The dormitory quarters the Merit Division provided for the newcomers were not in the courtyard where the Merit Division conducted its business, but in a courtyard at the highest point of the hillside.
After everyone left the Merit Division courtyard, Liu Zihe led the way while the newcomers formed a line and followed close behind.
After walking up the mountain path for about half an hour, they arrived at a dilapidated courtyard. Unknown wild grasses had run rampant, leaving almost nowhere to set foot.
The courtyard was quite large and had no walls. Deeper inside stood a row of seven or eight Cave Dwellings. They too were battered beyond recognition, their windows riddled with holes, while the paper pasted over the lattices trembled in the wind.
Clearly, no one had lived here for a long time.
This was the dormitory quarters? The place they were supposed to live for the next month?
Everyone's hearts sank as they turned doubtful, startled gazes toward Liu Zihe.
He Guangchang, the temporary captain of Team B, directly asked, "Liu Executive, did you bring us to the wrong place?"
Liu Zihe smiled pleasantly. "No mistake. This is the place."
"How can anyone live here?" He Guangchang voiced everyone's thoughts.
"Hehe, yes, how could anyone live in a place like this? That's why you'll start working now. Clean up the courtyard. The tools are under that big tree." Liu Zihe smiled.
A pile of tools lay beneath the roots of the tree beside the courtyard: hoes, sickles, brooms, buckets, and the like.
Liu Zihe added, "Your task this morning is to clear the weeds from the courtyard, clean the Cave Dwellings, and paste paper over the windows. Someone will bring the hemp paper for the windows later."
"And you won't get lunch until the work is