After time travel, share a space with your modern family.

After reuniting with her modern family in the modern world, Ruan Mumu returned to the ancient efforts to alleviate poverty.

Because Ruan Mumu wanted the house to be completed as soon as possible, most of the families in the village who had finished their farming work came to Ruan Mumu's house to build houses and earn wages.

Fifteen coins a day, including lunch, and I don't have to leave home—what a rare and wonderful job! If I don't get lunch, I can get twenty coins.

As soon as the news spread, people from every household in the village signed up, even Ruan Mumu's second and third uncles came.

On his first day of work, Ruan Dongchang acted as if he were the employer. Instead of doing any work, he walked around with his hands behind his back, pointing out that this job was not done properly and criticizing that person for not working hard enough.

"Hey Lao Xu, why isn't this a straight line? Straighten it out, you know? And why is there such a big gap here? Cover it up for me, and I'll take responsibility for anything that happens. I'm Xiaojun's second uncle, do you think you know better than me how their house is built?"

"And you, Xiao Si, what are you doing putting so much adhesive here? Don't you think it's free? If it exceeds the budget, are you going to pay for the repairs?"

"Xiao Liu, why are you digging such a deep hole? Do you want to dig it deeper so you can work a few more days? Let me tell you, my nephew and niece don't earn money so easily. Just do as I say, dig it this deep."

"..."

He wandered around, grumbling and criticizing. Everyone knew he was Ruan Xiaojun's second uncle, and no one dared to disobey him, but they all felt uncomfortable.

After sunset, Ruan Dongming finished his day's work and slowly walked home. Passing the Ruan family ancestral hall, he stopped and peered inside. Just as he was engrossed in looking inside, a voice came from behind him: "Uncle Dongming, what are you doing here?"

Ruan Dongming turned around upon hearing the voice and saw it was Ruan Mumu. He smiled and said to Ruan Mumu, "Mumu, you've just returned? I have some things I'd like to discuss with your mother about building a house for your family."

Ruan Mumu looked at Ruan Dongming, nodded, and then said to him, "Uncle Dongming, let's go inside and talk." With that, Ruan Mumu took the lead and went into the house, followed closely by Ruan Dongming.

Chen Donghua was busy in the kitchen when she heard Ruan Mumu and Ruan Dongming talking. She came out of the kitchen and saw Ruan Mumu leading Ruan Dongming in. She greeted them warmly, "Dongming's here! Come and sit down, let's talk about what's going on."

Ruan Dongming stood there, looking somewhat restrained and uneasy. He hesitated for a moment before finally speaking, "Sister-in-law, I shouldn't have said anything about this, but I think it's better to tell you."

“Uncle Dongming, sit down and let’s talk! There’s nothing that should or shouldn’t be said, just treat it as a casual chat. Here, have some water.” Ruan Mumu handed a glass of water to Ruan Dongming, then poured one for Chen Donghua and herself, and sat down to wait for Ruan Dongming to speak.

"Sister-in-law, it's like this. Today, Xiaojun's second uncle went to your house construction site to work. He was just a worker, but he acted like he was watching others work, pointing fingers and giving orders everywhere. He didn't know anything, so many places had to be redone because of his messy instructions." Ruan Dongming felt extremely annoyed when he thought about what happened at the construction site today.

"Uncle Dongming, thank you for letting us know about this. We will handle it. You don't need to worry about it, so as not to put you in a difficult position. Just continue to supervise things there as before," Ruan Mumu comforted him.

Ruan Dongming felt a little embarrassed, after all, he knew that Ruan Xiaojun's family had a hard life. They trusted him so much, but he hadn't supervised things there properly, causing them to lose over a hundred coins.

"Okay, Mumu, I'll head back now." Ruan Dongming said, preparing to leave.

"Uncle Dongming, wait a moment." Ruan Mumu called out to him.

Then he took a piece of oil paper, wrapped a few sweets in it, and handed it to Ruan Dongming, saying, "Uncle Dongming, take these back for the children to try."

"Mumu, you guys keep it for yourselves!" Ruan Dongming declined the paper package.

"Dongming! Take it back and let the child try it!" Chen Donghua chimed in.

Ruan Dongming had no choice but to accept the paper package, repeatedly expressing his gratitude: "Thank you, sister-in-law, thank you, Mumu." Then he walked out the door.

As soon as Ruan Dongming left, Ruan Xiaohai entered the room. "Mother, I'm back."

"Second Brother is back just in time, we can start eating now." Ruan Mumu helped bring the dishes to the table.

As soon as Ruan Xiaohai sat down, he said angrily, "Mother, my second uncle didn't go to help today, he just went to cause trouble, making so much work have to be redone."

"Mother, we can't go to the new house to work for Second Uncle tomorrow," Ruan Xiaojun said in a deep voice as he sat down at the dining table.

Ruan Mumu said, "Mom, let's go to your house later to talk about this. I'm young and my words don't carry much weight, so you can come with me!"

"Fine, if that old woman dares to cause trouble, I'll settle the score with her for Xiaojun, hmph~" Chen Donghua said angrily.

Looking at her increasingly adorable mother, Ruan Mumu felt a deep joy. Before, her mother was so timid that anyone in the family could bully her. Now, she was slowly standing up and had become a completely different person. Could this be the meaning of "a mother's strength"?

After the family finished their quiet dinner, Ruan Mumu and Chen Donghua went to the Ruan family's old house together.

I ran into Old Lady Zhang at the gate.

"What are you doing here? Xiaojun fell down on his own, it has nothing to do with me, and I have no money to pay for it." Old Mrs. Zhang said somewhat timidly when she saw the mother and daughter coming aggressively.

"Tell your second son to stop causing trouble at my new house construction site, and I might consider not having to ask you for compensation." Chen Donghua looked coldly at Old Lady Zhang.

"Why can everyone in the village go, but Dongchang can't? Even if the family has separated, he's still your brother-in-law. It doesn't matter who you invite, right?" Old Mrs. Zhang immediately objected upon hearing the conditions.

"Do you think just anyone can do the job well?" Ruan Mumu interjected.

"You brat, who gave you the right to speak on this matter?" Old Mrs. Zhang bared her teeth and brandished her claws again when she heard Ruan Mumu's words.

“In our family matters, Mumu's word is law. Whatever she says goes. Tell Dongchang that starting tomorrow, he shouldn't be working at our new house anymore. That's it, we're going back now.” After Chen Donghua finished speaking, she pulled Ruan Mumu and prepared to go home.

"Stop right there!" A sharp voice came from inside the house; it was Ruan Dongchang's voice.

Ruan Mumu and Chen Donghua stopped in their tracks, looking at the menacing-looking people coming out of the house. They exchanged a glance.

"Second Uncle, you've come at the right time. Since you're here, let's talk about what happened today! I heard you didn't go there to work. Not only that, you were also giving orders and causing a lot of work to have to be redone." Ruan Mumu ignored Ruan Dongchang's imposing manner and said calmly.

"You should thank me for keeping an eye on things for you, otherwise who knows how many of those people would have been slacking off! Today's redoing was an accident, and they didn't even explain to me that it was done according to the requirements!" Ruan Dongchang said with an indifferent attitude.

"Second Uncle, we invited you to work, so you'll have to get your hands dirty. As for the quality, someone else will take care of it, so you don't need to worry about that. Since you don't want to work, you shouldn't come tomorrow! Otherwise, it will delay our house construction." Ruan Mumu said bluntly.

Upon hearing this, Ruan Dongchang's face turned green with anger. "Ruan Mumu, how can you speak to your elders like that? I'm your own second uncle, would I ever harm you? And you even said I could delay your family's house construction..."

“I call you Second Uncle because of your age, and I have always respected my elders. You don’t need to use your seniority to put pressure on me. Don’t forget, we’ve already signed a letter severing ties.” Ruan Mumu ignored Ruan Dongchang’s anger and said casually.

"Sister-in-law, is this how you educate your child? How can you let a little girl talk to me like that?" Ruan Dongchang was so angry at Ruan Mumu that he couldn't refute her, so he could only turn his anger towards Chen Donghua.

"Her second uncle, what Mumu said is the truth, what can I say?" Chen Donghua said calmly from the side after being called out.

Ruan Dongchang was so angry that he turned his face away and went straight back to his house.

Ruan Mumu and Chen Donghua smiled at each other and went straight home.