Chapter 51: Having a Little Home of Its Own

If it weren't for that final slap, it felt that Liu Xier would have slammed her head against the wall the next moment.

"I'm not crazy. I've only been at the educated youth settlement for less than half an hour and I've already killed someone? How am I supposed to live like this afterward? I'm in the right today. I'll hurt her and slap her, and that'll make her stay quiet in front of me from now on. At the same time, no one else can say anything about me. That's enough. In peacetime, people should learn to be kind."

"hehe."

The system chuckled coldly, its tone filled with contempt.

You're so kind, so kind that you practically choked someone to death by feeding them a whole dose of PUA.

"You have a problem with that?"

"How could that be? A-Tong will be with the host for life, and they will inevitably advance and retreat together, never abandoning or giving up. How could he possibly have any objections?"

The system's sycophantic voice spoke with unwavering conviction and loyalty.

"Then why did you avoid those male educated youths but not Sun Yuxi and Chao Xianhua?"

“My grandma used to hope that I could have one or two close friends. Now that I’ve decided to make friends, I don’t think I need to hide the process of how I handled this from them. If I scare people away, then I’ll just find another friend.”

"That makes sense!"

Two shameless people, with hardly any conscience, are completely self-righteous and don't see anything wrong with their idea at all.

"By the way, host, why did you mention the sacrifice of Mother Bai? Didn't you say that your grandmother wouldn't let you contact your family and that you even changed your identity to a collateral branch of the Wei family? You are now the daughter of a woman from a collateral branch of the Wei family who married far away. It just so happens that the woman from the Wei family married into a family with the surname Bai, so she didn't even change her surname."

Bai Nuo pursed her lips and sighed softly: "Grandma did this because she was worried that I would be targeted. Although I was very strong before and learned boxing and swordsmanship from Grandma since I was a child, I'm not very bright and my ability to protect myself is too poor. That's why I changed my household registration and went to Shanghai. But now it's different. Now that we've confirmed that someone is secretly watching our whole family, I'll use myself to lure those people out."

Those people definitely wouldn't dare to openly attack me, and this area is all mountains and forests, which is most advantageous to me. I'll just wait for them to come to me. I'm not worried about my older brother. It's not so easy to get into the army, and besides, my older brother isn't an ordinary soldier. This way, it will relieve some pressure on my grandparents and uncle.

Moreover, the woman from a collateral branch of the Wei family who registered my household under my name, along with her husband, were soldiers who had indeed died in the line of duty; they simply had no children. The Wei family was known for its many loyal and heroic figures, and this didn't just apply to their direct descendants. That was precisely why my grandmother registered my household under their names—the daughter of two martyrs, not just anyone would dare to mistreat her.

The system hadn't expected such a convoluted reason; the host's grandmother had truly gone to great lengths for the host.

"If we have the chance in the future, we'll go and pay our respects to those two martyrs."

"Of course, before I left Beijing, my grandmother made me kowtow to the Wei family genealogy to acknowledge my godparents. I must go and pay my respects to them in the future no matter what."

While Bai Nuo was talking to the system, he had already walked back to the small house he had just settled in and was looking at the layout inside.

It's a very simple little house, about 30 square meters, with a rectangular interior. If a yard is built in the back, a door and a window can be opened in the back wall to ensure good lighting and prevent dampness.

We also need to build a kang (heated brick bed), because it's cold here in winter, so we also need to build a heated wall and a stove.

After mentally reviewing the layout of the small house, I took out a piece of paper and a pen and quickly drew a simple floor plan.

There is a large window next to the front door of the cottage. We will put a washbasin stand next to the window, and then build a stove a little further in. Behind the stove, we will build a fire wall that is partially sealed off.

On the other side of the fire wall, there was a kang (heated brick bed) that was 1.5 meters wide and 2.6 meters long. Even if two kang cabinets, each 40 meters deep, were placed on top, there would still be enough space for her to sleep.

At the other end of the kang (heated brick bed), a half-towered brick wall is built to create a small changing room. A double-door wardrobe is placed there, and a curtain can be used to block it, thus providing privacy.

The small house was directly divided into three rooms, which is more than enough for one person.

A window can be opened on the wall at the edge of the small changing room, so that the sewing machine can be taken out and placed by the window. A door leading to the backyard can also be opened next to it.

A storage cabinet can be placed on the wall opposite the heated kang (a traditional Chinese bed-stove) to store snacks, cups, kettles, and other daily necessities.

Although the outer side courtyard is not large, a bathroom and a woodshed can be partitioned off at the very back, and two doors can be opened inside the house for easy access.

As for the others, we can gradually gather them together after these are fixed.

After Bai Nuo finished drawing the layout plan, she thought for a moment and then asked 925 to cut a five-foot piece of blue and white floral cotton fabric, which would be suitable for young girls, young wives, or women in their thirties.

She planned to go to the brigade leader's house at noon to ask him to arrange for someone to repair the yard and build a kang (heated brick bed). She also needed to buy some furniture and wood. Since private transactions were not allowed, she needed a permit from the brigade leader. She would then take the permit to a carpenter in the village or commune to exchange for furniture. The carpenter would then take the permit back to the brigade headquarters to calculate her work points. In any case, she would have to go through the procedures at the brigade headquarters.

Although in those days, brown sugar and eggs were good starters.

But according to her observation, the brigade leader's family did not have a pregnant daughter or a daughter-in-law who had just given birth. On the way there, she heard them chatting and saying that their daughter was planning to find a boyfriend. So this fabric is much more suitable than brown sugar.

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