Sun Tiantian and Jiang Manyue worked in the same field and returned to the educated youth settlement together after get off work. On the way, they met Luo Jingyan and Ning Peipei.
The farmland where Sun Tiantian used to work was not far from Zhuang Feifei's, and Sun Tiantian noticed it when Zhuang Feifei left.
"Zhuang Zhiqing, where have you been? I heard from the squad leader that you had a stomachache. Did you go to see a doctor?"
Zhuang Feifei forced a smile and rubbed her stomach with one hand. "Yeah, I don't know what happened. My stomach suddenly started hurting. I just came back from the village clinic."
Jiang Manyue frowned in confusion and ruthlessly exposed her lie.
"Really? Zhuang Zhiqing, you really went to the village clinic. I saw the village doctor working in the fields the whole time, and he even came home with us. Who did you see for your illness? As far as I know, there's only one village doctor in our brigade, right?"
Zhuang Feifei was surprised that Jiang Manyue, the one who was up to no good, would expose her. Was this person's brain filled with shit? Even if she was lying, what did it have to do with Jiang Manyue? Why did she have to expose her?
She suppressed her anger towards Jiang Manyue and pretended to be calm. "Actually, it's like this. I had a stomachache, but it suddenly stopped after I came back from the fields. It really came and went quickly. I wanted to go back to the fields to work, but I felt unwell again before I even got there. I rested for a while on the way, and I was afraid that I would feel unwell again, so I didn't plan to go back to the fields. Anyway, the village doctor is busy, so I didn't want to bother him. I thought that if I rested more, I would recover."
She gritted her teeth inwardly. Living with these people was too uncomfortable. She had to explain herself to them at the slightest provocation and move out as soon as possible. It was too much trouble to keep explaining herself.
Jiang Manyue and Sun Tiantian didn't say anything more. Zhuang Feifei had her own reasons. They could exchange a few words with the other party, but there was no need to delve into what the other party had done.
Luo Jingyan and Ning Peipei remained silent as the group entered the educated youth compound together.
The following days were still busy with farming. The commune members and educated youth were all working in the fields. Zhuang Feifei was worried about handling the supplies, but unfortunately she couldn't find a suitable reason to ask the team leader for leave. It wasn't until the spring plowing was over and the commune members and educated youth had a chance to rest that she was able to have some free time.
Eighty percent of the village's farmland was cultivated by Luo Jingyan driving a tractor, while the old ox only cultivated twenty percent.
After the farming was completed, the villagers who were initially unconvinced by Luo Jingyan, or those who were verbally convincing but harbored prejudices, were completely won over by Luo Jingyan's skills and began to look at her with new respect.
Both the tractor drivers of the Forward Brigade and the Peach Blossom Brigade had broken their tractors during farming, delaying the progress of the work. However, the tractors of the Victory Brigade had always been able to be used normally, which must be attributed to Luo Jingyan's good driving skills.
They couldn't help but admire a girl from the city who was more capable than the local strong men.
After the spring plowing was completed, the Shengli Brigade was praised by the commune leaders for the high progress and quality of its farming work. The brigade was awarded the title of Advanced Farming Brigade, and Luo Jingyan was awarded the title of Excellent Tractor Driver. She was also awarded a certificate written by the commune director himself.
With the busy farming season over, Luo Jingyan is now ready to start building her house.
The foundation laid more than a month ago has dried out completely, and it's ready to be used to build a house.
She went to check on the two mud brick makers she had originally hired, and found that the mud bricks were completely dry and ready to be used at any time.
The bricklayers for building the house are readily available; they're the same people we found last time.
However, the commune members were all very tired after finishing spring planting. While they were resting, Luo Jingyan went to their homes to contact people and inform them in advance. She told them that they could start work whenever they were ready and rested. She wanted to give them advance notice and get them ready so that there wouldn't be any personnel changes when they started work later.
The bricklayers were all hardworking, efficient, and family-oriented men. When they heard there was work that could earn them money, they didn't even want to take a break. They gathered together and decided to take only one day off to build a house for Luo Jingyan and earn extra money to supplement their family income.
Although Luo Jingyan was going to build an adobe house, the foundation had to be paved with bricks to ensure the house's stability.
Because the foundation of a house must not only withstand pressure, but also withstand water damage and moisture when the ground is wet or during heavy rain, the foundation cannot be made of adobe bricks, but only bricks or stones.
Breaking stones was a bit troublesome, so Luo Jingyan decided to use bricks instead, since bricks were readily available in her space and much easier to make than stones. In addition, the roof needed to be tiled, but that was fine; she had tiles too, all of which she had "exchanged" from Zhuang Feifei using adobe bricks last time.
These bricks and tiles cannot be taken directly from the space; they need to be taken through an open path first.
She went to the brigade leader to get a receipt for buying bricks and tiles, and rented the village's tractor from him. Because the tractor was collective property and could not be used for free, even the brigade leader could not waive the rental fee for her. So, she had to pay one yuan for the rental fee and one yuan for the fuel. This expense had to be recorded in the brigade's accounts by the accountant.
Luo Jingyan gave the money to the brigade leader, who gave her a receipt. She took the receipt, drove the tractor, and headed to the brick kiln in the county town.
But she didn't intend to go to the brick kiln. She was just going through the motions. After she reached a more secluded section of the road, when no one was around, she moved all the bricks and tiles out of the space and put them in the truck bed. Then she turned around and went back to the village.
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