"Don't just sit there, come and have some mung bean soup!"
Suddenly, Liang Mei's voice rang in Lin Chaosheng's ears. He turned his head and saw that it was Liang Mei pushing a small cart all by herself.
He rushed forward to help Liang Mei push the cart, and couldn't help but criticize her, "Why aren't you staying at home? What if something happens to you? It's so hot outside, why did your mother and the others let you run out alone?"
A barrage of questions shot at Liang Mei like bullets. She didn't feel sad at all; only Lin Chaosheng's nervousness made her very happy.
Liang Mei covered her mouth and chuckled. Lin Chaosheng was even angrier when he saw that she didn't reply and was still laughing as if she didn't care.
"You're still smirking? Do you know how dangerous this is?" Lin Chao was so angry he felt like his lungs were about to explode.
Liang Mei then realized that she had gone too far with the joke and quickly explained, "Actually, I only pushed this far. Dad brought me here in a donkey cart. We parted ways at the fork in the road ahead. Dad just went to deliver goods."
After hearing Liang Mei's explanation, Lin Chaosheng finally felt relieved. "You can't walk that section of the road either. You're pregnant, and your health isn't good. The doctor even said that you..."
Before Lin Chaosheng could finish speaking, Liang Mei interrupted him immediately, "I know, I know, why have you become such a nagging old woman?"
Lin Chaosheng lightly flicked Liang Mei on the forehead, pretending to scold her, "Nonsense!"
Lin Shansheng watched his brother and sister-in-law showing affection from afar. Already feeling dizzy from the sun, he felt even more dizzy now.
He walked forward speechlessly, snatched the trolley from Lin Chaosheng's hand, and quickly pushed it away, hurriedly ladling himself a bowl of mung bean soup.
The mung bean soup had just been chilled; one sip and it was a lifesaver in the summer!
Lin Shansheng ladled another bowl for Su Ning, and the two of them drank it down in big gulps, feeling full of energy.
"Why did you two start drinking before I even got there?" Lin Chaosheng and Liang Mei had been cuddling for a while before finally coming over.
Lin Shansheng rolled his eyes at his brother, "You two can fill yourselves up just by being all lovey-dovey."
Lin Chaosheng wanted to laugh when he heard this, but he pretended to step forward to slap Lin Shansheng.
"Alright, stop fooling around. How's it going?" Liang Mei couldn't wait to see the watermelon patch.
Su Ning pointed to a roughly constructed shed next to them, "It's right there."
Liang Mei walked over and looked at it carefully, her heart already filled with anticipation.
Lin Chaosheng finished a bowl of mung bean soup. "Xiaomei, do you want to sit down and watch? We need to continue building."
Liang Mei was of course willing, and then set up the stroller and sat down.
Lin Chaosheng moved the ladder to the ground, placed a long wooden pole in the middle, and then tied it together with each of the arched bamboo poles, reinforcing it thoroughly.
Then, together with Lin Shansheng, they tied several long wooden poles to reinforce the structure.
That's about it. We're almost done. All that's left are to cover it with oil paper and reed mats.
Covering the roc with oil paper wasn't difficult; the three of them were meticulous and carefully covered the roc piece by piece with oil paper.
"Brother, what's this for?" Lin Shansheng asked, puzzled.
Lin Chaosheng recalled for a moment and explained, "This thing can help watermelons absorb sunlight, and at night it can reduce heat loss. At the same time, it can also inhibit the growth of weeds and prevent these weeds from competing with watermelons for nutrients."
Su Ning, Lin Shansheng, and Liang Mei were filled with admiration for Lin Chaosheng after hearing his detailed explanation.
"Chaosheng, your brain is really sharp! You're a genius!" Su Ning couldn't help but praise.
Liang Mei was also very happy. Her husband was so intelligent and hardworking.
Lin Shansheng, needless to say, had long admired Lin Chaosheng to the point of complete devotion.
Lin Chaosheng felt embarrassed by their praise, but he couldn't say that he knew all of this from his previous life, so he could only humbly say, "No, no, I just came up with this method based on how watermelons grow."
"Besides, it's not even certain that it will work out, so please don't praise me like that."
Then Lin Chaosheng directed everyone to tie the reed mats together, making a huge reed mat.
"I will cover it up every night from now on, and then remove it the next morning."
"Why is that?" Su Ning asked.
“The temperature difference between day and night here is quite large. We can cover the watermelon with this reed mat at night to keep it warm, and then take it off during the day to prevent it from getting too warm.”
Lin Chaosheng explained it very clearly and thoroughly, and the three of them understood the reasoning immediately.
"Alright, that's it for today. I'll come back tonight." Lin Chaosheng thought to himself that it was fortunate he hadn't taken on too much land, otherwise the greenhouse wouldn't have been finished in one day.
Lin Chaosheng's business was over, but he was unaware that Zhao Shufang's stall had already gotten into trouble.
"Why are you taking my things?" Zhao Shufang and the man opposite her were fighting over the small cart that was used for her stall.
"Let go of me, you old hag," the man opposite cursed viciously, "Who told you not to pay protection money?"
Liang Fu was quite frightened, but she didn't forget to help Zhao Shufang protect the stall cart.
A crowd gathered to watch, but no one dared to step forward to stop her, because Zhao Shufang had offended no small fry.
The thug who stole the car was a lackey of Xu One-Eye, the local tyrant on the street.
This one-eyed Xu would bring a large group of people to this small street at a fixed time every week to collect protection money from every stall owner.
However, Zhao Shufang had only been setting up her stall for a short time and was unaware of such rules.
Unfortunately, today is the day that Xu the One-Eyed is here to collect protection money.
Xu the One-Eyed's henchman came up and asked for money, and seeing that Zhao Shufang was setting up a stall for the first time, he planned to ask for even more money.
Zhao Shufang was not about to give all her money to Xu Duyan, so she refused immediately.
Xu Duyan didn't expect that the old woman would just ignore him like that, which made him angry but he had nowhere to vent his anger. However, he quickly turned his attention to Liang Fu.
Xu Duyan looked at Liang Fu's beautiful face and a disgusting thought suddenly arose in his mind: Since this old woman refuses to pay, then let this pretty girl keep him company.
Then he ordered his underlings to drag Liang Fu away. Zhao Shufang was immediately enraged and slapped the underling on the head with a shovel.
Zhao Shufang worked every day, so her strength was not to be underestimated. She was beaten so badly by the underling that he saw stars.
Xu Duyan saw that the old woman not only refused to pay him protection money, but also refused to hand over Liang Fu, and even injured his men, so he prevented others from robbing his cart.
This led to the scene of several people fighting over the car.
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