The village chief sat silently until everyone finished eating. Ms. Liang wanted to clear away the dishes, but was stopped by the village chief's wife.
"First daughter-in-law, please stop working. You used to take care of the dishes and chopsticks in the house. From today on, the second daughter-in-law will do it."
Mrs. Liang felt a little sorry on her face, but when her mother-in-law stopped her, she had no choice but to watch Mrs. Ren clean up.
When Mrs. Ren went to the kitchen to wash the pots and dishes, the village chief said, "Yuancheng, people say that you should marry a virtuous wife. Look at you. In the past, you were determined to marry Mrs. Ren. This is the woman you want to marry."
"Not to mention how many things your eldest brother and your sister-in-law have done for our family, they went to your uncle's house to help. They were appointed by others. What should your wife be jealous of?"
The village chief picked up the pipe on the table, took a puff and sighed.
To put it bluntly, it’s all because of money and poverty.
Ren is also a short-sighted person, so he has set his sights on this small benefit.
Lu Yuancheng was like an eggplant wilted by frost at this time, and said in a low voice: "Dad, I will talk to Mr. Ren."
"Brother, sister-in-law, Mrs. Ren has no brains. Don't take what she says to heart."
A family dispute ended there.
Gu Yunxi didn't know all this. She was busy going to the medicine field to watch people picking honeysuckle.
However, Mr. He refused to let her go.
"Yunxi, your pregnancy is stable, so you should stay at home. Your father and I will be fine in the medicine field."
Gu Yunxi was helpless. She went to the medicine field, not to help pick honeysuckle, but to put spiritual spring water into the canal.
She hasn't been to the medicine field for a long time since she became pregnant, and the water in the canal has long lost any trace of spiritual spring water.
If we don’t go, those honeysuckles will lose their nutrients.
However, she couldn't resist He and was eventually forced to stay at home.
When everyone in the family went to the medicine field, Gu Yunxi dug out all his savings and took stock.
The money from selling flowers, honeysuckle from the medicine field, and herbs grown in the space, plus buying this and that, added up to more than 300 yuan.
It’s not enough, it costs a thousand taels to upgrade the space!
Gu Yunxi flashed into the space, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Space Elf, are you there?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the voice of the space elf sounded: "Here he is!"
The reaction speed was so fast that Gu Yunxi couldn't help but wonder if the space elf was secretly watching him all the time.
"Um, space elf, I want to upgrade my space, can you... give it on credit?"
"Yes, but upgrading from the second-level space to the third-level space requires one thousand taels of silver, which must be paid back within one year."
Gu Yunxi thought about it and said, "Okay!"
Although one thousand taels of silver a year is a bit much for her now, it shouldn't be too difficult if she works hard.
As the space became blank, the fog soon cleared, and what caught Gu Yunxi's eyes was a large area of land.
Wow! The spiritual spring has also expanded tenfold!
The cabin has also become a two-story building!
Gu Yunxi was overjoyed and walked quickly towards the small building.
Once inside, you will find all kinds of farm tools, even a waterwheel! An encyclopedia of planting techniques!
In this era, there are no waterwheels! The thousand yuan spent is really worth it.
There is also that book. Although the text in it is in traditional Chinese, it does not affect Gu Yun's enjoyment of reading it.
She opened it and saw that the book not only contained many techniques for growing medicinal herbs, such as honeysuckle, kudzu root, panax notoginseng, atractylodes, and angelica, but also methods for growing wheat, rice, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, watermelons, and other crops.
It's done, it's done, now I don't have to worry about planting anymore, Gu Yunxi is ecstatic.
She took the book and walked in the hundred acres of medicine field.
One hundred acres is really big. You can't even see the edge of this land.
Except for the acre now filled with miscellaneous herbs and nine acres of honeysuckle, the remaining ninety acres are all open land.
There are plenty of fields, but what should we plant? Gu Yunxi became confused again.
"Space Elf, open the space mall and take a look."
She thought for a while and decided to check out the herbal seeds available in the space mall first.
As the space mall was displayed, she flipped through it again and again, and saw the familiar seed "watermelon" inside.
In this day and age, I don’t know if there are any watermelons.
It's the middle of the Spring Festival now, so it's just the right time to plant watermelons.
Gu Yunxi made up his mind and immediately bought dozens of kilograms of watermelon seeds.
A few kilograms of seeds were left out, and the rest were sown directly in the space.
The space seeding tool is really easy to use. It only costs a little money and saves time and effort.
After finishing all this, Gu Yunxi took the few kilograms of watermelon seeds and walked out of the space with satisfaction.
She walked slowly towards the medicine field at home, with a handful of watermelon seeds hanging in her hand.
As soon as He raised his eyes, he saw her coming: "Oh, Yunxi, it's windy here, why are you kid here? Why don't you lie down at home?"
The villagers who were helping were a little surprised when they didn't see Gu Yunxi coming. They even asked He Jianchuan's wife if she was feeling unwell, so she didn't come.
Seeing that Mr. He was so nervous, the experienced woman smiled and said, "Aunt He, do you have a wife in Jianchuan?"
He smiled but did not respond.
The custom here is that during the first three months of pregnancy, outsiders should not be informed, otherwise the fetus may be unstable.
Yunxi is just three months old now, so it's better not to talk about it, so as not to scare the child.
Seeing He's reaction, everyone did not deny it and congratulated one after another.
"Aunt He is still lucky. It seems that Aunt He will be able to have a grandson this year."
"Aunt He served the full moon wine to her grandson and asked me to join in the joy."
Everyone was laughing and talking, but they were busy picking honeysuckle without stopping.
Gu Yunxi also smiled, chatted with the villagers for a few words, and then went to find Father Lu. She had something important to do.
Gu Yunxi: "Dad, I have something to discuss with you."
Father Lu stopped what he was doing and asked, "Yunxi, what's wrong?"
Gu Yunxi opened his palms, revealing watermelon seeds, and said, "Dad, do you know this? Watermelon seeds."
"Watermelon? What is watermelon?" Father Lu looked at the dark brown seeds with a confused look on his face.
"Dad, the watermelon is spherical or oval-shaped. The outer skin is dark green, light green, or with black and green stripes. The seeds are dark brown, and the pulp inside is red."
Father Lu thought hard, but he really didn't expect that he had seen such a thing.
Gu Yunxi's eyes lit up, this era! There is no watermelon!
At least, not here!
"Dad, let's buy some more land, the kind with sandy land, and plant it!"
Although Father Lu didn't quite understand where Gu Yunxi got these seeds and where he learned so much knowledge, he was convinced that Gu Yunxi was right.
