The Happy Yang Sisters

Money could make even ghosts turn a millstone; it opened doors anywhere, at any time.

Because Zhou Yao had provided ample money, Damao and his two brothers recruited plenty of people to build Brother Zhou's house. With strength in numbers, they finished building the six rooms for Zhou Yao in just ten days.

In this year of famine, when people couldn't even fill their stomachs, having work meant earning wages, and having money meant they could buy grain to eat. Only then could they survive.

Because Brother Zhou had given Damao and his two brothers plenty of money, the three brothers didn't cut corners in their work and brought in many more people to help build the house.

After all, there was strength in numbers, and the wages Damao and his brothers offered were good. Many people came eagerly and happily to work, so the six rooms were built quickly, much to Zhou Yao's delight.

Damao and his brothers knew that Brother Zhou still had four wives to bring home, and that there wouldn't be enough room with so many people. That was why Zhou Yao had spent so much money building these six rooms.

Of course, Zhou Yao had also commissioned Damao and his brothers to make the beds and furniture. The three brothers were skilled craftsmen, and after hiring helpers, they finished everything within ten days as well.

Zhou Yao looked at the six newly built rooms and the beds and furniture inside them, then nodded in satisfaction.

Damao and his brothers were the happiest of all. After paying the other workers' wages and covering the other expenses for building Brother Zhou's six rooms, the three brothers had made a tidy profit.

Damao and his brothers thought that Brother Zhou might have emptied out all the money he had saved from years of hunting to build these six rooms.

Thinking of this, Damao and his brothers could do nothing about it. After all, the authorities required every man in the Great Zhou State to marry six or more women! Alas...

Even so, the three brothers were delighted. They had earned enough to buy some grain to take home, and their household had six more mouths to feed! They had to work hard to earn money. Before long, there would be another twelve mouths to feed at home; the pressure was only too easy to imagine.

After more than ten days of nourishing food and drink from Zhou Yao, the Yang sisters, Yang Aijin and Yang Ailian, had both fully recovered. Their complexions looked good too, and they even seemed to have put on a little weight.

Naturally, that was the case. Over the years, the twins had never eaten or drunk well, even while they were still growing, and they had done exhausting work every day.

Over the past year, they had traveled everywhere with the officers without being married off. Their bodies were tired, and so were their hearts and minds. Every day, they had lived in fear, terrified of being sent to an army camp as military prostitutes.

Fortunately, heaven had been kind to them. At the last moment, they had married their husband, Zhou Yao. Otherwise...

After spending the past ten-odd days with him, they had found that their husband Zhou Yao was a very good man, and the two sisters were happy and content every day.

During the day, the sisters spent most of their time making clothes and quilts. Four more sisters would be joining the household, so they needed to make several more sets of clothes and a few more quilts to have enough for the six rooms.

Thanks to years of practice, both sisters were very good with needle and thread. They had done so much of it that practice had made perfect.

There was cloth in the house, as well as cotton that their husband had brought out, the likes of which neither sister had ever seen before.

At first, neither sister knew what the cotton was for, but after their husband Zhou Yao explained and guided them step by step, they were utterly amazed.

The sisters, Yang Aijin and Yang Ailian, then made three sets of clothes and trousers first: one for their husband Zhou Yao, and one for each of them.

Although it was only October, the weather had already begun to turn cold. When the sisters put on the cotton clothes and trousers, they instantly let out a scream.

"Th-this cotton clothing is so warm to wear! It's even warmer than the fur clothes and trousers we used to wear."

The sisters also knew that this cotton had never appeared in this world before, and this was their first time wearing clothes made from it! The two sisters gazed at their husband Zhou Yao with sultry eyes, feeling happier than could be.