Qin Xiaoxiao rarely cooks at the Qin family home. Even though Old Mrs. Qin knows that she is very good at cooking, she hardly ever uses her. Usually, she only asks her to help get the rice bowls or start the fire. Ma Dahua doesn't use her at all. When Ma Dahua is around, she doesn't let Qin Xiaoxiao into the kitchen.

Therefore, Qin Xiaoxiao's cooking was like a way for the Qin family to improve their lives. It was a rare treat, and Qin Aiguo didn't care about others; he was very satisfied with his own meal.

Everyone else was eating without even looking up, especially Yang Tianzhen, whose head was practically buried in her bowl.

Fortunately, Qin Xiaoxiao made a lot; otherwise, even two bowls per person wouldn't be enough.

After finishing her bowl, Yang Tianzhen looked at Qin Xiaoxiao with pleading eyes and asked pitifully, "Can I have another bowl?"

Qin Xiaoxiao nodded, both amused and exasperated, and then personally picked out another bowl of noodles for her.

Yang Tianzhen, biting her chopsticks, stared longingly at the chopsticks in Qin Xiaoxiao's hand. When she saw Qin Xiaoxiao pick out a full bowl of noodles for her, she immediately smiled so broadly that her eyes almost disappeared.

"Thanks."

After politely saying "thank you," Yang Tianzhen didn't look up again, and she didn't even hear what Qin Wei was saying in her ear.

Seeing this, Qin Feng kicked Qin Wei under the table, saying, "Let her eat, look how happy she is."

Qin Wei rubbed his legs, looking aggrieved. "I didn't want her to eat anything. I was just worried she'd eat too much and get a stomachache."

Qin Feng glared at Qin Wei, "This is only a little bit of food? Didn't you see your sister-in-law ate two bowls?"

Su Yun, who was given the snack: "..."

Qin Xiaoxiao chuckled to herself, but Qin Ye saw her and she quickly buried her head in her food.

Qin Xiaoxiao didn't eat that much because there weren't enough noodles. As for Qin Ye and Qin Feng, they had worked all morning and wouldn't have made it through the afternoon without eating more. Even Qin Wei, Qin Sheng, Xu Zhi, and Yang Tianzhen were all big eaters, so if they had made any less, there wouldn't have been enough to go around.

Even so, Qin Yue secretly winked at her, indicating that she wasn't full.

Qin Xiaoxiao said she couldn't do anything about it, and would make her more delicious food later that night.

Finally, offering Qin Yue some delicious food calmed her down, and Qin Xiaoxiao secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

The Qin family didn't rest at noon; they chatted for over an hour. In the afternoon, Qin Wei and Qin Sheng went to work, and Su Yun and Ma Dahua also had to go along. Old Mrs. Qin was ordered to stay home and rest.

Yang Tianzhen had never seen crops being harvested before, so she insisted on going along. Xu Zhi, who was bored, also went along.

Seeing this, Qin Xiaoxiao quickly pulled Qin Yue away and hid. The only one who saw the two of them slip away, Old Mrs. Qin, sighed helplessly and covered for her two granddaughters.

Qin Xiaoxiao took Qin Yue back to the educated youth compound. Qin Xiaoxiao asked Qin Yue to boil water so she could make some mung bean soup and send it over. Otherwise, with the weather so hot, people couldn't stand it and might faint from heatstroke.

When Qin Xiaoxiao finished making mung bean soup and carried buckets of water to the field with Qin Yue, Yang Tianzhen was already sitting under a big tree clapping to cheer Qin Wei on, while Xu Zhi was bending over and cutting wheat with Qin Sheng under the scorching sun.

Qin Xiaoxiao glanced at Xu Zhi, who was working, and then at Yang Tianzhen, her lips twitching slightly.

I wonder who insisted on coming along? In the end, it was someone else who did the work.

A bowl of mung bean soup once again won Yang Tianzhen's heart, and she even secretly asked Qin Wei if she could take Qin Xiaoxiao with her when she went back.

Qin Wei was so shocked that he immediately covered Yang Tianzhen's mouth.

Grandma, please don't say that. You have no idea how much my family dotes on my little sister. If they heard that, they wouldn't accept you no matter how cute you are.

You want my sister to come to your house and cook for you? What a pipe dream! I wouldn't even dare to think about that; to even think about it would be a mistake.

Su Lu returned at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Qin Xiaoxiao looked at Su Lu, who was covered in sweat, with a completely bewildered expression.

Is the transport team going to be disbanded? Why is he leaving early every few days? Doesn't his boss care?

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, Su Lu smiled and touched Qin Xiaoxiao's face. "What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"

Qin Xiaoxiao glanced around and asked, "Honey, is your company going out of business?"

Su Lu chuckled and playfully flicked Qin Xiaoxiao's nose. "What do you mean 'gone badly'? You should hope your husband is better. I just spent a fortune to buy this job, and it's already going to go bad after only a few days? Even if it wants to go bad, I'll find a way to stop it."

He wouldn't agree to this if we didn't earn the money back, you silly wife!

"Then why are you back again?"

Su Lu sat down next to Qin Xiaoxiao. "I told my class monitor that my family was harvesting wheat, so I had to go home, and he agreed."

Qin Xiaoxiao's lips twitched slightly.

That's because your class monitor didn't know what kind of person you were; otherwise, he would never have agreed to let you come back, even if you were beaten to death.

What can you do in the fields? Like me, you can't do as much as a seven or eight-year-old child, and your work points are less than half of those of an average team member.

"So, you've come back to rest?"

Su Lu smiled and nodded, then leaned back and lay down on the ground.

Just as he lay down, Su Lu suddenly felt something was wrong, abruptly sat up, and squinted at the person in the field.

What are you looking at?

Qin Xiaoxiao followed Su Lu's gaze and looked into the field, but didn't see anything interesting, which made her a little disappointed.

Su Lu pointed at Qin Sheng in the field, "Isn't that your third brother?"

Qin Xiaoxiao nodded, "Yes, my third brother came back this morning."

Su Lu then asked, "Who is that woman working next to him? The one in the gray top?"

Qin Xiaoxiao turned her head and glanced at her. "My third sister-in-law, she came back with my brother today?"

Su Lu nodded. "I was wondering why there seemed to be some people I didn't recognize in the field. It turns out that Third Brother brought his girlfriend back."

Qin Xiaoxiao pointed to Qin Wei and Yang Tianzhen, who was busy wiping his sweat, "Not only that, my second brother also brought his wife back."

Su Lu glanced in Qin Wei's direction and lay back down. "I saw it. That woman who was buzzing around your second brother like a little bee is your second sister-in-law, right?"

"That's right. I was just sitting here enjoying the cool air when I saw my second brother sweating from working. I had to go and wipe his sweat, and I couldn't stop him."

Su Lu laughed, "That's normal. If I sweat that much, you'd wipe my sweat for me with concern, wouldn't you?"

Qin Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes at Su Lu, "What a jerk! No way, what does it have to do with me!"

Su Lu tugged at Qin Xiaoxiao's hand, looked around, and seeing that no one was paying attention to them, quickly put Qin Xiaoxiao's hand to his lips and kissed it.

“My wife loves me the most. Otherwise, she wouldn’t cook delicious food for me every day. Look at other families in the village, who eats meat every day? My wife cooks meat for me every day because she’s afraid I’ll be missing out.”

Qin Xiaoxiao's lips curled slightly, but she didn't mince words, "What do you mean? There's just too much meat in my space, so I asked you to help me eat it. Otherwise, I wouldn't be willing to part with it."

Su Lu smiled and held Qin Xiaoxiao's hand tightly, while his other large hand moved up Qin Xiaoxiao's lower back, startling Qin Xiaoxiao so much that she almost jumped up on the spot.

She slapped Su Lu's hand away, turned around and glared at him, "What are you doing? Someone will see."

Su Lu looked around again and saw Yang Tianzhen skipping and hopping towards him from the field. He immediately sat up straight and stopped lying down. (End of Chapter)