By now, Mrs. Sun was wide awake. She nodded continuously, showing that she understood.
Meanwhile, after Tie Zhu's wife, Mrs. Zheng, had finished gossiping on the streets and sent many women home to complain to their husbands, she headed off to Zhao Dong's stepmother, Mrs. Wang.
As soon as she saw Mrs. Wang, she blurted out everything about Zhao Dong's plan to build a house.
Mrs. Zheng exaggerated, "Auntie, you have no idea! There are more than a dozen carts full of bricks and tiles, and it looks like they're not even done yet. How big of a mansion are they building? It seems their family has really struck it rich!"
When Mrs. Zheng finished her rambling, Mrs. Wang was shocked. She had heard before that Zhao Dong's poor family was planning to build a house.
However, she thought, such a destitute family, a bunch of jinxes, even if they were building a house, what decent house could they possibly build? At most, they would just add two more mud-brick rooms.
