Chapter 8 Xie Family Mansion

The next day was just dawn.

The three sisters of the Xie family got up and helped Cui cook, clean the yard, and feed the chickens, ducks and pigs.

At the dinner table, Cui and her two daughters-in-law kept praising them for their diligence.

These were all tasks they had already done at home, and today so many people praised them that they blushed.

Xie Qiushi swallowed a mouthful of steamed bun and asked, "Brother Wang, can I go with you to visit the old house?"

"And me, I want to go too!" Xie Chunmiao said enthusiastically.

Xie Xiachan also looked at Wang Shunyi quietly.

"Okay, what's wrong with that? Let's go together." Wang Shunyi said.

After breakfast, Xie Qiushi and the others went to see Xie Shuangbai first.

He looks better today than yesterday.

I saw him eat a bowl of millet porridge and felt relieved.

"Brother, let's go to the old house later."

Xie Shuangbai reminded Xie Qiushi not to forget his instructions from yesterday.

Xie Qiushi nodded.

The Wang brothers took the tools, the three of them took the water jugs and empty bowls, and the five of them ran towards the Xie family's old house.

Xiaoshi Village is not big, with only about seventy households. The village chief's house is in the center of the village, and the Xie family's old house is at the end of the village.

There were already quite a few people in the village in the morning, some working in the fields, some working in the city, and some sitting at the gate of the yard to bask in the sun after dinner.

The three sisters of the Xie family were inevitably greeted by villagers along the way, and everyone looked at them with sympathy.

The aunts and uncles I met mostly said words of encouragement and comfort.

Of course, there are also people who dislike them.

Zhu Meili is one of them.

She was Xie Jiaorui's friend, and had often bullied and scolded the three people together with her.

She shook her newly bought cotton clothes, walked towards me with her triangular eyes slanted, and said in a sarcastic tone:

"Hey, where did this little beggar come from? What bad luck this is so early in the morning! He soiled my new clothes for nothing!"

Xie Chunmiao usually disliked this Zhu, and now that the relationship was severed, she no longer had to worry. She immediately retorted:

"Which ugly fool is blocking the way? Don't you know that good dogs don't block the road?"

Zhu Meili was furious when she was called ugly. She hated being called ugly the most.

Because her father is ugly, he thinks that if he names his daughter Meili, she will be pretty when she grows up.

As a result, she was as ugly as her father. Now this matter has become a joke in the village. Even now, some people still laugh at the Zhu family.

This bitch clearly did it on purpose.

Zhu Meili was even more furious when she saw the three people's beautiful facial features. She cursed:

"Shameless bitch, just like your vixen, all she does is seduce men!"

The Wang brothers next to him frowned when they heard this: "Zhu family, how can you talk like that? That's what your father taught you!"

When Zhu Meili mentioned her father, her face turned green. If it weren't for her bitch mother, her father would have quarreled with her mother all day long and would not have come back for so long!

She looked at the Wang brothers with malicious eyes and said:

"As expected, vixens are sluts who will seduce a man and refuse to acknowledge him.

You guys must have been bewitched too, no wonder you're so protective of them!"

The Wang brothers, who were honest and simple, were so angry that their faces turned red when they heard this.

Seeing Zhu Meili being so outrageous, Xie Qiushi immediately stepped forward and said, "Brother Wang, ignore her. Some people are just ugly and do bad things!

She is so ugly, and she wanders around the village wearing ugly clothes every day. People who don’t know her would think that our Xiaoshi Village is full of ugly people like her. The girls in our village are really wronged! "

This sentence immediately made Zhu Meili the focus of the village.

Who doesn’t have a daughter? Especially there are many daughters who are preparing to get married.

An aunt's eyes were like lasers, scanning Zhu Meili back and forth, making her feel creepy.

When the aunt thought that the matchmaker came to the village and saw this kind of person, if the news got out, their Xiaoshi Village would be finished.

At last, she said with a serious expression: "Girl, listen to your aunt. If you are so ugly, don't come out to bring trouble to the village."

Zhu Meili was shaking with anger, pointing at the three sisters of the Xie family and the aunt who said that she was a disaster to the village, and was shaking with anger: You...you...you guys...!

She couldn't say a word for a long time. She felt so embarrassed today that she stamped her feet in anger. Finally, seeing that no one around her was helping her, she ran away crying.

The aunt looked puzzled: "What's wrong with her? Did I say something wrong?"

Xie Xiachan smiled and said, "Aunt is right."

"That's right!"

After saying that, the aunt walked away with the basket on her shoulder.

Because of Zhu Meili's interference, it took them nearly half an hour to walk from Wang's house to the old house.

Several people looked up.

The gate of the old house was in great disrepair, the weeds were taller than the walls, and the house was almost invisible.

Xie Qiushi was stunned. She hadn't been to the old house for a long time and didn't expect the weeds to have grown so tall.

Fortunately, the Wang brothers knew the actual situation better than them and brought all the tools with them.

On the other side, Xie Shuangbai at Wang's house was not having a good time either. After breakfast, he inexplicably developed a high fever all over his body, which scared the village chief so much that he quickly went to call Old Man Li.

Old man Li was packing medicinal herbs when he was hurriedly pulled over. He took Xie Shuangbai's pulse with a worried look on his face.

He carefully felt the pulse again.

He clearly has a fever and looks very sick, but his pulse is not dangerous.

"It's okay, it's just the previous illness being drawn out. I'll go make some medicine and bring it over shortly!"

Old man Li didn't know the specific reason, but as long as the pulse was good, there would be no problem.

"I'll go with you. When the medicine is ready, I'll bring it to you directly," said the village chief.

"Okay, let's go."

The three sisters who were busy pulling weeds here naturally didn't know that Xie Shuangbai had a fever. They were so tired that they could hardly straighten their backs.

The weeds were very tenacious and it took a lot of effort to pull them out, leaving them with sore hands and backs from exhaustion.

The older brothers of the Wang family were much faster than them.

After all, she is not as strong as men.

They wanted to clear the grass around the house first and make a walkable path.

I didn't expect it to be so difficult.

"Although the house is made of mud, the materials are solid and it can be lived in after some repairs." Wang Shunyi said while touching the wall.

"Brother Wang, let's fix the bedroom first, then we can move in."

"Why are you in such a hurry? Your yard is in such a state of disrepair. You have to fix it up and make it habitable before you move in. Just live in my house with peace of mind!"

Xie Qiushi looked at the weed-covered yard and nodded. "Brother Wang, can you please leave the peach tree in the backyard alone for now? It was planted by my grandfather, and we hope it can stay."

"That's easy, just don't move when the time comes."

The Wang brothers climbed onto the roof, looked at the missing thatch, and turned to them and said:

"It's best to repair the roof with tiles, otherwise it will leak when it's cold and rainy or snowy, and it will collapse when it snows heavily."

"Then I'll go back and ask my eldest brother and see what he says."

"Okay, I'll also ask you about the price of ordering tiles."

"Thank you, Brother Wang!"

The neighbor lady next door saw someone coming and greeted her.

"Come and pull the weeds?"

The three of them were unfamiliar with her, so Wang Shunyi said, "Yes, Aunt Ma, this is Xie Xiaoxiucai's sister. Didn't they split up yesterday? Today I'm helping to look after the house."

The woman called Aunt Ma also knew what happened yesterday. She also went to see it. Although she was far away and couldn't see clearly, she heard people around her say it. She sighed:

"It's better to separate. If a stepmother like this keeps living with him, he'll be tortured to death. It should have been separated long ago."

Aunt Ma walked around again to see how busy they were and said:

"You guys go ahead and do your work. If you need anything, just call me next door."

Wang Shunyi put down the grass in her hand and said, "Take care, auntie. They will need you to take care of them in the future."

"No problem, girls, if you have any problems in the future, just call me next door. My last name is Ma, so you can just call me Aunt Ma."

"Okay, Aunt Ma."

After sending Aunt Ma away, the three of them helped the Wang brothers to carry mud. The well in the front yard could still be used, saving them the trouble of fetching water.

After a busy period of work, they finally repaired the missing corner of the courtyard wall on the east side at noon.

We will continue to work on the remaining gaps in the afternoon.

The Wang brothers looked up at the sky, put away their tools, and took the three of them back to the Wang family for lunch.