Yang Zhaodi and Zhang Xiao'e were both taken aback.
They were all somewhat tempted.
The two looked at Wu Yueying simultaneously, "Sister-in-law Yueying, is this alright?"
Wu Yueying was taken aback. "Uncle Zhao, I'm your servant now..."
Zhao Zheng waved his hand, "Huahua and Xiaocao are both smart and sensible, and I like them quite a bit. Let's make them godparents, then we'll see who dares to bully them again!"
The main reason was that Wu Yueying was good at raising her daughters. The two children were not very old and had the same temperament as Wu Yueying. If it were someone else, Zhao Zheng might not have agreed.
Wu Yueying was overjoyed. If Huahua and Xiaocao had such wonderful godmothers, they would surely be very happy in the future.
"Okay, I'll do whatever Uncle Zhao says," Wu Yueying said.
"I like my older sister!"
"I like my little sister!"
The two sisters-in-law said with great joy, their eyes suddenly shining.
Zhao Zheng knew he had done the right thing.
After blowing out the candles, the three women in the room chattered incessantly, but Zhao Zheng didn't find it annoying at all and actually fell asleep right away.
In the middle of the night, he felt something in his arms and instinctively hugged it.
A moment later, I felt the thing in my arms stiffen.
He suddenly came to his senses and realized what he had been holding.
The woman's breathing quickened, and after a while, she carefully moved his hand away.
Zhao Zheng took the opportunity to turn over, but became even more lucid.
"Yueying is even more... how is that possible?"
Zhao Zheng swallowed hard, suddenly feeling a bit sleepless.
The next day, Zhao Zheng overslept.
When I woke up, there was laughter and chatter in the kitchen.
Zhao Zheng called out, and the person who came out of the kitchen was neither Zhao Di nor Xiao E, but Wu Yueying.
Upon seeing Zhao Zheng, she smiled, seemingly not taking the events of the previous night to heart at all. "Uncle, you're awake. I'll get you some hot water to wash up."
As she spoke, she quickly fetched hot water, placed it on the low table, wet Zhao Zheng's special washcloth, and prepared to wash Zhao Zheng's face.
"Hey, I can do it myself."
Wu Yueying stubbornly replied, "No, Uncle, I know you're good to me, but things that are my responsibility must be done by me."
Zhao Zheng was so good to her that she didn't know how to repay him.
Zhao Di and Xiao E did not treat her as a servant; they treated her the same as before, and even adopted the two children as their goddaughters.
She kept this affection deep in her heart, but she couldn't take advantage of it.
Liu Tieniu and Yan Dali did the heavy work outside, so her job was to take care of the three masters of the house, including washing clothes and cooking.
She didn't feel tired; on the contrary, she felt full of energy.
At the Wang family's house, she did the hardest work and ate the least. She and her daughter suffered from hunger and cold every day. After coming to the Zhao family's house, they ate their fill and slept in warmth.
Early in the morning, Yang Zhaodi gave each of the three women, mother and daughters, a warm padded jacket, which was incredibly cozy.
She would be willing to work herself to death, let alone do any work.
Zhao Zheng looked at her, nodded, and did not stop her further.
Wu Yueying wiped him carefully, afraid that she might miss a spot.
Then, following Xiao'e's instructions, she squeezed out the toothpaste, and Zhao Zheng only needed to open his mouth.
Spitting dirty water into a spittoon.
Wu Yueying then climbed onto the earthen bed and helped Zhao Zheng put on his clothes.
Truly, he has everything done for him!
In just a few days, Zhao Zheng was already living the life of a real landlord.
"Yueying, you're quite good at serving people!" Zhao Zhengdao said.
"I used to work for the Zhong family a lot and learned these skills secretly," Wu Yueying said with a smile. She was a rather conservative person, and when she went to work for the Zhong family, she only did her work and never let the Zhong family take advantage of her.
She climbed off the earthen bed and helped Zhao Zheng put on his socks and shoes. "Uncle, breakfast is ready. Would you like to go for a walk in the yard, or eat breakfast first?"
As they were talking, a head peeked in from outside.
Who else could it be but Yan Dali?
His shifty eyes scanned Wu Yueying, and when he saw Zhao Zheng, he hurriedly said, "Uncle Zhao, you're up?"
Zhao Zheng glanced outside and saw Liu Tieniu working hard to make adobe bricks, while Yan Dali's hands were clean.
They're already trying to cheat and shirk responsibility on the second day?
He sneered inwardly and said to Wu Yueying, "Eat breakfast first."
He immediately called Liu Tieniu, who was working silently outside, in, "Come on, Tieniu, have some porridge."
Liu Tieniu was covered in sweat. "Uncle, let me finish building up those mud bricks outside before we eat!"
"Wash your hands, drink your porridge, and you can do it after you've finished eating!"
Liu Tieniu nodded and quickly went to wash his hands. Yan Dali also pretended to be very busy and rinsed his hands with cold water.
In his heart, however, he was quite disdainful. "This Liu Tieniu is like an idiot. It's so cold this early in the morning with frost and ice. Isn't he afraid of getting frostbite on his hands?"
Zhao Zheng personally handed Liu Tieniu a bowl of thick millet porridge, which was also topped with a lot of pickled vegetables.
"Thank you, Uncle Zhao!" Liu Tieniu thanked him repeatedly, then squatted down under the eaves with his bowl and began to eat with relish.
Yan Dali wiped his hands and wanted to take it, but Zhao Zheng picked up his bowl and started eating by himself.
His expression froze. "Uncle, I... I didn't?"
"Oh, I forgot about you." Zhao Zheng entered the kitchen, picked up a piece of dark, hardened wild vegetable pancake, and on a whim, bought a drug from the online store that could quickly render a man impotent.
This medicine has a name, called "dextrin," which is an estrogen preparation. It's very cheap and inexpensive, has a good effect, and doesn't have an odor.
Eating this for a few days will turn Yan Dali into Yan Wuli!
If you take it long-term, you can become best friends with Liu Tieniu.
Therefore, there's no need to worry about him having any bad intentions towards the women in his family.
He spread the medicinal powder evenly on the pancake until it was completely incorporated into the pancake before taking it out. "This is your ration for today. Eat it sparingly."
Yan Dali was stunned, and a surge of anger welled up inside him. "Uncle Zhao, even Liu Tieniu can drink porridge, so why is all I get here a wild vegetable pancake?"
"Tie Niu comes to work before dawn, while you only come slowly after daybreak and don't even work. I give Tie Niu porridge, which is what he deserves."
Zhao Zheng said with a stern face, "You don't think I hired you to work at my house just so you could freeload, do you?"
"My family's food is earned through hard work, it didn't fall from the sky. If you want to freeload, you'd better get lost!"
Yan Dali's face turned bright red; he thought Zhao Zheng was asleep and unaware of what was happening.
Liu Tieniu outside scoffed, thinking, "Yan Dali, what makes you think you can compete with me?"
"Uncle, you won't have the strength to work if you don't eat your fill..."
"If you don't want it, then get out." Zhao Zheng pointed to the door, as if he really thought the landlord was some kind of living saint.
"Yes, I want it!" Yan Dali hurriedly grabbed the wild vegetable pancake and put it in his mouth. No matter how bad the wild vegetable pancake tasted, it was still more filling than the bland soup at home. In the past, his family could still eat wild vegetable pancakes, but in the last few days, they hadn't even had any.
After Yan Dali wolfed down the flatbread, Zhao Zheng said, "Your task today is simple: keep making adobe bricks. If you don't make five hundred, you don't need to come in tomorrow!"