70: The Soldier King's Supernatural Wife, Three Babies in One Child

The temperature was high in the afternoon. Chen Jun wrapped a wooden cylinder with old clothes and rolled and brushed the four walls three times. The walls were as smooth and bright as those painted in later generations.

Shen Fugui did the work of laying cement on the floor himself.

He worked meticulously, using a wooden scraper to scrape the cement slurry smooth and even. Standing at the door and looking out, it looked like a large grey tile was laid in the room.

Lu Chaoyan was very satisfied. She cooked a big pot of pumpkin porridge in the evening and made three egg pancakes for each person.

At about one o'clock in the morning of the next day, she quietly went to the mountains.

After finding the wild fir trees, we selected two of the tallest and straightest fir trees that were more than 50 years old.

She used her special powers to absorb their life force, then used vines to peel off the bark of a tree that was over fifty meters high, cut it into six sections, and then found two eagles in the woods.

She gave them a surge of supernatural power and used two vines to tie the eagle's feet to one end and the wood to the other.

She had a vine in her hand and was walking on the ground holding the wood, like flying a kite, and letting the two eagles in the sky help her transport the wood back to the Lu family yard.

Because the bark has been peeled, the fragrant fir wood is mixed with the pine wood, and ordinary people cannot tell the difference unless they are experts.

When she came back from her last trip to haul wood, she caught ten rabbits and twenty pheasants. When she entered the house, she saw that it was already past four o'clock.

She sent the chickens and rabbits to Si Zhengyan's place and raised them in cages behind the kitchen.

When I returned to the Lu family again, Shen Fugui came with his sons-in-law.

When they saw the pile of fragrant cedar wood, they were so shocked that they couldn't close their mouths.

What's going on with the Lu family? Or have they made friends with someone?

Lu Chaoyan quietly leaned over to Shen Fugui and said, "I asked a friend to get it for me."

"Oh." Shen Fugui did not ask who her friend was, because others did not know, but he knew.

There is a group of people who sell wood privately.

"What are you going to do with all this wood?"

"Bed, wardrobe, and this row of locked cabinets." Lu Chaoyan said as he took out the blueprint.

Shen Fugui pointed at the pine wood and asked, "What are these woods used for?"

"Make a bed for Si Zhengyan, and a set of cabinets, and the rest can be used as chairs." Lu Chaoyan took out another piece of paper with a picture of a bed with a hole under the buttocks. "The bed should be made like this."

Shen Fugui understood the purpose of the hollow at a glance, and he couldn't help wondering, "Zheng Yan sleeps all day, how can he still listen to Han Qing's instructions?"

"You can give it a try with training. If it works, Han Qing won't have to wash his clothes every day."

"Okay, I'll make him a bed first."

Shen Fugui took the blueprint and explained it to his three sons-in-law, asking them to make a bed for Si Zhengyan while he would personally handle the fragrant cedar wood.

Lu Chaoyan went into the kitchen, boiled a pot of rice in a clay pot, then ran to her private plot to cut a handful of leeks and picked three pounds of beans.

Back in the kitchen, Cao Lan and Yang Juhua were cooking breakfast, pumpkin porridge with beans.

Seeing Lu Chaoyan, Yang Juhua smiled with a hint of flattery, "Chaoyan, what do you want to eat in the morning? I'll make it for you."

Lu Chaoyan raised an eyebrow and looked at her, "No need, you guys cook faster, I'll wait and cook in the pot."

"Okay, okay, we'll be there soon." Yang Juhua stirred the pumpkin porridge in the pot vigorously a few times.

Cao Lan, who was burning a fire behind the stove, said nothing. They had eaten together before and had never felt anything.

Now, Gu Suyi's family eats in their own courtyard, while Er Niang's family has to cook and eat separately, making them, as outsiders, seem even more like outsiders.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law cooked the meal, quickly served it up, and brought it to their own room to eat, not forgetting to clean the stove and pot.

Lu Chaoyan glanced at them with satisfaction, put the cooked rice porridge aside to cool, washed the beans, chopped them, and mixed them with salt.

Then, he went into the house, scooped out half a basin of flour, kneaded it into a soft dough and let it rise. Just as he was about to go out to fetch water from the well, Lu Xiang got up.

She picked up another load of wooden barrels and followed Lu Chaoyan to the well.

"How come you sleep alone at night?"

Lu Chaoyan frowned. Did Lu Xiang find out that she went out at night?

"It's too hot. I can't sleep. I'm going to go for a walk outside."

Lu Xiang stared at her disapprovingly, "How can a girl run around in the middle of the night? Let's sleep in the yard until the beginning of the dog days."

In the summer, country people basically sleep in the yard at night, listening to the chirping of insects and frogs while looking at the starry sky, and gradually falling asleep.

Lu Chaoyan recalled the scene of the original owner sleeping in the yard in summer, and couldn't help but curl up the corners of her mouth, "Okay."

However, before going to bed, Liu Sandou's family must be driven away.

The two of them carried four buckets of water home, and Lu Xiang went to wash up.

Lu Chaoyan took out ten eggs, fried them into frangipani, and mixed them with chopped chives.

The dough has been proofed and is soft. When you tear it apart, it is thin and translucent without breaking.

She pinched the dough into twenty large pieces and ten small ones, slowly stretched them out with her hands, wrapped them with leeks and eggs, and then fried them in an iron pan until both sides were golden brown before serving.

Thirty leek egg pancakes are ready and the rice porridge is cooled.

She put the pickled beans in the pan, fried them until they were cooked, and could just scoop them up and eat them.

"Uncle Fugui, Brother Yong, Brother Daming, Brother Jun, it's time to have breakfast."

Lu Chaoyan brought out twenty leek egg pancakes and a pot of beans and placed them on the square table in the yard. Lu Xiang helped bring out the white rice porridge.

Shen Fugui looked at the sticky white porridge and the chive egg pancake that was bigger than the bowl, and was surprised. He also blamed her, "Chao Yan, don't do this next time. Just cook a bowl of pumpkin porridge."

"Uncle Fugui, if you only eat pumpkin porridge, do you still have the strength to swing the axe?" Lu Chaoyan blinked her bright starry eyes and joked, "I'm going to feed you guys, if you work harder, you can get out."

"Haha, yes, that's right!" Shen Fugui laughed heartily, and he was no longer so uncomfortable drinking porridge and eating pancakes.

My three sons-in-law and I each had two bowls of porridge and three large pancakes. Our stomachs were full and we had more energy to work.

Lu Xiang was waiting to go to work. He quickly ate a bowl of porridge and two pancakes. After he left with the basket on his back, Lu Chaoyan brought all the remaining porridge and pancakes into the west room.

Seeing that Lu Yuedan was still asleep, she took three large pancakes and a bowl of porridge and went to the brigade headquarters.

Lu Hanqing was tending to the pheasants and rabbits. Seeing her coming, he was a little angry, "Why did you go into the mountains alone again?"

Lu Chaoyan denied it flatly, "No, I went into the mountains with those hunters."

Lu Hanqing was angry but also wanted to laugh, "Don't try to fool me. Those hunters took you into the mountains to hunt, which was just to cause trouble for them. You must have gone alone."

"I took them as my teachers, so they were naturally willing to take me with them."

She went into the mountains to catch wild game every day, so she had to have a reason, and learning hunting from others was the best reason.

"Third sister, I know you feel bad about Si Zhengyang breaking off the engagement, but you should not torture yourself. He is a heartless person and does not care about you." Lu Hanqing said earnestly.

He thought that his third sister's change was because she was too sad after the breakup of the engagement, which led to her abnormal behavior.

Lu Chaoyan was too lazy to explain to him, "Hurry up and eat. Come back and help me as soon as you're done."