When Ye Shian and his daughter came back, the workers had already finished their meal. Yu Xiuying looked relaxed and even smiled: "Where are Mrs. Peng and the others?"

"Just now I saw them go to the river."

Yinzhu didn't know what had happened to Ye Shian and his daughter, but when she saw that they were no longer as depressed as before, she felt relieved.

I don’t know what day it is today, but all kinds of bad things have happened to me.

Ye Shian looked around but didn't see Zhu Li, so he turned around and asked Yin Zhu, "Where's Zhu Li? Ask him to go to the village entrance and wait for Cheng Kuan and the others."

"They've let them go." She wanted to ask where all these people lived, but she opened her mouth but didn't ask. Ye Shian had been very thoughtful and she didn't need to worry too much.

Seeing Ye Shian and his daughter coming back, Xu Zhenniang stepped forward and said, "Aunt Yu, do you want to eat now?"

Yu Xiuying glanced at the three women standing idly by the side and nodded: "Let's eat. Ying'er, go to the river and call Mrs. Peng and the others over."

Xu Zhenniang took a look at the overcooked food. Ye Shian told her to cook more food in the morning.

She didn't know how much more to cook. Ye Shian asked her to cook for ten people, but there were only two people, Mrs. Peng and Liu Niang. Even if the two half-grown children were included, there were only four people.

What to do with all the extra meals...

Yu Xiuying smiled and said to the idle woman: "Get ready for dinner."

The women nodded politely and took the food outside under the big tree.

Because there were so many people, the women who helped and Xu Zhenniang ate at the same table, while Ye Shian, his mother and his two daughters, and Mrs. Peng and a few others ate at another table.

When Mrs. Peng and her companions came over, Yu Xiuying, Ye Shian and Yinzhu had already sat down.

Mrs. Peng and Mrs. Liu stood there awkwardly, not daring to sit down, until Ye Shian asked them to sit down, then they sat down.

Ye Shian looked at the dishes on the table and smiled a little embarrassedly: "The conditions are a bit harsh, please don't be offended."

Mrs. Peng quickly replied, "Miss Ye is joking." But her eyes were fixed on the greasy bowl in front of her. This bowl was full of large pieces of chicken, beans, potatoes, eggplant, and vermicelli. The key point was that after eating, she could get more in the vegetable bowl...

Oh my god, she has never seen such greasy food in her life.

Xiao Liang stood there drooling as he looked at the vegetable bowl. Liu tried to push him back several times, but he stood up stubbornly just to see the vegetables in the bowl more clearly.

Liu smiled at Yu Xiuying and her daughter a little embarrassedly. Today was their first day at the master's house and they didn't want to be laughed at by the master's family.

But Xiaoliang hadn't had a full meal for a long time, and when he saw such food, he couldn't control himself.

Even Mi'er, who rarely spoke along the way, was swallowing his saliva.

It was clear to Ye Shian that she understood this. After all, she was also a refugee. Although she had never gone hungry, she understood the suffering.

"Eat first, and we can talk about the other things after dinner."

Before Ye Shian finished his words, Xiao Liang quickly and accurately picked up a big steamed bun, and then, without using chopsticks, he directly reached into the bowl, grabbed a piece of chicken and stuffed it into his mouth.

Liu hurriedly tried to stop him: "You kid..."

Yu Xiuying smiled and waved her hands: "It's okay, eat, there's more here."

Liu glanced towards the entrance of the alley: "My husband and his friends..."

Ye Shian smiled: "We have them all, eat them, theirs are in the pot, they have been reserved."

After hearing this, Liu picked up her chopsticks and started eating. She tried hard to restrain herself from eating in big mouthfuls, in an attempt to leave a good impression on the host.

But she hadn't had a full meal for a long time, and the meal in front of her was so delicious that she wanted to eat a bowl of food in one bite.

Mrs. Peng was choking and rolling her eyes. Seeing this, Yu Xiuying quickly pushed the bowl of soup towards her. She picked up the bowl and drank most of it in one breath before she felt better.

She lowered her head in embarrassment, but Yu Xiuying smiled and said, "Eat as much as you can. We, your mother, also escaped from the disaster. We all know how hard it was on the road. So you can eat as much as you can today."

"Ah, ah..." Mrs. Peng's eyes were filled with tears. "I never thought I could live to this day, and I never thought I could eat such delicious food one day."

Ye Shian assured her: "There will be better food in the future."

Mrs. Peng nodded repeatedly, and then ate a steamed bun and a vegetable...

After eating, Yu Xiuying left with the excuse of going to coax Ziyuan to sleep. Ye Shian also said he wanted to rest, so Yinzhu naturally left as well.

After everyone left, Mrs. Peng and Liu Niang ate all the food in the basin cleanly, and at the end they used steamed buns to wipe the bowls and basins clean.

That was half a pot of food, but two women and two children ate it all up.

The four women who were helping at the other table got up to clean up after they finished eating. Mrs. Peng and Mrs. Liu quickly stood up to decline.

"No, no, we can do it."

Xu Zhenniang smiled and asked them to sit down and rest: "You have worked hard on this journey, just sit there and rest, and let us do the work."

Another woman also said with a smile: "Yes, you should let us do it. If we don't do it, we will feel uneasy holding the ten cents."

Ten coins. Mrs. Peng's eyes widened: "You said you make ten coins a day?"

"It's not just one day, it's ten cents for cooking a meal."

"What?" Mrs. Peng's eyes widened. "You can get ten cents just for cooking this meal?"

"Yes, not only do you get ten cents, but you also get a meal." The food is so delicious that you can't even eat during Chinese New Year. Who would believe such treatment?

Liu Niang was as shocked as Mrs. Peng. Their master was really willing to do so.

The women were very efficient. After collecting the dishes, they wiped the tables, and then stacked the tables against the wall. The whole process was completed in one go.

They also felt that the money was too easy to earn, so they did their work very carefully every time, and also cleaned the yard and even helped wash their clothes.

Yu Xiuying told them several times that it was not necessary, but they still did it. Finally, Ye Shian persuaded Yu Xiuying: "Mom, if they want to wash, let them wash."

Anyway, clothes nowadays are thin and easy to wash.

After everything was packed up, the women left the Ye family.

Seeing that Xu Zhenniang was no longer busy, Mrs. Peng walked up to her and started a conversation, wanting to find out more about the family's affairs.

"I'm not a member of the Ye family. I live next door. This yard is where my father-in-law lived when he was alive. I just happened to lend it to the Ye family. Do you see the large area at the back? That's where the Ye family will live in the future."

Xu Zhenniang was also curious about who they were from the Ye family, so she asked quietly, "What is your relationship with the Ye family?"

Mrs. Peng smiled, with a hint of pride in her words: "Mrs. Yu and Miss Ye are our masters."

"Huh?" Xu Zhenniang was stunned: "You are..." the slaves their family bought.

She was too embarrassed to say the rest of the words, but Mrs. Peng nodded indifferently. She was already old, and as long as she could be with her son, it didn't matter whether she was a servant or not.

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