She felt sorry for her and regretted snatching her father away from her.

Then, two years ago, she suddenly changed, becoming smart and capable, and she brought the Ma family up, but her father still couldn't bear to leave his blacksmith shop.

At this moment, the fire was flickering not far away, and she understood that Zhou didn't want anything, she just wanted the warmth she felt back then.

"Mom!" Guan Zanli, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke, "How much money did you make from this stall?"

Aunt Guan smiled. "That's over 3,000 yuan, pure profit. Thanks to Zhou Xiang, if Mom works hard for another two years, we'll have a big tiled house built, and your eldest brother won't have to worry about anything."

It’s more than 3,000 yuan. I couldn’t even earn back 300 yuan a year before, but in less than four months, I have earned back more than 3,000 yuan.

In just over a month, my older brother and sister and I earned more than 2,000 yuan.

Almost all of these were given by Zhou Xiang for free. She saw that her father was unwilling to give up the ancestral blacksmith shop, so she made up for it by finding money from other places.

"Mom! Zhou Xiang and Auntie Zhou scolded me. I offended Zhou Xiang."

"You, what did you say? Explain it to me clearly." Aunt Guan raised her voice.

Guan Zanli honestly told her mother what happened in the afternoon.

Aunt Guan raised her hand and slapped her in the face, "You ungrateful bastard! I thought it was just your elder brother who failed in my teaching, and I was still reflecting on it! Turns out there's another you.

They're all troublemakers, all ungrateful. You, go back and apologize to Zhou Xiang immediately, quit your job, go back home and work, and then sell cold noodles with him.

A living is already a great blessing, but you took more than that, and you don't know how to be grateful, and you keep jumping around. If you go to your eldest brother's place to comfort him again, I will kick him out. He is useless, and Liu Hui should not have saved him. "

Guan Zanli agreed obediently. She also felt ashamed to take this salary.

Seeing that she agreed straightforwardly, Aunt Guan asked suspiciously, "Have you figured it out?"

Guan Zanli nodded and said, "Zhou wants to do this for my dad, and we are just an addition."

"Well! I'm glad you understand! What she gave back to your father was already enough. Ma Gua and his bricklaying skills are still good enough, but your father's blacksmithing skills are no longer suitable for this era."

"Yeah! I also want to apologize and thank Liu Hui."

"As you should. Fortunately, you didn't disappoint me like your elder brother did."

Guan Zanli returned to the new building. Everyone was already having dinner. In front of everyone, she bowed to Zhou Xiang and said, "I'm sorry, Xiang Xiang, I've disappointed you. Also, please find someone to take over my job. I'm going back to help my mother."

Zhou Xiang hadn't expected that she was even going to quit her job, and he didn't avoid her bow. "Okay, I'll find one as soon as possible. Sit down and have dinner! You haven't quit yet, and you're still on the job, so food and lodging are still provided."

"Yeah!" Guan Zanli went to the kitchen to get dishes with red eyes.

After dinner, Zhou's mother asked Zhou Xiang who he planned to find to do the job, and Zhou Xiang also felt a headache.

Seeing her embarrassment, Zhou's mother said, "It's better not to look for someone you know. Sister Wang is here to help take care of the children, so it's more appropriate to use someone you know. It's not easy to order around errands like this, unless you have someone you know."

"Well, let's post a job posting."

"Then post it!"

Zhou Xiang quickly wrote a job notice: Recruiting odd jobs, to do chores, required to be clean and tidy, pay attention to hygiene, and not nagging, food and accommodation provided, if the job is nearby, the hours are from 7 am to 7 pm, and you can ask for leave if there are important matters, 20 yuan a month, those who are interested, please come to the hospital for an interview.

Mother Zhou read it over and nodded, "That's it! You handle the interview. I have many acquaintances in town, so some things are hard to say."

"Okay! Ask my brother-in-law to post it tomorrow."

After Aunt Guan returned home, she told her husband about Guan Zanli. Guan Bo sighed softly, "You did the right thing. Think about that girl. She has some admiration for me. You know what Zhou Quan was like before.

Such a small child, but she has to do so many chores and is bullied everywhere. I feel sorry for her, so I take better care of her. None of our children have suffered as much as she has.

Aunt Guan nodded and said, "I know, that's why she doesn't approve of Lili doing anything. With this mentality, it's not easy for her to tell Lili to do anything."

"Afu is not very good. Fortunately, I got 500 yuan. Otherwise, all my kindness would have been wasted."

Aunt Guan was surprised. "You asked for half of it? Then why is he still like that all day? He really deserves a beating. He just didn't suffer when he was a child. If he had been like that when he was a child, he wouldn't be so vulnerable.

Oh! Blame it on me. I thought I had suffered, so I didn’t want to make the children suffer too. Who knew that I ended up hurting them instead? "

Guan Bo comforted his wife, "Okay, don't blame yourself. Good or bad is fate. If he doesn't wake up, this is how his life will be. Let him be!"

As soon as Zhou Xiang posted the notice, many people who could read it came to apply for the job.

Zhou Xiang wanted to send away a lot of random people, and later he simply moved a stool and sat next to the job recruitment notice at the gate.

If someone wants to work here, we first look at their age and then their fingernails. If they are too old, we don’t want them. If their fingernails are all black and gray, we don’t want them.

I don’t want hair that has been washed and cut at home. It must have been cut last night at the latest. She can tell it at a glance if it was cut recently.

So, people in the town privately said that Zhou Xiang was too difficult to deal with and was nitpicking.

Just as Zhou was about to call it a day, someone came running over and asked, "Excuse me, are you hiring here?"

Zhou Xiang stretched out his hand to grab the stool, then retracted it and sat back on it. He raised his head slightly and looked at the woman opposite him. She looked about twenty-four or twenty-five, with a slight sweat on her forehead. She took out a handkerchief from her pocket, wiped it a few times, folded it, and put it back.

"Yes, we are hiring here."

"Can I?"

"Educational level?"

When the woman heard Zhou Xiang asking her a question, she knew this was her chance and slightly curved her eyes. "Junior high school."

Working as a handyman with only a junior high school education is a bit of a waste of talent in this day and age!

"A family member."

"Father-in-law, mother-in-law, husband, sister-in-law, daughter."

"How old is your daughter?"

"Three years old."

"Then who will lead you when you come to do the work?"

"My sister-in-law will take care of it."

"How old is your sister-in-law?"

"18."

"Well, isn't she just right for this? Why should a mother like you put your child down to do this?"

"You, there are more men here. It's not appropriate for a girl like her to come here."

"A married woman like you is suitable?"

"At least, it's better."

"What about your husband? Does he have any suspicions?"

"He said he trusted me and told me to come and work without worry, and he would pick me up after get off work every day."

What a silly woman, she would probably be sold and have to count money for others.

"Hold out your hand."

The woman stretched out her hand, and Zhou Xiang looked at the back and palm of her hand.

"Name."

"Guo Xuehua."

"Okay, come to work tomorrow, 7am to 7pm. The salary is 20, and you get the previous month's salary at the beginning of each month."

Guo Xuehua nodded happily, "Okay, okay, thank you! Thank you!"