Chapter 418: I can’t finish it, I can’t finish it at all!
Qi Xu's brain froze and he stood there in a daze.
In Yun Fu's words, she is now in a state of massive social demise!
At this distance, maybe Cheng Qingyan didn't hear what she just said.
Qi Xu comforted himself.
But she couldn't deceive herself. Her voice was so loud, and Cheng Qingyan was a martial artist. When he was in the dark cave, he relied on his extraordinary hearing to kill those beasts with dirty minds.
How could I not hear it at such a short distance?
Jin Lu followed her gaze and saw Cheng Qingyan. His dark face darkened and his mountain-like body blocked Qi Xu.
It blocked Qi Xu and Cheng Qingyan's view of each other.
Qi Xu decided that among the thirty-six strategies, running away is the best one!
Without caring whether Jin Lu had finished his words or not, he ran back to his yard and closed the door tightly.
He tiptoed to the door panel, pricked up his ears and listened to the movement outside.
After a moment of silence.
There was the sound of Jin Lu striding away.
Then, the sound of two people talking could be heard from a distance.
But due to distance.
I can't hear it very clearly.
I vaguely heard some threatening words like "Don't set your sights on her", "I won't let you go", "Just try it".
Qi Xu roughly guessed the situation over there. It must be Jin Lu threatening Cheng Qingyan to stay away from him.
As for Cheng Qingyan's answer, maybe his voice was too soft and Qi Xu didn't hear it clearly.
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Qi Xu thought that with him, these absurd and boring things could be put behind them.
But she still underestimated the impact of this incident on herself.
She really couldn't pretend that nothing had happened.
After struggling with this for several days, I finally decided to go find Cheng Qingyan to explain.
Cheng Qingyan has been very busy recently, taking people to collect raw materials needed to make refractory bricks. Sometimes he is not seen for several days.
Qi Xu waited outside his yard for five consecutive days before someone showed up.
"Well, I know you are very busy. Give me some time. I will say a few words and leave. I will definitely not waste your precious time." Qi Xu raised his eyes and looked at him, with sincerity in his eyes.
Cheng Qingyan raised his hand and motioned her to come in.
Qi Xu hurriedly waved his hands and muttered, "No, no, no, you can't go in. Otherwise, the rumor will spread that I stayed overnight in your house again."
"What did you say?" Cheng Qingyan frowned, as if he didn't hear her clearly.
Qi Xu had originally intended to come over and explain everything to him, so it was just a good idea to start from the beginning.
Tell him all the rumors about the two of them.
Perhaps because they were both involved, Qi Xu felt a little embarrassed as he spoke.
"That day, Jin Lu came to me to question these rumors. I was a little annoyed, so I said that on purpose. In fact, what I said was not true. Mr. Cheng, don't think too much about it."
The first time Cheng Qingyan saw her, he roughly guessed why she came to see him.
The little girl's thoughts are almost all reflected on her face, and it's easy to guess.
"Don't worry, Miss Qi. Cheng knows himself well and won't take those words seriously."
Cheng Qingyan's eyes are not so blind as to fail to see through such a thing.
He is not so narcissistic as to think that he can attract girls with this face.
So, after hearing Qi Xu's words that day, he didn't take it to heart and didn't think much about it.
"Ah." Qi Xu's eyes fell on the scar on his face, and he was worried that he had accidentally poked someone's sore spot.
He quickly tried to make amends: "That's not what I meant. Mr. Cheng, you are a good person. There are actually many things about you that are worthy of others' love."
A faint smile flashed across Cheng Qingyan's eyes: "Miss Qi, are you trying to comfort me?"
He didn't even know that he could still be worthy of others' love with his decadent appearance.
Seeing that he didn't believe her, Qi Xu quickly counted on her fingers, "You're smart, you're skilled, you respect women, you're responsible, and you exude dignity in your every move. These are all your strengths."
Cheng Qingyan was stunned. In the past few years, he had heard many words of praise for his noble status, but after falling into the quagmire, it was the first time that he heard so many compliments under the identity of Cheng Qingyan. "Then I, Cheng, would like to thank Miss Qi for the compliment."
Before long, the rumors about them were no longer heard in District Seven.
Instead, there is some other gossip.
For example, there is a female ghost haunting the back mountain.
A piece of jade shaped like Guanyin was found in the mine.
But what Qi Xu didn't know was that all these gossips were spread by Cheng Qingyan.
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After a period of preparation, several raw materials for firing refractory bricks have been in place.
Next, the quartz stone is crushed and then mixed with clay and kaolin according to the proportion.
Then put the stirred mixture into a long mold made in advance with wooden boards.
Let the mold air-dry for a few days to fix its shape, then remove it from the mold and it will become bricks.
The steps for firing refractory bricks are not much different from those for ordinary red bricks.
The finished bricks are placed in the built brick kiln. The raw material used to burn the kiln is coal, which is also known as black gold stone.
As early as when it was decided to build an ironworks in the seventh-class district, Yun Fu asked Jin Lu to take his own handwritten letter to the eighth-class district and bring back more than a dozen carts of black gold stone from the eighth-class district.
Those who were originally assigned to the eighth-class area to collect black gold stones were still worried. More than a dozen trucks of black gold stones were not a small number. They did not bring any supplies for exchange. Would the people in the eighth-class area just give them away for free?
Yun Fu said, "Of course it's not free. The quarrymen in the Eighth District risked their lives mining each stone. But right now, life in the Eighth District is much better than yours, and the Seventh District doesn't have anything worth exchanging. So, for now, I'll act as a guarantor and write an IOU. When the ironworks here is back on track, I'll give you ironware in return for these black gold stones."
This is also the truth that Yun Fu has always wanted to tell them: only if you pay, you will get rewards.
You can't get something for nothing.
Those people went to the eighth-class area and after coming back, they told everyone about what they saw and heard in the eighth-class area.
"There are acres of fertile fields, planted with crops! There's no way we can eat them all! There's no way we can eat them all!"
"The big tiled houses are so magnificent!"
"There's even a college there that provides education for children, and a large clinic that specializes in treating patients. From what I've seen, the people in the eighth-class district live a more comfortable life than the people outside."
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Perhaps these pictures were too beautiful, and no one believed them at first.
"You're kidding! This is the Desolate Prison of Ghosts! How can there be endless crops?"
"That's right, the eighth-level district is even more desolate than here. How can crops be grown there?"
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"I knew you wouldn't believe me. When we left, the Eighth District sent us several large bags of food. The princess even gave us some. If you don't believe me, let me show you."
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