Chapter 90: Looks Great, I Like It, Very Satisfied

What’s more, this stone pillar lamp can be switched on and off at will—as long as there’s enough fuel, she can control the lamp however she likes.

It might sound “unscientific,” but the very existence of a data-driven world is unscientific in itself.

Since it was daytime, Su You couldn’t really test how far the stone pillar lamp could illuminate, so for now, she just placed one on each side of the entrance.

Besides the stone pillar lamps, Su You also made another kind of lamp that could be hung from the eaves, called the “Four-Cornered Lamp.”

These four-cornered lamps were somewhat like lanterns, but not exactly the same.

The main materials for the four-cornered lamp were rope and cloth made from rope. The recipe was: rope x4, cloth x1, coal x1. This set of materials could make two lamps. Su You planned to hang one on each side of the eaves at the front of every building, so however many buildings there were, that’s how many sets she needed to make.

There were four residential houses, plus the tavern, the inn, the warehouse, the quest hall, and the tailor shop—a total of nine buildings. She made nine sets of lamps and hung them up last night while she was at it.

After that, she worked on some other purely decorative structures that didn’t serve any practical purpose.

All this construction took her the whole day, because aside from these decorative buildings, Su You also spent materials to redo the ground.

Previously, the roads in the territory were just dirt. Although they were fairly flat—not riddled with potholes like the surface of the moon—they were still a bit uneven and looked out of place compared to the neat and orderly buildings around them.

So Su You used some stone to make “patterned stone tiles” and replaced all the roads with these patterned stone floors.

It just so happened that the other members of the territory were all out. Even Duoya, whose hand had mostly healed, was planning to go out for a walk nearby—supposedly to scout for hunting spots. But since her hand wasn’t fully recovered, Doli was worried about her and went along as well.

With no one around, Su You could work on renovations without being interrupted by people walking around, so her construction speed only got faster.

From the stone-tiled floors to a ring of stone walls around the territory… Originally, there were only wooden fences and walls, but since she’d redone the ground, Su You decided to upgrade the walls to stone as well, to unify the “theme” of the territory. It looked much better and less out of place.

While Su You was busy building, Doli and Duoya came back once. Who knows how shocked they were when they saw how completely the territory had changed.

They were so surprised they almost thought they’d gone to the wrong place—maybe even wandered into someone else’s territory… It wasn’t until Doli pushed open the newly built stone gate and saw the scene inside that she was sure she hadn’t made a mistake or started hallucinating. At the same time, she was even more stunned by what she saw.

“This… we—we’ve only been gone for less than a morning, right?” Doli was so shocked she could barely get the words out.

Just as she said, it hadn’t even been a full morning—so how had their territory changed so much in such a short time?

They had to admit, though, the changes looked really good. It was like their old country courtyard had turned into a proper brick-and-tile siheyuan.

There were still some things that could be improved, but compared to before, the territory now looked genuinely beautiful and pleasing to the eye.

“It must be the lord working on something. Let’s go ask.” Although Duoya was also surprised, she was obviously much calmer. But if you looked closely, you’d see her so-called calm was just a front—when Doli wasn’t paying attention, her eyes kept darting around, taking in all the changes.

After all, she was just a girl in her early twenties, and this wasn’t exactly a time of advanced technology. Most new things had to be experienced firsthand, and since Duoya had never seen anything like this before, it was only natural for her to be curious.

When the two of them found Su You, they saw her constantly taking things out of the workbench, then putting raw materials back in to make new items over and over.

“My lord.”

“Miss Lord, are you decorating the base?”

Actually, Su You had already heard them push open the stone gate just now—she was busy, not deaf—so when she suddenly heard their voices, she wasn’t startled at all and answered naturally, “Mm, just doing a bit of renovation. I’m changing the floors and the outer walls—it’s also safer this way.”

As she spoke, another batch of patterned tiles was finished. Su You took them out, then turned to look at them.

“So, what do you think? Does it look good? Or if you have any suggestions, feel free to let me know—I can use them for reference.” Even though she was the lord, the territory didn’t belong to her alone. It wasn’t enough for just her to think it looked good—everyone had to like it.

But clearly, Su You was asking for nothing.

Duoya wasn’t the type to offer suggestions or be picky about these things, and Doli—well, in modern terms, she’d be a total fangirl, the kind who thinks Su You can do no wrong. After all, a favorability rating of ninety doesn’t come from nowhere.

So, all Su You could get from them were a string of compliments like “I like it,” “I’m satisfied,” “It looks great,” and so on.

“As long as you’re happy with it… Oh, right, Doli, there’s something I wanted to ask you.” As if suddenly remembering something, Su You called out to Doli.

Doli immediately stopped in her tracks, just as she was about to wander off and look around.

“Yes, Miss Lord?” Doli thought Su You must have something important to say, so she sounded a bit nervous.

“No need to be nervous, I just wanted to ask you something.” Su You smiled at her, then continued, “I remember you said before that you know some basic sewing, right?”

Doli: “Yes, Miss Lord. Do you have something you need me to make?”

“Mm… not exactly. Take a look over there first.” Su You pointed toward the tailor shop, signaling Doli to look.

Doli stared at the tailor shop for a moment, as if she was starting to guess what Su You meant.

“That… the tailor shop? Miss Lord, do you want me to work there?” Doli asked tentatively.

She herself had no objections to being assigned to the tailor shop—after all, she already had some basic skills, so she’d pick it up quickly, and she actually enjoyed sewing and making things.

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