Chapter 67 The Yard is Settled
Everyone entered the yard in an orderly manner and were stunned when they saw Lin Qingqing walking out of the house.
Today, Lin Qingqing wore a light red waist shirt that made her skin look glowing white. The black Dacron trousers lengthened her legs, and paired with small high-heeled sandals, she looked both fashionable and elegant.
More than a dozen men stood there motionless as if they had been acupunctured.
Isn’t it said that the team leader’s wife is from the countryside? She looks even more like a city girl than a city girl, and even the handsome face of our team leader is not good enough.
Lin Qingqing was neither intimidated nor annoyed by being stared at by so many people. She smiled and said, "Come in and have some tea. I'm sorry to have worked hard for you today."
This smile made Lin Qingqing's beautiful features even more charming and attractive, and everyone couldn't take their eyes off her.
Zhou Lie jokingly shouted, "If the team leader finds out that you're staring at the team leader's wife like that, you'll be in big trouble."
Everyone was brought back to their senses by the loud shout, and someone asked, "Wasn't it my sister-in-law who just opened the door?"
Zhou Lie laughed: "That's my sister-in-law's cousin. When have you ever seen me call her sister-in-law?"
Xiaomei: ...Don't say that to my face.
At this time, the sound of a car was heard at the door, and Song Yiyuan was back!
Zhou Lie: "Sister-in-law, let's unload the things in the car first, and then we can send the car back to the army. You just need to rest."
Song Yiyuan and Zou Feng pushed open the door holding four quilts with army green quilt covers. These were quilts made for Lin Qingqing and Xiao Mei, and they were bought from the army's logistics department.
When everyone saw the team leader, they all had meaningful smiles on their faces.
Soon, a truckload of bluestone slabs and bamboos were unloaded on the left side of the yard. Zou Feng went to return the truck himself, and Song Yiyuan led everyone to start working.
Two people measured the land, four people tamped the land, one person handled the bamboo strips, and one person handled the bluestone slabs.
Xiaomei boiled a large pot of water, added sugar and poured it into the thermos, then filled the only two bowls she had, and together with Lin Qingqing, they brought them to the stone table in the yard.
Zhou Lie picked up a bowl and started drinking. The tea went down his throat with a loud gulp. It tasted sweet!
"Sister-in-law, don't be so polite and give us something as precious as sugar to drink. We can just drink plain water."
A few people who came to drink water also agreed: "Yes, yes, you are very polite."
Lin Qingqing smiled without saying a word, and handed the two bowls of tea that Xiaomei had just poured to Song Yiyuan and Zhang Liang beside him.
Zhang Liang dropped his utensils and immediately took the bowl: "Sister-in-law, my name is Zhang Liang, thank you sister-in-law."
After hearing this, the others also gave their names.
"Sister-in-law, my name is Li Aiguo."
"Sister-in-law, Zhu Haijun"
"Sister-in-law, my name is Xiao Zhan"
“…”
Everyone called out their names, and Lin Qingqing wrote them down one by one. After being optimized in the gene cabin, she had a photographic memory.
After drinking the sugar tea, everyone became more motivated and worked faster. More than ten people worked together and focused on the task at hand.
Xiaomei poured another pot of sugar water into the thermos and went to the living room with Lin Qingqing.
There was a lot of noise outside.
There is strength in numbers. In just one afternoon, the ground was compacted and the bluestone slabs were laid.
A bamboo shed was built in the empty space in the middle, and a stone table was placed inside, which looked quite elegant.
There was an empty space the size of a stone next to the pergola, which Lin Qingqing had specifically requested to be reserved for planting grape vines.
Lin Qingqing was surprised by the speed. She watched them washing their hands around the basin and said with a smile, "We'll have dinner at home tonight. Don't leave. Take a rest and we'll have dinner soon."
Everyone refused in unison: "No, sister-in-law, we can just go back to the army and eat."
Song Yiyuan: "They go back to eat and come back for dinner the day after tomorrow."
Lin Qingqing smiled: "That's fine, thank you all for your hard work today."
Everyone was so frightened that they quickly waved their hands: "Sister-in-law, you're welcome." They didn't dare to look at Song Yiyuan and hurried out the door.
Song Yiyuan took a hoe that came from nowhere and loosened the soil on the left.
Little Melissa started to cook dinner, and soon smoke rose from the kitchen.
Lin Qingqing sat in the wooden shed drinking tea and admiring Song Yiyuan working hard to dig the ground.
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