Chapter 26 Chapter 26 1st update

When Shen Shaoyuan took back the 300 yuan, even though the receipt stated that they would have to make up the work days, Shen Moer still said on the spot that she would approve the foundation to build a new house, and even Zhou Mancang helped to complete the follow-up. In fact, Shen Shengli didn't think that Shen Shaoyuan and his daughter could really build the house.

Building a house is not something that can be done just by having money. Not only is it difficult to collect materials, but you also need someone to help you with the work.

Even when Shen Shaoyuan asked his grandson to come over and tell him the start date, Shen Shengli was still secretly watching the show. Even if their first and second wives made up the work days, what about the rest of the work? Could he, Shen Laoqi, do it alone?

Who knew that he would really take care of it.

After the work started, Shen Shengli heard that the Chen family, the Cai family, the Yang family and other families had gone to help, and even the Shen clan members had gone to help. In his heart, he felt that these people were really meddling in other people's business. Especially when he heard that Shen Shaoyuan's family entertained other helpers with delicious food and did not care about the meals of his two families, he was so angry that he smashed a bowl at home.

It was also at this time that Shen Shengli really realized that his seventh brother was really different.

However, even if he now has a few dollars in his hands and gets along well with several families in the village, so what? His biological mother was married from a poor village, and his daughter-in-law came from outside the country to escape famine. Her uncle's family couldn't help her. For such a big thing as building a house, could she really blame outsiders?

Apart from anything else, without the five people from their two families, the construction period would be delayed for who knows how many days.

Even if the weather is good, if the weather is bad and it rains for a while, it will be questionable whether his house can be built before the autumn harvest.

Shen Shengli felt that if they gave up their options, even if Shen Shaoyuan's house could still be built, at least it wouldn't be that smooth.

It also gave Shen Shaoyuan a taste of heartache.

But Shen Shaoyuan didn't get furious or angry as he thought. Instead, he smiled and asked, "What about the work days you owe my family? How can you pay

them off?" Shen Shengli wanted to say, "What the hell, you've already sent my grandson to the police station, why should I pay off these work days?"

As a result, Shen Shaoyuan seemed not to want him to answer at all. After a slight pause, he continued: "This is not difficult. Your two families have more laborers, so you will definitely earn more work points. Moer and I happen to have fewer work points, so we get less food."

"Team leader." He looked at Zhou Mancang, "How about this, the brigade will help convert it directly into work points or food. It happens that I have borrowed food from the brigade before, so you can give me some of it. If there is more, give it to us next time, and if there is less, you can offset it next time."

Zhou Mancang was also speechless about the first and second wives of the Shen family. They

are close brothers, uncles, and nephews, but they have been involved in so many things, including stealing food, introducing unreliable people to eat the whole family, and stealing bricks in the middle of the night. They not only cause trouble to the brigade, but also bring discredit to the brigade.

Their Yangliu Brigade used to have a good reputation, but it has really fallen from grace recently.

Two days ago, Zhou Mancang went to the commune for a meeting, and the leader of Songshu Brigade thanked him, saying that it was thanks to Yangliu Brigade that there were a lot of things to do, and it helped them to disperse their firepower. Otherwise, with the noisy Liu Yinshuang in their brigade, Songshu Brigade has long been at the top of the list of embarrassing brigades.

Zhou Mancang felt that he was not here to thank him, but to express his sympathy.

After all, although Liu Yinshuang was noisy, she didn't do anything against the law. At most, she did something a little weird. Their team was different. Stealing food from orphans and widows, and asking the mother's family to eat the niece's family, these were not good things to hear.

Zhou Mancang briefly recalled these unpleasant experiences, and immediately agreed to Shen Shaoyuan's proposal: "Okay, it's completely reasonable to use work points to offset the work days. I'll talk to the accountant later."

Seeing that things did not develop in the direction he expected, Shen Shengli became anxious: "No, why should we use work points to offset it? He is an uncle who is so cruel that he sent his nephew to the police station. Why should we use work points to offset it?!"

Shen Yongjun also said: "We asked our sons to come and help out out of brotherhood. Although Xiaohong and the others made some mistakes, he should not be so cruel as an uncle. "If you are so heartless, you shouldn't want us to help you."

This time, Shen Shaoyuan didn't need to say anything. Zhou Mancang retorted to the two shameless people: "You have signed a document, in black and white, and you signed it yourself. Since the brigade has witnessed this, we can't let you default on your debts. Either you pay it back with work points, or you pay it back directly when you settle the accounts at the end of the year. There are only these two options!"

These two people must not be allowed to default on their debts. After stealing bricks, Zhou Mancang knew without thinking how bad the brigade's reputation would be. The brigade's already bad reputation must not be made worse.

Shen Shengli and Shen Yongjun didn't expect that the brigade commander would stand so firmly on Shen Shaoyuan's side this time, and their faces suddenly became very ugly.

Shen Shengli sneered: "Okay, since you don't care about losing five laborers, we don't care about a few work points either."

He was always smart and knew that with the captain's words, they couldn't get away with the debt, so he simply didn't bother and instead put on a nonchalant attitude.

Shen Shaoyuan ignored his two stepbrothers and went straight to the village road to look at the people who were busy and said, "I am still short of five laborers. If anyone needs some, please help me. My family will provide two meals. I guarantee that the food will be good and you will be full. Also, when there is wedding or house building in the future, my father and I will definitely repay you. I may not be a very good worker, but I can definitely help run errands and buy things."

As soon as he finished speaking, several sturdy men stood out from the crowd.

"It's just building a house. We can't do other things, but rural people can do hard labor."

"I'll be satisfied if you give me two full meals. Uncle Shen will tell you, there's not much work to do in the fields these days, and I haven't had enough to eat at home. Hahahaha, just don't complain about my ability to eat later."

"The foundation has been laid, and the walls have been built a little. The most difficult work has been done. We are taking advantage of it if we come here to do the work now!"

"I laid earth bricks a few years ago, and I've long wanted to try laying blue bricks. Finally, I've got the chance."

"Me, me, me, add me, hehe, none of you are as fast as me!"

Well, in the blink of an eye, the five people were all together. The few people behind who were eager to try but had not made up their minds at the moment regretted it immediately when they saw that they were all together after just a moment's hesitation.

In fact, only the people of the old Shen family were still blinded by the situation and could not understand it. Because other people in the village had little contact with Shen Laoqi and his daughter in the past, they were more likely to accept the changes of Shen Laoqi and his daughter than those people of the old Shen family. Naturally, it was easier for them to understand that the father and daughter were different, and their future days would only get better and better. It was not a loss to have a good relationship with them.

Why did Shen Shaoyuan say that he was not good at work, but could help run errands and buy things?

He is now a worker in the kiln factory. I heard that he is highly valued by the factory leaders. So if someone wants to build a new house or buy tiles in the future, wouldn't it be convenient to find him?

He has been in the commune for a long time, so he must know a few capable people. Maybe he can be asked for help when there are other things in the future?

So although Shen Shaoyuan said this in an obscure way, in fact, people who really understand it will understand it as soon as they hear it.

Of course, this kind of people will calculate it in their hearts, and there are also people who just want to have two full meals. They have all heard that the meals prepared by his family are very good. Sometimes there will be meat, and even if there is no meat, there will be fried eggs or something, without any ambiguity.

Shen Shengli, who originally wanted to see Shen Shaoyuan laugh, now had an expression that could not be described as ugly.

He glared at the five men who showed up, turned around and left.

This was the first time in his life that he was slapped in the face so hard. If he didn't leave, he was afraid that he would be so angry that he would vomit blood.

The other people from the Shen family's main branch hurriedly followed. Two people from their family were trapped this time, and they had to go home quickly to discuss whether there was a way to get them out.

Shen Yongjun glanced at Shen Shengli's slightly hunched back and said, "Forget it, let's go back too."

He originally thought that with the eldest brother's cleverness, he would be able to get a piece of skin off the seventh brother, and then he would just follow behind and benefit from it. But in the end, the eldest brother was the one who got slapped in the face.

Tian Fang's eyes were red: "What should I do with my eldest grandson? Why is he so unlucky to be born into your Shen family and meet such a heartless uncle..."

Shen Yongjun frowned irritably and repeated in a cold voice: "Go home first!"

It would be fine if she didn't say this. Shen Yongjun wanted to slap Tian Fang twice.

If she hadn't instigated Cao Mei to grab food, how could there be so many things later?

Even if she hadn't instigated Wang Jinbao to meet Shen Moer, how could the relationship between his family and the old Wang family become strained? If it hadn't been strained, at least now they can ask Wang Jinbao's brother-in-law who works in the commune to find connections and say hello to Min Bing.

Shen Yongjun originally thought that he had married a smart wife, who had managed the household well over the years, but recently he suddenly discovered that smart people can be really deadly when they act stupidly.

The people from the second branch of the Shen family also left.

Shen Shaoyuan didn't pay any more attention to them. In this hot day, the morning time was very precious. They had already wasted a lot of time for these two shameless families, so he quickly arranged for everyone to work. Shen

Moer saw that everyone was busy, so she also took the enamel basin to the well to wash the vegetables.

Although the weather was hot, the water from the well was refreshingly cool. Shen Moer was thinking about things while washing the vegetables, and she washed for a long time without realizing it.

Suddenly, a voice rang out beside her: "If you wash more, the vegetables will be cooked." The

clear voice was a little bit anxious.

Shen Moer came back to her senses, looked up and saw that it was Fu Mingze, smiled and teased: "Fu Zhiqing, you sneaked into the master's house?"

Fu Mingze picked up the iron bucket beside him and gently threw it into the well. The bucket floated up and down on the sparkling water. Fu Mingze flicked his wrist and the bucket finally sank. The bucket was full of water.

"I wanted to pour a bowl of water, but there was no water in the thermos and the water in the jar was empty." Fu Mingze said as he exerted a little force on his hand and lifted the bucket from the well.

Shen Moer glanced at him and saw that his white and lean arms were slightly bulging due to the effort, and a string of crystal sweat beads hung on his cheeks with clear and smooth lines. She couldn't help asking: "Building a house must be very hard, can you bear it?"

He obviously looked very poor. Logically speaking, he should also be from a poor family, but for some reason, he looked like he had never suffered any hardship.

Shen Moer thought about it and finally attributed the reason to his strong bookish air.

Maybe he had read too many books, so he was inevitably contaminated with a strong bookish air. In addition, he didn't like to talk to people, so he looked naturally aloof, which would make people think of those scholars who were accompanied by poetry and books all day long, which gave people the illusion that he should not have suffered much.

Well, that makes sense.

Fu Mingze gently placed the bucket on the ground and said, "Want to wash again? Pour out the water."

After Shen Moer emptied the water in the enamel basin, he added clean water and threw the bucket into the well again. Only then did he answer her question, "It's OK. Uncle Shen and the others didn't let Jiamin and I do any heavy work."

Otherwise, let alone him, Zheng Jiamin would not be able to handle it first.

Another bucket of water was brought up. Fu Mingze glanced at the vegetables that Shen Moer was washing. Apparently, they were almost clean and no new water was needed.

Logically, he should have hurriedly taken the bucket and left, poured the water into the Shen family's water tank, lit a fire to boil a pot of water, and then hurried back to the new house to work, otherwise it would really seem like he had deliberately run out to be lazy.

But his feet seemed to be nailed to the ground, and he couldn't pull them out for a long time.

Maybe he stood there for too long, Shen Moer looked up at him in surprise, Fu Mingze's heart skipped a beat, and before Shen Moer could speak, he asked, "How did you catch up with them last night?"

His question was irrelevant, but Shen Moer immediately understood what he meant. She and her father were only two people, but the other side had three young men. Even in the village, it was still very dangerous to chase them so brazenly. Shen Moer

couldn't say that her boxing skills were good. Even if she couldn't win, at least she had the confidence to escape.

She thought for a moment and said, "You know, my family is actually very tight financially. We didn't have any savings before. My father threatened his life to get the 300 yuan back from my uncles. So our family didn't have that much money to build a new house. So many bricks are worth a lot of money."

In fact, she didn't lie to Fu Mingze. If you leave out the treasure house, her family originally had only 50 cents in savings, plus the 300 yuan they took back later, it seemed like a lot, but after building the house and buying some things, there wouldn't be much left. So many bricks were indeed an important fortune for her family.

Fu Mingze was silent for a moment. He actually guessed that this was the case. After he went to the countryside, he realized how scarce the rural materials were. He also knew that some members would fight for a cabbage, not to mention six baskets of bricks.

"I actually..."

He wanted to say that if the money was not enough, he could actually borrow some first, but the words went around in his mouth and he didn't say it.

He couldn't expose himself.

Not to anyone.

This was what the elders had repeatedly told him before he went to the countryside.

Looking at Shen Moer's clear, watery eyes with distinct black and white, Fu Mingze felt an inexplicable sense of shame in his heart, and said with a stiff upper lip: "Financially, I am also in a tight spot, so I can understand your and Uncle Shen's feelings... However, no matter what, life safety is the most important."