My reborn husband and son are thinking about how to kill me every day.

Outside the Fang family's old house, Wu Xialian pulled Gao Lan aside and whispered to her, "Wang Er's wife, who are the people living inside? Why is the village head's family sending them vegetables?"

Gao Lan, carrying a wooden bucket, didn't really want to talk to her. "They're just refugees sent here by the government. What kind of background could they have?"

Wu Xialian pouted, "Just keep pretending! If you didn't know who she was, why did you and your man send her so many nice things yesterday?"

As she spoke, she reached out and lifted the lid of the wooden bucket. "Let me see what good things you've brought him this early in the morning?"

She lifted the lid of the wooden bucket and was amazed to find five or six small fish inside. At the same time, she felt uneasy.

Yesterday, a refugee came to her to buy radishes, and she charged him three times the usual price.

At the time, they were just seen as refugees without any connections, and people thought they could make a quick buck.

Little did they expect that this group of refugees seemed to be more than they appeared.

"It's just a few broken planks that the family doesn't need anymore, what's so great about it? I just think that Mrs. Lu is a kind and generous person, and I thought that they had just arrived and were unfamiliar with the place, so it must have been difficult for them. I wanted to help them if I could."

Gao Lan was unhappy. After saying that, she carried the wooden bucket into the Fang family's old house.

In the courtyard, the Fang family had just left, and Ji Yunshuang was packing up the things they had brought.

She was thinking of making pork crackling and vegetable buns yesterday, but unexpectedly, Ms. Liao sent her so many vegetables today.

She was pleased with the sight of the cabbage and picked out the older leaves, laying them out in the yard to dry, intending to make sauerkraut when they were half-wilted. She would save the tenderer leaves to make steamed buns.

Gao Lan entered with a smile and said, "Busy right now."

Ji Yunshuang quickly stood up and said, "Sister Gao, what brings you here?"

"These are fish that my kids caught in the river when they were being naughty. I brought them over for you to try."

When Gao Lan got home yesterday, she discovered that in the bundle Ji Yunshuang had given her, besides delicious pastries, there was also shredded meat, which she had never eaten before.

Therefore, he thought about how to return the favor to Ji Yunshuang.

This way, one's own family will appear polite, and the exchange of gifts will bring the two families closer together.

"You're too kind." Ji Yunshuang took the wooden bucket from Gao Lan and exchanged many more pleasantries.

"It's just kids being naughty, they made it in the river, it's nothing serious," Gao Lan said, naturally sitting down to help pick the vegetables.

While picking vegetables, she chatted with Ji Yunshuang, asking her about her future plans and if there was anything she could help with.

Ji Yunshuang did indeed need her help with something.

It's not a good situation for so many of them to be crammed into the Fang family's old house. Not to mention that the weather is getting colder and the simple wooden bed is not warm at all, it's also inconvenient for her to go into her spatial dimension or something.

Living separately is definitely the first step.

However, the house may not be built so quickly, so for now we will definitely have to rent a place to live.

Of course, building houses is also an important part of the project.

What she asked Gao Lan for was naturally which family in the village had a vacant house, and how to hire a bricklayer.

"You've come to the right person to ask me about this," Gao Lan said, launching into a long explanation of the village's situation.

There aren't many houses in the village like Fang Lizheng's, with a separate, vacant building. But there are some houses with empty rooms.

She introduced Ji Yunshuang to several companies and said that she would show her the way whenever she needed help.

As for building houses, there are many intricacies involved. It depends on what kind of houses they are building.

If it's an earthen house, that's easy. Most of the men in the village know how to build earthen walls. You just need to pay 15 coins a day and hire some workers.

But if you want to build a house with stones, that's much more complicated.

Malan asked her what kind of house she wanted to build, and then suggested that no matter what kind of house they wanted to build, it would be best to go up the mountain to cut wood first, and let the wood dry as soon as possible so that it would be easy to use when the beams were erected.

She didn't need to remind me.

Before dawn today, Lu Yinheng led his men into the mountains to make plans for repairing the house later.

As for what kind of houses the other families wanted to build, Ji Yunshuang didn't know, but she wanted to build mud-walled houses.

In her past life, when she was watching short videos, she longed for those rural courtyards and even thought that when she got old and retired, she would go to the countryside and build one of those courtyards.

However, before she could graduate from university, the apocalypse occurred.

After the apocalypse, they wandered aimlessly, focused solely on survival, and had no time to think about anything else.

Now that God has given her a second chance to live in another world, Ji Yunshuang is determined to experience all the things she couldn't do back then.

She immediately asked Ma Lan to help her find workers.

Ma Lan asked, "How many rooms do you plan to build?"

Ji Yunshuang counted the number of people in her family and said, "We don't need to build too many houses. Besides the kitchen and the main room, we just need to build four or five more bedrooms. It would be best to hire more people so that the house can be completed as soon as possible."

Gao Lan stood up and said, "Okay, I'll go ask for you right away."

Ji Yunshuang stood up to see her off: "Then I'll have to trouble you, Sister Gao."

Gao Lan waved her hand: "It's no trouble, I'm free anyway. Besides, it's just a matter of a word."

Farmers are busy all year round; who doesn't have something to do? Especially at this time, everyone has to prepare for winter.

Ji Yunshuang knew that she was just being polite.

She cannot take people's polite words for granted.

Interpersonal relationships are reciprocal.

In the afternoon, when Gao Lan came to tell him about the people she was hiring, she asked her if she was interested in doing business together.

Gao Lan was both excited and flustered, and said somewhat incoherently, "Can I do it? My husband and I are both stupid, we can only do farm work, and we've always been looked down upon by our families. I can't do it... I don't want to ruin your business."

Ji Yunshuang took her hand and said, "Sister Gao, don't be modest. With a mouth like yours, you don't know how to do business? If you don't know how to do business, then no one in this world knows how to do business."

"Really?" Gao Lan was still flustered. "Are you not just trying to fool me?"

"Why would I coax you?" Ji Yunshuang could tell that although Gao Lan seemed cheerful and outgoing, she was actually an extremely insecure person at heart.

She encouraged him, "Think about it, when we came to the village yesterday, weren't you the first one to come up and greet us? What does that show? It shows that you're not afraid of strangers and you're bold. In the business world, just that alone makes you stand out from millions of others."

Gao Lan asked in surprise, "Really?"

Ji Yunshuang nodded, "Of course, would I risk my business just to appease you?"

Hearing this, Gao Lan finally felt relieved. However, she then worriedly said, "But I've never done business before, I don't know how to do it!"

Ji Yunshuang brought out a bowl of stir-fried peas and said, "Try it, how does it taste?"

Gao Lan's eyes lit up when she saw the stir-fried peas. "Did you make this? This little girl brought some back for me to eat yesterday, and it tasted really good."

Ji Yunshuang smiled and said, "Let's try selling these stir-fried peas first."

Besides testing the market, it's also a way to get to know Gao Lan better. If it's a good fit, then a long-term collaboration is possible.

But if it's not suitable...

There won't be a next time.