Ye Xiaoxiao thought about it and let him go, but still added:
"I'll let you rest today. Tomorrow you'd better prepare yourself. You'll have to choose between working in the fields or watching the shop."
Ye Xiaoxiao thought she would let Li Chenyang rest for a day, but the next day, right after they had eaten, she told Li Chenyang to go work in the fields.
"All you ever do is cause me trouble!" Li Chenyang muttered, picking up his son and heading out.
Ye Xiaoxiao grabbed him:
"Stop right there! If we don't finish this work in the fields on time, the harvest will be bad, what will we eat? How will we pay the grain tax to the government?"
"It's only been a short time since spring began, the wheat in the fields is growing quite well, how much weeds could there be? Let's talk about it in a couple of days," Li Chenyang said dismissively.
Ye Xiaoxiao stomped her feet in anger:
"What do you know? If we don't weed now, it will be too late when the wheat grows."
If you don't want to do it, I'll find someone else to do it. We can't just leave the land barren.
You can't run away; you have to stay in the shop and watch over things. Someone can't leave the shop unattended.
"Looking for someone?" Li Chenyang was taken aback. "You have to pay to look for someone, right?"
"Nonsense!" Ye Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes at him.
"The farm pays seven cents a day now. If you don't want to do it, I'll find someone else to do it."
We'll find people based on the farm's wages. We can't afford to delay this job.
Upon hearing that it would cost money, Li Chenyang immediately panicked:
"That's too expensive! Why don't we just do it ourselves?"
Besides, if you hire someone, what if people start gossiping and saying our family acts like capitalists?
After all, it's only been a few years since the policy was relaxed. No one in the village does things like this.
"You want to do it yourself? Look at yourself now, all you do is slack off all day long."
Ye Xiaoxiao said irritably, "Rather than letting you fool me, I'd rather hire someone else to do the work. At least they're serious about their jobs."
Ye Xiaoxiao thought about how the original owner of this body was working in the fields while Li Chenyang was actually slacking off at someone else's house.
I want to punch someone after they've been bragging about things all afternoon.
Just then, Aying passed by the door. She was usually the most efficient worker in the production team.
Ye Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up: "Aying, wait a minute!"
Ah Ying stopped in her tracks: "Sister-in-law, what's wrong?"
"Ah Ying, I need your help."
Ye Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "I need to pull some weeds in my field. Are you free tomorrow? It'll cost you seven cents."
Ah Ying immediately became interested. There was money to be made! People from the village often went to work on the farm, earning only seven cents a day.
"Sure, I don't have much to do these next couple of days anyway. But I probably can't finish it all by myself."
"Then find someone else to come with you."
Ye Xiaoxiao said, "Two people can work faster."
Ah Ying thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll go and call Zhou A-mei to come along. Her family is also short of money."
"Then it's settled," Ye Xiaoxiao said happily.
"You can go directly to the fields tomorrow morning."
Li Chenyang listened from the side, his heart pounding.
It costs 1.4 yuan a day, that's such a waste of money.
But seeing his wife's expression, he didn't dare say much. It was alright if he had to do some heavy work.
This forced him to bend over and pull weeds in the field, a job he really didn't want to do.
The next morning, Aying and Zhou Amei went to work in the fields. The two worked quickly and efficiently, and by noon they had pulled up most of the crops.
As she was working, Sun Xiuju passed by and saw them. She had been beaten up last time and couldn't hold her head up in the village. She was just looking for a chance to pick a fight with Ye Xiaoxiao when she saw the two people in the eldest brother's field. They were Aying and Zhou Amei from the village.
"Sister-in-law Aying, Sister Zhou, what are you doing on my elder brother's land?"
"Oh, Xiuju, your sister-in-law's family is too busy, so she asked us to come and do some work." Aying didn't mention that they were hired by her sister-in-law.
"That sister-in-law's family is really something, calling you all over to help, but not a single person from their own family comes out," Sun Xiuju said sarcastically.
Upon hearing this, Aying knew that Sun Xiuju was up to no good and didn't want to talk to her. But Zhou Amei spoke up quickly.
"No, it's not that. My sister-in-law pays us wages. Seventy cents a day." Zhou Amei was very happy.
Ah Ying really regretted not telling Zhou Amei beforehand not to gossip to others.
Sun Xiuju was really getting worked up. What kind of family was this, actually paying others to do their work? This eldest son's family really acted like landlords! She was going to go around the village gossiping about them:
"Oh my, you guys have no idea! My sister-in-law is really something now, she's hiring people to do the work!"
"Hiring people to do the work?" someone asked curiously.
"Absolutely!" Sun Xiuju added fuel to the fire, "They pay each person seven cents a day! What else could they be but capitalists? I don't know where they get so much money."
These words sparked a flurry of discussion among the villagers.
"So much money!"
"Yes, that's 1.4 yuan a day."
"This is incredibly extravagant spending. It's practically like a farm."
The farms over there belong to the state; they're all experimental fields.
Hearing these words, Liu Juan became even angrier. This eldest daughter-in-law was so inconsiderate! For such a small task in the fields, she insisted on hiring people, not just her own family, but others. No, she had to go and have a word with her.
Ye Xiaoxiao was busy at the convenience store when she heard a constant murmur of discussion outside.
She went outside and saw a group of people gathered there gossiping.
"What's wrong?" Ye Xiaoxiao asked.
When Sun Xiuju saw Ye Xiaoxiao come out, she became even more enthusiastic: "Sister-in-law, you said you hired people to do the work, isn't that capitalist style?"
Ye Xiaoxiao sneered: "What capitalist style? What's wrong with me paying people to do the work? I pay them to do the work, what's wrong with that?"
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