Before signing up to go to the countryside, his father Tao Shouxin had a very clear plan for Tao Nanfeng's future.

I worked in the library of the Department of Architecture of Jiangcheng University of Architecture for two years. Under his guidance, I taught myself the theoretical knowledge of architecture. After solid foundation, I joined the teaching and research department and started as a draftsman. When the time comes, I recommend studying the architecture major of our school and staying in school after graduation.

Be a teacher.

Tao Nanfeng is attentive, steady, and has a good memory. Her father trained her carefully just to take over.

Tao Nanfeng read through the professional books in her father's study. Some of them were too professional and she couldn't understand them, so she swallowed them down and forced them to write down. Now that she was entrusted with an important task for the first time, she quickly searched for useful knowledge in her memory.

Tao Nanfeng fell into silence, and the educated youth standing aside began to feel worried and whispered.

"Why doesn't Tao Nanfeng speak? Is there something wrong?"

"Although I don't understand architecture, I also know that it's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Isn't it just a thatched house built with thatch and wood from the mountain?"

"You still need experience to build a house. Is Tao Nanfeng good at it?"

After hearing the last sentence, Li Huilan and Qiao Yadong stared at the speaker and said in unison: "You can do it!"

After scolding each other at the same time, seeing the man's neck shrinking and not daring to question anymore, the two looked at each other and smiled.

Tao Nanfeng was always focused when thinking about problems, and didn't hear a word what others said. Amidst the buzz, she seemed to have figured something out, erased a few lines with an eraser, picked up the pencil and continued drawing.

For a simple house with one floor and five dormitories, Tao Nanfeng completed the first draft of the building plan in just one hour.

Most of the educated youth didn't have the patience to wait, so they ran to the next door to pack their luggage, wash it, and dry it in the sun. The corridor of the field office was filled with washbasins, buckets, shoes... a dazzling array of things.

The remaining three girls and Qiao Yadong waited quietly aside. Seeing Tao Nanfeng finally raised his head after painting, everyone heaved a sigh of relief.

Tao Nanfeng shook his head, seeming dissatisfied. The conditions were limited and there was no syringe pen here, otherwise the drawing would look better.

Xiao Aiyun saw that there was movement in her, and then she dared to walk up to her, looking at the lines on the grid drawing paper, her eyes full of curiosity: "This is the architectural drawing? It's square and square, with horizontal and vertical lines, thick and thin.

, it looks nice, but it doesn’t look like a house.”

Tao Nanfeng smiled slightly: "This is the floor plan. Look, these two lines are the walls, the three lines on the wall represent the windows, and this arc represents the door..."

The others came closer, their heads crowded together, and they followed Tao Nanfeng's fingers to observe carefully, listening and nodding, like chickens pecking at rice.

"This is the corridor, isn't it?"

"This is the toilet, this is the kitchen, ah, this is the shower room."

"Tao Nanfeng, your calligraphy is so beautiful, long and thin, as if carved."

Hearing the praise from his companion, Tao Nanfeng pursed his lips and looked a little shy. The engineering character is a special font for drawing. His father once said that the engineering character is the designer's face and must be written well.

Hearing the girls praising Tao Nanfeng, Qiao Yadong coughed and reminded: "Well, Tao Nanfeng, have you thought about what building materials to use?"

Tao Nanfeng nodded.

Qiao Yadong breathed a sigh of relief: "For what?"

Tao Nanfeng recalled what was said in the book: The essence of vernacular architecture lies in conforming to nature, adapting to local conditions, and using local materials.

She spoke slowly, her eyes sparkling as if stars were falling in her eyes.

"Xiufeng Mountain has a lot of stone and loess. The stone is used as the foundation and the loess is used as the brick wall."

Tao Nanfeng said a few words, but Qiao Yadong felt the fog in front of his eyes cleared and jumped up happily.

"Yes! In addition to wood and thatch, Xiufeng Mountain is mostly made of stones and soil. We couldn't buy cement or red bricks, so we dug stones to make the foundation and loess to make the brick walls."

Tao Nanfeng took off the tape from the four sides of the drawing, gently and carefully rolled it into a paper tube, held it in his hand and waved: "Let's go to the site."

The educated youth who were packing their things in the corridor saw Tao Nanfeng holding a scroll of paper in her hand, followed by Li Huilan and others walking out of the house. They all asked happily: "After the drawings are drawn, can we build a house?"

Qiao Yadong answered on her behalf: "After we finished drawing a picture, we went to the educated youth spot together and listened to Tao Nanfeng's arrangements. Tao Nanfeng said that we should build an adobe house so that cold wind would not pour into the house in winter."

When the educated youth heard this, they cheered collectively: "Go, go, go! Work hard for ten days and live in a big house!"

Tao Nanfeng said: "Ten days are not enough." The adobe bricks need to be mixed with wet soil first, demoulded to make the bricks and then dried in the sun. It also takes time to lay the bricks. Ten days is really not enough.

The educated youths hurriedly said: "It's okay, let's take our time."

Everyone's unconditional trust and support warmed Tao Nanfeng's heart, and she nodded slightly. A gust of mountain wind blew, bringing moist water vapor. A strand of hair in front of Tao Nanfeng's forehead was blown up by the wind, and he playfully slapped her in the ear.

Turn around.

His eyes were gleaming and as calm as water.

Tao Nanfeng, who was previously thought to be cold and squeamish, now shines with a light that makes people look up to him.

Qiao Yadong felt an electric current hit him from the top of his head, and he stayed on the spot unable to move.

In his eyes, Tao Nanfeng didn't speak or smile, but he was like a snow-white epiphyllum blooming slowly in the night. The moonlight shone down, coating the petals with a golden fluorescence, which was dazzlingly beautiful.

Qiao Yadong's silly look made the girls cover their mouths and giggle. When the giggles fell to their ears, Qiao Yadong reacted and turned red with a bang.

It was red all the way to the base of my ears.

Qiao Yadong coughed covertly and turned his eyes to the washbasin on the corridor: "Do I, um... and wet mud need a basin?"

The feelings of youth are always poetry, but Tao Nanfeng didn't feel Qiao Yadong's throbbing at all. He was thinking about how to get soil to make bricks, and replied smoothly: "No need."

There is a wetland in the open space to the east of Educated Youth Point, which has been soaked by spring water for a long time. Just dig a hole to collect the soil, mix it well and compact it in front of the house. Then use molds to make bricks, and as long as the weather is good, they can be dried in the sun in two days.

As for the stones...the road construction team has to dig out a lot of rocks every day. All they need to do is borrow a small cart and drag these stones to the open space of the educated youth point.

After thinking about this, Tao Nanfeng looked at everyone: "Let's level the site first, lay out the lines, and then dig trenches and make the foundation."

Level the site, lay out lines, dig trenches, and make foundations?

Professional, absolutely professional.

When the educated youths heard the professional terms coming out of her mouth, they became more and more convinced that she really understood architecture, and started shouting excitedly.

"Tao Nanfeng, we listen to you."

"Tao Nanfeng, just give your orders and we will follow them."

Countless pairs of eager eyes looked at her, and Tao Nanfeng felt a sense of responsibility in her heart. She straightened her back and the light in her eyes grew brighter: "Let's go!"

The dirt road was slippery and muddy after it had rained. Tao Nanfeng was surrounded by a group of people, like stars over the moon.

Arriving at No. 6 Educated Youth Point, everyone followed Qiao Yadong's arrangements to clean up the site, pick up thatch, move beams, move earth... and started making preliminary preparations in full swing.

Huang Xingwu came over with two people from the Infrastructure Department. When he saw the orderly situation, his pupils shrank. What the hell are these twenty educated youths doing? Do they really know how to build a house?

He walked over with his hands behind his back, looking here and there.

Everyone ignored him. Wei Min and his companions carried a broken beam and deliberately swung it towards Huang Xingwu. Huang Xingwu suffered his loss and was so frightened that he hid aside: "What are you going to do?"

Wei Min laughed and mocked him: "If Section Chief Huang is not in a hurry to help repair the houses of several other educated youth sites, how can he find time to come here to inspect in his busy schedule?"

Huang Xingwu rolled his eyes: "I am the chief of the infrastructure section, and I am in charge of all infrastructure on the farm. Half of your educated youth centers have collapsed, so you still have to rely on us? You have a better attitude, say a few soft words, and then give it to the master.

If we buy a few packs of cigarettes, not to mention thatched houses, we can even build brick houses!"

Buy cigarettes? How many packs do you want?

The farm is built on the mountain. The terrain is lower in the east and higher in the west. A supply and marketing cooperative is opened underneath, selling some oil, salt, soy, vinegar, and needlework and towels. Because the mountain road is rugged, the next trip to the mountain is not easy. The most luxurious things here are non-staple food, tobacco and alcohol.

A pack of the cheapest Pegasus brand cigarettes costs 30 cents, while the more high-end Daqianmen cigarettes sell for one yuan a pack.

Wei Min was furious when he heard this: "What do you mean? We are all poor and cannot afford cigarettes! Since you are the infrastructure department, these things are your responsibilities. Do you still need us to beg and give gifts?"

When Ye Qin heard this, he thought that he was assigned to the pig farm because the farm leader had some "killing stick" in order to force everyone to give gifts.

"Do you know this is corruption? If you pull him out, you will go to jail!"

Her family is in the Agricultural Bureau, and her father is a section chief. He is an upright and honest person, and he hates people working behind the scenes. Under the influence, Ye Qin naturally can't stand Huang Xingwu's behavior of asking for bribes.

Huang Xingwu was so angry when he heard what she said: "Little girl, don't talk nonsense, what do you know? The masters work hard, and if you give them a few cigarettes, you are considered corrupt?"

While they were bickering, Qiao Yadong asked Tao Nanfeng softly: "Can we build a house after finishing the site today? The ground is still wet."

Tao Nanfeng walked to the east where the spring water flows down and pointed to the wetland with lush water and grass: "dig the soil first."

Qiao Yadong asked: "Can you calculate on the drawing how much soil is needed and how many bricks can be made?"

Tao Nanfeng unfolded the drawing with both hands and pondered silently, silently calculating the volume of the wall in his heart.

After glancing at the architectural drawings, Huang Xingwu suddenly became interested. He threw Wei Min and Ye Qin away, strode up to Tao Nanfeng, and stretched out his hand to grab it.

A gust of wind blew, and Tao Nanfeng was startled. He reacted quickly and stepped back to get out of the way.

Huang Xingwu's eyes flashed: "Where did you steal this picture? Return it to me quickly!"

Qiao Yadong took a step across and stood in front of Tao Nanfeng: "Who stole your picture? This was painted by Tao Nanfeng."

Huang Xingwu was a thin person, standing a little shorter in front of Qiao Yadong. He said impatiently: "Did she draw it? How is it possible! I just came out of the field department for a while, and she drew such a large architectural drawing?"

Seeing Tao Nanfeng being bullied, the educated youth gathered around him.

"Why are you bullying girls?"

"We watched her paint it, why do you accuse her of stealing the painting!"

"Is it possible that only your infrastructure department has architectural drawings? Bah-"

Huang Xingwu didn't expect the educated youth from Jiangcheng to be so united. He bulged his triangular eyes and said sternly: "Don't make trouble, even if I see the building plan and ask about it?"

Huang Xingwu was furious when he asked for cigarettes just now but failed to get it from Wei Min and Ye Qin. Seeing that Tao Nanfeng was so delicate and easy to bully, he took out his anger on her.
To be continued...