Five-year-old little girl: Mom has thousands of acres of material space

Chapter 23 Saltpeter
  Sun's sharp eyes immediately caught the unnatural look on her face.

"It's you!"

Sun rushed over and scratched Zhu's face, "It's you, isn't it! It's you who spread the word, isn't it!!"

"No, it's not me..." Mrs. Zhu hurriedly avoided it, and as soon as she raised her head, she met Li Shoude's gloomy eyes. She was so frightened that she could hardly stand, and the words came out uncontrollably: "I, I I didn’t go out and talk nonsense, I just said that our family is married to the Huang family in the county..."

As soon as she said this, everyone in the room looked at her.

Especially Old Lady Li, who rushed over to her and grabbed her hair and slapped her hard several times.

"It turns out that your bitch hoof ruined a good thing!! I'll beat you bitch to death! You let you go out and talk nonsense! Let me see if I don't tear your bitch mouth apart today!"

Ever since this happened, she had been filled with anger and nowhere to vent her anger. She had been beaten by Mr. Jiang and had nowhere to ask for an explanation. She could only endure it. Now she seemed to have found an outlet, punching and kicking Mr. Zhu.

"Mom, I was wrong, don't hit me..." Mrs. Zhu begged for mercy, "Ooooh...I was really wrong..."

She originally just wanted to show off to the villagers that her family was about to get married to a wealthy gentry family in the county. Unlike these idiots, she didn't expect that things would turn out like this.

"It's all your fault! If you hadn't gone out and talked nonsense, no one in the village would have known about the Huang family!" Mrs. Sun's face was full of resentment. She rode on Ms. Zhu and scratched and beat her with her only intact hand. As if he wanted to vent his anger.

Everyone in the room watched the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law punching and kicking Zhu. No one stepped forward to stop them, and they all watched indifferently.

Even the old man of the Li family looked at Mr. Zhu with gloomy eyes.

The reputation of the Li family has been completely ruined by this woman!

Now everyone in the village knows that the Li family wants to sell their divorced granddaughter for the future of their eldest son!
  ……

The Li family was having a lot of fun here, but Jiang Xiaoxiao was living a leisurely life at her home at the end of the village.

Li Zheng's son brought a group of people to dig a well at home the next day.

Jiang Xiaoxiao led the people to the selected place in the yard and started digging with shovels.

Five or six big men, who were very strong and accustomed to farm work, kept working hard and soon dug a pit three meters in diameter and deep.

"Sister-in-law Jiang, the land here is too dry and it's not easy to get water. I guess we need to dig deeper." Liu Dagang said.

Liu Dagang is Li Zheng's youngest son. He is sixteen or seventeen years old. He is very strong and a good worker.

Jiang Wei walked over and took a look. Several people were digging along the walls of the pit. The walls were reinforced with bamboo or wood chips to prevent collapse.

Several people divided the work, and people stood on top and used bamboo baskets to lift up the soil below and move it away.

Jiang Wei looked at the hill-high soil, mixed with sand and gravel, and curled his lips with satisfaction: "It's okay, Dagang, just dig, I won't pay you less for the work."

"What are you talking about, Sister Jiang? It doesn't take much trouble to dig a well. How much labor does it cost?" Liu Dagang waved his hand and said with a smile: "There are people in our village who need to dig wells. They are all villagers who come to help. You can provide us with a well." Just a meal.”

Jiang Wei also responded with a smile and went to the kitchen to prepare meals.

Jiang Xiaoxiao also went to the kitchen to help. Before leaving, she took a few glances at the sand and had a vague guess in her mind.

She probably knew her mother’s intention of having someone dig a well...

When you hire someone to do the work, you will naturally need to prepare some hard food at home. Jiang Wei picked out a large piece of fat and lean pork belly, cleaned it, added garlic, ginger slices, green onions and other seasonings, and made a pot full of twice-cooked pork.

As usual, she cooked white rice, made some vegetable dumplings, and made a pot of radish soup.

When it was brought to the yard, the strong aroma overflowed and made several people in the yard drool.

"Sister-in-law Jiang, why have you cooked so many dishes!" Liu Dagang was almost shocked when he saw it. The table was full of meat and soup, as well as white rice!

That’s the white rice that I usually can’t bear to eat during the Chinese New Year! "Sister-in-law Jiang, just cook some grains for us to make a paste. This meat is too expensive, so you should keep it at home and eat it yourself..."

"How can you have the strength to work if you're not full?" Jiang Wei didn't say anything more and directly invited a few people to come over for dinner.

The men were also very embarrassed and said they could just eat some vegetable dumplings. However, they couldn't resist Jiang Wei's persuasion and sat around the table and started eating.

The twice-cooked pork was cooked until it was crispy in the mouth, and the radish soup was just right to relieve heat, stimulate body fluids, and relieve greasiness on this hot day. Several people ate with their mouths full of oil and their faces full of satisfaction.

After eating and drinking, several people became more and more motivated to work.

Before afternoon, the well was dug to a depth of ten meters.

Liu Dagang took out a handful of wet sand with his hand and said happily: "I dug it! I dug it!"

Unexpectedly, this land looked dry, but groundwater was dug out so quickly.

Jiang Wei was also a little happy when he saw the sand: "Okay, you guys dig it first, and I'll go to the town to buy some green bricks."

In order to prevent the well from collapsing and contaminating the well water, the well wall must be reinforced. Although it is also possible to use wood or stone to reinforce it, we are not short of money now, so we must do our best!

Jiang Wei quickly went to town.

Several men quickly seized the time and continued digging. When they encountered rocks, they used iron picks and stone hammers to break them and transfer them up.

Gradually, more and more water came out of the well.

"The water dug out of this place is cleaner than the water by the river!" Liu Dagang took a sip of water with his hand and smacked his mouth with satisfaction.

Jiang Wei came back soon.

The blue bricks were all ready-made. She went to the town to order a batch and had them transported by oxcart.

Several big men hurriedly moved down the green bricks and began to build the walls of the well, using clay to joint them.

The weather was so hot that people were sweating all over. Several big men were sweating profusely, but they didn't complain at all.

In the afternoon, the walls of the well were finally built, and several people also built a windlass on the well, which would make it easier to fetch water in the future.

Jiang Wei prepared the meal and invited several people to come over and eat.

Several people waved their hands: "Sister-in-law, I haven't digested the meal this morning, so I won't eat it."

After all, let's go.

Jiang Wei then stuffed ten cents into everyone's hands: "It's okay if you don't eat, but you have to accept the wages."

Several people were stubborn and finally took the copper coins.

Liu Dagang touched the copper plate and sighed: "Sister-in-law Jiang, the work in your family is easy, and you have meat and wages. I'm afraid everyone will be vying to come and work at your house in the future!"

Jiang Wei smiled and said nothing.

After a few people left, she took advantage of the fact that it was still early, found a big basin, put all the sand and soil on the ground into it, added water to soak it and stirred it.

When the sand and soil were almost dissolved, Jiang Wei started filtering with gauze to remove the sand.

Jiang Xiaoxiao also rolled up her sleeves and went over to help, "Mom, did you find out that the land here contains saltpeter a long time ago, so you rushed to buy this land?"

(End of this chapter)