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Chapter 25 Hiring someone to build a wall
The meat had not yet been divided when people came to help.

Seeing this, Wang Chunhua took the initiative to say, "Xiaoye, let Auntie cook lunch today. By then, the yard will be covered with yellow soil and it will be difficult to clean up."

"Okay, I'll trouble you then."

Xu Ye thought about the Li family’s situation. The rocket stove could not be used yet, which was indeed inconvenient.

"Look at what you said, kid, what's the trouble with this."

"In our rural area, you help me and I help you, and no one finds it troublesome." Wang Chunhua said happily.

So Xu Ye took Jiang Ruoan and Jiang Ruyue back to move the pot and ingredients over.

The task of cooking lunch was left to Jiang Ruoan and Wang Chunhua. Xu Ye's mother-in-law would definitely come to help soon.

Five women are more than enough to cook lunch and dinner for twenty or thirty people. After all, it is not a wedding banquet.

Before Jiang Youshou and Zhang Gui had breakfast, Xu Ye called them to Zhang's house for breakfast.

The others gathered in the Li family's yard. Zhang Fu was dividing the work among them, acting like a contractor.

Xu Ye remembered that in his previous life, Zhang Fu took his brothers and nephews to work on construction sites in the 1980s and soon established his own construction team.

Unfortunately, they were murdered in a conflict, which led to the disbanding of the construction team and several people being sent to jail.

During those days, working in architecture was often associated with one word, which was not very glorious.

If there is a chance, he thinks he can try to get the other party to take a different path.

Xu Ye counted and found that there were 29 people in total.

These are the connections of the Zhang and Jiang families, which are considered good in the village.

The main forces are from the Zhang family, and there are only 9 from the Jiang family.

Rammed earth walls require more than just loess; they also need straw and some sand mixed into a rammed earth structure.

If conditions permit, some glutinous rice or something like that will be added.

But to build a wall, there is naturally no need to use such large materials.

After determining the height and range of the wall, everyone cleared away the fences and leveled the original foundation of the wall.

Zhang Fu clearly told Xu Ye that it would not be finished in one day. Although everyone was motivated, it would still take a day and a half.

After all, his yard is not small, and the wall is 2.8 meters high, so it's quite a project.

Xu Ye's original estimate was two days, and he was very satisfied that it could be delivered half a day earlier.

After the foundation was leveled, people came back one after another carrying different amounts of soil.

Under the command of Zhang Fu, after mixing the materials, everyone started the wall tamping process.

Xu Ye and Zhang Sanbao originally wanted to work, but were sent by Jiang Youshou to catch up on their sleep.

He didn't sleep the whole night last night and carried a wild boar weighing nearly 400 kilograms back to the village. He was worried that Xu Ye and the others couldn't handle it.

By the time Xu Ye got up at noon, the wall was already one meter high.

Xu Ye was very surprised that carrying things on shoulders and hands could be so efficient.

"Everyone take a break and get ready to wash up and eat." Jiang Ruoan, the host's wife, shouted at the door.

When Jiang Ruoan saw Xu Ye get up, he smiled brightly.

"Have you slept enough?" Jiang Ruoan trotted to Xu Ye, took his arm, and asked gently.

"I slept well, it's just right for me to get up and eat." Xu Ye scratched her nose.

Jiang Ruoan was stunned for a moment, and the smile on his face became even brighter.

In the past, Xu Ye was rather dull and old-fashioned, and would never do such a thing, especially in front of others.

If Jiang Ruoan hadn't taken the initiative to pursue Xu Ye, the two of them would never have been together.

"Lao Jiang, your son-in-law and your second daughter are so loving."

"Young people are really different from people like us. We don't have the nerve to be so intimate."

"It's not that times have changed, it's called free love now."

Everyone discussed the end of work with envy, and then fetched water to wash their hands and faces.

Today's lunch was quite sumptuous. Jiang Ruoan was not stingy at all as it was his first time as the head of the household. He cooked three large pots of pork heads and three pots of wild vegetable stew.

The oil and water used were sufficient, and the wild vegetable stew was fragrant. In her opinion, this was Xu Ye's first big event, and she had to give him a good reputation.

It's just some pig heads, not that valuable.

But everyone was very satisfied with the meal, and even Xu Ye had an extra bowl of rice.

Fortunately, everyone's stomach withstood the test and no one suffered from diarrhea.

After all, "sufficient oil and water" is only relative, not particularly exaggerated.

In the afternoon, Xu Ye and Zhang Sanbao also did some work together because they were not planning to go into the mountains to hunt at night.

Today is the 21st day of the lunar calendar. The moonlight is rather dim and it is no longer suitable to go into the mountains to hunt at night.

Xu Ye also asked Jiang Ruoan to cook some porridge with pork liver and rice as a snack.

Building rammed earth walls is a physically demanding job that consumes a lot of energy.

It is better if you eat white rice because it is easier to digest.

But what they eat is sweet potato rice mixed with white rice, which is quite easy to digest.

This snack made everyone feel more favorable towards Xu Ye. After all, it was rare to find such a generous host.

After snack, we worked hard and didn't stop until 7pm when it got dark.

At this time, the wall was already two and a half meters high, and the original door of the house was moved to the position of the courtyard gate.

This way, it won’t take half a day to finish the work tomorrow.

When everyone went back, each of them carried a pound of meat and they were all smiling from ear to ear.

As a rammed earth master, Xu Ye gave Zhang Fu two kilograms of meat and one dollar as wages, which was considered to be a great honor to him.

Tomorrow morning, everyone will come over to rush and finish the remaining parts.

In other people's homes, a two-and-a-half-meter wall is actually high enough.

But Xu Ye wanted the wall of the neighboring Fan family to be higher than that of the neighboring Fan family, so as not to give the other party a chance to peek.

This is 75 years, and there are many things that cannot be done or said.

He was worried that some of his actions might be out of line, and if others saw them, he would be in danger.

He can be tense outside, but home is a place to relax and he doesn't want to be on guard against others all the time.

The villagers took the meat home, and Xu Ye and his friends also took some meat from Zhang's family home.

The meat yield of the wild boar is quite high. After paying the wages, Xu Ye and his team took back 89 kilograms of meat and 16 kilograms of bones.

All these meats need to be pickled and made into bacon.

Jiang Ruoan and the others were busy in the kitchen for a long time before coming to the yard.

Looking at the newly built earth walls and the tightly closed courtyard gate, Jiang Ruyue felt particularly at ease.

"I don't have to hold a hunting knife before sleeping anymore." Jiang Ruyue couldn't help but sigh.

The Li family has no male heirs, so Li Dongming is easily bullied after he became paralyzed.

Someone had broken into Li's house in the dark before and climbed into her and Li Dongming's room through the window.

Fortunately, Jiang Ruyue was sleeping with the gun in her arms at that time and almost killed the man.

Later, she started to sleep with a hunting knife in her arms, as the knife was enough to protect herself.

Jiang Ruoan hugged her sister and comforted her, "It's all over. Our lives will get better and better in the future. No one will dare to bully you anymore."

Jiang Ruyue firmly believed this.

Only two days had passed, and her life had changed drastically.

Not only did they not have to go hungry, they could also eat meat and have extra money to build a wall.

This was something she had never dared to think about in the past two years.

Looking at Xu Ye, the tenderness in her eyes was almost overflowing.

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