Chapter 91

91. Chapter 91: This Widow Xu Is Not a Good Person

The few farm women from outside the village who rushed to hear the news heard this, and their faces turned white.

Because they felt uneasy about taking the twenty wen wages yesterday and felt that it was too little to work for only half a day, they decided to come to Jiang Wei's house early to work, but didn't expect to see such a scene.

Jiang Wei was shocked by Li Dayong's wife's shameless speech and sneered: "Sorry, I am not that kind of untrustworthy person. Since I hired people to work, I won't fire them for no reason."

Doing business pays the most attention to credit. If you are an untrustworthy person, who will come to your house to work in the future?

Li Dayong's wife blushed with anger.

Several farm women who followed to join in the fun and wanted to get some benefits saw this and shut their mouths awkwardly.

Since people in the village knew about this, many women had thoughts. Working for only half a day for twenty wen, where in the world is there such a good job?

Even if they knew that Jiang's manpower was enough, they still came with thick skin.

These days, the water source problem in the village has been solved, but the weather is still as hot as before. It is slightly cooler in the morning, and it is tolerable to go to the field to work, but the big sun at noon will make people faint if they go to the field. It is better to go to Jiang's house to earn some money.

The few farm women whose wishes failed could only leave. Li Dayong's wife saw that everyone had left, and she couldn't make a scene by herself, so she left indignantly.

The few village women who helped saw that the troublemakers had left, so they silently entered the courtyard, started to light the stove without saying a word, and worked hard.

Jiang Wei didn't say anything when she saw it. Let them come early if they want to come early. At worst, pay more wages later.

After a while, Liu Dagang also brought people to dig the cellar.

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at it. There were more than a dozen people, all of them big, thick men, each carrying a hoe on their shoulders and carrying a dustpan, which was more than the people who dug the well last time.

"Xiaoxiao's mom, where is the cellar dug?" Liu Dagang carried a hoe and turned around in the courtyard. The courtyard was full of pots and stoves, and the corner of the courtyard was a vegetable patch. There was no place to start digging a cellar.

Jiang Wei took people to an open space outside the courtyard, "Dig here."

This piece of land was the wasteland she bought from Lizheng not long ago. The ground was full of weeds, and the mud underneath was mixed with gravel. Villagers generally chose fertile paddy fields to plant land. Like this wasteland, almost no one would use it. Coupled with the small number of people and more land in this era, there was more wasteland, and villagers wouldn't buy useless wasteland. So when she bought this piece of land, she only spent one and a half taels of silver.

Jiang Wei had already planned it. In the future, the new house should be on this piece of land, with a large courtyard outside, and five miles around would be her family's territory. On this piece of land, she could also plant some drought-resistant crops, vegetables, plant fruit trees, flowers, and learn from those wealthy families to get a manor or something, and recruit some slaves to manage and take care of it.

Liu Dagang nodded and led people to dig.

Digging a cellar is not a difficult task. Several people had dug it before and had experience.

Jiang Wei arranged the matter of digging the cellar, and Old Man Zhao's ox cart also arrived at the gate.

She moved several ice cabinets onto the ox cart and started to deliver goods to town.

Jiang Xiaoxiao stayed at home as usual. The family hired help, so she had to stay at home to look after it.

Jiang Wei didn't leave for long before Qiulian Niang and the sisters Chunmiao also came.

It is estimated that they heard about the village women coming to grab work. As soon as Qiulian Niang came, she told the few farm women working in the courtyard to work harder in the future and absolutely must not let down Jiang Wei's trust in them.

After she finished speaking, she turned to Jiang Xiaoxiao and sighed: "Alas, these people I found are all poor people who have a hard time at home. Some were kicked out by their children and live alone, their lives are poor, and they can't live anymore. Some are childless, with only one person in the family. Some fled from famine a few years ago and have no farmland, and can only eat bran and vegetables every day... But they are all diligent, and they won't go out and gossip about anything."

Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded, expressing understanding.

The people Qiulian Niang found to work were none of them related to her. She had a kind heart and helped these poor people within her ability.

After observing for a day yesterday, she also roughly figured out the temperaments of these people. They were all honest and kind people, grateful for Qiulian Niang's help, and even more worked hard because Jiang Wei was willing to give this job, otherwise they wouldn't come to her house early in the morning.

The courtyard was busy early in the morning. Jiang Xiaoxiao took advantage of this gap to feed the chickens, sheep, and rabbits at home, but when she turned her head, she saw a sneaky figure outside the courtyard, standing outside the fence and craning her neck to look into the courtyard.

Jiang Xiaoxiao frowned, walked up, and deliberately raised her voice: "Who are you, what are you doing in my house!?"

Widow Xu was startled. Looking down and seeing Jiang Xiaoxiao, a little girl who was not as tall as the fence, the guilt in her eyes disappeared instantly.

She smiled hypocritically and said: "Are you Xiaoxiao? I am Widow Xu in the village. I came to find your mother. Is your mother at home?"

As soon as she finished asking, Qiulian Niang, who heard the movement, walked over, "Not here, what is the matter?"

Widow Xu couldn't help but look enviously into the courtyard and said: "I just want to come and ask, does your family still lack manpower? I want to..."

"Don't think about it, her family's manpower is enough." Before Widow Xu finished speaking, Qiulian Niang interrupted her words, "You hurry up and leave, don't be idle and have nothing to do and sneak around outside people's courtyard."

She said this without any politeness. Widow Xu's smile couldn't hang on. She looked down at Jiang Xiaoxiao again, "That, Xiaoxiao..."

As soon as she opened her mouth, Jiang Xiaoxiao also learned Qiulian Niang's tone and said: "My family's manpower is enough, don't come."

Widow Xu bit her lip unwillingly and turned to leave.

Looking at Widow Xu's back as she walked away, Jiang Xiaoxiao's tightly frowned eyebrows relaxed.

"This Widow Xu is not a good person. Xiaoxiao, stay away from her when you see her in the future." Qiulian Niang suddenly said.

Jiang Xiaoxiao heard this and subconsciously looked up at Qiulian Niang. She didn't hide her disgust on her face.

It was the first time she saw Qiulian Niang, who was always gentle and kind to others, hate someone so much.

She returned to the chicken coop to feed the chickens, and instantly remembered some rumors she heard under the big locust tree in the village before, saying that Widow Xu had an affair with Zhao the Scoundrel...

Jiang Xiaoxiao finished feeding the chickens, sheep, and rabbits, and went to ask Chunya, who was beating eggs: "Does your dad still return home these days?"

Chunya nodded and shook her head again, saying: "My dad is at home during the day, but goes out after dark at night."

She also discovered it when she went to the latrine at night. Her dad, Zhao the Scoundrel, sneaked out of the house in the middle of the night and almost didn't return home until dawn.

Jiang Xiaoxiao frowned and asked again: "Does your mother know about this?"

Chunya nodded. Her mother naturally knew about this, but her mother told her not to spread it out.