"A wall!"
Lin Jingyu's eyes lit up upon hearing this. "Uncle Jianguo, can I build a wall?"
"sure!"
Liu Jianguo smiled and said, "It depends on how big a yard you plan to build. You can also add a latrine and a storage room while you're at it."
Lin Jingyu was overjoyed. "Okay, Uncle Jianguo, please take care of it for me. Safety is the most important thing."
"Safety is indeed important."
Liu Jianguo glanced at the village chief, "However, if we set it up like this, the yard will be quite large, and the expenses... I wonder if Lin Zhiqing can afford it."
"Can."
The original owner had six or seven hundred yuan on hand.
That's enough for her to create a nice little courtyard house.
She looked at the village chief and said, "Village chief, if you want to build a yard here, I'm willing to buy the land area. How would you like to know?"
"Of course you can buy it if you want."
The village chief, of course, would not refuse her request.
Having a walled courtyard would at least make things much safer, and he didn't want anything to happen to his girlfriend.
So the area of the courtyard was divided according to the length of the two rooms.
To make the courtyard more spacious, a full 200 square meters of open space was measured out.
“Lin Zhiqing, this courtyard is quite large. Could you give me another twenty yuan so I can explain it to the village?”
Lin Jingyu readily agreed, "Okay, village chief, I'll get the money for you in a bit."
"No rush."
The village chief didn't care. "You and Jianguo continue to discuss how to do it. I'll go back first. If anything happens, come find me."
"Okay, thank you, village chief. Thank you for making this trip."
"It's okay, it's okay!"
The village chief had other things to attend to, so he left in a hurry.
Lin Jingyu continued to discuss with Liu Jianguo how to build the main gate and how to arrange the outhouse and storage room.
After discussing it for most of the day, the two decided to start work tomorrow.
Lin Jingyu went to the carpenter's house again and ordered a lot of furniture.
This is another considerable expense.
So she spent several days in a row busy building the house.
In the sweet potato field.
"I really can't believe that Lin Zhiqing has so much money to afford a courtyard to live in. It's truly remarkable."
Liu Weimin's wife, Zhou Aifen, said with envy, "It seems her family is really rich."
"I think she has the airs of a capitalist lady. We should go to the educated youth office and talk to them about it."
Zhao Qiaoyan was full of resentment. "It's not like we educated youth have nowhere to live. She still wants to build her own house because she's pursuing enjoyment."
“Zhao Zhiqing, how can you talk like that?”
Upon hearing this, Aunt Chunlan, Liu Weiguo's wife, couldn't help but retort, "Building a house is a good thing, it's not about pursuing enjoyment. According to what you're saying, does that mean no one in our village can build houses anymore?"
“She’s different from you.”
Zhao Qiaoyan curled her lip, her tone disdainful, "She can live with us in the educated youth compound. We went to the countryside to receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants, not to follow the path of capitalists."
Hearing her words, Shen Susu frowned.
He quietly reached out and tugged at her sleeve, signaling her not to do anything rash.
"Zhao Zhiqing, don't put it so harshly."
Aunt Qiuxiang, Liu Hongjun's wife, couldn't help but say, "The courtyard that Lin, the educated youth, built is in the educated youth compound. What's wrong with living a more comfortable life?"
Besides, the village chief agreed that she could manage the yard herself, and even personally went to find Liu Jianguo to help her.
It's clear that Lin Zhiqing had no problem setting up her own courtyard to live in; otherwise, why would the village chief have agreed to it?
"Zhao, we all know you and Lin don't get along. Isn't it a bit petty of you to target her like this? Don't you all agree?"
"Sister-in-law Qiuxiang is right."
Aunt Yu Cui could no longer hold back, her tone tinged with reproach, "Zhao Zhiqing, I advise you to watch your words. If you keep making up stories about Lin Zhiqing like this, aren't you afraid she'll beat you again?"
Upon hearing this, several suppressed laughs broke the silence of the sweet potato field.
Everyone in Shuibu Village knew about the beating she received.
Upon hearing this voice, Zhao Qiaoyan's face instantly turned red with anger.
"Aunt Yu Cui, who is targeting her?"
Zhao Qiaoyan glared at her angrily, "She runs a whole courtyard by herself, isn't that enjoying the life of a capitalist?"
"He's not a landlord, and he doesn't have servants to wait on him, so what kind of capitalist is he?"
Aunt Yu Cui looked unconvinced. "Don't all of us have a courtyard? According to you, we are all capitalists, unless the whole village lives in one courtyard."
At this point, the suppressed laughter around them grew even louder.
Zhao Qiaoyan's face contorted with anger, and she shouted in a fit of rage, "Aunt Yu Cui, I remember you kindly carried her down the mountain a few days ago."
If Lin Jingyu had money, would she have sent you something to thank you properly?
I said she's a heartless ingrate, always pretending to be pitiful and weak, she's absolutely disgusting, and you, Aunt Yu Cui, are actually siding with her..."
"Zhao Zhiqing, how do you know that Lin Zhiqing didn't thank me?"
Aunt Yu Cui looked unhappy and spoke even more recklessly, "You don't know anything, so don't talk nonsense."
Don't forget that you almost killed Lin Zhiqing that day, and now you have the nerve to deliberately ruin her reputation. You're a truly wicked person; you deserve to be beaten."
"You, you~"
Zhao Qiaoyan pointed at Aunt Yu Cui, trembling with anger, "You're really biting the hand that feeds you! You're so, so bullying!"
After saying that, she stomped her foot hard and ran away crying.
Dear aunties and grandmas: ...
Aunt Chunlan couldn't help but mutter, "This Zhao educated youth has a bad temper; she cries at the drop of a hat. What family would want to marry a daughter-in-law like that?"
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