Grandma Shi was unwilling to move into the villa; she only wanted to live in her original little courtyard. After discussing it, the others set her courtyard down beside the villa, leaving a gap of a dozen or so meters between them.
They also raised the ground beneath the courtyard slightly. The difference in height was barely noticeable, with an added gentle slope extending all the way to the entrance, the steps...
Ye Changqing and the others worked with exceptional care and attention, doing their utmost to get every detail right...
They even discussed using flowing lines and curves so that, once the lawn was laid, it would look as much like level ground as possible...
Putting an old courtyard beside a villa while trying to keep them from looking too different, too far apart in quality... was no simple job.
Grandma Shi paid no attention to any of it, leaving them entirely to their own devices. She simply found a chair in Zuo Xiaoduo's courtyard and sat down for a nap.
In the end, Ye Changqing and the others actually made Grandma Shi's little courtyard look even more refined than the detached villa beside it. A winding path led into seclusion, stone slabs were laid amid green grass, and they transplanted plenty of lush green tall bamboo around the front and back.
The tall bamboo extended toward this side, gradually growing shorter... until it met the grounds here.
Countless tall bamboo stalks also soared around the little courtyard, concealing its weathered walls and leaving only a corner of the eaves exposed...
Ye Changqing and Xiang Kuangren did not even concern themselves with the five prisoners Wen Xingtian had brought back. They devoted their full attention to the work here, occasionally flying farther away to inspect it and see whether