When Mrs. Ye arrived at Ye Qingyuan's house, she saw his wife, Cui, feeding chickens in the yard with her child on her back.
"Sister-in-law, how come you have time to come over?" Seeing Sister-in-law Ye, Cui quickly put down the basket in her hand and came forward to ask, "But there are not enough people to help? How about I ask my mother-in-law to help me with the children for the whole morning, and then I will go over to help."
Today, the Ye family is putting up the beam of their new house, and they are inviting the whole village to dinner, so they have asked a lot of people to help.
Cui had previously said that she could go and help, but Mrs. Ye knew that her mother-in-law was in poor health, so when she saw that there were enough people, she didn't bother her.
So when she saw Mrs. Ye coming over, Cui naturally thought it was about the beam-raising event today.
"Although I did come to ask for your help, it's not about raising the beam today." Sister Ye entered the yard and said while teasing the child on Cui's back, "Do you want to make some money?"
After hearing this, Cui thought that Mrs. Ye needed help in the capital!
She sighed and said, "Sister-in-law, look at the situation in our family. If we rely on Qingyuan alone, won't he be exhausted to death? How can I not want to make money?
"But my mother-in-law is in poor health and the baby is still breastfeeding. I really can't leave!"
"Of course I've thought about this for you," said Mrs. Ye with a smile. "I have a job that can be done in the village. It won't take too much time each day. I'll give you two taels of silver a month. Do you want to do it?"
"There's such a good job in our village?" Cui's eyes widened when she heard this, completely unable to believe it. "What kind of job is this? Can I do it?"
"It's just cooking and washing clothes for people, can't you do it?"
"I can do it!" Cui immediately agreed, and then she remembered to ask, "Who will cook and wash clothes for me?"
"In the next few months, an official from the capital will be staying at my house. He's quite old and needs someone to help with the laundry and cooking.
"Then I plan to have my third son's wife go to Beijing to help me run the store. That way, there will be no one to cook and wash clothes for my second son and the other children.
“So we decided to find someone to help with the work.
"You only need to cook three meals a day for them, morning, noon and night, and you can take the clothes home to wash.
"We'll give you money for groceries separately, or you can just tell my second son if you need anything and let him buy it.
When Cui heard that there was such a good thing, and that she could take care of the family and the children at the same time, she agreed immediately without thinking too much.
"It's fine if you're willing to do it, otherwise I'll have to find someone else.
"We'll finish our work today and return to the capital tomorrow. You can just come and cook for them starting at noon tomorrow."
"Sister-in-law, don't worry, I will do my best." Cui was completely overjoyed. Even after Sister Ye left, she was still standing in the yard in a daze, with an incredible look on her face.
When Ye Qingyuan came back from working in the fields, he saw his wife standing in the yard in a daze, carrying the child on her back.
The basket of chicken feed was placed at her feet, and the chickens were already standing in it, eating heartily, but she was completely unaware!
"Come back to your senses!" Ye Qingyuan walked up to her and waved his hand in front of her eyes. "What are you thinking about? I called you several times but you didn't respond."
Cui was startled by him and asked immediately, "Have you seen my sister-in-law?"
"Just now I seemed to see her leaving our house from quite a distance. She must have gone home, right? What happened?"
"That's great." Cui was relieved after hearing this. "I'm glad you saw my sister-in-law too. This means I wasn't dreaming."
"What's going on? You're so happy, your mouth is almost grinning from ear to ear."
Cui quickly told Ye Qingyuan what Mrs. Ye had just said to her.
"Tell me, isn't this a piece of cake? It's two taels of silver a month!"
"Really? Looking for you? I just came back from the fields and saw the village head's wife leading people to their home. It seems that's what she was talking about!"
"Yes, my sister-in-law came directly to me." After hearing what Ye Qingyuan said, Cui suddenly panicked again, "Could it be that someone else took over?"
As a result, the couple could no longer stay.
Cui returned to her room and handed the child to her mother-in-law. She changed into clean clothes and said, "I'd better go over and help out, and take a look at the situation!"
"I'll go with you."
When the couple arrived at Old Ye's house, there were already quite a few people in the yard. Upon closer inspection, they found that they were all surnamed Wang.
"My eldest daughter-in-law, didn't you say you'd find someone to cook and wash clothes for you? Look at my daughter, she's a good cook and she's very efficient."
"Your daughter is young, how can she do this? It's better to use my daughter-in-law."
"Big brother's wife, why don't you look at me? I'm the best at washing clothes and cooking!"
Mrs. Ye was afraid of encountering such a situation, so she found Cui in advance to settle the matter. So she said calmly: "Aunts, I'm so sorry, you are late, the candidates have already been decided."
"It's settled? When is it going to happen?"
"Exactly. We came here as soon as we heard the news. Just because you said it's settled, it's settled, right?"
Several people were immediately unhappy.
Seeing this scene, Cui, who was about to go in, was frightened and stopped.
Mrs. Ye gave the order, "Master Nie told me about this last night, so I selected the person.
"We've already made the arrangements and paid the money. Don't you think you're too late?"
"Ah? You gave me all the money?"
A few people originally wanted to act recklessly for a while to see if they could get some chance!
But when I heard that even the money had been paid, I knew there was no hope.
Changing people temporarily may only offend people at most, but if you insist on taking out the money that people have put in their pockets, you will make enemies.
After seeing a few people leave in disappointment, Ye Qingyuan and Cui came in.
"Sister-in-law, thank you so much for always thinking of my family when you have any problems."
Cui quickly followed suit and said, "Yes, thanks to my sister-in-law for thinking of me, we came to help."
Mrs. Ye smiled and said, "I know you two are honest people. You have five children at home. I would be worried if it were someone else!
"But you don't have to thank me for this. If you really want to thank someone, thank my aunt."
Upon hearing this, Ye Qingyuan and his wife both turned to look at Ye Juaner who was helping to wash vegetables.
Ye Juan'er was completely confused by what she said. She straightened up and said, "Why are you thanking me? I didn't even help with this matter!"
"Of course I have to thank you, thank you for your poor cooking skills.
"If you cook delicious food, then I'll definitely consider you first for such a good job!"
As soon as these words were spoken, Ye Qingyuan and Cui couldn't help laughing.
Even Ye Juan'er burst out laughing, raised her hand and pretended to slap Mrs. Ye, saying, "You kid, I'm here to help you with your work, and you're still here making fun of me!"
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