novelhk Chapter 252 Preparing for Winter
Chapter 252 Preparing for Winter
No trace of Yuan.
As soon as we got out of the Shilan River, Gu Tinglou was waiting on the shore.
She brought men and carriages to meet them.
Bai Jingzhi got off the boat and said, "Sixth Grandma, please wait a moment. Sixth Grandpa is getting dressed in the cabin and will come out to see you later."
After saying that, she gave Gu Tinglou a playful smile and winked at him.
Gu Tinglou could not hide her surprise on her face. The Bai Jingzhi she had heard from others seemed to be different from what she had imagined.
The girl who is described as smart and wise by others also has a playful side when no one is around.
Gu Tinglou is not short and is considered big in the court of Dazhuang.
Her hair was pulled up high into a ponytail, neat and tidy.
Bai Jingzhi fell in love with this beauty at first sight.
She is heroic and indeed different from other women.
So far, few women she had met could compare to Gu Tinglou.
Even the ruthless Jinhua was still slightly inferior to Gu Tinglou.
Someone approached, and Gu Tinglou's eyes were sharp. After learning Bai Jingzhi's identity, he gradually calmed down.
Zhou Yue'e stood guard beside Bai Jing, and her hand holding the knife handle gradually tightened, and then relaxed.
Gu Tinglou glanced, moved his body, came to Zhou Yue'e, and pressed Zhou Yue'e's hand holding the knife with his right hand, "Don't worry, little girl, I won't do it to my own people. If I want to do it, you can't stop me."
Bai Jingzhi watched the whole process from the side and couldn't hide his excitement.
There is also such a master around her.
She couldn't help but look forward to seeing who would win if she faced Jiang Zhu one day.
"You must be Yue'e, right? I heard that you are good at martial arts and have made great contributions."
Gu Tinglou's eyes had softened, and he had restrained his previous aggressiveness.
Zhou Yue'e's face flushed red. This was the first time someone approached her so casually and she had no power to resist.
"Sixth Grandma~"
It took me a long time to finally shout this out.
Gu Tinglou let go of her hand and smiled at her, "Not bad, we can spar with each other when we have time in the future."
"You are too modest!" Zhou Yue'e knew the importance of things and was very happy to have a senior willing to give her guidance.
Gu Tinglou returned to Bai Jingzhi's side. She had seen countless people, and the girl in front of her knew how to hide her shortcomings.
It’s good to know how to hide your shortcomings. People who know how to hide their shortcomings will live longer.
"Sixth Grandpa is out." Bai Jingzhi shouted and ran away with Zhou Yue'e.
Wei Liu slowly moved to Gu Tinglou's side, "Tinglou, when did you come to Wujiyuan? I thought you died in Lingzhou——"
"Can't you hope for something good?" Gu Tinglou's voice was loud, but his eyes were red. "I thought you two were gone, but luckily, you both survived."
Wei Liu also wiped his eyes with his sleeves, "Dayong has gone to Mingzhou, and I don't know when he will come back. Now in Wujiyuan, Miss Jingzhi is the one who makes the decisions."
Gu Tinglou was so angry that he almost laughed, "Put away your little thoughts. I have also seen Jingzhi. I have no objection to her making the decision."
It’s better than those big men in the Wei family. If they make a mistake by accident, the whole family will be buried with them.
The people who came to meet them were all young and strong, and together with the craftsmen on the boat, they arrived at their destination two days later.
The big ship was put into the Guiyuantianju river just like last time.
Three wooden houses have been built where we originally settled.
There are now more than 300 people gathered here, and the temperature is gradually getting colder at night. If we don’t prepare well, it will be difficult to survive this winter.
Wei Liuyi started to make arrangements as soon as he came back. Before that, he was the chief steward of the Wei family. Everyone under Gu Tinglou knew him, so they naturally listened to what he said.
They have to patrol day and night for these foods.
After settling everything, Wei Liu came to Bai Jingzhi to discuss again.
"Now that we have so many people, let's just get together tonight. Tomorrow we can all work together to chop some wood. Jingzhi, what do you think?"
"We can build a wooden house temporarily to prepare for the winter. Let me think about the layout of the back."
There are not many people here now, and Bai Jingzhi thinks it would be best to plan Wujiyuan while there are fewer people.
At night, the Bai and Wei families each had separate rooms, and they were all placed in the first house.
The remaining several hundred people will be relocated to the other two houses. They will just have to squeeze together for the next two days, and then there will be more space in the future.
People started living on the first floor of the first house that was built.
Gu Tinglou's people were settled here, and Wei Li and the other two did not go to the other two wooden houses.
Zhou Yue'e was not on good terms with the Zhou family, so naturally she followed Bai Jingzhi.
Yu Erniang and Bai Yuchan were in the same room. They were not familiar with each other before and had some conflicts in their words, but this time they met again, things felt much better.
Old Mrs. Bai followed Old Man Bai's family, and Wei Duan and Wei Yao followed Wei Hongmian.
The room was separated by a curtain, which was not inconvenient.
"The two children are asleep, you guys go and do your work. Yue'e and I are here, I'll call you if anyone comes."
Wei Hongmian coaxed the two children to sleep and motioned for the father and daughter to go to the space to discuss.
The room they were allocated was not big, only about 20 square meters.
There is a curtain separating the two, and when you draw the curtain at night when you go to bed, they don't affect each other.
Taking advantage of the fact that everyone was tired on the first night and no one was paying attention to them, Bai Jingzhi dragged his father into the space to study the problems here.
Bai Zhao is an engineer by background and has a lot of insights in this area.
Zhou Yue'e is outside, so if anyone comes, she will know in advance and Wei Hongmian will notify them.
The father and daughter were not afraid of the time issue. The flow rate in the space villa was faster than outside, so if they were careful they would not be discovered.
"Dad, have you noticed? The climate here has changed."
"Well, it's ten degrees colder than when we last left. It's now more than ten degrees below zero at night."
Bai Zhao had secretly taken a thermometer when no one was paying attention before.
"With such low temperatures, these wooden houses are useless. Also, their clothes are thin, just a padded jacket. They may not be able to survive such cold weather."
After Bai Jingzhi came back, he paid special attention to what these people were wearing.
"These are things we really need to consider. It's said that it will get colder and colder here. I guess the coldest temperature could be over 20 degrees below zero, so we really need to prepare early."
When Bai Zhao was on the ship, he asked the sailors and found out that some of them came from Wujiyuan.
Among the necessities of life, they have only solved the problem of food, and the other three still need to be taken slowly.
"If it doesn't work, we'll make a kang." Bai Jingzhi thought of the days when he was young and lived with his grandfather.
It was also very cold at her grandfather's house, so she would just stay on the kang in the winter.
Cook on the stove and the kang can stay warm all day long.
"It's better to build a brick and tile house instead of a wooden house like this, which is not cold-proof." Bai Zhao agreed to build a kang, and he also knew how to do it.
"Dad, can you make bricks?"
Bai Zhao shook his head. "That won't happen. I'll look through the books later, maybe I can find it."
"Well, we need to prepare quickly. Once we solve the livelihood issues, these people will have a sense of belonging."
Bai Jingzhi has already had an idea of how to develop Wujiyuan.