Chapter 57: Leave This Matter to Him, and You’ll Be Troubled

The aunt looked at Jiang Dai’s troubled and worried expression, unable to help feeling sympathetic: “That man who came later even asked Third Girl’s grandmother if your family had any ancestral secret recipes. He must have really found the wrong people!”

Jiang Dai nodded, then her brow brightened with joy as she whispered to the aunt.

“Exactly! But that first little girl who came was foolishly kind-hearted. Seeing our family was poor and that she’d found the wrong people and caused us trouble, she gave us one tael of silver!”

The aunt immediately became envious: “Wow! That’s quite a lot!”

But Jiang Dai sighed again: “One tael of silver… that damned Bai Tian sold all our family’s land. Winter’s approaching, and we can’t farm anymore. How could one tael of silver be enough?”

The aunt’s envy immediately disappeared: “True, given your family’s situation.”

With just a few words, Jiang Dai had the aunt’s emotions going up and down like a roller coaster.

This was what she’d learned from following her mother back to the village – how to play the victim without revealing wealth.

Jiang Dai stood at the doorway waiting for Bai Tian to return, while also blocking the house entrance to prevent the four children from running outside and being questioned by the villagers.

Jiang Dai: 【Playing the dual role of gate and loudspeaker.】

When Bai Tian returned, dusk was already falling.

Darkness rose from the other side of the sky, like ink entering water, gradually swallowing and staining the remaining glow of the sunset.

Juanjuan and her three brothers began squatting in the courtyard, watching their parents start repairing the courtyard gate.

Then the four of them witnessed their parents working hard to fix the gate, only to make it worse and worse.

They ended up dismantling what little remained.

Juanjuan: …

Three survival-skill-maxed big shots: …

Modern young people who’d never fixed a gate and had practically useless survival skills: …

Bai Tian: 【Hiss! How embarrassing!】

Jiang Dai: 【No, at most I can fix security door locks. I really can’t handle wooden gates.】

“Mother, I’ll go call Grandpa Wang!”

Juanjuan got up to fetch help.

Bai Yunqi stood up – it seemed this strong one would have to take action after all: “Father, Mother, let me do it!”

Just as he was about to get up to help, Bai Yunxing, who had done carpentry before, said: “Big Brother, I’ll help you.”

Bai Yun’an looked at his two brothers getting up.

Calmly and secretly, he grabbed a particularly small piece of chocolate and popped it in his mouth.

“Go brothers!”

The apocalypse boss just wanted to rest, enjoy himself, and eat delicious food!

And win over his little sister!

He’d create some powerful weapons soon – whoever dared mess with him, he’d finish them off!

When Juanjuan brought Grandpa Wang back.

Brothers Bai Yunqi and Bai Yunxing had already gotten the hang of it and started repairing the gate.

“How can you two let the children fix the gate?”

Grandpa Wang naturally made the two children step aside, indicating he’d handle it, while questioning Bai Tian.

As the only adult male in the household, Bai Tian: …

“Uncle, I’m useless.”

Little Boss Bai confessed directly.

Jiang Dai: …

【Wait, is this person really this direct and absurd?】

Grandpa Wang: …

That statement left the old man somewhat speechless.

Grandpa Wang was silent for a moment: “If you don’t know how, come here. I’ll teach you, and you can assist.”

“Alright!”

Bai Tian immediately trotted over cheerfully.

Then…

Jiang Dai and the four children witnessed:

Grandpa Wang: “You blockhead! This gate goes on this side!”

Bai Tian: “Oh, oh, okay.”

Grandpa Wang: “Did you not eat dinner? Lift it higher, put some strength into it!”

Bai Tian: “Yes!”

Grandpa Wang looked at Bai Tian, who was useless but had a good attitude and was obedient: …

Fine, this kid could still be saved, but he was indeed quite exasperating.