You are unlucky and I am tough

The roof is broken and I am worried that it will rain suddenly one day. Since I have decided to build a house, I might as well do it as early as possible. I am too lazy to ask someone to calculate an auspicious date.

He asked Chen Daming for help and hired a dozen strong men in the village at a salary of 30 cents a day.

The next day, Cheng Daming took two experienced people from the neighboring Lijia Village to start working.

Clearing the wasteland and cutting bamboo were carried out simultaneously. Cheng Daming led people to lay the foundation, and Cheng Zhengyi led people to cut bamboo.

The bamboo on the mountain is free, but the bamboo shoots in March and winter are also one of the foods that the villagers must grab every year.

Wei Qinglang was worried that the villagers would have objections, so he didn't dare let them cut too much bamboo in the forest near the village. He cut some bamboo at intervals and then ran deep into the mountains to cut more bamboo.

Bamboos in deeper areas grow larger and better suit their needs.

Several men were responsible for cutting the bamboo, while others were responsible for carrying it down the mountain. Wei Qinglang and Wei Nanxing also came to help. After carrying the bamboo down the mountain, someone was responsible for measuring it and sawing it into the same length.

Wei Xinyi, Cheng Chen, and Cheng Xu ran over excitedly, wanting to do their part. The three of them carried a sawn bamboo to a designated place and set it aside for later use.

A group of people worked hard for the whole morning. Cheng Shuang saw that the sun was too strong at home, so she went to the village doctor Wang to buy some honeysuckle.

Then he added tea leaves and made some cooling tea at home, which he then brought over with his family's lunch on a donkey cart.

She invited all the villagers to come over and drink some cooling tea, and then they could go home for lunch before coming back to work.

The family cannot prepare meals for so many people, and we agreed that lunch will not be provided for those who come to work.

After walking around the scene, Cheng Shuang felt that the speed was still slow.

She pulled Wei Qinglang aside and said, "We are too busy now. Let's hire more people. Carrying bamboo down the mountain is not a very skilled job.

Young and strong people can do it, and teenagers can do it too. It would be best if we could get more manpower to transport all the bamboo down the mountain before tomorrow afternoon."

Wei Qinglang took a sip of tea from the bowl and said, "I also think it's too slow. I calculated that according to our drawings, we need about five to six thousand bamboos. We need to add more people."

After confirming it, on the way back, Cheng Shuang met some villagers and spread the news.

They hire people to carry bamboos up the mountain for 30 cents a day. They recruit 30 people. After registering at their door, you can go to work directly. The quota is on a first-come, first-served basis.

The villagers who received the news rushed to sign up. Cheng Shuang moved a table and sat at the door to be responsible for registration.

There are more than a thousand people in Chengjia Village, and there are four or five hundred young and middle-aged people. The number of people who signed up was quickly enough.

When Cheng Caizhi and Cheng Caipeng arrived, the last spot was gone.

Cheng Shuang put away her writing brush and looked at the original owner's two cousins ​​coldly, "Sorry, there are enough people."

Cheng Caizhi was immediately dissatisfied. "Cheng Shuang, we are just a step late. It will be the same if you recruit two more people."

Cheng Shuang calmly cleared the table, "I told you to hire another thirty people. One less, one more, no. Please go back."

"We are your cousins."

Cheng Caipeng immediately got angry. "If the job is full, just fire two people and add us in. It's no better to pay our family members than to outsiders."

Cheng Shuang's attitude was very cold: "Why should I kick others out? When my sister and I couldn't even get enough to eat at the Cheng family, why didn't you say that we were cousins?

Now you want to make money from me, do you know that I am your cousin?"

“Who wants to make money from you?”

Cheng Caipeng's eyes widened and he shouted angrily, "I just wanted to help your family out of kindness."

"Really?" Cheng Shuang pulled the corner of her mouth, full of sarcasm, "Then since cousin is so kind, you don't have to pay me for helping you, right? If you don't want to receive wages, you don't need to register, just go to work directly."

"Well, even if we help you, do you have the nerve to not pay us at all?"

Cheng Shuang said calmly, "I feel good about it."

Cheng Caipeng was choked and his face turned ashen.

Of course he heard that the Wei family was recruiting workers to build houses to make money, so what a joke it was to say they didn't want any money.

All the money in the family is in his mother's hands. Cheng Caijun will take the imperial examination next year, and his mother has been keeping a tighter eye on the family's money recently. It is difficult to even get a copper coin.

He wanted to earn some money, but he didn't know anything except farming. It was too hard to carry heavy bags and do hard labor in the town, so he came immediately when he heard that the Wei family wanted people.

Cheng Caizhi held back his anger with an unpleasant expression and pulled his brother Cheng Caipeng, "Let's go. This damn girl did it on purpose. I told you not to come but you insisted on coming."

Watching the two people walk away, Cheng Shuang snorted.

She did it on purpose. It's not impossible to hire two more people, but she would never give them to that family.

Everything will be fine as long as that family doesn't come to provoke her. But if anyone dares to come, no matter who they are, she will not give them any face.

In the afternoon, there was a commotion in the village because of Wei Jiajia's recruitment, and a big incident occurred.

The cause of the incident was that Li heard that the Wei family was going to recruit more people. She was angry yesterday because her man was not selected in the first batch. When she heard that someone was going to recruit more people, she regretted letting the man in her family go hunting in the mountains.

Later, I heard from the villagers that they also wanted younger ones who were strong, so I hurried there with Cheng Tieniu.

But she was still a step too late. Enough people had been recruited. When she arrived, Cheng Shuang had already cleared the table. She also saw Cheng Caizhi and Cheng Caipeng leaving cursing.

When Li returned home, she heard that the men from the two neighboring families had been recruited, and she was so angry that she gritted her teeth.

Finally, he felt so uncomfortable that he remembered that Hu Chunhua's two sons were not elected, so he ran to the door of Cheng's house and deliberately made sarcastic remarks.

It is said that Cheng Shuang is lucky now and her luck has changed since she left the Cheng family. In the past, it was the Cheng family that brought bad luck to her.

Finally, the two shrews started fighting again. Hu Chunhua was stronger and more powerful than Li. She rode on Li and beat her until she screamed in pain.

When Cheng Tieniu saw her mother being beaten so badly, he picked up a stone and rushed forward to hit Hu Chunhua on the head.

Hu Chunhua fainted at that moment, with blood all over her face.

Cheng Tieniu was frightened. He threw a stone and turned around and ran away in horror.

Li was also frightened and thought that the person was dead. Some villagers rushed to help and carried Hu Chunhua into the house.

Doctor Wang from the village was also called over. After examining the patient, he found that the patient was not dead and woke up after half an hour.

Hu Chunhua lay on the bed with her head wrapped, groaning. She felt sorry for the money and cursed Li and Cheng Tieniu. She also urged her two sons to find the head of the village to seek justice and ask Li to compensate her for the medical expenses.

Those who had gone home for lunch at Zhushan and the newly recruited people came to work on time. Cheng Lizheng also came to watch with his son.

His headache had gone away since yesterday and he was in good spirits. He walked around the site with a cane and reminded the workers to be more careful.

Just at this moment, Cheng Caizhi came running over and said that something happened at home.

Cheng Lizheng asked what happened and heard that blood was seen. He was so angry that he felt his head start to hurt again.