Rebirth: My Healer Wife Owns Superpowers

Chapter 55 - 55 Building a House

Chapter 55: Chapter 55 Building a House

Soon, Zhao Yonglian came back, followed by over a dozen people.

Among them was a man named Li Yuan, who was the best at building houses, with the most skillful craftsmanship. Qi Yue explained to him the blueprint she had drawn.

Li Yuan really had some tricks up his sleeve. Though Qi Yue’s blueprints were a bit rough, he immediately saw the advantages of this kind of house.

“Miss Qi, how did you come up with such houses? It’s simply ingenious!”

He sighed admiringly, excitedly explaining to the others about the house on the blueprints.

“The wooden houses are raised off the ground, which not only prevents mosquitoes and moisture but also makes the houses sturdier. Ordinary houses can easily be overturned in a storm, but these won’t be.”

The dozen people passed around the blueprints, all of them full of admiration.

“Indeed, Miss Qi is truly a genius! She even knows how to build houses!”

“That’s really extraordinary, the climate here is damp, and these houses are quite suitable!”

“…”

After a series of praises, they all expressed a desire to build the houses on the blueprints and hoped Qi Yue would agree.

This was not a problem at all; Qi Yue directly allowed them to use it at will.

Shuanghua immediately negotiated the daily wages, and they began building the house.

Being professionals, as soon as Li Yuan and his team started working, the foundation was quickly set. By evening, the wooden house’s platform had already taken shape.

Qi Yue went into the forest, and in a short time came out with a bunch of game, all taken from her space of course.

After a sumptuous dinner, all those who had worked were deeply moved and volunteered to work longer after the meal so that the Zhao Family could move into the houses sooner.

The old residents nearby, seeing that there was meat to eat and wages to be earned from working, all came to inquire, expressing a desire to help in exchange for money.

Qi Yue chose some people to assist them.

After all, the daily wages were only ten wen, and in her space lay literal mountains of gold and silver.

With more people, the progress of the work advanced by leaps and bounds.

Those who were building did their building, wood carriers moved the lumber, others cleaned up,

and in just one day’s work, the wooden house was already taking shape.

That night the family spent the night on the platform of the wooden house.

Although it was still outdoors, it was much better than lying directly on the grass.

In the middle of the night, rustling sounds came from a distance, Qi Yue thought they were small animals and didn’t pay much attention.

Unexpectedly, a flash of fire burst forth, as someone threw many torches onto the half-built house.

Fortunately, the family reacted swiftly and quickly threw down the torches.

However, those attempting to destroy the house were very quick to react; as Qi Yue tried to catch them, they fled into the dense forest.

Qi Yue was furious.

Originally, she thought it was just someone who was dissatisfied with her building a house and deliberately came to sabotage it.

If she weren’t a cultured person, she would have wanted to curse in the streets.

The old residents living in the dilapidated houses nearby had already been disturbed by the noise and many peered over to look this way.

Then, from a rundown small house on the right slope, an old man emerged and walked straight toward their courtyard.

Qi Yue had heard of him; his name was Kang Ji, and he had been living here for over twenty years.

Because he didn’t cause trouble and was also old, the Exile Management Office let him take care of some errand tasks, which of course, included monitoring the exiles.

Kang Ji came in front of the newly built house and observed it closely for a while before speaking faintly.

“You’re lucky, they used pine resin. If this lumber had been dry, it would have caught fire by now.”

Qi Yue furrowed her brows.

“They? Do you know who did it?”

Kang Ji lifted his head and glanced into the depths of the dense forest.

“The natives.”

It turned out that in the mountains of Longnan Ridge, many natives lived.

Nobody knew how many there were.

In Kang Ji’s memory, during the past decade, the smallest number of natives he had seen moving around was about a dozen, while at most, they could number in the thousands.

The natives did not belong to Beiyuan nor to Nanyue on the other side; they considered the sprawling Longnan Ridge their own territory.

Whenever exiles came here to cut down trees and burn the wilderness to expand their territory, they would appear and launch fierce attacks.

Kang Ji always maintained his calm when he spoke, as if to him this matter was a matter of course.

“Every person who arrives is like you, wanting to build a house, wanting life to be a little more comfortable, but… the natives won’t give you the chance.”

“They will harass you incessantly, burning what can be burned and smashing what can be smashed, until you stop building houses.”

Only then did Qi Yue understand why the people here didn’t build houses but rather haphazardly put together structures with branches and covered them with ragged leaves.

“Give up, it’s a waste of effort!”

In the end, Kang Ji left these words behind and returned to his ramshackle hut.

Qi Yue felt indignant.

Being sent to this place was already miserable enough, and now she didn’t even have the right to a house.

It was utterly unreasonable!

The dead Emperor didn’t leave her a way to survive, and even these stinking natives bullied her?!

A roar of anger erupted within Qi Yue!

She was going to build a house!

Not only would she build a house, she also wanted to make furniture, a bed, and live comfortably!!

The infuriated Qi Yue picked up the axe and charged into the forest, with a series of “thuds,” she felled three large trees by nightfall!

The next day, all the newly arrived exiles learned of this news, and they immediately dismissed the idea of building houses.

“Bah, forget it, I might as well just set up a grass hut to live in, I can’t chop down trees anyway.”

“Yeah, we don’t have Miss Qi’s competence or strength!”

“Let’s just make do, we don’t even know how long we’ll live.”

“…”

Although everyone was very pessimistic, Qi Yue still insisted on continuing to build the house.

Shen Yu was worried that even if they managed to build the house, it would be destroyed again, wasting money and effort, but Qi Yue firmly interrupted her thoughts.

On the road, being exiled left them with no choice, but now that they had a place and so many trees, why shouldn’t she make herself more comfortable?

Even if she only lived here for ten days, she wanted to live in a decent house.

Zhao Shuanghua and a few other girls naturally hoped to live somewhere safer and also expressed their desire to build houses.

So they continued to build the house.

The natives didn’t appear all day, but at dusk, as soon as it got dark, they came to the edge of the forest.

However, because Qi Yue and the Zhao family were very vigilant, the natives left when they saw they couldn’t easily succeed.

The next day was the same.

The natives came and went with their torches, apparently plotting something.

On the fourth day, the house was finally built!

New, clean, and beautiful!

Even the surroundings of the house were all tidied up.

Weeds and young saplings were all cleared away, and they transformed the area in front of and behind the house into a vegetable garden, surrounding it with sharp wooden fences.

Then came the furniture and the beds.

Li Yuan led over a dozen people, and they finished making all the beds in a single day.

Then, they spent another day to complete all the chairs, tables, and stools!

After two more days, they constructed the kitchen and even set up a dining table in the yard!

Everything was then properly arranged, and that evening Qi Yue even held a bonfire party to thank Li Yuan and the others for their great help!

It was originally meant to demonstrate their strength to the natives, but unexpectedly, the natives didn’t come.

As the night deepened, Shen Yu’s urging voice rang out once again.

“Yueyue, the natives must have heard of your reputation and didn’t dare to come, you should go in and sleep!”

These past few days, under the pretext of guarding against native attacks, she had been sleeping in the porch swing under the eaves.

This place had a short winter, and even at the coldest times, it wasn’t cold sleeping outside.

But tonight…