Chapter 48 The struggle between the village chief’s family
As soon as Shitou heard that Yuan Chuyi said that fifteen or sixteen might be bullied in school and he didn't help, he immediately looked like he wanted to rush out and beat someone up.
As soon as Yuanchu laughed, she knew that he regarded Shishiliu as his best friend.
"You are the eldest brother. How about helping my sister protect the two of them from now on?"
Shitou looked at Yuan Chuyi and nodded solemnly, "I will protect Fifteen and Sixteen!"
"Xuan Yue is waiting for you at home. Go find him now. He will take you to the school to find your master!"
"Thank you, sister!" Shitou knelt down in front of Yuan Chuyi and kowtowed three times to her solemnly. Yuan Chuyi had a big belly and couldn't bend down to help her up, so she had to accept the three kowtows from him, and then watched him happily go to Xuan Yue, while she had to sit behind the counter to be in charge.
At noon, the village chief’s house.
Zhang Yongfu has been busy these days with people building an inn and mill for Yuanchu Yi.
The inn is not an ordinary private house or thatched house. It was built on the first day of the Yuan Dynasty by inviting master craftsmen in the city to draw drawings and send special people to build it. The village chief led people to work as laborers and helped supervise the work by the way. Throw it to Zhang Chunlin and Wang Guifen.
At noon that day, when he came home from work, he saw that Wang Guifen, his son, daughter-in-law, and daughter were each holding a bowl of noodles to eat, but none of them had his share.
"What do you guys mean?" Zhang Yongfu looked at them, "You're not going to give me anything to eat, are you? Okay, I'll go to the tea shed at the entrance of the village and ask them to cook some vegetables for me.
"Snapped!"
Wang Guifen slammed the noodle bowl with a little noodle soup left on the ground and shouted at Zhang Yongfu: "Go away! Don't come back after you go!"
When she threw the bowl, Zhang Chunlin, his young wife, and Zhang Xiujuan were all shocked. What was going on with their mother? She didn't say that just now. She only said that their father was hungry and had a good talk with him. said.
Zhang Yongfu also didn't expect that Wang Guifen would throw a bowl away even though he was scorning him! He was immediately angry, "You bitch, you can't stand it, but you don't even have to cook, yet you dare to throw bowls and smash pots like me! Don't you want to live this life?"
Wang Guifen sneered, pointed at Zhang Yongfu with her hands on her hips, and cursed: "You don't want to go through with it, right? You won't be home all day, and you won't do any work in the fields, leaving it all to me and the children! With more than ten acres of land, what can we do? Time! Day by day, you will know how to revolve around the Yuan family! You might as well become the slave of the Yuan family!"
Zhang Yongfu didn't expect that this woman could say such ugly words, "Listen to what you said! Didn't she give Mrs. Yuan any money to work for me? From last year to now, the salary I can receive is less than ten yuan." Two! When has she ever wronged our family? When has she ever wronged anyone in the village?"
Since Zhang Yongfu settled in the village on the first day of the Yuan Dynasty last year, he has worked to help her build a thatched house and build a mill. In addition to receiving the same wages as others, he also gave her extra hard-earned money on the first day of the Yuan Dynasty. From last year to the beginning of spring, He had already earned more than ten taels of silver from Yuan Chu Yi. In previous years, their family's income from growing mulberries year-round was not that high.
Zhang Yongfu also feels that now that his son Zhang Qinglin is married, and his daughter-in-law is now a labor force in the family, he can leave the housework to their mothers, and he can work outside to make money! I didn't expect this woman to be so short-sighted.
But Wang Guifen felt that Zhang Yongfu was the main laborer in the family. There were no cattle in the family. In the past, he would hoe the land at home, or he would borrow cattle from Grandpa Zhang Er to plow the land. This year, he didn't care about anything. When he became the hands-off shopkeeper, everything revolved around Yuan Chuyi and her, as if Yuan Chuyi was the person he wanted most! Every time she thought of this, she was so angry that her lungs almost exploded.
"For that little money, you stay away from home all day and hang around her all day. I think you have ulterior motives!" Wang Guifen scolded people without hesitation.
Zhang Yongfu did not expect Wang Guifen to say such words, and was about to scold him back. Zhang Qinglin and Zhang Xiujuan also did not expect that their mother would say such words without hesitation. They hurriedly stepped forward and pulled the two elders apart, "Father, mother, you stop fighting!"
"Mom, I will do the work on the ground, let dad help the first sister with peace of mind!" Zhang Qinglin said.
Zhang Xiujuan also said, "Father, mother, please stop arguing. The more you argue, the more outrageous it becomes! Dad, please rest for a while, and I'll cook some noodles for you!"
As he spoke, he pulled Zhang Yongfu into the kitchen. Zhang Yongfu didn't want to quarrel with Wang Guifen, so he followed his daughter into the kitchen and sat by the door, taking out his cigarette bag to smoke.
"Dad, I heard that Sister Chuyi plans to let Chunmei be the manager of the yuba workshop. Once the workshop is started, she will be in charge of more than thirty people and become Sister Chuyi's right-hand man. Is it true?" Zhang Xiujuan asked while talking. He asked.
Zhang Yongfu nodded and responded with a hum, "That little girl Chunmei can do it now!" There was envy in his words. If it were in the past, he would never have imagined that the honest Chunmei could succeed. Unexpectedly, after only two months of working with Yuan Chuyi, she not only became literate, but also became the steward of the yuba workshop, supervising more than thirty people, and was almost as famous as him.
Even Wang Chunsheng of the Wang family and Lin, the wife of the Wang family, have made a lot of money since the first day of the Yuan Dynasty by reselling tofu, tofu fruit and yuba, and their lives have become more and more prosperous.
Wang Chunsheng also followed the advice of Yuan Chuyi and borrowed money from her to buy two small donkeys. They let the donkeys carry some things and sell them in the streets every day, becoming a salesman. After only two months, he not only paid back the money he borrowed to buy the donkey, but I heard that he has saved a lot of money now. His mother is now looking for a matchmaker to marry him.
"Dad, if I still want to work for Sister Chuyi now, will she still want me?" Zhang Xiujuan really doesn't want to marry someone so early and stay in this country all her life. She also wants to go to a big city. Take a look.
"What are you going to do!" Zhang Yongfu glared at his daughter, "Your mother is already throwing dishes and making pots when I go. If you go again, she won't be able to shake things up! Just stay at home!"
Zhang Xiujuan pursed her lips and had tears in her eyes, "Dad, I really don't want to marry someone so early. I also want to be like Chunmei!"
"Chunmei was forced to do that. You are different from her. You have me, your mother, and your brother!"
After all, Zhang Xiujuan still has to stay at home and weave until she gets married. No matter how much trouble she makes, it will be useless. Zhang Yongfu thinks that she is a girl and there is no need to show her face. Wang Guifen thinks that she will follow the example of Yuan Chuyi. broken! The struggle is fruitless!
On the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, she didn't know that the village chief had made Wang Guifen resentful because she was busy with her affairs. She was currently looking after the shop in the tea shed. The tea shed not only sells tea, but also provides meals, as well as steamed buns, steamed buns, rice dumplings and other dry food for pedestrians to buy and eat on the way. The roasting room has been completed, and she also took some of the dried pork and yuba processed by the mill and put them on the counter for sale. Unexpectedly, they were very popular.
She was introducing the guests when a voice suddenly came, which made her frown.