Chapter 882: Chapter 882: Long-term Laborer_1
In the evening, Qiao Xiaomai kept pestering Tong Sanlang to make love, as the fire kang had been repaired and there was nothing urgent for tomorrow. Tong Sanlang could sleep to his heart’s content.
When a beauty throws herself into his arms, Tong Sanlang naturally wouldn’t refuse, especially since he was quite looking forward to the effects after the disappearance of the Water Drop Pendant.
Qiao Changshun’s limp couldn’t be cured, but Qiao Qinghe should always be able to treat it, right?
Qiao Qinghe was currently taking dicine, so it was entirely possible to attribute the cause to the dication.
With this thought in mind, Tong Sanlang was even more valiant than before, embracing Qiao Xiaomai deep into the night until dawn, when they finally fell into a deep sleep.
Qiao Xiaomai’s fair skin was covered in various marks, which slowly disappeared as she slept. By noon, she woke up, looking radiant and flushed.
She got up in ti for lunch, which Qiao Changshun had made using water from the Spiritual Spring mixed with well water, which was quite delicious.
“It’s that family with just four mbers from Dawang Village; the couple wants to start working right now,” Qiao Changshun said, “What do you think?”
“Let them co. You need to take care of Grandfather, and Zhaodi and Yindi are already too busy taking care of the livestock and doing housework,” Qiao Xiaomai felt that the arrival of the couple was tily.
Feeding the twenty pigs alone took up a considerable amount of ti each day, not to ntion managing such a large manor. If not cleaned daily, it at least had to be swept every three days, so the couple’s arrival was very opportune.
Dawang Village was neither too far nor too close to the manor; it normally took half an hour to walk there. The morning after, just past breakfast ti, the couple arrived at the manor.
Both had flush cheeks, which was from the heat, as they had run over.
Qiao Xiaomai first instructed the two to prepare pig feed.
The pigsty, sheepfold, cattle barn, and chicken coop were adjacent, and Qiao Xiaomai had soone build a stove with a large iron pot next to them, specifically for boiling pig and chicken feed.
In winter, there were no green plants, so the cows and sheep were fed wheat straw mixed with dried grass.
The husband’s na was Wang Tiesheng, and the wife’s na was Li Qiuhua. Qiao Xiaomai explained their tasks, and the two imdiately got busy.
Wheat straw and dried grass needed to be chopped with a grass cutting knife, and the couple managed to cut grass while making a fire, efficiently multitasking.
By the ti they finished feeding the livestock, half an hour had passed. Qiao Xiaomai then handed them brooms to sweep the Courtyard.
The two were very diligent, starting from the main gate and sweeping all the way to the end of the manor, covering the entire twenty acres. Besides the Courtyard, they didn’t miss any open spaces, complying exactly with Qiao Xiaomai’s instructions.
Soon it was noon, and Qiao Xiaomai went to the kitchen to cook.
Since als were provided, the long-term workers ate the sa food as the landowner herself — both at and vegetables.
However, during alti, the couple firmly refused to sit at the table, repeatedly expressing that they were long-term workers and their status was different from that of a landowner and a scholar’s wife.
Qiao Xiaomai didn’t insist. She used a small wooden basin to serve them a basin of vegetables and filled a small basket woven from willow branches with six Stead Buns, letting the couple find their own place to eat.
The two didn’t go far and squatted at the kitchen entrance, devouring all the food and Stead Buns quickly.
In the afternoon, Qiao Xiaomai assigned them a new task: washing sweet potatoes.
Now was the slack season in farming, and it was ti to continue making Dried Sweet Potatoes.
However, washing sweet potatoes in the dead of winter was a job she wasn’t keen on doing, so she left it to the long-term workers.
In just one afternoon, the couple washed over two thousand pounds of sweet potatoes, clean and eting both quality and quantity requirents.
After observing them for a day, Qiao Xiaomai was very satisfied with the couple.
After supper, when the couple was about to leave, she took out the money basket to settle their wages.
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