The weather has been a bit cold these two days. Yan Bingfa and his team have contacted Master Zhong and started working on the house. Dashan and Dahe went to Zhoujia Village to find the headman and said that they wanted to build a farmhouse in the field in front and needed to hire someone. The salary was 25 cents a day without meals. They asked him to help ask if there was anyone in their village willing to do the job.
The village head then learned that the land of the wealthy Mr. Wang had been bought by the Yan brothers. He couldn't help but sigh for the Zhou family's old couple, who had lost such a good relative.
Although the weather was cold, many people were happy to make money. After the head of the village said so, they all ran to sign up. Some people even went to Zhou Xingcai and Xu to tell them that the Yan brothers had been here before and most of them knew them.
After a year of hard work, Xu had lost much of her former vigor. She simply curled her lips and said, "Her brother's is not hers. Our Hongzhi had a son just one year after getting married. It's all because of Yan Chunxiao's uselessness. Their family affairs have nothing to do with us."
The person who said it is not in a good situation and will not come back a second time.
Everything was going fine at first, but man proposes, God disposes. It rained for the next two days, and then it snowed. Fortunately, the snow was not heavy, but the work was completely stopped. When to resume work depends on whether God will smile.
When the weather turned bad, farm work couldn't be done, so Chunxiao gave Dongsheng and Wangzu the day off. She herself would light a stove and sit by the table, making sheets and quilt covers with fine cloth, preparing them in advance so they would be ready when the time came. Now all four bedrooms had beds, only mattresses were missing. There were still two cabinets missing, but Uncle Yan Wu was busy, so she had to wait in line.
Shuwen and his friends were able to endure hardships. They wore straw hats and raincoats to deliver goods every day. Chunxiao only reminded them to wear more clothes because the wind was cold on the road.
When the weather gets cold, the chickens in the chicken coop don't come out. Chunxiao basically doesn't come out except to pick up eggs and feed them every day. It's good to raise chickens in this big farm. It can be promoted to the farm in the future. The farm is so big and there are so many people. Raising hundreds of chickens is not a problem at all.
Now she is thinking about the issue of manpower. If Dongsheng is willing to go to the manor, then there will be only one person here, and she has to find another person. She heard that Uncle Mu Sheng's Wangfu has returned, so she can talk to him, but she has to wait until Dongsheng's matter is confirmed.
On the 21st, the sky finally cleared up, and it was time for them to divide the money. In the past, she always acted very calm when dividing the money, but this time was different. She was poor this time, and she was happier than ever to have money coming in. Finally, she got more than 68 taels of silver. Needless to say, the Dashan family and the Dahe family were also very happy, because they could start construction on the house again.
The family's two pigs were both incredibly fat, so Yan Bingfa decided not to sell them this time. Afterward, they could keep the meat or sell it as they pleased. The three families decided to each take 200 jin (approximately 100 kg) of meat, and they weren't bothered to buy anything. They also told the villagers that they would charge 200 wen for a pig head, 12 wen for a pig's trotter, 10 wen for an ear, 5 wen for a tail, and 10 wen for a pair of large intestines. This was the price they usually paid from the butcher. The butcher had asked them yesterday, saying that there were many pigs being slaughtered around the New Year, and asked if they wanted more, which they agreed to.
The villagers knew that they were doing business with these things, and some of them originally wanted to ask for a higher price, but it turned out that they had no worries at all. Early this morning, the butcher drove a bullock cart to deliver four large baskets to them. It was said that there were nine sets of goods except for the pig's head.
Zhou gave the butcher a little over one tael of silver, thinking it would be difficult for him to come all the way here, so she decided to ask him to help slaughter the pig on the same day instead of another day. Zhou went to find Yan Musheng and Shizhu, and the three of them, including Yan's father and son, arrived. They then went to Zhang's place and drove the pig over. Everyone started slaughtering the pig in Dashan's yard.
"Every time I see your house, I think of your previous house. Wow, it's like a magic trick." Everyone's face was a little nervous, only the butcher was still laughing. Chunxiao originally came to watch the fun, but suddenly thought of something and ran back. When he came back half an hour later, the pig had been gutted and slaughtered. Zhou cut 10 pounds of the best meat for the butcher.
Chunxiao stepped forward and said, "Uncle Zhang, thanks to your help this year, I have ten kilograms of cotton here, all grown by me and newly harvested this year. Please take this as a token of your gratitude."
The butcher immediately smiled and said, "Sure, sure." Cotton is a good thing. "You have so much at home. I'm afraid you won't need to go get it these days. I'll collect a batch before the New Year and send it over. If you don't need it, just let me know in advance."
Zhou also expressed her gratitude. The butcher put the cotton on the ox cart and drove away in a leisurely manner.
"Mom, do you think he's cold in what he's wearing?" Tian's question was quite abrupt, and Chunxiao almost laughed out loud when she heard it.
"Why is he cold? People like butchers and executioners who can do this for a long time have karmic fire on their bodies, otherwise it is easy to attract bad luck. If you don't believe me, just look at all these people, how many of them can be butchers." Chunxiao felt that it would be most appropriate to have a cold wind blowing here. This country woman talked endlessly and with relish when she talked about these superstitious things.
Zhou originally wanted to give five pounds of meat to each of the people who came to help, but Yan Musheng smiled and waved his hand, "Sister, if you really want to thank us, we don't want this meat. Just give us some of your braised meat. I ate it at your house last time, and I've been thinking about it ever since."
Mrs. Zhou smiled and said, "Brother Musheng is a connoisseur. Okay, I'll send some to you when it's ready. Wangfu hasn't tasted our braised meat yet."
"I've heard my dad talk about it eight hundred times. I have to try it."
The pig was slaughtered, but Yan Bingfa and his son were not at home, so they naturally couldn't eat the pig. Although Zhou agreed to give them braised meat, she still cut two pounds of meat for each of them and asked them to go home and cook it.
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