After being widowed, I pampered the rough man general by farming

"Look, let me say that she has no conscience. She actually tricked beggars on the street to work. I don't know if her heart is made of meat. It's a crime."

Zhu Jiangjiang didn't avoid the small deserted village at all when he took people up the mountain to cut bamboo and fence. Everyone in the village knew about it by now.

The villagers sat in the neighbor's yard next to Pei's house, blatantly pointing fingers and cursing Huai.

I don't know if it's because of jealousy, or because Zhu Jiangjiang really didn't ask them to work, which caused them to lose a wage.

Their contradictory thoughts probably didn't realize it themselves. In short, they looked down on Zhu Jiangjiang in all kinds of ways.

"Little lady, who are they talking about?" Zhou Liang asked after sawing a section of bamboo.

Zhu Jiangjiang picked up the piece of bamboo, stood it up, waved the chopping knife in his hand, and chopped it down, the bamboo became two halves.

"They said about me, that I squeezed you and tricked you into helping me with my work." She said half-jokingly.

People are really strange.

How could a villager who was so simple before become so mean overnight? She seemed to be doing nothing wrong.

Seeing that Zhu Jiangjiang was misunderstood by the villagers, Zhou Liang opened his mouth to defend her, "Little lady is not what you said, we are not..."

"Zhou Liang!"

Zhu Jiangjiang grabbed his arm to prevent him from continuing, "Work quickly, don't try to take the opportunity to be lazy."

The Pei family has a house and a courtyard, covering an area of ​​almost three acres. Except for the pond in front of the door, the other places are surrounded by fences.

Arm-thick wood is embedded in the ground, and then bamboo strips are crossed to form a grid-like fence wall. The fence yard is as high as the chest, and it only takes half a day to complete the fence.

Before it was evening, Zhou Liang used the leftover bamboo scraps to surround Zhu Jiangjiang's chicken ring.

Chickens kept in cages are almost suffocated, and they jump up and down as soon as they are freed.

The children who followed Zhou Liang stood in front of the chicken pen, looking at the thumping chickens in the pen, laughing non-stop.

"Brother, look..." The little girl who was about the same age as Pei Xiaoyu shook Zhou Liang's hand, her face flushed with excitement.

I couldn't hide the envy in my eyes.

Zhu Jiangjiang was cooking dinner for them tonight in the kitchen, and saw this scene inadvertently when he came out to pour water.

When she was working during the day, she once asked Zhou Liang about them, but Zhou Liang kept silent, even unwilling to tell her the names of his younger brothers and sisters.

She didn't know what was hidden in it, but after spending this day together, she could be sure that although their bodies were dirty, their natures had not been polluted.

It's a pity that she is not capable enough now to help them.

All she can do is to ensure that they have enough food during the few days they work in her house.

"Zhou Liang, take them to wash their hands and eat."

It's getting late, let them finish eating quickly, and they can go back early.

For three days in a row, Zhou Liang showed up at Zhu Jiangjiang's house on time every day before dawn with his group of younger brothers and sisters.

Even though Zhu Jiangjiang said not to let them come so early, they still came before dawn.

Because it is a pond for daily fish farming, there is no need to dig too deep, just pick out a few loads of soil, as long as the water from the ridge canal can flow in, it will be over.

So basically no effort.

All the soil picked out from the pond was filled into the vegetable field, and the vegetable field and the pond equally divided the land in front of the door, enough to meet the daily needs of the Pei family in the future.

"Zhou Liang, you have worked hard these past few days, you will have a day off tomorrow, and you don't need it for the time being..."

When Zhu Jiangjiang was about to give Zhou Liang a holiday, a muffled thunder came down from the top of his head.

It can't be so fast, can it? !

In my memory, the heavy rain that caused a flood in a place upstream was at the end of July, that's right, there are still six or seven days before the end of the month.

"It's windy." Zhou Liang stretched out his hand to feel it.

A gust of wind blew from the center of the earth, blowing Zhu Jiangjiang's clothes drying in the yard to the ground.

Those clothes were the old clothes of the second elder of the Pei family and Zhu Jiangjiang. She washed them all today, and she planned to change them for Zhou Liang and the others after they were cleaned.

"Young lady, don't worry. It's just a thunderstorm. It won't rain. We can still come tomorrow."

Zhou Liang looked very experienced. He stretched out his hand to feel the direction of the wind and the humidity to know if it would rain or not.

Zhu Jiangjiang looked at the fields in the distance, wondering what he was thinking.

After a while, she made a decision, "Okay, when you come tomorrow, stop by the carpenter's shop in the west of the city to help me get what I ordered."

Zhu Jiangjiang took out two ingots of broken silver from his pocket and stuffed them into Zhou Liang's hands, "This is the final payment. When you leave later, take the cart with you, so you don't have to carry it yourself tomorrow."

Can't wait.

The muffled thunder and the gust of wind were hints given to her by God, and she must grab the grain before the rainstorm came down.

"Little lady, this money..." Zhou Liang hadn't touched silver in a long time, and it felt like it was hot in his hand.

Isn't she worried that he will disappear after taking the money?

"Stop talking nonsense, take your brothers and sisters back to rest early, the rice will be cut tomorrow."

Zhu Jiangjiang half urged, half pushed, and drove them away directly.

After Zhou Liang left, Zhu Jiangjiang struggled for a long time, and finally went out.

In the past few days, she has been doing activities in her own yard and at the entrance of the village, but she has not entered the village for a few days, and Zhu Jiangjiang has already felt strange.

Came straight to Xu Laogen's house, where the elders of the Xu family were having dinner.

On the dilapidated table was a pot of porridge that could almost count the grains of rice, and the second elder was holding fried wild vegetables that were black and eating them as rice.

"Sister-in-law, why are you here?"

Seeing Zhu Jiangjiang, Xu Laogen was very surprised. He thought she would never come again.

"Sit down, old woman, take the bowls and chopsticks."

"Grandpa Xu, no need, I've already eaten."

Zhu Jiangjiang called back the second elder who served her porridge, and directly explained the purpose of coming, "Grandpa Xu, I came to tell you about the crops in the field."

"In the field? What's the matter?" Xu Laogen was puzzled.

The crops will be harvested in less than half a month. What can happen at this time?

Zhu Jiangjiang: "I plan to start harvesting crops tomorrow, I suggest that you, Grandpa Xu, harvest together."

Xu Laogen: "Tomorrow? The water has just been cut off in this field, and the mud is not dry yet. Why are you in such a hurry?"

This is not in line with common sense. Moreover, if the harvest is rushed ahead of time, the rice stalks will still be alive, and it will not be easy to dry the millet by then.

Zhu Jiangjiang didn't know how to explain to the elders, but just emphasized, let them advance.

"Grandpa Xu, trust me once, find an opportunity tomorrow, call everyone in the village, and let them harvest crops in advance, but don't tell them this is my opinion."

After all, she couldn't bear to see everyone's despair after the disaster, so she came to remind her.

As for whether they listen or not, it's none of her business, she has a clear conscience.