Chen Hong is now hoping that her father will recover quickly so that they can go back home soon!

After breakfast, everyone dug up peanuts together. The group finished digging up two acres of peanuts in one day. While Uncle Village Chief and Uncle Erhu were transporting peanuts home in the afternoon, Chen Hong drove to the town's express delivery point to send a package to her sister.

I bought a case of liquor, two cases of beer, two hundred yuan worth of beef ribs, and some offal in town. I'll cook them when I get home tonight.

I rushed home to cook, since there were so many people, I didn't care how many dishes there were; everything was served in bowls today. The beef was stewing in a pressure cooker, while the ribs and offal, after being cleaned, were added to a large pot of old braising liquid for stewing.

A steamer basket is placed on top, and thirty steamed buns are steamed in it. This large pot with twelve seals can only show its usefulness when there are many people.

She also prepared two vegetable dishes and a stewed sea bass. By the time everyone finished their work and went home, Chen Hong had already prepared the meal.

After dinner, everyone kept busy. The yard was brightly lit, and everyone picked peanuts together. Chen Hong complained that they were too slow, so she went to the storeroom and brought out the old bicycle that Yu Hai had ridden before his wedding. She turned it upside down, with the wheel facing up, pedaled with one hand, and held a handful of peanuts to the rapidly spinning rear wheel with the other.

With a whoosh, the spinning wheels scraped the peanuts off the vines. Everyone thought it was a good method and got to work quickly. Those carrying peanut vines and those shoveling peanuts all huddled together to help. Several people took turns working, and by 10 p.m., they had basically finished picking all the peanuts they had dug up during the day.

Chen Hong used a small roller skate to pull all the peanuts onto the roof to dry. They would be dry in three days when the sun was strong tomorrow.

Everyone was tired after a long day, so the village chief and the others went home to rest. They would continue harvesting corn tomorrow.

After working like this for three days, Chen Hong's family harvested all their crops except for sweet potatoes, which were not yet ready for harvest.

After harvesting Chen Hong's crops, they harvested the crops from the village chief's and Uncle Erhu's crops. It took another five days of harvesting for both families to finally conclude the autumn harvest.

The only sweet potatoes left in the field are yet to be harvested. They need to be allowed to grow for a while longer, and it will be best to harvest them around the time of the first frost.

After the corn stalks have dried in the field, they need to be bundled together and the corn cobs dug up.

Now that the autumn harvest is finally over, Chen Hong can go out to sea again. His father wants to go with him, but Chen Hong disagrees. He has high blood pressure, and if he has an attack at sea, there's no way to save him. More importantly, his presence on the boat would greatly hinder his performance.

They left him a fishing rod and a full set of fishing gear, and entrusted the village chief to take him fishing. They also arranged for him to pick up and drop off Xiao Hao's children and to dry corn and peanuts. Only then did his father stop going out to sea with the boat.

Chen Hong left early and returned late, spending a week fishing at sea, when news of her sister arrived.

Pearl sold for 2,148,000 yuan. Several houses have been found and the prices have been negotiated. She's just waiting to view the properties, pay, and sign the papers. All the houses she's buying this time are existing properties. There are a few houses that some real estate companies have reserved as favors, which Fang Yitong had someone pick out.

Chen Hong asked about the necessary documents and left her father at home to look after Yu Yang. The next day, she went to Beijing with her bank card and various documents.

After a long and winding journey, it was already afternoon when we arrived in Beijing. Luckily, Dad was home this time, so I didn't have to take the kids with me, making traveling alone quite easy.

After getting off the train, Chen Hong went to the restroom first and took out the large lobsters and crabs she had prepared in advance. Because there were six large lobsters and six large crabs, the entire plastic box weighed more than 20 kilograms.

Chen Hong took out the small cart that the old lady used to take to the market from the small toilet stall, tied the plastic box to the cart, and listened to the silence outside, so it seemed that everyone had gone into the toilet.

Chen Hong peeked through the crack in the door and, seeing no one outside, immediately opened the door, pulled the cart, and left. She didn't look back until she was outside the station. At the exit, her brother-in-law was waiting to pick her up.

After taking the subway twice with my brother-in-law, we finally arrived at my sister's house. We put down the shrimp and crabs we'd brought for her, and the three of us talked for a bit. This time, my sister and her husband were determined to buy two houses.

Fang Yitong had already found a connection with a bank who could offer the lowest possible interest rate. They planned to buy two small apartments, each 70 square meters, in Chaoyang District. Fang Yitong used his connections to negotiate the price, which was based on last year's opening price of 5,000 yuan per square meter. With a 50% down payment, they would need to pay 350,000 yuan.

The couple had only saved 120,000 yuan, leaving a shortfall of 230,000 yuan. They borrowed 30,000 yuan from their brother-in-law, brother, and sister, and 50,000 yuan from their comrades-in-arms, but still needed 150,000 yuan. The couple looked at Chen Hong, and Chen Hong smiled, indicating that they wanted to borrow money.

Chen Hong said to the two of them, "First, tell me what Fang Yitong said. Can the person he found approve my loan? Are there any restrictions on me buying a house in Beijing? I need to have a clear understanding of this before I can calculate how much money I can give you."