"Sister, what are we having for dinner tonight?" Qingya asked while leaning against the kitchen door.

"In the evening, I had sweet potato porridge, steamed eggplant with chopped peppers, stir-fried sour beans with green peppers, and tomatoes with sugar."

"Sister, it's a good thing you come home to cook at night. Otherwise, we would be so tired during the day that we wouldn't want to cook anything when we get home at night and would just eat something casually."

In recent years, new land has been reclaimed every year. Liujia Village now has more and more cultivated land, and the autumn harvest is also more and more. This time, after the autumn harvest began, Xuemei would prepare lunch after returning home from get off work. Qingya and the other two would finish work at 6:30, so Liu's father and mother would wait until 7:00 to go.

In the past two years, Ruirui and Feifei also had to go to the fields. There was no one to come back to cook at noon, so they would go home at seven o'clock in the evening and have dinner. Liu's mother and Xuemei would make two baskets of corn cakes. In the morning, everyone would drink a bowl of sweet potato porridge and one or two corn cakes, and then take the corn cakes from noon and go to work.

Liu's mother was concerned about the health of her family, so she would cook an egg for the workers every morning to eat at noon. She would cook five eggs a day, but Xuemei still didn't eat them. In just six days, she had almost eaten up all the eggs she had saved up last month.

"Qingya, you're back alone? Where are your two younger brothers?"

"They were drinking water at the well."

"Qingya, tell them not to drink the raw well water. I've cooled some boiled water for you and added a little sugar. It's under the bamboo cover on the table in the main hall. Wash your hands and drink it."

As soon as Xuemei finished speaking, Qingya ran away. After a few seconds, Qingya was heard shouting.

"Ruirui, Feifei, wash your hands and go into the main room to drink some boiled water. If you keep drinking well water, expect to be scolded by your elder sister."

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"Sister, it's more comfortable to eat at night. I eat corn cakes at noon every day, and my face has turned yellow." Qingya said while eating with big mouthfuls.

"You are not eating, you are sunbathing." Ruirui said to Qingya.

"You guys just have to hold on a little longer. If you cook sweet potato rice in the morning and take it with you, I won't have time to watch it or cook any other dishes. Besides, each of us gets a boiled egg at noon, and your sister cooks porridge and stir-fried dishes for us in the evening. We eat pretty well in the village." said Liu's mother.

"Mom, just make corn cakes tonight for tomorrow morning. I'll take a day off tomorrow and improve your meals at noon."

"Sister, then I want to eat meat." As soon as Ruirui finished speaking, Liu's father, Qingya and the other two stared at Xuemei.

"Okay, we haven't eaten the dried meat from the rabbit Dad shot last time. I'll fry some for you guys tomorrow night. It wouldn't be nice to bring it to you at noon with so many people watching."

"Sister, what are we going to eat for lunch tomorrow?" Feifei asked after swallowing the porridge in her mouth. The others also looked at Xuemei with bright eyes.

"I'll make you some leek pancakes for lunch tomorrow. I'll add some white flour and a few eggs."

"Sister, we haven't eaten leek pancakes for a long time. I'm drooling just by talking about it." Qingya said.

"Ever since you learned how to make noodles, 60 kilograms of wheat a year is not enough for our family. We have to ask for more wheat when we distribute grain this year," said Liu's mother.

"Mom, the noodles made by my eldest sister are delicious. I also like noodles. I must order more noodles this year." Feifei looked up and said.

"Sister, you have to make more, otherwise there won't be enough to eat. Recently, Feifei and I can only eat until we are 60% to 70% full at noon?" Ruirui continued.

"Has your appetite increased again, both of you?" asked Father Liu.

"Dad, it's not just us. My second sister's appetite has also increased."

"Why didn't you guys tell me earlier? If you had, I would have made a few more corn cakes with your elder sister tonight. Hey! It's my fault for not noticing."

During the autumn harvest, Ruirui and Feifei each had seven corn cakes at noon, Qingya had five, Liu's mother had four, and Liu's father had six.

"Okay, I'll make more tomorrow. You've been tired from the autumn harvest recently and it's time for you to eat long meals. It's normal that you don't have enough to eat. Mom, don't blame yourself."

Now Ruirui and Feifei are almost 1.7 meters tall, and Qingya is 1.68 meters tall, three centimeters taller than Xuemei.

"By the way, Mom, please bring me some mung beans later. I'll soak them tonight and make mung bean water for you to drink tomorrow."

"Okay, you should make more and give some to your grandparents, second uncle's family, and aunt's family tomorrow."

"Big sister, do you know? There's another educated youth causing trouble today."

"Yes, yes, I know. Let me tell you, sister." Ruirui put down the bowl and said.

"It was Dai Zhiqing and Wu Zhiqing. They took advantage of people in our village who liked them, and they were discovered."

"Dai Zhiqing also has suitors?"

"Of course he did, and he didn't reject her, he just flirted with her."

"You are so young, where did you learn these words?"

"Sister, Ruirui didn't learn it. The aunt in the threshing yard said it today. Sister Lanhua, the daughter of my great-grandfather's uncle, likes the educated youth who came from Dai Zhiqing. She has been secretly helping him with his work these past few days and hasn't even finished her own work. I was wondering how the educated youth came to his senses these past few days and got eight work points every day. Today, the aunt caught him and told the accountant to deduct the work points earned by sister Lanhua from the educated youth's work points and add them to Lanhua's. They argued for a long time in the threshing yard, and then the educated youth, probably because he felt embarrassed, took sick leave in the afternoon. I don't understand how he could have the nerve to take leave with only five or six work points." Qingya said, shaking her head.

Now Qingya and the other two have to get seven or eight work points every day before they can go home.

"What does that have to do with Wu Zhiqing?"

"Doesn't she usually like to act weak? There are still two young men in our village who like this style. But I don't know whether to say she is smart or stupid. She didn't ask them to help with the work, but she asked them to bring her two eggs every day. Yesterday, when they were bringing her eggs, they happened to run into each other and found each other. Then they started fighting. They asked her who her partner was?"

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