Chapter 354: Glass Greenhouse
"Xiang Yang, this greenhouse you’ve built sure is sturdy, it must have cost at least three times more money than usual."
"There’s no other way?" Qin Xiangyang sighed, "You know my family situation. We’re not professional farmers. My grandmother is old, my sister is still in school, and I’m not in military academy, so I can only trouble you guys."
"What are you talking about?" Li Dongsheng patted Qin Xiangyang on the shoulder, "What’s our relationship? We’re brothers who have been through life and death together, good comrades who support each other. Plus, every time we come over, you’ve never let us go hungry, always letting us eat our fill of meat and eggs. We eat way better than at school, and we save quite a bit of money. If there’s another opportunity like this in the future, remember to include your brothers, okay?"
Saying this, Li Dongsheng patted his chest, "If you see us as outsiders, you’re really not treating us like brothers."
Qin Xiangyang felt somewhat embarrassed, "Don’t worry, you’ll definitely be involved in things like this in the future."
Listening to and joining in the laughter with the group, Jian Zhiqing was holding a notebook in his hand, doodling something from time to time. He was thinking about how to make the greenhouse even sturdier, to avoid having to get up in the middle of the night to sweep snow off it.
Although he wasn’t an architecture major, he knew a bit about construction.
When he returned home that evening, he laid out the drawings he had made in front of Qin Xiangnuan, "Take a look."
Qin Xiangnuan took them, revealing a design for the greenhouse identical to the one they were building in the field, with half of it walled with bricks and a steel frame installed—no, it was supposed to be stainless steel. Stainless steel was much more expensive than iron, but it was lighter and a new material that didn’t rust.