The peasant women from other villages who came after hearing the news turned pale when they heard this.

They were already uneasy because they had received twenty cash as wages yesterday. They felt that working for only half a day was still too little, so they decided to get up early and come to Jiang Wei's house to work. Unexpectedly, they saw such a scene.

Jiang Wei was shocked by Li Dayong's wife's shameless remarks. He sneered and said, "I'm sorry, I'm not the kind of dishonest person. Since I hired someone to work, I won't fire them without any reason."

In business, the most important thing is credibility. If she is a dishonest person, who will come to work at her house in the future?

Li Dayong's wife blushed with anger.

The few peasant women who were shouting and trying to get some benefits saw this and shut up.

Ever since the people in the village learned about this, many women have started to think about it. Twenty pennies can only work for half a day. How can there be such a good job in this world?

Even though they knew the Jiang family had enough people, they still came shamelessly.

The water source problem in the village has been solved in the past few days, but the weather is still as hot as before. It is a little cooler in the morning, and it is bearable to work in the fields, but the strong sun at noon can make people faint if they go to the fields. In the past, it was better to go to Jiang’s house to make some money.

The few peasant women whose wishes failed had no choice but to leave. Li Dayong's daughter-in-law saw that everyone was leaving, and she couldn't do anything bad by herself, so she also left angrily.

After the village women who helped the workers saw that the troublemakers had left, they silently entered the yard, started to light the stove and started working without saying a word.

Jiang Wei didn't say anything when he saw them. If they wanted to come early, they could come early. At worst, they would have to process the money later.

After a while, Liu Dagang also came with the men digging the cellar.

Jiang Xiaoxiao took a look and saw that there were more than a dozen people, all of them big and thick men. They all carried hoes and dustpans on their shoulders. There were more people than the people who dug the well last time.

"Mother Xiaoxiao, where can I dig the cellar?" Liu Dagang walked around the yard with a hoe. The yard was full of pots and stoves, and there was a vegetable field in the corner of the yard. There was no place to dig a cellar.

Jiang Wei then took people to an open space outside the courtyard, "Let's dig here."

This piece of land was a wasteland that she and Li Zheng bought not long ago. The ground was full of weeds, and the soil underground was mixed with gravel. The villagers usually used fertile paddy fields for farming. Almost no one would use such wasteland. In this era, there were fewer people and more land, and there was even more wasteland. Villagers would not buy useless wasteland, so she was able to buy this land for only one or two half silver.

Jiang Wei has already planned that her new house should be on this land in the future, with a large yard surrounding it, covering a five-mile radius of her family's land. On this land, she can also plant some drought-resistant crops and vegetables. For fruit trees and flowers, they also follow the example of the rich gentry and set up a village or something like that, and hire some slaves to take care of them.

Liu Dagang nodded and led people to dig.

Digging a cellar is not a difficult task. Several people have done it before and have experience.

Jiang Wei made arrangements to dig the cellar, and Old Man Zhao's bullock cart also arrived at the door of his house.

She loaded a few freezers onto a bullock cart and started making deliveries in town.

Jiang Xiaoxiao stayed at home as usual this time. The family hired helpers, and she had to stay at home to take care of them.

After Jiang Wei left for a while, sisters Qiu Lianniang and Chun Miao also came.

She must have heard about the women in the village coming to grab work. As soon as Qiu Lianniang came, she asked the peasant women working in the yard to work harder in the future, and they must not let down Jiang Wei's trust in them.

After she finished speaking, she turned to Jiang Xiaoxiao and sighed: "Well, these people I'm looking for are all hard-working people who have a hard time at home. Some of them were kicked out by their children to live alone. They live in poverty and can no longer survive. Some are destitute, with only one person in the family, and some fled from famine in the past few years. They have no land and can only eat bran and vegetables every day... But they are all hard-working and will not go out and say anything." Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded to express understanding.

None of the people Qiulian Niang hired to work were related to her. She was kind-hearted and helped these poor people to the best of her ability.

After a day of observation yesterday, she also roughly figured out the temperament of these people. They were all honest, kind-hearted people. They were grateful for Qiu Lianniang's help, and she was even more grateful that Jiang Wei was willing to work hard for this job. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have come to her house early in the morning.

The yard was busy early in the morning, and Jiang Xiaoxiao took advantage of this free time to feed the chickens, sheep, and rabbits at home. He might as well turn around and see a sneaky figure outside the yard, standing outside the fence and looking into the yard with his neck up.

Jiang Xiaoxiao frowned, walked forward, and deliberately raised his voice and said: "Who are you, and what are you doing in my house!?"

Widow Xu was startled. When she lowered her head and saw Jiang Xiaoxiao, who was not taller than a fence, the guilt in her eyes was instantly wiped away.

She smiled hypocritically and said, "You are Xiaoxiao, right? I am Widow Xu from the village. I am here to see your mother. Is your mother at home?"

As soon as she finished asking her question, Qiulian Niang, who heard the noise, came over and said, "I'm not here, what's the matter with you?"

Widow Xu couldn't help but look at the courtyard with envy and said, "I just wanted to ask if your family is still short of manpower. I think..."

"Don't think about it, her family has enough." Before Widow Xu could finish her words, Qiu Lianniang interrupted her, "You should leave quickly, don't keep sneaking around outside people's yards when you have nothing to do."

What she said was so unceremonious that Widow Xu couldn't hold back the smile on her face. She looked down at Jiang Xiaoxiao again, "Well, Xiaoxiao..."

As soon as she opened her mouth, Jiang Xiaoxiao imitated Qiu Lianniang's tone and said, "My family's hands are full, so don't come."

Widow Xu bit her lower lip unwillingly and turned away.

Looking at Widow Xu's walking back, Jiang Xiaoxiao's frown relaxed.

"This Widow Xu is not a good person. Xiaoxiao, if you see her in the future, stay away." Qiu Lianniang said suddenly.

Hearing this, Jiang Xiaoxiao subconsciously looked up at Qiu Lianniang, with no trace of disgust on her face.

This was the first time that she had seen Qiu Lianniang, who was always gentle and kind to others, hate someone so much.

She returned to the chicken coop to feed the chickens, and suddenly she remembered some rumors she had heard under the big locust tree in the village, saying that Widow Xu was having an affair with Rascal Zhao...

After Jiang Xiaoxiao fed the chickens, sheep and rabbits, she went to ask Chun Ya, who was beating eggs: "Is your father coming home these days?"

Chun Ya nodded, shook her head and said, "My father is at home during the day, but goes out after dark at night."

She also discovered when she went to the latrine at night that her father, Zhao Lai Lai, secretly left home late at night and didn't return home until almost dawn.

Jiang Xiaoxiao frowned and asked again: "Does your mother know about this?"

Chun Ya nodded. Her mother naturally knew about this, but her mother asked her not to make it public.


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