Transmigrated as a Stepmother: Time to Bring the Family to Prosper!-Chapter 328 - 327: Did I Give You Enough Respect?

In the evening, everyone enjoyed a good meal together and even tasted the sunflower seeds that Qi Xian brought back, creating a fairly harmonious atmosphere.

Gongliang Liao and Qi Xian thought the matter between the couple had passed.

Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, they vaguely heard voices coming from the backyard.

"Liu Ji, have I given you face?"

"Have I given you respect?"

"Have I given you money?"

Liu Ji first shook his head, then nodded vigorously, "Yes, you have, dear, please calm down..."

The sound of firewood "cracking" as it broke, made Liu Ji shiver all over. He silently stepped back, distancing himself from the dangerous woman chopping wood in the middle of the night.

Qin Yao continued her actions, selecting a piece of wood and splitting it while saying, "Since I’ve given you all that, please don’t be so ungrateful."

Finally becoming a disciple under the name of a great scholar, which even just with this title alone, would make the road smoother than others.

"If today’s dangerous situation happened without us there, who knows what the result might have been?"

Qin Yao tossed aside the axe, exhausted from chopping wood, her temper mostly subsided. She turned around with her hands on her hips, looking at Liu Ji with great displeasure.

Liu Ji thought to himself, if they hadn’t suddenly appeared today, he wouldn’t have been scared into stumbling and falling.

He didn’t miss a word of admitting his fault, "Dear, I swear by the heavens, next time I go out with the gentleman, I will definitely stay away from danger!"

Qin Yao sneered, anyone can say that with their mouth.

"Alright, then swear a deadly oath, that if you break this promise, you will never achieve fame, beg all your life, and die a miserable death on the street." Qin Yao mockingly suggested to the moon hanging above.

Liu Ji swallowed hard; such a vicious oath, every word hit him where it hurt!

He glanced at the sharp axe, a wise man knows when to back down, and immediately raised his hand to take the oath, repeating her words.

"Go back and copy your books." Qin Yao left satisfied.

As soon as she left, Liu Ji immediately started another oath on the spot, "Oh heaven, I am willing to exchange five years, no! Ten years of my life to retract the oath I just made, wishing for boundless prospects, to get my name on the board soon, enjoy endless wealth and prosperity all my life..."

Bla bla bla, with additional conditions for a full quarter of an hour, who knows if those ten years of life are worth it for so much more.

All night, the candlelight in the main room didn’t go out, Liu Ji copied all night, and only when dawn broke, just as everyone got up, did he finish copying the fifty times punishment from Gongliang Liao.

He was clever after all, the teacher didn’t specify what book to copy, so he chose a poetry single that had just over two hundred words.

Filling fifty sheets of paper with writing, his writing hand became dull.

As Qin Yao yawned, passing by the main room, she peeked inside, the moment someone finished the last stroke, he immediately slumped over the desk and snored loudly.

The noise in the yard didn’t disturb him in the slightest.

"Tsk tsk~" Qin Yao picked up the paper blowing out the door, feeling a pang of regret.

She turned around and saw Shi Tou and Attendant Student pushing Gongliang Liao out from the house, Qin Yao gently nodded and greeted the sir, unable to resist suggesting:

"Copying books is quite a waste of paper, why not opt for a different punishment next time, sir?"

Gongliang Liao glanced at the dozens of sheets covered in writing on the floor of the main room, the handwriting was terribly ugly, and he frowned slightly with disdain before asking Qin Yao if she had any good suggestions for punishment.

"I think reciting books isn’t a bad idea either." Qin Yao smiled. Considering the frequency Liu Ji gets punished, it would save a lot on ink expenses.

Gongliang Liao raised an eyebrow, saying nothing. He then had Shi Tou push him into the main room and teasingly yelled, startling the already asleep Liu Ji awake in an instant. He jumped up immediately.

"The weather is bad today, stay indoors and practice writing."

Hearing Gongliang Liao’s words, Liu Ji instinctively agreed, then plopped back down and fell asleep again, his eyelids drooping.

Qin Yao smirked, wondering if Gongliang Liao could see through Liu Ji’s convincingly realistic fake slumber act.

As it turns out, the older and wiser wins again; Gongliang Liao grabbed Liu Ji’s ear, waking him up sharper than ever.

He ordered the Attendant Student to fetch his writing materials because today he planned to do something a teacher should do.

Qi Xian was no exception, cleaned up and ready immediately.

Although Qin Yao’s house was simple, the tables were all large enough. The one moved from the children’s room was adequate for the teacher and his two students to share.

Breakfast was prepared by one of the Qi family’s maids. Ah Wang, who had taken the kids to school and returned late, couldn’t manage meals for so many people.

The guards made their own meals in the old residence, with only the maids and Attendant Student staying at Qin Yao’s house to eat together.

After they finished, they cleaned up the dishes and kitchen themselves, taking the master’s clothes to the river for washing.

Qin Yao secretly envied, feeling how wonderful it would be to have a whole domestic team accompany you wherever you go.

The Qi Family guards took turns on duty, while the rest supervised at the old residence.

With the village road repaired, Hua’er and these displaced people couldn’t sit idle, so with the old residence under construction, Qin Yao just brought them over.

Although the mute foreman couldn’t speak, he was obedient, and tried to carry out whatever ideas Qi Xian suggested, never saying anything couldn’t be done.

So far, the Qi Family guards were extremely satisfied with this construction team made up of displaced people.

Speaking of which, even Qin Yao’s own house needed expansion.

Unfortunately, always being busy, she hadn’t found the time to plan it.

As for Liu the carpenter’s family, he had been planning to build a blue-brick tile house since the beginning of the year.

Unfortunately, once started, it became a big project, and since the family also had to live there, intertwining construction and daily life would be extremely troublesome; thus, this plan remained just a plan.

Seeing the old residence start to transform now, Liu the carpenter suddenly got inspired. Since starting construction at the old house was troublesome, why not find new land to build anew.

However, the cost of new construction would definitely increase. Although Liu the carpenter was tempted, he still planned to see what Qi Xian’s side of the renovated old residence would turn out like before making a decision.

After all, they were noble people, and their vision was not something farmers like him who hadn’t even visited the county town could compare with.

Plus, Liu the carpenter himself had a certain pursuit of architectural aesthetics, hoping his new home would be completely different from the old house they had been making do with.

This time, he wanted to build a house according to his own ideas and preferences.

During lunchtime, when casually chatting in the canteen, Qin Yao’s eyes lit up.

"Liu the carpenter, this idea of yours is great." Qin Yao encouraged, "We originally wanted to renovate those old residences, but renovations indeed require capital, which ordinary people can’t afford. But if our own villagers want to build new houses, that would be perfect."

Qin Yao had seen those old residences. Although dilapidated, they were a bit far from the village center, but because of this, they had a large base, with a very broad view front and back. Bringing spring water from the mountain again would also make water collection convenient.

But undertaking this was a massive project, and there weren’t many in Liu Family Village who could achieve the economic strength for it.

But Liu the carpenter was different; he had money!