Chapter 465 Reference
"village head!"
Uncle Jiu shouted while standing in the middle of the open space where the weeds had been cleared.
Qin Yao came back to her senses, laughed at herself, and took the simple blueprint she had drawn to Uncle Jiu. Together, the two of them decided on the general construction direction of the new school.
But when it comes to more detailed matters, such as the layout of the school, Uncle Jiu is also at a loss.
"How about I go to the Ding family school to learn from them?" Qin Yao asked tentatively.
Uncle Jiu was waiting for her to say this, and said with a smile: "I'll watch over here, you just go and copy the drawings you learned from the Ding family."
"What do you mean by copying? That's not called copying, that's called borrowing!" Qin Yao corrected seriously.
Uncle Jiu didn’t know the difference between the two. She could call it whatever she wanted. All he needed was the blueprint.
Qin Yao asked Liu Zhong to purchase the building materials, and she also bought the building materials for her family's new house at the same time. She could save some money by buying more materials.
Now Uncle Jiu is leading the idle people in the village to lay the foundation. The children in the village who can hold a hoe also come to help actively, just to get the medal that Qin Yao promised them before.
The villagers had never seen their children so obedient and sensible. They all said that this school had made a real difference and that the children in the village had become more obedient.
There was no strenuous work for Qin Yao to do here right now. She looked at the sun and saw that it was just past noon. She would set off for Dingjiazhuang now and pick up the children in the evening.
Having made up his mind, Qin Yao instructed Uncle Jiu and the others to open up the wasteland according to the plan on his drawings and then withdraw.
This morning, when Old Man Liu saw that the ground had been broken at the school and the work in the fields had been mostly completed, he called his cousins to Qin Yao's house to check out the fields.
I am currently measuring behind the house to see where to build the new house.
This job was quite demanding. The elders borrowed a magic plate from the clan leader and walked back and forth in the open space behind the house, deciding on a position after a while. It took them a whole morning to finally decide on the direction of the house.
Qin Yao just came back, so Old Man Liu asked his brothers to go home and rest first, and he stayed behind to take Qin Yao to take a look.
"When the time comes, tear down the wall behind the third brother's study, move it outward, and enclose the vegetable garden, martial arts field, and newly built house in the backyard. What do you think?"
Old Man Liu gestured with the Dharma plate while explaining, "Look at the spoon handle on this plate, it's facing the top of the mountain. Your uncle and I have all checked it out. The courtyard wall must be moved outward. There is still a wall separating the family, so we can't take advantage of the power of the mountain behind and gather luck."
Qin Yao didn't quite understand what was said, but she had eyes to see.
If the house is renovated as Old Man Liu and his cousins suggested, the entire front and back yards can be connected, the martial arts field and vegetable garden can be included in the courtyard wall, and the people living inside will have a wider range of activities.
The newly built house will connect the entire east side of the yard into one surface. Looking down from the sky, the layout of the house will change from the current "sun" shape to an "eye" shape.
The northwest side of the martial arts field will also become more spacious, and if more houses are built later, the overall layout will become symmetrical.
Old Man Liu smiled and asked, "How is it?"
Qin Yao gave a thumbs up, "Very good, Dad, you guys are awesome!"
Old Man Liu laughed out loud. He knew that she would be satisfied.
After laughing, Old Man Liu and Qin Yao came to the main hall to rest. Seeing the compacted mud on the ground, he suggested, "Mother Yao, if you are not short of money, why don't you also tamp the ground this time?"
And if you are going to repair it, do it all at once, to avoid having new pieces here and old pieces there, which would be wasted if heavy rain brought mud into the house.
Qin Yao was in a hurry to go out, so Awang asked her to go out. Li didn't know how to handle livestock, so she could only lead the horse and harness the cart herself.
Standing at the door, he responded to Old Man Liu in the house: "Dad, just do the best you can. Money is not a problem!"
"I have to go to town for something. Do you want to take anything with you? I'll bring it back for you." Qin Yao asked.
Old man Liu waved his hand and said, "I don't have anything to bring. Go and do your business. Since you said you have enough money, I have to think about it carefully."
As he was talking, he fell silent. Qin Yao turned her head and looked into the yard. Okay, he was squatting in the yard again.
Hard-working people can't even sit still.
After instructing Li to take good care of Old Man Liu, Qin Yao jumped onto the carriage, shook the reins, and set off!
When they reached the river, Awang, who was sent by Qin Yao to deliver medicine to Yin Le, came back.
"Where are you going, ma'am?" Awang asked puzzledly.
Qin Yao waved her hand to signal him to move aside and not block the way, and said, "You don't have to pick up the children this afternoon. I'll go to Dingjiazhuang and pick them up."
Awang nodded, looked at the carriage passing by quickly, and said in a louder voice:
"Yin Le asked me to tell you that she has learned 220 words."
Qin Yao, who was holding the reins and preparing to accelerate at full speed, felt a pang in her heart, causing Lao Huang to be unable to lift the horse's hoof, and he snorted twice in annoyance.
Qin Yao shouted: "Go!"
Old Huang shouted excitedly and immediately ran away happily.
Qin Yao followed the ups and downs of the carriage, her heart pounding. You learn so quickly, Yin Le, are you trying to kill yourself?
If I continue at this pace, it won’t take long to learn a thousand words.
Qin Yao felt a great sense of urgency, as she had little time left to think.
So, thinking about the next "difficulty" all the way, he drove at full speed and arrived at Dingjiazhuang in just half an hour.
“Ouch!!!”
Qin Yao stopped the horse, which was still highly excited, and it made a beautiful spin and drift, and stopped in front of the gate of Ding Family School.
The dust was flying, turning this small world into a chaotic color.
Qin Yao inhaled a mouthful of dust unexpectedly, choking her and causing her tears to stream down her cheeks. How careless!
After a while, Qin Yao recovered and jumped off the carriage. She patted Lao Huang's horse's head and said, "You stay here obediently. I'll go to the side for a walk."
Qin Yao tied the horse to a big tree by the roadside, put her hands behind her back, and walked slowly around the Ding Family School.
There were bursts of reading sounds coming from the school, as well as the angry scolding of some teacher who was angry with his students.
Qin Yao stood on tiptoe and took a look at the plum blossom window high on the wall. She saw the stupid student sobbing because of being scolded, and she also memorized the layout of the school.
She took out the small notebook and charcoal sticks she carried with her, mobilized all her artistic cells, and began to copy on the paper.
The Ding clan school is a large courtyard with two entrances. There are eight houses in total, including spacious brick and tile classrooms, as well as halls that are open on all sides and are bright and cool.
All year round, spring, summer, autumn and winter, students have somewhere to go.
Qin Yao looked on with envy and finished drawing a rough layout sketch in a short while.
Now that her mission has been completed, all that remains is Uncle Jiu's business.
Qin Yao was about to breathe a sigh of relief when a sharp question suddenly sounded from behind her.
"Who is sneaking around outside the school?"
(End of this chapter)
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