great-warnovel Chapter 181 The brothers went crazy building a greenhouse: Jiaojiao, we'll get you some water r
Chapter 181 The brothers went crazy building a greenhouse: Jiaojiao, we'll get you some water r
When the cold wind blew into the Qin family's dining room, it was completely blocked by the expensive water-circulating underfloor heating and the heavy velvet curtains.
The restaurant was warm and cozy, with crystal chandeliers casting an ambiguous, warm yellow glow.
However, the atmosphere tonight is rather tense.
"Click."
Su Wan picked up her ivory chopsticks and listlessly poked at the glistening pickled radish strips on the plate.
took a bite.
It was crispy, but the salty taste from the marinating and the dry texture instantly made her taste buds protest.
"What's wrong? Is Jiaojiao not having an appetite?"
Qin Lie, sitting in the main seat, frowned instantly, forming a deep frown.
He put down the large bowl in his hand, his hawk-like eyes fixed on Su Wan's slightly furrowed brow, as if her frown was more serious than the sky falling.
"It's too dry."
Su Wan put down her chopsticks, her delicate and beautiful face, which Qin An had carefully nurtured, filled with grievance.
She stuck out the tip of her tongue and licked her slightly dry lips:
"It's radishes, cabbage, and potatoes every day... my lips are getting chapped from eating so much of it."
"I want to eat that..."
She gestured, her eyes becoming somewhat unfocused and longing:
"Those pink peaches with fine fuzz on the skin... when you bite into one, the juice bursts out with a 'pop,' leaving your hands and mouth covered in sweet juice."
"Gulp."
Inside the restaurant, a series of unified sounds of swallowing saliva rang out.
It's not because everyone wants to eat peaches.
Rather, it was because Su Wan's description at that moment was just too... seductive.
She tilted her head slightly, her slender swan neck gleaming with a porcelain-white luster under the light, her watery eyes filled with longing, and her red lips slightly parted, as if non-existent juice had already flowed down the corners of her mouth.
Qin Yue, the fourth brother sitting to her left, swallowed hard.
He snapped the folding fan shut, and a flicker of fire instantly ignited in his peach blossom eyes.
"Sister-in-law."
Qin Yue's voice was somewhat hoarse, carrying an irrepressible heat:
"Where can I find those kinds of peaches at this time of year?"
"But what if my sister-in-law complains of a dry mouth..."
He moved closer, and the pleasant scent of sandalwood emanating from him instantly enveloped him:
"Fourth Brother has another way... to make Sister-in-law moisturize."
"Fourth brother!"
Qin Mo pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, and a cold light shone through the lenses, interrupting Qin Yue's unfinished flirtatious remarks.
"Let's get down to business."
Qin Mo put down the spoon in his hand and elegantly wiped the corner of his mouth, but his gaze remained fixed on Su Wan's lips.
"My sister-in-law wants to eat fresh fruits and vegetables, which is not difficult."
But recently... something's happened at Liuxi's place.
"Liuxi Grain Alliance?"
Su Wan snapped out of her daze and blinked.
Willow Creek Plain is the largest grain-producing area within a hundred miles, and also the largest landlord alliance besides the Qin family.
The climate there is slightly more humid than in Langya Town, and they control the vegetable supply for the entire county.
"Those old bastards."
Qin Lie snorted coldly and slammed his large hand on the table, making the radish strips in the plate jump.
"They're just jealous because they see our Qin family is living too well."
Qin Yue picked up the conversation, his fawning expression fading slightly, replaced by a cold smirk typical of a cunning businessman:
"Master Liu sent someone to deliver a message today."
"They say the snow was so heavy this year that all the vegetables were frozen and damaged. The little bit of stock left is just some rotten cabbage leaves."
"However..."
Qin Yue toyed with the priceless jade folding fan in his hand, his eyes filled with a sinister glint.
"He said he heard that our Qin family's 'Yunxi Garden' is quite nice. If we could reserve a penthouse apartment for each of the elders of the Liu family, and also give them a few VIP cards..."
"Then perhaps they can scrape together some fresh vegetables and send them to our Qin family."
"Dream on!"
The third brother, Qin Meng, was gnawing on a leg of lamb when he heard this, and in anger, he crushed the bone.
"That Yunqi Garden is where my sister-in-law earns her money for cosmetics! They're trading rotten cabbage for a golden nest? Don't they even take a piss and look at themselves in the mirror!"
"that is!"
The twins were also furious:
"Those rotten vegetable leaves, even our pigs wouldn't eat them! You think you can feed them to your sister-in-law?"
The crowd in the restaurant was filled with anger.
But anger won't solve the problem.
Looking at the pickled radish on the plate, Su Wan felt a longing for fresh fruits and vegetables growing wildly in her heart, like weeds sprouting.
It's not just about wanting to eat.
It's more like the body is protesting.
Vitamin deficiency made her feel unwell all over, and her skin seemed to have become drier.
"Don't worry, sister-in-law."
Qin An, the seventh brother who had been silent until now, suddenly stood up.
He was wearing a snow-white overcoat and carrying a delicate little porcelain jar when he walked up behind Su Wan.
"Your lips are dry, let me put some lip balm on your lips first."
His long, pale fingers were stained with a little bit of pale pink ointment.
No cotton swabs were used.
Instead, he gently pressed his fingertips onto Su Wan's cupid's bow.
"Well……"
Su Wan instinctively tried to dodge, but he gently held her chin with his other hand.
"Don't move."
Qin An's voice was low and gloomy, carrying a morbid obsession:
"This was made with the last bit of rose liqueur we had, it's very precious."
"Sister-in-law, you have to eat it all, not a single bit left."
His fingers circled, smeared, and pressed on her lips.
The coolness on my fingertips sent a shiver of burning heat through me.
Qin An looked at the little mouth that he had painted so glossy and pink, and his eyes darkened:
"The vegetables from the Liu family are not clean."
"I'm not good enough for my sister-in-law."
"Since my sister-in-law wants to eat those peaches that burst with juice when you bite into them..."
He turned to look at his other brothers sitting at the table, his eyes carrying a crazed undertone:
"Are the brothers just going to watch their sister-in-law go hungry?"
"make!"
Qin Lie suddenly stood up, his tall figure like a mountain, instantly blocking out the lights above.
He ripped open the annoying button on his collar, revealing a muscular collarbone and explosive muscle definition:
"Since there's no spring outside..."
"Then I'll create a spring for Jiaojiao!"
"Isn't it just a greenhouse?"
"Twins! Bring your tools!"
"Second brother! Draw the blueprints!"
"Third brother! Go and break open that geothermal well in the back hill that hasn't been sealed yet!"
"tonight……"
Qin Lie lowered his head, looking at Su Wan's wide eyes filled with surprise, and roughly rubbed her smooth cheek with his large hand:
"Even if I have to turn this land upside down, I'll still make sure Jiao Jiao gets flooded!"
……
Half an hour later.
The open space behind the Qin family's house was brightly lit.
Several huge biogas lamps illuminated the place as bright as day.
The cold wind howled, and snowflakes fluttered down.
But this construction site was bustling with activity, as if it were another world.
"boom--!"
With a roar, the third brother Qin Meng swung his specially made giant iron pickaxe and slammed it hard onto the ground covered with a thick layer of ice.
The permafrost layer was broken open by brute force.
Followed by.
A plume of white, hot steam, accompanied by the smell of sulfur, erupted from the ground.
That was a geothermal hot spring that the Qin family had previously explored.
In this frigid winter of minus twenty degrees Celsius, this heat was like the breath of a dragon, instantly melting the surrounding snow.
"The heat is coming out!"
The fifth brother shouted excitedly, his shirtless body glistening with sweat that trickled down his bronze muscles, rising in the cold wind as a thin layer of white mist.
"This temperature is intense! It'll definitely make that glass room feel like summer!"
Su Wan, dressed in a thick white fox fur coat, looked like a delicate snow dumpling, and stood in a sheltered spot not far away watching this scene.
These seven men.
Because of her casual remark that she "wanted to eat peaches".
They actually started infrastructure construction in the middle of the night, in this freezing cold.
"Are you cold?"
A gentle voice sounded in my ear.
Qin Mo had walked up to her without her noticing.
He held a freshly drawn sketch in one hand, and with his other hand, he very naturally tightened the collar of her cloak.
"It's not cold."
Su Wan shook her head, her gaze falling on the blueprints in Qin Mo's hand.
That was an extremely forward-thinking design drawing of an "all-glass sunroom".
Using geothermal energy as a heat source, coupled with double-layered hollow glass for insulation, and biogas lamps to simulate sunlight.
This is nothing in modern times.
But in this era, it's practically a miracle.
"Second brother, can this glass... be made?" Su Wan asked with some concern.
"able."
Qin Mo pushed up his glasses, the lenses reflecting the billowing heat in the distance, his eyes gleaming with an almost fanatical confidence:
"For my sister-in-law."
"Don't say it's glass."
"Even if it's a star in the sky, I can pluck it down and melt it down to make a roof."
As he spoke, he leaned forward slightly while showing the blueprints, trapping Su Wan between himself and the blueprints.
It was a kind of extremely secretive, bookish confinement.
"Look, sister-in-law."
Qin Mo's slender fingers slid across the drawing, his fingertips lightly brushing against Su Wan's hand.
"Here, I designed a constant-temperature pool."
"Bring in hot spring water."
"Once this house is built..."
"Snow is falling heavily outside."
"My sister-in-law is right here, wearing the thinnest gauze dress and eating the sweetest peach."
"or……"
His voice lowered, and his warm breath brushed against Su Wan's earlobes, which were slightly red from the cold.
"Soaking in the pool."
"Let's... check if my sister-in-law has really lost weight recently."
Su Wan's cheeks turned bright red.
This is hardly a description of a greenhouse.
This is clearly describing a huge, transparent, and wickedly humorous...private paradise.
"Lord Fang has arrived!"
Just then, a security guard on the perimeter shouted.
Magistrate Fang, wrapped in a heavy-looking old cotton-padded coat, stumbled over.
He had gone to sleep.
As a result, they heard that the Qin family had set fire to the back mountain in the middle of the night (because the biogas lamps were too bright), which frightened them so much that they thought barbarians had invaded, and they ran over without even putting on their shoes properly.
"Master Qin! What...what is going on here?"
Magistrate Fang, seeing the billowing steam and the burly men digging frantically, was so frightened his legs went weak:
"Are they going to sever the earth's veins?"
"What a load of crap, digging up ley lines!"
Qin Lie jumped out of the steaming pit.
His bare upper body was covered in mud and snow, but he didn't look disheveled at all. Instead, he exuded a breathtaking masculine aura.
He walked up to Magistrate Fang, grabbed a handful of snow, and wiped the sweat from his chest.
"Lord Fang, you've arrived just in time."
"Tomorrow, deliver a message to that Master Liu."
"Tell him..."
A cruel smile curled at the corner of Qin Lie's lips, his eyes colder than the winter night wind:
"Keep his rotten cabbage for his own funeral."
"The Qin family doesn't care."
"In three more days..."
"I'll make him beg to buy our Qin family's vegetable leaves!"
Magistrate Fang looked at the man in front of him, who was radiating heat and looked like a demon god, and then glanced at Su Wan, who was surrounded by a crowd of people protecting her.
He swallowed hard.
Although he didn't know what the Qin family was planning to do.
But he knew...
That wealthy man, Master Liu, is finished.
The men in the Qin family usually seem like decent human beings.
But once it comes to this Madam Qin's every meal and drink...
They were a pack of mad wolves.
……
Three days and nights.
The lights on the back hill of the Qin family's house never went out.
When the twins got tired, they slept right next to the glass kiln, while Qin Lie and Qin Meng took turns wielding picks to cultivate the frozen soil.
Meanwhile.
In the county town, thirty miles away.
Inside the Liu family mansion, a scene of singing and dancing still prevailed.
"Hmph, still putting on a brave face?"
Master Liu, with his newly acquired concubine in his arms and a cup of hot wine in his hand, listened to the servant's report with disdain on his face:
"Digging holes? They think they can grow vegetables just by digging a hole?"
"What a joke!"
"This is the dead of winter! Even the heavens aren't giving us food, so what makes the Qin family think they can defy fate?"
"The master is right."
The butler beside him wore a fawning expression:
"I heard that the Qin family's young lady is very spoiled. She's crying because there's no food to eat."
"Wait until she's starving..."
"Perhaps she won't even need those seven men's consent; she'll have to obediently come to the master with the house deed herself."
"Hahaha! Great!"
Master Liu burst into laughter, the image of Su Wan's stunningly beautiful face, crying and begging him for a cabbage, already appearing in his mind.
"At that time..."
"I want more than just a house."
"She has to personally...feed this cabbage to me!"
however.
At this moment, Master Liu was unaware of this.
Just as he was indulging in his pipe dream.
On the back mountain of the Langya Special Zone.
With the last
A huge, crystal-clear double-layered tempered glass was hoisted up by Qin Meng and Qin Lie together.
A "Crystal Palace" that covers ten acres, is completely transparent, and is unique in this era.
In the dead of night, amidst wind and snow.
It rose up from the ground.
"Lights on!"
With Qin Yue's command.
"Slap, slap, slap."
Inside the Crystal Palace, hundreds of specially made biogas supplemental lights lit up simultaneously.
The light pierced through the glass and refracted in the swirling snow.
Looking from afar.
It was like a dazzling pearl that crashed into the dark, cold night.
Su Wan stood at the entrance of the Crystal Palace.
A warm, moist scent wafted towards me.
Inside, the transplanted peach saplings are thriving under the combined effects of the spring water and high temperatures.
Tender green buds have already sprouted on the branches.
even……
There is a small pink flower bud, trembling, preparing to bloom.
"Jiaojiao".
Qin Lie walked up behind her.
He had just taken a shower, and his body carried a chilling aura and the fresh scent of shower gel.
But the moment his broad chest pressed against her back, it was surprisingly hot.
"look."
He reached out his large hand, grasped Su Wan's small hand, and pointed to the little flower:
"The spring you want."
"Big brother made it for you."
"The flowers are blooming..."
"Get closer to that bursting, juicy peach..."
"Is it still far?"
He chuckled softly in her ear:
"but……"
"Before these peaches ripen..."
"Shouldn't Jiaojiao help her older brother... quench his thirst first?"
"These past three days..."
"The sweat my brother is sweating..."
"It's more than the water in this greenhouse... "