Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

Lin Geng smiled and gave two big fish weighing more than three kilograms to the third aunt, telling her that the catch today was good. He would take the fish home first and take Master Li to check how to clean up the house. In the afternoon, after everyone got off work, he would distribute the fish to the residents in the yard, ensuring that every family would get one. Of course, some families would definitely not get any.

When the third aunt saw that Lin Geng had sent her family two such big fish, she smiled so hard that her eyes could not open. She kept saying that it was no problem and asked Lin Geng to take Master Li home quickly. When it was time to divide the fish in the evening, her husband Yan would go over to help.

If Lin Geng needed her help cleaning the house, he could just ask. She was free at home anyway and would definitely help Lin Geng.

Lin Geng took Master Li back home, threw the fish basket into the water tank in the kitchen, and began to take Master Li to check the house and told him his plan.

Lin Geng had no intention of making a big fuss about cleaning up the house, because this era simply did not allow it. If he did it too ostentatiously, it would surely arouse the jealousy of many people, and the style would be incompatible with this era.

So he just planned to simply tidy up the house. As for other time travelers, when they arrived at the courtyard house, they started building a toilet for their own home, which was simply impossible. If they did so, not only would they be hated, but when the wind blew, they would inevitably be remembered by others. They would be simply experts in courting death.

Therefore, he decided to keep a low profile and simply replace the broken tiles on the roof. He also checked the wooden structures such as beams and rafters in the house, replaced those that needed to be replaced, and suspended the roof. There was no need to make it luxurious, as long as it looked ordinary and clean.

Replace the rotten windows in the house, replace the doors that need to be replaced, seal the door of one room, and divide the two rooms into two. In this way, the two rooms become four rooms. Anyway, the two rooms are not small in size, so they will not appear cramped if separated.

After the renovation, half of the house can be used as a living room and the other two rooms can be used as bedrooms. There are two kangs in the bedrooms, which can be heated in winter and it is very warm to lie on. The remaining room can be used as a study. For now, it is enough for him to live in, and there will be no problem for him to get married and have children.

The kitchen outside the door was also cleaned up, the doors and windows were replaced, a new stove was built, and another row of platforms were built to serve as cabinets. The eaves outside the kitchen were extended outward a little, so that some firewood or coal could be piled against the kitchen to prevent them from getting wet by rain.

As for installing a toilet in the house, he didn't even think about it because the conditions really didn't allow it. He lived in the middle courtyard. If he wanted to build a toilet at home, he would have to dig a long sewer to connect it to the septic tank on the street. So he just partitioned off a small room near the kitchen in the house and brought the water pipe in. He could take a shower here in the summer.

Just like what was said in some courtyard novels, to install earth heating in the house, but now he couldn't even think about it. That would simply bring hatred upon himself, as he was afraid that his life would be too easy, and at that time radiators were simply not available.

He doesn't have any system, only a small world that he uses as a farm. It's impossible for him to get those things.

After listening to Lin Geng's request, Master Li looked at the two large houses of the Lin family, planned them, measured the dimensions, climbed up on the beams to check the condition of the roof, and soon had an idea in mind.

Lin Geng asked Master Li to calculate how much money would be needed to complete the work, including the labor, materials and lunch. At that time, food was not very sufficient, and usually no meals were provided when hiring people to work. However, Lin Geng had already harvested the first batch of food in his small world. Although it was not much, it was enough for him to provide lunch for these craftsmen. So he was not stingy and directly offered to provide them with lunch.

When Master Li heard this, he was very happy. If they could get a lunch, they could save their own food. Moreover, Lin Geng said that lunch would consist of a full serving of steamed buns made of 100 grams of flour, and the dish would be fish, which would also be enough to fill them up. This made Master Li even happier.

So he immediately calculated that if Lin Geng provided lunch for him, he would need four or five people to help with the work. The construction period would be about ten days. If everything went well, it should be completed in seven days at the fastest. Not including painting the doors and windows, the total cost would be only 430 yuan.

After hearing this, Lin Geng nodded immediately and said, "I'll give you four hundred and fifty, twenty dollars is the expedited fee! Please help me do it faster, otherwise, I will have no place to live!"

When Master Li heard this, he immediately laughed and said that Lin Geng was generous. If he added twenty yuan, he could hire two more people and the work would be done faster. He guaranteed that Lin Geng would finish the job within seven days before winter came. As for painting, it would not be too late to talk about it after the New Year and the beginning of spring. Otherwise, the paint would dry too slowly and people would not be able to live in the house.

The two of them hit it off immediately and made the deal. Lin Geng directly took out two hundred yuan and gave it to Master Li, asking him to find someone to prepare the materials so that they could start work tomorrow.

And he will provide lunch for the craftsmen at noon starting tomorrow, and he will not treat them unfairly. Master Li happily took the money and went back to prepare. Before leaving, Lin Geng forced him to give him a carp weighing more than two kilograms, asking him to take it back to enjoy with his family. Master Li was so happy that he thanked Lin Geng repeatedly and said that he would bring people over early tomorrow morning and start preparing the materials in the afternoon.

After seeing Master Li off, Lin Geng went out with two bags of flour, pretending to go to the grain store to buy food. He even said hello to the three aunts when he left.

Ever since he completely absorbed that inexplicable energy, he has basically taken complete control of the small world. In the small world, he is like a god, and he can almost make his words come true and his thoughts come true.

The first batch of wheat and corn harvested also included a lot of sweet potatoes and potatoes. He was originally worried about how to grind the wheat and corn into flour. He couldn't just cook the wheat and corn kernels and eat them! He really couldn't eat them!

After he took control of this small world, he tried it occasionally and found that with just a thought, he could actually turn a pile of wheat into flour and separate it from the bran. This solved the problem and made him jump for joy.

So he left the seeds, and after planting the remaining vacant medicinal fields with grain, he had an idea and ground the remaining grain into flour.

Now he could take the flour and cornmeal out of the small world at any time with just a thought, but the first time he tried it the night before, he was not precise enough. He originally wanted to take out 20 or 30 kilograms of flour, but with a thought, he took out several hundred kilograms of flour from the small world at once, which almost buried him on the spot, making him look dirty and miserable.

The flour he took out was scattered all over the floor and almost filled up the house. It took him a lot of effort to collect the spilled flour back into the small world. The flour that fell to the ground and was soiled could only be used to feed the chickens, wasting hundreds of kilograms of food.

Seeing himself almost turned into a dough man, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He could only enter the small world to wash himself. Otherwise, if people saw him covered in flour when he went out, they would think he had stolen noodles from the grain store!

Only then did he realize that he still needed to practice controlling the small world, otherwise he might not only make a fool of himself, but might even put himself in danger.

Think about it, if you are the master of a small world and you were not careful when taking things from the small world and took too many things, you ended up killing yourself. Wouldn't that be a huge joke?

So when he was alone these few days, he kept training himself, constantly extracting items from the small world and improving his control ability. Now he can finally extract the desired amount of things from the small world with greater accuracy.

After carrying the bag of flour out of the house, he originally planned to find a deserted place, take out some flour and cornmeal from the space, and carry it home. But after thinking about it, he strolled to the grain store and used the grain book to buy a few kilograms of white flour and ten kilograms of cornmeal, so as to avoid being targeted by some beasts later and being accused of his flour and cornmeal being of illegal origin.