Yan Qiushou looked at the place again and said, "Ningning, this place won’t do. We need to build a short wall to block this area, or else the piglets will run all over the yard and ruin this nice house."
"That’s true. How about this, tomorrow I’ll find so stones, half a person’s height will be enough, and it shouldn’t take much effort to build a wall," An Dafu said.
Yan Qiushou frowned, "How can that be right? We shouldn’t trouble Brother Erlai with everything. I have so unused slate at ho. I’ll get my son to co over and help, we can get it done."
An Dafu’s eyes lit up instantly, "If that’s the case, why don’t I help out here too? We can get it done faster together." He then looked at An Ning, "You don’t mind if I stay here for a al, do you, girl?"
"Of course not. In that case, I’ll trouble you, uncle." An Ning replied.
Yan Qiushou still thought it inappropriate to trouble others, but seeing Erlaizi so eager to help, not at all pretending to refuse, and with An Ning already agreeing so quickly, he figured he had nothing more to say.
After all, it was because of Erlaizi’s previous bad reputation that even now, when An Dafu was wholeheartedly helping, people would think he had ulterior motives.
Yan Qiushou took the hoe, which he initially planned to take to the field, back ho, and together with his eldest son Yan Cheng’an, used a wooden cart to haul the slate. Considering that Erlaizi had helped An Ning so much and would stay for lunch, Yan Qiushou also sent his daughter Yan Chenghuan to help An Ning with the cooking.
Yan Chenghuan was already fifteen years old and engaged. With Yunshi’s guidance, she was quite handy with household chores.
At the sa ti, while Yan Qiushou went to haul the slate, An Dafu didn’t sit idle. He used bamboo to make a fence, enclosing the chicken coop on the other side.
Chickens aren’t very strong, so the coop didn’t need to be very sturdy, and there was no need for the hassle of stacking stones.
When Yan Qiushou returned with the slate, he was surprised to see An Dafu already working, "Didn’t expect Brother Erlai to have such skills?"
Previously, he only knew Erlaizi as a delinquent, but unexpectedly, he seed quite competent when it ca to work.
"This is just a little sothing I can do, I hope I haven’t embarrassed you, Brother Yan," Erlaizi said naturally. Of course, Erlaizi couldn’t do these things, but An Dafu was different.
In his past life, he was also a child from the countryside, and growing up, he had done all kinds of exhausting work and endured all kinds of hardships!
It was only after he beca successful that he indulged and ate so much he turned into a complete fatty.
In the yard, An Ning and Yan Chenghuan were cleaning the chicken droppings. Watching as the chickens, recently driven into the coop, flapped their wings and flew back out, they looked despondent.
Yan Chenghuan chuckled, "Ningning, if you don’t want to clean the yard every day, open the gate after so ti. Your place faces the hillside, and the chickens will go out to forage by themselves during the day. Even though they are hens bought from outside, after raising them for a while, they will recognize this as ho and will know to return at night."
"Really?" From An Ning’s mory, chickens, ducks, and pigs were all kept in cages. She had never thought they could be let out for free-range.
"Don’t worry, as long as they’re not eaten by wild animals, they won’t get lost," Yan Chenghuan reassured, thinking An Ning was afraid they’d get lost if they went out.
Once the courtyard was finally cleaned, Yan Chenghuan asked An Ning, "It’s getting late. Do you have any plans for lunch, Ningning? What should we cook?"
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