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Taking advantage of the afternoon, Li Dazhuang and Li Erniu first repaired the small holes in the roof for Li Jin. 

They could completely repair the roof when Li Jin came back with the tiles.

In the end, Li Jin gave each person ten wens as wages. 

In the town, the wage was between twenty to thirty wens for a day’s work, without any food.

They only worked for an afternoon, and Li Jin also took care of their food, so he only paid ten wens per person.

Originally the two were unwilling to accept it, but Li Jin said that he would feel guilty if they did not accept it.

The two finally accepted the money.

After doing all this, Li Jin carried a catty of spare ribs of the pork to Li Daniu’s house. He wanted to borrow Li Daniu’s ox cart tomorrow.

Li Jin didn’t think he would be able to walk back from the town with a basket of tiles on his back.

The weight of the tiles was greater than that of the soil. After all, they were fired, and the materials inside were hardened.

Upon hearing this, Li Daniu said that there was no problem at all.

“It just so happens that I am going to deliver firewood tomorrow. I will wait for you in the main street and go to the kiln to buy tiles together.”

Li Jin didn’t know the way to the kiln. 

Although it was next to the town, it was really convenient to have Li Daniu.

After that, he went to water the vegetable field and came back to practice calligraphy.

He first did some push-ups and then started writing the copybook.

In the past, the boy would fall asleep while watching Li Jin practicing calligraphy.

But today, he took out the needle and thread and sewed two thick cloth strips in candlelight.

When Li Jin finished writing, the teenager had sewn the cloth. 

Seeing Li Jin finish writing, the teenager quietly put the things back in the basket, pretending that he did nothing just now.

Li Jin didn’t ask, he put away the pen and paper, then went to take a bath before going to sleep.

The next day when he picked up the basket, Li Jin discovered that a new shoulder strap was sewn over the two hemp ropes that hung on the shoulders. 

With the generous shoulder straps, the back basket weight was evenly distributed across the shoulder.

Li Jin guessed that the teenager should have added the shoulder straps to his back basket when he took the bath.

Li Jin held the shoulder strap and looked at the teenager’s innocent face.

The teenager was pretending that he didn’t know anything like he wasn’t the one who sneakily added the shoulder straps on his back basket.

Li Jin suddenly stepped forward a few steps and directly dropped a kiss on the teenager’s forehead.

After the feathery kiss, Li Jin said, “I’m leaving. I have to buy tiles, so I’ll be back later.”

The teenager was dumbfounded, and he didn’t come back to his senses until Li Jin walked away. 

He wanted to hurry and catch up to see Li Jin leaving the village.

But at the right time, the little bun started to cry in the house, and Qin Mu Wen could only go back and hold the bun to appease him.

Finally, the little bun fell asleep after eating and drinking, but Qin Mu Wen’s mind remained blank.

After a while, the dimples on the corners of the lips showed up.

Well, his heart was as sweet as he secretly ate the ugliest pumpkin buns when Li Jin and the others were not at home.

With Qin Mu Wen’s self-discipline, there had never been a precedent for stealing food.

But this time he really couldn’t help it. 

Thinking about Li Jin’s evaluation of the pumpkin buns after they had just wrapped them, he couldn’t help but want to eat them.

At that time, Li Jin said, “This is definitely not a good bun.”

But after eating it, Qin Mu Wen found that the pumpkin bun wrapped by Li Jin was sweeter and more delicious than the other buns.

It was better than any steamed buns he had eaten before, even better than the steamed meat buns sold in the town.

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