Chapter 227: Chapter 227: Sick of Their Lovey-Doveyness

Although the few men who joined later seemed frailer compared to the men of the same age in Yongping Village, they truly had some strength.

With their addition, the speed of building the houses increased quite a bit.

That night, Qi Zheng directly announced that the Qi Family would provide food, inviting those newly joined villagers for a hot meal.

After dinner, arrangements were made for them to wash from head to toe in two rooms, one for men and one for women.

There were many people in the Qi Family, and thus a lot of clothes.

Especially now that life was better, each adult at home basically had three sets of jackets.

It wasn’t that there was too much money with nowhere to spend, but they wore one set while working at home, another while working on the mountain, and if going to town, they would change into the best set.

The ones worn for working on the mountain were naturally the most worn out, but were all washed clean, and any damaged area was immediately mended.

In no time, about twenty sets of clean old jackets were sent to the hands of the new villagers.

No charge, just considered as a benefit for joining the village.

After all, it’s only when you’re warm you can work better.

Early the next morning, Qi Quanjin took four people to personally escort fresh vegetables into town.

Twenty pounds of it were sent to the County Magistrate, and the rest was to be delivered to restaurants.

Yi Meng didn’t go because she was pregnant.

But she wasn’t idle at home, because the corn had started pollinating.

Several light yellow tassels grew at the top of the human-tall corn stalks, discovered by Mu Yunniang during her early inspection of the crops in each of the planting rooms.

Originally they had grown earlier, but today those tassels were blooming like flowers.

Although Mu Yunniang had never grown corn, she had farmed before, and seeing those tassels, she felt they were blooming and directly told Yi Meng.

Yi Meng hurried to check.

In her past life, Yi Meng had not seen corn blooming either.

In this life, because the corn in the space grew faster than outside, it gave her and Qi Quanjin time to explore the pattern.

Once confirmed that it was corn pollinating, Yi Meng mentioned the matter of pollinating corn at breakfast with everyone.

In the house and during winter, there were no insects or bees for natural pollination, so they had to rely on manual work.

After Yi Meng explained, everyone looked at Qi Zheng.

The family’s oldest farming expert had to be the old man.

Qi Zheng, having also checked the corn blooms before breakfast, thought for a moment and said, “This corn is too tall, unlike the green vegetables we planted before. I think, eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, after breakfast, you two cut some cloth strips, and each hold one end while sliding it over the corn tops to see if that works.”

Actually, Qi Zheng wasn’t aware what pollination meant, but since they started planting vegetables in winter last year, he had heard from the fourth sister-in-law.

So now he could quickly think of a method.

Everyone had no objections after hearing.

After eating, everyone got busy.

Although Yi Meng was pregnant and couldn’t do heavy work, it didn’t stop her from watching the fun.

The women of the Qi Family were not particularly tall, making it difficult for them to hold the cloth strips and walk back and forth.

Especially since the corn leaves didn’t look like much, but were truly painful when scratched on the skin.

So today, Qi Sangui and Qi Quanyin stayed to help build the house.

The brothers each grabbed one end, carefully sliding it over the corn tassels.

After repeating this three times, they went to the other room to repeat the action.

“I think doing it for one day might not work, let’s slide it for three consecutive days!”

Yi Meng felt a little uneasy.

Qi Quanyin immediately agreed.

Qi Sangui, who spoke little, just nodded this time.

Gradually, all the new villagers sent by the government had settled in Yongping Village.

Three rows of wooden houses were lined up, though appearing rough, they at least ensured the newcomers didn’t have to sleep outdoors.

Hardworking families earned some income from building houses, not much, but enough to make ends meet.

Some lazy families didn’t have this income, but they had some heritage anyway.

In a blink, it was late October.

That day, Yi Meng got up a little late.

Although this pregnancy didn’t bring too much discomfort, drowsiness was indeed real.

Just as she got up and dressed, she heard someone calling for her outside.

The voice and tone were uncontrollably excited.

“Meng Niang, Meng Niang, are you up? Come, quickly, go check the corn!”

From the voice, it was clear it was her sister-in-law, Wang Daya.

Wang Daya was always loud, but now she was louder, indicating something big had happened.

Yi Meng felt a jolt, instinctively thinking something was wrong with the corn, and she hurriedly slipped on her shoes and rushed outside without even brushing her hair properly.

But before reaching the door, someone pushed it open.

Qi Quanjin entered, and upon seeing his wife’s disheveled appearance, he was startled and quickly stopped her: “Dear, what’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell? Come inside, I will call the doctor!”

As he spoke, Qi Quanjin lifted her up horizontally.

“No, no, put me down!”

Yi Meng didn’t expect the man to act without waiting for her to speak and was scared as she wriggled to get down.

But Qi Quanjin was strong and wouldn’t let her slip out of his grasp with a simple struggle.

Meanwhile, Wang Daya arrived at the door, caught a glimpse of this scene, and exclaimed.

“Oh my!”

Wang Daya shouted, covered her face, and quickly turned around, mumbling, “I saw nothing!”

Now the couple inside the house was embarrassed.

Yi Meng playfully punched Qi Quanjin’s chest: “I’m fine, just wanted to see what’s up with the corn. Put me down!”

“Ah? You’re not feeling unwell? Really?”

Qi Quanjin clearly didn’t believe.

Yi Meng glared at him: “Feeling unwell your head! Hurry and put me down!”

Seeing that his wife’s cheeks were indeed rosy and she didn’t look unwell, Qi Quanjin finally let her down but refused to let go, holding her arm and waist as they exited the house.

Wang Daya had already rushed back to the nearest corn room.

Looking back at the door, she saw the couple being clingy, let out another exclamation, and went inside.

The few people in the room saw her like this and were puzzled.

Ai Zhaodi proactively asked: “Elder sister-in-law, what’s wrong? Did a dog chase you?”

“Oh, go away!”

Wang Daya teased, “I wasn’t chased by a dog, I was sickened by the fourth brother and sister-in-law’s clinginess.”

“What happened to fourth brother and sister-in-law?”

Ai Zhaodi still didn’t understand: “Wait, elder sister-in-law, weren’t you going to call fourth sister-in-law over? Why did you come back alone?”

Everyone nodded, showing the same confusion.

Thinking of the scene she had just witnessed, Wang Daya blushed: “I did call her, but I came over first. Meng Niang was being supported by the fourth brother and is following behind!”

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