"Xiao Xiao, you're going to dig it?"
Xiao Grandmother looked a little worried. "Do you know how?"
"Shouldn't we ask someone to come and dig it?"
"Don't worry. It'll be fine."
Xiao Xiao's eyes curved slightly, his tone full of confidence.
"Mm, digging it ourselves is fine, too."
Madam Xiao looked up at the White Plum Blossom above them. "After all, there are things in our yard that aren't really suitable for outsiders to see."
White plum blossoms blooming in midsummer—now that was an exceptionally rare sight.
The others all looked in agreement.
Indeed, to be safe, they should try to keep strangers out of their yard during the summer.
"All right, then. Xiao Xiao, since you're confident, I'll leave this to you."
Father Xiao made the decision on the spot: Xiao Xiao would build the pond himself. "If you need any help, you can ask me."
"Okay."
Xiao Xiao smiled and agreed.
It was already too late today.
The next day, Xiao Xiao ordered all the equipment and tools he needed to build the pond online.
Digging the pond wasn't difficult.
With his current physical strength, manual labor was the easiest thing in the world for him.
The trickier part was setting up a water-circulation and filtration system.
That way, he wouldn't have to change the pond water every so often later.
A week later, everything had arrived.
Xiao Xiao got to work.
He glanced at the Wutong Tree and White Plum Blossom on either side of the yard, then walked over to the White Plum Blossom.
He'd decided from the beginning to dig the first pond beneath the White Plum Blossom.
The Wutong Tree took up more space than the White Plum Blossom, so the pond beneath it would have to be smaller.
There was more open space