By mid-October, the guests had moved out and construction of Qin Yao's new study had finally begun.
Liu Ji had already decided on the materials, and the mute was responsible for the work. He called five or six people, and as soon as the firecrackers were set off, the first hoe was used to dig, and the construction began.
This time, not only Qin Yao's family was building a house, most of the people in the village were repairing their houses, planning to reinforce all the houses before the first snow came.
The reason why we can do this is that everyone has money now.
Most of the workers in the village come to work in the stationery factory as a family of two or three. If they are a couple, they have been working since the stationery factory started recruiting large numbers of workers, a full five months, and each person earns more than 300 Wen, so for a couple, that's 600 Wen.
A total of three taels of silver in five months is enough to simply reinforce and repair the house.
This is just an ordinary job. For small managers like Yunniang and Shunzi, the bonus paid in September will cost more.
However, there was no consensus on the collective housing construction at the beginning. It was when Liu Ji was attending a literacy class that he suddenly thought that collective purchase of building materials might save a lot of money.
So, in order to deduct a little from the tight budget given by Qin Yao to enrich himself, he used his eloquence and united the twelve households in the village, and decided to purchase bricks, tiles and timber together.
The villagers all like to follow the trend, and this year everyone has indeed made money from the stationery factory. When they heard that Liu Ji and his group had negotiated a super low price with the proprietress of a tile seller in Xiahe Village, Old Man Liu made the decision to renovate the old house.
With the participation of village elders like Old Man Liu, Carpenter Liu could no longer sit still.
These days, he found that many strange carriages came to the village entrance. The people who got off the carriages were wearing silk shirts and cotton cloth. They came to the village and asked around for news about the great scholar.
Some people went directly to the Lotus Temple to pay a visit, but unfortunately there was a sign saying "no visitors" and they had to return home disappointed.
But the next day, these people came again, either waiting near the Lotus Courtyard or asking for information at the village well, hoping to try their luck and see if they could meet the great scholar who was out for a walk.
Unfortunately, the weather is getting colder day by day. The great scholar is at home, burning a charcoal basin, drinking warm wine and playing chess. How could he go out?
Over time, the villagers became familiar with these people.
It was cold and people couldn't stay outside, so Granny Wang's family was the first to open the gate, boiled some hot water and invited the readers who came here to rest inside.
At the beginning, Granny Wang just kindly prepared hot water for these young people to drink, free of charge.
Later, those young men felt embarrassed and would leave the coins on the table every time they left.
The money these people gave for water varied in amount. Those who were wealthy found it quite interesting to sit in the farmyard and would put down a few coins of silver.
Those who were poor would buy seven or eight eggs from the host family as a way of repaying Granny Wang’s kindness.
After a few visits, somehow, the young men who had been waiting for the great scholar all tacitly went to Granny Wang's house. Three or five people gathered around a table, and regardless of their social status, they boiled hot water, roasted charcoal, and chatted and laughed, which was a unique and wild experience.
When Carpenter Liu saw this, alarm bells rang in his heart and he finally understood what Qin Yao had said to him at that time.
Without hesitation, he spent two taels of silver and bought the abandoned house under his sunflower field.
Just as the whole village was starting construction, he did not want to be outdone and joined Liu Ji's purchasing team.
As the quantity was large, the price of the materials was indeed lowered, and Liu Ji happily deducted five hundred coins and put them in his pocket.
It was a pity that he could have gotten another 100 or 200 coins from the contractors like the mute, but it was all Awang's fault. He dug up all the land and replanted it. Now he was so tired that he could only lie on the bed and watch Qin Yao's busy figure.
Qin Yao was not in a good mood. Liu Ji was supposed to be the supervisor, but now it was her turn. She was in a very bad mood.
Liu Ji saw Qin Yao walking past the window and smiled innocently, "My dear, thank you for your hard work."
Qin Yao: "I'm not suffering, my life is miserable!"
Seeing that he could still laugh, Qin Yao, who had already walked past the window, stepped back and looked him up and down suspiciously.
The gaze was too intense, Liu Ji was so embarrassed that he pulled up the quilt to cover his neck, leaving only his face exposed. "Madam, what are you looking at~"
"You don't look like you can't move. You can still talk a lot, right?"
Qin Yao suddenly strode into the room. Liu Ji swallowed hard and glanced at the open doors and windows in panic, "Madam, the door is not closed yet, isn't this inappropriate?"
Qin Yao pulled aside the quilt on him and just as she stretched out her hand, Liu Ji took the initiative to push his body forward. Qin Yao thought that this was too exciting and slapped him on the chest.
Liu Ji was caught off guard and let out a scream, "Ah!" He fell onto the thick bedding, his hands loosely supporting his chest.
The strained muscle was suddenly hit by external force, and a sour feeling that made him unable to control tears penetrated into his bones. The tall and strong man instantly burst into tears and kept gasping for breath.
This way, it doesn't look like it's fake.
The culprit, Qin Yao, coughed twice to cover up his guilty conscience and said seriously:
"I think your injury is pretty serious. How about asking Awang to get a doctor to come back and take a look at you?"
The romantic feeling in Liu Ji's heart had long been crushed by this bitterness that was unbearable for ordinary people. He fell on the bed and cried, ignoring her suggestion.
It was a rare opportunity for him to catch the vicious woman apologizing, so he didn't want to let her off so easily.
Liu Ji screamed more and more miserably, and the busy workers in the backyard, such as the mute, couldn't help but run over to see if something had happened.
Being looked at with concern by so many people, Qin Yao kicked the bed leg awkwardly, reminding Liu Ji to restrain himself and that was enough!
He turned around and explained to the mute and the others: "It's okay, he's having a seizure, you guys continue with your work, it won't be a problem."
The mute looked at Liu Ji, who was rolling around on the bed with the quilt in his arms, sweat all over his head and tears in his eyes, and gestured worriedly to ask: Are you really okay?
Qin Yao smiled and nodded, and then the mute and the others left hesitantly.
As soon as everyone left, Liu Ji started to cry out in pain again. Could Qin Yao still tolerate him?
Playing with her fingers, she said faintly, "Strange, why do my hands feel so itchy that I can't stand it?"
Before she finished her words, the person on the bed shut his mouth sensibly, opened his pair of tearful peach blossom eyes, bit the corner of the quilt, and looked at her weakly and innocently.
Qin Yao's eyes darkened, and she stared at him for five full seconds before she looked away with a sense of unfulfilled desire, looking at the quilt covering him, and said with disdain:
"You are too thin. You should practice with Dalang from now on."
She had already thought of the reasons for him, "It's not easy to endure the examination room. The longer you stay, the longer you will have to stay. You can't stay in such a small room for three or five days with your current physique."
After she finished speaking, her dark gaze fell on his face again. Liu Ji's heart instantly rose to his throat, fearing that she would slap him again and send him to see the King of Hell.
But her gaze only lingered on him for a moment before she turned and left the room. (End of this chapter)
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