Madam Guo looked Si Jin up and down and said in an incredulous tone, “Are you one of her servants?”
He blinked and nodded slightly, and then continued to work on the pork!
The three little children were hiding behind the door, staring out nervously. They wanted to go out and give their mother a hand, but they also feared that they would end up doing the opposite instead, so they could only watch in silence.
The village chief looked at Jiang Yeqian, and then at Si Jin. “Where did you hire these two… workers!?” The word ‘handsome’ was on the tip of his tongue, but he could not say it out loud.
Qi Qingyao smiled casually. “You don’t need to worry about this, village chief. There is always a way.”
The village chief was silent.
What way? Madam Wu looked at Qi Qingyao with contempt. “You, hire servants? Don’t you know how poor you are? Can you even pay their monthly salaries?”
The village people nodded their heads.
The village chief said with a serious look: “Little maiden, don’t be crazy. You’re so poor you can’t even feed yourself. Your family doesn’t even have half a mouthful of rice, and you still have to pay your servants. How can you even pay them?”
“The employment contract is voluntary. Is the village chief saying that if someone hires a servant, the entire village has to convene and agree? If I move to Qingzhou City tomorrow, do you have to agree to that too?” Qi Qingyao asked in return.
The village chief was slightly embarrassed. “That’s not what I meant.”
Madam Guo said sarcastically, “You are so poor, and you still want to buy a house in Qingzhou City? You’re not awake, are you?”
“Poor people can’t even afford to eat, and they still think about living in Qingzhou City… This is already crazy and hopeless.”
Other people echoed her words.
Seeing how so many people were present, Madam Wu threw a tantrum directly. “Qi Qingyao, since you are no longer stupid… As a daughter of the Qi family, you’ve caught a wild boar. Do you not know you should share some pork with your elders?”
“Share?” Qi Qingyao pondered over the word, and anger began to build upon her brow.
Madam Wu’s voice was harsh. “Yes, you are a member of our Qi family. I am your own mother! If you have something good and don’t give it to your own mother, you are unfilial!
Qi Qingyao was accused of being unfilial, just like that…
The other people in the village watched the drama unfold.
Qi Qingyao picked her ear leisurely and said carefreely, “This lady here seems to have forgotten that the Qi family has severed relations with me.”
Seeing as how this was a family matter, the village chief helplessly turned around and intended to leave, giving a final salivating look to the pig being slaughtered.
“Village chief, don’t leave first.” A delicate and sweet voice shouted behind him.
The village chief turned around and saw the beautiful young girl smiling sweetly at him.
The village chief froze for a moment.
He thought, ‘This child was always silly and stupid before. It affected her aura.’
‘Now that she’s not stupid anymore, her smile is really pretty…’
It really was pretty.
Qi Qingyao went forward and took the village’s chief hand in hers. Her voice was as gentle as a birdsong. “Since we have severed our relationship, I am not a member of the Qi family. As you are here today, please witness this. When you leave later, I will give you two catties of pork so you can have another dish at dinner today.”
At the sound of “two catties of pork”, Ma Sanye’s eyes lit up.
He stopped in his tracks.
Qi Qingyao entered the house, winked at her children, and hurriedly took the agreement out from under the mattress and handed them to the village chief. “This is the agreement.”
Jiang Yeqian stood leaning against the door, sizing up the woman who had so easily begun to curry the village chief’s favor.
He thought to himself, ‘Can a fool who has suddenly become smart possess such tact and scheming abilities? I’m afraid it’s impossible!’