Once the Xu family bought the land, they were about to start digging the foundation. It just so happened that it wasn't busy with farming in the village at this time, so the men would go out to find work. When they saw that the Xu family was recruiting, they all came to sign up.
Although the wages are not as high as those for working in town, the construction of houses takes four or five months at most, and two or three months at least. Once the work here is finished, it will be almost harvest time.
Grandma Xu selects the workers, prioritizing those with good family relationships, those who have been taken care of by the family, and those who are hardworking and diligent. This way, she has enough people.
So when Granny Yao came looking for her, Old Mrs. Xu refused without hesitation. What kind of person was her son? He was cunning and deceitful. The Xu family couldn't afford to hire someone like that.
To be honest, Granny Yao really put aside her old shame. She used to look down on the Xu family, but now that the Xu family has risen to prominence, she wants to come and benefit from their success.
ID card-
"Oh, big sister, I was wrong about what happened before. You know how big my mouth is. You've watched Tianfu grow up since he was a child, and he's very efficient at his work."
In order to give her son a job, Granny Yao started making up stories again.
Hearing this from the side, Ma Hong couldn't help but mutter, "It's precisely because I know what your mouth is like that I can't believe what you're saying."
"What are you saying, Ma Hong?" Old Mrs. Yao didn't dare to be rude to Old Mrs. Xu, but she stood up when it came to Ma Hong. She still held a grudge against Ma Hong for causing trouble for her family before, when her daughter-in-law went back to her parents' home, and she herself was scolded by her in-laws because of this.
"Alright, stop wasting your time here. Didn't you always say you looked down on the Xu family? Go find your son some work elsewhere."
Although Granny Yao hadn't said those words to Old Lady Xu, everyone in the neighborhood had heard her mention them, and Old Lady Xu was too lazy to argue with her.
"Oh, no..." Granny Yao wanted to argue a bit more, but Old Lady Xu had already impatiently started to chase her away.
This really pushed Granny Yao to her limit. "Hmph, your Genshu is still begging my older sister to act as a matchmaker for him. You won't even help my family with this little thing. I think my sister doesn't need to care so much about your family's affairs."
That matchmaker Yao is her older sister. They really are sisters; both of them do such annoying things.
"I'd love for that! Go back and tell your sister to never come to my Xu family again. Put all your heart into other people's homes and don't put any of it into my Genshu."
QQ: 563743675
Old Mrs. Xu wished these two people would never step into her Xu family's door again; they were both more troublesome and more greedy than the other.
In the end, Granny Yao was still kicked out. "Pah, what's with all the smugness?" She spat at the Xu family's door in annoyance. She was going to find Matchmaker Yao and make sure Xu Genshu couldn't find a good girl.
She had only taken a few steps when she felt a sharp pain in her buttocks. "Ouch!" She clutched her buttocks and turned around. "Who, who threw something at me? Get out here!"
But after looking back for a while, no one came out. It was a ghost! Granny Yao touched her buttocks, and it really hurt like hell.
She called out for a long time, but no one came out. Old Lady Yao had no choice but to accept her bad luck and walked away grumbling.
Once everyone had gone far away, Fu Man'er, who was perched on the wall, peeked out, covered her mouth, and giggled, "Brother, you're amazing."
Xu Yi reached out and lifted the person hanging on the wall down. "Not bad." Although he spoke modestly, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up.
"Brother, how are you so amazing?" Fu Man'er asked, looking up. Even though they were quite far apart, she could hit a small lump of mud so accurately and painfully.
"Is it that amazing?" Xu Yi replied dismissively.
Fu Man'er pouted and glanced at Xu Yi, "I know even if you don't say it, you're with Grandpa Hu..."
This book is first published on TaDu & Novel App — Free, ad-free, and pop-up-free, and you can also interact with other readers.
Before she could finish speaking, Xu Yi covered her mouth because Old Mrs. Xu came over. However, she was there to pick up something and didn't notice what the two were saying.
"Yi'er, go to the new house later and tell your grandfather to come home for dinner early. He comes home so late every day, who's going to wait for him?" Old Mrs. Xu called out to them.
"Okay, I'll go in a bit." Xu Yi put his hand down only after seeing that Grandma Xu had left.
"I know you know, but don't talk about this at home yet, okay?"
The series of questions left Fu Man'er completely bewildered. She could only nod blankly and follow Xu Yi toward the new house.
The foundation work was completed in the last two days. Everyone went home when it was time to finish work, except for Old Man Xu, who was busy there until it was completely dark before he went home.
Seeing that he stayed in the new house all day long, Old Mrs. Xu was afraid that he would get too tired, so she asked Xu Yi to go and call someone.
But instead of bringing him back, he was left there to work. The foundation had stones of varying sizes and didn't look very smooth. Old Xu was picking them up from the ground.
Xu Yi had no choice but to join in picking them up. It was just getting dark, so he should be able to get home before it got completely dark.
Fu Man'er also went to pick them up, but her paws were so tender and plump that Xu Yi was worried she would bump into them and then whine and cry in pain.
Discussion group 563743675
They simply put the child in a corner and said, "You can play like this." After all, kids love playing in the mud, and there's plenty of mud here, even if there's nothing else.
Fu Man'er snorted and turned her back. "I'm very strong. I can definitely move that stone."
Xu Yi knew she didn't speak. He had personally witnessed Fu Man'er easily push away a large wooden stake when they were on the back mountain. It was unbelievable that a four-year-old child could do such a thing.
Ever since that day I learned that he had repeatedly told Fu Man'er not to show off her strength in front of outsiders, "You stay here and play quietly, and I'll crack some walnuts for you when we get back."
Those walnuts were something Xu Genzhu brought back from buying goods elsewhere. Although they were delicious, they were quite troublesome to peel. Fu Man'er's ears twitched before she squatted down. "Okay." Xu Yi knew that she had agreed not to move the stones.
With Xu Yi's help, the stones in the foundation were quickly cleared away, and Grandma Xu took her two children home before dark.
Luckily, the food was still cooking when I got home, otherwise I would have been scolded by Grandma Xu.
"Brother, I picked up two stones. I can use them to crack walnuts for you later." Fu Man'er patted her cloth bag, which looked bulging.
Liu Fang sewed this cloth bag specially for her, mainly to put some snacks in it. However, under normal circumstances, whether Fu Man'er went out to play or came home, this cloth bag was never empty.
When I went out, it was filled with snacks, but when I came back, it was filled with a lot more. Sometimes it was wild vegetables, sometimes wild fruits, and I also picked up wild eggs a few times. Once, I even picked up a few flightless birds from under a tree.
Website: TaDu Novels, ~Welcome to download^
That bird was incredibly lucky; it didn't suffocate in that cloth bag and was kept at the Xu family's house for a few days before flying away.
"Okay, I'll go wash my hands and come help you smash it." Xu Yi wouldn't go back on his promise, but he remembered to wash the cloth bag later, otherwise it would be full of mud.
When Xu Yi finished washing his hands and came over, Fu Man'er had already asked Xu Wen to take out the walnuts. Xu Wen was one of the stronger children and especially liked these kinds of things that needed to be knocked and hammered.
The two of them grabbed stones and started smashing them. The walnuts were either smashed to pieces or rolled away, and they ended up smashing nothing.
Clearly, Xu Wen is the former, and Fu Man'er is the latter.
"Let me do it." Xu Yi was afraid that if Fu Man'er used any more force, she would smash a hole in the ground.
The little girl held the stone in her hand the whole time; it was warm. "Brother, your hands are so big."
Fu Man'er struggled to hold that stone herself, but in Xu Yi's hands, it became a tiny piece.
Xu Yi held the stone in one hand and stabilized the walnut with the other. He cracked the walnut with minimal effort. "Brother, brother, you're amazing!" Fu Man'er clapped and cheered.
"Man'er, what about me?" Fu Man'er looked over. Xu Wen had cracked several walnuts in a row, hitting them accurately and breaking them one by one. Now he couldn't tell the walnut shells from the kernels.
Original text - from @-TaDu^~Novel App, for more free books please >downloadTaDu<^Novel-App. *.
"Third Brother is also very good; I can't hit him no matter how hard I try." Fu Man'er was never stingy when it came to praising people, and Xu Wen just smiled sheepishly, genuinely believing that he was amazing.
Xu Yi had already ignored the two people's mutual praise, and picked up a few more walnuts to crack. When he picked them up, there was a lot of mud on the stone.
He had no choice but to tap the stone on the ground to shake off the dirt. It was in this moment of turning his body to shake off the dirt that he realized something was wrong with the stone.
There shouldn't be any stones that grow to be golden, right?
Golden? His trembling hand paused, he turned around, and looked towards the main room with the stone in his hand. This was no stone at all!
He couldn't see clearly in the darkness before, but now he could see everything clearly from the candlelight in the main room.
If he wasn't mistaken, why was the stone for cracking walnuts so golden?
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com