Hu Yao felt uncomfortable and only ate half of the meal. She took the rest to the kitchen.
Jiang Xiaochao played all morning and fell asleep not long after he came back. After showing Hu Yao all the food and fun, he couldn't help but fall asleep on Hu Yao's lap.
The weather was hot, and he was afraid of the heat. He was wearing a small vest and shorts, his hair was wet from the heat, and his face was red.
Hu Yao put him back on the bed, took off his little shoes, fanned him gently with a cattail leaf fan, and wiped his sweat, so that he could sleep more comfortably.
Through the window, her beautiful side face was quiet and her eyes were extremely gentle. Jiang Han took a second look and found it quite pleasing to the eye. This scene was also inexplicably comfortable.
Hu Yao didn't know that he was looking at her, and was still fanning Jiang Xiaochao carefully.
With Jiang Xiaochao around, the house was noisy every day, and there was often talk of Jiang Han lecturing him.
Although Jiang Han is at home these days, he is very busy and leaves early and comes back late.
He almost didn't eat dinner at home. Most of them came back in the middle of the night. He didn't seem to be in a good mood, and he didn't bother Hu Yao anymore.
Hu Yao breathed a sigh of relief.
After a month of nursing, her injury has completely healed, leaving only a scar, which she doesn't know if it can fade away. Fortunately, it's on her forehead, and her hair can cover most of it.
She had nothing else to do at home except wash clothes and cook. These days, she went to pick tea with Jiang Xiaochao.
The freshly picked tea leaves have to be sent to the town to be fried by specialized masters. Hu Yao is not very clear about these processes, but in the past few days, after talking to other villagers who picked tea, she knew that Jiang Han paid them labor wages. Not low.
Jiang Han has made great achievements in the past few years. While everyone is wary of his old grudges, they also want to curry favor with him, but they hesitate to move forward.
Hu Yao is well. She looks completely different from Jiang Han. She is easy to talk to. Even if she has been stupid for so many years, Jiang Han has raised her for so long. She looks more graceful than before. It is obvious that Jiang Han cherishes her. As her daughter-in-law, the villagers became more active.
These days, many aunts and daughters-in-law come to care about Hu Yao enthusiastically, and some are envious of Hu Yao marrying Jiang Han.
There was a hint of flattery in his words.
The most obvious one is Liu Jie's daughter-in-law Li Zhen. She is extremely affectionate towards Hu Yao. Because Jiang Han, Liu Jie and her brother are brothers, she feels that she has a closer relationship with Hu Yao than anyone else. Familiarity.
When she praised Jiang Han, Hu Yao didn't even know if the Jiang Han she was talking about was the same one everyone knew.
Li Zhen is good at talking and understanding, and she is flexible, but Hu Yao doesn't like her very much.
Because she could still vaguely feel her disdain for her, and she would say bad things about Lin Zhaodi from time to time.
Her mother-in-law is from the city, so she knows how to look at people with her eyes raised.
Jiang Han also had other jobs. He put Liu Jie in charge of the tea picking workers. Li Zhen seemed to have regarded these tea fields as her own, and often paid the tea picking workers the boss's money. Compared with Hu Yao, , more like a hostess.
Hu Yao said she wanted to help pick tea, and she was very happy to do so. Hu Yao didn't want any wages, so she and Li Jie could share the extra wages.
Liu Jie has been running around these days since Jiang Han asked them to help find someone. Li Zhenke still remembers that Jiang Han said that when the matter is completed, he will take them to do the tea business together. What they can earn at that time is not such a small amount of money.
Li Zhen usually often sees Jiang Hanxun yelling at Hu Yao. Earlier, she noticed the bruises on Hu Yao's arms. Unlike other villagers, she didn't feel that Jiang Han cared about Hu Yao but was just a person. He was raised like a toy. Hu Yao didn't have any help from her mother-in-law, and it was just bought by Jiang Han. It was not normal for him to hit or scold him.
If it weren't for the fact that she was Jiang Han's daughter-in-law, Li Zhen wouldn't even bother to do anything. As a city girl, she would have to try to please Hu Yao, a village woman!
Li Zhen still felt unbalanced and dissatisfied, and in her dark mind she expected Jiang Han to treat Hu Yao more harshly.
It’s no wonder that she thought that the marks on Hu Yao’s body a few days ago were caused by Jiang Han. After all, they didn’t look like traces of love at all. Even Jiang Han, the instigator, looked at Hu Yao’s pitiful appearance and felt that she was the same. It's like being beaten badly.
It was also because she looked too aggrieved and pitiful, and all the marks on her body had not disappeared. He was busy these days, so he didn't touch her again.
Although Hu Yao felt that Li Zhen had different feelings towards her, she had no idea what she thought about her.
She didn't like her very much, so she didn't communicate much with her.
Jiang Xiaochao was a playful person. When Hu Yao was picking tea leaves, he ran around with a few other children in the village. He even took the children to pick some wild fruits and ran them over to Hu Yao to eat. There were quite a few people in the small team. , he is like a little mountain king.
"I see you are sweating from running." Hu Yao smiled and bent her eyes and knelt down to wipe his sweat.
"Yes, it's so hot." Jiang Xiaochao fanned himself with his little hand.
His other little hand was still holding the hem of his clothes, holding the wild fruits packed in his clothes, with only half of his white, tender and round belly exposed.
"Do you know which ones are edible? Don't pick or eat them indiscriminately. Some inedible ones will be eaten by bad people." Hu Yao smiled and talked to him patiently, taking the opportunity to take the wild fruits in his small clothes and inspect them.
"Dad told me, this is the sweetest! Give it all to Yaoyao." Jiang Xiaochao said that he knew, and pointed to Hu Yao in a small pile of fruits.
His little friends were waiting eagerly for him to continue playing with them. The child's innocent eyes were very heartwarming.
Hu Yao's smile deepened a lot, she rubbed Jiang Xiaochao's head and let him continue playing.
After a while, they came running again, carrying a few bamboo shoots in their arms. This time they wanted to call Hu Yao to dig bamboo shoots together.
Suddenly Hu Yao thought of some pictures.
Well, these children are not only Jiang Xiaochao's friends, but also hers. She has often played with them in the past few years...
Hu Yao was slightly embarrassed.
Looking at their expectant looks, she couldn't bear to refuse. She nodded and agreed to go pick bamboo shoots with them. After all, there were many tea pickers, and she was not the least of them. Jiang Han wouldn't let her pick them. Just let her cook at home.
There is a large bamboo forest on the mountain south of the village. Nowadays, when bamboo shoots grow, the villagers will dig them in their free time. Making dried bamboo shoots is also a delicious dish. Almost every household will make some for winter.
Hu Yao poured the tea leaves from her basket into another basket and prepared to go with them.
"Sister-in-law, you've finished picking this piece, right? They're still busy over there. You can go over there and continue picking." Li Zhen came over with a smile.
Now that she doesn't have to work in a large group, she lives a very leisurely life when she is married to Liu Jie. She doesn't have to do farm work. Now she just pays wages to the tea-picking workers every day.
