Goldfield
Chapter 211: The Transformation

The enslaved request for the Yu Family's starch jellies was more than they could supply. Even the passengers on board will also come to have fun and buy a bowl of food to taste. Naturally, one bowl is not enough to satisfy the desires of the whole family. So, they would send their maids to buy again. However, the Yu Family's starch jelly was too popular. Often by the time the servants came for the second portion, they had to go home empty-handed. There are even some people who have long queued just to taste the starch jelly!

The few baskets of red algae that Yu Xiaocao had brought along were very quickly boiled into starch jelly, and there were still people asking for more. After all, starch jelly is not the kind of food that makes people full, so after eating one bowl the person will soon be hungry again. Therefore, the port workers returned at the next break time to consume another bowl to satisfy their desires and cool off.

Xiaocao cold noodles were also quite popular, especially when one pot of starch jelly sold out and the other was still boiling on the stove. The impatient workers could only accept another option and order a bowl of cold noodles to eat. However, they did not expect that the cold noodles were also very delicious, so they were all shocked. All the flour left in the bakmi stalls, both made from coarse grain and wheat, had all been depleted by nightfall.

At dinner time, the Yu Family booth had nothing more to sell to the workers who came. After sending a group of disillusioned workers, Xiaocao and his family cleaned the booth to prepare to go home.

At this moment, a tanned-skinned youth who was not too tall but very muscular stopped by quickly. He flashed a smile that showed a row of white teeth, “Second Uncle, Xiaocao, have you guys cleaned up? Do you need my help with something? ”

Xiaocao took a while before he recognized the muscular and brown young man in front of him. Apparently it was a paternal cousin, who technically had no blood relation to him, Heizi. Although Yu Hai had pretty much stopped meeting with the main branch, he was still quite friendly with Heizi, who had nothing to do with their complicated relationship, “Heizi ah! You must be hungry, right? There's still starch jelly in the bucket that your little sister Xiaocao left me. Take a little to eat! ”

It could be said that Yu Heizi had undergone an incredible transformation in these past few months. Not only did he manage to survive through grueling forced labor, but he also officially became a full-time worker under Brother Six. Workers still receive monthly salaries. In addition, they also get paid leave for two days each month and a bonus if they succeed. Being part of a regular staff means that one no longer needs to fear not having a job to feed oneself.

Heizi, who has been working hard the last few months, has long since turned his fat-filled body into a muscle ball. Although he was shorter, he now looked much more muscular and powerful. In fact, in her co-worker's group, there are some people who ask if she is married or already has a fiance. Otherwise, they wanted to introduce their own daughter to see if they could be matched with this competent and slippery young man. Heizi carefully examines several families and ends up choosing a girl who has a mediocre appearance but is kind and hardworking. Then, he asked his parents to propose to the girl's family.

Originally, Madam Li wanted to match her son to a girl whose family had decent circumstances in the city. The first person that comes to mind is the maternal nephew. The second brother had a general goods store in town. Right after his nephew was born, his second brother had an unexpected accident and injured his core, so he was unable to become a father anymore. Although he technically adopted a son from his elder brother's family to pass on the line, at least half of his second brother's inheritance had to be given to his nephew. Madam Li planned to use the marriage bond to gain wealth!

However, Heizi knew what his older female cousin, who was a year older than him, actually looked like. Everyone says that a nephew is similar to a maternal aunt, and that's true for his cousin. She was like her mother: happy to take part but not ready to do any work. Moreover, he was as fat as a plump pig. His face was so fat that it resembled the face of a corpse that was swollen from sitting for several days. Furthermore, his older cousin had been pampered by his second uncle into the sky. He had an arrogant and stubborn temperament beyond imagination. In fact, he dared to shout and rule his own father.

If Heizi had not changed, he would most likely have listened to her mother's plans and obediently agreed to this marriage in order to obtain her second uncle's assets. However, the few months he spent on the dock not only strengthened his body but also changed his values. Good and honest port workers have changed Heizi's way of thinking.

Now, he had the ability to earn a living. Although he was currently a lowly ordinary worker, his monthly salary was decent, one tael. One tael is more than enough to sustain a family of four without any problems. In the future, if he continues to work hard and do well, he might get promoted and earn two taels a month. If Brother Six values his work more, he can then be promoted to a foreman. The monthly salary of a foreman is five taels. Currently, he had already saved up to five to six taels in his personal wallet after working for several months. What's the point of sacrificing his future happiness for money now?

Heizi has changed his mind in recent months. He needs to marry a wife who is like a second aunt on the part of the father, a good and capable woman. He should be able to manage the inner courtyard and outside affairs. In fact, he had noticed the family of his father's second uncle. They all get rich through their own efforts and get better every day. As for his own family, his father was not very competent and his mother was a useless slacker. Furthermore, his grandmother held tightly to all the money in her own hands. Thus, the whole family cannot eat until it is full even with coarse grains.

Therefore, when he was considering his partner's daughter, he chose a girl whose family was the poorest of all. The young woman's mother died of illness two years ago, and the family had sold some of their parcels of land in an effort to raise money to care for her before she died. Now, the entire family relies on the salaries of Heizi's colleagues to survive.

This girl is the oldest in her family. After her mother died, she became the person in charge of the farm and took care of her four younger siblings. It is obvious that this girl works very hard because she is able to manage the household very well even as a preteen teenager. Her sisters always wore perfectly patched clean clothes. At first glance, he knew that this girl knew how to live her life well! He naturally had to choose a wife like her!

At first, Madam Li was unwilling to follow her choice. However, Heizi said something that made him change his mind: “Mother, I married a wife, not a haughty woman! You know Old Cousin too. Do you think you can get him around to do the work? Do you think he'll take care of you when you're old? She even dared to harass Second Mother's Uncle and Second Mother's Aunt, do you think you can withstand her bad temper? ”

Madam Li, you really think too much. Your son is not like his paternal second uncle, a man of unquestionable piety. Don't take care of his behavior in the past, he knows how to take care of his wife. Furthermore, the woman he wanted to marry was not someone as easily intimidated as weak Madam Liu. He knows what work to complete properly, but he will also say what needs to be said. Your son will mostly be standing on his wife's side, so don't think you'll be able to take advantage of this daughter-in-law's mother-in-law's relationship!

But this is all just for the future. Currently, the dock has two shifts namely day and night shifts. Yu Heizi was currently on her day shift, and she was about to leave her current job when she saw her second uncle and cousin cleaning the food stall. Therefore, he came to see if there was any work he could help with.

After helping Xiaocao carry a basket full of equipment onto the donkey carriage, Heizi could not help his second uncle's kindness and devoured a bowl of starch jelly that was refreshing and cooling. He had heard about his second uncle selling starch jelly before from one of his coworkers. However, she was afraid that others would accuse her of asking for food from them because of their family relationships, so she usually asked someone to buy her a portion of the boiled food every time Xiaolian sold some. Otherwise, he chose to resist the temptation of boiled food and never came personally to buy it.

Today is the same. Although all of his co-workers praised the starch jelly to the high heavens, he resisted the temptation to come. Only when he saw that his second uncle's family was cleaning did he finally come. However, he did not expect his second uncle to specifically save some and hence he managed to get a taste of it.

After he finished the starch jelly, Heizi was about to take some money but he was stopped by Yu Hai, who told him that there was no point in being so petty among the family members. It was just a bowl of starch jelly, if he continued to insist, then his second uncle would be angry .. His uncle even said that in the future, if he was hungry, if he was hungry, he had to come to the stall to get a bowl of gelatinous starch or cold noodles. There is no point in treating family members like strangers. In the future, his two younger cousins need him to support them!

This whole conversation made it awkward for Heizi to bring up the money issue again. Hence, lately, Heizi always stopped by if he could help tidy up the table or wash the bowl. Furthermore, whenever Xiaocao gave him a bowl of starch jelly or noodles, he also never brought up the payment issue again. All he could do was help them whenever he could!

After finishing loading Second Uncle's donkey carriage, Heizi returned to the village with his second uncle's family. At the mouth of the village was a horde of children, who had finished dinner while playing. When they saw the Yu brothers back, they all formed a circle around them and began to raise questions, “Xiaocao, Shanhu told us that you want to harvest seaweed, is that true?”

“Xiaolian, seaweed is very similar to grass, can we really sell it to you guys for money? Shanhu didn't cheat us, did he? ”

“Xiaocao, I picked up a basket full of seaweed today. Don't tell us that you don't need it ah! ”

“Really, right! To collect seaweed, I even forgot to mow the seaweed and was scolded by my mother! Don't let me work in vain.. ”.

Xiaocao felt his head was about to explode from the noise. He was finally able to find a gap in the chat, and he promised, “Don't worry, I'm the one who told Shanhu to tell you all. You really won't work in vain! You all have to bring seaweed to where my family buys seafood. Let me go home and rest for a while. After that, I will weigh the seaweed and pay you guys! ”

A group of children, who had all been waiting for the two sisters at the village entrance, split up at home after hearing Xiaocao's words. They ran as if they were afraid the Yu Family would stop buying seaweed if they returned late.

Yu Hai spoiled his daughter, so he had her sit by the side as he himself climbed up to receive all the seaweed. No wonder there is a saying: ‘Many hands make light work.’ Although each child only had about a dozen red algae catties in his basket, there were many children! After counting all the seaweed, they finally got three to four hundred catties of algae in the end. They barely have enough baskets in the house to carry all this seaweed.

Zhou Shanhu swung the strand of copper coins in his hand calmly. Today, even her older sister, who sewed a dowry, came out to collect red algae! Their catch is quite large. They managed to obtain forty copper coins! His family got better due to the sale of their prosperous chickens, so forty copper coins were not very valuable. However, this was the money he made himself. Furthermore, his mother had told him that this money was for him to keep himself. Now, he has his own personal wallet! In the future, he needed to gather more seaweed so that he could save even more money!

Madam Liu stood in the middle of the courtyard and anxiously looked at the basket filled with seaweed. From his experience, he knew that whenever his daughter got a new idea, their first three days would be flooded before the madness slowly subsided. Their business today is doing quite well, but they only managed to use seaweed worth twenty to thirty catties. Now, they had several hundred catties of seaweed in their yards. Lately the weather is very hot, so if this seaweed is damaged, what should they do ?!