In the middle of July of the Gregorian calendar, Ju Wenqi took on a big job.

The village elementary school was about to be rebuilt and the carpenters were outsourced. He defeated the same village Carpenter Zhao with a lower bid and shorter working hours to get this opportunity.

The school will be built before the start of school on September 1st. Ju Wenqi is not only responsible for carpenter work such as beams and door frames, but also for tables, chairs and benches. There is no time to be idle from morning to night.

When Zhang Yongmei was not alive in the field, she handed all the children to Zhang Yongli to watch, and came over to help Ju Wenqi.

Hurry up and finally completed the work before school starts.

Ju Wenqi is good at craftsmanship and honest in his work. The most important thing is that he is cheap. After the primary school is completed, many people in all villages have asked him to build furniture and build houses. Ju Wenqi almost refuses everyone. As long as he can make money, no matter how tired or busy he can tolerate it.

The hardworking person will not starve to death.

After the autumn harvest, the weather became colder and colder, and the carpenter work was not available for the time being. Ju Wenqi went to the mountains with some men in the village to do side jobs.

The so-called side job is to go into the mountain to carry wood.

In the middle of winter, in the environment of minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius, dozens of old men carried wood during the day and squeezed into a bunk bed to sleep on a bunk bed at night. They ate snow water and only had a little salty radish and potatoes. The conditions were really difficult.

This is not the first time Ju Wenqi has been working on a side job. A large meat bun is raised on the back of his neck, which is pressed out by carrying wood.

Zhang Yongmei was not at home and was not idle. After the autumn, Zhang Yongli went home. She took care of the three young masters and one old man in the family. When the weather was good, she went to the mountains to pick up firewood. At night, she had to take time to make clothes, cotton jackets, cotton pants for the family.

Ju Min and Ju Jing are really very sensible. The children in the village run wildly outside all day long. The river surface in front of the yard is frozen, and there are children skating on it every day. However, the two children have never been there once, so they help take care of Ju Ling and the crazy grandmother at home.

Zhang Yongmei also advised them to go out to play with the children in the village more often. Ju Min pulled the tumbler and replied depressedly: "I don't like to play with them."

They don’t like to play with others. They are bullied every time they play. They hear some bad things, so they simply stop playing with others.

At first, Zhang Yongmei didn't know about this and thought that her child was not in a good way. One day, she accidentally heard a group of children talking about the Ju Min sisters behind their backs and realized what was going on.

Everyone in the village knows that the family of Ju Lao San is poor. The couple is afraid of visiting each other when they go to each other, just because they are afraid that they will borrow money. The children of Ju Lao San’s family will play with other children. Anyone who can’t find anything will blame the sisters, saying that they are thieves and they steal other people’s belongings if they don’t have them.

What do children know? In fact, they remember what adults said too much, so they turned around and talked to sister Ju Min.

Ju Jing is still young and doesn't understand, but Ju Min understands everything. She can't explain it to those people and is unhappy to be told by others. So she just drags Ju Jing not to play with others, which is easy to save trouble.

Zhang Yongmei hid and cried hard, and when she faced her child again, it seemed that nothing had happened.

There was a big market in the village the next day. Zhang Yongmei asked Ju Min to take care of her family and went to the market early, and did not come back until the afternoon.

She bought a lot of things, and the sisters Ju Min looked around the big bag she carried back curiously. They were so curious that they were still waiting for her to speak before they dared to open the bag.

Zhang Yongmei looked at her two daughters with distress and said softly: "Open it and see, there is something I bought for you."

Originally, Zhang Yongmei planned to buy two sets of clothes and two pairs of shoes for her two children, and then buy nodded toys and other things. Anyway, it's the Chinese New Year, so let the children be happy in advance.

But when she got to the stall and asked for the price clearly, she changed her mind.

It’s not that you don’t have clothes and shoes to wear, just clean and you don’t need to buy new ones. There is not much extra money at home, and you have to spend a penny where you should spend it. You have to save as much as you can.

Life is for yourself, and there is no need to make you fat because others say it and look at it.

So, I spent several rounds of the big market and bought the things that my family needed the most. I only weighed a pound of candy for the two children.

A pound of hard candy made the two children very happy. Ju Min slapped Ju Jing's little hand, took out four candies from the bag, and then carefully tied the bag and put it on the kang cabinet that Ju Jing could not reach.

"Sister, I won't steal food." Ju Jing felt very wronged.

Ju Mincai didn't believe it, and gave her a candy while saying, "You used to say you wouldn't steal my sister's milk powder!"

Ju Jing put the candy into her mouth and said even more aggrievedly: "I will go hungry if I eat my sister, so I won't steal it."

Ju Min ignored her, peeled a candy and put it in her mouth, and distributed the remaining two to Zhang Yongmei and Crazy Grandma.

Zhang Yongmei refused to eat it and put the candy on the top of the kang: "I don't like to eat candy, you two can eat it."

Ju Ling was originally sitting on the kang playing with a tumbler. She was not particularly anxious when she saw that others had food. She drooled down the corner of her mouth and crawled out to the end of the kang to get the candy Zhang Yongmei put down.

Seeing that his little hands were about to touch the candy, Ju Min and Ju Jing pulled her ankles back from left to right.

"You are too young to eat." Ju Jing didn't care whether her sister could understand it or not, and said with a lesson like a little adult: "You have to be as old as me to eat candy."

Of course Ju Ling couldn't understand it, and she couldn't eat her mouth and started crying.

Zhang Yongmei went out to carry the firewood and burn the kang, but was not in the house, Ju Min lowered her head and folded the candy paper without saying a word, Ju Jing could not count on others and could only coax her sister by herself.

She was very reluctant to spit out her candy and squeezed it into her hand, and said with distress: "I will give you a taste, and I won't cry if I taste it."

After saying that, she pinched the candy and rubbed it around Ju Ling's lips. After getting the sweet taste, she quickly stuffed the candy back into her mouth.

Ju Ling licked her mouth, sweet, and giggled with tears and snot on her face.

Children's happiness is so simple and simple. In the blink of an eye, the New Year is coming. Ju Wenqi brought the money he had earned hard, and the whole family is happy.

After the old and the young fell asleep at night, Zhang Yongmei and Ju Wenqi got up from the bed and counted the money in the flashlight.

"I have saved up so much money for this year," Zhang Yongmei sighed after counting.

Ju Wenqi smiled and said, "Okay, a lot, so take your time. Let's have a good New Year first. After the New Year, buy a cow and farm it. It's not a big deal to just borrow the cows from Uncle Sun's family. If the weather is warmer, we will start building a house. Our broken house has been too old and it's too much to hold on even the wind and snow. I'm always worried that something will happen to you at home."

It is imperative to buy cows and build a house. Even if Zhang Yongmei feels sorry for money, she will not save money in this regard.
Chapter completed!