Gu Lao Er and Gu Lao San quickly nodded in agreement.
In fact, they were also curious. Where did the Zhao family get the connections? How did they get the connections if they didn't see them on weekdays? How could it be said that Zhao Xiang brought them from the capital? The capital is 108,000 thousand miles away.
There is no way to care about it here.
They wanted to find it and rob it.
Don't they feel that they can't rob them? If they really have a great connection, how can the Zhao family not show it to intimidate them? Since they are hiding it, aren't they just afraid of being robbed?
Zhao Liya and the others naturally didn't know what the Gu family had in mind. After deciding on planting vegetables, the whole village began to plow the ground and sow seeds with great vigor.
Instead of doing nothing in the slack seasons of previous years, the fields are in full swing.
All the wasteland in Zaihu Village has been reclaimed. Zhao Liya, Hu Ling, and Qu Yutao went over to inspect and accept the work, and settled the wages to everyone.
The villagers lined up to receive the money, all beaming with joy.
At the beginning, everyone was afraid that they would not be paid for the work they did, so they were paid every three days. Later, everyone found it troublesome, so they all said that they should wait until the entire work is completed before paying them.
Firstly, it saves trouble, and secondly, it seems more satisfying to receive so much at once!
Now that everyone understands what kind of people the Zhao family is, and the doubts in their hearts have been dispelled, naturally they will no longer keep an eye on their wages as before.
This is everyone's recognition of themselves, and it also saves trouble. Zhao Liya is still a little touched in her heart.
After seeing the newly opened land and paying wages to everyone, Li Zheng, the clan leader, Uncle Ruan Gui and others rushed to invite the three of them to their homes for dinner.
"Let's go, let's go to my house. My boy went to the city this morning to buy some meat and roast chicken, and he's going to our house to eat!"
"Go to our house. Your aunt and sister-in-law have killed the chickens and cooked the rice. You can eat when you go there!"
"We have winter bamboo shoots at home. We dug them up yesterday afternoon. Winter bamboo shoots stewed with old duck is a rare treat. You'd better come to my house!"
"Isn't it my turn? Don't rob me!"
"Oh, our food is rare. I'll go to your house next time!"
"What's so rare? It's like no one has ever eaten winter bamboo shoots!"
"Go to my house!"
"my home!"
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Qu Yutao covered her face and snickered. She couldn't help but glance at Zhao Liya, who was surrounded by people and talking about her. She felt full of warmth and pride in her heart. Without her cousin's family, where would they be?
Today? My cousin’s family is their family’s great benefactor.
Finally, an older patriarch of the Li family made the decision, everyone should bring all their delicious food and eat it at Li Zheng's house! It would be nice to get together by the way.
Everyone thought this was a good idea, so they all agreed.
Zhao Liya, Hu Ling, and Qu Yutao originally planned to go home for lunch. Unexpectedly, they not only ate their lunch in Zaihu Village, but also ate for almost three hours.
Hu Ling was waiting in the quilt for a group of men to take him to drink, while the aunt, aunt, and sister-in-law were accompanying Zhao Liya and Qu Yutao. After eating and chatting, time passed unknowingly.
Hu Ling was forced to get a little drunk. Fortunately, everyone was sensible and didn't drink him too hard, otherwise he might not be able to get up.
Li Zheng's eldest grandson, Li Guangqing, drove the three of them back in an ox cart.
Winter bamboo shoots, persimmons, pears, and the big betel nut taro, you must not go back empty-handed.
The persimmons were from Uncle Ruan Gui’s family, and he put them in a big basket. Aunt Ruan Gui also specially told her, “When you take these persimmons home, you need to put them in a jar or vat. It’s best to sprinkle a little lime powder on them to make them ripe faster. We have two persimmons at home.
The fruit produced by the old persimmon tree is sweet and sweet, better than other trees!"
Zhao Liya agreed with a smile and thanked her repeatedly.
After getting off the car at home, Li Guangqing helped to get the things neatly. Zhao Liya hurriedly stepped forward to say thank you for your troubles and quickly took the remaining things. She was worried that Hu Ling would be too dizzy to get out of the car, but she saw Qu Yutao supporting him.
Zhao Liya was startled: Did she miss something important?
With a slight smile on her lips, Zhao Liya turned her head as if she hadn't seen her. Anyway, now that her cousin is a good citizen, they really have something going for them, and I think everyone would be happy to see it happen.
She didn't have much of an impression of Housekeeper Hu and his wife as the original owners. Her only impression was that they were gentle and steady. Like her father, they were both slow and slow in doing things. If it really happened, they might not be unwilling to get married.
However, she still took the time to mention to her father that he should ask her adopted brother what he wanted. If he really liked it, they would quickly write to Uncle Hu and the others to make it clear, ask for their opinions, and finalize the matter.
If Uncle Hu and the others don't agree, the sworn brother cannot be so ambiguous with his cousin. This is not appropriate.
When Zhao Xiang and the others heard that the person was coming back, they hurriedly stepped forward to lend a hand and took everything over while joking. Deng hurriedly entered the house, wrapped a bag of peanut sesame candies and gave them to Li Guangqing. She smiled and said, "Take them back and give them to the children to try."
Try it, it’s not much, but don’t dislike it.”
Li Guangqing answered with a few polite words, thanked them cheerfully, said goodbye to them, and left quickly.
With more exchanges, there will be more exchanges of such courtesy, and everyone will not be too outspoken.
There are winter bamboo shoots, and Zhao Liya can't help but want to kill the chicken. The stir-fried chicken with winter bamboo shoots, made by Luo Shuyan's hands, will definitely be amazing and make you greedy just thinking about it.
Who knew that when I entered the kitchen, I saw two pheasants on the floor.
Zhao Liya was immediately very happy: "Mom, let's eat pheasant and braised winter bamboo shoots tonight!"
Mrs. Deng nodded: "Okay!" She looked at her daughter strangely, why was she so happy? It seemed like she hadn't eaten meat for a long time.
Li Guangqing left, and Luo Shuyan showed up and said with a smile: "It's getting late, I'll put away the chickens now, the taro is not bad, let's cook some betel nut taro too tonight."
Zhao Liya smiled and nodded: "Just do whatever Sister Shuyan says!"
Deng smiled and joked: "That's not true. You can't do it even if you come."
Everyone chatted and laughed for a while, and Zhao Liya looked around: "Where are Auntie and Aunt Eleven?"
Mrs. Deng smiled and sighed: "She and I are addicted. They have been preparing the land all day to plant vegetables."
No one in the family would allow Deng to work in the fields. Luo Shuyan could not go out. Naturally, Zhao Xiang could not work in the fields alone with Widow Qu and Aunt Li Shiyi. They had to avoid suspicion. This was not the case for them.
Zhao Liya was also a little bit dumbfounded: "Didn't you say that when we go to Bajiao Village tomorrow, we will all help prepare the land? Why rush for a day or two!"
Luo Shuyan smiled and said: "You don't understand this. There is work to be done there, how can you resist not doing it?"
She glanced at Zhao Liya and Deng, and then said: "When you go to help, I want to go too."