Quick Travel System: Age Strategy

The next day, it was still dawn when the two woke up.

After feeding the animals, I led the old ox out and tied it to the door of the pigpen, then moved the bed and moved the last things out.

Not long after the house was vacated, the village chief arrived with his strong laborers.

Liu Qingwei gave his girlfriend's things to the village chief and asked him to take them and leave first. He then began to discuss with the villagers how to renovate the cowshed based on the sketch they had drawn last night.

Because he paid the money and got the approval of the village chief, the villagers listened to him and first demolished the house on the original foundation. They found a wooden ladder and climbed onto the roof, peeled off the grass on top and moved the old beams down again. Some people also started working under the house.

Seeing that everyone was working, Liu Qingwei led the cow to graze nearby.

There were not many villagers living near where they were, so there was a lot of wild grass growing there, which was just right for the cows to eat. Normally he would go to the back mountain to graze the cows, and the grass there was greener and tenderer.

It’s different now. I have to take care of the construction of the house so I don’t have time to take it to the back mountain. It’s okay to eat it here.

When it is thirsty, just scoop some water from the water tank and pour it into the basin for it to drink.

Not long after, the village chief came again, and this time he personally supervised the progress with him.

After looking at the sketches they drew, the materials purchased from the city were also shipped over.

The progress was accelerated again and again. Before noon, one third of the house was rebuilt. The old beams were not wasted. They were directly chopped into wooden boards to add a layer of sunshade for the pigpen, which was the kind that could be lifted up.

I cleaned the cowshed and pigpen, and then moved the piglets and their family in first. I temporarily tied the cow under a tree to avoid the sun.

Reconstruct the layout according to the drawings, and start by planning the size of the front and back houses.

Then they added the cover step by step according to the materials and paved the floor with cement. It was much better than the previous cowshed with only a layer of loess on the ground.

While the cement was being smoothed, one group of people were busy building the walls around the house, and another group was making the bed he wanted.

The bed they are using now was not thrown away, but was just painted over to make it look better.

After a day of working together, everyone has only completed two-thirds of the work. The roof and awning have not been built yet. It all depends on whether the cement on the ground can dry tonight. Otherwise, we will have to wait a few more days before it is completed and people can move in.

After finishing the work of building the house, the villagers left but the village chief stayed behind and asked him if he wanted to move back to his home.

Originally, he had not planned to paint the bed. Later, when he started making the new bed, he noticed that the current bed did not look very good, so he discussed with the village carpenter how to modify it.

In the end, we suggested that he paint it, and he agreed and started painting.

Now that the paint has been applied, he can no longer sleep on the bed as he used to, for fear of ruining the good paint.

Besides, the smell of paint is too strong and it is too suffocating to leave it there.

But if he was asked to follow, he was afraid that someone would touch the piglets and the old ox when he was not around. Even if no animals were touched, he was afraid that someone would step on the undried concrete floor on his side. If someone stepped on it, the footprints would be left and the ground would be uneven, which would be annoying for him.

There are still things here, what does it matter if people leave? !

So after much thought, he decided to keep it. He would not sleep on the bed but could sit against the wooden cabinet for the time being.

Since the eldest brother couldn't persuade him, the village chief had to leave on his own.

Not long after he returned, he asked Chengcheng to bring food to see his brother.

The two chatted for a while. Chengcheng talked about going to the village chief's house today. His wife was very nice and arranged an empty room for her. The meal was also very sumptuous and she even taught her how to sew shoe soles in the afternoon.

She is quite talented. She learned it right away and even made herself a pair of cloth shoes in an afternoon. This is the pair she is wearing now.

Liu Qingwei did not hide anything from her. Instead, he asked for a pair of cloth shoes of his own with envy and even told her the size of the shoes.

Cheng Cheng looked at him proudly, and deliberately gave himself a bargaining chip and said, "I charge a lot for a pair of shoes made by me."

Liu Qingwei cooperated and asked about the price.

Chengcheng casually reported a number without thinking of asking for his money, just treating it as a joke.

Unexpectedly, this man actually gave it to her. She accepted the money with a smile and said that she would make him a pair of cloth shoes that would be more comfortable than the Zulijian Old Beijing shoes.

Liu Qingwei didn't understand what she said but he could guess the general meaning. He looked at her with a smile and kept saying nice things to her like she was free of charge.

The more Cheng Cheng listened, the more uneasy she felt. In fact, it was not the first time that she had learned how to make shoes, but she just had no reason to say it out loud.

Today she happened to meet the village chief's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who had nothing to do so they liked to hang out in other people's homes.

Because she was the guest, he didn't go. He was planning to sew shoe soles in the house for a while, but she saw him.

After she approached him and asked a few questions, the other person saw that she was interested and offered to teach her, so she pretended to start learning.

I made mistakes on purpose a few times before I finally learned how to do it. Gradually, I stopped pretending and sped up the process. In no time, I had finished making the cloth shoes.

At this time, you can still wear single shoes, so the steps are not difficult.

Although it was a gifted talent for the village chief and his wife, it was nothing in her opinion.

In order to stop her brother from talking any more, she simply picked up a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth to stop him from speaking.

Only then did she calm down, and she also thought that the money she received was not unfair.

She didn't have any materials on hand, so she had to go to the village chief's house to ask for some cloth, soles, tools and the like, and add them together with the things she needed to pay the bill. She couldn't just take things for free without paying.

Besides, she is sure that no one in the village can match her craftsmanship, so the processing fee cannot be ridiculously low.

Even though the money has been discounted, he still didn't ask for too much because he is my boyfriend. If it were an ordinary person, she would not even bother to do it if asked.

For her, this thing is just a way to kill time.

With his girlfriend by his side, Liu Qingwei felt that the food tasted much more delicious.

Actually, this meal was left for him by the village chief's family. He had already done his best to help him to this extent.

Besides, at this time, he couldn't pay him back much.

Giving money is too polite, giving gifts to each other all the time hurts feelings, and giving antique furniture is not valuable nowadays.

There are risks in sending it to the jewelry shop, so he has to think carefully for himself.

It didn’t matter as I used to be alone, but now that I have a girlfriend, I can’t do many things without considering the consequences as before.

Liu Qingwei kept every debt in mind and planned to pay them back slowly in the future. Even if that was not possible, he would ensure safety and give the village chief some benefits.

In recent years, the courtyard of the landlord who used to live there was smashed, the plaque of the ancestral hall and the ancestral tablets were broken, and even the chairs, tables, tributes, calligraphy and paintings inside were confiscated.

If the village chief had not come back and taken back part of the land to renovate the ancestral hall, he might not have been able to protect his ancestors' home.