ar in her heart, snuggled closer to the iron pillar, displaying her youngest daughter's delicate demeanor to the fullest.The village head let everyone go back to rest first, and stayed with his son in...The next morning at breakfast, Mrs. Mu looked strangely at her eldest son and daughter-in-law.

"What's with the long faces Did you guys work all night"

Fāng Jǐnxiù shook her head. “No, the sausage stuffing was done before midnight.”

As she spoke, she raised her hand to touch her face. Her complexion was really awful

Mu said with some self-reproach, "If I had known earlier, I would have helped you all. Now I really feel much better, and I can handle some of the small chores at home."

Zongyu was still a bit uneasy, "Mother, just focus on recovering your health. When you're better, we won't stop you from doing anything you want."

Fang Jinshi quickly agreed, "Yes, Mother, there's no need to rush into work. Your body has been depleted for too long, and you need to take good care of it for a while."

"Have you used up all the thread and needles I brought back last time"

My mother-in-law has been in good spirits these days. When she's not busy, she uses the fabric scraps and thread she brought back last time to embroider.

Now she has both the handkerchief and jade lotus, and even her clothes have several exquisite patterns on them.

Zhong Yu and Zhong Bai had already made several pairs of winter socks each, starting to stock them up.

That big bag of scraps had been worn down to about half its size, and Granny's spirits were getting better too.

“I haven't finished yet, I'm not afraid you guys are too tired. Want to help”

Mu shi didn't want her children to feel like she was a burden.

"It's nothing, mother. We're young, this bit of tiredness doesn't count for much. Just sleep it off."

Zong Yu nodded along, but his eyes couldn't quite meet his daughter-in-law's.

He gobbled down his meal and was about to drag Zong Bai out the door when Fang Jinshu thought of something and suddenly stopped them.

"Are you going to continue digging the canal"

She didn't mention it, and Zong Bai hadn't reacted yet. After what the villagers did to them yesterday, how could he willingly dig that water channel now

Zong Bai pulled his older brother back.

"That's right, big brother. Yesterday, your mother and sister-in-law asked them to help look for you up the mountain. You didn't see it, these people all have such ugly faces."

"You lead them up the mountain to dig canals, giving them a glimmer of hope for survival."

"So you got into trouble, and not a single one of them was willing to help. This canal, anyway, I can't dig it anymore, I'm not going."

After he finished speaking, he also grabbed his brother's arm and said, "You don't go either! They all refuse to help you find it anyway, so let them just go up the mountain and dig themselves."

"Zhong Yu frowned, 'This is something I promised Wangcun's headman, I cannot go back on my word.'"

And yesterday Tie Zhu wasn't with you all going up the mountain either, was he

Zong Bai hesitated for a moment, "Wang Zhuang and Tiezhu are indeed quite righteous."

But, what about those people in the village.

Zongyu didn't care what the villagers thought of him. He only agreed to this because Wang, the village head, had spoken up for his family before.

If you agree to do something for someone else, you must see it through and not give up halfway.

Fang Jinshi understood her husband's meaning, but she felt that Zong Bai was also right.

She couldn't swallow her anger.

"I know you don't want to make things difficult for Village Head Wang, but this irrigation ditch still needs to be dug. But the benefits of this world shouldn't all be taken by villagers."

"Thankfully you're safe and sound back, what if something had happened to you in the mountains"

"If we don't charge interest, the villagers will really think we are family and can be manipulated and taken advantage of."

Zong Bai nodded vigorously, basically just Fang Jinshu's little fanboy.

"Right! My sister-in-law is right, they've been taking advantage of us."

"This period of time, Big Brother took them up the mountain to dig irrigation ditches. They dug for wild vegetables and carried water back down the mountain. Sometimes, if they were lucky, they could even pick a basketful of meat worms."

"Without my older brother, they wouldn't be able to find such good things to eat."

"Each one was starving at home."

"When the big brother went missing and they needed help finding him, they all backed away and gave him the cold shoulder! They're all a bunch of wolves in sheep's clothing!"

Yulian also chimed in, “That’s right! Especially that Li Gou, he even cursed Big Brother to die in the mountains!”

Zong Yu frowned and looked at Fang Jinshi.

"Don't you want me to keep helping them dig the canal"apital.At the Jinxiu Villa, both upstairs and downstairs were in a flurry of activity. Xiaoyue and Jinyu heard that their mistress was taking her whole family to Beijing, for fear of being left behind...