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Chapter 275: You Can Eat Without Working

"Madams, do you have any instructions for me?" Shunzi asked.

They really do.

"Shunzi, we really need your help with something."

"Ladies, please speak."

Zheng Yuan was no longer polite: "Can you find a bricklayer here? If you can, please help us find one to build two stoves."

"A bricklayer? I think we can find one."

Although Shunzi was confused, he did not ask any more questions and agreed readily.

"Also, we need to buy some firewood. We need dry firewood, not wet firewood. Is there a place that sells it, or someone who can deliver it to our door every day?"

Shunzi, who had no idea what they were going to do, was completely confused. Not only did they have to build a stove, but they also had to stockpile a large amount of firewood. What were they going to do?

However, Manager Fang had already told him that no matter what the two ladies wanted, he didn't need to ask any questions and just had to do his best to satisfy them.

Although these two requests sounded strange, they were not difficult to do, so Shunzi agreed to them without saying much.

Seeing that the two had no other needs, Shunzi said goodbye and left.

"Mrs. Luo, Mrs. Wang, please come in quickly." Zheng Yuan called out to the two people who were standing aside with their heads lowered.

Luo and Wang looked like they had been doing housework for many years. Although they were thin, they were very neat. Luo looked taller, while Wang was about the same height as them.

"Madams, what should we do now?" Mrs. Luo rolled up her sleeves as she entered the yard.

"No, you guys take a rest first." There was indeed nothing that could be done at the moment.

"Come, sit for a while." Duan Minmin brought out two stools from the kitchen.

"No, no, ma'am, let's get back to work."

The two seemed a little panicked and didn't dare to go over and sit down, but they couldn't find anything to do. They could only look around anxiously to see if there was anything they could do.

In their eyes, they came here to work, and if they didn't work they wouldn't get paid, so how could they just come here and do nothing? They just sat down.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin saw their panic and understood what they were thinking. This was the rule of this era.

Unlike the equality in modern society, in this era those who were hired to work were equivalent to servants and were always inferior to their employers.

They have to work hard to get paid, and if they have no work, they will not get paid.

But the manager of the yard had just sent people to clean it a few days ago, and the yard was extremely clean. They didn't know what to ask these two people to do.

"Please sit down, sisters-in-law. We are from other places and would like to ask you something." Duan Minmin went over and pulled the two of them.

"No, no, we can just stand, ladies, please sit down." The two sisters-in-law were very cautious.

"Oh, sister-in-law, your necks are sore from standing while we are sitting. Please sit down quickly."

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin simply pressed the two men down on the stools, one each. The two men wanted to stand up but were forced to stand still.

"Madams, what do you want to know?" Mrs. Luo asked first.

It seems that Mrs. Luo is much braver than Mrs. Wang.

"We just want to ask where is your market? How often does it happen? Where can we buy sieves, iron pots and the like?"

This was not for nothing, they were indeed still short of three iron pots, one for cooking, two for distilling with the three in the kitchen. They also needed to buy a large number of baskets for drying roses, and other miscellaneous items.

"We have a market on the fifth and tenth days here, and there are still two days before the next market. But you don't have to wait until the big market to get the iron pot and the colander you want, there are special shops selling them." Mrs. Luo replied.

"That's great. You can take us to see it later. By the way, have you had breakfast?"

I haven't eaten anything this morning, so I might as well go shopping and have breakfast at the same time.

"Ate."

"Ate."

Both of them said they had eaten, but their voices were clearly lacking in confidence.

"But have you really eaten? We have to do some hard work right now. If we don't have breakfast and lose our strength, it will delay our work."

"Ma'am, don't worry. We are in good health and it's okay if we skip breakfast." Mrs. Luo said hurriedly.

That means I didn’t eat.

"No, breakfast is a must. There is no rule of not eating breakfast here. Let's go and have breakfast first."

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin stood up and pulled the two women out.

"No, no, no, we're not hungry, there's really no need."

The two of them were like nailed to the stool, and Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin couldn't pull them away.

"Let's go. We are new here and don't know what delicious food there is in Zhaoming. We need the two sisters-in-law to lead the way for us!"

"But we have never eaten out before, so we don't know where the food is good." Mrs. Luo was a little embarrassed.

"It's okay. You are locals after all. You must know where to eat. We are completely in the dark. Just help us lead the way."

After hearing this, the two women stood up and followed the two men nervously.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin decisively locked the door and asked them to follow the instructions.

In fact, they were not hungry at all, they just didn't want to spend money.

The two women led them through many twists and turns until they arrived at a street. Looking around, there were small restaurants everywhere. At this moment, every restaurant was steaming, and the whole street was filled with the aroma of breakfast.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin didn’t know which one was good, so they just picked one based on their appearance and walked in.

"Dear guests, what would you like to eat?" The proprietress came forward immediately.

"Give us four bowls of noodles."

You can never go wrong with noodles.

"Do you want meat noodles or vegetarian noodles?"

“Meat noodles.”

"Okay!" The proprietress walked towards the kitchen.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin found a table and turned around to ask their two sisters-in-law to come and sit down, but they found that they had not entered the store at all and were standing even farther away than before.

"Mrs. Luo, Mrs. Wang, what are you doing? Come in and sit down." The two went out and called them.

"Ma'am, you guys eat. If we're not hungry, we won't go in. We'll wait outside."

"How can we not come? We have already ordered it. It would be a waste if we don't eat it."

"But this..."

"No buts, we'll eat together in the next few days, it doesn't cost you any money, come in."

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin didn't let them talk anymore. They just grabbed one of them and dragged them into the store.

Although Mrs. Luo and Mrs. Wang sat on the stools, they were still moving around restlessly, as if there were nails growing on the stools.

"Sister Luo, Sister Wang, don't be so restrained. The rule between us two sisters is that you have to eat well when you follow us. Don't worry, you won't be asked to pay for it, and you will pay as much as you should."

Fearing that they would be suspicious, the two men directly told them the rules to follow when working.

"What should we do? We are here to work, why are we eating without working?" Mrs. Wang said hesitantly.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin looked at her in surprise. This was the first time that Mrs. Wang spoke so much.

Seeing the two men looking at her, Mrs. Wang hurriedly lowered her head, tightly grasping the corner of her clothes.

"How can you work if you don't have enough to eat? Don't you all obey the master when you work? We are the master this time, so just follow our rules."

"Thank you, thank you both ladies!" Mrs. Luo hurriedly expressed her gratitude.

She has been working in this area for many years, but has never met such a good owner.

Mrs. Wang also said a few words of thanks, but she was still a little restrained.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin didn't force her. Just at this time, the noodles were served. They put a bowl in front of each of the two women and asked them to eat. The two of them couldn't wait to pick up their bowls.