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Chapter 151
"Just tell me how to thank me?"
While the village chief was saying things like "the deceased grandfather is still waiting to hold his grandchildren", he rubbed his slightly swollen temples and allocated an adobe house to Ji Fuyang and Weisheng.
The house is very small and the location is not very good. I heard from the village chief that someone died there last year, so it has been vacant.
Weisheng and Ji Fuyang didn't mind, so the village chief led them over. After the village chief left, Ji Fuyang asked Weisheng for a thank-you gift with a sly smile on his face.
He wanted to make Weisheng forget what he had done.
This house was originally the residence of a landowner's wife.
During the land reform, the landlord heard about it and packed up his belongings and ran away with his young concubine. The landlord's wife was arranged to live here by the comrades of the land reform team. The landlord's spacious house has become the current village committee compound.
Last year, Hong Taoxiu heard that there was a landlord's wife living in the village, so she came to make revolution. The old lady didn't want to suffer, so she hanged herself on the door frame one night.
The villagers said they didn't believe in ghosts and gods, but they were all quite concerned about this matter. Besides, they already had houses to live in, so no one cared about this adobe house.
As for the educated youth camp, unmarried people were not eligible to apply for single-family housing, and married people were somewhat concerned. So, by chance, Weisheng and Ji Fuyang got the upper hand.
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Ji Fuyang, who was irrational and extremely poor, did not bother to argue with him, but instead looked around the adobe house from top to bottom.
Let’s talk about the house first.
It is about five meters wide and four meters deep.
Pushing open the two doors, there is a square table and two chairs in the middle. There is an open space of about one meter between the square table and the left wall.
On the right side of the square table, near the door, is a stove.
The stove has two stove holes, one big and one small. The big one should be the earthen pot stove, and the small one should be used for daily boiling water or using clay pots.
However, there was no pot on the stove, and Weisheng didn't see any pots, pans, or utensils in the house.
There is a low wall on the inside of the stove, which looks to be about 1.45 meters high.
Between the low wall and the right wall of the house is a two-meter-deep earthen kang.
The only window in this adobe house is right in the middle of the earthen kang.
The windows were wooden-framed, paper-covered sliding windows. No one had lived there for over a year, so although the windows were intact, the window paper was torn.
The adobe house has front and back yards. There are several fruit trees planted in the back yard, and the front yard can be seen as a vegetable garden, but it is obvious that it has been neglected for a long time and has now become a weed garden.
The yard has a wall, but it is an adobe wall more than one meter high.
There is also a gate in the yard, but it is a fence gate that only protects against gentlemen.
But no matter what, as long as he has a space to be alone, these are not problems for Weisheng.
There were some furniture in the adobe house. In addition to the square table and two chairs in the middle, there was also a set of kang cabinets on the kang close to the wall, with a kang table placed upside down on the kang cabinets.
In addition, there is a set of wooden shelves under the wall on the left side of the house.
There was an overturned broken wooden barrel under the shelf.
The furniture that has been preserved is all made of very poor wood and the carpentry is extremely mediocre. Without the lack of firewood, it is hard to be attractive.
Just as Weisheng was looking at the adobe house, Ji Fuyang went to the village committee compound again and asked the village chief to take him to the county in a donkey cart to buy some pots and pans.
The village chief didn't want to bother with him, telling him to figure it out on his own and saying the village donkey carts couldn't be used casually. But Ji Fuyang, desperate to achieve his goal, didn't care about his dignity anymore and just hugged the village chief and howled.
In his decades of life, the village chief had never seen such different fireworks. In the end, he was persuaded by the village chief and agreed to go out for a donkey cart ride, and he also promised that it would not happen again.
Ji Fuyang made all sorts of promises, and even thanked the village chief profusely. As for whether he would follow through on his promises... Based on what Weisheng had known about Ji Fuyang over the past eight years, his words were nothing to be taken seriously.
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He asked the village rickshaw driver to take him back to his adobe house, saying he was going home to get some money and tickets. He told Weisheng he was going to the county to buy something and asked if he had any instructions. Weisheng didn't want to say anything and just waved at him casually.
Whatever!
Ji Fuyang, who could sing a whole drama by himself, bowed directly to Weisheng and said jokingly, "Yes, please (qing second tone)."
After saying that, he nipped Weisheng's braid out of impatience, and then ran away happily.
"That's how monkeys come down the mountain."
Weisheng gave Ji Fuyang a displeased look at his back and took out some kraft paper and thick window paper.
Having been to the countryside before, Weisheng knew how to change the window paper. So when Ji Fuyang was not at home, Weisheng quickly changed the window paper by himself.
After pasting the window paper, Weisheng cut the kraft paper into pieces and started pasting it on the kang and then the walls.
After locking the door and taking out the ladder, Weisheng used the ladder to paste a layer of brown paper on the roof.
When Weisheng was packing his luggage, he deliberately put a bundle of brown paper in his handbag for use at this time. Now that Ji Fuyang was not around, Weisheng could use the tools in the space when he was working, so his work speed was also increased.
After spending an hour pasting kraft paper on the small adobe house, Weisheng started to clean up the kang, cabinets, tables, etc.
Move all the furniture into the space first, then vacuum and steam clean the space.
I also covered the cabinet with a layer of kraft paper, and smoothed the table with a sander. After that, I went to the warehouse to cut two boards of similar size and nailed them on top to make a new tabletop...
After packing up these things, it was still early, so Weisheng took down the wooden door and reinforced and polished it again.
After all this was done, Ji Fuyang still hadn't come back. Weisheng was a little worried that the annoying guy would get into a conflict with someone, but he still took a knife and went to the nearby back mountain at his own pace.
A tree was cut down and only the outer bark of the trunk was removed.
In full view of everyone, Weisheng returned to the adobe house holding a knife in one hand and dragging a piece of tree trunk in the other.
Then he locked the door and sent the piece of wood into the space.
After being cut into wooden boards of the same size and thickness, they are dried at high temperature to set the shape before being taken out for laying the floor.
Weisheng only paved the less than two-square-meter area from the edge of the kang to the back wall, and the rest of the area was still the hard-trodden mud floor.
At noon, Ji Fuyang still hadn't returned. Weisheng ate a hamburger and sat on the kang, unpacking his luggage and placing it in the kang cabinet.
This set of kang cabinets was two meters long, with four doors that opened in pairs, making it possible to divide it into two cabinets. Weisheng chose the inner cabinet to put his things in, and then left the outer cabinet, which was more convenient for taking things out, for Ji Fuyang to put his luggage.
The only difference was that Weisheng took his own things out of the luggage bag and placed them neatly in the cabinet, while Ji Fuyang's things were pushed in together with the luggage bag.
Each person's bedding is placed on top of their own cabinet.
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At two o'clock in the afternoon, Weisheng began to clean up the vegetables and grass in the vegetable garden.
First, I pulled out the weeds, and then picked all the ripe vegetables from among the weeds.
These vegetables must have rotted in the ground last year and sprouted today along with the weeds. They weren't many, but they were enough to last them for a while. Then, they could slowly plant a vegetable garden, and they wouldn't be short of vegetables.
At around three o'clock, Ji Fuyang finally came back.
Looking at the things in the donkey cart, Weisheng's eyebrows jumped uncontrollably several times.
After unloading everything into the yard, Ji Fuyang sent the driver off like a good friend. After that, he explained to Weisheng what he had bought.
Ji Fuyang bought three jars of different sizes. When Weisheng saw him proudly saying that the largest one would be a water jar, the smallest one would be a sauce jar, and the medium-sized one would be a pickle jar, he felt for a moment that he had thought it through quite well.
In addition to the water tank, Ji Fuyang also bought a kang mat, a large iron pot, a small casserole, a kettle, a bucket, bowls, chopsticks, plates, rice, flour, grain, oil, a cutting board, a kitchen knife, and so on.
"...I also bought ten kilograms of lamp oil and candles." There is no electricity in the village, so these are the only means of lighting at night.
Having said that, Ji Fuyang slapped his head again and hurriedly took out an oil-paper bag from his schoolbag and handed it to Weisheng.
"Big meat buns, so delicious!"
At noon, he invited the driver to have lunch at a state-owned restaurant, and they had this big meat bun.
Weisheng was not hungry. He just took a look at the buns that Ji Fuyang took out, turned his head away, and refused very bluntly.
There was so much work waiting for him. When Weisheng was thinking about spreading the kang mat on the kang, Ji Fuyang pulled him back and said, "Try it."
Seeing Weisheng's disgusted face, Ji Fuyang said confidently: "Eat it, eat it, I didn't spit in it."
Weisheng: “…Shut up.”
My head is buzzing.
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Seeing that Weisheng really didn't want to eat the buns, Ji Fuyang put the buns on the square table, and then began to look around the room that Weisheng had cleaned up.
"I was wondering why you brought so much brown paper. It turns out this is where it's used." He walked around the room and then looked down at the wooden planks covering only the edge of the kang.
"Hey, why is this little house so neat and tidy? What's going on? Are you planning to ascend the throne here?"
Weisheng didn't want to argue with him, and pointed to the water tank outside: "If you're not tired, then go get some water."
Not to mention the jars that needed to be cleaned, even the other pots and pans needed to be washed. The sun was about to set, so who had the time to waste time with him?
"Okay~"
Ji Fuyang put the newly bought bowls and other things in a new bucket, and then carried the two new buckets to the village well.
When Weisheng saw that the poor and humble Ji Fuyang had gone to fetch water, he put all the things he had bought into the house.
The shelf on the left side of the room could hold a lot of things. After Weisheng sorted the things out, Ji Fuyang also came back with two buckets of water.
A bucket of water was placed aside, and he first took out the dishes that had just been washed at the well from another bucket.
When he handed them to Weisheng with a harmless look on his face, he took advantage of Weisheng's hands holding something and flicked the water droplets on his hands onto Weisheng's face, which made Weisheng so angry that he kicked him.
Although he didn't kick her, he fell to his knees with a thump.
She hugged Weisheng's thigh and howled, "I was wrong. I won't dare to do it again. Please forgive me this time."
The villagers passing by were shocked: "..."
Wei Sheng, who was framed by his poor acting skills: "..."
Slightly angry, he pulled his leg out with all his might, then turned back to the house. Ji Fuyang fell to the ground, clutching his chest, and said miserably to the villagers, "It's okay, I'm not hurting, I can still continue to fetch water."
After saying that, he pointed to the water tank in the yard, coughed, and slowly stood up.
Villagers: ...want to help him.
A few minutes later, Weisheng walked out of the house again, without even looking at Ji Fuyang. He poured the bucket of water containing the dishes into the big iron pot, and then used the big iron pot to wash the kettle, the basin and the three vats bought by Ji Fuyang.
After the kettle was cleaned, Weisheng poured the bucket of clean water into the kettle, then went to the side of the room to get a bundle of firewood and brought it back to heat the kang and boil water at the same time.
There was still a little clean water left in the bucket, so Weisheng poured the water into the basin and then soaked a piece of fat meat that Ji Fuyang had bought in it.
After both buckets were freed, Weisheng impatiently asked Ji Fuyang to continue fetching water.
Just when Weisheng cut the fat into small pieces and threw them into the iron pot to make some oil, Weisheng saw that bastard Ji Fuyang coming back with a few deceived villagers.
Like Ji Fuyang, each of these villagers carried two buckets of water on their shoulders and quickly filled the large water tank that Ji Fuyang bought with water.
The villagers poured the water into the tank and walked out, but when they passed Weisheng, there was a complicated look in their eyes.
As for Ji Fuyang, he sent the villagers away with a look of gratitude on his face, muttering something disgustingly: "Thank you, fellow villagers, for saving my life. I cannot thank you enough! If you have any problems in the future, please let me know..."
Weisheng lowered his eyes, no longer wanting to know what role he played in Ji Fuyang's version.
After seeing everyone off, Ji Fuyang walked in with a smug look on his face. He plopped down on a chair beside the square table, crossed his legs, and told Weisheng how kind and simple the villagers of Taohe Village were.
Weisheng reserved his opinion on this topic and only asked Ji Fuyang how much money and tickets he spent today.
Ji Fuyang gave a number, Weisheng listened and remembered it in his heart, and then told him that he also had money and bills in his hands, and asked him where they were kept.
After hearing this, Ji Fuyang waved his hand and said that it was not necessary. He also said that Ms. Jing had given him money before leaving.
"Hey! How come?"
"Of course not. I'll just ask my mom if she needs me for her retirement. If she does, then she'll give me some money right away. If not, then we'll have nothing to do with each other until we die."
Weisheng: “…”
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