There were many people here today, so Jiang Yuwei fried a big pot of vegetables with bamboo shoots and pork, and also fried two kinds of green vegetables. Then she took out half a rack of spare ribs and made a dish of sweet and sour spare ribs. Before it was time for dinner, the workers had already started staring at the stove next to Jiang Yuwei and were eager to make something.

They are all farmers who could not eat meat or vegetables for ten days or half a month. Now they can have two meat dishes for one meal when they come here to help. Everyone secretly made up their minds that even if they didn't get the 20 cents a day salary, they would still come to help every day. If not for anything else, just to have a full meal here is great.

Seeing that it was already noon and the food was ready, Jiang Yuwei took out the willow leaf buns she had made earlier, heated them up in the pot, and asked everyone to eat first.

When everyone heard that it was time to eat, they all rushed over and sat down. As there were so many people, Jiang Yuwei assigned two tables for everyone to sit at. When everyone was seated, Ning Zhao and Ning Wan started to serve the dishes.

Since they were all farmers, they did not pretend and started to wolf down the food with their chopsticks. Seeing this, Jiang Yuwei was glad that she had made more, otherwise she would have been afraid that there would not be enough to eat.

While everyone was eating, Jiang Yuwei called the head of the village aside and whispered:

"Village head, you also know that my house caught fire yesterday. Now we live in the east end of this village, which is a bit far from the village. So for the sake of safety, I still want to build a brick house this time. But I don't have enough money. I will first build a high wall in the backyard with stones. We will repair it later when we have money. But we must build this front yard and these six rooms as a brick house."

When the village head heard Jiang Yuwei say this, he nodded worriedly:

"Qiu'er told me everything about your family yesterday. Now your family is busy repairing the house and has no time to find the arsonist. It's good that you want to build a brick and tile house. How about this, I will go to the town to buy bricks and tiles for you this afternoon."

Jiang Yuwei was thinking the same thing, so she quickly took out five taels of silver from her bosom and handed it to the village head, saying with a smile:

"Thank you very much, Li Zheng. I can't take care of many things when we build our house now, so I hope Li Zheng can help us. Now that the house is built, we don't plan to move elsewhere. We also want to get the title deed of the house as soon as possible. I also want Li Zheng to help calculate the area and price so that I can save some money."

The village head laughed and said:

"That's all right. I'll go back and draw up the deed in a bit. I'll go to town this afternoon and do it together. The land behind the house was originally passed down from your Ning family. Two taels of silver will be enough for these six rooms and the front yard."

Jiang Yuwei felt relieved after hearing this. She went to get two taels of silver and handed it to the head of the village before going to busy herself with having dinner with Ning Huaizhi and the others.

As soon as Jiang Yuwei walked to the dinner table, she was praised by everyone:

"The eldest brother's wife's cooking skills are amazing."

"That's right, I went to the city last year and ate at a restaurant, and the food was not as good as the cooking of the eldest brother's wife."

"Boss, you are in for a treat."

"Yes, this is simply delicious!"

At this time, Chen Guixiang and Old Man Ning, who had just returned from the fields, happened to walk here. Smelling the aroma of meat in the yard, they both swallowed their saliva. Then they heard everyone clamorously praising Jiang Yuwei's delicious cooking. Chen Guixiang couldn't help it and was about to go to the yard.

Old Man Ning still had a trace of rationality. Looking at Chen Guixiang's actions, he grabbed her and whispered:

"You have no shame, but I still have some. Our son was building a house, and no one from our Ning family went to help. How can we go in and eat with such shamelessness now?"

Chen Guixiang turned around, glared at Old Man Ning fiercely, and cursed:

"I get angry when I see you acting like a coward. I'm Ning Huaizhi's father and mother. I worked so hard to raise him and helped him raise two little bastards. Now I can't even go to his house to eat a meal?"

Chen Guixiang shook off Old Man Ning's hand and walked into the yard without looking back. Seeing this, Old Man Ning looked helpless and had to follow her quickly. After all, the smell of meat in the yard was really intoxicating.

Just as Jiang Yuwei was about to sit down, she saw Chen Guixiang walk in with an angry look on her face, so she stood up again and stared at her.

Chen Guixiang felt a little scared by Jiang Yuwei's gaze, so she came over to greet the villagers who were eating and said with a smile:

"You all helped build the Ning family's house today. You've worked really hard. Now that you're full, get back to work. I'll clear the table."

Everyone looked unhappy when they heard Chen Guixiang's words, which seemed to be urging people to eat faster. Someone said:

"Hey, Granny Chen, didn't you and the boss split up? Are you here to help today?"

"I don't think so. How can anyone come to help during meal time?"

"That's right, that's right. If I were the master, I would definitely chase them out with a broom."

Chen Guixiang's face turned red and white as she listened to the teasing of the crowd. Old man Ning, who was following behind her, felt ashamed and pulled Chen Guixiang from behind, trying to take her away.

Chen Guixiang made up her mind and didn't care what others said about her. She hadn't eaten meat for more than a month. The little money left in the house was stolen by the second brother to gamble. Now that she saw meat, there was no reason for her to leave.

Chen Guixiang sat down on the bench, pushed everyone aside, snatched a pair of chopsticks from the person next to her, and reached out to chop the meat.

At this moment, Jiang Yuwei suddenly thought of the day when she got married. When she wanted to eat some meat, she was bullied by Chen Guixiang and Sun. Now she would definitely not let Chen Guixiang eat her own meat.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yuwei reached out and snatched the chopsticks from Chen Guixiang's hand, handed them back to the original person, and then pulled Chen Guixiang up and said with a smile:

"Mother-in-law, you don't have to come to my house to worry about everything. Now that we have separated, I won't trouble you with everything."

Chen Guixiang glared at Jiang Yuwei and tried to break free from her hands, shouting:

"I don't want to work hard, but how can you live like this? You work for others and still eat such good meals. Our eldest brother has a hard life. He was injured, and now he has found a loser like you. I'm afraid that now the house has not even been built, and you have squandered all the money."

Ning Huaizhi saw that his mother actually scolded Jiang Yuwei like this, and his face suddenly turned cold and said in a deep voice:

"Mom, please stop making trouble. Our family is supported by Yuwei. All the big and small things in the family are arranged by Yuwei. We have already separated the family, so please don't interfere in our family affairs anymore."

Chen Guixiang was furious when she saw her son defending Jiang Yuwei in front of everyone. She pointed at Ning Huaizhi's nose and started scolding him again:

"Okay, okay, now you've got a wife and you've forgotten your mother. Why did I raise an ungrateful person like you? If I had known earlier, I should have thrown you into the mountains to feed the wild beasts. It would have been better than raising you for nothing!"

Seeing Chen Guixiang making such a fuss, Jiang Yuwei decided not to tolerate it any longer and leaned over to her ear and whispered:

"If you don't want to report yesterday's incident to the government, then go home and don't try to take advantage of our eldest wife again. Otherwise, I will make sure you and Sun spend the rest of your lives in jail."

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