My Apocalypse System Arrives 10 Years Early

Chapter 51: Chapter 50: It’s Good to Be Rich, a House Goes Up So Fast

With the funds, materials, manpower, and machinery all in place, the kitchen—with its three rooms above ground and three below—was completely built in less than five days. This included the covered walkway connecting it to the old house, the wall insulation and plastering, the construction of the stove, and the reinforcement of the old house.

The original back door of the old house, which had been small and somewhat damaged, was now reinforced and renovated. It became a perfect match for the tall, covered walkway and looked excellent.

Considering his grandmother’s age, all the floors were given a non-slip treatment.

A lightning rod was also installed high on the roof ridge. Its appearance was designed to coordinate with the architectural style, using a well-concealed down conductor to channel potential lightning strikes safely into the ground.

Li Xiang personally climbed up to install the five small beast figurines. Small, protruding steel posts had been left on the roof ridge; he just had to coat them with cement and slide the figurines on. These small beasts were fired from earthenware and were the same color as the glazed roof tiles. Some parts were even painted, shimmering with iridescent colors in the sunlight.

Many people from the village came to have a look, and all of them praised it.

A white-haired elder leaning on a cane remarked with emotion, ”Even the Li Family’s great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather couldn’t manage something like this, even back when they were wealthy.”

Back in the time of the Li Family’s great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, the family was wealthy. They were country squires and landowners, and some family members even served as minor officials. However, when they built their ancestral home, they weren’t qualified to place so many small beasts on the roof; they were only allowed to follow the ”one-beast” configuration.

In other words, they could only place one small beast on each flying eave, whereas Li Xiang now had five.

But things are different now compared to ancient times. In modern society, as long as you have the money, you can put up as many as you want—no one would care even if you put up eighty-one.

Be that as it may, for the older villagers, it was still quite moving to see this young man, Li Xiang, achieve something that had once been an impossible dream.

Because of this, whenever someone in Li Family Village built a Chinese-style house from then on, they all followed his example and placed Divine Beasts on their roof ridges. They were truly beautiful and magnificent.

And this was just for a kitchen.

Of the kitchen’s three above-ground rooms, the one in the middle was, of course, the main room. It was very spacious, containing a stove and a dining area. As for the two side rooms, one was a storage room. Li Xiang moved the refrigerator in there and also built some bamboo shelves for storing everyday food and miscellaneous items.

The five kittens could now run and jump. Filled with curiosity about the world, they spent their days exploring everywhere. However, they were still too small to climb over the threshold. Li Xiang saw them dangling and struggling, so he gave them a helping hand and placed them inside the storage room.

He did this because he had been inside, and the kittens were desperately trying to get in.

The mother cat, afraid her kittens might get hurt, followed closely behind.

In truth, even if Li Xiang hadn’t intervened, the mother cat would have carried them across one by one.

Now that the kittens were older, even strangers could pet them without the mother cat minding. She could clearly distinguish her own kittens now, so there was no risk of her misidentifying them and biting someone by mistake.

With six cats patrolling the house daily, it was practically impossible for any mice to be around. If one did show up, it would just be a free meal for the kittens—a chance for them to taste some fresh meat and practice their hunting skills.

The other side room, meanwhile, was a bathroom. Since it was close to the kitchen, it was convenient to carry hot water over. A drain had also been specially installed in the room for easy drainage.

Li Xiang bought two large wooden tubs—one for himself and one for his grandmother—so they could take hot baths in the winter.