When Mancao arrived, Xiao Yuqi's family had already had their meal. The sumptuous breakfast that Xiao Yuqi took out from Daquan even included a jar of Buddha Jumping Over the Wall.

Well, it was the trophy that she secretly obtained in Zhou Liqun's small kitchen.

When the family was eating just now, the second brother Xiao Yuyang was still very surprised and asked repeatedly where the soup came from.

But who is Xiao Yuqi?

Now that everyone in the family except the second brother knows her secret, although her father and eldest brother know only half of it, this does not prevent her from pushing everything on Shi Niang Suyun and the others.

Who knows where they got this nirvana soup from?

Xiao Wenye and his wife, together with the worried little old man Xiao Yulou, were in a dilemma over the meal. Xiao Yuyang, on the other hand, was oblivious and lamented that he was satisfied after drinking the fairy soup.

After eating and drinking, Xiao Wenye led his eldest son Xiao Yulou to level the bottom of the pit, while Li Yurong led Xiao Yuyang and Xiao Yuqi to pull out the few dead grasses above and prepare to use them as a roof.

When Mancao came, what he saw was a family busy.

Xiao Yuqi was so keen that she noticed that the creeping grass was coming. She happily stopped playing with the grass in her hands. Well, she was trying to find a way to fix the grass into small handfuls, and then fix the small handfuls into large handfuls. She shook her little paws

, shouted anxiously, "Sister Mancao, why are you here?".

"Xiao Xi, what are you doing?".

Xiao Yuqi patted the grass clippings on his butt and stood up, "Ang, I'm working on the roof!".

Doing a roof?

Mancao put down two bundles of firewood and expressed curiosity.

Looking around at the wasteland that had changed at this moment, Mancao hurriedly said hello when he saw other people busy.

"Hello, Madam, uh..." As for the little boy beside Madam, the high-ranking official who was busy in the pit, and another little boy, she didn't know what to call him for a while.

Li Yurong noticed Mancao's embarrassment, so she put down her work and came up to introduce him with a smile.

"Listen to my Qi'er, girl, your name is Mancao, right? If you don't mind, can I call you Mancao from now on?"

"Okay, madam, you can do whatever you want."

Thinking about what her daughter would tell him when she came back, that the girl was already fourteen, Li Yurong said with emotion that she could get married at this age.

Although she doesn't want to obey her elders, her eldest son Xiao Yulou is ten years old this year and is only a few years younger than the girl. It's not appropriate to call her sister. She has to be promoted to a higher level, so she just wants to be an aunt.

Auntie?

In this way, Li Yurong smiled and said: "Mancao, you also call me wife. What a born person, just call me aunt. Did you see that the one digging the house below is my husband? You call him Xiao?"

Uncle, the one who works with your Uncle Xiao is your eldest brother, his name is Xiao Yulou. You can just call him Xiaolou. The skinny monkey next to me is the second brother, his name is Xiao Yuyang. As for the third brother, you know him.

, called Xiao Yuqi.”

The other party smiled sincerely and spoke enthusiastically, and Mancao naturally followed suit. After calling everyone one by one, he changed the topic back.

"Auntie, I just heard from Qi'er that you want to use these wild grasses to weave them into a roof?"

Although she found it strange to dig a hole in the ground as a house to live in, it was totally inappropriate to use the grass they could only catch fire as a roof!

Li Yurong didn't know this, so she only replied with a gentle smile, "Yeah, I'm new here, and my aunt's family doesn't have these things. If I want to settle down, I have to think of some ideas. Didn't I see these grasses on the wasteland, so..."

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"Auntie, it can't be done. These grasses can't be used to make a roof!".

"how do I say this?".

"Auntie, you don't know the climate here..."

It turns out that although the weather here in the northwest border area has less rain, it does not mean that there is no rain. Moreover, in winter, there will be heavy snow and strong winds.

If the roof is covered with this kind of grass, there is no rain or snow, and the freezing is not serious, then it's okay.

If it rains or snows, wouldn't it mean that it's raining heavily outside and light raining at home? Don't let sister Xiaoxi and her whole family get flooded;

If it snows again, once the snow melts away, the roof will be completely destroyed, and so will the house below;

Not to mention strong winds. When the wind blows, a straw roof of this weight will be blown away in no time;

As for freezing, with a thin roof, people can't freeze to death in this underground house?

After hearing Mancao's analysis, not to mention Li Yurong, even Xiao Wenye, who had listened for a while in the pit, nodded in agreement. He couldn't help but sigh that everything in this world must be learned.

If you don't understand, just ask. This is Xiao Yuqi's life creed. She hurriedly took Mancao's hand, tilted her head, and was so cute that she didn't feel ashamed to ask.

"Then what should we do?".

As soon as she finished speaking, Li Yurong slapped her little buttocks.

"What should I do? How about politeness? Call me sister!" Sometimes my daughter gets so cute that she gets a headache.

Xiao Yuqi touched her butt that didn't hurt, feeling aggrieved due to her mother's pressure.

By the way, wasn't she in a hurry just now and forgot about it for a moment?

Alas, there's nothing I can do about it, because she's so young and has no human rights!

Seeing the vines on the side hurriedly pulling Li Yurong to tell her that she was fine, Xiao Xi was very anxious, Xiao Yuqi felt better instantly, and he hurriedly opened his mouth to continue asking.

"Sister Mancao, what do you think we should do?"

Thinking of his own roof, recalling what he had witnessed when his father and brother were building the roof, Mancao recalled and recounted it in an orderly manner.

"The roof has to be beamed first, then the reeds are cut and woven into a reed mat. After it is covered and fixed on the roof, fine mud is mixed with water, mixed with the cut wheat straw, and then a layer of paste is added, and then the wheat straw is added on top.

Seal it with mud and wait until it dries before the roof can be used."

Li Yurong and Xiao Wenye heard this and thought about it, this is what happened.

But if you can't buy beams or anything like that, you can go to Yonggu City to buy them, but reed mats?

Where to do this? Is there a reed field here?

Xiao Yuqi was also concerned about this, so he quickly took Mancao's hand and asked, "Sister Mancao, we don't have reed mats. Do you know where to get them?".

She really knows this, everyone in the ditch knows it.

When they built their houses, the reed mats on the roofs came from that place.

Mancao said: "Uncle Xiao, Auntie, there is a large reed marsh more than thirty miles away from us in the northwest. Although it is far away, the people in our ditch who build houses all go there to cut reeds."

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"Really? That's great!" It would be great if there was a place where they could get it. At least they wouldn't be blinded. At worst, they could pay for someone to guide them. Then it would take them two days to get it, wouldn't it? They have to do it before it snows.
Chapter completed!