After reporting to Wang Yuhe, he left the bill contract to Wang Yuhe, and Liu Ye returned to Zhuangzi.

Although it is about to enter winter, the house can still be repaired, otherwise there will be no one to live in the winter, and the next year will be even more dilapidated.

The next day, when he entered Bailu County, Liu Ye went directly to find the woman, named Lady Zhai.

I mentioned to her that I want to strengthen and repair the house so that the house can survive the winter, and I also need a doorkeeper, preferably a husband and wife with almost adult children, and they can also clean and clean on weekdays.

Aunt Zhai recommended her sister and two sons, as well as a nephew and a niece.

"The family background is a little worse, but the character is not picky! Both of them can do it, and my son is apprenticed to a carpenter in the city, which is recommended by my old man. The daughter is a female celebrity at home, and she can already do some simple work and subsidize some families. The family is capable, and it is by no means the kind of cheating. Aunt Zhai's chest snapped and vouched for her sister and brother-in-law's family.

"Then please ask Aunt Zhai to let their family come to the house when they are free, and I will meet people. If you can, you will stay, and the wages will be negotiated when the time comes, and you also need to arrange the work. ”

"Yes, yes! Is the girl coming back in the afternoon? They are in the county seat, and they will be able to come in the afternoon! ”

Liu Ye thought for a while and said, "In the afternoon, I will go to the house before dinner, and Aunt Zhai will lead them over at that time." ”

"Alas! Ok, good, good! ”

Aunt Zhai was very happy, and Liu Ye said again: "It's still that house, it needs to be reinforced, and it needs to be repaired well before winter, so I won't look for others, just let you find someone, scattered work, but be serious, you need to make big changes in the coming year." ”

"Okay, okay, girl, don't worry!"

Liu Ye thanked Aunt Zhai and gave a fixed amount of ten taels of silver.

dismissed Aunt Zhai and asked her to stay for lunch, and Liu Ye went to the street.

She went to the market, and asked for prices for household items such as pots and pans, and was generally impressed.

At this time, at the end of the market, there is a small river that runs through the city, with a stone arch bridge on it, and on the other side is an ordinary residential area, which can also be said to be a gathering place for some poor people.

Liu Ye crossed the stone bridge all the way, and there were people selling fried dried tofu on the bridge, so Liu Ye bought some and took it in his hand, eating it while walking.

After crossing the stone bridge, she turned back sharply and saw nothing.

She felt as if she was suspicious, and she always felt that someone was staring at her in the dark, and it wasn't the feeling of being followed by Tadaji.

Shaking her head, she walked over, the residential area here is very large, but the yard of the house is very dilapidated and narrow, and occasionally a few shops are open, and there are some relatively old items, and cheap food.

Liu Ye casually walked into a steamed bun shop and ordered a basket of steamed buns and a bowl of soup.

While waiting, she found that there were a few children at the door probing their brains, and she greeted them with a smile, and the children dispersed in a hurry.

The bun came up, and the willow leaves were no longer distracted.

Although there was very little meat in the filling, it tasted good, and suddenly, Liu Ye frowned.

Grabbing an arm with his backhand, he pulled it back, and was about to give him a blow, but he gave up because he felt the thinness of his arm.

A child fell out and was about to run away with his arm in his hand, but the boss ran out with a stick in his hand and beat the child without saying anything.

"It's you again, it's you! I said I don't want you to come back!" The boss whipped hard, ordinary people must not bear to see it, but Liu Ye squinted her eyes slightly and did not speak, she could see that the boss seemed to be hard, but in fact he avoided the vital point, and helped him leave the shop while beating.

The child left the shop and ran away, the boss wiped the sweat on his head, turned around and smiled at Liu Ye: "Let the guests smile, these little rabbits ......"

"It doesn't matter." Liu Ye waved his hand and said, "Boss, let's take another basket of steamed buns to take away." ”

"Alas! Hold on. The boss happily went to the back, and Liu Ye pondered, solved the buns and soup, took the paper bag handed by the boss, gave the food money and left the shop.

Thinking about the direction in which the child was running, she slowly walked over there.

After walking several streets in a row, he came back and found another way to chase after him, and after a while he heard the voices of several children on the other side of the wall, which sounded like a group of children were teaching a child.

This kind of thing should be quite common, I don't know if it's what I think.

Climbed up the wall lightly, and there was a dilapidated yard that looked like it had been uninhabited for a long time, and now it had become the base for the children.

Liu Ye recognized that the child who wanted to steal his wallet was shrinking in a corner, holding half a piece of baked cake and gnawing on it, with a lot of shoe prints on his body, and it seemed that he had been kicked a lot of feet just now.

"Three dogs, don't eat it, you missed it again today. I'll spare you once today, and I won't give you anything to eat next time. "The leader was an older child, about twelve or thirteen years old, who carried a bag of baked cakes and handed one to each of the children around him.

When he finished sending it, he yelled at the kid named Sangouzi.

Sangouzi ignored him, so he picked up a stone and threw it over, hitting Sangouzi directly on the back, and he didn't react.

More than a dozen children surrounded the eldest and expressed their disdain for the three dogs.

Everyone ate the baked cakes and went out with the boss, leaving only one of the three dogs to be left.

Liu Ye sat on the courtyard wall and looked at the three dogs, after the children left, he was obviously relaxed, and even took a deep breath. He stood up and stretched his hands and feet, and threw a few punches.

After a while, he sighed and walked to a corner of the courtyard, and after a little tossing, took out a package.

After seeing it clearly, Liu Ye suddenly felt a burst of pity.

It was a worn-out book, the Book of Three Characters.

The boy read softly, listening to the movement outside the courtyard with his ears pricked up.

He also drew branches on the ground according to the words in the book.

Liu Ye saw that he was gradually entering the state, but the group of children came back quietly, and Liu Ye hurriedly threw a stone down, only to wake up the child.

Willow leaves quietly from here.

Carrying the bun back to the house, there were already four people waiting there, Liu Ye looked at the time, it was still early!

"Who are you?" Liu Ye asked.

The four of them quickly stood up, a middle-aged couple with a son and a daughter, the family was quite thin, the woman was quite beautiful, but her face was not very good.

"You are Miss Liu, I am Aunt Zhai's sister." The woman hurriedly said, the man just lowered his head and nodded, the boy was twelve or thirteen years old, a little shy, and the girl was only eight or nine years old, but she looked at the willow leaves very curiously.

"I'm Liu Ye, it turned out to be an aunt, and I came early. What do you call an uncle? ”

"This is my man, surnamed Law. We don't have anything else to make a living, so let's just come and have a look. ”

Liu Ye glanced at it, there were still a few packages behind them, and it seemed that there were quilts, this was to bring all the belongings, it seemed that life was very embarrassing.

"That's okay, it's the same a little later, let's go in first." Liu Ye stepped forward and opened the door, and Aunt Lao pulled her daughter in, and Uncle Lao and his son followed in with a salute from behind.

Willow leaves told them to put their things down and closed the door.

"This is the house you are going to guard. Now that there is no one living in it, in a few days there will be a team of workers coming in to repair the house, and you just have to watch them not destroy it, and open and close the door on time. Willow said.

When Uncle Lao heard this, he just looked at the surrounding environment, and Aunt Lao was answering, and Liu Ye could see that this family was run by women, and the man was a stuffy worker.

The house is relatively large, and there are more than a dozen inverted seats, and Liu Ye led them to stand in the innermost three-room courtyard on the east side.

"From now on, you will live here, the yard is quite spacious, there are piles of wood and bricks in the corner, you have to build a kitchen and toilet by yourself when you are empty." Liu Ye was afraid that they would not dare to move, so he simply told them what they could do.

When I entered the room, there was a square table in the middle hall, and in the west room was a shelf bed, a wardrobe, a small square table, and two chairs. The east room is a large kang facing the window, and there are also wardrobes, square tables, and four low stools.

There is a layer of kang quilt on the kang and on the shelf bed, but there is no quilt pillow.

However, Aunt Lao's eyes were full of sparkles when she looked at the empty room.

"Willow... Miss Liu, can we live in such a nice house? She stuttered a little.

Liu Ye took her hand and sat down on the east kang, and said, "Auntie, don't worry, this house still needs to be repaired next year, and the house will be painted at that time, so it will be better to live." ”

Aunt Lao looked left and right, very satisfied, and said, "Thank you Miss Liu, we can have such a good place to live!" ”

"If you want to thank Aunt Zhai, she recommended you." Liu Ye smiled and said, "By the way, how is my aunt's cooking skills, is she working fast?" ”

"My mother's skills are good! It's very easy to work! The little girl suddenly interjected.

Aunt Lao pretended to sneer at her, and the little girl pouted.

"This kid is reckless, Miss Liu, don't be surprised. But what she said is also true, it's not that my aunt is boasting, I can make vegetarian dishes taste meat without meat! ”

Liu Ye was very happy, and maybe in the future she would even have a cook.

"That's the kind of daring, that's the case, there will be a team of workers to repair the house in a few days, I want to take advantage of the good weather to let them do more, at noon I want to take care of their meal, if the aunt is busy, just take this job, and you don't need to come forward, just let the uncle bring it over." Wages are not included! ”

"Alas, either or not! I'll just do a little more. Aunt Lao hurriedly pushed it.

"There are a lot of people, I'll give you money for cooking, cook more meals for a few more people every day, what standard we will talk about later." Auntie, listen to me, my master is the most kind, as long as he is willing to work hard and do his errands well, he will definitely not treat everyone badly in money! ”

Aunt Lao happily agreed, and when she saw her smile, Uncle Lao also grinned silently.

Liu Ye thought to himself that the two of them must be very affectionate.

Then he led them to the back house for a walk, and the two were very surprised by the size of the house.

"Don't worry, there will be some more people added here one after another, not for the two of you to take care of the entire house." Willow Leaf was afraid of scaring them.

Aunt Lao looked embarrassed: "We're not afraid of living too much, we're afraid that we won't be able to take care of such a big deal." ”

"I understand, don't worry, guard the door first."

Back in the inverted room, Liu Ye saw that the little girl had already laid out the futon, although it was tattered, it was clean and a little damp.