Chapter 87 087 Qin Yue

Qin Xiaoxiao didn't know if there were any other novels that mentioned her, but five already were enough to keep her busy. She really didn't want another one; it was too morally reprehensible.

Of the five novels, none of them have a moral compass that makes people take them seriously. Apart from the female lead, Miao Feifei, the other four female leads are either too insidious or too saintly. Miao Feifei isn't the only scheming, manipulative womanizer in the books; basically, every book has two of them to cause trouble, as if they can't write a book without such characters.

The thought of having to go through a dozen or so people like this made Qin Xiaoxiao feel exhausted.

After eating the ready-made meal prepared in her space that evening, Qin Xiaoxiao went to sleep. The next day, she went to work as usual while slacking off.

As the days went by, Qin Xiaoxiao had more and more contact with Su Yun and Su Yu from the front yard, and her relationship with Liu Meijuan was also in a delicate state. It wasn't particularly good, but it wasn't bad either, and they could still greet each other when they met.

Su Yun and Su Yu would often come over to chat with her. The two sisters had good personalities, and Qin Xiaoxiao liked them quite a bit.

After August, there was more rain, and there weren't many days to work. Qin Xiaoxiao took advantage of the rainy days to go up the mountain a few times. While getting to know the situation on the mountain, she also sent a lot of mushrooms and wood ear fungus she had picked into her space. Once, she was lucky enough to find a hive of bees and got a hive of honey.

When she went to the mountains, she would cook at the educated youth settlement. She collected a lot of home-cooked dishes into her space. She also made a lot of rice, steamed buns, mantou, pies, and vegetarian wontons. In addition, she boiled three pots of water into her space every day, filling all the pots, pans, and bath tubs in her space. Not satisfied with that, she also filled the kettles in her space with cooled boiled water so that she could drink it anytime.

Around the middle of the month, Qin Wei returned again and brought back all the mooncakes his company had given out for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Qin Hai and Sun Zhirou also came back, each carrying ten mooncakes.

Grandma Qin put all the mooncakes away. After dinner, she used a kitchen knife to divide the whole mooncake into four pieces, and then each family member received a small piece. The old lady then put the rest away.

Qin Xiaoxiao doesn't like the mooncakes that are being made now. They're too sweet, the fillings aren't very good, the crust isn't oily, and there's only one flavor. They're really not very good.

She has several kinds of mooncakes in her space. Although there aren't many, they are enough for her to satisfy her cravings for the next few years. However, she can't share them with her family, so she can only eat them all by herself.

On the fifteenth of August, Qin Xiaoxiao went back to her old Qin family home early in the morning. Qin Feng also announced to the whole team yesterday that they would take a day off today and take this opportunity to rest and recuperate at home so that they could go all out for the autumn harvest in a month.

When Qin Xiaoxiao entered the courtyard, she saw Grandma Qin and Ma Dahua busy in the kitchen, so she quickly went into the kitchen to help them.

These days, Grandma Qin has allowed her to enter the kitchen, but only to carry bowls and wash vegetables; she is allowed to do other chores.

Especially after she helped start a fire and almost set the kitchen on fire, Old Mrs. Qin forbade her from doing anything else. Every time she saw her enter the kitchen, she would follow her. Later, she changed the rule to lock the kitchen door, and she and Ma Dahua would keep the key.

Qin Xiaoxiao felt wronged. She really didn't mean it. It's not like she didn't know how to start a fire. She was just distracted that day and accidentally put half of the firewood outside the stove pit. Before she could put it all back in, the flames in the stove pit shot out and ignited the firewood.

The key point is that she lit the fire with corn stalks from the yard that day. Corn leaves are flammable, which is why it caught fire so easily.

Even if she wasn't allowed to do anything else, Qin Xiaoxiao wouldn't fight for it. She would do whatever work was available, mainly because she was obedient and well-behaved.

Although Qin Xiaoxiao couldn't eat meat, the rest of the Qin family prepared some meat to eat that day.

This meat was brought by Qin Hai and his family during the holiday. Since the whole family was there, Old Mrs. Qin simply cooked it all.

This was Qin Xiaoxiao's first time meeting her little cousin Qin Yue. As they say, Qin Aiguo has a sharp eye; this little cousin is like a monkey when she puts on hair, never still for a moment. From the moment she entered the courtyard, she had been clinging to Qin Ye and Qin Wei, always wanting to go up the mountain or down the river. When Qin Xiaoxiao came in, she started clinging to her too.

Qin Xiaoxiao blinked as she watched Qin Yue follow her in.

"Xiaoyue, why are you in here too? Go out quickly, the food will be ready soon. I'll take care of serving the dishes."

Qin Yue's eyes sparkled, and she grabbed Qin Xiaoxiao's hand and started shaking it.

"Sister, I haven't seen you for years, and you never come back. If it weren't for..."

Before Qin Yue could finish speaking, Old Madam Qin gave her a glare and immediately shut her up.

Qin Xiaoxiao glanced helplessly at Old Madam Qin, then turned back to Qin Yue and reached out to pat her head.

"I didn't have time to come home because I was still in school. But now that I've graduated, I can finally take care of my grandparents. If you want to visit me, just come back anytime."

Qin Yue smiled and nodded, "Okay, then I won't leave this time. I've finished my holiday homework, so I can stay at home a few more days."

Upon hearing this, Grandma Qin quickly said, "No, you must go home right away. We all have to go to work tomorrow, and there will be no one to play with you."

"I don't need anyone to play with me, I can play by myself."

"That won't do either. I know you well enough. If no one's watching you, you'll definitely go up the mountain."

"It's too dangerous up in the mountains. Your sister got lost there last time and almost didn't make it back. Don't cause me any trouble, go back now."

Qin Yue pouted and shook Qin Xiaoxiao's arm unhappily, "Sister, play with me, okay? We won't go up the mountain, we'll go down to the river to catch fish. There are also small shrimp in the river, and we'll have Grandma fry them for us to eat."

Ma Dahua turned around and looked at her two nieces, who were smiling so broadly they could barely see. Just as she was about to agree, Old Mrs. Qin slapped her thigh and exclaimed, "Oh dear! You'd better go home quickly and find your mother. Staying here for even a day will shorten my lifespan by ten years!"

You want to ruin my oil? You want to fry shrimp? Why don't you just fly to the moon?

Oil is so precious! Each person only gets a few ounces a month, and you've wasted it all! What are we going to eat next month?

Qin Yue didn't take it seriously. "Shrimp taste better when they're fried. It's just oil. I'll ask my dad to send a few pounds over when I get home."

Grandma Qin's eyes widened. "How many pounds? What do you take your father for? Does he have the ability to produce several pounds of oil?"

I think we should just put you in a pot and render the oil, but with your small frame, even adding water won't yield many pounds of oil."

"Grandma, you shouldn't talk to your own granddaughter like that. I am your own granddaughter."

"Kiss my ass! You're just a debt collector. I'm so unlucky to have a spendthrift granddaughter like you."

"Grandma, I'm not here to collect a debt."

"They're debt collectors."

"No, that's not it."

"that is."

"No, no, no..."

"That's right, that's right..."

...

The grandfather and grandson argued so fiercely that their faces turned red and neither was willing to back down, leaving Qin Xiaoxiao dumbfounded.

How did this grandfather and grandson start arguing? Wasn't it about whether or not they should live together? How did it turn into an argument over oil?

(End of this chapter)