newbobooks Chapter 210: Fire
Chapter 210: Fire
"I told you not to watch where you're going."
Ye Jingmo spoke coldly, but gently helped Jiang Li up, looking her up and down to make sure she wasn't injured.
Jiang Li's face turned as red as a tomato. She awkwardly touched her head. Could it be her fault that the ground was too slippery?
She's completely innocent, okay?
Looking at Jiang Li's expression, Ye Jingmo helplessly tapped her head with his index finger, then turned around and picked up a shovel to shovel the snow-water mixture into a corner.
Soon, Ye Jingmo swept the ground spotless, leaving no trace of snow.
Jiang Li poured the soil from the planting trough in the space into the ground, and took out the grass stalks, leaves and wood that she had collected before and piled them together.
Light them with a lighter, and the fire burns fiercely. Soon, ash and smoke slowly drift into the air, forming a long wisp.
The weather was warming up but still rather cold, but Jiang Li, standing beside the fire, only felt the intense heat, and sweat dripped from her forehead.
Ye Jingmo looked at Jiang Li's face, which was red from being roasted by the fire, and quickly walked to her side.
"I'll watch over things here for now. You go back and rest for a bit, and I'll call you out when you're ready."
Jiang Li stirred the fire with a wooden stick, making the flames burn brighter.
"No need, Brother Mo."
It will be cooked very quickly.
Jiang Li smiled at Ye Jingmo, knowing that he was worried about her, but she was quite skilled at this and didn't find it tiring.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.
Ye Jingmo walked to the door and cautiously asked in his voice. Only after hearing a familiar voice did he open the door.
Qin Yu peeked through the door and saw Jiang Li tending the fire, then breathed a sigh of relief.
He turned to Ye Jingmo and joked, "I saw smoke coming from your side and thought something was on fire."
I rushed over to put out the fire, but it turns out you started it yourselves.
Ye Jingmo led the person in and closed the door.
"Ah Li said that the soil upstairs has been planted several times and its fertility is gone, so it needs to be burned to increase the soil's fertility."
I don't know anything about agriculture, so I just have to do what she says.
Qin Yu's eyes lit up when he heard about increasing soil fertility.
"Can burning it like this really increase the fertility of the soil?"
Qin Yu had read some books before, but his knowledge of farming was still not deep enough.
He immediately walked quickly to Jiang Li's side, carefully watching her movements, afraid that he might miss a step and not know how to operate it when he got back.
Jiang Li squatted on the ground, holding a wooden stick in her hand, explaining relevant knowledge to Qin Yu while pointing at the ground with the stick.
There was another urgent knocking at the door.
Ye Jingmo watched the two people squatting on the ground, deep in conversation, and silently walked to the front door.
He opened it and saw another familiar face.
"Captain, is your house on fire?"
Liangzi saw the rising smoke from Ye Jingmo's house from next door and worried that something had happened, so he rushed over to check.
"It's nothing, just burning something."
Ye Jingmo stepped back a little so that Liangzi could see the scene inside the courtyard clearly.
Liangzi looked at Jiang Li and Qin Yu, who were squatting on the ground, completely bewildered.
Why burn things for no reason?
As Liangzi approached the fire, he overheard Jiang Li teaching Qin Yu how to increase soil fertility in farming.
He immediately squatted down as well, listening to Jiang Li's explanation.
Looking at the three people sitting in a row, like obedient children listening to their teacher in kindergarten, Jingmo couldn't help but facepalm.
A fire attracted two families.
They're all still refusing to leave. What kind of situation is this?
Ye Jingmo went to find some small stools and gave one to each of the three of them so they wouldn't feel uncomfortable squatting.