Courtyard House: The eldest son of the He family marries a woman who brings him good fortune.

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Yi Zhonghai hurriedly tried to hide.

Then Qin Huairu asked in surprise, "Did you find a job shoveling night soil?"

That's right!

This is the one Yi Zhonghai was looking for.

I heard that he was shoveling manure.

I remember falling into a cesspool once.

Jia Zhangshi couldn't wait to go home: "No, I can't do this job."

Unexpectedly, Qin Huairu grabbed him.

"Why can't you do it? Master Yi can do it, why can't you?"

"But I've fallen in there before."

"It's because I've fallen in there before that I have experience. If you don't go, you won't be able to find work like this in the future."

Jia Zhangshi was speechless.

Thinking about how there isn't a single grain of rice left in the house, and the suffering her son has endured.

I simply gritted my teeth and stomped my foot.

"I'm fine with going, but you have to come with me."

"No problem, let's go together."

Then she asked Yi Zhonghai in detail what time he went to and from the job each day, and how much he was paid per day.

Actually, there are latrine cleaning teams in the city.

Some of them are even permanent employees.

These are temporary workers; they only go to help out when things are busy.

They set off at 1 a.m. every day and finished work at 6 a.m.

I can earn three cents each time.

They had to finish work before everyone got up in the morning and clean the cesspool thoroughly.

Working in the early morning means getting up early.

But as long as you go to bed early at night, it's fine.

Moreover, there was no one outside at that time, so no one would notice them.

You can earn three cents each time. If you can work 20 days a month, you can earn six dollars.

She and Qin Huairu together could earn 12 yuan.

12 yuan is quite a lot.

Jia Zhangshi decided that she would do this job.

"Master Yi, can we go with you tomorrow morning?"

Yi Zhonghai nodded: "Okay, but you have to agree to one condition."

"You said."

"You absolutely cannot tell the people in the institute that this is the job you do, and you absolutely cannot let anyone know that this is the job I am doing now."

Madam Jia patted her chest and said, "Absolutely no problem."

His eyes then turned to Qin Huairu: "Quickly express your opinion to Master Yi."

Qin Huairu said, "Of course I won't tell anyone, it would be too embarrassing if word got out!"

She then asked Yi Zhonghai, "You said it's three cents a day, is that per person? Do you get paid as soon as you go?"

"Of course not. You have to do enough work, at least enough to fill two large trucks, before they'll pay you."

"If you get paid just for going, as you say, then everyone would be scrambling to go."

I had no idea there was so much work to do.

Qin Huairu would never go.

The reason she agreed to Jia Zhangshi's request was to lure her there first, and then she could just stay for a day or two and observe from the sidelines.

Every morning thereafter, Jia Zhangshi would get up promptly.

But Qin Huairu simply couldn't get up.

At first, she would go for a day or two, but later she simply stopped getting up altogether.

She knew that Jia Zhangshi was looking for her.

They locked the door to her room the night before.

"Knock knock knock, it's time to get up, or it'll be too late."

Qin Huairu said irritably to the outside, "Stop knocking, it's so annoying."

"Knock knock knock, you promised to come with me, you can't go back on your word."

I could hear her knocking on the door repeatedly.

Lying on the ground, Jia Dongxu spoke impatiently to the outside.

"Can you please stop banging in the middle of the night? Can't a person get some sleep?!"

Upon hearing her son say the same thing, Jia Zhangshi had no choice but to go herself.

It was already past 6 o'clock when I got back.

　727 She dared not go home.

Because the smell on my body was just too strong.

And he was also holding a manure bucket.

Although I've washed myself several times in the public restroom, there's still a smell.

Turn on the tap and give yourself a good wash.

Wash your face, wash your hands, wash your neck, brush your shoes, wash your clothes, and scrub the toilet.

Yi Zhonghai took out the hot water he had prepared in advance and gave himself a thorough hair wash.

He desperately wanted to wash away all the stench.

Because after breakfast, there was still a temporary job to do.

He Hongyang noticed that around 6 o'clock every day these days, a rustling sound would come from the courtyard.

Who gets up so early?

Even when cooking, everyone just reheats the leftovers from the previous night.

Who would wash vegetables and wash dishes so early in the morning?

Qin Huairu said that Jia Zhangshi has now found a job cleaning latrines.

He just knew.

It was the two of them!

Yi Zhonghai hides at home every day and never comes out.

I thought he had become honest.

So they came here to take advantage of the situation.

The water tank is jointly owned by three families from the Intermediate People's Court.

It's used for washing clothes, vegetables, washing your face, and brushing your teeth.

How could they possibly wash this for us!

Doesn't Yi Zhonghai like to morally blackmail others? Today, let him taste what it's like to be blackmailed.

I could hear the two of them washing up enthusiastically outside.

Open the door.

He spoke in a loud voice.

"Why are you getting up so early to wash?"

The two were startled by his voice.

They hurriedly tried to put away the manure bucket.

He Hongyang spotted it at a glance.

"what is this?"

As he got closer, he smelled a foul odor.

He pinched his nose and looked at the manure bucket.

"You're actually washing latrine buckets here? Tell me, where did this come from? Did you steal it from the latrine-collecting team?"

Yi Zhonghai immediately offered a sophistry.

“These are my things, what’s it to you?”

He hurriedly took the manure bucket and headed home.

Knowing she was in the wrong, Jia Zhangshi also wanted to go back quickly.

He Hongyang grabbed him.

"Have you done something wrong and are afraid of being questioned by me?"

Sha Zhu came out when he heard the sound.

"Brother, what happened?"

Then Wang Liying and Zhao Ailing came out as well.

"what happened?"

When they smelled their odor, they all covered their noses.

"You smell so bad, did you just come out of the outhouse?"

They're absolutely right.

They had just come out of the outhouse.

Zhao Ailing glanced at the manure buckets in their hands, then at the water trough.

He frowned and said, "You guys weren't washing this in the sink just now, were you?"

"No wonder I felt this place was unclean when I did laundry these past few days."

"This sink is for everyone's use. What you're doing is really inconsiderate."

Yi Zhonghai never expected to be caught red-handed!

How come nothing happened before, but now they've been arrested?

He glanced at Jia Zhangshi, as if asking: Did you say something?

Madam Jia quickly shook her head.

She goes out to work every day before dawn, and when she gets home she still has to cook, wash clothes, do housework, and go to the suburbs to dig for wild vegetables.

There's simply no time to gossip now!

159. The mother-in-law criticizes Yi Zhonghai

And even if she goes out, she will never say this.

Yi Zhonghai said with dissatisfaction.