Chapter 651 Construction Costs



After these people left the consultation room, before the next patient arrived, the student glanced at her cautiously.

"Teacher... the aftereffects of that child's condition can't be treated with traditional Chinese medicine,"

"Yes, I did talk to them about doing some rehabilitation exercises, isn't that just traditional Chinese medicine?"

Xiao Jiu turned her head with a half-smile. The student carefully considered her words, and by the time he looked up, he had returned to normal.

Attentively receive the next patient.

After getting off work, as he watched Xiao Jiu leave, he mentally drew out a key point.

“In the future, when I encounter minor issues, I will have to carefully consider how to ‘refuse treatment’.”

"Even though it crossed a line a bit, why does it feel kind of good?"

Little did he know that his teacher's obvious refusal was simply because he didn't want to become famous.

The aftereffects are not incurable; she does have traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture combined with some more targeted rehabilitation training programs.

But they came to her because they couldn't find a good option elsewhere.

If she's willing to spend the time to get it checked out, what awaits her?

What if it gets sent back to the island nation? Wouldn't that be troublesome?

Yes, that's how confident we are—confidence in traditional Chinese medicine.

So what if she violates moral principles?

Anyway, it's aimed at these bastards.

Little did she know that her unintentional action would actually save her.

Because the three patients left the hospital after the translation was completed, the couple abandoned the child on the curb.

They couldn't wait to take out a photo to compare, and if you look closely, you'll find that it was actually her high school graduation photo from when she was studying in Japan.

"How about it, does it look like her? I tried to get her to pull down her mask just now, but she acted like she didn't understand and ignored me completely."

"I feel like her eyebrows and eyes are a bit similar, but we were talking bad about her for ages. If she could really understand us, she would have reacted by now, right?"

The man agreed with the woman's words: "I just observed carefully and didn't find anything wrong."

Perhaps the information received was incorrect?

"The age matches, and didn't the people at the hospital say that she had just returned from abroad?"

"What's wrong with being abroad? It's a huge country, and we can't even find out exactly where they went, so why are we making such a fuss?"

The man's impatience made the woman somewhat weary: "Then how are we going to explain this?"

Once you accept a task, you have to carry it out. We've only met once so far, and the follow-up investigation must continue.

"What a great doctor! Does he look like one? Doesn't he talk like any other doctor? A rare talent? Pshaw!"

If someone is truly a rare talent, and they've already returned to China, would they ever come back to our country again?

Besides, if she really did stay in this country, what does that mean? What are these people really thinking?

"He's just a traitor, why would we go to such lengths to find him?"

The woman hit the nail on the head: "What do you know? I think they're just unable to swallow their anger."

The man casually lit a cigarette and glanced at the boy sitting blankly nearby.

"I'll leave this task to you. I have other things to attend to, so I'll take my leave now."

The woman glanced back at her son. What did it matter if she felt annoyed? After all, he was their own flesh and blood.

The only thing I could do was pull him with extremely impatient movements.

"Hurry up, after I take you home I have to go back to my night shift. I really owe you one!"

After they all left, the few people who had been keeping watch nearby naturally followed them.

When Zhou Yue learned that someone was indeed investigating Xiaojiu, he immediately reported the matter to his superior.

To put it bluntly, the comrades over there weren't thorough enough in their work. Since they were able to find her here, it's clear that their intelligence department had become suspicious of her identity and, through a series of clues, meticulously pieced together the evidence to trace her entry and exit.

Since they are the ones who caused the trouble, they should be the ones to step in and resolve the consequences.

——

It's probably because the wages paid by Xiaojiu and the meal he provided were generous enough.

In addition, all building materials, such as timber, arrived relatively promptly, which allowed the construction to proceed faster than expected.

By the end of July, the bungalows were nearing completion, and once the bungalows were finished, the adobe houses would be completed even faster.

The adobe bricks had been dried long ago, and although there was a lot of rain during the summer, the sun was also very strong.

Whether it's clay or stones, they're all natural and free; there's plenty of them on the mountains and riverbanks.

The straw mixed in was brought over free of charge by the villagers who were working, one bundle at a time.

After chopping, mix it with clay and scrape it onto the wall. It not only has good adhesion but also keeps the wall warm.

Various crop stalks were also stuffed into the gaps between the adobe walls and the brick walls.

Corn stalks, straw, and dried weeds from the mountains were all stuffed in tightly, providing excellent insulation.

The windows are quite large so that the room is bright.

However, the gaps that were sealed off during the winter are still preserved, and a layer of insulation material must be nailed on before winter.

Even so, we must be prepared for the possibility that the glass might shatter due to a large temperature difference between indoors and outdoors.

By the end of the summer vacation, both houses, made of adobe, were perfectly completed.

The rest of the house construction work consisted of carpentry, plastering, kitchen work, chicken coop, sheep pen, and other miscellaneous tasks.

A few people could finish it all in a week.

"Wow, that's fast! Does that mean we can move in right away after the house has been aired out for another month or so?"

Tao Changyi was also very happy, "Money really works. More people are coming, and the work is done quickly. We can move over by winter."

The couple also handed Xiao Jiu a bill.

"Look, we spent two hundred yuan on the land for the house, and the labor cost for the house for both families came to be close to five hundred yuan."

You paid for all the building materials, including the food, yourself. How much did you calculate the average cost of building the house?

Xiao Jiu shook her head, "That can't be calculated in detail. The things I use are all quite expensive, and some of them are impossible to obtain, especially the wood."

Those who know can tell at a glance, while those who don't will only praise it for being good, sturdy and durable.

From cement, bricks, steel bars, floor slabs, doors and windows, wires, and lime to laying terrazzo floor tiles,

"Dad, I estimate one thousand yuan per family, and that's a low estimate."

Tao Changyi couldn't help but gasp in astonishment, "This... so much? Isn't that too much manpower?"

Xiao Jiu shook her head, "No, the salary isn't high, but it's not low either. At least they genuinely want to help."

"Look at all the straw, corn stalks, clay, stones, and firewood they brought over—they didn't even charge us for any of that!"

Zhao Lingli nodded in agreement as she washed the clothes.

"That's right. Even though we just arrived, they seem quite welcoming so far."

The wall was two meters high, covered with a layer of beer bottle slag. The front and back doors, the cellar, and even the pit for the outhouse were all prepared.

"By the way, if we want to drill a well, it will cost at least two hundred yuan, all-inclusive. We don't have to worry about anything, and it will take about two days."

"Then drill one, and build us a hand pump well,"

One well is enough for both families, because other families have dug wells, so it's certain that there is water under their land.

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