Chapter 149 Sisters United
He Jinglan stood at the door and watched Meng Chengping walk out of the yard calmly.
From beginning to end, Meng Chengping did not look back, and He Jinglan did not call him.
Gu Xixi stood with He Jinglan for a while before speaking, "Although it is spring, the nights in the northwest are still cold. Let's go inside first and be careful not to catch a cold."
He Jinglan nodded slightly, and when she turned to Gu Xixi, she smiled, "That's right, I can't fall ill before returning."
The two returned to the house. He Jinglan closed the door and said casually, "Just now you said you needed my help tomorrow. It shouldn't just be a lie, right?"
Gu Xixi thought that it would be best to find something to do when heartbroken, so as not to be trapped in negative emotions alone, which would make her feel worse the more she thought about it.
So he said with a smile, "I need to dig a kind of wild grass, I need a lot, I'm in a hurry, and I'm short of manpower."
He Jinglan asked with great interest, "Why are you digging weeds? Isn't Mu Nanzhao already well?"
Gu Xixi laughed, "It's not for him to eat."
She then said seriously, "I can only tell you that these weeds are very important and are needed urgently."
"As for the reasons, I have reasons that I cannot tell you for now. If you trust me, wait a little longer, and when I can, I will tell you everything."
He Jinglan was quite happy and agreed immediately, "Okay, I'll help. But..."
She looked confused. "You said you wanted a lot. Will it be enough for the two of us?"
Gu Xixi said, "Rather than digging wild vegetables, gathering people is what I need your help with!"
Compared to Gu Xixi who only visits occasionally, He Jinglan has been living in the dependents village for a long time recently, and the villagers are more familiar with her.
She asked everyone for help, which made it easier for her to talk and easier for everyone to trust her.
He Jinglan pondered, "After the spring, I followed the sisters-in-law and aunts in the village to dig wild vegetables several times."
"Please help me dig some grass. It's not difficult, but..."
Gu Xixi knew from her expression, so she took over the conversation and said, "No matter how considerate others are, we shouldn't let them work in vain, right?"
He Jinglan smiled, "That's right."
Gu Xixi said, "Considering the differences in physical strength among people, in order not to force people to work too hard, it is best to settle wages based on half a day's work."
"The best restaurant in Qingtian County, the daily wage for waiters is fifty coins. Since we need to rush the work, how about raising the wages a little bit, thirty coins per half day?"
In the northwest, with a daily wage of sixty cents, this is definitely a job worth fighting for for ordinary people.
He Jinglan was delighted when she heard this. "This is a good thing."
"Everyone will be happy if they know there is money to be made!"
There are only women and children in the dependents' village.
The women living here have no chance to make money at all. They all wait for their family members in the military camp to receive their salaries to support their families.
Most of these women come from ordinary families and are not afraid of working.
If there is an opportunity to exchange labor for money right at your doorstep, just imagine who would not be happy?
He Jinglan mentioned a new concern, "If we offer a wage of thirty cents for half a day, there will definitely be a lot of people who want to go. Everyone is good at digging wild vegetables. How do we choose who to let go and who not to let go?"
Gu Xixi smiled and said, "Don't worry about this. We will accept all applicants."
The village is full of young and middle-aged women, and there are no elderly, weak or disabled people, so there is no need to worry about people who are unable to work and still come to sign up.
He Jinglan frowned and thought about it, then suddenly realized.
"Yes, we need to hurry up for this matter, so naturally the more people we have, the better."
"Besides, there is always a fixed amount of what you want. If more people come, we can finish the digging earlier and end the work earlier. The final settlement will not be much more."
Gu Xixi patted He Jinglan with a smile, "Smart!"
He Jinglan was already full of fighting spirit at this moment. "Tomorrow I will get up at the first crow of the rooster, go find the sisters-in-law I know best, and ask them to spread the news door to door."
Gu Xixi nodded in approval and said, "We will start work tomorrow morning, but the progress will definitely not be fast at the beginning."
"I will also teach you how to identify them one by one, so that you don't make a mistake and waste your time."
He Jinglan said, "Don't worry about this. I heard that at this time of year, when there is a shortage of food, the women in the village rely on their ability to dig wild vegetables to feed their families."
Women are also powerful. Even if they are placed in this bitter, cold and desolate northwest, they can still take root and work hard to absorb life-giving moisture from the ground.
As for the wages, of course they have to be paid by the general himself.
He Jinglan was reluctant to let Gu Xixi go back to sleep, and insisted that she stay and sleep with her.
The two girls helped each other to unbraid their hair and finished washing up while chatting and laughing.
As they lay side by side, they both let out a long sigh of relief.
The two turned their heads to look at each other and laughed.
He Jinglan said, "Xixi, thank you."
Gu Xixi put her arms behind her head and said, "I should thank you."
"I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but I'm actually very afraid of mobilizing others."
"I told you that I would plant Pinellia trees in the village this year, but people asked me if I could guarantee to make money. I said, if you want to do it, do it. If you don't want to do it, forget it."
He Jinglan burst out laughing and asked in disbelief, "You just said that?"
Gu Xixi nodded innocently, "Yeah!"
He Jinglan laughed enough and said, "Just focus on your work. I'll be there for you if you can't handle what you have to deal with tomorrow."
She rolled over and looked up at the top of the bed curtains. "I said thank you just now, not now."
"If I hadn't met you and then read the letter you wrote to me, I might not have had the courage to come out on my own, and I wouldn't have met so many different people and things."
Gu Xixi sighed, "It's a pity that you canceled your original marriage here, and also met an enemy. I don't know if it's my fault."
He Jinglan smiled, "Then you have to be responsible for me."
Gu Xixi glanced at her sideways, "Didn't I just promise you? So take responsibility!"
The two continued to discuss some details to make sure there were no omissions.
Then they talked about what happened to each of them when they separated.
He Jinglan naturally mentioned Meng Chengping, as if she had completely let it go and was no longer sad about it.
Until the second half of the night, Gu Xixi was so sleepy that her eyelids were fighting each other. She said weakly, "In fact, the difficulty between you and General Meng is that you are both good people, and you both have your own persistence..."
There was no response from beside me, only the sound of shallow and even breathing.
Gu Xixi took a careful look and made sure that He Jinglan was asleep, and she instantly breathed a sigh of relief.
Sleep well, there is nothing you can't overcome.
When it was bright, when Gu Xixi arrived at the village entrance, almost all the women in the village were there.
Everyone had a happy look on their faces and a chessboard in their eyes.
Although Gu Xixi couldn't remember everyone's last name, she was familiar with them all and greeted them with a smile.
She looked around and asked He Jinglan in a low voice, "Why are there so many little babies?"
He Jinglan whispered in his ear, "There's nothing I can do. No one will take care of the little one at home. I've already agreed."
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