Four days after the end of the autumn harvest, the Ming family's new house was ready and officially started construction on an auspicious day.

The Huang family, the Xie family, and the Zhou family, who lived in Wulitun with the Ming family, went out as a family, and the female dependents helped Mrs. Ming and others cook, wash dishes, serve tea and pour water, and the men helped to dig sand and move bricks and tiles.

The Wang family, the Tao family, and the two Zheng families (Ming Jufu's family and Ming Xu's future father-in-law's family) in other villages only sent men as strong laborers to help.

In addition to these families who are related to the Ming family, other families in Wulitun also sent one or two strong laborers from each household to help the Ming family - of course, no one from the Yu Shouli family came.

This is called "au pair" in their Wulitun, as the name suggests, they come to help if the Ming family has something, so when any of them has something, the Ming family will inevitably send someone to help.

This kind of helper is not paid, and the Ming family is only responsible for taking care of these villagers two meals every morning and noon.

As for what kind of food to eat, it depends on the family's wealth and generosity.

It is not uncommon for those who pick the door to eat gruel with wild vegetables for the people who work twice a day.

The slightly decent ones will be given sorghum rice or coarse grain cakes, and there will be a little oil and water in the dishes.

More particular, such as the Ming family, they will make a meat dish for every meal to treat everyone.

Most of the meat dishes prepared by the Ming family are pork belly, such as pork belly stewed sauerkraut, pork belly stewed cabbage, pork belly stewed eggplant, pork belly stewed white radish, second only to pork belly is braised pig with carrots and river fish stewed tofu, and the least frequent occurrence is chestnut stewed chicken, braised rabbit meat with dried bamboo shoots.

Because there are a lot of people hired, it takes a lot of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, cabbage, radishes, and pork to prepare meals for these people every day, so Mingyue took the initiative to take on the errand of purchasing, and basically every two or three days she had to drive the ox cart to the town.

Ming Xu and others who study in the town school are not idle, every day before school and after school, they will accompany Mingyue up the mountain and down the river, one can get some pheasants, hares, river fish and the like to add vegetables to the family, and the other can also dig up some yams, herbs and other relatively valuable things to supplement the family while they are not yet freezing, after all, their family is spending money like flowing water at the moment.

The Ming family is busy, although they are tired, their hearts are happy, the only thing that makes them not very happy is that the ghost of the widow Wang actually appeared again.

She came after Mrs. Ming's nephew, Queen Xiaomei.

Wang Xiaomei is the daughter of the eldest brother of Mrs. Ming's mother's family, she married an alcoholic husband in her early years, and she was beaten by her husband when she was in her mother-in-law's house.

After the separation, she took her daughter Kong Li to live in her mother's family.

It was okay at first, but after a long time, the sisters-in-law couldn't help but start to dislike her, and the older nephews were influenced by the sister-in-law, and they were also annoyed by the "idle meal" of their mother and daughter.

Wang Xiaomei is a face-saving person, although she hurt her eyes and can't embroider anymore, she still doesn't want to make the family restless because of herself, and make her father and mother embarrassed.

So every time she went to the farm, she took her daughter everywhere to help people, and she didn't need money, just for a full meal.

This year, the Ming family built a house, and Mrs. Ming's sister-in-law also introduced them to the Ming family.

These two girls are good at work, and they are not too dirty, not too tired, and can do any job.

Mrs. Ming just pitied her niece's life was not easy at first, so she wanted to take them over for a few days to eat good food and good food, but who knew that Wang Xiaomei was even more capable than when she was a girl in her mother's house.

Mrs. Ming asked her to stay at home to help wash vegetables and cook, but she didn't do it, so she had to take her daughter Kong Li, who was just fourteen years old, to help in the new yard.

Kong Li didn't know if she was used to working since she was a child, anyway, this girl was more neat than an ordinary man, she was thin, but her strength was not small, and she could do things like moving bricks and mud.

The two of them helped for a day in the new yard, and the degree of use had already made Old Man Ming have to pay their mother and daughter to work.

Widow Wang is completely different from Wang Xiaomei's mother and daughter, this goods came to Ming's house with her parents and brothers under the banner of helpers, and as a result, the family was added together, and the work was not as much as that of a little girl in Kong Li.

Widow Wang is a drunkard, not because she cares about wine, but because she cares about Mingtang, and her parents and brothers are energetic grinders.

If it was just like this, the Ming family would pry the widow away at most, but the problem is that this family can't do much work, but they don't blush at all when they ask for wages.

They ate a meal in Ming's house in the morning, then grinded a morning of foreign labor, and ate again at noon, and before they started working in the afternoon, the family had already asked Mrs. Ming for wages with their palms up.

Mrs. Ming's original plan was to salute first and then soldier, she thought that she might as well give them some money today, and then tell them that they would not come over tomorrow. If they don't give face, then she will definitely change to a different attitude tomorrow.

However, the development of events was completely out of control under the repeated demonization of the widow Wang.

At the construction site, she always went to Mingtang's side, and Mingtang, in order to avoid suspicion, fled early under the guise of transporting wood.

She didn't catch anyone in the morning, and she was extra careful at noon.

Biao Mingtang happened to bring back a cart of wood, so Mrs. Ming asked Zhou to take the food left for Mingtang back to the backyard.

In the backyard, in the room that belonged to their little couple, Mingtang was taking a cloth towel to wash his face, and when he saw Zhou coming back, he was about to help serve the meal, but he saw that the widow Wang actually sneaked into the backyard of the Ming family.

Mingtang directly blackened his face.

He has never been a good-tempered person, and the widow always pesters him like this, so it is strange that he has no anger in his heart.

Especially this time, Widow Wang was about to throw herself into his arms in front of the Zhou family.

Zhou's body is bulky and close to Mingtang, and if Widow Wang wants to pounce on Mingtang, she will inevitably crash into Zhou's who is directly blocking her and Mingtang.

Mingtang was so frightened that his hands and feet were cold, but at the same time, there was an uncontrollable monstrous surge in his heart. Fury.

He flew up and kicked on the waist of the widow Wang, and pulled Zhou Shi behind him with both hands.

Mingyue, who happened to come out of the toilet in the backyard, witnessed this scene with her own eyes, she didn't say a word, she directly picked up the broom and hit the widow Wang's head and face.

"Third uncle, don't stay here, third aunt, you cry loudly, just say that the widow wants to kill you with one corpse and two lives." Yu Jiayan, who was supposed to go to school in the town, came out of nowhere, he pushed Mingtang to the new courtyard, and he helped the Zhou family away from the Shura field where Mingyue beat the king's widow.

Mingtang was very confident in Mingyue and Yu Jiayan, he patted Zhou, and then went to the new courtyard from the side door very quickly, and Zhou, who was full of anger, also cried loudly and cooperatingly.