Chapter 120 Red Bean Roll [VIP]

After the three of them returned home, Tian Baolai couldn't wait to urge his cousin to take out the Champa rice seeds and the letter and show them to him.

Chen Yao went into the utility room at home, took out the stored seeds and gave them to her cousin, then went back to the house to get the letter for him.

During this period, Yang Jizong followed in and out.

There was still some time before dinner was ready, and Chen Yao wanted Yang Jizong to go back to his room to rest, but Yang Jizong refused to leave her side.

There was no other way, Chen Yao could only take him with her no matter what she did.

Here, Chen Yao carried a wooden barrel into the utility room, and Yang Jizong followed her. He knew which sack to open without her asking.

He quickly opened the sack of wheat bran, scooped a ladle of it and poured it into the wooden barrel.

This wheat bran is not used to feed chickens directly. You have to go to the vegetable garden to dig up some cabbages, chop them up and mix them with the wheat bran to feed the chickens.

"You are leaving home tomorrow. Have you arranged everything at school? Will Lin Tongsheng and his friends still be the teachers teaching the children?" Chen Yao put the vegetable basket in the vegetable patch and squatted beside the cabbage ridge, picking cabbage sprouts and plucking the loose leaves into the basket.

Yang Jizong squatted on the other side, picking stalks and pulling leaves with her. "I've arranged the daily homework. The children study on their own and help each other."

Chen Yao picked up a half-basket of vegetable sprouts and leaves and headed back toward the ridges of land covered with beans. "Okay, once I'm done with my work in the fields, I'll find time to go to the school and teach the children. I can't really just leave them alone."

After all, it is the Shen family school. Since we have recruited students, we have to be responsible for them.

Yang Jizong did not continue to discuss this matter with her. Fortunately, the students who came this year were all very hardworking and studious.

Chen Yao picked a handful of long beans and put them into the basket. Looking at the shelf full of long beans, the corners of her mouth gradually rose.

The vegetable patch she opened up may have been due to the heavy rain some time ago. Although some of the vegetable seedlings were washed away, the vegetables later grew very well.

These long beans look so much like Xiao Cui from a distance. There are so many long beans in the two ridges. Fortunately, there is a supply and marketing cooperative, otherwise they would be on the table for three meals a day at home.

There are also eggplants, cucumbers, pumpkins, winter melons, kidney beans, bamboo shoots, leeks and amaranth.

You can’t eat amaranth anymore because it has grown into an old stump. You have to let it produce seeds so that you can eat fresh amaranth again next year.

"Zi'an, let me help you pack the package later." Chen Yao picked three eggplants and put them in the basket and patted the dirt off her hands.

Yang Jizong followed her back to the front yard with a full basket of vegetables. He chopped up the cabbage leaves and mixed them with wheat bran to feed the chickens in the chicken coop. He happened to meet Tian Baolai who had just come out after reading the letter.

"Zi'an, A'yao, you two take a rest. I'll wash the vegetables." Tian Baolai put the rice seeds back into the utility room for storage, came out and poured the well water into the wooden basin, then poured all the picked vegetables into it to wash.

Yang Jizong took Chen Yao back to his room, first took out a piece of cloth from the wooden box and spread it on the table, and then took out a set of old work clothes.

"You need to bring a pair of shoes to keep. If you are afraid of getting them dirty, you can bring some more straw sandals to wear outside. Dad has extra straw sandals, I will go to their house to get them for you." Chen Yao ran out like a gust of wind.

Yang Jizong waited in the room for half an incense stick of time. Just when he was about to go out to take a look, Chen Yao rushed in with a bunch of things in her arms.

Looking at the things scattered on the table, Yang Jizong couldn't help but say, "Ayao, I can come back once every two weeks, so there's no need to bring these."

Chen Yao stood beside him, helping him pack while explaining, "A poor family may become rich on the road. We're not poor anymore, so naturally I have to bring you some spare things. These two pairs of straw sandals can be worn directly over your cloth shoes. Don't be reluctant to wear them when you go to work in the fields. And these linen gloves, you have to wear them when you need to. And this new set of clothes, my mother made it for you a long time ago and asked me to give it to you."

"What is this small jar of soybean paste?"

"I'm worried that you won't be able to get used to the food outside, so I brought some pickled vegetables to go with your meal."

"So what's in these two big bags?"

Chen Yao walked over to his desk and touched a little cinnabar with her finger to one of the packets. "This packet is the spicy rabbit jerky you like. This packet is not spicy. If you want to have a good relationship with your colleagues, these foods are essential."

Yang Jizong looked at the two large bags of dried rabbit meat and felt a bit amused.

"Then what is this?" Yang Jizong pointed to another oil-paper bag.

Chen Yao unpacked it and said, "Here are the noodles and dried vegetables. Inside are the dosed cold medicines, and some for treating gastrointestinal discomfort." Just as she finished speaking, she took out a small black porcelain bottle from her bosom and said, "This is for treating external injuries. I hope you don't need it."

Yang Jizong looked at the big package in front of him. It was all A Yao's heavy love for him.

Chen Yao packed his things for him, took Yang Jizong's hand again and walked to the table, pulling out the map of Fang County. "Tell me quickly, which village will you start from tomorrow to teach the people how to plant winter wheat? Tell me the entire route."

Yang Jizong pulled her to sit on a chair, his right hand placed on the back of her hand as he pointed to a point on the map. "Tomorrow, Xiaofu and I will teach the people in Shahe Township how to breed seeds. Then we'll go to Tucheng Village, Damu Village, Hongta Township near Baihe Town, and Mengusi Village in Chengguan Town..."

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Chen Yao stared at Yang Jizong's moving hand, and saw that the place where his finger was pointing was gradually getting farther and farther away from Xiahe Village. It was clearly just a small map, and the man was clearly right in front of her.

But when he thought about his departure in the future, even though he would go home once every two weeks, he had to achieve some results in this job, otherwise how could he stop the gossips?

Therefore, we must be able to fulfill our obligations, especially when we go to farther places, where the round trip journey alone will take a lot of time.

Chen Yao broke free from his hand, turned around and hugged his neck, but still...

Yao buried her head in his neck, her voice sounding muffled.

Yang Jizong also held her soft waist tightly, as if he wanted to rub her into his bones and blood: "Ayao, I can't bear to leave either. I promise you, no matter how far I go, I will come back."

"Okay, it's a deal." Chen Yao sat face to face with him and extended her little finger to make a pinky promise.

The two of them talked in the room for a long time until they heard their parents' voices outside, and then they reluctantly came out of the room.

"Is anyone home? Baolai, Zi'an, are you at home? Come with me to the back of the house to unload the silkworm manure." After Shen Qingshan shouted, he signaled his wife and sister-in-law to go into the yard to prepare dinner, while he led the ox cart to the back of the house.

Baolai, who was cutting vegetables in the kitchen, took off his apron and walked out immediately after hearing the sound. When he came out, he greeted his aunts. Seeing A Yao's red eyes, he signaled Yang Jizong that he didn't need to go with him to unload the silkworm manure, as he could do it alone.

Yang Jizong finally went with him.

"Daughter, what's wrong? Why are you still crying?" Huang Xing was accustomed to seeing her daughter coming out of Yang Jizong's room, but this was the first time she saw her daughter with red eyes.

Miao reached out and tugged at her second sister's clothes, whispering a warning: "The two children are young and full of energy, this hmmmmmm!"

Huang Xing took a look at Miao's ambiguous eyes and suddenly realized that she was young once too.

"Mom, your aunt is not what you think. Zi'an is going to Shahe Township tomorrow, and I don't want to see him leave, so I'm crying." The more Chen Yao tried to explain, the more confused she became.

Instead, the two adults looked at her with an expression that said, "I understand everything."

"Mom, aunt, where is Wenying? Why didn't she come back with you?" Chen Yao saw that she couldn't explain clearly, so she simply changed the subject. Logically, she should have returned from the rabbit house by this time.

Miao and Huang Xing washed their hands in the yard and prepared to go into the kitchen with Chen Yao to start cooking dinner.

"Wenying said she would go find Manager Xu to make a few new velvet flower designs, so we came back without waiting for her. A'yao, what are we going to cook for dinner?" asked Miao.

Chen Yao looked at the washed vegetables, took down half a rack of ribs from the beam and said, "Mom, how about my aunt make some hot pot stew, put some flatbreads on it, and mix some cold dishes, okay?"

"Okay, why not? Mom will chop the ribs for you. You can't chop this." Huang Xing took the bone chopping knife and put the chopping board on the ground, and moved a stool.

As the sound of thumping was heard, the half of the pork ribs turned into small pieces in Huang Xing's hands.

Miao then proceeded to process the dishes.

"Mom, is there any lean meat at home? I want to fry some crispy meat for Zi'an to take away." Chen Yao didn't see any lean meat on the beam.

"Yes, of course." After the family's life got better, the daughter rarely went into the kitchen to cook. Huang Xing took out a pound of lean meat from the cupboard and handed it to her daughter.

Chen Yao took over and cut the meat into strips, coated it with flour and egg liquid, and threw it into the pot to fry it repeatedly. Soon, bursts of fragrance wafted out from the kitchen.

The fried crispy pork was placed aside, and Chen Yao took the chopped and cleaned ribs and blanched them to remove the fishy smell. After the oil was hot, she added soybean paste and then put the ribs in and stir-fried until the oil came out and the surface was colored. Then she poured the picked and washed vegetables into the iron pan and stir-fried them, and added hot water to cook.

Huang Xing and Miao sat aside picking edamame and asked Chen Yao about Yang Jizong's departure.

At the same time, in the Zhao family yard.

Yang Wenying sat beside Zhao Xiaofu somewhat uncomfortably, explaining to him in detail the patterns of velvet flowers while watching him draw.

Xu deliberately found an excuse to go back to her room to look for silk thread, but in fact she was secretly looking at the two children in the yard through the crack of the window. The more she looked, the more satisfied she felt.

"Is that so?" Zhao Xiaofu placed the velvet flower picture he had drawn in front of Yang Wenying. When he looked up, he saw that she was completely shrouded in the sunset glow, and even her face was covered with the sunset glow.

"This is not right. The dragonfly resting on the lotus has to have its wings spread." Yang Wenying frowned and pointed at the dragonfly in the painting.

Zhao Xiaofu waited for the ink to dry before applying orpiment and repainting a dragonfly with its wings spread. "Is this okay?"

Yang Wenying took a closer look and was very satisfied: "That's it, thank you."

Zhao Xiaofu also laughed: "What's there to thank me for? If I have to thank you, it should be you. If you hadn't been willing to teach my mother how to make velvet flowers, my family wouldn't have been able to buy back our original residence so quickly."

"No, I should thank my aunt. She also helped me a lot."

Mrs. Xu was in the room listening to the two children thanking her repeatedly. She stamped her feet anxiously and took out a few rolls of silk thread and a plate of red bean rolls.

"What are you two talking about?" Mrs. Xu placed the red bean rolls on the table, motioning for the two children to eat. She picked up her son's drawing and took a look at it, praising him profusely. "Oh my! Look at my son's drawing! It's really beautiful! But it had to be you, Wenying, who came up with it first, so he could draw it. What do you two mean by harmony? Harmony and harmony."

As soon as Xu said this, Yang Wenying, who had just taken the red bean roll handed to her by Zhao Xiaofu and had not eaten it yet, blushed.

"Mother, what nonsense are you talking about?"

Mrs. Xu glanced at her son, then looked at Yang Wenying: "Wenying, I heard this word from the students in the school. If I used it wrong, please don't take it to heart."

Zhao Xiaofu glared at his mother and said, "What nonsense! Why would a school teach students this word?" "I'm sorry, Wenying. I apologize to you on behalf of my mother."

"No, it's okay." Yang Wenying put the red bean roll in her hand back on the plate, and hurriedly said goodbye to the mother and son. Before leaving, she looked at Zhao Xiaofu again.

Mrs. Xu pushed her son and said, "You silly boy, why don't you go and see Wenying off and take this plate of red bean rolls."