Early the next morning, Zhang Chunnuan was awakened by the noise in the courtyard.

After waking up, I first looked at the two children and saw that they had not been awakened, and then I felt relieved.

Zhang Chunnuan put on her cotton-padded clothes and walked out of the room.

As soon as he reached the door of the hall, he was hugged by Wang Dongxue who rushed in.

"Sister Chun Nuan, you finally woke up! I wanted to call you just now, but the mistress refused to let me go!"

The mistress who trotted in behind her was wearing a new cotton coat and looked at Wang Dongxue with a frown and dissatisfaction:

"I told you that my aunt is still sleeping. Sister Dongxue, why are you as ignorant as a child who has not grown up?"

Wang Dongxue snorted after being scolded, stretched out her hand and poked his forehead, "Huh, you little heartless person! If it weren't for me, how could you put on your new cotton coat so quickly!"

I don’t care if you don’t thank me, but you actually say that I’m not sensible! I think you’re not sensible, but with Sister Chunnuan’s support, you have to act up, right?”

Zhang Chunnuan was so quarreled by the two that his brain hurt, and he quickly stopped: "Okay! You two, stop arguing, Qi Qi and Qiu Qiu are still sleeping. If you wake them up, let's see how I deal with you two!"

While she was talking, she reached out and touched the cotton-padded coat on the mistress. After touching it, she squeezed it again. She didn't pinch the flesh, so she knew that the cotton-padded coat was made thick.

"Didn't I give you the cotton cloth and cotton yesterday? Why did it take so long to be ready?"

Hearing her question, Wang Dongxue raised her chin proudly and said proudly:

"I came up with the idea for my mother-in-law. Let the two sisters-in-law help each other. One person makes the two front pieces of the dress, one person makes the large piece at the back, and two people make the two sleeves."

She pointed to the mistress's left hand as she spoke, "That's what this sleeve is made of!"

Zhang Chunnuan thought: Is this the benefit of assembly line operations?

"But the trousers have to wait for another day. Originally, my mother-in-law was planning to make the trousers today. Your house needs to build a wall, so she said she would come and help."

After hearing this, Zhang Chunnuan realized that the busy people in the courtyard were all familiar faces, including the village chief uncle and his family.

Wang Dongxue smiled evilly beside him:

"My eldest nephew and niece were too embarrassed to come to dinner last time. Later, when I heard Cuifen and Cuifang talking about how delicious your food was, I was so sorry that my intestines turned green!

This time I heard that I was coming to your house to help, so I came here shamelessly. You, a maid, quickly brought out all the delicious food!

You don’t need to do anything, my mother-in-law and sister-in-law can just come, and you can just wait and eat!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Sister-in-law Taohua and Sister-in-law Xiujuan came over, their faces full of embarrassment.

"Chun Nuan, I'm really sorry for you. The children at home are not sensible. I will send them back in a while." These were Wu Xiujuan's words.

When Yang Taohua heard what her sister-in-law said, her face became solemn.

"Juanzi, don't you think that I am your sister-in-law? Didn't you just agree to let Jiefang and Cuilan go back? You are not allowed to ask Cuifen and Cuifang to go back!"

Seeing that the two sisters were about to quarrel at their own home, Zhang Chunnuan hurriedly rushed between them and shouted:

"No one needs to go back! Just eat at my house!"

Isn’t it just about eating? How can she be deprived of food?!

The Zhou family helped her a lot, not to mention the cotton-padded clothes that Aunt Guihua made for her mistress yesterday.

She originally thought it would take at least a few days to get it, but her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law made it for her in one day, and they didn't take advantage of her cotton cloth and cotton.

The friendship between people comes from such back-and-forth interactions.

Take out the rice, hold it in front of the face, unlimited amount of cured fish and rabbit, stew mutton, put pancakes on it, stew potatoes and stew chicken.

The men were working outside and the women were busy in the kitchen. It was a lively scene.

As the saying goes: “There is strength in numbers.”

In less than three hours, Zhang Chunnuan had just fed the two grinders, Shi Qi and Bao Zhi, and the courtyard wall was built.

When Zhang Chunnuan went out, she saw that the entire courtyard was surrounded by a 1.8-meter wall, with dog bone spurs cut from the mountain stuck on the top of the wall.

The dense and long thorns are so hard that they can pierce a person's palm, which is a sense of security.

After finishing working on the courtyard wall, everyone turned to Father Shen's room.

The wall was built with adobe moved from the Zhou family. The eldest son and second son of the Zhou family, along with Zhou Jiefang and his grandson Zhou Jiefang, built the wall.

One person moved the bricks, another mixed the mortar, and another laid the bricks. The wall was built in less than half an hour.

Aunt Guihua handed the spatula to her eldest daughter-in-law, went around in circles to inspect the fruits of the men's labor, pointed to the door opening in the new wall of Father Shen's house and said:

"In the afternoon, I asked Jianjun and the Patriot Party to go up the mountain to cut down trees and build a small door for you to install. Do you have more beds at home? If not, let the third son spend two more nights with his grandfather, and also make the bed."

Zhang Chunnuan thanked her sincerely: "Auntie is very considerate. The door really needs to be opened, so the bed is no longer needed. There is still an old bed at home."

As soon as they finished speaking, Yang Taohua came to greet the two of them for dinner.

Since there were more people this time than last time, we divided the table into two.

During the banquet, cups were exchanged, glasses were exchanged, and it was more lively than the Chinese New Year.

The meal lasted nearly two hours. It got dark early in the winter evening. After washing and cleaning up, the Zhou family returned home together.

Two days later, after the earthen wall had dried a little, the Zhou brothers sent a wooden door. After helping to install it, the mistress moved into his own room.

Two days later, the production team of Shanjiao Village began to kill pigs and divide the meat, and the work was divided into grains.

When the pig was being slaughtered, Zhang Chunnuan was taken to see the pig by Wang Dongxue, who was worried about the world being in chaos. She couldn't eat anything the whole day after she got home.

In her farm, the meat is sent directly to the processing workshop, and the various parts of the pig come out, and the meat is cut into pieces according to the settings.

So she never knew that a pig killing scene could be so cruel and bloody.

The team raised a total of 8 pigs this year, handed over four mission pigs, sold two more pigs to the team, and left the remaining two pigs for the village.

Only the meat of one pig was distributed to the villagers, while the meat of the other pig was bought by the villagers with money.

Although Zhang Chunnuan was so nauseated at the scene of the pig killing, she acted quickly and accurately. In addition to the one pound of meat she received, she also used the money to buy two pairs of pig feet and twenty pounds of pork.

Pig's feet are 2 yuan each, and pork is 6 cents per pound. Since it is a pig in the team, I didn't ask for a ticket, and the total cost was 20 yuan.

Seeing Father Shen and his mistress carrying large pieces of pork home, the villagers onlookers began to talk about it.

Zhang Chunnuan was walking behind. Hearing everyone's comments, he paused and caught up with his grandfather and grandson with a slight smile.

She has known for a long time that others will be jealous, but she can't rush to endure hardship just because she is afraid of others' comments!

It’s not like you can’t afford good food. You need to take good care of your family’s health so that you can cope with the storm in a few years.

After dinner in the evening, Father Shen took his third son to the ancestral hall to calculate work points and distribute food.

The Shen family's work points this year are only enough for basic rations. Zhang Chunnuan has already said that he doesn't want fine grains, only coarse grains.

So Father Shen and his mistress finally used the team's cart to push several large bags of sweet potatoes and corn back home.

Okay, that’s enough for two little pigs to eat for a while.
Chapter completed!