【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

Chapter 105 The Love-minded Grandma in the Weird Neighborhood 21

"Sir, we haven't found a stable job, but Qinglin and I have rented a small house. We take odd jobs on weekdays, such as washing clothes, cleaning, or doing part-time work in the workshop. Qinglin cuts a few carts of firewood from outside the city every day to buy, and we can barely make ends meet." Jiujin answered everything in detail with an optimistic attitude.

"You two are diligent, and you will always have a good life." Master Zhuang encouraged her, "Come, let me introduce you to Madam Yun, who adopted Yunduan. Her family needs a helper to do the housework. It only takes half a day a day. Would you like to try it?"

Jiujin nodded heavily, his eyes full of anticipation, "Hello, Madam Yun, Madam Yun, I can do anything and I will definitely do the job well, please believe me."

It is not easy to get odd jobs normally. The workload is heavy, and the bosses are in charge and like to deduct wages, so it is very unstable.

Yun Xi looked at the other man's sturdy physique and nodded with satisfaction. "Then let me tell you about the specific work you will do. The work at my house is not heavy. Every morning you come to fill the water tank, clean the house, wash the clothes left by the previous day, chop enough firewood for the day, water the fruit trees, and then you can leave."

Seeing the other person's delighted expression, Yun Xi continued, "I heard that you have a big appetite. If you work late, I can make you a lunch. If you leave early, I can give you four white flour buns for lunch. Your salary is 400 wen a month."

"Can it be done?"

"Okay, okay!"

Jiujin agreed without hesitation. This job could be finished in less than half an hour. After finishing it, he could do other things. It would not be a problem to earn one or two taels of silver a month. In addition, he could earn seven or eight hundred coins a month from chopping wood in Qinglin. His life would get better and better.

The two signed an employment contract and went to the government office to file it. They agreed to go to the Yun family to help at 1:05 AM the next day. It was the last house in the first row of Taolifang from the south.

After returning home, Yun Xi began to plan to write her fourth horror story. The first story was about coffins and ghosts in the old mountain village, the second was about tomb-robbing zombies, and the third was about drinking mutton soup and turning into a sheep. What should she write about the fourth one?

Yun Xi was in a dilemma, her eyes glancing at the cute little Yunduan. Thinking that people were still being sacrificed and buried with the dead, why not write something like this? No, no, the royal family is taking the lead in doing this. Will they cause trouble for me? The Dongpu Emperor seemed quite open-minded, so he probably wouldn't bother her.

However, seeing so many girls in the orphanage shows that the idea of ​​favoring boys over girls is serious, so I might as well write an article like this first.

After a cowardly beginning, Yun Xi suddenly changed her style and began to write the story of the Baby Girl Tower...

Yun Xi made preparations for both scenarios. On one hand, she wrote about the story of a doll that was sacrificed alive and became a spirit, and on the other hand, she wrote about the story of the vengeful spirit of a baby girl in a tower. Both books are tragedies, in line with the writing style of "Xi Nian Liu", but this time, irony was added.

The next day, just after the hour of Mao, there was a knock on the door. Yun Xi got up and opened the door, and saw Jiujin and a young man standing at the door.

"Jiujin, what is this?"

"Madam Yun, Qinglin is my husband. He is here to take me to work. He will go out of the city to chop firewood later." Jiujin explained hurriedly.

"Oh, hello. I'm Yunxi, Jiujin's employer. Jiujin, have you had breakfast?"

Yun Xi nodded and greeted him, then asked casually.

Jiujin smiled, revealing his big white teeth. "Breakfast? Madam Yun, we don't eat breakfast. Two meals a day are enough."

Yun Xi: It seems so. Poor people only eat two meals a day. It’s embarrassing...

Jiujin entered the yard, his eyes full of work. He was strong and nimble. He first hurried out with a bucket and easily brought back two buckets of water. After a few trips back and forth in less than ten minutes, he filled the two water tanks inside and outside the kitchen with water. The well was in the middle of the alley, not very close.

After watching for a while, Yun Xi was sure that Jiujin was able to work, so she began to wash up. After she was fully awake, she went to the back room to feed the sheep, squeezed out a bowl of goat milk, and cooked it in the kitchen.

For breakfast, she drank millet porridge and ate black fungus and egg buns. She originally took two, but after thinking about it, Yun Xi took four more and steamed them together.

Jiujin was cleaning outside. Everything else was pretty simple. The only difficult thing was the toilet and the goat feces. There was no other way. If there was another toilet in the yard, it would smell bad and would require people to clean it regularly. Yun Xi didn't like that.

"Madam Yun, can I take the sheep manure and the feces in the commode?"

Jiujin shouted in the yard.

Yun Xi dared to come out of the kitchen and asked in confusion: "Why did you take it away?"

"I'm going to go outside the city to chop wood with my husband. I want to take this to the village outside the city and sell it for a penny." Jiujin was very embarrassed. "Especially sheep manure is a very good farm fertilizer. The people need it very much for farming."

"Okay, you can take it away. Just don't tell anyone about my family's situation outside, okay?" Yun Xi reminded her. A bucket of feces only cost one penny, so she didn't take it seriously. Besides, she wouldn't have to pay Ye Xianglang in the future, so it was a small savings.

Jiujin patted his chest and assured, "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about the master's family, not even my husband."

"it is good."

After cooking the porridge, Yun Xi changed Yun Duan's diaper and brought her to the kitchen to drink milk. When Jiu Jin saw the dirty diaper, he immediately took it to wash.

By the time Jiujin finished chopping the firewood, the porridge in the pot was ready.

"Jiujin, here are four buns with wood ear mushrooms and eggs. Take them and eat them. Also, take one of the bamboo tubes hanging in the yard and fill it with hot water to drink on the way." Yun Xi was not a sarcastic person. After checking the results of Jiujin's work, she was very satisfied.

"Okay, thank you Madam Yun."

Holding the buns in his arms, he could smell the fragrance and warm his body. Jiujin carried the dung bucket in one hand and the bamboo tube in the other, and left quickly with a happy face.

After Yun Xi finished her meal, she continued to write. She was free anyway. Soon, Zhao Deping and Zhao Dean came with paper and pen.

"Master, my sister has gone out to study at a nanny's house, and my parents are at my uncle's house on some business. My brother and I came to practice calligraphy with you."

Zhao Deping was not polite at all.

"Okay, everyone, sit down. Let's have lunch at my place. I'm going to have old duck vermicelli soup." Yun Xi smiled and said, "I froze two ducks for the New Year. I ate one and had one left. I've already cooked it."

"Okay, okay, thank you, Master."

The two young apprentices sat upright and practiced calligraphy seriously, occasionally checking the fire to make sure it was neither too big nor out.

Yun Xi is holding Yunduan and thinking about a new book, and her days are very warm.

On the other side, Jiujin hurried out of the city and soon found her husband on a barren mountain. "Qinglin, I'm going to sell these. Take the buns from my arms and eat them first."

Qinglin stopped, not quite understanding. "You bought buns? Didn't we agree to save money to buy a house?"

The cheapest small house in the north city costs eighty taels. He didn't know when he could save enough money, and the pressure was great. He learned carpentry in the orphanage, and Jiujin learned cooking, but unfortunately they had no experience in talking and doing things, so they couldn't find any work at all.