Chapter 100 Laozi Shudao Mountain
It took Qin Yao a full hour to clean up the four dirty kids.
The shadow of the fight had dissipated, and the four children were laughing and dancing around in the main room. Qin Yao felt her ears hurt from the noise.
In the yard, Liu Ji washed up and prepared to go back to his room.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he turned around, Qin Yao called him.
"Bring it here."
"What?" Liu Ji pretended to be confused.
Qin Yao: "Money."
Liu Ji was confused. "What money? My lady, how can I have any money? Isn't the money all in your hands?"
Qin Yao raised her hand and held up three fingers. "I'll count to three. One, two."
"Oops! I almost forgot!"
Liu Ji slapped his head, walked in with a helpless smile, took out a handful of copper coins from his arms and put them on the table.
"This is the compensation that Liu Facai gave to our child for the plaster. As soon as I came back, I wanted to give it to my wife for safekeeping. I didn't expect to be so busy as soon as I got home. If you hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have remembered it."
Qin Yao counted and found only eighteen copper coins. She sneered and knocked twice on the table with her knuckles.
Liu Ji then reached into his arms again, looking surprised and delighted, "Huh? There are two more dropped here."
There were a total of 20 copper coins on the table. He spread his hands and looked at Qin Yao innocently and said, "It's really gone. Six coins were for the kids to buy a Cuju ball, and fourteen coins were for the plaster."
Qin Yao looked up at him, the corners of her mouth curled up slightly, and she said with a half-smile:
"And ten cents for mental damages."
She heard it clearly at the entrance of the ancestral hall. He still wanted to play tricks on her. He must be tired of living!
Liu Ji's eyes widened instantly. He had clearly spoken very quietly when talking about money. How could she hear it standing outside the ancestral hall?
"My wife, do you have a thousand-mile hearing?" Liu Ji smiled glibly, holding his hands tightly to his chest, trying to get away with it.
Qin Yao stood up suddenly, and Liu Ji immediately raised his hands to cover his face. However, he took care of his face but not the money, and all the copper coins hidden in his chest pocket were taken out by Qin Yao.
Not only was the money gone, but when he screamed and put down his hands to try to take it back, Qin Yao slapped him on the back of the head, and "bang" a big slap was made in his cunt!
Countless little stars immediately lit up in front of Liu Ji's eyes. He swayed a few steps on the spot, wailed "Ah Ah!" and fell to the ground leaning against the door. He was unable to recover for a long time.
It hurts, it hurts so much!
Qin Yao put the thirty coins in her pocket and raised her chin to Dalang and the other two. The children immediately lined up to go back to their rooms to sleep, and no one dared to look at their father any more.
"Da Lang, Er Lang, San Lang, and Si Niang!" Liu Ji covered his dizzy head and tried to keep them, but nothing came of it.
Qin Yao glanced at him and said, "Why are you yelling? If it weren't for your good performance today, I would throw you into the river to feed the fish! Get up, turn off the lights and go to sleep. If you keep yelling, I'll cut off your tongue!"
Liu Ji bit his lip, feeling so wronged that he wanted to die.
Seeing Qin Yao enter the room, he mustered up the courage to whisper, "Qin Yao! You use violence to solve problems, you're wrong!"
The lights in the room went out and no one responded.
Liu Ji waved his fist at the air, gritted his teeth, got up, dusted off his clothes, and went back to his room to sleep with an indignant look on his face.
That night, as long as I thought about the thirty cents I had lost, I couldn't sleep. I tossed and turned until dawn and had to get up to make breakfast.
"Meat, meat, meat, I've been craving for meat all day. How can I not eat you to death?" I muttered to myself while chopping the meat.
There was a sound of someone getting up in the main house, and the kitchen suddenly became so quiet that the only sound left was the crackling sound of the firewood burning in the stove.
Qin Yao pushed open the door and walked towards the kitchen while tying her short hair into a high ponytail with a cloth strip.
When he got some water to wash his face, he saw that the water tank was almost dry, so he said, "Remember to fill it up later."
After washing her face, she picked up the broom to sweep the dust in the yard, fed the chickens, and the aroma of meat patties spread from the kitchen. Qin Yao took a deep breath and said, "It smells so good~"
Liu Ji brought out the packed lunch jar and two meat patties for breakfast. Qin Yao finished the meat patties in a few bites, picked up the tools and lunch, and started a busy day.
It took seven and a half days from getting the stone to grinding it into a millstone. Now all the millstones have been made. What Qin Yao has to do today is to deliver the finished millstones and stone millstones to Xiahe Village in advance with the Liu Bo brothers.
The stone mills were heavy, and three people could only carry one piece each time. There were four pieces on the two millstones, and Qin Yao and his three companions could just carry one piece each, so they delivered the two millstones to the destination in one trip.
Afterwards, they turned back and the four of them rolled the stone mill wrapped with hemp rope to Xiahe Village. It took them a whole morning to successfully complete the transportation mission.
The mill in Xiahe Village has been mostly built. The most important part of raising the floor has been completed, and it is just above the pond. There are four one-meter-high stone pillars around it, and several wooden piles are used to pad the water in the middle, so there is no problem with bearing the load.
After agreeing with Wang Yu and others on the installation time for the water truck to be delivered, Qin Yao took the three Liu Bo brothers back to Liujia Village.
She paid the wages directly to the three people. The total working hours were eight days, and each person was paid thirty-five coins a day, so each person was paid two hundred and eighty coins, for a total expenditure of eight hundred and forty coins.
After receiving their wages, Liu Bo and the other two felt a little embarrassed. They didn't expect the total amount to be so much.
If my third brother's wife hadn't been willing to take care of them, they would have to go out and look for odd jobs, and they might not be able to earn this much in a month.
Liu Bo called Qin Yao to his home for dinner, but Qin Yao waved her hand, saying that she still had to go find Carpenter Liu, and turned and left.
Watching Qin Yao walk away, the three brothers couldn't help laughing, holding two silver coins and eighty copper coins in their hands.
Zhang and Old Man Liu never cared about the money they earned from doing odd jobs outside. Except for Liu Fei who had to hand it over before he got married, the wages of Liu Bo and Liu Zhong were all given to their wives.
When He saw the silver, she was overjoyed.
The same thing happened to Mrs. Qiu. She was pregnant and short of money. With the two cents of silver in her hand, she felt confident.
Zhang received the wages Liu Fei handed over, and smilingly counted out eighty cents in change for him to keep for himself, to occasionally buy small things.
Liu Fei accepted it with a smile, and with a bit of a childish nature, he coaxed Jinbao and Jinhua to go to Liu the peddler's house to buy snacks.
In the evening, Zhang went to Granny Wang's house and bought five chicks. Since it was not a festival, she also killed an old hen that did not lay eggs at home to give the whole family a good meal.
I reserved an extra bowl of thick chicken soup and gave it to Mrs. Qiu, asking her to drink more, as it would be good for her health.
When He saw this, although she felt a little envious, she also smiled. When she was pregnant, her mother-in-law would reserve some extra delicious food for her.
She was not afraid of having nothing to eat, but she was afraid that the two elders would be partial to one of them. As long as everyone was treated equally, there was nothing to complain about.
Mrs. Qiu asked Liu Zhong to go to the kitchen and get two more small bowls, and divide half of the chicken soup between the two children in the family.
Jin Bao was so happy that he took a big gulp and grinned at his mother: "Mom, it would be great if I could drink chicken soup every day!"
He tapped his head lightly in annoyance, "You wish for it, it's good enough to have something to drink."
Jinbao said "oh" and drank the remaining half bowl slowly in small sips to let the flavor of the chicken soup linger a little longer.
(End of this chapter)