In the dead of night, I ask for pink hues.
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Having decided to raise pigs, Lian Shouxin's family returned to their old house that very day and began to clean out the pigsty. They carried the firewood from the pigsty to the outside of the main gate to spread out and dry. They also blocked the two gaps in the pigsty wall with stones. Then they started to fix up the interior of the pigsty.
Lian Shouxin borrowed a flatbed cart from the Upper Room, took Wu Lang and Xiao Qi with him, and went to the river hollow to dig earth. This so-called river hollow was a stretch of river beach. The soil there was good, with some patches even containing fine sand. The tenant farmers from Thirty Mile Camp often went there to dig earth and sand for stove-setting and wall-building.