Chapter 735: The Sarcastic Voice

After unloading the cement, everyone gathered around the crawler tractor coincidentally.

At this time, quite a few villagers had gathered around. After all, the huge noise of the crawler tractor could easily spread throughout the entire Caoshan Tun.

So people who had finished planting and were staying at home basically all came over because of the sound.

Although everyone had seen the crawler tractor last time when Wang An's family pushed the foundation, motorized vehicles were always rare things in this era, so it was not strange at all that people would watch again.

"Dazhu, I see you've prepared the bricks and pulled the cement back? Is the house about to start construction?" a villager in his 40s asked with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Wang Dazhu handed out cigarettes and said with a face full of smiles:

"Yeah, Third Brother, it will start construction tomorrow or the day after. I'll have to trouble everyone to lend a hand then."

The person talking to Wang Dazhu was Sun Xiangyang, who was ranked third in his family, so people in the village younger than him uniformly called him Third Brother.

Only hearing Sun Xiangyang's younger brother, Sun Xianghui, laugh out loud:

"Lending a hand is no problem, but good wine and good meat must be enough, otherwise I won't come."

Wang Dazhu said with great pride:

"That must be enough, not counting good wine and good meat, good cigarettes must also be in place."

Only hearing Sun Xianghui laugh: "What good cigarettes? Can you smoke cigarettes? Hahahahaha..."

Who knew Wang Dazhu would say very proudly: "Before laying bricks, smoke Da Shengchan and Putaos, and on the day of topping out, it must be Changbai Mountain, hahaha, is that enough?"

The countryside is like this; whether it's building a house or digging a well, basically every family will send at least one person to help.

As long as there is no life-and-death hatred, basically everyone will send one person.

And this kind of help is called "helping work" in the countryside.

However, it must be known that it is called "helping work" in name, but in reality, it is "exchanging work."

Simply put, if you help me do work today, then when you have work at home, I have to help you.

So this kind of helping work has no wages, which is free help, but it's not completely free, because three meals a day must be enough to eat.

Remember, it's just "enough to eat," not "eat well."

The reason it's just enough to eat is also because of the reason for this era. If you can let the helpers eat enough at every meal, it's already a very, very awesome thing.

You must know that helping work in this era often only provides two meals, or even just one meal at noon.

And although Sun Xianghui wanted wine and meat, everyone knew he was just joking.

Just as Wang Dazhu finished speaking, only hearing a sarcastic but smiling voice say:

"The Wang family is truly capable. Building a house without a sound, and it's a brick-tile house. Where did the money come from? Wouldn't it be something like speculation? Be careful not to be caught by the big caps one day, hahahahaha."

This person's words, although spoken in a joking way, were not only unpleasant but also had the meaning of killing the heart.

You must know that this is not later generations; fighting and brawling might not be cared about, but the four words "speculation" cannot be said casually.

Especially the amount involved also had its standards; as long as it exceeded that limit, it would be the result of seeing Buddha directly. Since they were going to see Buddha, it could be seen how serious this kind of thing was.

So as soon as this person's words fell, the whole scene instantly became silent.

And everyone's eyes became flickering, and even the gaze toward Wang An's family became full of deep meaning and doubt.

After all, there is a good saying, "No wind, no waves, no empty hole, no wind"! As long as someone raises a question, then a large group of brainless people will definitely follow the question without distinguishing right from wrong.

This is naked human nature! Wang An looked at this person with unkindness and was about to step forward, but was tugged by Wang Dazhu.

Then he heard Liu Guilan shout loudly: "No way, although we don't know how to speculate, we know how to go into the mountains to lift ginseng. That big gold gall, that big one, those ginsengs, each one is as thick as a child's arm, truly lovable. Master, where did you put those ginsengs? Go take two out and show everyone, and see where the money for our house came from."

Upon hearing this, Wang Dazhu cooperated and said:

"The big ones are left with two four-grade leaves, aren't they all thrown into the wine jar to soak? That 5-grade leaf one isn't dry yet..."

Liu Guilan pretended to be very angry and said:

"Even if it's not dry, it's still ginseng. Take it out. By the way, isn't there a big gold gall that isn't dry? Take it out too, let Niu Laoer know what's going on, so he doesn't fart around all day."

The Niu Laoer that Liu Guilan mentioned was the person who spoke sarcastically.

Niu Laoer's name was Niu Yijie, ranked second in his family, and was of the same generation as Wang Dazhu, but younger than Wang Dazhu, so people of the same generation older than him called him by his name or Niu Laoer.

But if it were younger generations like Wang An, they would have to call him Second Uncle or Niu Second Uncle.

Of course, this was just a form of address for people in the same village.

Liu Guilan's words, although she was scolding Niu Yijie, in this kind of time, Niu Yijie didn't dare to scold back.

On one hand, Liu Guilan was his sister-in-law, although there was no blood relationship between them, it's like this in the countryside; as long as it's the same village, you can always pull some kinship.

And on the other hand, Wang An was clearly angry just now. If he hadn't been tugged by Wang Dazhu, Niu Yijie would have been beaten eight or nine times out of ten.

You must know Wang An's character like a beast, and the "prestige" he beat out, was not a lie at all.

To tell the truth, if Wang An didn't rarely cause trouble in the village and never bullied anyone, Wang An would be a bona fide "village bully."

After Liu Guilan finished scolding, Wang Dazhu agreed and turned to walk into the house.

At this moment, Liu Guilan feigned indignation and said to the people beside her:

"This is all just from bear gallbladders, fur, and such, all traded for these bricks and tiles. Otherwise, my eldest son wouldn't have had to go out and hunt for ginseng. I tell you, I spent over a month in fear and trembling; I was terrified that my eldest son would be lost in the mountains."

It was unclear whether Liu Guilan was acting or expressing true feelings, but by the time she finished, tears were clearly welling up in her eyes.

After Liu Guilan finished speaking, the second aunt Yao Ping immediately said with a face full of "misery":

"Look at my youngest son's face; that's from the havoc of going into the mountains this time. It's only because he's lucky that he survived, otherwise..."

It must be said, these two sisters-in-law coordinated quite tacitly!

(End of chapter)