Crossing 70: Fish in the Pond Have Good News

Jiang Yu carried the chestnuts up the mountain and returned to the brick kiln. He found an open space and poured out the chestnuts with prickly shells and scattered them all over the ground.

"Master Jiang, do you want to peel chestnuts? We can help you." The men who were weaving straw sandals stood up, eager to try.

Jiang Yu said, "Okay," since we were free anyway, we might as well peel the chestnuts and make a fire to roast them later.

The brick kiln burned for three consecutive days, during which time the chimney and sentry holes had to be opened, water had to be injected, and various other detailed operations had to be performed. After obtaining Jiang Yu's consent, the village accountant Hong Dahe wrote down all these steps very carefully and meticulously.

The temperature inside the kiln had dropped overnight. When the villagers received the news, everyone who could come came, craning their necks and waiting for the kiln to be opened to take bricks.

People from the educated youth site also came to join in the fun. They stood outside the crowd and talked about the brick kiln in low voices.

Fang Qianqian glanced at Ma Yanna calmly and said, "This Jiang Yu has been showing off since he came to the team. First he made a bicycle, then a standing sickle, and now he even made bricks. Wow, he is not simple."

Ma Yanna didn't care what she said at all. She stuck to Guan Wenbin, hooking her fingers on him from time to time, while her eyes were wandering around the villagers around her.

Fang Qianqian gritted her teeth, not only was she angry at Ma Yanna, she was even more angry at Guan Wenbin!

How did he get close to this woman for no apparent reason? He still listened to Ma Yanna and changed cooking partners with Chen Lei...

Liu Qiang stood behind Guan Wenbin, not far away was Chen Xiaohua. The two of them stared at the pair of sticky hands in front of them in silence, not knowing what they were thinking.

An auntie that He Yuanchao knew well had already gone over to join them with a bag of hazelnuts.

Luo Xinci was dedicated to separating his brother and Li Fenfang, and kept pestering Luo Chengli for talk.

Yuan Jiaojiao's eyes never stopped looking at the villagers around her, listening to their conversations with her ears perked up, and she was very busy.

Xue Li was protected by Chen Jinghan, who was holding Xue Li's snack bag in his hand. The two of them had difficulty weaving through the crowd because Xue Li wanted to find Jiang Yu.

"Open the furnace!" With Jiang Yu's order, the door of the brick kiln opened.

After allowing the room to ventilate a little, Zhuang Shouren impatiently and carefully crawled in. After a while, he came out with a brick in his hand.

Because of the composition of the clay, the fired bricks are yellowish in color.

But the villagers don't care about its color, this is a brick! A brick that can be used to build a house!

"Let me see it!" The crowd in the front row was so excited that they swarmed up, surrounded Zhuang Shouren and began to reach out to touch it.

"Aim carefully and touch! Where are you touching?" Zhuang Shouren shouted with difficulty, "That blind man touched my face? Ouch! He poked my eyes, you bastards!!"

The smart person at the back looked at the people around him, walked up to Jiang Yu and asked her if he could go in and get the bricks.

Jiang Yu nodded.

Those people bent over and went into the kiln, and started moving bricks one by one.

This kiln was built by Jiang Yu after it was scaled down, so it can only hold 5,000 bricks at a time.

When everyone had moved all the bricks out and stacked them aside, except for a hundred or so cracked and incomplete bricks, the remaining intact bricks were placed there. The accountant, the team leader, and the secretary all had red eyes and were so excited that they couldn't speak.

Jiang Yu went forward to check the quality of the bricks. They were better than she expected. She squeezed them and found that they cracked but did not break. "Not bad. These bricks will be used to build the new kiln."

"Master Jiang, isn't going to use some to renovate the house?" someone asked.

"Master Jiang lives in the educated youth compound, and the house repair work..."

"Hey, why don't we get Master Jiang a house to live in!"

"It's not impossible. We have bricks anyway. Master Jiang also said he wants to make tiles. Let's build a big tile house for Master Jiang!"

Jiang Yu interrupted them quickly, "No need, I live well now." There was no foundation in the village, so where could they build a house for her?

The subsequent troubles are endless, which is really unnecessary.

Zhuang Shouren sighed, "You have the final say. From now on, Master Jiang will be the benefactor of our entire village. If you have any questions, just ask!"

Good guy, you are just called that.

The villagers were either talking around the ginger fish or looking at the bricks in amazement.

The aunties who gathered around now all like the ginger fish. Not only do they stuff it with homemade roasted peanuts and pine nuts, they also praise her for being pretty, capable, and especially smart, etc.

Jiang Yu really couldn't handle it, luckily Xue Li came over and was very sweet to help her out, and then he pulled those aunties together to praise her.

But after calming down and thinking about it, Jiang Yu still felt that something was strange in the team.

Everyone's voices were so unified, as if everyone fell in love with her at once.

Clearly before that, we could hear some people dislike the educated youth, and there were conflicts among the villagers and there was disharmony.

But why are they all smiling when they turn around and face her, their smiles are as neat as a painting. Is this normal?

While everyone was making noise and laughing, Xiong Lijin walked around the crowd with a serious expression and quietly returned to the educated youth point.

Jiang Yu had sharp eyes and looked in that direction in confusion. Not long after, he discovered that a person he had never seen before appeared among the villagers, looking around as if he was looking for someone.

"Who is that?" Jiang Yu casually asked the villagers around him.

The villagers looked in the direction she pointed and exclaimed in surprise, "Why is Yang Xiaoling from the Unity Brigade here?"

"Yang Xiaoling? Where is she?" Upon hearing this name, the surrounding villagers immediately became alert and looked around.

Xue Li also began to wonder, "Who is Yang Xiaoling?"

"Oh, it's the female educated youth in the Tuanjie Brigade who is good at cheating people out of money! You don't know, but I heard that she is very powerful. She can make men go around in circles, and they all give her gifts to please her." Speaking of this, the aunties' faces turned red with excitement. Those whose families are in the Tuanjie Brigade knew about this matter, and they told all the good things that Yang Xiaoling had done.

Yang Xiaoling, an educated youth who came to the countryside to work last summer, is from the nearby city of J.

But her personality is not as straightforward as most northerners. She speaks softly and looks delicate and pretty. She is polite when talking to people and smiles sweetly.

At the beginning, everyone in the Tuanjie Brigade liked this well-behaved and lovely girl and had a very good impression of her.

What she did was exposed in the spring of this year.

Zhao Yongnian, who had been pursuing her for more than half a year and spent nearly 50 yuan on gifts alone, was followed by his family. The two were in a shabby house in the village, calling each other brother and getting along sweetly, when the Zhao family broke into the house.

Mother Zhao slapped Yang Xiaoling in the face and asked her to pay back the money.

Because of the loud noise, villagers quickly came to watch. This stirred up a hornet's nest. Several young people came out to protect Yang Xiaoling and cursed Zhao Ma as a shrew.

The families of those young people were already wondering why their sons were spending money lavishly recently. After this incident, there was nothing left to be confused about. Immediately, more people joined in the fight.

Yang Xiaoling was torn by the aunties who had been doing manual labor for many years. Her clothes were torn. She cried and hid behind Zhao Yongnian, saying that she was not a liar and had not cheated others' money. Everyone loved and pitied her and helped her through the difficulties. She had not had any casual relationships with men and women. Everyone was her half-brother...