Chapter 72 Roll Up
Qin Yao looked up at Dalang and his three siblings, and asked them with concern what they had done at home today and whether they had completed the morning exercises and homework.
The key point is whether Liu Ji was lazy or did something bad while she was not at home.
Liu Ji didn't expect that she still had the energy to ask these questions. The fingers pressing on Qin Yao's shoulders trembled slightly.
He quickly winked at his son and daughter.
Dalang didn't even look at him and said truthfully, "Auntie, Dad was out watching the fields all day. He didn't weed the vegetable garden and didn't repair the broken water mill. Erlang and I prepared all three meals today."
After all, it is a wooden waterwheel, and sometimes some aquatic plants and debris will be swept into the river water, so it needs to be cleaned every two or three days.
If it is stuck, it needs to be repaired so that someone can use it when they need it.
Now the water mill can be considered a stable source of income. The investment can be recovered in five months. After the investment is recovered, it is all profit.
Now we are only three months away from recovering our investment, so we must maintain our existing customer base.
So whenever there was a problem with the water truck, Qin Yao would always go to fix it immediately. The villagers saw that it wouldn't take much time, so they would come over again and again.
But today Liu Ji actually dared to stop the water mill. Is he tired of living?
"How long has it been stopped?" Qin Yao asked with a frown.
Dalang said it stopped at noon and has continued until now.
The hand massaging my shoulder withdrew at some point, and the man retreated out of the main room along with the hand.
"Liu Ji, where are you going?!" Qin Yao locked his eyes with her sharp eyes and asked.
Liu Ji swallowed hard, smiled flatteringly and said, "Madam, I'm going to fix the waterwheel."
Qin Yao's murderous look finally subsided, and she followed him, taking the repair tools, and fled out the door.
Without Liu Ji in the room, Qin Yao's expression softened, and she told the four brothers and sisters,
"Your father is like the toad on the roadside. He will only move if you poke him. If you want him to change for the better, you must constantly spur him on. In the future, when you see him stop moving, you must remind him."
"I've been busy working in town to earn money these days. Don't help him with the household chores that he should do. If he doesn't listen, tell me and I'll take care of him."
The four brothers and sisters looked at each other happily and said yes in unison!
With Qin Yao's support, the four brothers and sisters are confident. Now let's see if their father still dares to be mean to them.
It was getting late and they had to get up early tomorrow. Qin Yao tested the four siblings on their homework for the day and then went back to her room to sleep.
Liu Ji returned home at around eleven o'clock in the middle of the night. The grinding sound of the waterwheel was heard again on the river bank at the foot of the mountain. Qin Yao thought that the waterwheel had been repaired by him. Only then did she feel relieved and fell into a deep sleep.
I woke up at around four o'clock and it was pitch black outside the window.
Qin Yao dressed neatly and walked out of the room to the main hall. A bamboo tube filled with cold boiled water was already placed on the table. A groove was dug out on the top with a knife, and a rope was specially put on it for easy carrying.
Qin Yao touched the rope groove that was obviously newly dug with her fingers and raised her eyebrows in surprise.
Liu Laosan actually has such a delicate mind?
Of course, it is more likely that he has done something wrong and is afraid that she will settle the score with him, so he wants to please her.
"Flattery!"
Qin Yao snorted, hung the bamboo tube full of water diagonally on her shoulder, tiptoed out of the door, and went to work with a torch.
I left home at 4:30, traveled for two and a half hours, and arrived at Mr. Ding's house on time at 7:00.
As a worker, I will never give my boss one more second of work.
The others were a few minutes late. Because there were no clocks that were accurate to the minute and the second, the people of Sheng had no concept of being on time. As long as they were within a certain time period, they were considered on time.
Each person had a bowl of millet porridge for breakfast. When receiving the breakfast, Qin Yao deliberately asked for an extra bowl. The cook who served the food rolled her eyes at her and didn't give her any.
Qin Yao looked at Shunzi and the others and sighed. There was no other way. In order to fill her stomach, she had to roll up today.
If she was just learning the technique yesterday, then today Qin Yao has already mastered the skills of logging. She wants to roll it up, and even she is afraid of it.
At this time, Shunzi, Big Beard and others knew nothing about this.
Because he cut the most wood yesterday, the bearded man got an extra bun in the morning, which the young masters and young ladies of the Ding family gave to the servants as they hadn't finished eating.
Although they are leftovers, they still contain meat and the buns have not been touched yet.
Seeing the bearded man swallow the bun in two big mouthfuls, Shunzi swallowed his saliva enviously, went to the tool room to get the tools, and went up the mountain with Qin Yao.
Today Shunzi still used the saw and Qin Yao still used the axe. Tools are easier to use when you are familiar with them.
When they got there, they separated. Qin Yao walked around the forest, picked the straightest one, and started working!
The sound of felling trees could be heard in the forest. Every quarter of an hour or so, the sound of falling trees could be heard from above.
Ding Wu heard this several times in a row. At first he thought it was workers gathering together to cut down trees and sitting in the shade, so he didn't pay much attention.
It was almost noon when Qin Yao pushed the wood down the mountain one by one. Five or six pieces of wood passed by at a glance, and Ding Wu stood up in an instant.
"Qin Yao, did you chop it down by yourself?" he asked in surprise.
Qin Yao pushed down the eighth piece of wood, walked down carrying the axe, nodded, and began to pick up the hatchet in the tool box to prune the eight pieces of wood.
The movement was very fast, with a crackling sound like scraping fish scales. Ding Wu stared with wide eyes for a full half minute before he came to his senses.
"You chopped down eight pieces of wood by yourself in one morning?" He confirmed again in disbelief.
Qin Yao nodded. After she finished the last branch, the servants of the Ding Mansion came to deliver food. Qin Yao said, "I want to eat a full lunch today. Is that okay?"
Ding Wukuang nodded, "Okay, if you keep this pace this afternoon, I'll give you enough meat buns to eat tomorrow morning!"
"Okay." Qin Yao smiled, put down her tools, clapped her hands, and waited for dinner.
The servants were originally going to eat together in the mountains, but in order to ensure that Qin Yao could eat her fill, they gave all the food to her and would eat again when they returned home.
In the open space filled with branches, everyone looked at Qin Yao eating the amount that was enough for five people by herself, and their jaws almost dropped in shock.
The bearded man nudged Shunzi with his elbow, "Isn't she your sister-in-law? Why are you following us in surprise? Did you only find out today that she's such a big eater?"
Shunzi nodded. Yes, he just found out today that his third brother's wife was such a big eater!
They started working in the afternoon. Stimulated by Qin Yao, everyone worked hard. The bearded guy chopped down four trees in the whole afternoon!
Even Shunzi sawed two logs, and including the one in the morning, a total of three logs were cut today.
He was very satisfied with his performance, after all, he just cut one yesterday.
But when she turned around, she saw a pile of eight logs in front of Qin Yao. Together with the ones she had chopped in the morning, she had chopped sixteen logs in one day.
"Is this still a human being?" the bearded man growled unwillingly.
Ding Wu's eyes changed when he looked at Qin Yao, and now he called her "Madam Qin" politely.
(End of this chapter)