The Ugly Woman's Country Life: The Mountain Man Loves His Wife to the Extreme <<< Chapter 2727: This Wage Is Good <<<

Grandma, what are you thinking about? Why are you so lost in thought?

Yang Ruqing pulled up a stool and sat before Granny Sun, smiling as she asked.

Grandma Sun smiled, "I wasn't thinking about anything, just feeling happy, hehe..."

It's a day of great joy, so one mustn't speak inauspicious words, Grandmother Sun thought to herself.

"By the way, Qing'er, go ask your mother and your aunt how many relatives and friends came to celebrate today. Should we prepare two tables of dishes to entertain everyone?" she asked.

Yang Ruqing nodded, "Of course.

Grandma Sun asked again, “Your mother and your aunt are out distributing sweets. Why haven't they come back to cook yet? It'll be too late if we wait!”

Yang Ruqing smiled and said, "Don't worry, Gaga. I've already hired a cook, so there's no need for my mother and aunt to do the cooking."

"Are we all ready? Besides Jade Branch and your fourth aunt, who else is there?" Old Mrs. Sun asked.

These days, watching her family members bustling about, she also seems to want to lend a hand, but as she's gotten older, there's nothing she can help with.

Of course, her family doesn't want her to worry either. They just want her to behave herself, eat when the food is ready, drink when she's thirsty, sleep when she's tired, and chat with people when she's bored.

So, as for the cook, she only heard bits and pieces.

Hearing Grandma Sun ask, Yang Ruqing replied: “Besides Yu Zhi and my fourth aunt, there's also a young daughter-in-law from Yujia Village, and Xiao Qin.”

"Little Qin?" Old Madam Sun squinted her eyes.

"But what about the daughter-in-law in Wànfú's family?" she asked again.

Yang Ruqing nodded.

Grandmother Sun said, "Oh, that child is pitiful. Her husband is gone, and the whole family's burden rests on her shoulders alone. Her father-in-law, Wang Fu, probably doesn't do any work at all."

Yang Ruqing said, “It’s about the same. Xia Qin came to me yesterday and begged me. At first, she wanted to go to the construction site to help out. I rejected her right away.”

Grandma Sun was astonished and said, "How can a woman do the same kind of hard labor as men? That's absolutely impossible. Qing'er, it's good that you turned it down."

Yang Ruqing said, "Xia Qin's situation is now more pitiful than Yu Zhi's."

“At least Yu Zhi has a man who knows how to be warm and considerate to talk to, and her father-in-law is also doing his best to support the family.” Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate! ?

“She has a daughter and two sons herself, what about Xiaqin?”

"Two little girls, one around five or six years old, about the same age as a baby, and the other just weaned. Both children were left with her mother-in-law to take care of while she went out to work for the Yang family."

Yesterday, I asked her, "Why don't you ask your father-in-law Wang Fu to come to the construction site to help?"

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Xiaqin said that they, as a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law pair, now don't expect anything from him. Wangfu doesn't do any work, he just lies there, even if he spills oil, no one will help him. As long as he doesn't drink and beat people anymore, he can just stay at home quietly and be a companion to the four women, the old and the young!

Upon hearing Yang Ruqing's words, Old Madam Sun's face was filled with wistful sighs.

"Poor, poor Xiaoqin. Ah, let her cook in the kitchen, that wouldn't be so bad. How much would they pay her for that?"

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Hearing Old Madam Sun's relentless questioning today, Yang Ruohua couldn't help but laugh.

As people get older, many aspects actually resemble those of children. Take Grandma for example, a few days ago she was too afraid to ask Aunt and Uncle there.

So today I got this chance, so let me just ask you straight up.

Yang Ruoheng intends to satisfy the curiosity of this old child.

Yang Ruqing thought carefully for a moment and said, "For carpenters and roofers, that's sixty wen a day."

"A laborer earns forty wen a day."

"The four cooks who cooked the meals were paid the same as the helpers, forty wen a day, and everyone received two meals." She said.

Then Old Madam Sun calculated and said, "How many days will it take to finish this house?"

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Yang Ruqing said, "According to past experience, it's about seventy days."

Sun Lao Tai was calculating with her fingers and said, “Little Qin and Jade Branch could earn two thousand eight hundred wen, which is almost three ounces of silver.”

And besides, having only two meals a day also saved the family a lot of food.

Yang Ruqing nodded, “Yes, with these three taels of silver, we have enough money for this year’s New Year.”

And many families had father and sons, or several brothers, all coming to work as helpers.

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“The Jade Branch household is where both the husband and wife work. One person's earnings cover the year-end expenses, and another person's earnings are also enough to support Jade Branch's husband's medical expenses.” She said.

Mrs. Sun nodded repeatedly, "Hee hee, it seems our new house construction has truly benefited the folks in our village."

"Isn't that right!"

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He patiently explained a bunch of questions, thoroughly satisfying Grandma Sun's curiosity.

On the other side, in a temporary kitchen near the construction site, Xiaoqin and YuZhi and several others were busily cooking their midday meal over a roaring fire.

Next to the kitchen, a large thatched shed was built. Three tables were placed underneath it.

The relatives and friends who came to celebrate, as well as the main craftsmen and the fairy master, along with several village elders, were all seated. They were cracking melon seeds, smoking dry tobacco, drinking tea, and chatting away. Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate! ?

In the kitchen, several women were working together for the first time to cook so much food for so many people, all of them busy as they could be.

The clatter of pots and pans sounded crisp, but everyone's mood was cheerful.

It's always exciting and motivating when there are things to do and ways to make money.

After the first groundbreaking banquet, construction of the Sun family's house officially began.

As the daughter-in-law of the family, Luofeng Tang naturally went to the construction site whenever she had free time to help with this and that.

He went to the Zuiniu Peak to fell the best camphor trees and then, with others, he went to dig sand by Wanhe River, which was over ten miles away. He was busy every day.

Back in the room at night, Luofengtang sat there washing his feet while Yang Ruqing went around to behind him.

Her hands gently rested on his shoulders, kneading them with just the right amount of pressure.

"You must be exhausted these days? You've probably worn through a layer of skin on your shoulders carrying all that weight," she said.

Luo Fengtang raised his hand to stop her, then turned his head to look at her standing behind him.

"Not tired, I'm happy." he said.

It's natural for a daughter-in-law to help her in-laws build a house, and as the son-in-law, it's his duty to lend a hand.

Yang Ruqing teased him, "What are you so happy about? A skilled craftsman earns sixty wen a day, while helpers and cooks earn forty wen a day,"

“You're doing the work of a skilled craftsman and taking on any odd jobs, but you don't get paid a single copper coin! You're still cheerful?”

She leaned her face toward his, playfully teasing him.

Luo Fengtang suddenly kissed her cheek fiercely.

“My granddaughter is my daughter-in-law now, and once she is mine, she's mine forever. This kind of payment is the greatest!” he said cheerfully.

Yang Ruqing's cheeks flushed slightly, her lips parted slightly before she could speak, when her arm was suddenly grabbed.

He pulled her out from behind him with a burst of strength. After two spins on her feet, her waist tightened against his, and in the next instant, she was safely nestled in his arms.

He was soaking his feet, while she sat sideways on his legs.

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