Chapter 26

After discussing the renovation, the technician made an appointment to start the work the next day because he had to prepare the equipment and workers to help with the work. Ning Qing and Xiao Yao had no problem with this matter, so the uncle and niece both went back home after putting down the deposit. Ning Qing also volunteered to help her uncle catch rabbits and bring them to the new house. Xiao Yao saw that more people would probably speed things up, so he didn't object to his talented niece. Moreover, the restaurant wasn't open yet, so Ning Qing had a lot of time.

The two uncle and nephew went back to get the cart and set off to Kang Village to catch rabbits to bring back to their new home. It was noon when they finished catching so many rabbits. Luckily, Ning Qing had brought along steamed buns. Her family had made a lot of meat buns that morning, so the two uncle and nephew sat down to eat some before heading back to their home in the city.

When they returned home, the two of them arranged the rabbits in the area that Ning Qing had carefully prepared for them. The rabbits had more room to run around than in the old house and they all looked healthy, which made Ning Qing feel a little relieved. At first, she was afraid that the rabbits would fall ill because of the strange place they were in. Fortunately, they were still as active as ever.

Xiao Yao himself initially thought the same as his granddaughter. When he saw his little rabbits being cheerful, he was also happy. The two of them went to Ning Qing's house to discuss the matter of building a bathroom for everyone. Ning Qing herself explained that she would make every room downstairs have a bathroom so that everyone could use it conveniently. There was also a bathroom outside for customers that she wanted to make, so that they could use it separately from the people in her house. Xiao Yao told everyone about the two bathrooms that he had hired someone to build the septic tanks for tomorrow. They didn't care how much it would cost, they just asked the workers to do it well. The casting work would take another three days, which should be finished just in time for the workers to build additional bathrooms for both houses.

After dinner, Ning Guan called Ning Qing over to him to give him the money she had hidden for her daughter. Over the years, Ning Guan had saved more than thirty taels of silver. When Ning Qing saw her father like this, she could only reluctantly accept it. In fact, she still had a few hundred taels left, but she didn't want to hurt her father's feelings. She would secretly have her mother save her father's money for emergencies.

Three days later, the workers finished all the bathrooms. Although drilling the septic tank was a bit difficult, the workers' experience and long experience allowed them to finish the job on time. Ning Qing and Xiao Yao hurriedly went to get the custom-made toilet and paid for the remaining dozens of taels of silver because it was not easy to make. The two uncles and nephews did not care about the price. They had prepared quite a bit of money for this bathroom.

When they returned to the house, the craftsmen installed the toilets in the eight bathrooms that they had prepared. The craftsmen thought that this kind of bathroom was convenient, so they asked to use Ning Qing's blueprints to sell to others. Ning Qing thought that it was a good thing for everyone to have good hygiene, so she gave the blueprints to the craftsmen without charging them a single cent. She said that she wanted everyone to have better hygiene than before. If they could do this a lot, it would help reduce diarrhea caused by unsanitary defecation.

The craftsman was overjoyed. He even said that he would renovate the house and shop for free if she wanted. Ning Qing, who saw that her shop had nothing else to do, could only ask him to help renovate her uncle's house instead. Xiao Yao didn't think that her niece would do such a thing. He could only thank Ning Qing for doing everything for the family.

Ning Qing could only laugh at her uncle, who was still considerate of her. She said that they were family, and if there was anything she could help with, she would. This made everyone see Ning Qing as being too mature for her age, even though she wasn't even old enough to wear a hairpin. Perhaps it was because she had suffered hardships with Lan Jiu that she had such a mature mindset. Not to mention her father was still injured, so they helped each other very well.

When the holidays finally arrived, the cousins were able to see their three brothers. They were busy with their studies and didn't get to go home as often as before. They would only go back once every half month. Moreover, this was their first year to take the entrance exam. Their teacher had high hopes that quite a few people would pass the exam to bring honor to the district before they had to go to the provincial city to take the exam.

The three cousins introduced themselves to Ning Qing and her family before they went to play with the rabbits that were now breeding, more than twenty of them. Even though her uncle was selling one or two rabbits a day, the baby rabbits were breeding very fast. Ning Qing also told her uncle that rabbits were fast-breeding animals. She told her uncle to sell two or three rabbits at a time and not to worry about running out of rabbits. Most of the rabbits that Xiaoyao sold to him were male rabbits so that the females could give birth. If the rabbits were getting old, they could be sold as well. If they were getting old, she was afraid that it would be too much of a pain for the mother rabbits to give birth, so she suggested this to her uncle.

Her three cousins were all older than Ning Qing, each of them around the same age, 15, 16, and 17. They had studied together for many years but did not dare to take the exam because it required a lot of money. Now that their father had a stable career, Xiao Yuan, Xiao Kai, and Xiao Jiang were determined to go to the exam together. Ning Qing also encouraged her uncle to take her siblings to the exam. She said that she would help take care of the rabbit sales while they were taking the exam.