"I saw that well when I first got here. Is it newly dug? Great." Xu Shizhu looked at the well with envy. "Dongsheng told me last time that you, Bingfa, lent him one tael of silver. I told him off when I got home. He's quite bold, even daring to borrow money. But thanks to your money, his mother's illness is getting better now. I wanted to come and thank you, but I felt embarrassed to come empty-handed. This time, I also want to thank you for giving Dongsheng this opportunity. He was so happy that he couldn't sleep yesterday. It's not easy to find a job paying 700 wen. Anyway, I came here today to thank you."

"Uncles, at least you know we are not harsh landlords. Let me tell you about the contract," Chunxiao took out two pieces of paper from the house. "Actually, the terms are very simple. You just have to help with the housework. You have to start work at Chenshi every day and finish work at Youshichu." That means you have to go to work at 7 am and finish get off work at 5 pm.

"At noon, you'll have lunch with my family. It's just a little bit. You can't tell anyone you see here, including your family. If you break the rules, you'll have to pay a year's wages. I've also written down your request to go home to help with the spring plowing and autumn harvest, but there's a prerequisite: you have to agree on a time to come back with us. After all, it's a busy time."

"Is there lunch provided?" Several people were a little surprised. This had not been mentioned before. The two old fathers looked very happy. They could get money instead of the food rations they had missed. This job was hard to come by.

"I live at the end of the village, and it only takes half an hour to go back and forth. It's convenient for us to eat and work together. They can eat whatever we eat, no choice. Also, if you don't have anything to do on weekdays, please don't come to see me casually."

"No, it's okay. We won't come. I'll tell my family. Don't worry."

"If you have no objections, please come and place your fingerprints." Chun Xiao spread out two contracts. "This one is for Brother Wangzu, and this one is for you, Dongsheng. The contents of both are the same."

The two of them pressed their fingerprints without hesitation.

"Hey Bingfa, if your family is still short of workers in the future, you can consider me. Although I'm 50, I can do the work just as well as the young people. Otherwise, I'll call Wangfu back. Although he earns a little more outside, I don't think it's as good as here."

"Me too." Shizhu also came up and said, "Bingfa, we are about the same age. I can do what you can do. Don't look at Dongsheng's mother being weak, I am very strong."

Yan Bingfa was at a loss for words. "Oh, you two, stop joking. I'm worried that the villagers will talk about me inviting two young men. If I invite you again, they will curse me behind my back."

"I'm not kidding, I'm serious." Yan Musheng started to get anxious when he saw Yan Bingfa had really excluded them. "You're paying people to do the work, so what's there to be afraid of? Anyway, I'm not afraid of what others say. If you have money and don't make money, you're stupid. If we can't do it, that's our only choice. If you can't give us the opportunity, then I'll blame you."

Chunxiao laughed on the side. This is how a normal person would react.

Yan Bingfa glanced at her helplessly. "Alright, if I really need you again in the future, I'll consider you. But we don't have so much work at home." He smiled and patted their shoulders. "I was worried that you might not like it if I asked your son to be a long-term worker. It seems I was overthinking it."

"Of course you're being overly suspicious. If you hadn't come to us, we wouldn't have thought about it. Okay, now that everything's settled, we'll go back first."

"Uncle Musheng, you and Uncle Shizhu can go back first. Brother Wangzu and Dongsheng will stay. We will start working. Have lunch with us at noon and then we will get back to work in the afternoon."

"Okay, okay, we'll be leaving first then. Wangzu, do your best."

Xu Shizhu patted Dongsheng on the shoulder and followed Yan Musheng.

"Sister Chunxiao, what should we do now?"

Chunxiao looked at his father and laughed. "There's nothing to do right now, so you can walk around the yard. After dinner, my father will take you to the fields. He'll tell you what to do once we get there."

The two of them sat in the courtyard. Perhaps because of their changed status, they felt less comfortable just sitting there. Fortunately, Zhou and Zhang soon returned with basins. Seeing them, they said, "I'm coming." Zhou placed the basin in the courtyard and wiped the water off her hands.

"Auntie, there are pig intestines in your basin, right?" Wangzu walked forward and took a look. "Why doesn't it smell bad at all?" He was a little surprised.

"It's pig intestines. They've been washed with flour so they don't stink. This idea was Chunxiao's idea."

Wangzu sniffed it carefully again and found that there was indeed no bad smell. "Use flour to wash the intestines." He smiled and said, "Your family is really willing to do this." Flour is so precious, but they actually use it to wash the intestines.

Dongsheng sat on the side and looked over curiously.

"I'll let you try some of our homemade snacks later." Seeing Dongsheng sitting there in silence, Zhou knew he might be feeling uncomfortable. She actually liked Dongsheng very much. "Dongsheng, go to the well nearby and draw a few buckets of water to help me fill the water tank in the yard."

"I understand, Auntie." Dongsheng immediately went to the well to work, and Wangzu also went to help.

Yan Dahe quickly came back driving the ox cart. He was not surprised to see them. Seeing them standing in the yard, he offered to teach them how to drive the ox cart. Since they were helping with housework, they must learn how to drive the ox cart.

The two of them were studying very hard outside the yard. It was only at this time that they discovered that there was a well outside Chunxiao's yard. "Your family has dug two wells?" Yan Wangzu couldn't believe it.

"Chun Xiao paid for this well to be dug for her future cotton fields. You've been sitting here for quite some time, how come you only just saw it? It's all bare. Didn't you see the well standing here before?"

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