Chapter 141

141. Chapter 141: Widow Xu Has Bad Intentions

Even the apprentices who followed Master Zheng to see the food treated by the Jiang family couldn't help but be shocked. They had followed their master to help many wealthy families build houses and had never seen such good food.

Those wealthy families provided at most one meal of dry rice, one vegetable and one soup. Kind families provided a small amount of minced meat in the vegetable dishes at most, which was already considered the best.

I didn't expect the Jiang family to provide not only dry rice, real meat, stir-fried dishes, but also a large pot of oily big bone soup, with egg drops in it... This food is simply too rich!

The people in the courtyard were swallowing like wolves and tigers, and no one said an extra word.

After eating and drinking, everyone didn't rest and got up immediately to continue working.

This rich meal made them feel that the 30 wen a day wage was really too much, and it wouldn't be justified not to do more work.

After laying the foundation, it was time to start mixing mud and laying bricks to build the first floor of the building.

Master Zheng was still thinking about the concrete, and in the blink of an eye, he saw the cement used by the workers to lay bricks, and he was shocked again.

What is this thing again?

It's not like the white lime used by wealthy families to build houses, nor is it like the mixture of yellow mud, water, and rice straw used by villagers to build earth walls.

He was full of doubts, but still patiently didn't ask, greeting his apprentices to lay every brick here more carefully.

Time gradually reached the afternoon.

The workers who had worked for a day were not only not tired, but each one was even more energetic.

Because Jiang Wei settled the wages that day.

Jiang Xiaoxiao sat at the table in the courtyard. A sheet of Xuan paper was spread on the table, on which she recorded the names of every worker who came to build the house at her house, and Jiang Wei was responsible for distributing the wages on the side.

Every time Jiang Wei distributed a person's wages, Jiang Xiaoxiao would put a checkmark behind the name.

With 30 hot copper coins in hand, the workers also went home happily.

Coming to the Jiang family to work provided food, but only for the noon meal. The afternoon meal was eaten at home after receiving the wages.

This is also understandable. The food provided by the Jiang family is simply too extravagant. If two meals were provided a day, they would be eaten into bankruptcy.

The workers went home one after another, and Master Zheng also left with his apprentices. It was impossible to construct when the sky was dark, so they could only come back tomorrow morning.

There was no place to live here, so they could only return to their residence in town. Fortunately, the town was not far from Yuhe Village, and it took less than half an hour by carriage.

Qiulian Niang and Zhao Dasao had also finished cleaning up the courtyard. The bowls and chopsticks used by the workers were carefully washed, scalded with boiling water, and finally neatly coded in the cupboard.

Jiang Wei calculated the wages for them as usual. Cooking for 40-something people was not an easy task, so she gave each person 15 wen.

Qiulian Niang and Zhao Dasao were naturally surprised and happy. They came to help cook and didn't think about wages at all. In the village, when someone held a happy event and asked people to help cook, they would at most give some eggs as a thank-you gift.

The two originally wanted to refuse, but they couldn't resist Jiang Wei, so they accepted it.

When leaving, Jiang Xiaoxiao saw that there was still some braised pork left in the pot, which was already cold, so she asked the two to take it back together for their families to eat.

Zhao Dasao and Qiulian Niang accepted it happily.

This was braised pork made from river deer meat, which they couldn't eat usually. Their families were in for a treat!

After the two left, the sky was already completely dark.

After being busy for a day, Jiang Wei was also a bit tired now. She stretched, and when she turned her head, she saw her daughter waving her little hand at her, saying crisply:

"Mother, the water is hot, come and take a bath."

Jiang Wei smiled: "Alright."

The matter of the Jiang family building a house was talked about in the village for a day. Until the night was deep, the people in the village were still talking about this matter endlessly.

"Hey, this Jiang family is really developed. Even the Li Zheng lives in a mud adobe house, and she is building a blue brick tile house that only people in town can afford!"

"Tsk tsk, blue bricks are not cheap these days. One blue brick is 6 or 7 wen, which can buy more than 1 jin of millet!"

"My man went to work at her house today. He said that the foundation of the Jiang family is huge. How big a house is she going to build!"

"A brick is only this small, and the four walls of a room have to be built in two layers. This wall alone needs more than 1,000 blue bricks. Just the amount of blue bricks piled in her courtyard is worth at least 100 taels of silver..."

The weather was hot. Widow Xu was blowing the cool breeze in the courtyard, listening to the talk of the wives and old ladies outside, and felt more and more uncomfortable in her heart.

She simply returned to the room and slammed the door shut, but still couldn't block the words of those people from echoing in her ears.

"Why are you closing the door? You're blocking me from blowing the breeze!" Zhao Wulai, who was lying on the bed, said unhappily.

"You have too many things!" Widow Xu gave her a fierce look, didn't open the door, and sat on the opposite bed.

"I was really blinded by pig oil to live with a woman like you!" Zhao Wulai cursed, but he only cursed in his mouth and didn't get up.

He had been busy harvesting rice in the fields for the past few days, and his waist and back were aching. He hadn't recovered yet. When he moved, his legs and arms hurt so much that he really didn't have the extra strength to fight with Widow Xu.

For the past few days, he had thought more than once that if he hadn't had anything to do with Widow Xu, Zhao Dasao wouldn't have left, there wouldn't be no one to do the work at home, and he wouldn't have to be so hard...

He really missed the days when he opened his mouth to eat and stretched out his hands to wear clothes, and was served by Zhao Dasao all the time.

"Bah, if you hadn't forced me and ruined my innocence, do you think I would live with a man like you!" Widow Xu roared back without showing weakness.

After roaring, she felt even more aggrieved. Why was she, also a widow in the village, reduced to this end, while Jiang Wei could live a more and more prosperous life, and now even built a blue brick tile house...

Why was the person whose innocence was ruined by Zhao Wulai Jiang Wei instead of her?

Thinking this way, Widow Xu's heart, full of jealousy, suddenly emerged with a dark smear.

She raised her head and looked at Zhao Wulai again, her tone already recovered. She deliberately sneered: "If you dislike me, you can marry someone else."

Zhao Wulai also learned to hum like her: "If I could marry someone else, it wouldn't be you sitting here."

Widow Xu rolled her eyes and said: "Look at Jiang in the village. Isn't she also a widow? Don't you have any thoughts about her?"

Zhao Wulai didn't speak.

He didn't just have thoughts about Jiang; he simply wished he could occupy that pair of mother and daughter!

But he didn't have the guts. Now Jiang's reputation in the village was not like before. She was well-received by most people in the village, and the Li Zheng valued her especially.

Moreover, Jiang's strength was huge. Even wild wolves on the mountain dared to hunt back. This was the point he was most afraid of.