The next day, Lu Qiqi received the land deed stamped with the official seal, finally confirming that the Anchang Earl's Mansion was indeed in a hurry to sell that piece of land.
Lu Qiqi stood outside the government office, carefully putting away the land deed. When she looked up, she saw two faces that were grinning from ear to ear.
She said, "Third Uncle, Eldest Uncle, please work hard to finalize the manpower and construction schedule before the New Year, so that we can start building the house next spring."
Upon hearing this, Li Qingshan said, "Seventh girl, there's a lot of rain in spring, isn't it inappropriate to build a house then?"
When he was young, he would build wooden houses for people, mostly avoiding the rainy season, because wood is afraid of water. If the house gets moldy and rotten, it will collapse after a short time. Not only will the owner suffer heavy losses, but the carpenters might also face lawsuits.
Lu Qiqi explained, "Brick houses are different from wooden houses, although it is best to build them in the second half of the year."
But building so many houses is not something that can be done overnight.
First, we'll find someone to fire the bricks, then we'll find someone to lay the foundation.
Let's take it one step at a time, and aim to move in within two years.
The last sentence instantly gave people boundless motivation.
Li Qingshan had some knowledge of the structure and construction of houses, so Lu Dahai always followed behind him to help.
After the two left, Lu Qiqi went back to the veterans' village and headed straight for the back mountain.
She came without anyone this time because she wanted to release Xiao Ye.
Once they reached the bottom of the mountain, Lu Qiqi began to blow her whistle.
The whistle echoed through the mountains and forests, but she was met with the sounds of birds taking flight and leaves rustling in response.
The whistle was the only way she could communicate with Xiaohua and her baby; otherwise, she couldn't possibly search the whole mountain for tigers.
Having walked halfway up the mountain, Lu Qiqi was unwilling to continue on her own.
Therefore, she released Xiao Ye from the space.
After a moment of confusion, Xiao Ye's eyes lit up with joy as she returned to the mountains.
It circled around Lu Qiqi several times, as if telling her to hurry up and find her a wife.
Lu Qiqi waved the whistle in her hand, telling it, "I've been blowing it for ages and haven't heard a sound. Whoever lost their wife should go find her. I'm too tired to walk anymore."
Having followed Lu Qiqi for so long and drunk so much spiritual spring water, Xiao Ye is no longer the tiger who couldn't understand human speech.
It walked to Lu Qiqi's side, seemingly reluctantly half-lying down, and let out a low growl, gesturing for Lu Qiqi to sit on its back.
Lu Qiqi glanced at it, coughed lightly, and then sat on the tiger's back.
Ever since she rode Xiao Ye to the Tatar camp at the border to rescue Qin Shiyu and had Xiao Ye carry her through the snow, she had been holding a grudge.
This all started with the pack of wolves. After leaving the pack, Lu Qiqi stopped riding the tiger.
She later speculated that perhaps Xiao Ye had been mocked by the wolf, which was why he hadn't spoken to her for several days.
After Xiao Ye carried Lu Qiqi on his back, they traversed through the mountains and forests.
Unlike the cold northern border towns, Luzhou Prefecture is located in the south, where there is abundant rainfall in spring and the ground does not freeze in winter.
Even as the year draws to a close, you can still see greenery in the mountains and forests.
Xiao Ye stepped on the dead branches, making a rustling sound of leaves and a crisp snapping sound of branches breaking.
Lu Qiqi continued to whistle as the two of them, one human and one tiger, ventured into the deep mountains, but they did not see any trace of Xiaohua and her cub.
"Why don't you yell a couple of times?"
Lu Qiqi tried to discuss it with Xiao Ye, but after a long while, she didn't hear any response from Xiao Ye.
This left her somewhat amused and exasperated. "You're supposed to be the king of the forest, can't you stop being so cowardly?"
"You're so afraid of your wife, did you do something to offend her?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Ye immediately understood and let out a low growl, as if refuting Lu Qiqi's words.
The whistle blew again, and this time it didn't take long before a tiger's roar was heard.
It must be Xiaohua and her baby!
Before Lu Qiqi could even speak and tell Xiao Ye to head southwest, Xiao Ye dashed off towards the source of the tiger's roar.
Lu Qiqi quickly grabbed the back of its neck to avoid being thrown off.
Xiao Ye ran at top speed and, after about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, saw the figures of one large and two small tigers.
Lu Qiqi was jostled around for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, and she almost threw up.
She saw Xiaohua and her child from a distance and was very happy.
However, the male tiger beneath him suddenly stopped moving, for some unknown reason.
This left her completely baffled. "Your wife is right ahead, why aren't you moving?"
Instead of letting out a low growl in rebuttal, Xiao Ye let out a sad sob, as if she had suffered some great injustice.
Lu Qiqi, “…”
Little Flower, carrying a snowball and a rainbow, ran up to Lu Qiqi.
It's been almost a year since I last saw them, and the two little ones have grown quite a bit, with thicker fur, though their round heads seem to have gotten a little thinner.
Lu Qiqi jumped off Xiao Ye's back to pet the two 'big cats,' leaving time for the two 'big cats' she hadn't seen in a long time.
After being separated for many days, Snowball and Rainbow had not forgotten Lu Qiqi, so when she touched their fur, they did not try to avoid her at all.
However, she soon noticed the changes in Snowball and Rainbow's personalities.
When she touched the snowball, she noticed that it neither dodged nor actively approached.
On the other hand, Rainbow was different; she wanted to bring her whole head over so she could touch it.
Lu Qiqi is having a great time playing with Xueqiu and Caihong here.
The two tigers, a male and a female, not far away were not, as Lu Qiqi had guessed, sticking together intimately.
Xiao Ye looked at the child in the distance with a sad expression, then looked at his wife, who wasn't coming towards it either. It was obvious that she didn't want it and had found another tiger!
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