Ye Yaodong had just finished bathing and sat on a stool with his head lowered, lancing his blisters and trimming his toenails. "I saw they've started work on the empty lot by the little workshop. When I passed just now, there was already a long trench dug around the edge, and quite a pile of big stones beside it."
"They started this morning," Lin Xiuqing said as she ate. "We hired sixteen people. Some are digging trenches, some are quarrying stones up in the hills, and some are carrying gravel from the river. Tomorrow they can fill the foundations around the perimeter with stones first, so it won't settle and become unstable later."
After a moment's thought, she added, "When they were digging this morning, Mother specifically told the workers to move it twenty centimeters farther out. Ahem... it's not like anyone will say anything anyway."
"Mm."
Nobody would measure the land without a reason. Decades later, if it was slated for demolition or they needed a land certificate or something, they would measure it again anyway. By then, they certainly wouldn't be able to find the records.
As they went on eating and tending to sore feet, the little brats from next door came running over one after another and squatted in front of their television.
"Have you finished your homework?"
"Yes! We finished it as soon as we got home. We definitely won't let it interfere with watching TV!"
Well, this was a first. The sun must have risen in the west. The television actually had enough appeal to make them rush through their homework as soon as they got home.
"Chenghu, have you done yours?"
"Yes. I did my homework as soon as I got home too," Ye Chenghu answered, his mouth still full of rice.
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