0p0 Chapter 209 Renovation of the Backyard
Chapter 209 Renovation of the Backyard
After a few days, Old Man Xu planned to start rebuilding the backyard. Now that the weather was getting warmer and the ground was not so hard, it was a good time to renovate the backyard.
The Xu family used to call it the backyard, but it was actually the side yard. That yard was the old house of the Xu family. When the hunter Xu got married, Old Man Xu bought the land next to it and built a new house, which is where the whole family lives now. The old house was converted into a yard. Because they didn't have enough money, they used the doors and windows of the old house for the new house.
As time went by, the Xu family had more children, and the birth of three siblings made the small family more lively, but the three rooms were not enough, so they used the remaining bricks of the old house to build two more spacious houses. The main part of the old house was gradually transformed into a pigpen, a chicken coop, and a place to store farm tools and sundries.
"Grandpa, can you let me plan the backyard?" Xu Congyi quickly suggested.
"Of course! You can plan whatever you want," Old Man Xu looked at his precious granddaughter with a smile.
"Grandpa, are the men in the village no longer busy now?" Xu Congyi suddenly asked.
"Everyone has finished planting their fields, so they shouldn't be busy anymore." Old Man Xu probably knew what his precious granddaughter wanted to do. "Yi Yi, do you want to build a house again?"
"The one who understands me best is my grandfather," Xu Congyi thought about building a chicken coop. She found that the white-feathered chickens were growing well these days and were obviously much larger than the local chickens at home. They would be ready for the market in about three or four months, so she planned to build a chicken coop directly and start large-scale breeding.
Old man Xu knew that his granddaughter was a visionary and courageous child. "Okay! I'll ask the men in the village to help in a few days. Think carefully about how to plan the backyard in the next few days, and draw a blueprint of the chicken coop you want to build for me to see."
"Okay!" Xu Cong smiled happily. She still had to think about how to plan the backyard. After drawing a rough blueprint in the next few days, she could start working on it!
It is not complicated to tidy up the backyard, you just need to clean up the mess. Xu Congyi also wants to tidy up and plant some vegetables and fruits.
After Xu Congyi returned to the space, she simply drew a layout of her home. The current yard did not need to be renovated, but Xu Congyi thought that she could build a flower bed to grow some flowers in the future. Moreover, Xu Congyi also wanted to build a flush toilet in the backyard. The current toilet was outside the yard, and it took two minutes to walk to the toilet. Although she had never used the toilet here since she told her family about the space, and always went back to the space to use it, she also hoped to make it convenient for her family.
After finishing the blueprint, Xu Congyi walked out of the space with great joy, and saw her mother, Li Dahua, sitting at the stone table, humming a little tune and picking vegetables leisurely. She quickly came forward, helped pick vegetables, and asked the question that puzzled her: "Mom, why is our toilet built outside the yard, and so far away? I remember that other people's houses are built in the yard."
As soon as these words came out, it was as if a switch was touched, and Li Dahua suddenly burst into laughter, the laughter was so loud that even a few birds in the distance were startled and flew away. Xu Congyi was confused by the laughter and had no idea what was so funny.
At this time, Old Man Xu and Hunter Xu came back from feeding the rabbits, and Xu Congyi asked them the same question with great expectation. Unexpectedly, Grandpa and Daddy's reaction was exactly the same as Mom's, and they also laughed out loud, as if they had heard some big joke.
Xu Congyi was completely confused. She stared at the three people in front of her with wide eyes and innocently looked at them. She kept wondering in her heart, "What is going on? Is my question so funny?"
Finally, after laughing enough, Li Dahua wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and explained: "Yiyi, you were so naughty when you were a child, especially when you were sick. You were confused and always ran to dangerous places. Our original toilet was where the cowshed is now, but you were always careless... then... hehe, you know." At this point, Li Dahua couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh.
"Oh, I was the one who rescued you every time. Later, I really didn't want to rescue you anymore, so I discussed with everyone to fill up the toilet and build another one outside." Hunter Xu wiped the tears from his eyes. Those days that seemed very difficult to endure became a source of laughter for everyone after Xu Congyi recovered.
Old Man Xu took over the conversation, his smile showing a hint of emotion: "Yes, every time your father rushed out to bring you back, I was really scared at that time. Later we discussed that for your safety and for the peace of mind of our whole family, we filled up the toilet and built a new one outside. Now that I think about it, those days were hard, but also quite interesting."