When the captain saw that Luo Jingyan was using bricklayers from the Qianjin Brigade, while all the bricklayers from their brigade were with Zhuang Feifei, he didn't say anything.
Zhuang Feifei seemed to realize that her extravagant spending not only failed to cultivate workers who were wholeheartedly devoted to her, but also ruined her plans.
In contrast, Luo Jingyan never spoiled her workers, but the workers on the other side were all working hard for her.
She decided that she would never give the workers apples again, nor would she give them water to drink.
Luo Jingyan took some time to drive her tractor to the county's lumber mill and bought firewood, rafters, and other timber for making roof beams, as well as long nails, screws, handles, and other materials needed to secure the timber.
Three days later, Luo Jingyan's house will have its roof beam raised. In rural areas, on the day of the roof beam raising, firecrackers are usually set off, and the bricklayers are invited to a meal.
The firecrackers can be omitted, but the hospitality cannot be skipped.
The bricklayers that Luo Jingyan found in the Qianjin Brigade were not only skilled, but also very honest and hardworking. Luo Jingyan planned to reward them well.
Meanwhile, Zhuang Feifei also completed the beam-raising ceremony.
Only by looking at the beam can you really tell the difference between the two houses. From the outside, Luo Jingyan's adobe house is naturally earth-colored, while Zhuang Feifei's is a brick house. This time, Zhuang Feifei bought red bricks and blue tiles, and the finished house is more beautiful than Luo Jingyan's.
Zhuang Feifei's house not only surpasses Luo Jingyan's house in appearance, but it is also much taller and more imposing than Luo Jingyan's house.
To win Zhuang Feifei's favor, the workers naturally praised the house. Even the other villagers envied Zhuang Feifei for having such a nice house, while they were indifferent to Luo Jingyan's house, since they mostly lived in mud-brick houses like Luo Jingyan's, and there was nothing to envy about it.
Similarly, the raising of the roof beam was carried out on an auspicious day, and Zhuang Feifei also had to treat the workers here to a meal. There were forty people in total, and just thinking about it gave her a headache.
If she were to cook, she would have neither pots and pans nor the skills to cook. Even if she had both of those, it would still be quite troublesome. Cooking for forty people at once would exhaust her. She couldn't just take out the things from her space and feed them.
She wanted to invite these people to a state-run restaurant for a meal, but she only had money and no food coupons, which presented her with a problem.
So she had no choice but to borrow the pots from the educated youth settlement to cook for them.
For this reason, she also found Chen Yuling and Meng Bin, giving each of them one yuan to help her.
Luo Jingyan only has five workers on her side, which is enough to feed those people if she cooks a little, but she can't do anything reckless.
It happened to be the factory's day off, and Qin Zhenzhen came over to cook for the workers with her.
People's living conditions are generally not good nowadays, so Luo Jingyan didn't plan to serve them anything fancy. She only used two catties of pork, along with pickled cabbage, vermicelli, and potatoes, to make a big stew. She also made multigrain pancakes, opened two cans of fruit, and gave each person an apple as dessert.
Even so, the five people were very satisfied during the meal because it was the best braised pork with sauerkraut and vermicelli they had ever eaten, and they all praised Luo Jingyan's cooking skills.
On the other hand, Zhuang Feifei took out ten catties of pork from her spatial storage and made stew, just like Luo Jingyan. She also opened five bottles of canned fruit and made multigrain pancakes.
As a male educated youth, Meng Bin did not participate in cooking at the educated youth settlement, and he himself had no cooking skills.
Chen Yuling can cook, but she knows that Zhuang Feifei is not easy to please. It is difficult to control the taste of cooking for forty people. If she does not cook well, she may not only not get paid, but also bear the responsibility. So she only helps out and does not help with cooking. The cooking work is left to Zhuang Feifei.
The forty workers brought their own bowls and chopsticks from home, and they almost vomited after taking their first bite of the stew.
Because Zhuang Feifei's dishes didn't have any other flavors, but she put too much salt in them, making them so salty they could kill you.
Damn it, did she kill the salt seller and then steal his salt cart?
They're so generous with the salt they put in the dishes!
The workers put the stew aside first. After finishing the canned fruit, they took the stew home with them, along with some whole-grain bread. The stew would have been unpalatable if it hadn't been reheated to dilute the salt.
As a result, Zhuang Feifei's house-raising banquet was met with a flood of negative reviews, and Zhuang Feifei felt that she had once again lost to Luo Jingyan.
She's clearly the female lead, so what is Luo Jingyan?
After the roof beams were installed, the house was not yet finished. We still had to nail reeds to the roof beams, lay tiles, build a kang (heated brick bed) inside, paint the interior walls, repair the courtyard wall, and build a toilet. The project was no less complex than the previous ones.
Seven days later, Luo Jingyan and Zhuang Feifei's houses were completely built, but the newly built houses were too damp and could not be lived in immediately. They needed to be aired out for a few more days. It would be better for their health to move in after the houses were completely dry.
Zhuang Feifei was busy building the house and hadn't had time to check the grain in the three caves. When she finally had some free time, she quietly went up the mountain and checked the situation in each of the three caves.
She discovered that the contents of the three caves were exactly the same as before, meaning that no one else had discovered them yet.
Therefore, she felt even more fortunate.
She added some things to each of the three caves: 200 boxes of instant noodles, rice noodles, and hot and sour noodles that she had bought in the modern world, 50 boxes of diapers for her own children, 30 cans of milk powder, 100 boxes of kitchen seasonings for each cave, and she even risked taking out 60 motorcycles, 20 of which were placed in each cave, as well as 100 television sets, 40 in one cave and 30 in each of the other two caves.
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