Chapter 27
When it was almost time for dinner, Li Nianqiu took Li Xiangdong home. When the two sisters left, they took some beads back to string and hid them in a bag.
As soon as I walked out of the house, I ran into Lin Fang.
Lin Fang's unfriendly eyes moved around the two sisters twice, then glanced at Wen Yue beside her, and finally landed on the bag that contained something unknown. She muttered softly: "You bring people home every day, maybe you want to use the things in your house to subsidize outsiders."
"I didn't take it into your room, and it wasn't yours. Why are you so anxious?" Wen Yue also whispered back, "It's true that the emperor is not anxious, but the eunuch is."
Lin Fang glared at him: "Who are you talking to, eunuch? How do you talk to your elders?"
Wen Yue ignored her, smiled and waved goodbye to Li Nianqiu and Li Xiangdong, and asked them to come early tomorrow if they were free. After seeing the two of them walk out of the yard, she met Lin Fang, her eyes curved: "What's the matter, are you anxious?"
"Hey, I'm talking to you..." Lin Fang's face suddenly became fierce.
"Zhou Yao, don't sleep." Wen Yue turned and shouted towards Zhou Yao's room.
When she shouted, Lin Fang's frightened face froze, her chest heaving rapidly, and finally she gritted her teeth and turned into the kitchen.
Damn girl! You only know how to take advantage of others!!
The smile on Wen Yue's face became even brighter.
She hummed a little tune as she entered the kitchen, took out the fish from the bucket, threw it on the chopping board, and hit it hard with a kitchen knife. When the fish stopped moving, she expertly scraped off the scales, gills, and internal organs, and sliced the fish meat and marinated it for later use.
In the pot in the corner of the kitchen was the pickled cabbage that Zhou Yao had made some time ago. Wen Yue opened the lid and tasted a little bit. When she felt it was almost done, she used chopsticks to scoop some out and put it in the bowl.
"What are you cooking?" Zhou Yao yawned as he walked into the kitchen and asked when he saw the fish slices on the chopping board.
Wen Yue didn't even turn around: "Sour fish, and some mapo tofu. What else do you want to eat? Minced meat and eggplant."
"It's all right. It's up to you." Zhou Yao came over and took the kitchen knife from her hand. "Let me cut it. Do you want big or small pieces?"
Wen Yue: "Eat it in smaller pieces. If it's too big, it won't taste good."
Zhou Yao raised his eyebrows and replied: "Okay."
Wen Yue said as she washed the rice: "Nian Qiu said we don't have enough staff, and she will have to find someone to help, but there are too many things in the house, and it feels like there won't be enough space for anyone."
"Just string your beads together." Zhou Yao turned around to look at her and without hesitation, he sent out his two younger brothers: "I'll ask Lao Fang and Ye Liang to help. They have nothing to do now and are very free."
"Later I'll move the table, chairs and other things you don't need to my room. There should be more space there. If that doesn't work, go to Old Fang's house. He has a lot of empty rooms there."
Wen Yue nodded as she thought: "Then the sewing machine must be moved over there as well. I want to work with them. It's too boring to work alone."
"No need to move, just buy another one and put it there." Zhou Yao said nonchalantly.
A sewing machine that costs more than 200 yuan is worth buying. Most farmers have to hesitate for a long time before spending the 200 yuan.
Wen Yue raised her eyebrows slightly and said softly, "Such a big deal, it seems you made a lot of money this time."
"It's OK. The thing I gave you this afternoon is selling very well." Zhou Yao was a little puzzled. "I don't know why you girls like these things so much. They were sold out in less than three days."
Lipstick is something that everyone, from young girls to grandmothers, cannot resist. After all, everyone loves beauty. Who doesn't want to look better?
Wen Yue hummed softly and muttered: "What do you straight men know?"
"What what?" Zhou Yao didn't hear clearly.
Wen Yue's eyes curved, and she replied slowly and leisurely: "It's okay, nothing, just do your job."
Zhou Yao raised his eyebrows: "Okay, I'll do the job."
After dinner, Zhou Yao washed up and moved the things in Wen Yue's room to his own room, freeing up a large space.
Wen Yueshun cleaned the bathroom and then went to take a shower with her clothes.
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"The house is cleaned up"
Li Nianqiu brought his sister over the next day and found the room was much more spacious. It no longer felt as cramped as it did yesterday, where he couldn't even stretch his legs.
Wen Yue nodded: "Yeah, don't we need to find someone to help? We can't move on without cleaning up."
"Even if we clean it up, it may still not be spacious enough." Li Nianqiu sat on the stool with ease, pulled over the backpack and took out a handful of beads, "We need to find more people to make these bow accessories. There is only one sewing machine, and the speed of hand sewing is definitely slower than stringing beads."
We need to find so many people
Wen Yue frowned, her clear eyes full of curiosity: "Where can we find someone, Nian Qiu, do you have any candidate?"
Li Nianqiu nodded: "It's almost ready. I'll go contact them tomorrow to see who can come."
"Okay." Thinking of what Zhou Yao said last night, Wen Yue winked playfully, "Don't worry about the large crowds. We can go to Grandma Fang's place. Zhou Yao said there are a lot of empty rooms in Grandma Fang's house."
There were only four people in Fang Shitao's family. Lulu was clingy and slept with Grandma Fang at night. Fang Shitao and Ren Yeliang slept separately, but there were still three empty rooms left.
Li Nianqiu: “That’s good.”
As they were chatting, they heard rustling noises outside, and Zhou Yao led Ren Yeliang and Fang Shitao into the house.
"Sister-in-law, we are here to help!" Ren Yeliang shouted as he came in. His eyes fell on the bamboo basket used to carry the finished products. He exclaimed exaggeratedly, "Sister-in-law, these are all made by you. They are so beautiful!"
Wen Yue was already used to his glib words, and her eyes narrowed: "They look good, don't they? When you go back later, give some to Lulu. She will definitely like them."
"Okay, fine, the little girl will be happy."
Ren Yeliang was moving his stool to move inside when Zhou Yao stopped him and asked with a raised eyebrow: "Where are you going?"
Ren Yeliang was stunned for a moment: "I... will go over and sit down and see how it's done."
"Get out of here and just watch me." Zhou Yao kicked him on the calf, snatched the stool from his hand and sat down next to Wen Yue, giving Ren Yeliang a look of extreme disgust.
Fang Shitao silently moved a stool and sat near the door, not too close but not too far from Li Nianqiu, to watch how she did it.
The rejected Ren Yeliang touched the tip of his nose, turned his head and said, "Lao Fang, you're really quick."
Fang Shitao was too lazy to pay attention to him.
Ren Yeliang usually looks smart, but sometimes his brain is like it was stuck in a door, and he won't feel better until he is scolded.
"I heard from Brother Yao that you and your sister-in-law are going to hire someone to help. How is it going? Have you found someone?" Ren Yeliang's mouth is always busy. He started talking within two minutes of being quiet. "Do you need my help? I know a lot of people."
Wen Yue politely declined: "No need, Nian Qiu is already preparing."
"How do you pay the wages?" Ren Yeliang asked curiously.
"Simple beads like this are 10 cents each." Wen Yue was already very skilled at the movements, which were completely muscle memory, so she could answer while doing it. "These slightly more complicated ones are 50 cents each."
"Hey, this string of beads is so simple, I can make a few bucks a day, or ten bucks if I'm fast," Ren Yeliang exclaimed, "Sister-in-law, hire me, I'm very fast."
Before Wen Yue could say anything, Zhou Yao beside him snorted and glanced at her: "Okay, I'll hire you and give you three meals a day. Are you satisfied?"
"No, no, why do I need to hire anyone? Brother, as long as you and sister-in-law give the order, I will come and help you two." Ren Yeliang replied with a grin.
Zhou Yao sneered.
"By the way." Li Nianqiu, who had been quiet all the time, suddenly spoke up, "Wen Yue, which high school do you want to go to, in the county or in the city?"
Suddenly, everyone in the room looked over.
Wen Yue exclaimed: "I've made up my mind. I'll go to the same school with you." She felt more at ease with someone she knew. If that person was Nian Qiu, she would feel even more at ease.
"That's fine." Li Nianqiu nodded and smiled. "With your ability, you can get into college no matter where you study... Your cousin is also there. She has a bad personality and will most likely target you."
Wen Yue exclaimed again, then she remembered that Wen Xiaoyu was also studying in the county high school.
Oh, Wen Xiaoyu has quite a few roles in the early part of the original novel.
Wen Xiaoyu is obsessed with climbing up the social ladder and wants to get rid of her rural identity and become a city dweller, but it is difficult to find a way. So she is extremely jealous of the heroine and Li Nianqiu's popularity in school.
After all, Li Nianqiu is teaching part-time, and only rich people are willing to spend the money.
Wen Yue didn't take her to heart. Her eyes curved and a little tear appeared in her eyes: "It doesn't matter. You are here. You are so smart. If she bullies me, I will find you to bully her back!"
Zhou Yao paused in stringing beads, raised his head slowly, and raised his eyelids. There was some doubt in his dark and deep eyes: ""
Shouldn't we ask him for this kind of thing?
Between him and Li Nianqiu, who is her man?
Zhou Yao snorted in dissatisfaction.
"Okay, I'll help you." Li Nianqiu smiled, and with a glimpse of the man next to Wen Yue, his smile deepened, and he retracted his gaze: "I have a lot of experience dealing with people like this."
Zhou Yao, with a sour face, threw the finished bracelets into the bamboo basket.
He has more experience in dealing with this kind of people! He has dealt with them from childhood to adulthood! He has a lot of experience!
There was a crisp sound.
Wen Yue said, "Put it down gently, what if it breaks?"
"I didn't use much force." Zhou Yao casually grabbed another handful of beads and held them in his palm, saying stubbornly: "It's not that easy to break them."
Seeing that his expression was not very good, Wen Yue thought that he was annoyed because this job was too boring, so she blinked her eyes and said, "If you don't want to do it anymore, go out for a walk. These are beads, not stones. They will be easily damaged if dropped like this, and if they are damaged, they can't be sold."
Her voice was soft and she didn't sound tempered at all.
Zhou Yao almost crushed the beads in his hand: "You are so mean to me!"
Wen Yue: ""
"right."
Wen Yue glared at him with a fierce expression. Her pretty face, which was not even as big as Zhou Yao's palm, was still very pretty even when wrinkled. Her clear eyes sparkled: "If you fight again, I will beat you up again."
Wen Yue waved her white and tender fist.
There was no threat at all. If this little fist landed on him, it would probably be just like a tickle, and maybe only her hand would feel the pain.
Zhou Yao didn't hold back. His narrow and deep eyes narrowed and he laughed softly.
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Zhou Yao: I'm going to make trouble!
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