After Jiang Yanqiu came in and introduced her identity, Liu Yuanda's wife Chen Tao took a few steps back holding the child.

Then he asked somewhat unhappily, "You are the educated youth next door. I heard that you have tuberculosis. How are you now?"

"That's bullshit to scare Aunt Lai. I'm too lazy to deal with her."

Lying is really tiring. Jiang Yanqiu regretted speaking too quickly that day, but who would have thought that she would meet an acquaintance.

After hearing this, Chen Tao said with a sense of relief: "Don't take it to heart. Our child is still young, and we are worried that something might happen to him."

Liu Yuanda said cheerfully, "It's only been over a year since we last met, and Xiao Jiang has become dishonest. She used to be the most honest among our educated youth."

Jiang Yanqiu was a little embarrassed!

Lin Shaoyang looked at Liu Yuanda like a fool. "Brother, I didn't realize you were blind before!" Why do you think Jiang Yanqiu is the most honest educated youth in the educated youth site?

Chen Tao rolled her eyes at Liu Yuanda and said, "But that Aunt Lai is really trying to take advantage of everything. She claims to be taking advantage but in fact she is actually robbing herself.

You also have to be careful about Uncle Liu's family in the east wing. The family that used to live in our yard was almost bullied out by his family."

Jiang Yanqiu asked in confusion: "Why is it almost the same?"

Chen Tao smiled and explained to Jiang Yanqiu, "The Liu family can't take advantage of others, so they make trouble every few days. The children of that family even poop and pee at the door and throw garbage at the door.

Later, the family couldn't stand it anymore and happened to find a suitable yard. The rent was much higher, so they moved out.

The Liu family originally wanted to move in with us, but ended up being rented out to Liu Yuanda and his gang by the street. They wanted to make trouble, but Lin Shaoyang performed an iron sand palm show on the spot, chopping bricks with his bare hands. Plus, they had just returned to the city at that time, and they were like two big black bears, so fierce that the Liu family didn't dare to mess with them.

Jiang Yanqiu couldn't help laughing. In the past, these two men really looked like big black bears, with dark faces, tall stature, and broad backs.

But the Liu family is so disgusting. I have to be more careful in the future.

Jiang Yanqiu and a few others chatted while working. The situation in the slum was similar to what Li Anan had described, except for some interesting details.

While Liu Yuanda and his wife were coaxing the child, Jiang Yanqiu quickly handed 1,200 yuan to Lin Shaoyang.

Lin Shaoyang didn't want to accept it at first, but he was afraid that the noise would make Liu Yuanda and his wife find out. Then he thought about how Jiang Yanqiu didn't like to owe others, so he had to sigh and accept the money.

Not long after Jiang Yanqiu arrived, Chu Tingnan came in a hurry, carrying a bag of braised beef in soy sauce, and he was not at all shy.

Today Jiang Yanqiu didn't wear a hat and her bangs were down. Chu Tingnan opened his mouth and said, "Sister Yanqiu, why did you cut your hair? You have a small face to begin with, and with this cut, your face is gone."

"You are the shameless one." Jiang Yanqiu rolled her eyes at him and didn't want to pay any attention to him. She was always annoyed by his words.

Chu Tingnan finally realized that he had said something wrong and quickly said, "It was a slip of the tongue, a slip of the tongue, but after you cut your hair, you look like a child."

Then he said in surprise: "Did you have a fight? Why are there scratches on your face? No wonder you cut your hair."

Jiang Yanqiu ignored him and changed the subject directly: "You didn't go to work today? Why are you here so early?"

Seeing that she didn't want to talk, Chu Tingnan stopped asking and turned to talk about work. He said with a smug look on his face:

"We bricklayers don't have a place to sit and wait for the end of the day. Once we finish our work, we can just leave. Look, the Chinese New Year hasn't even ended yet, and I'm already here to renovate the company's sewers. Today, I just finished the work and left early."

Jiang Yanqiu casually replied, "Your job is quite free."

Chu Tingnan nodded repeatedly in agreement. "It does offer some freedom, otherwise I wouldn't have changed my job. Sister Yanqiu, do you want to build a kang? I'll build you a large kang from Northeast China. I'm very skilled at it, and I'll get you some wood to burn. Although the winter here isn't as cold as in the Great Northern Wilderness, it's still pretty cold."

"No, no." Jiang Yanqiu quickly waved her hand to refuse when she heard it. Li Anan's house was decorated in an antique style, and adding a big Northeastern kang to it would seem out of place no matter how she thought about it.

Lin Shaoyang smiled and reminded: "Some rooms in this yard have floor heating. Jiang Yanqiu's room should have one too. If you feel cold, you can light a floor heating."

Chu Tingnan said a little embarrassedly: "It's so advanced. I didn't even know about it. Li Anan didn't even bother to tell me about such an important thing."

Lin Shaoyang pointed at the mouth of the underground fire dragon and said, "She probably doesn't know either. I just stumbled upon it while cleaning the yard. If you can get some wood, get us some too. It's really cold without a fire in this cold weather, and burning coal is too troublesome."

Chu Tingnan readily agreed, "No problem! Our urban construction team has a lot of scrap wood. I'll go get it for you right away."

Seeing that it was still early, Lin Shaoyang asked Liu Yuanda and the other three to go to the urban construction team to pull wood because he had prepared a lot of seafood and the dishes could be cooked quickly.

Jiang Yanqiu stayed and watched the pot on the fire.

Not long after, the three of them came back pushing three carts of wood. Chen Tao, who had coaxed the child awake, watched the fire, while Jiang Yanqiu went to help move the wood.

Aunt Lai came out to watch the fun again. Seeing Lin Shaoyang and the others with Jiang Yanqiu, she asked curiously, "Xiao Lin, Xiao Jiang, do you two know each other?"

"Of course not. We are from the same educated youth camp. Aunt Lai, Xiao Jiang is not in good health. I'll trouble you to take better care of him from now on."

Lin Shaoyang was trying to hold back his laughter as he spoke, and he almost laughed out loud.

But Jiang Yanqiu really doesn't gain weight, and she eats a lot. Her thin and small body looks like she is not in good health.

There were three carts of wood, but Lin Shaoyang only needed half of it. He basically ate in the cafeteria and seldom went home to cook, so he didn't need much.

Liu Yuanda's family asked for one truck, Jiang Yanqiu and Tian Mi asked for one and a half trucks, and they were all piled together.

When Jiang Yanqiu was moving wood, she suddenly smelled a strange smell that she had never smelled before.

She thought that the waste wood from the urban construction team was all discarded when renovating old houses, so there wouldn't be any good stuff here.

So she quickly opened her third eye and found that one of the ugly pieces of wood actually emitted a large circle of light. Unfortunately, she didn't understand these things and didn't know what kind of wood it was.

Seeing Jiang Yanqiu in a daze, Chu Tingnan came over curiously and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Jiang Yanqiu picked up the wood and said, "Look at this, it still smells good."

Chu Tingnan looked at it for a long time, smelled it, pinched it, and even tasted a little, then exclaimed: "This is simply a waste of natural resources. This seems to be the legendary agarwood, and it was almost burned as firewood."

Jiang Yanqiu was a little surprised and said, "You know this?"

Chu Tingnan explained with a smile, "I've been working with wood since I was a child and learned wood carving for many years. I originally wanted to work in a furniture factory, but they didn't want me. So I ended up joining the urban construction team, renovating ancient buildings. But now there's no work for me as a plasterer."

Chu Tingnan searched again among the scrap wood, but unfortunately he didn't find it. He still didn't give up and rode his tricycle to the urban construction team again.

But he was very disappointed and found nothing, so he could only pull back a cart of wood and put it in Jiang Yanqiu's yard.

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