy yard after the rain.
Cheng Shuyi felt like the sky was falling.
It hadn't rained since they moved in, so she didn't think there was anything wrong with the yellow mud ground.
Today's rain exposed the flaws of the yellow mud ground.
When it rains again, we can use this yard to farm directly!
Just now, Cheng Shuyi felt something was wrong while walking in the alley.
The alley was paved with bluestone slabs, so it was understandable that the soles of the two children's shoes were covered with mud, but the uppers of their shoes were also covered with mud.
The shoes were completely covered with mud.
The reason turned out to be in his own yard.
Cheng Shuyi retreated to the outside of the door. There was a drain next to the stone steps at the door, which was specifically used to drain the water in the yard.
The rainwater drains outside and flows along the shallow ditch beside the wall into the moat.
But the hole in their house is blocked!
The owner of the pawnshop said that the house had been vacant for more than two years, and no one took care of the yard, so naturally there was only a pile of yellow mud left.
Now it seems that there are problems not only with the yard, but also with many other issues.
Cheng Shuyi went back to the kitchen, found a fire poker, and cleared the hole that was blocked.
But the rainwater had already seeped into the ground, soaking the yellow mud, and only a little water flowed out.
Cheng Shuyi looked at the muddy yard and realized it was too late today.
Tomorrow she will get some bluestone slabs to pave the ground, and then go back to the modern era to buy some turf.
Let’s transform it slowly.
Cheng Shuyi worked day and night.
He is busy with shop business during the day and flashes back to the present at night, setting up a table in the warehouse to select and place orders online.
After a few days of this, her body began to protest.
The shop is basically completed, with pipes, shelves, accounting office and cargo workers all in place.
Even the restroom in the backyard is ready.
Now, everything is ready.
All Cheng Shuyi needs to do is move the goods he bought in modern times from the modern warehouse to the ancient shop and put them on the shelves, and then he can open the store.
Cheng Shuyi plans to move the goods to Gudai, the backyard of her shop, tonight.
So she put her two children to sleep early.
As soon as the child fell asleep, she went out to the shop.
But before she reached the entrance of the alley, her illness suddenly came back, and the pain was so severe that her whole body was covered in cold sweats.
Cheng Shuyi was unable to move and fell down while leaning against the wall.
She huddled against the alley wall, holding her stomach. The severe abdominal pain made it impossible for her to even breathe.
Not to mention getting up and going to the store.
It's late at night and everyone is asleep.
The night market vendors on Changsheng Street have all packed up and gone home, and the night watchman has just passed by.
Cheng Shuyi lay quietly on the ground, feeling powerless all over.
She had taken the medicine from the space, swallowed it, slowly adjusted her breathing, and waited for the abdominal pain to pass.
It had worked for her before.
But this time, it was the consequence of her madly abusing her body.
Cheng Shuyi couldn't bear it and fainted from the pain.
When she opened her eyes again, she was already lying on her bed.
Sitting by the bed were her two children, and standing there was a woman whom she had only met in the alley.
When the woman saw her wake up, her worried expression immediately disappeared.
"She's awake, she's awake." The woman turned around and said to the door, "Sir, Madam Pei is awake."
The voices responding from outside the door were those of a strange father and son.
"It's good that he's awake." The person who spoke was calm and serious. "Madam, you stay and take care of Madam Pei. I'll take Chang'er back first."
A child outside the door called out, "As expected, as promised. Brother is leaving first. See you at the academy tomorrow."
The two kids responded at the same time: "Thank you, Brother Huaichang."
It turned out to be the Shen family, the second house at the entrance of the alley opposite theirs, next to the backyard of her shop.
The woman in front of him was Shen Huaichang's mother.
Cheng Shuyi tried to stand up, but was pushed back by Shen Zhoushi.
"Sister, you should lie down and rest." Shen Zhou said, "You scared the two children."
When she and her husband helped the person back, the two children were so scared that they started crying.
Chang'er just coaxed the two children outside for a long time before they stopped crying.
Cheng Shuyi no longer felt any pain, but just a little weak.
She glanced at the child before turning her gaze to Shen Zhoushi, "Madam Shen, were you the one who helped me back?"
It’s so late, the people around here are already fast asleep.
Why are the Shen family still out so late?
Shen Zhou was so hot that she was busy fanning the mother and her two children with one hand and wiping her own sweat with a handkerchief with the other.
"What a coincidence! My husband has something to do at the Ministry of Revenue tonight and hasn't come back yet."
"It was hot, and I couldn't sleep, so I said I was going out to wait for my husband, but then I saw you lying on the ground."
"I just asked a doctor to see you. He said you fell ill because you didn't eat enough and didn't get enough sleep."
Shen Zhou was only about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. She loved talking to people, but her voice was extremely soft.
She has a very classical look, looks young and pretty.
She is the kind of person that both men and women would feel protective of.
Listening to her talk, even if she is nagging, I never feel annoyed.
Cheng Shuyi listened quietly to her and said, "Mrs. Shen, thank you for sending me back. I will give you the silver you spent on the doctor."
Shen Zhou waved her hand, "No, no, it's just a few dollars."
"Our Chang'er has eaten a lot of your food. He brought back some fruits for me to try, and they were so delicious."
It's hot these days, so Cheng Shuyi would freeze a few watermelons in a water tank from time to time.
While she was busy in the shop, her two children would bring their classmates to play at home.
She would buy a lot of watermelons, strawberries, peaches and other things and put them in the space.
I take out a little every day for the two children to eat.
Naturally, the children in the neighborhood can also get some.
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