Chapter 76 How could I not sleep well?

Shen Xuewei slung her basket over her shoulder, grabbed her machete, and headed towards the back of the mountain.

She returned from gathering pig feed from the back mountain, started boiling water in a pot, and chopped pig feed on the side.

She didn't want to leave the same scars on her hands as in her past life, so she was very careful when chopping.

The water boiled, and she added some cornmeal and bran, then stirred it.

After a while, the chopped pig feed was thrown into the pot.

After cooking for another ten minutes or so, everything in the pot was cooked, and a pot of pig feed was ready.

She extinguished the fire underneath and let the pig feed cool.

She cooked a pot of pig feed and was covered in sweat, so she moved a stool and sat under the eaves in front of the door to cool off.

The family's puppies whimpered and circled around her feet.

Before she knew it, two daring puppies were secretly nibbling at her toes.

Shen Xuewei glanced down, grabbed the two of them by the neck, and carried them into the house.

The two puppies whimpered as they climbed over the threshold, which was slightly higher than them, and continued to suck on Chen Xuewei's toes.

Shen Xuewei, unable to bear it any longer, shouted, "Big Yellow!"

Two "woof woof" sounds came from afar, and Big Yellow came running like a yellow lightning bolt, standing in front of Shen Xuewei and wagging its tail incessantly.

Shen Xuewei grabbed its neck and said angrily, "You're never in a hurry, always playing outside with that big black dog. Do you know you have a home? Do you know you're a mother dog? Hurry up and take care of your puppies and feed them. Do I have to ask you to feed them?"

The big yellow dog was scolded so badly that its tail drooped down, and its body went limp, lying on the ground with no will to live.

Upon seeing this, the puppies practically pounced over, crowding together and vying to drink the milk.

Shen Xuewei supervised Da Huang for a while before standing up.

As soon as she stood up, Da Huang also wanted to abandon the child and run away.

Shen Xuewei narrowed her eyes. "Hmm?"

Dahuang whimpered twice in grievance and had no choice but to lie down again.

"That's more like it. If you don't take care of your child, do you expect me to take care of your child?"

"If you don't want to raise children, then don't have them in the first place! You deserve it for having so many in one litter!"

The first two litters of Dahuang each had only four or five puppies.

This litter had a total of eight puppies.

Just drinking milk every day is enough to exhaust Dahuang.

Gradually, she became less willing to breastfeed.

If Shen Xuewei is home, I'll just leave all eight puppies with her and go play with my dog ​​friends.

Shen Xuewei had been holding back for a long time, but she couldn't take it anymore and had wanted to condemn its behavior for a long time.

However, looking at the pitiful-looking Big Yellow, and the puppies nursing beneath it, they wished they could suck it dry.

Shen Xuewei sighed, her heart softening again.

But asking her to help take care of the children is absolutely out of the question.

She looked around and saw that the three elderly people in her family had not yet returned from the fields.

If he hasn't come back, that makes things easier.

She picked up Big Yellow's dog bowl, scooped a large spoonful of porridge from the pot and gave it to him, urging him to eat quickly.

"Hurry up and finish eating, or we'll both get scolded when Grandpa and Grandma come back."

Big Yellow's eyes lit up as it looked at the bowl of porridge, and it wolfed it down.

In the blink of an eye, it devoured the entire bowl of porridge, licking the bowl until it was so shiny it could practically reflect light.

Shen Xuewei, with her sharp eyes, spotted the three figures returning not far away and quickly kicked Da Huang's dog bowl aside.

"Great-Grandma, Grandpa and Grandma, you're back!"

Shen Xuewei went up to them and helped them unload their baskets.

Grandpa hummed in agreement. "Did you read any books at home today?"

He had high hopes for Shen Xuewei, and even during holidays, he didn't want her to be lazy; she had to study for at least an hour every day.

Shen Xuewei nodded, "I looked at the first-year junior high Chinese textbook today, and I'll look at something else tomorrow."

Grandpa Chen looked up and saw the book on the table in the main room, which had been flipped through several pages. A look of satisfaction flashed in his eyes.

"Okay, just study hard. Your grades have always been excellent in elementary school, and you have to work hard in junior high as well. Start learning a little earlier than others, memorize it well, and you'll definitely be among the top students."

Shen Xuewei smiled and agreed.

This is why she didn't tell her family about her writing novels.

In her grandfather's eyes, reading novels was a bad thing that would waste her studies and negatively influence her learning, and would lead her astray; similarly, writing novels was the same.

If her maternal grandfather finds out, she'll probably get a beating.

So let's maintain the status quo.

Her maternal grandfather is still very energetic and hardworking. He is usually quiet, but he talks more when it comes to her studies.

In the hot summer, the elderly people in my family don't like to eat.

Shen Xuewei simply cooked a big pot of porridge in the morning, so that she could eat it again when she came back from working in the fields at noon.

We'll cook rice and dishes when it's time for dinner.

She ladled out three bowls of porridge and served them to them.

I also served myself a bowl and sat at the doorway to eat while enjoying the cool breeze.

Grandma Xi ate one bowl, then ladled a second bowl of porridge from the pot.

"Didn't you cook a lot of porridge this morning? Why does it seem like there's so little less..."

Shen Xuewei replied naturally, "I don't know why, but I had a bigger appetite today, so I ate a little more earlier."

Upon hearing this, Grandma Xi's face lit up with joy.

"Okay, then next time I'll cook a little more than today's amount. If you eat more, you'll grow tall and strong."

"Okay, Grandma."

While they were eating, Chen Fangqiu returned from outside on his motorcycle.

Grandpa Chen and Grandma Xi had already finished eating, and Shen Xuewei had also put down her chopsticks.

Shen Xuewei scraped the bottom of the pot clean and scooped out the portion that was originally reserved for Dahuang and gave it to Chen Fangqiu.

After finishing his bowl of porridge, Chen Fangqiu drove off on his motorcycle with a loud rumble.

The three elderly members of the Chen family went back to their rooms for an afternoon nap. Shen Xuewei washed the pots and pans and also took a nap for a while.

She did not stay at home in the afternoon.

There wasn't much firewood left at home, so Grandpa Chen and Grandma Xi didn't go to the fields in the afternoon; they needed to go up the mountain to chop and carry firewood.

However, since the soybeans in the field had not been planted yet, and time was tight, the two of them were short of manpower to chop firewood, so Shen Xuewei had to go to the field with Granny Chen to plant soybeans.

Shen Xuewei, carrying a basket on her back, wearing a straw hat, and holding a hoe, followed behind Granny Chen as they walked into the field.

The Chen family cultivates a lot of land, and Shen Xuewei still hasn't remembered it all.

She didn't actually know where the place they were going to in the afternoon was.

However, Granny Chen remembered all the Chen family's land very clearly, so just follow her.

After following Granny Chen for more than half an hour, we finally arrived at the field.

When they arrived at the field, Granny Chen put down her basket and started working right away, while Shen Xuewei had to rest a bit before continuing.

The old man and the young boy worked until dark, but they still hadn't finished planting a single plot of land.

On the way back, Shen Xuewei carried her basket listlessly and followed behind Granny Chen.

In later generations on the internet, there are always some people who can't make it in the city and say they want to go back to farming.

Shen Xuewei had never thought of it that way, because she had actually farmed for many years.

Farming was just too hard and tiring for her.

Even the income from farming all year round is not enough to support oneself.

For Shen Xuewei, the only good thing about farming was that she slept soundly at night.

I'm so exhausted, how could I not sleep well?