The Domineering General and His Post-it Lady

After everyone walked out of the planting base, Lou Yunsi saw the soil and came up with a new idea. He said to everyone, "Are you free tonight? Let's build a sweet potato kiln and roast sweet potatoes together!"

Fan Ziren asked in confusion: "Sweet potato kiln? Light a fire and roast the sweet potatoes upwards?"

Lou Yunsi said: "No, it's a mini pyramid."

Li Shenning asked: "Madam, what is a pyramid?"

Lou Yunsi thought: Oh, how can I explain it to these ancient bumpkins? I can't just say it's the Egyptian one. Then they'll ask what Egypt is. I'm not a geography expert, and if I keep asking, I'll be at a loss for words.

So, Lou Yunsi said, "Stop talking nonsense, are you coming or not?"

Fan Ziren nodded and said, "If you invite me, I must come!"

Li Shenning and Xiao Shenke also nodded.

When Lou Yunsi heard what Fan Ziren said, he smiled with satisfaction. When Fan Ziren saw Lou Yunsi's smile, he also felt sweet in his heart and was in a particularly good mood.

Lou Yunsi added: "Now each of you can go find your own mother and do your own things. We will gather in the other courtyard in the evening."

After hearing what Lou Yunsi said, everyone couldn't help but laugh.

At night, Lou Yunsi and Wangcai prepared to build a mini pyramid. Wangcai was usually very efficient at work, but for some reason, when he was building a mini pyramid with Lou Yunsi, his hands were always shaking and he always fell down halfway through.

Lou Yunsi asked Wangcai helplessly: "Wangcai, did you not eat enough today? Why do you keep falling over?"

Wangcai replied: "Madam, I, I want to go to the toilet."

Lou Yunsi said: "Being defeated by you..."

At this time, Fan Ziren came with Li Shenning and Xiao Shenke, and saw Lou Yunsi busy in the yard, building something with those mud blocks.

Fan Ziren walked over and asked, "What are you doing?"

Lou Yunsi said: "Build a pyramid, oh, no, just build a mini house."

Fan Ziren understood instantly and started to help Lou Yunsi put it together. Li Shenning and Xiao Shenke watched Fan Ziren from the side. They had never seen Fan Ziren do such things before, and their happiness was beyond words.

Li Shenning couldn't help but tease: "Oh, what a perfect couple!"

Fan Ziren glanced at Li Shenning and smiled, as if to say: Boy, you are good at talking, so say more!

Lou Yunsi was concentrating on building the mini pyramid and didn't pay attention to what Li Shenning said.

Strangely enough, the cooperation between Lou Yunsi and Fan Ziren was so tacit that it was perfect. Just now, Lou Yunsi and Wangcai had been building it there for a long time, and it collapsed several times. Lou Yunsi was almost going crazy.

I didn’t expect that working with Fan Ziren would lead to success so quickly.

Fan Ziren also felt that he could do anything happily with Lou Yunsi.

After the set up, Li Shenning stepped forward and asked, "Madam, is there anything we can help you with?"

Lou Yunsi said, "Guard Xiao, can you please go get some firewood? Guard Li will be in charge of helping to light the fire."

After hearing this, Xiao Shenke immediately went to get the firewood, and then stuffed it into the mini pyramid as Lou Yunsi instructed, and asked Li Shenning to light it.

The fire was lit and the mini pyramid was burning inside. After the mini pyramid was burning brightly, Lou Yunsi put the sweet potato that Luo Yun brought inside, and then asked Fan Ziren to help collapse the mini pyramid.

Fan Ziren asked doubtfully, "Can we just collapse it?"

Lou Yunsi said, "Yes, let's just sit and wait for it. The super delicious baked sweet potatoes are about to come out of the oven!"

After a while, Lou Yunsi asked Wangcai to carefully dig out the sweet potatoes.

Everyone started eating, em... why is it a little raw? Everyone looked embarrassed and spit it out, only Luo Yun endured and swallowed it, because Luo Yun didn't want to waste food.

Lou Yunsi thought: That’s not right, this method is popular in my family. I have a nickname in our village, called Earth Kiln Girl, and I am good at baking sweet potatoes in an earth kiln.

Suddenly, Lou Yunsi asked Wangcai: "Wangcai, did you just urinate secretly while we were collapsing the mini pyramid?"

Wangcai nodded, pointed to the soil nearby and said, "Yes, ma'am, I want to move this soil back to plant some crops. Let's urinate on it to make it more fertile!"

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed and suddenly smelled the smell of urine. Fan Ziren's face fell, Li Shenning rolled his eyes and made a dead fish face, and Xiao Shenke looked like he wanted to rush over and beat Wangcai.

Luo Yun thought of the sweet potato he had just swallowed that smelled of Wangcai's urine, and immediately pretended to vomit, scratching his throat desperately, rushed over and punched Wangcai's chest hard, cursing: "Damn Wangcai, there is a toilet but you don't go here, you are crazy!"

Wangcai said aggrievedly: "Didn't you say that we should make the best use of things? I don't want to waste anything!"

Xiao Shenke said coldly: "This is called abuse!"

Wangcai said: "Those dogs are peeing all over the street and they don't even notice what are you saying?"

Li Shenning said speechlessly: "You are not that dog!"

Lou Yunsi glared at Wangcai speechlessly and said, "Don't pee next to the earthen kiln next time, or the sweet potatoes will be half-cooked! If you do this again, I'll cut you!" After saying that, he made a scissors hand gesture at Wangcai's waistband.

Wangcai quickly covered his trouser waist and said, "No way, ma'am, is this true? I won't dare to do it again next time!"

Lou Yunsi said affirmatively: "Of course. When I was very young, my family told me that you can't urinate next to sweet potatoes when they are being roasted in an earthen kiln. This will cause the soil to absorb the urine and cause the sweet potatoes to be half-cooked. This is one of the taboos of roasting sweet potatoes passed down by the older generation of experts."

Wangcai asked, "What brick house?"

Lou Yunsi thought: I knocked you out with a brick, why did I keep a dog slave like you! If it weren't for your diligence and loyalty, I would have kicked you away long ago. Okay, I admit that you are the only one who is willing to follow me and work for me. Think about it, for your loyalty, I will spare you.

Lou Yunsi said to Wangcai: "It's not a brick, it's a person with authority, a person who speaks persuasively."

Wangcai then understood what Lou Yunsi said and nodded.

These sweet potatoes were half-cooked and inedible, so Lou Yunsi decided to try again and said to everyone, "Let's try again. Good things take time. If you want to eat delicious sweet potatoes, you will always encounter some problems. Come on!"

Seeing that Lou Yunsi was so optimistic, Fan Ziren followed her to rebuild the mini pyramid.

Follow the same steps and start over.

After everything was ready, Lou Yunsi asked loudly, "Did anyone just pee?"

Everyone looked at Wangcai with angry eyes and shook their heads. Only then did Lou Yunsi feel at ease and let Wangcai dig out the sweet potatoes.

This time, no one dared to try. You looked at me, I looked at you, and we just looked at each other, not daring to take any action.

Seeing that no one else was trying, Lou Yunsi probably feared eating a half-cooked sweet potato like before, so she decided to take action herself and broke open a sweet potato.

While eating, Lou Yunsi exclaimed: "This earthen kiln-baked sweet potato is so delicious no matter where you are!"

Seeing how enjoyable Lou Yunsi was eating, everyone couldn't help but pick up some to taste.

Wangcai shouted: "Wow, it's delicious!"

After tasting it, Fan Ziren also said: "The sweet potato snacks and sweet potato soup I had before were already delicious, but I didn't expect that this earthen kiln-baked sweet potato would be even better. It can turn sweet potatoes into delicious dishes. It's amazing!"

Luo Yun also said: "Madam, your secret recipe is too amazing!"

Li Shenning ate and said: "Madam, your secret recipe is amazing! Where did you find the secret recipe?"

Lou Yunsi thought: Should I say that this is the earthen kiln method that we all know in the countryside? If I say it, I will probably have to explain a lot, and I am not stupid.

Lou Yunsi said: "I was inspired by something when I was dreaming."

Wangcai opened his eyes wide and looked at Lou Yunsi and said, "Madam, you are simply a god who has descended to earth. You can even dream of researching such delicious sweet potatoes. You should dream more!"

Everyone laughed after hearing this.

Lou Yunsi looked at Xiao Shenke who was tasting the sweet potato. Xiao Shenke said, "It's really delicious. I've never eaten something so delicious before!"

Lou Yunsi smiled with satisfaction, finally his work was not in vain. Everyone happily ate the sweet potatoes baked in the earthen kiln while chatting about gossip. This was the life Lou Yunsi longed for, living with a few close friends, with wine, meat and sweet potatoes, without having to care about those house fights, without being ridiculed by others, and living a carefree life.