"Boss Xu said that in addition to building the house, they also need workers to dig ditches and plow the land! It doesn't matter if you fail the trial today. As long as you don't cross the line, the Xu family will transfer you to work elsewhere, but the wages will be lower!"
"If you're not good at any of these, then just pick up some stones and bring them over. The Xu family will be responsible for collecting them. As long as the quality is up to standard, we'll take as many as you want!"
"Aji, this stone can also be sold!"
"Can!"
"Then I'll ask my wife and kids to pick it up, okay?"
"Yes, but be careful!"
"Of course, of course!" The man who spoke was old, already in his fifties. In ancient times, the physical functions of people of this age were actually similar to those of people in their seventies or eighties today.
Besides him, his family only had a child of five or six years old and an old woman of the same age. His son and daughter-in-law had passed away several years ago.
This phenomenon is not uncommon in the surrounding villages.
Wang Ji glanced at his half-white hair and felt it was not appropriate to help him openly, after all, there were many people in his situation.
But Wang Ji still thought about it in his mind and decided to arrange for him to do something more appropriate.
The recruitment was carried out in an orderly manner. Old Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Zhang worked hard and finally produced a few new quilts.
"Grandma Xu, no matter how cold it is in the north, you don't need so many quilts!" Pei Jiao was shocked to see that Grandma Xu insisted on stuffing two more quilts into the carriage.
When Pei Jiao brought people here, they pulled several carriages. Now the carriages are full of food and there is no room for quilts.
"Jiaojiao, you're young and don't know this, but the weather is extremely unusual during droughts. It's almost always extremely cold during the same year! With the constant heavy snow, I wonder how many people will freeze to death!"
Pei Jiao thought about her childhood memories, but found that she couldn't remember them at all, they were all very vague.
"Sister Pei, just listen to me. The worst that can happen is that you can't bring two bags of food!"
"Yes, sister, if you don't listen to the advice of the elderly, you will suffer the consequences!" Pei Chen interrupted at the right time.
"You're the only one who talks too much!" Pei Jiao didn't want to move the food out, so she looked at the top of the carriage.
"Ningning, put the new quilt in the carriage, and tie the old ones on the roof and under the eaves of the carriage! We will eat a lot on the road anyway, so we can stuff the quilts in after we finish eating! What do you think?!" Pei Jiao didn't want to move two bags of grain out of each carriage. These two bags of grain could make a lot of money in the north!
"Can the horse handle it?" Xu Ning imagined the scene again, fearing that if someone sat on it, the horse wouldn't be able to pull the carriage.
"If one horse can't pull it, just pull another one. Horses eat grass anyway, and the last thing we lack on this road is hay."
"Okay, let's arrange it this way!" The stone-walled dragon house is being built as planned. Xu Yuan will not go to transport grain this time, and Pei Dazhuang and other female relatives in the small mountain village basically will not go either. It is men like Liu Li and Pei Chen who go.
The night before departure, Old Lady Xu brought her whole family to Xu Ning's room and repeatedly told him that no matter whether he made money or not, he must come back before the road was blocked by heavy snow!
Xu Ning also repeatedly assured that he would take care of his own life first!
"Xu Daya! You must report that you are safe at least once a day, do you hear me?" Old Mrs. Xu wished she could have her hands on Xu Ning's ears so she could twist them from time to time to teach her a lesson. Xu Ning's credibility was really too low!
"Grandma, if you are worried, you can write to me every day. I will reply to you as soon as I see it. Is that okay?" Xu Ning was not someone who could trust her own brain. She was also afraid that if she really forgot something, it would cause Grandma Xu to get anxious and angry again!
"No, let Dabao go with you!"
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