When Xie Jiaojiao returned home at noon, Sun Ruhua was making lunch with a smile on her face.
"Mom, what's going on? Are you so happy?"
Sun Ruhua waved her hand: "What can happen? It's nothing."
Xie Jiaojiao asked again: "Where is Zhiyi? Why haven't you seen him?"
"He and Niu Er went to catch crabs. They should be by the river."
Xie Jiaojiao nodded and went out. Sure enough, she saw Xie Zhiyi and Niu Er by the river.
Xie Zhiyi was washing his hands with a happy face. He saw Xie Jiaojiao from a distance and shouted: "Sister, I caught a fish!"
Xie Jiaojiao took a closer look and saw a small crucian carp two fingers wide swimming around in the bucket.
When Niu Er saw her, he shouted: "Thank you, sister-in-law."
Xie Jiaojiao nodded: "It's already noon, why don't you go back for dinner?"
Niu Er didn't say anything. Xie Zhiyi pulled Xie Jiaojiao: "Sister, don't say anything!"
Xie Jiaojiao raised her eyebrows slightly and looked to see how many crabs they had caught.
There is already half a bucket!
Seeing Xie Jiaojiao and Xie Zhiyi preparing to go home, Niu Er did not put away his fishing rod.
Xie Zhiyi whispered: "Sister, can we let Brother Niu come to our house for dinner? Brother Niu's mother is so powerful. I heard Brother Niu say this morning that he had a quarrel with his mother early this morning! His mother didn't even Let him eat!"
As soon as Xie Zhiyi finished speaking, he looked at Niu Er sympathetically.
Only then did Xie Jiaojiao notice any changes in Niu Er. How could Niu Er be as fat this year as he was last year?
He was a little chubby last year, but this year he is a little too thin. At first, I thought he had grown taller because of his penis, but now I see that he has not grown much. Her family members are already up to his shoulders!
"Niu Er, let's go to Aunt Xie's house for dinner. We made sweet potato buns for lunch. I heard from Zhiyi that you like this."
Niu Er's eyes lit up. Xie Jiaojiao saw him swallowing his saliva, but he shook his head on his face: "Xie Auntie, I won't go. I will go back after fishing for a while."
Xie Jiaojiao ignored him and helped him pack his things. When she saw several fish in his bucket, she said, "Sister-in-law, I want to eat fish. You can provide fish and I can provide rice. Come to my house for dinner!"
"Let's go, Brother Niu, the steamed buns made by my mother are delicious!" Xie Zhiyi said as he collected the fishing rod for him.
Niu Er touched his head: "Okay then!"
At the dinner table, Niu Er was very reserved at first, but after eating the first steamed bun, he relaxed.
Sun Ruhua looked at Niu Er and couldn't help feeling a little distressed.
When Sun Ruhua was clearing away the dishes at noon, she said to Xie Jiaojiao: "Niu Er, this kid hasn't had a full meal for who knows how long! Now that you have a stepmother, you also have a stepfather!"
Xie Jiaojiao couldn't say anything about this matter, after all, it was someone else's business!
"Mom, go tell Uncle Li this afternoon and help us plow those two sweet potato fields. Also, how did you go about the last time I asked you to inquire about buying land?"
"Okay, after washing the dishes later, I'll go tell you, Lao Li."
When talking about the land, Sun Ruhua laughed: "I also inquired about the land. Wang Youliang's family in our village sells land. I heard that it is sold to his son to find a wife. I will go and see the land. It’s right next to our two plots of land. Once they harvest this season’s sweet potatoes, we can transfer the ownership!”
Xie Jiaojiao nodded: "Okay! With two more plots of land, we can make more brown sugar next year!"
I got busy in the afternoon.
Uncle Li plowed the field in front, while Sun Ruhua and Xie Jiaojiao were busy picking sweet potatoes in the back.
Many people in the village looked at it and never thought that digging sweet potatoes could be done like this!
However, when he saw that many sweet potatoes had been accidentally plowed, he shook his head and said distressedly: "If you want a good harvest, you still have to do it yourself!"
The person next to me who was going to plant sugar cane with Xie Jiaojiao heard this and said, "You know nothing!"
After saying that, he quickly went home and went to the sweet potato field to harvest sweet potatoes, so that he could plant sugar cane into the ground with Xie Jiaojiao.
Last year, it took three members of his family several days to harvest two acres of land. This year, they finished harvesting in almost one day.
Oxen are used to plow the fields and ox-carts are used to transport sweet potatoes. The efficiency is much higher, and Xie Jiaojiao is much more relaxed.
Sun Ruhua felt a little distressed. Looking at the sweet potatoes at home that were accidentally plowed, she sighed: "So many of them have been damaged and I can't eat them all! What a pity!"
Xie Jiaojiao took a look, what's the pity? It won't be wasted.
"Mom, go buy a piglet and bring it back! The ones we can't finish eating will be used to raise pigs! We won't let it go to waste!"
And: "If you still can't bear it, we can make it into powder and eat it."
"Making flour? How much sweet potatoes are wasted!"
Xie Jiaojiao was speechless!
The next day, I saw Sun Ruhua bringing back a piglet. There was no special pigsty in the backyard, so I spent some money and asked someone to make one.
Right next to the toilet, they share a cesspool.
"In this way, there will be fertilizer to fertilize the sugar cane next year!" Sun Ruhua said.
The happiest person was Xie Zhiyi, who said that he would take good care of her every day.
Xie Jiaojiao looked at him, feeling a little helpless. In those novels she read, didn't she see that there was a younger brother or older brother in the family who wanted to study? Why is it that when she traveled through time and had a younger brother at home, she thought about farming, raising chickens, and rabbits all day long!
She thought about it, and if possible, she would still like to send Xie Zhiyi to study, not only to let him succeed in his studies, but also to learn Braille.
As soon as the sweet potatoes of Wang Youliang's family were harvested, the land was transferred to the owner under the witness of the village chief. Sun Ruhua did not dare to make the decision, so she wrote Xie Jiaojiao's name.
People in the village were surprised that so quickly, the Xie family could afford to buy land, and the things they wanted to make at her house were sold for a lot of money!
Then they began to plant sugar cane. Xie Jiaojiao's family took the lead in planting it. While growing it themselves, they also taught others how to grow it.
Other villagers in the village looked at them with envy.
Some people even went to the village chief's house to make trouble, but they were yelled at by the village chief.
However, most people felt that growing sugar cane was not as safe as growing food, and they also laughed at the five families who followed Xie Jiaojiao's family to grow sugar cane.
Those who silently planted sugar cane said in their hearts: "That's because you don't know that this sugar cane can boil brown sugar!"
After all this work, it’s time to celebrate the New Year!
Xie Jiaojiao delivered crabs as usual that day, but the number of crabs was getting less and less.
And she felt sorry for Xie Zhiyi, and now she no longer allowed Xie Zhiyi to go into the water. Although this was the south, the water was bitingly cold in winter.
Xie Jiaojiao also told Niu Er and Tian Hu that they would not accept crabs tomorrow.
"Shopkeeper Chen, you can find someone else to find these crabs tomorrow. We can't even find that many crabs over there!"
When shopkeeper Chen heard this, he immediately nodded: "Okay! Miss Xie, do you have any more fermented bean curd at home? I gave some to one of my brothers last time. He liked it very much. He is in the restaurant business in the county. , always asking me to give him some too!”
When Xie Jiaojiao heard this, it was big business!
He immediately smiled and said: "There are still a few jars at home. If shopkeeper Chen wants them, I will deliver them to you in the afternoon. But if you want more, you may have to wait for a while."
Shopkeeper Chen immediately agreed. When he mentioned the number, he compared it with five. Xie Jiaojiao looked at him and said, "Five altars?"
Shopkeeper Chen shook his head.
"Fifty?"
Shopkeeper Chen shook his head.
Xie Jiaojiao was a little shocked: "Could it be five hundred?"
Shopkeeper Chen touched his chin and nodded: "Thank you, Miss!"
Xie Jiaojiao waved her hands hurriedly and couldn't help but ask: "With so much, can his restaurant eat it?"
Shopkeeper Chen smiled and said, “Miss Xie, you don’t have to worry now!”
Xie Jiaojiao nodded slightly: "He wants so much, why don't I use a big vat to make it! Otherwise, it will be inconvenient for him to make one jar after another!"
"Okay! I'll just tell him!"
Xie Jiaojiao thanked Shopkeeper Chen for introducing her such a big deal, but Shopkeeper Chen shook his head with a smile.
After she left, Jiang Weinan came down from upstairs.
"How is it? Does she agree?"
Shopkeeper Chen nodded with a smile: "Miss Xie agreed. Master, if you want to help Miss Xie, you can just order it directly. Why do you need me to come forward!"
"I'm afraid she won't agree to what I ordered!" Jiang Weinan said, and it's so cold now, why does she still catch these crabs every day? Not afraid of the cold either!
Shopkeeper Chen didn't hear clearly: "Master, what did you say?"
Jiang Weinan waved his hand: "Nothing! Well, you should urge her more when the time comes to prevent her from being lazy!"
Shopkeeper Chen frowned. Miss Xie looked neat at first glance. How could she be lazy?
"When she says it's ready, you can transport it to our shop in the county."
Shopkeeper Chen responded and Jiang Weinan left.
After Xie Jiaojiao negotiated such a large deal, she immediately ran to Zhang Doufu and ordered fifty bamboo pieces of tofu first, which made Zhang Doufu and his wife extremely happy.
I was even more happy when I heard Xie Jiaojiao say that for the next ten days, I would receive fifty yuan a day!
Xie Jiaojiao went to the drugstore and bought some spices.
Jiang Weinan watched from a distance, why did she come out of the pharmacy? Could it be that you are sick?
Seeing that she had almost finished shopping, Xie Jiaojiao went to the entrance of the town to prepare to take a bullock cart back.
Sitting on the bullock cart and taking a nap, I heard two women from the village behind me say: "That Sun Ruhua said that she no longer recognizes Xie Zhili. I think she has been going to Xie's house every morning to look at the house these days." ?”
The person next to him echoed: "That's right! Why haven't you heard the Xie family's child crying in the past two days..."
Xie Jiaojiao turned around and grabbed both of their shoulders: "Are you telling the truth?"
