Chapter 321 Preparing the Banquet (2)_1
The backyard, like the front, connects to the rear mountain and has three side-by-side sheds for raising pigs, chickens, ducks, or other livestock. Now, the other animals have been chased away, leaving only a few domestic chickens, ducks, and those two mountain goats.
One side of the front courtyard houses a well and two small vegetable patches, while the other side is separated into a kitchen and a storeroom. The gap between the perimeter wall and the building is filled with the fruit trees that Ruan Jiaojiao likes, though they are now withered and lack vitality.
Ruan Jianguo laid flagstones of soft goose stones in the front and back courtyards, while the inside of the building has cement floors and the walls have all been whitewashed, with a red paint undercoat.
The Ruanlin family has been tidying up this place recently, making the entire building clean and bright. Whenever people from the team came in, they couldn’t help but widen their eyes in envy.
The furniture downstairs is rather ordinary, with many pieces having been moved over from the courtyard house. However, the furniture upstairs was all newly purchased, especially for Ruan Jiaojiao’s room. Including the desk that Lu Zhiwei gave her, the whole room cost nearly five hundred.
Of course, the visitors didn’t know how much money had been spent on the room; they were merely fascinated by the beautiful furniture.
Auntie Wu and Liu Mei were among them, talking sourly like kindred spirits from the moment they entered the courtyard. Wu Le led them on a tour, but she didn’t have the patience of Du Qing, and rolled her eyes outright.
"My goodness, why is this so soft? You could sink right in. Oh my!" Liu Mei exclaimed as she sat down on Ruan Jiaojiao’s bed, astonished by the springy softness of the Simmons mattress, and reached out her yellow-tinged hands toward Ruan Jiaojiao’s quilt.