Chen Lishu took Ruirui's hand and walked toward the house, saying as she walked: "Who knows, maybe you are sick and your mind is not so clear. Second sister-in-law, please don't stand by the door. The wind is strong here, be careful that you get sick too.
Already."
Liu Yuemin almost choked and fell over. She was so angry that she hugged the child and returned to her room without saying a word.
Chen Lishu didn't pay attention. She guessed that Mrs. Chen came to her because she asked Chen Baozhu to build roads.
Whether you want to go or not, it’s best if you don’t go. It just saves you a lot of thought.
She still has a lot of things to be busy with, and Chen Lishu has no time to talk to her.
The next day, just after breakfast at home and Chen Lishu was washing the dishes, Hu Si'er came to her to report the situation.
"Third brother and sister, let me come. You and Fourth Uncle Hu can go and talk to each other at home." Zhang Qin took the work from her hand. Chen Lishu did not refuse, smiled at her, wiped her hands and followed Hu Si'er.
In the house.
Li Xiulan was cutting clothes. When she saw Hu Si'er coming in, she asked him to sit down. After they both sat down, Hu Si'er told him about the person he was looking for yesterday.
"There are twenty or thirty people who have signed up now, but after discussing with Lao Lin, we shouldn't be able to use that many people for the time being. Counting the two of us, there are currently fifteen people in total. However, the others have not declined and have been recorded. If
If anyone doesn't do well, you can replace him temporarily."
Chen Lishu didn't expect that they were quite thoughtful, so she nodded to show that she understood.
Seeing that she had no objection, Hu Si'er said a few more words, glanced at Chen Lishu's face, and then turned the topic to Chen Baozhu: "We were notified yesterday, but he didn't seem to be happy, and we will organize everyone to start work today.
, he didn’t go either.”
"If you haven't gone, make a note of it. If you haven't gone for three days and you don't want to go out again, just say it was me who said it. If you have any objections, let him come to me directly."
"Okay." Hu Si'er was waiting for her words. He stood up and said goodbye to Chen Lishu and Li Xiulan: "I have told everyone to bring their tools and gather at the foot of the mountain. Lishu, sister-in-law, I will go there first.
Already."
After sending Hu Si'er away, she told Li Xiulan and Chen Lishu returned to the Chen family.
"Mom, when spring comes next year, I want you to collect some eggs and hatch some chicks, including chickens, ducks and geese. The more, the better. After all, the chicks hatched at home are stronger and easier to feed than those sold outside."
As she spoke, Chen Lishu took out two hundred yuan and handed it to Wu Chunmei.
It is definitely more expensive to collect eggs personally than from the collection station, but it only costs 78 cents per catty at most, because dumb eggs are small, about ten or so per jin, which is 78 cents per egg, and breeding eggs are more expensive than normal eggs.
It's more expensive, about 10 cents each, and the number of people raising chickens in the village is limited. Chen Lishu estimated that one hundred yuan would be enough for Wu Chunmei to raise.
"This one hundred yuan is for hatching chicks, and the other one hundred yuan is for Xingdong and I to honor you and my dad during the Chinese New Year."
Wu Chunmei looked at the dozen big sticks she handed over and waved her hands: "You don't need that much, fifty is enough. You are short of money now, so you sold the pigs at home. Your father and I
I have money in my hand."
Chen Lishu directly stuffed the money into her pocket and said with a smile: "No matter how short of money you are, you can't miss this two hundred. Mom, please collect it quickly. I will need you to take care of some chickens, ducks and geese for me in the future."
Yes, if you don’t charge me, I won’t need you anymore.”
Wu Chunmei's health has not been good since Chen Lizi's premature birth, and she later had a miscarriage with severe bleeding. Now she can't do any heavy work. Even Chen Lishu is afraid that she will hurt her body too much even when making clothes.
Usually I can only tend to the vegetable garden, and in winter send some vegetables to Liu Yong to earn some money.
Now Chen Lishu is going to raise some chickens, ducks and geese, and Wu Chunmei can help take care of them.
"You child, I am your mother, I should take care of it for you, right?"
Chen Mandun smiled and advised: "Just accept the child's kindness. We can just help him more."
…
"Mistress, I saw Chen Lishu returning to my second uncle's house." Chen Baozhu came in from outside and hurriedly told Mrs. Chen what he had just seen.
"This damn bastard finally showed up." Mrs. Chen immediately got off the kang, put on her shoes and called Zhang Chunhua to go to Chen Manton's house.
"Boss, if you come with me, I don't believe you can't cure that damn girl."
Zhang Chunhua was also feeling angry. After hearing what Mrs. Chen said, he grabbed the scarf on the side and went out with her without saying a word.
…
Seeing that she had almost said everything she wanted to say, Chen Lishu asked a few more questions about her sisters' studies and then prepared to get up and leave.
As soon as he stood up, the door was pushed open, and Mrs. Chen and Zhang Chunhua came in from the outside with frosty expressions on their faces.
"Mom, why are you here in this cold weather? Come inside and warm yourself on the kang." Chen Mandun stood up immediately and asked people to go to the kang.
"I'm so warm, but seeing such a granddaughter in the stall has already made my heart go cold."
Mrs. Chen glared at Chen Mandun, turned to look at Chen Lishu and asked directly: "You asked Hu Si'er to go home and ask your elder brother to follow you to build the road?"
Chen Lishu smiled: "Didn't we agree before that we would hire my elder brother to work for thirty yuan a month?"
"Are you doing work? You asked him to do hard work. Then Hu Si'er and Lin Dazhong are not related to you, so you asked them to take care of road construction for you. Baozhu is your elder brother, so you let them
He went digging the soil with everyone, what do you think?"
The smile on Chen Lishu's face faded a bit: "Hu Si'er and Lin Dazhong still have to work, they just help with more errands, there is essentially no difference. Besides, I will definitely need him to do the work. Is it possible to hire someone with money?
My eldest brother is going back to be a decoration?"
"That's not what you mean." Zhang Chunhua explained: "Your eldest brother is not in good health since he was a child and cannot do heavy work at all."
Chen Lishu suddenly realized: "Auntie, look why you didn't tell me earlier. If I had known that my eldest brother was in this situation, I wouldn't have agreed to hire him. My land reclamation work is all heavy work, and there is no easy way. Otherwise, I should take back what I said before.
My elder brother should go home and take care of him."
Mrs. Chen immediately frowned: "What do you need to support? We said we would arrange work. If you can't do the heavy work, wouldn't you also have the job of overseeing the work and instructing others to do the work? You are not here at ordinary times. If someone is cheating or stealing,
Things, I think it’s better to ask your elder brother to look after those people and do the work for you.”
"Nai, there's nothing to steal on the mountain now. Besides, I've taken care of all the work. There's no need to watch. If you don't look, I won't go over to look at it at all."
Seeing that the little bastard had a hundred words waiting for her ten words, Mrs. Chen couldn't help but throw all her anger at Chen Mantun: "Don't you see that this damn bastard is playing tricks on me? You can't help but blame it on your own."
You don’t care about her, you’ll be happy to see her pissing me off to death, right?”