The next morning, Zhuang Feifei arrived at the construction site almost at the same time as Luo Jingyan. When they were at the educated youth compound, Zhuang Feifei saw Luo Jingyan leave and guessed that she was coming to the construction site, so she followed her out.
At Zhuang Feifei's construction site, the workers she had hired gradually arrived. However, when all sixteen workers had arrived, Luo Jingyan and her group still had no workers. Looking around, Luo Jingyan was all alone, standing forlornly on the empty construction site.
Seeing Luo Jingyan in such a sorry state, Zhuang Feifei couldn't hide her smile, but inwardly she felt utterly contemptuous of Luo Jingyan.
The workers around her were observant and, seeing her smug expression, began to secretly laugh at Luo Jingyan along with their employers. They thought it was no wonder that Luo Jingyan was too poor and stingy, and that no one deserved to work for her.
Luo Jingyan chose to completely ignore the disdainful looks and mocking expressions on their faces.
She swept the ground by herself and tidied up the messy pile of mud bricks from yesterday. She wasn't weak and incapable of doing anything, and as the head of the household, she wasn't just sitting around doing nothing. Some of the chores were left to the head of the household.
However, her actions were interpreted in a completely different way by the people on the other side.
That means Luo Jingyan couldn't find workers to build her house, so she had to do it herself.
Some of them even cast sympathetic and pitying glances at Luo Jingyan.
Zhuang Feifei looked at the thin but busy figure and chuckled to herself: Luo Jingyan, who told you that you don't have my financial resources? Compared to me, you only deserve to be a defeated opponent.
The workers were all very grateful that they had chosen to work with Zhuang Feifei; meeting such a good homeowner as Zhuang Feifei was a great stroke of luck in their house-building careers.
Uncle Wu felt a little guilty seeing Luo Jingyan, a delicate young girl, working alone.
After all, it was the six of them who broke their promise first. They changed the owner of the house before finishing building it for Luo Jingyan, even though Luo Jingyan had done nothing wrong. As a man in his fifties, he felt somewhat embarrassed to break his promise to an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl.
If this had happened in their village, they would have broken their promise to the employers and abandoned the construction halfway through. The employers would have definitely scolded them severely and even withheld their wages. But Luo Jingyan did not do that.
Seeing the guilty look on his face, Li Jianliang immediately guessed what he was thinking. He wondered if he was thinking of going back to Luo Jingyan.
He immediately ran over, laughing gleefully: "Uncle Wu, look at this, as soon as we arrived, she couldn't even find any workers. That's right, the wages here at Zhuang Zhiqing's place are higher, and the other benefits are so good. Even a fool knows which side is better and which side to choose. Don't be soft-hearted and go back to that wretched place."
Uncle Wu had felt guilty towards Luo Jingyan, but after hearing Li Jianliang's words, his guilt vanished as if blown away by the wind.
They work to earn money, and they work for whoever pays the most. Luo Jingyan's current predicament is only because she doesn't have enough money to compete with Zhuang Feifei.
Zhuang Feifei even deliberately walked up to Luo Jingyan, seemingly explaining to her: "Luo Zhiqing, those six workers of yours were not deliberately recruited by me; they came to me on their own initiative."
Actually, she wanted to annoy Luo Jingyan.
See? Your workers came to you on their own without me having to dig them up. She feels very superior.
Luo Jingyan said calmly, "I know. They told me before they left. I don't object to them going anywhere."
“Luo Zhiqing, although you don’t have any workers here right now, you can wait. Once my house is finished, they will have time to build a house for you. You don’t need to take on the whole house by yourself. That would be too hard. Besides, it would take you forever to build a house by yourself.”
After her house was finished, the work in the fields also came to an end. The bricklayers had to go to the fields to work, so Luo Jingyan still couldn't finish building her house.
"Then there's no need for you, Zhuang Zhiqing, to worry about it. When I finish building my house is none of your business. You should worry about your own house."
“Why should I worry? The workers are all working hard. With so many people, the construction is going very fast. I will definitely move into the new house before Luo Zhiqing. I’m a little sorry, Luo Zhiqing.”
"You shouldn't say those insincere things anymore, Zhuang Zhiqing. You don't find it disgusting, but it makes me want to vomit."
Luo Jingyan glanced over there casually and saw that the workers were all listless, most of them with apples in their mouths, eating apples while spitting and bragging. They didn't seem to be there to work, but rather to enjoy being treated like lords.
They're all spoiled by Zhuang Feifei; she can't afford to hire workers like that.
These people not only work slowly, but the quality of their work is also worrying. Luo Jingyan noticed that the wall Zhuang Feifei built was not straight at all, and the brick joints were of different sizes, giving her the feeling that it was a shoddy construction project. Even if the house was completed, it would probably be a poorly constructed project.
Zhuang Feifei snorted coldly: "Luo Jingyan, you're just jealous of me, you're so envious of me that you're going crazy."
Say what you want.
Not long after, another group of young men came from the village. There were nine of them in total, all of them farmers from the Shengli Brigade.
The nine men went straight to Zhuang Feifei. When they arrived, the young man in the lead asked her, "Zhuang Feifei, we all want to build a house for you. Do you need any more people? We are all very efficient workers and we can do a good job. Please consider us."
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