Chapter 904: Full-level Boss Dressed As a Peasant Girl
Chapter 904: Just Kill Him
Da Ya's heart raced, and she bypassed Meng Yunzheng and ran into the kitchen.
Meng Yunzheng raised an eyebrow and looked at Zhao Xi, who followed behind, with a somewhat complicated expression.
Was he rejected? Otherwise, why would he look so dejected?
During the lull while the Lu family went to eat, Meng Yunzheng walked two steps behind Zhao Xi and whispered, "Did you break the ice?"
"Yeah."
"From the look on your face, it seems like things didn't go well."
Zhao Xi looked pitiful. "It was so sudden. When I heard that Miss Wei was going to introduce her brother, I couldn't help myself and lost control. I blurted everything out without any preparation. Now that I think about it, I don't even know what I was saying."
Meng Yunzheng sympathetically looked at him. "Luckily, both Ah Yu and I are smart enough to understand our own feelings early on."
Zhao Xi gritted his teeth. "Why are you so proud? Da Ya didn't chase me away. She said she will think about it. I feel like my chances are still great. We will definitely get married before you guys."
Meng Yunzheng muttered to himself, "..." Just kill him.
With a cold snort, he turned and went back into the house.
The dinner table was lively, and none of the people who were aware of the situation mentioned it, pretending not to know.
However, Da Ya was absent-minded and didn't dare to look in Zhao Xi's direction. Even when she picked up food, she only took what was in front of her.
Shu Yu thought that if she continued like this, her father and mother would soon notice something was off, and once they asked her about it, she would probably want to crawl under the table.
As an understanding sister, Shu Yu immediately brought up the topic of renovating the main residence. "Father, did you meet with Master Zheng today? What did he say?"
Lu Erbai had been looking at Da Ya, thinking that she seemed strange. But when he heard Shu Yu's words, he refocused his attention and said, "I talked to him. He doesn't have any other work at the moment, so he agreed to come. Tomorrow, I'll take him to the main residence to have a look. Once we have the plans drawn up, we can start preparing the bricks, tiles, and wood."
"What about hiring laborers?"
Lu Erbai had also thought about that. "I initially thought of looking for them in Shishi Village, but it's the busy farming season, and the villagers are all busy with work. Even if we look for them, we won't find many. We'll have to look in the county town."
There were indeed casual laborers in the county town, but experienced craftsmen already had jobs and wouldn't abandon their current employers to follow them.
As for those scattered laborers, it was unclear how they behaved, and conflicts were likely to arise.
This was Shu Yu's house, and it was so big. Lu Erbai definitely didn't want any trouble. It would be best if everything went smoothly, and they could move in as soon as possible.
That was why he wanted to find people in Shishi Village. He was familiar with the people in the same village, who worked hard and had different skills. He knew who had conflicts with whom. He had a clear understanding of everything.
But the timing wasn't right.
Master Zheng only had two or three people to work with. He had considered forming a larger team before, but after the incident earlier, he didn't receive many jobs, and the projects he got were small in scale and short in duration.
At most, he helped other contractors who needed extra hands.
Last time, when Ah Yu's shop was being renovated and he helped Master Zheng, many people saw it, and it brought him some business.
But such business opportunities were still limited. However, if they were to renovate the village lord's mansion, there would likely be no shortage of such projects in the future.
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