Chapter 79: Tidying up the Courtyard



Tong Yiya walked in, closed the gate first, and then walked inside.

The captain told her that this courtyard was originally built by a hunter. This side is close to the mountain, and wild animals would come down the mountain from time to time. In order to live safely, the courtyard wall was built high and thick.

It was also a few years ago that the hunter family moved to another place due to a severe drought, and this small courtyard became vacant.

In fact, many people left the village at that time, and some people came from other places and lived in some houses. Because this courtyard was at the foot of the mountain and at the end of the village, no one chose to live here.

Tong Yiya walked to the front of the house and saw three small houses with thatched roofs. Tong Yiya thought this needed to be changed.

This thatch hasn't been replaced for several years, and I don't know how rotten it has become. If I move in and it rains heavily outside and lightly inside, wouldn't that be terrible?

She thought that before she moved in, she would take a look at what needed repairing and ask the team leader to find someone to fix it first, so as to avoid having to fix any problems after moving in. She also picked up the extra cleaning.

She pushed open the wooden door of a room. The door, which had not been used for a long time, was a little difficult to open. It seemed that the door needed repairing.

There were still a few pieces of furniture in the room, but they looked like they had begun to rot. I thought that rain must have leaked in from the roof, soaking the furniture, and the room was not ventilated, so the furniture was damaged.

There was a wooden bed in the room. Thinking about the temperature here in winter, Tong Yiya decided to ask someone to build a kang for her so that she could have a better time during the winter.

She looked at the other two rooms and found that one was a storage room and the other was also a bedroom.

There were piles of collapsed things on both sides of the three rooms, which looked like the kitchens and woodsheds built by hunters in the past.

She thought that she would need a kitchen in the future, but she never thought of building another one. She planned to live in the middle room, turn the left room into a kitchen, and use the right room as a pharmacy and the place where she would prescribe medicine for people.

As for the storage room, I don’t have much space to put things in, and the kitchen can hold them all, so I don’t need a storage room at the moment.

In fact, she knew that new educated youth would go to the countryside every year, and she was afraid that if the educated youth compound was full, the team leader would push them to her place.

That's why she wanted to use all three rooms. If there were no empty rooms, even if the captain wanted to send more people over, there would be no place to stay.

She looked around and left the yard, going to the brigade headquarters to ask the brigade leader to help her find someone to clean up the yard as soon as possible.

She went to the team leader to tell him what needed to be repaired. When she mentioned that the roof thatch needed to be replaced, the team leader asked, "Do you still use thatch on your roof?"

"Captain, I just got here. If I don't use thatch, what can I use to cover it?" Tong Yiya certainly wanted to change the tiles, but she had just arrived here and couldn't get some tiles by herself.

She could indeed take it out, but how could she explain it to others? To save trouble, she said she could just cover it with thatch.

The captain thought that she really had no other choice but to build a thatched house, so he asked the question without thinking.

After thinking about it, I realized that the small courtyard would become the village clinic in the future, and it would also represent the face of the village.

So he said, "Tong Zhiqing, this yard is the only medical clinic in the surrounding villages. People from other villages may come here to see a doctor. So, it would be better for us to find tiles to cover this house."

"But Captain, I can't just build it with whatever I want. I don't know anyone here, so where can I get tiles to build it?" Tong Yiya said with a bitter face.

"Don't worry, Tong Zhiqing. My family still has some tiles. They were originally used by the brigade to build another house. They are enough for your three small houses.

I'll have someone give it to you first, and then I'll pass a note up to apply for more to build the brigade headquarters' house," said the captain.

Thinking that those tiles cannot be used at the moment and the team is about to start working, and that they can only build houses after the autumn harvest, it will not delay things if they give them to Tong Yiya first. After all, building a medical room will also be beneficial to the villagers of the team.

When Tong Yiya heard that there were free tiles available, she had no reason to refuse. She immediately smiled and thanked the captain, "Really? Thank you so much, captain. Don't worry, I will go up the mountain more often to dig herbs to treat the villagers in the future.

Do you think you can finish my house today? After all, you only gave me one day to rest.

I just need to clean up the house, and I can deal with the weeds in the yard myself."

The captain thought about it and decided that since the village was not busy at the moment, it would be fine to call a few men to help, so he agreed.

The two of them agreed to go to the field together to find people. The people were five men selected by the team leader, all of whom were honest and efficient at work.

He called a few people and went to the brigade headquarters to move bricks, then went to the carpenter to get some wood that could be used as beams, and moved all the things to the small courtyard at the foot of the mountain.

Tong Yiya took the sickle at the brigade headquarters, returned to the yard, first borrowed a kettle to prepare drinking water for the people who were working, and then bent down to clear the weeds in the yard.

The five men first removed all the weeds on the roof. They also saw a snake, but snakes found at home cannot be caught, so they didn't say anything and just drove the snake out of the yard and left it alone.

Tong Yiya stood up and took a rest after cutting the grass for a while. The five people were also working quickly and they had almost built a house in less than an hour.

After working for a while, it was time for lunch. Tong Yiya did not go back to the Youth League Home for lunch because she did not hand in her food supplies in the morning.

She ate some food she had taken from the space in the courtyard, and then prepared two handfuls of hard fruit candies and put them in her bag.

The team leader promised to give the five people who came to work today twelve work points a day, but they did not provide food or any extra wages.

Tong Yiya thought that she should give some gifts to others for helping her. After thinking it over, she felt that giving some candy would be the most appropriate way. Even if she didn't try to please them intentionally, it would make people feel that she had received some benefit.

After eating her meal, Tong Yiya continued to weed the yard. Soon the people who came to help came over. They didn't say much and continued to lay tiles on the house.

It was three o'clock in the afternoon before they finished building all three rooms, and then they built a shed next to the kitchen for her to store firewood.

The roof of the shed is covered with thatch, which is enough to shelter from the rain. The place for stacking firewood does not need to be made very elaborate.

The people at the back were divided into two teams, one team built a kang for her, and the other team fixed the stove in the kitchen. Tong Yiya had the stove pots made into two, one large and one small, and also buried a kettle for boiling water next to the chimney, so that she could boil water while cooking.

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