He just went to the backyard to roll up the straw curtain.
Upon hearing Yun Qishi's question, Yun Dazheng couldn't help but sigh and said, "The bees are doing very well. When I went to roll up the curtain just now, some bees flew out to drink water and bask in the sun." As he spoke, Yun Dazheng walked over and sat down next to Yun Qishi.
Yun Qi put down the picture album, took off her reading glasses, and looked at Yun Dazheng, asking, "Since the bees are all fine, why are you shaking your head and sighing? I thought something was wrong with our bees just now."
“The bees are good,” Yun Dazheng repeated, then added, “I just feel that the arrival of our two neighbors is rather suspicious.”
"What do you think they're after? It's not like when we came here before. Back then, there was fighting everywhere outside, and it wasn't peaceful. Although Lujia Village is a bit remote, being remote has its advantages. At least there are no Japanese soldiers with guns, burning, killing, and looting. It's safer than outside."
"Or perhaps it was years ago, when the new policy was first implemented. Back then, if you settled down in a village, you'd get some land, even if it was barren. But if you took good care of it for a few years, you could still raise livestock. Now, if you settle down in a village, you won't even get any barren land... Unlike in the city, where if you don't have land, you can't go to factories or big shops to find work and not starve. In a village, if you don't have land, you'll just have to starve."
Yun Qishi found it amusing and couldn't help but shake her head, looking at Yun Dazheng and saying, "So, old man, you've gone down a dead end."
"Putting aside everything else, just look at those two families next door. What kind of materials did they use to build their houses? They used stone slabs. Here, those who are well-off... take the village chief's house for example. Even if their house is built with stone, at most they used some stone slabs for the foundation and then the pillars. Apart from that, the walls and everything else are all made of stone slabs."
"But look at the houses they built. Not only is the foundation made of stone slabs, but the walls are also entirely made of stone slabs more than a foot thick, and they've even applied mortar. Tell me, are they building houses or old-fashioned bunkers?"
"How much money would it cost to repair such a house with so much effort? Even now, with our family making over a hundred yuan a month selling honey and royal jelly, tell me, if you were asked to repair a house like theirs, would you be willing to spend that much?"
Yun Da shook his head hastily, saying, "Whether I'm willing or not, there's no need for it. It's not like the old days when there were wars or bandits everywhere. If I turned a perfectly good house into a bunker, wouldn't that be burning money? It would be a laughingstock..."
“Yes.” Yun Qi nodded and said, “But they dare to build it like that. Regardless of whether it’s a joke or not, at least one thing is certain: they’re not short of money. So, they don’t care whether they get land here or not.”
“Then their arrival is even more suspicious…” Yun Dazheng frowned deeply, shaking his head as he spoke.
After thinking for a moment, he added, "And besides, old woman, don't you think the way their houses are built... it's like they deliberately surrounded our house in the middle? Do you think... they might be targeting us?"
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