After Zhu's fourth round, it was Zhu Wu's turn to guard the new house.

After dinner, he washed his feet and then went to look at the sweet potatoes in the new yard.

The new courtyard is more grand than the old one, with more rooms and looks much neater inside and out. However, there are not many people living there yet, and most of them are still empty.

After all, after Ye Yuran got the money from selling the rouge prescription and built such a big and beautiful yard, he really didn't have much money left to spend on other things.

Ye Yuran didn't want to buy everything at once. Except for the key things, everything else was still empty.

However, the new empty yard also has its advantages. For example, if a family wants to dye cloth or something, Zhu Bamei will take Lin Sanmei, Lin Simei and a few sisters-in-law to set up a shelf here and cook it.

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After boiling the fuel, dyeing the cloth, and then putting it on a rack to dry, and passing it row by row, it did have some smell of a cloth workshop.

When Zhu Wu came over, he also helped Zhu Bamei and the others and collected a batch of cloth.

"Bamei, did you make a lot of money this time?" Zhu Wu smiled and asked about the business with Zhu Bamei.

Don't look at this as a shame, because their family can help others dye cloth for a penny per piece, so many people have made up their mind.

During the Chinese New Year, their family just started doing it, and all the work they took on was from Zhujiacun. After the New Year and the spring work was done, people outside Zhujiacun started thinking about asking his family to help with dyeing.

Although it’s only the middle of the year and still far from the end of the year, you can prepare in advance.

Anyway, they haven't made new clothes in a few years. It's rare to have a "cheap" opportunity, and you'd be a fool not to take advantage of it.

The women of the Zhu family were worried about the lack of rouge business at home. When they saw that someone offered the job of dyeing cloth, although they made a little less, they could make some money, so they agreed without hesitation.

I have flower cakes for dyeing cloth at home, and even the racks are ready-made. I used the racks for drying fishing nets, and if I add a few more, they will basically be in order.

Zhu Bamei smiled "hehe" and refused to tell the truth: "Fifth brother, don't ask, mother said, men from the Zhu family can't do business."

"I haven't touched it, so I just asked about it." Zhu Wu was unwilling to admit that he was indeed a little envious of the girl for making money, but how dare he not listen to what his mother said?

Moreover, before the third brother left, he had vaguely revealed to them - if you want to find a way out, you must listen to your mother.

It seems that my mother has a long-term plan for the Zhu family.

"I won't tell you if I ask. Okay, fifth brother, help us carry it into the house." Zhu Bamei directed, asking Zhu Si to help carry the dried cloths into her house.

Because it is a new house, she also has her own house.

It is said that Lin Sanmei and Lin Simei want to sleep in the old house, but occasionally the three girls want to have company and squeeze in together, which is also a common thing.

As soon as the cloth was placed in the room, Zhu Bamei started to chase people away: "Okay, brother, you go about your business, and we will do the rest ourselves."

"Are we going to drive people away? Call me when there is life, and don't want me when there is no life? OK, I'm leaving." Before leaving, Zhu Wu even rubbed Zhu Bamei's head teasingly.

Zhu Bamei's hair was messed up and she was very angry: "Fifth brother——"

Unfortunately, someone has already left the house.

Lin Sanmei and Lin Simei were snickering beside them.

"Why are you laughing? Didn't you see that I was bullied by the fifth brother? I don't know how to help." Zhu Bamei glared at them.

Lin Sanmei smiled and said: "I don't dare. Fifth brother is polite to you, but he is not polite to us. When he orders us, he doesn't treat us as women at all."

"That's right," said Lin Simei, "last time the fifth brother wanted to move something, it was very heavy, and he threw it directly to me and the third sister, and then ran away, causing me and the third sister to move for a long time before finally

Set it up."

"Fifth brother is just like fourth brother. They both like to be lazy. You should be more careful in the future. It's fine when my mother is around. When my mother is not around, they will definitely be lazy. You can stay as far away as you can and ignore them.

.They don’t dare to complain to their mother, it’s their job in the first place.”

Lin Sanmei and Lin Simei smiled but did not agree.

After all, they are not children of the Zhu family. Some people have accepted them into the Zhu family, but it does not mean that everyone has accepted them.

Zhu Si and Zhu Wu will "bully" them from time to time, which is normal.

Although they were "bullied", they were easily satisfied because they knew that they had the shamelessness to live with their second sister in the Zhu family, and they could still save a few coins in their hands from time to time, which was a good life that they could never dream of.

If they still "pick and choose", then they really don't know how to be "grateful".

Zhu Bamei obviously didn't notice this, and in a blink of an eye the conversation turned to other things. She was sharing the dyed cloths with them, which pieces belonged to which family, and divided them according to the marks.

On the other side, Zhu Wu moved a stool to enjoy the cool air in the yard.

Old man Zhu came in and said hello to him.

"Where is your mother?" Old Man Zhu looked at the house and found that Ye Yuran's room was not lit.

"Still in the old house, right?" Zhu Wu asked casually, why did his father come back so early today? Doesn't he usually come back very late?

"When did I not go back to the house to sleep at this time?"

"That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about during the day, during dinner." Zhu Wu said, "Recently, dad either comes back in time for dinner, or comes back after dinner. It seems that he came back very early today.

.When Fourth Brother and I came back from working in the fields, Dad was at home. Dad, why didn’t we meet you when we were working in the fields?"

"Which piece of land do you have and which piece of land do I have? Isn't it normal that we haven't touched each other?"

"No, we brothers did it separately today, and no one saw you."

Old Man Zhu choked and said quickly: "It just happened to be wrong. I won't tell you. I have worked all day today and I am tired. I will go to bed first."

I originally wanted to sit in the yard, but I couldn't continue the conversation, so I ran back to the house.

Zhu Wu looked at his father's back and didn't know what to say at all.

——When you get older, you get older. If you can’t do any work, just say it. If you’re lazy, don’t let others accuse you?

Zhu Wu didn't think much about it. He just felt that the time Mr. Zhu spent working in the fields was indeed a bit short recently.

You can't blame him for noticing this. In fact, he and Zhu Si often "goof off" and are quite sensitive to everyone's time patterns.

In fact, the work at home this year is much easier than last year. Last year, all the land at home was used to grow rice. When the weather was hot, we had to water it every day, otherwise we would die of drought.

But this year is different. One-third of the land is used to grow sweet potatoes, and there is no need to carry water.

One-third of the land was turned into a paddy field by his mother, and the water was collected every few days, so there was no need to carry water every day.

Both sweet potato fields and paddy fields have one advantage - the weeding work is easier than before.

Sweet potatoes grow vigorously in sweet potato fields, but weeds cannot grow on them; paddy fields are converted from dry land, and some weeds that grow in dry land do not grow in paddy fields.

In other words, the only thing the family has to do is probably the remaining one-third, the rice field grown using the old method that Old Man Zhu is responsible for.

Carrying water every day is one thing, and removing weeds is another. The most embarrassing thing is that there was no pattern when the millet was sprinkled, and the weeds also grew erratically. People with poor eyesight may easily pull out the wrong ones.
Chapter completed!