Although her two cousins were very wary of Zhou Man, they couldn't bear the fact that Zhou Man had official power and a large group of adults behind her, so she walked into the yard. Although the three of them looked at her with wide eyes, they didn't dare to say anything.
Drive people out.
But when he saw her walking into the main room's door, he couldn't help shouting: "You, you can't go in!"
Man Bao looked back at him and said: "I'm just going to see how this house needs to be repaired. You can't live like this. The thatch hasn't been replaced for many years. If it rains in the next two days, do you want to live in the water?
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After saying that, she stretched out her hand to open the curtain and went in. When she saw the dirty and messy look inside, she sighed repeatedly. She only turned around in a circle and then came out and said to a group of young people: "You can't look like this. I don't know who has extra thatch."
, each family brings one or two handfuls, and everyone helps Uncle Yitang tidy up the house so that it can be lived in easily."
When Lao Zhou saw his daughter folding her sleeves and getting ready to work, he glared at his two sons and said, "Why don't you hurry up and help."
Zhou Dalang and Wu Lang hurriedly rolled up their sleeves and stepped forward, but Xia Yi's house was so dirty and messy that they didn't know where to start, and they were not the ones doing housework.
So the two brothers looked up at the roof and quickly found a ladder to pull out all the thatch on the roof.
But Xia Yi's family didn't have a ladder, so they had to step on the half-collapsed fence and pull down the thatch.
Xia Yi's eldest son couldn't help shouting: "What are you doing? This is my house. You are not allowed to do anything. Come down quickly!"
Man Bao glanced at him and said, "Can't you see that my eldest brother and fifth brother are repairing the roof of your house? The thatch hasn't been replaced in years. It will rain in two days. Do you want to sleep in the rain?"
The young man behind also pulled him and persuaded him: "Dalang, your cousin is doing this for your own good."
After that, he turned back to the clan members and said, "Let's go back and find some thatch. The family will provide some and repair the roof for him first."
Many people are not happy with it. Cutting thatch, drying it and tying it up is very tiring. How can it be easy to tie it up one by one?
But seeing Zhou Mandu roll up his sleeves and take action, they were reluctant to embarrass themselves in front of her.
They said they were from the same clan, they were cousins, not cousins, but they couldn't help but regard her as an outsider since they didn't change their surname back.
Since I am an outsider, I don’t want to be embarrassed.
After a moment of hesitation, someone turned around and went back to get something. Someone started, and the others also went home.
Some of them were headed by their parents, brothers and sisters-in-law. When they saw that they were waiting to go out with their thatch and ladder, they couldn't help but curse.
Old Zhoutou took out a broom from somewhere and gave it to Qian. Then he patted the wall and dug at the soil perfunctorily. Hearing the different yells and chants coming from the distance, he couldn't help but
He said to Qian: "This Xia Yi doesn't know how to behave. If something happens, no one in the whole clan will be willing to help."
Qian stood with a broom, nodded slightly, and didn't move.
If she wants to do something, she will do it well. If she doesn't do it, she would rather stand still than fish.
She glanced at Lao Zhoutou, who clearly didn't want to move but was pretending to be diligent, and said: "The atmosphere in the village and clan is normal. No matter what, we are all members of the same clan. As long as they don't have a big feud and they come back in despair, I won't help them."
, if the children want to help, just let them do it, why bother to stop them?"
Qian also listened to the scoldings in the village, and looked at the two teenagers and the little girl standing in the yard with green faces. She shook her head and said: "I helped people, but in the end I didn't do it, so why bother?"
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That is, there are people in the family who have helped out. If you continue to curse, won’t you eliminate all the feelings of helping out for this day?
I'm afraid they might even be helping to get revenge. Old Zhou also thinks those people who curse are a bit stupid.
If it were him, even if he didn't help, he would still walk over here and say a few nice words, and he could say a few nice words without reaching out.
Xia Yi and his wife were away, leaving only three children at home, but these three children were neither old enough to reject others' kindness, nor small enough to forget other people's insults.
Qian raised the corner of his mouth, turned around and saw Lao Zhou still slapping the wall, so she reached out and patted his hand, causing the back of his hand to turn red with a slap.
She glanced at him and said: "What are you looking at? Didn't you see that there are holes in this wall? Go find someone and ask where they dug the mud for the wall. Now go dig some and bring them back."
Fill up the wall."
Lao Zhoutou couldn't help but roared in a low voice: "Are you still going to patch up the wall for them?"
"It doesn't cost you a penny, and it doesn't require much effort from you. Haven't you seen so many young people here? It's all good for you, what are you dissatisfied about?" Qian said: "Manbao is an official, and the official
Voice is the most important thing. I don’t want anyone to say that our Manbao bullied others and robbed other people’s houses when I returned to the capital.”
Even though Lao Zhoutou was very unwilling, he could only hold back his breath, forced a smile and went to question a young man who looked quite senior.
Don't tell me, he really knew, so Old Zhoutou smiled and persuaded several young people to go back and pick up baskets to dig mud together.
By the time Chief Xia and the elders were alerted by the scolding in the village and followed the movement, Zhou Dalang had already led a group of young people to tear off the roof of Xia Yi's house.
Patriarch Xia's eyes widened. His first reaction was that the Zhou family and Xia Yi family had completely fallen out. He immediately walked forward quickly with a cane and shouted loudly: "What are you doing!?"
Man Baozheng and Bai Shan moved the furniture placed under the courtyard wall to a position in the middle. Hearing this, he looked back and immediately said with a smile: "The patriarch is here too. We are helping Uncle Yitang repair and organize the house."
Woolen cloth."
Xia Dalang had no expression on his face at this moment. He obediently moved things out of the house with his brothers and sisters. When he saw Clan Chief Xia, he called out "Grandpa Clan Chief".
Patriarch Xia's heart dropped as he raised his throat. He glanced at Xia Yi's family, which was completely out of shape, and felt that there would be another big fuss when Xia Yi came back, so his heart started to rise again.
He couldn't help but look at Zhou Man, and he didn't know whether she was sincere or unintentional. He sighed and said, "Let Xia Yi do such a big thing as building a house by himself. How could you..."
Instead of him?
Man Bao said, "It's been three days since Uncle Yi returned home, and the house is still so messy. He obviously doesn't know how to clean it up."
"My foster aunt has just come back, so we can't just let her work too hard, right? Anyway, there are many people in the clan, so everyone can help and get things done."
A group of young people who seldom took action thought it was quite fun, and nodded one after another, "Yes, yes, it can be done if you all help me."
Chief Xia lowered his head to look at them and saw that they were squatting on the ground making thatch. He looked around the yard and found that there was quite a lot of new thatch, but it was obviously not enough.
He took a deep breath, turned around and said to his son: "Go back and bring twenty bundles of thatch."