Seeing Manager Wang's happy expression, Jiang Yuwei nodded and stepped forward to inspect the finished products. After checking them one by one, she was very satisfied and said:
"It's all thanks to your excellent craftsmanship, Manager Wang. If I had given these blueprints to someone else, I'm afraid they wouldn't have been able to achieve the same result. You deserve to make money."
Manager Wang found Jiang Yuwei's words very pleasing and quickly said with a smile:
"If Madam Jiang wants to make any rare or unusual things in the future, just come to me. As long as you have the blueprints, I can make them for you, and I won't charge you a penny. All you have to do is give me the blueprints."
Jiang Yuwei smiled and nodded, saying:
“Then I will certainly have to trouble Manager Wang in the future. It’s just that it’s getting late today. I wonder if Manager Wang can find an oxcart to help me get home? I will pay for the fare.”
Manager Wang glanced at the time, frowned, pondered for a moment, and asked:
"I wonder which village Madam Jiang is from, and how far is it from our town?"
Jiang Yuwei smiled and said:
"I'm from Ningjia Village. It's not far from the town; it only takes half an hour to get there."
Manager Wang nodded and instructed the waiter standing beside him:
"Go find the oxcart companies we usually use and ask them to help deliver an urgent shipment to Ningjia Village. It will take ten oxcarts to carry it."
The waiter, having received the order, hurried out to find oxcarts. He returned shortly, sweating profusely, followed by ten oxcarts. Manager Wang instructed everyone to work together to load the furniture onto the carts and secure them. He then gave a few instructions to the leader and turned to Jiang Yuwei with a smile:
"Madam Jiang has a total of ten oxcarts. It will cost five coins more to transport goods and people round trip than to transport people. In addition, there are their loading and unloading fees. It will cost twenty coins per cart. Is that feasible?"
Jiang Yuwei nodded and said:
"Yes, I'll go back with the oxcart too. I'll pay you all when we get there. Thank you for your hard work."
After saying goodbye to Manager Wang, Jiang Yuwei boarded the lead oxcart and the caravan headed towards Ningjia Village. By the time they arrived, it was almost dark. Jiang Yuwei saw the torches lit up in front of her courtyard and knew that Ning Huaizhi was waiting for her there again. She then thought about installing two lanterns at the gate.
After Jiang Yuwei arrived home, she nodded to Ning Huaizhi and instructed everyone to unload the goods. She then directed them to move the furniture inside and arrange it before settling their wages and seeing them off.
Looking at the room with the furniture in front of her, Jiang Yuwei felt much better. Now it finally felt like a home.
Jiang Yuwei was about to make dinner when she turned around and saw Ning Huaizhi looking at her pitifully. She said with a wronged expression:
"Yuwei, I know I was wrong. I promise you that something like what happened to Xu Qianqian will never happen again. Please believe me."
Looking at the handsome face before her, filled with a wronged expression, even the hardest heart softened for Jiang Yuwei, and she nodded, saying:
"Okay, I'll forgive you this time, but this time is not allowed to happen again. As a man, you should know the difference between men and women and you must have a sense of boundaries."
Seeing that Jiang Yuwei had forgiven him, Ning Huaizhi happily held up the hairpin in his hand and presented it to Jiang Yuwei:
"Yuwei, I understand. This is a hairpin I made for you myself. Try it on."
Jiang Yuwei took the hairpin from Ning Huaizhi's hand and examined it. It was a magnolia flower carved from bamboo. The budding magnolia on the hairpin was very delicate and beautiful, clearly the result of considerable effort in carving. Jiang Yuwei inserted the hairpin into her hair and asked with a smile:
Is it pretty?
Ning Huaizhi nodded heavily and said:
“She looks good in anything. Honey, I’ve already cooked dinner and it’s warming up in the pot. Let’s go eat.”
After dinner, the family went to their rooms to sleep early. Jiang Yuwei had been busy all day and many things had happened, but she was unwilling to tell Ning Huaizhi.
In her past life, she was always like this. She would never ask her family for help if she could handle something herself, because her parents would never stand by her side, and her good-for-nothing younger brother would only make sarcastic remarks to her. Now that she was here, she was unwilling to complain to Ning Huaizhi, because he couldn't help her and would only make Ning Huaizhi feel bad.
Jiang Yuwei thought that now that her house was finished, everyone in the village had contributed a lot, so she should invite everyone over for a hot pot meal to liven things up.
next day
Jiang Yuwei got up early and went to find the village head, asking him to invite the villagers to her courtyard for lunch. She then went back to the courtyard to prepare the meal.
Ning Wan helped wash the vegetables, Ning Huaizhi was in charge of starting the fire, and Jiang Yuwei prepared food for ten tables. Since there weren't enough tables at home, she borrowed some tables and chairs from Aunt Zhou's house and the surrounding neighbors. Aunt Zhou was also a very honest person. When she heard that Jiang Yuwei was going to host a dinner party, she was worried that Jiang Yuwei would be too busy to cook, so she took the initiative to come and help chop vegetables and prepare the food.
With help, Jiang Yuwei was able to cook quickly and well. This time, she prepared ten dishes and a soup for each table to entertain the villagers. The dishes were: spicy boiled fish, spicy crayfish, bamboo shoots stir-fried with pork, braised pork, stir-fried greens, cold bean sprouts, stir-fried eggs with chili peppers, sweet and sour pork, cold spinach salad, pickled fruit, and mushroom soup.
Following Jiang Yuwei's instructions, Aunt Zhou chopped and prepared vegetables. Watching Jiang Yuwei's busy figure and smelling the aroma of food in the yard, she sincerely admired Jiang Yuwei's cooking skills.
Jiang Yuwei cooked the dishes directly in a large pot, one dish per pot. Fortunately, the pot was big and the amount of food was plentiful, enough for ten tables. The staple food was a large pot of steamed rice and two pots of steamed buns.
When things were almost done, the villagers arrived one after another. When they heard that Jiang Yuwei was going to treat everyone to a hot pot dinner, they all brought gifts from home.
The peasant family didn't have anything valuable, just some homemade everyday tools or trinkets, and some food. Jiang Yuwei happily accepted them all. She hadn't expected them to bring anything, but she was naturally happy that they had come.
Jiang Yuwei had almost finished cooking the food. The remaining dishes needed to simmer in the pot for a while, so she first arranged for everyone to sit down. After everyone was seated, Jiang Yuwei, along with Aunt Zhou and Ning Wan, began to serve the dishes from table to table.
As everyone watched the dishes prepared by Jiang Yuwei being served one by one, they couldn't help but swallow hard. They were all farmers who toiled in the fields for a living, and they had never tasted such delicious and visually appealing food before. On ordinary days, they were content with just eating something to fill their stomachs and survive. Now, looking at this table full of delicacies, everyone secretly rejoiced that they hadn't refused when the village head went to invite them today.
Just as everyone picked up their chopsticks to eat, a sharp voice came from outside the courtyard:
"Well, you heartless bastard, you invited the whole village to dinner but not me?"
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