Divorce at the beginning, the rough general is very clingy

"Well, I've asked about the price. It should be delivered home the day after tomorrow. You can contact both parties then, and I'll start calculating your wages tomorrow." Ye Xiao said.

"Come on, Brother Xiao, you look down on your brothers. I ask you for wages just to ask you some questions or do some work. Aren't you disrespecting your brothers?" Shuanzi objected immediately.

"No, listen to me, this housework cannot be finished in half a day, and you have to support the family, so how can I not pay you? In addition to you, I also need you to help find some people. I plan to pay them 30 cents a day, and provide them with meals at noon. You and I will give them 50 cents, and help me keep an eye on it. You also know that I can't help myself. Your sister-in-law is the only one taking care of the two children at home. It's inconvenient for her to go in and out. I will feel at ease if you help me." Ye Xiao said.

"Okay, Brother Xiao, leave this matter to me. I will definitely help you with it." Shuanzi patted his chest and promised.

"Also, I need a woman to cook. It's not convenient for your wife to take care of the children. Who should I find?" Ye Xiao said while glancing at Mi Yao.

"Doesn't Shuanzi have a sister-in-law? Just two of them will do. Cook a meal for the workers at noon and give them twenty cents." Mi Yao said.

"Lunch won't take long. I'll let my mother look after the younger one and we can take the older one with us." When Shuanzi heard that there was twenty cents, he decided to let his wife earn it.

"Okay, you can take charge of the arrangements when the time comes. I'll talk about the rest when I come back tomorrow. Let's go back. These things are for the children." Ye Xiao said as he brought over the cakes and cloth.

"Brother, what are you doing? The pastries and cloth are very precious. Take them back to the two children." Shuanzi called him brother directly.

"I've brought them all. All the children in my family have them. Don't be polite." Ye Xiao stuffed the things into Shuanzi's arms and took Mi Yao away.

Shuanzi stood at the door for a long time, unable to come back to his senses.

After leaving Shuanzi's house, Mi Yao pulled back his arm.

Night Owl's hands were empty.

The two returned home one after another and went back to their rooms. Mi Yao found that the two little ones were already asleep in their beds.

Fortunately, the bed was big enough. After Mi Yao went into the space to wash up, she hugged her two sons and went to sleep.

Ye Xiao tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. How did he end up alone? Besides, Mi Yao's big bed looked comfortable, and he wanted to try what it felt like to sleep on it.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that Shuanzi didn't return to the room, Shuanzi's wife Cuihong hurried out to find him.

"Where did this come from?" Cuihong asked.

"Brother Xiao gave it to me. Let's talk about it when we get back." Shuanzi closed the door and took his wife back to the house.

"This is fine cotton cloth. A piece of it costs at least two taels of silver." Cuihong touched the cloth and couldn't let it go.

"This is Xiangmanyuan's pastry. I saw others buy it in this kind of box?" Cuihong excitedly touched the cloth and looked at the pastry.

"What does Brother Xiao want to talk to you about?" Cuihong calmed down and thought, maybe Brother Xiao wanted to ask Shuanzi to do something wrong.

"Brother Xiao wants me to inquire about the price of blue bricks tomorrow. He says he wants to build a wall. He also wants me to find two people to cook and take care of the workers' lunch. The pay is 20 cents a day. You go when the time comes. Xiao Er will ask mother to look after her for a while, and you take care of Daya. Then see who is willing to go between the eldest and second sisters-in-law. It's just a lunch, and the pay is 20 cents." Shuanzi said excitedly.

"Yes, Brother Xiao's family is rich now, where does the money come from?" Cuihong didn't think that the 100 or 80 cents they earned from selling pheasants and rabbits could buy bricks, not to mention Brother Xiao's monthly salary of 50 cents.

"I'm not sure, I think it has something to do with Mi Yao." Shuanzi told him how good Mi Yao was to the two children.

"It's hard to believe that this person can learn well." Cuihong also said.

"I feel like she has changed. She used to look down on me because I had a shabby nose and a shabby face. But last time I had dinner at her house, not only was she very enthusiastic, she also cooked a table full of dishes. I've never heard of her cooking before. In four years, our two children haven't had a meal cooked by her." said Shuanzi.

"Okay, don't worry about them. Go to sleep and do your best to help them tomorrow." Cuihong said.

"I got it. Save some of the cakes for tomorrow and give the rest to mother. She will also ask her to look after the children and give her something to make her happy." Shuanzi said.

"I understand. What about the cloth?" Cuihong asked.

"This color is not suitable for the elderly. It won't be enough if all the children in the family get a share. Well, let's keep it for now. But tell mom about it. She's not an unkind person who can't tell right from wrong." Shuanzi said.

"Oh, I see."

Silent all night.

The next morning, just after dawn, Liu Fugui and Liu Dahai, father and son, arrived. Ye Xiao also got up early and took the village chief and his son to the back mountain. Mi Yao had already marked the locations and tied several points with red ropes.

Liu Fugui looked at such a large forest and said, "This is more than ten acres, it must be twenty acres."

"Yes, Mi Yao said he wanted these." Ye Xiao nodded.

"Young man Ye, Uncle Liu has something to say. Buying wasteland and mountains, and building houses will cost a lot of money. Can you tell me where the money will come from?" Liu Fugui felt uneasy when he saw the lavish spending of Ye Xiao's family.

"Uncle, don't worry, this money is earned honestly. Didn't Mi Yao learn well? She learned to read with her father when she was at home. She also read some medical books in her spare time and knew some herbs. A few days ago, she went to the mountains to pick some herbs. When she went to the town to sell them, she happened to save Lord Jin's son. The pastries I sent you yesterday were the thank-you gift from Mrs. Jin when she came to my house to thank Mi Yao." Ye Xiao said lightly.

"There is such a thing?" Liu Fugui was shocked. The woman who used to be uneducated, lazy, and always beat and scolded her children and bullied her mother-in-law, actually changed her character so much?

"Really, it's just a coincidence. Mi Yao felt that there was no suitable land to grow crops, so he wanted to buy mountains and wasteland to grow some crops and herbs." Ye Xiao said.

"Well, it's best that she thinks so. Uncle also hopes that you are all well." Liu Fugui sighed.

"Yes." Night Owl has this confidence, even though the road is a bit far.

"Okay, let's go to town." Liu Fugui and his companions went down the mountain and originally planned to go directly to town.

Mi Yao’s breakfast was already ready: fried dough sticks, soy milk, fried dumplings, thick red bean and rice porridge, cold dishes, and salted duck eggs.

"This..." Liu Fugui wanted to say, even if he was rich he couldn't do this, who could have such a sumptuous breakfast, what was that golden thing, he had never seen it before, and those dumplings were fried in oil, what a waste.

"Uncle, let's go after we're full." Ye Xiao pulled Liu Fugui and Liu Dahai to sit down.

The aroma of breakfast was so intoxicating that Liu Fugui didn't have time to say anything.

Liu Dahai is a simple and honest man, he just concentrates on eating.

After eating and drinking, the three of them went to the village entrance to ride the ox cart.

The ox cart went away, and under the big locust tree, the conversation for the day began again, still about the trivial matters of Night Owl's family.

The male and female protagonists they mentioned were all busy with their own things and didn't care at all what they said.