Ruan Sanlang crossed his arms and frowned. Wen Qingcheng suddenly remembered that in the Great Qi Dynasty, people did not calculate by square meters, but seemed to calculate by square feet or mu.

"I've seen the workshops in your backyard. There are three large ones. I estimate that the demolition costs are about 10 taels. Isn't it just the equipment? Do you have to tear down the walls?"

"We need to tear down a partition wall. It's too old. We plan to rebuild it."

"If you want to buy the tiles for the roof yourself, you can just pay the day labor. Or if you want to save effort, just hand it over to them and let them buy the materials and do the waterproofing and repairs. Calculate how much it costs for one set. When the time comes, let them calculate how many people they need to send."

Wen Qingcheng nodded. She didn't really know much about these things. If she could hand them all over to others, she would save herself a lot of worry and avoid hiring too many workers and having them slack off.

"I'm sorry to bother you with this. We are all women in my family and don't know much about building houses. I won't bother you in vain. I will give you a red envelope of 1 tael of silver when the time comes."

Ruan Sanlang sneered, "You're still talking about money with me. I heard a few wives in the village saying that brother Chuyi is back these past two days?"

Wen Qingcheng touched her nose. She knew that two living people had come to her house. She couldn't hide it in Crescent Moon Village. "Yes, he came to see us, and then left. He went back to his own home in Kyoto."

Seeing that Wen Qingcheng was a little depressed, Ruan Sanlang quickly changed the subject. "When do you start the demolition? I can call people for you right away. They are all from our village and can be here anytime."

"Let's do it tomorrow. I have no doubts about the people you found. We will do the demolition as you said. I will give them 10 taels of silver each. If five people do it, each person will get 2 taels of silver. The demolition can be completed in two or three days. They will also clear the garbage. They are eager to do it. Specifically, we are all from the same village, so everything is easy to talk to."

The news that the Wen family had started construction again soon spread throughout the village. Zhao Chunhua heard about it while washing clothes on the riverbank outside. She was wondering, there were not many people in the family, all the idiots had run away, and there were two adults and two children. Wasn't a two-story house big enough to live in? They also had to renovate the backyard. It was simply because they had nothing better to do.

None of the women in the village joined Zhao Chunhua. She just listened from a distance and quickly went home.

"Third brother. Oh, this smell. How many times have I told you that you are smoking in the house again!"

Wen Laosan had no money these days and hadn't gambled for a long time, so he just rolled cigarettes and smoked at home. When Zhao Chunhua opened the door, the room was foggy and she coughed.

"What are you yelling about, you bitch? This is my house and I can smoke wherever I want!" Wen Lao San frowned and said impatiently. He has no money to go out and gamble, and he has nothing to do, so he just smokes to kill time.

"Look at what you have accomplished. You can't earn money, and you don't even work in the fields. Your second sister-in-law's family is going to close down the workshop in the backyard again!"

Wen Lao San stopped smoking and was silent for a few seconds. Then he said, "Go ahead and make trouble. Who knows how much money Lao San left for them? Our mother didn't get a penny."

Zhao Chunhua sat over and lowered her voice unconsciously: "Hey, I heard that Wen Qingcheng passed the exam to become a junior pharmacist. Do you think she wants to use her to make medicine?"

Third Wen sneered, "Impossible. How many people have tried their best to pass the pharmacist exam for half their lives? With Wen Qingcheng, she passed the exam by herself without anyone teaching her? Don't listen to those wives gossiping all day long. If she can pass the exam, I will eat shit every day."

"Pfft, ptff, ptff, stop talking nonsense, it sounds very real, they are going to rebuild the backyard workshop, I think it's true."

Third Wen curled his lips indifferently, "Just two women want to open a medicine shop? Dream on, it's too simple. If these two women can do it, then anyone in Yueya Village can do it."

"Our second sister-in-law has money. I heard that the salary is quite high. Many people asked about the job, but she doesn't hire anyone else. It was Ruan Sanlang who found the job for her. She doesn't want anyone else." Zhao Chunhua said.

When Wen Lao San heard this, his eyes rolled and he had a plan in mind. He whispered in Zhao Chunhua's ear. Zhao Chunhua exclaimed, "What a bad idea you came up with. Let Song Jiao help us borrow money. What do you think? Even if you lend it, you have to pay it back?"

Old Third Wen has been itching to gamble recently, but he has no money to gamble. He has also been feeling his left eyelid twitching recently, and thinks that if he takes advantage of his good luck to gamble, he will definitely be able to win back all the money he lost before.

He planned to let Zhao Chunhua pretend to divorce him because of the foreign debt, and ask the Wen Zhuo family to borrow money. They are all family, so they will lend the money to save face. If they want to borrow, they should lend more. Song Jiao's family does not have that much money, so he instigated her to borrow from Ye Xiuying.

"What do you know, woman? Whether you pay it back or not, we have the initiative. Anyway, it's the money that Song Jiao borrowed from Ye Xiuying, and it has nothing to do with us."

"What if Song Jiao and the others come to ask for it?" Zhao Chunhua was not afraid of Song Jiao, but she was afraid of Song Jiao's father-in-law, the third uncle. He was the patriarch of the Wen family, and when he showed his power, he was not joking. In the future, they would have to rely on him to preside over any wedding or funeral in the family.

"If she comes to collect the debt, just say that we will pay it back to Second Sister-in-law when we have the money. If we don't pay it back, Second Sister-in-law can't find fault with us, after all, it's not us who borrowed the money from her. Let Ye Xiuying and Song Jiao settle it." Wen Lao San said.

Zhao Chunhua thought about it and realized that life was really difficult recently. Her third son was not doing well and had lost so much money. Now the whole family depended on the eldest Wen's family for food and drink. That was why Zhang Sufen often made sarcastic remarks to her. She had had enough of it, so she agreed to go to Wen Zhuo's house to find Song Jiao and try.

......

The door of the Third Uncle's house was open. Zhao Chunhua walked to the door and quietly looked into the courtyard. She had secretly observed that the Third Uncle had gone to Xu Lizheng's house, Wen Zhuo was not at home, and only Song Jiao was there.

As expected, when Song Jiao came out of the house, Zhao Chunhua immediately pinched her thigh hard and went in crying. "Is his aunt here?"

Song Jiao looked up and was surprised to see Zhao Chunhua coming. "Isn't this my third sister-in-law?"

"Oh, sister-in-law, help me." Zhao Chunhua said as she collapsed to the ground, crying with a handkerchief in her hand.

"Oh, third sister-in-law, what are you doing? Get up quickly, let's talk it over." Song Jiao was frightened by her actions and thought that Old Lady Wen was dead, so she hurriedly helped Zhao Chunhua up.

Zhao Chunhua squatted on the ground with her big fat buttocks and couldn't pull her up. She cried and wailed: "Sister-in-law, to be honest, I really want to die, but I can't leave Baolong."

"Third sister-in-law! You are such a life-and-death person, but you don't even say what's going on, which makes people confused." Song Jiao usually doesn't get along well with Zhao Chunhua, but they are sisters-in-law after all. Although they are not parents-in-law, fortunately they are a family with good fortune, so she patiently listens to her.

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