You confiscated my property, I exiled you, why are you crying when the treasury is empty?

Jiang Wenming took the drawing handed to him by Su Wanning. Almost every component was drawn on it and it was easy to understand.

He looked at Su Wanning and asked, "Is your family also engaged in carpentry business?"

Su Wanning also guessed why he said that, "No, I just read some books on this subject before and did some research when I had nothing to do."

Jiang Wenming nodded after hearing Su Wanning's explanation. "Sure, I'll take a ruler and measure it now."

As they were talking, they came to the place where the house was being built and quickly measured the approximate length.

When he was about to go back, he looked at Su Wanning and asked, "Do you want to paint the walls of this house with whitewash?"

Su Wanning had wanted to renovate the house before, but there was no paint in the space, so she didn’t know whether the white lime he was talking about was the same as the paint she thought it was.

"I don't know what white lime looks like, and I don't know whether to apply it."

Jiang Wenming waved to Su Wanning and came to a courtyard where most of the rooms were painted white.

The good news is that the whole room is much brighter after painting, but the bad news is that almost a layer of it will fall off if you rub it with your hands.

"This was done several years ago. Generally, it needs to be cleaned once a year. If done well, it will not shed dust." Jiang Wenming added after seeing Su Wanning's actions.

"Then apply a layer of white lime." Su Wanning replied. At worst, she could just maintain it when the time comes. It would look much better than exposing the bricks now.

Jiang Wenming took the paper he had used to take measurements of the house and started writing and drawing. "Then leave a little space. Go talk to your Uncle Qi Zheng later and have the rooms painted with a layer of whitewash. Have him paint it in advance to get rid of the smell. Even if it gets dirty after we build it later, we'll just need to touch it up."

After leaving the yard, Su Wanning told Lu Qizheng about the whitewashing.

"Okay, the main house can be built today. I'll go to the next town to buy white lime in the afternoon, and it will be finished tomorrow. You can go to the city to buy some things in a few days. They will be used for the beams in eight days." Lu Qi said as he looked at the layout of the house.

Su Wanning nodded and took out a few more banknotes and handed them to Lu Qizheng. "Okay, when the time comes, just tell me in advance what you need to prepare. These banknotes are Bai Hui's money. If it's not enough, just tell me again."

Lu Qizheng took the banknote. Finally, he didn't have to pay in advance this time. "Okay, I'll write down what you need to buy when the time comes."

Looking at the house that is about to be completed and will be move-in ready soon, I think of how hard I worked in modern times and how before I traveled through time, I couldn't even afford the down payment for the smallest house. I feel sad.

Fortunately, she will soon have a home of her own here.

It took me a while to come back to my senses and plan to go to the place where I could get water.

Since we have plenty of time now, we decided to walk over.

Before I arrived, I saw villagers washing clothes by the river.

Li Cuizhi, whom she knew, happened to be there. Su Wanning walked over to her and said, "Auntie, I see that everyone in the village washes clothes here. Although this distance is not far, it is inconvenient to wash vegetables and cook. Why don't you dig a well in the village?"

Li Cuizhi beat the clothes with a paddle. "It's not like the village hasn't dug a well before, but either there was no water or the water was salty, so the village stopped digging wells. Anyway, we have nothing to do every day, and it's not far from the village, so we all come here to fetch water."

“Then why not just dig a canal directly to the village.”

Li Cuizhi paused, "We've tried this before, but because the soil on both sides is sandy, the water seeps down before it even reaches the village. Since we don't have crops in the village, the demand for water isn't great, so we've put this on hold for now."

Su Wanning looked towards the village. Even if it was all sandy soil, it would be fine after the soil absorbed enough water. How could no one in the village know the reason?

But since she will live in the village in the future, she must do it in the most convenient way.

Thinking of this, Su Wanning looked at Li Cuizhi and said, "Aunt, if we use bamboo to connect the water to the village, wouldn't it be very convenient to get water every day?"

Li Cuizhi looked at Su Wanning and asked, "You have so much money that you can't spend it all?"

Su Wanning was full of questions, and then she heard Li Cuizhi continue, "Not to mention that there are no bamboos grown in Lingnan, even if there are, they are extremely expensive. From here to the village, at least seven or eight bamboos are needed.

If water is always flowing, where does it go when no one is there to collect it?

"When not in use, we can just block it, or dig a ditch nearby that flows into the ocean." Su Wanning thought.

Li Cuizhi glanced at Su Wanning and said, "You have already demonstrated your financial strength, so why wouldn't someone be tempted to poison the water?

Even if you are fine, if something happens to other people in the village, they will immediately put all the blame on you because you were the one who proposed to build it.

"Then I'll divert the water directly to my yard..."

"If the villagers knew about this, your doorstep would be trampled down, and if anyone got upset, you wouldn't be able to escape responsibility."

Su Wanning frowned, "Then there is no other way?"

Li Cuizhi pointed to a shallow, dried-up ditch not far away and said, "The canal leading to the village was right there, but it was eventually blocked."

Then he looked at Su Wanning, "I know you have good intentions, but people's hearts are hidden. You are thinking about the villagers, and maybe you have been remembered by others for a long time. This is the case for everyone in this village, not to mention that you came from somewhere else."

Su Wanning was stunned. She had indeed oversimplified the matter.

Li Cuizhi stood up, holding the washed clothes and patted Su Wanning on the shoulder. "Don't even think about this. It will be convenient to buy a few more buckets and use a horse-drawn carriage to transport water."

Guo Qinghua, who had just been washing clothes next to Li Cuizhi, also picked up the basin and stood up, and said to Su Wanning, "Just listen to your Aunt Cuizhi."

Su Wanning stared at the still flowing river in a daze until she saw scales in the water reflecting the sunlight.

When I came to my senses, I saw the fish in the water.

"Zhan Beiwang, there are fish in there, let's catch a few and take them back to eat."

Zhan Beiwang picked up one or two small stones from the river and threw them into the water.

Then a fish floated up and she reached out to it, but it was too small.

"Let's go upstream and catch a few more, and then go back and make fish soup."

The two walked upstream and found that the water was still very shallow after walking for a while, until they reached the place where the river flowed out from the mountain.

The water had only just deepened a little. She had originally thought of walking up the mountain path not far away to take a look, but Zhan Beiwang stopped her and said, "We've walked a long way and caught enough fish. It's time to go back."