Knowing that the Cui family would come calling sooner or later, Mo Yan rewarded Fan Meijiao with two brews of bird droppings tea daily, and then she waited at home.
That day, taking advantage of the overcast weather which wasn't so scorching, Mo Yan made her way to the medicinal fields and the orchards, intending to select a few suitable spots to construct houses for the three hundred soldiers who had come from the frontier.
The buildings didn't need to be overly luxurious, something akin to modern student dormitories would suffice, with rows of houses divided into individual rooms, each room housing four people. In this way, they could look out for one another, helping with anything that might arise.
In total, at least seventy-five rooms would be needed. Including the construction of kitchens, bathrooms, and the like, roughly ninety rooms were required.
