Qin Zhao: "..."
"I really don't understand you scholars. You speak so flowery words all day long, but I don't know what you are talking about. ... What is this?" He pointed at the bowl of medicine in Jing Li's hand.
"Ginger tea." Qin Zhao said, "The rain has stopped. Drink it and go back."
Li Hongyu drank the whole bowl of ginger tea in one breath and asked, "What about my sister..."
Qin Zhao said, "I won't make things difficult for a woman, and I won't harm her reputation for no reason."
"I feel relieved when you say that." Li Hongyu stood up and said, "I just thought about it, and it's indeed my family's fault. If my mother and my aunt hadn't come up with this bad idea first, things wouldn't have turned out like this. I'm sorry."
Qin Zhao nodded.
Li Hongyu held his soaked clothes in his right hand, looked at the empty soup bowl on the table, and said, "Actually, I find you're a pretty good person."
He paused, then smiled and said, "Why don't you really consider it? If you and my sister succeed, you will be my brother-in-law, and I will protect you in the village from now on."
Qin Zhao: "..."
Jing Li: “…”
"Say one more word..." Qin Zhao looked up at him with indifferent eyes.
Li Hongyu is about the same height as Qin Zhao, but because he has been living in the mountains for many years, his skin is tanned and his body is much stronger than Qin Zhao.
But after being glared at by Qin Zhao, he actually felt a little guilty.
"Well, I didn't mean anything else. I was just joking, just joking." Li Hongyu forced a smile and said in a panic, "I'm leaving first. I'll return the clothes to you another day!"
After saying that, he slipped away in a hurry.
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The rain stopped for a while near dusk, but after nightfall, it began to fall even harder.
Fortunately, Qin Zhao intentionally strengthened the drainage in the yard when building the courtyard, so there would be no water accumulation in the yard, and it would not have much impact on the newly planted flowers and plants.
Jing Li sat by the door, looking at the rain in the yard, and said angrily: "If I had known it would rain tonight, why would I have gone to water the flowers at noon? It would have been much easier to just get wet in the rain."
Qin Zhao was sitting at the desk in his bedroom. He looked up when he heard her say, "You're a koi fish, but you can't predict the celestial phenomena."
"That's true..."
Jing Li walked over to Qin Zhao and took a look: "What are you drawing?"
Qin Zhao said: "Flood control dikes and drainage channels."
"?" Jing Li was shocked by him. "To prevent floods?"
Qin Zhao said calmly, "I paid special attention to this when I came back from the fields today. Linxi Village is built along the water, and this part of the river is narrow, which makes it easy for the riverbank to be submerged when the water rises."
The blueprint in his hand depicted the section of river outside the village. Qin Zhao ran his finger across the blueprint and patiently explained, "If we widen the river here, raise the embankment, and widen the drainage ditches in the village fields by three feet..."
Qin Zhao seemed to be very proficient in this. After his brief explanation, Jing Li also felt that it was indeed feasible.
But he still didn't understand...
"Why do you even know this? What did you do before?" Jing Li asked puzzledly.
"I..." Qin Zhao lowered his eyes to look at the blueprint and shook his head. "I was seriously ill in the past few years and didn't have the energy to care about these things. In my free time these past few days, I have been thinking about whether there is any way to prevent the village from being flooded. As I was thinking about it, this method suddenly appeared in my mind, just like..."
Seems like it has been used in the past.
Qin Zhao pursed his lips and didn't continue.
Jing Li didn't ask any more questions, but continued to study the blueprint. Qin Zhao's blueprint was extremely detailed, but it was clear from the blueprint that building the embankment was a large project, definitely not something that could be accomplished by one or two people.
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