Chapter 23 23. Start of construction

Author: Yu Yu doesn’t eat fish

Chapter 23 23. Start of construction

The grassroots still had some clues, and they knocked on Su Yao's door two days later.

As soon as he entered the door, with a smile on his face, he reported the news he had learned to Su Yao: "Sister, I have inquired clearly. There is a family in Xiyan Village to the east who wants to build a house, and they hired Yan Jinchuan and his engineering team. There is a house in Dongping Village.

The house needs to be renovated, which is also the job of Yan Jinchuan. It is behind the house in Xiyan Village, not far from our place, and it only takes two hours to go back and forth."

"The project he worked on?" Su Yao touched his chin playfully: "You said I do small jobs for them for free, do they need me?"

Nowadays, doing engineering is just to earn some food. Su Yao is a girl, and the food she gets from the autumn harvest is enough for her to eat. Men do it to support the family, so she wants to do some small work, grassroots work

I think there's something wrong with her brain, but I don't dare to say this: "Sister, what's wrong with you is that you have to work among men."

Su Yao glanced over and Cao Gen was silent.

Seeing that Su Yao's face softened a little, Cao Gen chuckled and said what he had not said: "I just think it's too tiring for you to do it. Besides, we generally don't let women get involved in these tasks here."

Su Yao raised his eyebrows: "How about you do it for me?"

The grass-roots smile froze on his face: "If I had such a diligent heart, I wouldn't come to your house to steal food."

Su Yao also felt Yan Jinchuan's displeasure at the patriarch's house that day. In addition, since she was a girl, it was really uncertain whether she could join the engineering team.

Looking at the grass roots, Su Yao had an idea: "Aren't you short of food for the winter? I plan to repair the courtyard wall. You go and learn how to make adobe and how to lay the foundation. When you learn how to do it, I will give you food and you will work for me.

live."

The grassroots thought that Su Yao wanted to learn the craft of building a house. When he heard that Su Yao was only learning to lay foundations and make adobe bricks, he became more excited: "I can do this kind of work no matter where I need to learn."

Then he smiled and said: "I will work for you, how much food can you give me?"

"You haven't even done it yet, but you're already thinking about the benefits?" Su Yao didn't believe it: "It will look better once it's done."

Cao Gen was not angry either: "Sister, actually when I was young, my father wanted me to learn crafts from Yan Jinchuan and the others."

"But the work of building a house is really not done by humans. Newcomers like me usually work as odd jobs, responsible for moving bricks and soil. After a day of work, I feel as tired as a dog."

"I'm lazy and wanted to quit working a long time ago, but my dad saw that he had no choice but to work for two years. Then my dad left and no one cared about me anymore, so I didn't stay here anymore.

There it is.”

"When I used to work with others, making adobe and laying foundations were all the work of a small laborer. Basically, I did it, and I have long been a skilled worker. Just leave this work to me. If the quality is not good, don't tell me.

I don’t have the nerve to ask for the food you gave me, so I’ll pay it back to you.”

Su Yao looked up and down: "You don't have any food for yourself, what can you give me as compensation?"

Cao Gen scratched his head and made no reply.

If the courtyard wall is not enclosed for a day, Su Yao will not be able to sleep.

Unable to wait for Yan Jinchuan to come, Su Yao had no choice but to do it himself.

Patting Cao Gen on the shoulder, Su Yao made a promise: "Come and work for me tomorrow. If you do a good job, I guarantee you won't be hungry this winter."

Cao Gen instantly smiled and rolled up his sleeves: "Okay."

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Grass roots have a bad reputation in the village, and Su Yao is also a dead horse and a living doctor.

Unexpectedly, the grassroots really didn’t tell lies this time.

Early the next morning, Cao Gen came to the door with a car he borrowed from someone else's house.

The bucket of the cart was filled with specially dug loess. It fell to the ground and shouted cheerfully into the courtyard: "Sister, I'm here."

After emptying the loess from the cart, Cao Gen didn't rush to do anything and lit two firecrackers he had brought.

After two rings, the grassroots began to work.

Building the foundation of the courtyard wall also requires stones. Cao Gen was busy making the foundations, and Su Yao couldn't help, so he wandered around the back hill alone to find suitable stones.

There is a stone mountain in the back mountain. In the early years, there was a lime factory where stones were obtained.

Now the lime factory is closed, but there are still a lot of fragments of rocks blown down from the mountain behind.

The stones for laying the foundation should have a regular shape. Su Yao glanced at them and saw that the stones were all oddly shaped.

Su Yao walked into the pile of rocks and planned to rummage through them piece by piece.

Su Yao put his hand on a calf-high stone, and when he moved it hard, the stone rolled down.

Su Yao froze on the spot, looked at his hands, then looked at the stone under his feet, and made sure again that it was not made of paper. Su Yao was dumbfounded.

When she was first reborn, Su Yao had trouble peeling off even one corn stalk. It took her just as much time to peel off one corn stalk as others could peel off three.

Later, as time passed, Su Yao's work speed increased, faster than those in the village who had worked for more than ten years. He thought that he had done more and practice makes perfect.

Only then did Su Yao realize how strong he was when he was moving the stone.

Su Yao, who did not believe in evil, turned around and found a bigger stone. He put his hand in the right place and lifted it hard.

I thought it was a waste of effort, but I didn't expect that the stone was lifted easily.

Su Yao was a little confused when his conjecture was verified. His strength did not come from rebirth, which meant that it was not his golden finger.

Whether it's the original person's more than ten years of growth experience or his own feelings, he knows in his heart that this is not the result of extraordinary talent and training.

After much thought, Su Yao set his sights on the mountain spring water he drank from every day.

Being healthy and strong is a good thing in the countryside. After Su Yao figured this out, he stopped worrying and quickly picked out stones from the pile of stones.

The road up the mountain was difficult, so Su Yao came with a basket on his back. Three big rocks filled the basket, and Su Yao returned to Xiahe Village.

The grassroots are working extremely hard today. When I went out, there were already more than a dozen pieces of adobe laid out on the ground.

Seeing Su Yao carrying stones, Cao Gen put down what he was doing and helped unload the basket on his back.

When all the backpacks were pressed against his body, the grass roots were trembling under the pressure.

His legs instinctively moved apart, letting the basket fall straight on the ground: "My good sister, you are too strong. I can't even lift such a big basket. How did you carry it back?"

"You really can't move it?"

Su Yao's rhetorical question made Cao Gen feel the ridicule. He shook his head helplessly: "If Yan Jinchuan knew that you were so strong, he would definitely take you back. You can do the work of at least three people."

Caogen took out the stones one by one and threw them in the corner for later use. His face turned red from the exertion.

Seeing how tired he was, Su Yao took out a glass of spring water.

The two stood in the sunshine, two steps apart.

It fell into the eyes of people watching the show in the corner.
Chapter completed!