Chapter 179: Building A House
“Hey, did you hear about it?”
“That educated youth stripped naked and hung up? Know it, how could I not know.”
“Hehehe, then you definitely don’t know that on the only underpants he had left, someone drew a big turtle right on that… pfft, the head!”
“Hahahaha, which bastard came up with such a great deed! Hahahaha~”
“Don’t know, heard the brigade leader found out about this early in the morning and his face turned green with anger!”
Such explosive gossip with a bit of scandal spread at an extremely fast speed, even faintly showing signs of spreading to other brigades.
In winter, there was little work, and many people in the fields still had the leisure to gossip.
After everyone’s embellishments, this matter extended into causes, processes of one, two, three, four, five things, told with nose and eyes, and by the end, no one knew which one to believe.
Apart from the crowd focused on watching the excitement and eating melons, the happiest was the Dong family.
“It really wasn’t any of you who did it?”
“Oh dad, I wanted to, but could I come up with such a talented prank?”
At this point, Dong Er couldn’t help bursting into laughter, tears and saliva flying together.
Serves him right!
See if this little bastard has the face to continue swaggering and deceiving in the village after waking up!
……
Upon hearing this, Su Ning and Luo Shuangshuang looked at each other, then both turned their gazes to Fu Jiaming who was busy directing people to places.
“Pfft~”
Besides him, Luo Shuangshuang really couldn’t think of anyone else who could come up with such a sly idea.
But thinking that he did it to vent anger for the two of them, she didn’t blame him at all; on the contrary, she felt refreshed.
“We’ll pretend we know nothing about it.”
“Got it!”
She made a hand gesture, and Luo Shuangshuang covered her mouth, unable to stop chuckling.
Until Fu Jiaming spoke, she then rubbed her aching cheeks from laughing hard, “Ning Bao Gai, I’m going to help!”
“Go ahead, after all, it’s your future new house, you should take a good look!”
“Hmph, teasing me again, ignoring you for two minutes!”
She stomped her foot and gave her a coquettish glare, then Luo Shuangshuang flew towards Fu Jiaming like a dancing butterfly.
Considering they didn’t know how many years they’d stay here, Fu Rong and Ma Xiuzhen felt that since they were building a house, they might as well build a complete one, including the new house for their youngest son who was about to get married.
This way, the two houses would be next to each other, not far apart, so the young couple would have their own space in the future, which couldn’t be better.
For this prospective daughter-in-law, unlike Ren Xuan whom the eldest son was hastily betrothed to like being forced onto a duck, they truly liked her from the bottom of their hearts and were quite satisfied.
Naturally, they wanted to make the greatest effort so as not to wrong her too much.
The people who came to help build the house were all personally selected by Su Qingshan after greeting them in advance; not only were they quick-handed and diligent workers, but also honest.
With such a considerable remuneration, they didn’t need much urging; these people would put their all into it.
“Ning Ning!”
“Old man, you’re here?”
“Come over and take a look, have all the things been brought?”
Su Qingshan’s complexion still didn’t look great, but when facing her, he still tried to soften it a bit.
But overdoing it made the wrinkles on that old face look somewhat distorted.
Shifting her gaze a little, Su Ning thought through all the sad things to suppress her constantly rising corners of the mouth.
“This kid, if you want to laugh, just laugh; can Grandpa hit you?”
“Hehe, old man~”
Interrupted by her like this, his expression returned to somewhat normal; Su Qingshan habitually raised his hand holding the pipe and took a puff into his mouth, savoring the dry addiction.
Seeing this action of his, Su Ning put away her smile and asked puzzledly, “Old man, why don’t you smoke the cigarettes I bought for you?”
The homemade tobacco made by the old folks in the village, no matter how strong and throat-choking, many people were reluctant to smoke it, only pulling out a tiny bit of tobacco when they really couldn’t resist.
The cigarettes she bought had filters, and it was said they were less harmful to people, more comfortable to smoke without bits of tobacco leaves in the mouth.
“That fancy stuff, how can I smoke it so casually every day? Hehehe, Grandpa is saving it for festivals.”
Oh, understood, old kids, old kids, just like Grandpa Fu, all have a heart that wants to show off.
Su Ning, seeing through but not saying, smiled and nodded.
“By the way, Ning Ning, did that educated youth surnamed Zhang harass you yesterday?”
There were few people at the time but not none, so being seen was normal.
Therefore, she didn’t hide it and roughly described yesterday’s situation.
Su Qingshan’s softened expression immediately turned as black as the bottom of a pot, “Bastard little turtle!”
Daring to have thoughts of harming their Su family’s girl, the lesson this morning was probably too light.
Rubbing the smooth and shiny pipe bowl, Su Qingshan immediately made a decision about what Dong Fusheng had suddenly come to say last night.
But he wouldn’t tell her about these filthy matters, only turning his head to instruct.
“Ning Ning, if anything happens, go home and call for people; your big brother and little brother aren’t eating free rice, we’re not afraid at our own doorstep; next time anyone wants to be a hooligan, jump up and just beat him, if there’s trouble, Grandpa will back you up!”
“Got it, I’ll remember.”
As for jumping up to hit?
Su Ning, amused and helpless: With her age, there might still be a possibility to grow two more centimeters taller?
Seeing everyone working vigorously, already starting to dig the foundation.
With too much dust and grit raised, Su Qingshan took her a bit farther away.
“Yesterday at the county meeting, I received a notice from above saying that during the slack farming season, people will come to the village to pull wires; this matter?”
“I just found someone to submit an application.”
“I knew this had something to do with you.”
Otherwise, just queuing up, who knows when it would be Hongqi Commune’s turn, let alone Team One?
Pulling wires is great; those electric lights are much better than the eye-stinging kerosene lamps.
It’s just that with so many households in the village, few would be willing to pay for wires and electricity fees.
“I also applied for a telephone together.”
Seeing her mischievously blink, Su Qingshan immediately understood and laughed heartily, “Good, good, good; at least Grandpa gets to benefit from this!”
With a telephone, the village would be much more convenient, and this would be unique among the several brigades!
Next time at a meeting, facing those big lazybones, he could straighten his back; if he had a tail, it could poke to the sky.
The brigade leader arrived with a gloomy face and left beaming; seeing this, the workers couldn’t help guessing, did the brigade leader pick up money?
Otherwise, why was he so happy his feet almost kicked into the air?
“Ning Bao Gai!”
“Coming.”
Retracting her gaze from Su Qingshan’s departing figure, Su Ning heard her call, turned, and quickly walked over, “What’s up?”
“Help me check if there’s anything wrong here.”
Luo Shuangshuang took her hand and circled around the spot she and Fu Jiaming had selected.
The Su Family Ancestral Home was on the left, so the Fu family’s homestead land was naturally chosen to be adjacent first.
But because the right side was a steep slope, not very flat, they settled for the next best at the right rear.
That spot was not only right next to her family’s backyard but also closer to the foot of the back mountain.
According to their previous plan, the layout should be Su family, then Luo Shuangshuang’s and her new house, then Fu family in a diagonal row.
“I always feel if we open the door here as Jiaming said, something feels off. But here they all say to open the door in this direction, other directions are bad.”
Touching her chin, Su Ning thought carefully and mentally compared, finding it indeed felt that way.
“Then slant it a bit this way, move back some and open it here?”
“Mm, I think that’s fine!”
Fu Jiaming had come behind them at some point; after hearing Su Ning’s suggestion, he nodded in agreement without thinking.
“The bricks and tiles over there are done unloading?”
“Unloaded from the truck, just waiting for the water gourd to haul them into the village trip by trip.”
……
In the following days, the house rose visibly bit by bit; the villagers finally finished the field work and entered the slack season.
After several treatments by Fu Rong, the prescribed medicine plus acupuncture had very significant effects, making old Ge and old Liu both exclaim in amazement.
They said that the red ganoderma picked on Treasure Mountain this time might be due to the special geographical environment, blessed with spiritual energy, making the medicine extraordinarily effective.
But the ointment to heal Fu Jiatan’s muscles and bones still hadn’t been successfully developed by her; thinking it needed accumulation for a breakthrough, she could only hold back and settle down.
Just as Su Qingshan had anticipated, after wires were pulled in the village, actually only less than five or six households connected electricity home.
This day, as the bright lights of the Su Family Ancestral Home lit up, the telephone placed in the village committee office also rang with a crisp bell.
“Hello? Comrade, hello, is this Hongqi Commune Team One? Trouble finding Su Ning, say Beijing City has an incident, please call back immediately, thank you!”
Cough cough, first time extra update, thank you all cuties for your support. Especially the sisters I’m familiar with who read along daily, send tickets, and give rewards; bow in thanks~ This book will pass the new book period at the end of this month, might open a new book, of course this one will continue without breaks, please rest assured; no choice, gotta find ways to earn rice for meals, so informing here first, covering face: As for always extra updates, this concubine can’t do it~
