After Dressing Up As a Stepmother, I Transformed the Whole Family Into Working In the Fields Chapter 96

Chapter 96 Understanding Lao San

Everyone in the Liu family in the courtyard had heard the commotion. Qin Yao walked into the open door, and Mrs. Zhang greeted her under the hall.

“Come here and sit down, why are you out here at noon? Why don't you take a rest at home?”

Qin Yao has always kept her wealth to others. Carpenter Liu is responsible for the waterwheel, while she is responsible for making two large stone mills and one stone mill. It is really not busy for one person.

When he came to the main room, he didn't sit down. He held the pole in his hand to explain his purpose.

“Carpenter Liu and I are going to build a water mill for Xiahe Village. I'm short of a few manpower. Brother, brother, and brother, are you free to come with me to make a stone mill these days?”

Qin Yao added: "Thirty-five cents per person per day, without food, is a laborious job. I don't want anyone to use it at home, so I will come and ask you first. If you don't have time, I will go to other places to find it."

My cousin's family also has several cousins. Last time her family built a house, they worked very hard.

Qin Yao had planned this from the beginning. When she heard Liu Bai proposed it, she nodded in agreement.

There are only three that are needed, and one extra is a backup just in case.

Getting the stones is actually the easiest. The difficult part is how to transport them back, so the closer to the main road, the better.

From a closer look, Liu Bai and Liu Zhong both look pretty good. Liu Fei is a bit inferior, but taken alone, he is still a handsome young man.

Fortunately, with Qin Yao's help, he slowly found the right rhythm, and before the sun set, he cut out a relatively complete boulder.

Liu Bai paid more attention to details and asked Qin Yao, "The place where the stones were taken is not far from Xiahe Village. It will cost us a lot to move back to our village. Otherwise, we can just take the stones and build a shed on the roadside." The ground will be polished, and when the time comes, it will be taken directly to Xiahe Village, which will save some trouble. "

“Don't look at me like that, is that exaggerating?” Qin Yao raised her eyebrows and asked as she took her lunch, a small pottery vat.

However, the combined rice bowls of the three of them are not worth the small pottery jar in Qin Yao's hand.

More than half an hour's walk from Liujiacun toward Xiahe Village, you'll reach the place where the stones are collected.

Did Liu Ji pick it up?

Mrs. Qiu then gently pushed Liu Zhong's arm. Liu Zhong scratched his head and said a little embarrassedly: "I'll go too."

He and Qiu got up early in the morning, made breakfast for the three brothers, and packed lunch for them.

After setting up the work shed, the four of them returned home with the sunset.

There are four heavy boulders in total. Two logs are used as bases at the bottom, and one is used as a traction. The stones are lifted up, and the logs are rolled to the roadside section by section. Finally, ropes are used to hoist them onto the road.

Old man Liu just realized the high salary of thirty-five cents a day and said hurriedly:

"We are all brothers. No matter what the salary is, you can just give them three meals a day."

In the past, when everyone ate together, they only saw Qin Yao eating one bowl after another, and did not intuitively feel the gap between the amount of food.

No, this is absolutely impossible. Although the four brothers do not have the same mother, Old Man Liu has strong genes and they all look very similar.

Qin Yao needs two millstones with a diameter of 80 cm, and a cylindrical stone mill with a diameter of 60 cm and a length of one meter.

Qin Yao looked at Old Man Liu with a funny look, "Dad, my brother will settle the accounts, and we will pay as much as we need. Time is tight, so let's get busy now. Today is also half a day's wages."

Liu Zhong breathed a sigh of relief and pointed to the mountains in the distance seriously, "It's hard to find big ones in the river. You have to go to the mountains to dig them."

She could even lift the smaller spare boulder by herself, weighing nearly a thousand kilograms, and throw it directly onto the road as fast as flying.

The three brothers were still embarrassed, but He and Qiu had already smiled in surprise.

Four people spent two days working to carve out a large stone, two medium-sized stones, and a smaller one.

Young people look lean and have considerable strength, but chiseling stones mainly relies on skills. But they are too young and are easily impetuous. They even make themselves angry when they knock a stone.

Looking at the young man's positive energy, Qin Yao gnawed on the meatloaf that Liu Ji had made last night, holding a small pottery jar filled with steamed buns and vegetables in her hand, shaking her head and sighing: "It's so energetic."

Perhaps Liu Ji looks more like his mother, so his facial features are particularly superior.

Needless to say, Liu Fei had already gone into the utility room to get a pole and hammer. Fully equipped, he stood in the courtyard and asked loudly: "Sister-in-law, where are we going to carry the stones?"

This process, because of the strong man Qin Yao, is much easier than cutting stone.

Liu Zhong was still embarrassed for questioning Qin Yao's method of growing rice last time. Qin Yao took the initiative to ask him: "Second brother, do you know where the most big rocks are around us?"

The quality of the stone is not bad, and it is sufficient for making grinding discs.

Throughout the whole day, the valley was filled with the sound of "clang, clang, clang" of gold and stone knocking, which sounded quite rhythmic.

Moreover, the stones are heavy and there is no fear of being moved away when placed on the roadside.

When I saw that small pottery jar today, my eyes widened.

It is a stone mountain, with no grass growing on it, and the bottom is covered with gravel that has been blown by wind and rain.

Liu Fei was as happy as a fool, "Third sister-in-law, you may not think that I am strong, but I am very strong. You don't need to pamper me. I will definitely use my strength to work for you."

Liu Zhong strode at the front, Liu Bai walked side by side with him, and the two of them discussed which mountain to go to.

Every time Qin Yao looked up and saw the muscles in his arms bulging and the three Liu brothers working hard, he couldn't help but wonder, why are the sons born from the same father so different?

He said: "It's empty. There's not much work in the field at the moment. Let your elder brother go with you!"

Liu Bai and Liu Zhong worked together to chisel a relatively large stone. It took one day to chisel, but only half of it was completed. If they work in another day tomorrow, they can chisel it off.

“Sure, you know you lead the way.” Qin Yao readily gave up the front position.

They each had a night's rest. At dawn the next day, Liu Fei ran to Qin Yao's door, knocked on the door, and woke Qin Yao up.

Most people who have nothing to do would steal a stone mill and forget about it. People who don't need it will think it takes up space.

Liu Bai and Liu Zhong also said: "As long as we have food to eat." They almost got their forearms pinched by their wives, causing the tender flesh to swell.

One afternoon, the four of them were selecting materials. They used colored pink stones from the river to mark out good places to start, and circled several areas. There was no time to chisel stones today. After selecting the materials, Liu Bai and Liu Fei chopped down the trees. Qin Yao was responsible for moving them to the road, and built a simple tree shed with Liu Zhong to provide shade from the sun and rain.

There are obvious traces of excavation on the stone wall. This is a place where several nearby villages often come to collect stones.

Thinking about all kinds of random things in his mind, it did not affect the efficiency of Qin Yao's work. He first chiseled off a huge stone, and then went to help Liu Fei.

After saying that, he asked the eldest and second brothers to pick up the tools and lead the three laborers away.

The three Liu Bai brothers nodded in unison. It's really exaggerated, isn't it?

However, when we arrived at our destination and started working, we saw Qin Yao holding a pickaxe and knocking down more than ten centimeters with one hammer, and felt that it was reasonable for her to eat so much.

The three brothers of the Liu family were stunned and could not come back to their senses for a long time.

Suddenly I can understand why the third child has become so obedient.

(End of this chapter)

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