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    "Mother, why did you go? Sit down and eat." After Jiang Baiye brought the food to the broken table, the third son came back with a cart of clay.

    He was only thirteen years old this year. He was very clever and insightful so he didn't come over and shouted from a distance, "Brother Ye, I know you're going to build a house, so help you fool those people."

    "Okay, let's eat." Jiang Baiye saw him pretending to refuse, and pulled him over with an angry smile, "Why are you being polite to me, you are different from those people, how about I arrange the easiest job for you?"

    The third son chuckled, scratched his head and sat down in embarrassment, but when he started eating, he couldn't be more polite.

    Because Jiang Dazhu and his wife seemed to have never eaten, the speed of picking up vegetables was almost tight, and he took a step slower, and he didn't even catch the leaves of the root vegetables. It was his wild brother who felt sorry for him and picked up a piece of meat for him., almost made his eyes red.

    The third son's real name is Li Wu, and like Li Erniu, he is from the Li family village next door, but he didn't walk with Jiang Baiye because of being a gangster.

    In fact, his father, who is not a man, was originally a son-in-law. After marrying his stepmother, he seized all the property his mother left him and his sister during her lifetime, and threatened to pass it on to his own son with the same surname as himself., that is, the younger brother born to the stepmother.

    It’s fine if you don’t give him a penny, and he beats and scolds him and his sister all day long, making them work as cows and horses for the family. The third son is rough and thick and is not afraid of beating, but seeing his eight-year-old sister who is skinny and almost beaten several timesIn desperation, he found Jiang Baiye.

    Thinking if he could become a bully, he would see if his father would dare to beat them up. Unexpectedly, this was really a trick. Jiang Baiye agreed without saying a word, and brought people to his house to bluff him. His father would never dare to beat them again.Shake your fist at them.

    The third son pretends to be a tiger, but he can suppress his father, at least he doesn't beat anyone, and he also gives them a bite to eat, it's just leftovers, for the sake of his sister's future marriage, the third son dare not make a scene, otherwise he will be notoriousIf word got out, no one would dare to marry his sister in the future.

    Little Sanzi couldn't be a really bad person, and felt that he owed his wild brother a lot, but he didn't expect his wild brother's painting style to change suddenly, and suddenly wanted to be a good person.

    Thinking about it carefully, Brother Ye doesn't seem to have done anything bad?How did it get such a bad reputation?

    Little Sanzi was thinking dazedly while burying his head and mouthfuls of white rice.

    In this room, Jiang Dazhu's face was flushed from eating, and when he put down the bowl, he said: "Long year old, don't be so busy in the future, let dad do it! Build a house, farm, dad can do it alone, you just cook, reallytoo delicious!"

    "Yes, yes, I have never eaten such a delicious meal. I went to a rich family to have a banquet before, and these dishes are not as good as these. Brother Ye, you made this?" The third son was in disbelief.

    He showed a proud expression on his face, "Isn't it? I just don't want to do it when I'm old, otherwise there is something he can't do? It's the first time I can cook like this, the chef of the restaurantNothing compares!"

    Jiang Baiye, "...Maybe it's because there's enough seasoning."

    "Then your aunt has been cooking for so many years, and I haven't seen how well she cooks." Anyway, Jiang Baiye is the best in the eyes of his parents, no one can compare to him!

    And Lu Lizhi next door, after hesitating for a long time, finally couldn't help moving his chopsticks. When he crossed that boundary and took the first bite, he couldn't stop anymore.

    Lu Lizhi felt that he might be starving to death, so he didn't refuse food from a stranger who might be a hostile force. Thinking this way, he took another sip of the chicken soup that looked very attractive, and the coldness in his eyes froze for a moment.

    take another sip...

    In the afternoon, Jiang Dazhu was full of energy, chopping girders and bamboo, without stopping for half a moment, just to let Jiang Baiye do less work and have the strength to cook.

    As for Mrs. He, besides helping him at home, he would go to the wasteland behind to reclaim when he had time, and use the rotten leaves accumulated under the trees to fertilize.

    Then pick some fertile black soil from the mountains, mix it with the silt in the river, and Changsui taught her to sprinkle it with plant ash. After the land is well prepared, you can sow seeds.

    Although He's heart is full of complaints against old man Jiang, he hates him for giving this worst and poorest piece of land to their family and pretending to be hypocritical.

    But now the family is working hard in one direction, trying to live a good life, which makes her feel much more comfortable than working for others every day in Old Jiang's house.

    Jiang Baiye went to the mountain with a basket of leftovers, and sure enough, he saw a group of people idling and gossiping.

    He lifted the sackcloth that covered it, and the group of people instantly left their doubts and annoyance behind, and started to eat voraciously, expressing that it was delicious, and they were extremely hungry.

    Jiang Baiye smiled secretly, eat, eat, how can you have the strength to work if you are not full.

    What's more, he needs to spend more time with them. Now that the farming season is busy, except for these bastards who are idle and making troubles, there is really no one to help him build a house.

    After eating enough, a group of people were fooled by Jiang Baiye's few words. In the past, they were the ones who fooled Jiang Baiye, but now they are being fooled the other way around. They really didn't notice it at all.

    Originally, when the villagers of Clear Water Village saw this gang of bastards haunting, their eyelids twitched and they felt uneasy about doing anything.

    When someone went to hunt hogweed on the mountain, they found that group of people were digging and transporting soil hard on the mountainside, chattering and chirping. The people who didn't carry their shoulders and hands were so busy, their legs were shaking, it was strange.It was like seeing a ghost.

    Thinking of this, he hurriedly ran down the mountain in fright, even Village Officer Wang was startled, thinking they were doing something shady.

    Fortunately, Jiang Baiye had anticipated this event, and came here to say hello to him.

    Village Officer Wang was overjoyed, "You can really turn them back to good!?" That's a great thing to benefit several villages!

    "Don't talk about reforming evil and returning to righteousness, maybe they won't have the time to make trouble?"

    Village Officer Wang laughed, and kept patting him on the back, "Good boy, uncle knows you are right, you are smart, but you don't put your mind on what is right, and you may not be able to stand out if you are a good person in the future.!"

    "Accept your good words." Jiang Baiye was not the slightest bit humble, and responded with a smile, which also made Village Officer Wang value him a little more.

    The movement here was spread from eleven to hundreds, and soon reached old man Jiang.

    "Hmph, dogs can't change eating shit! It's just pretending. I bet they won't last for a few days before they have to come back and beg for mercy!" And he was also ready to reject them severely, and even the old man Jiang was angry in advance for this.When he got angry, he felt that the Erfang family was here to anger him, it was of no use at all!

    However, the slap in the face was that after a few days passed, Jiang Baiye's busy momentum continued unabated, and everyone figured out what he wanted to do.

    The pile of tools in front of the door and a large piece of loess, river sand, wheat straw, thatch, bamboo strips, beams, stones and other materials are all available, and basically processed, waiting to tear down the old house and build a new one.

    For this reason, Jiang Baiye also set up a temporary resting hut next to him, planning to start with his own house.

    There is no need to lay a foundation, as long as the footing of the wall is done on the original foundation, and it will be enough to add a cover. The biggest question is whether he should build a wall adjacent to Lu Lizhi's room.

    After thinking about it for a long time, Jiang Baiye decided to build it. It didn't take much effort, but he could sleep more freely.

    He did it right away, he first asked people to do waterproofing, and built a half-meter-high stone foundation on the ground floor, which was made of stones mixed with clay. Jiang Baiye spent a lot of effort just to choose these strips of stones.

    Unlike most of the adobe houses in the village, this is a new type of adobe house that appeared in later generations. The bottom layer is made of stone and the upper layer of adobe is stronger, and the foot of the wall is not easy to be damaged by holes drilled by rats.

    Then comes the most painful part.

    rammed earth.

    With one hammer after another, the clay mixed with straw and sand is poured into the mold by manpower, pounded into a hard and neat adobe, and then added layer by layer, and bamboo strips are added as wall reinforcements in the middle to prevent cracking.

    The six gangsters are completely unable to make head or tail of it, but after a few days of getting along, they have unconsciously gotten used to following Jiang Baiye's orders.

    Whenever Li Erniu and the three gangsters sent by Jiang Yueming sensed something was wrong, someone would always jump out and interfere with their sight.

    "Brother Ye, your adobe house is built differently from others. If we learn it, can we help others build it and earn more money?" The young man said excitedly, he really wanted to learn.

    He couldn't understand a word about waterproofing, drainage, strength, tension, house design, mortise and tenon structure, and cementitious materials, but he knew that Brother Ye was very good.

    Not only the youngest son, Jiang Dazhu who helped others build the adobe house, and other villagers were all attracted.

    Originally watching from a distance, gradually, seeing Jiang Baiye calmly commanding in the crowd, faced with some situations they had never seen before, they couldn't help but stepped forward and asked.

    It can be said that they have gained a lot from this back and forth, and it turned out to be the case. All the problems that they had in building adobe houses in the past seemed to be solved at this moment.

    And Jiang Baiye was not stingy to tell them some common sense. During the discussion, he would also gain some points that he hadn't considered, and further improved his adobe house.

    Under such circumstances, how could Li Erniu and the other three leave at will.

    Not to mention that Jiang Baiye's changes surprised them, but the things he said also made them feel novel.

    Especially the other three people, they are not bad at all, under the influence of the third son, they have faint signs of reforming their evil ways, and they want to learn skills from Jiang Baiye.

    Jiang Baiye also intends to use modern architectural theories and knowledge to develop some businesses, such as garden design, bridges and dams, civil air defense... Of course, those are all far away.

    Right now, Jiang Baiye is building an adobe house, and the number of birds per stone is already innumerable. Few people on the field can know how much effort he saves in his next step.

    And Lu Lizhi, who lives just across the wall, consciously or unconsciously, there is a lot of movement next door, people coming and going, can always hear something.

    After a little deliberation, he felt more and more that this Jiang Er was not simple.

    He twisted his slender and clear eyebrows, looked at the dishes that had been washed but hadn't found a chance to return them, thought of the chicken soup that suited his taste, and the young man who pretended to be gentle and harmless, step by step.Close to himself, it seems that he still has an unusual understanding of himself...

    Lu Lizhi decisively took out a piece of paper, which was also the last piece of paper he had left, and wrote two words with a pen.

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