The days back at the family compound were leisurely and comfortable. Except for a sore waist, everything else felt comfortable.

The vegetables in the family's vegetable garden grew more and more, and the cucumbers, eggplants and beans grew one after another. There were only two people in their family, and they couldn't eat them all. If they were not picked in time, they would become old after hanging for a long time.

Jianshu was looking around in the vegetable garden when he picked a tomato. He was too lazy to wash it, so he just wiped it with his hand and started to eat it.

The skin is thin and juicy. A light bite will break a small hole in it, and the sour and sweet juice will fill the whole mouth. It has her favorite crunchy taste.

"Hmm, so delicious!" Jianshu squinted his eyes in enjoyment and decided to have tomatoes mixed with sugar for lunch.

After finishing a tomato, he took out a basket from the house and started picking vegetables.

The juicy yellow-green cucumbers, covered in black thorns, feel a bit rough to the touch. They're not particularly large, but they're juicy and can be eaten directly without cooking, which is very refreshing. The older cucumbers next to them, whose skin has turned yellow, are larger, weighing at least a pound or two each, and are perfect for making soup.

There are also eggplants and beans, all picked as fresh as possible, and they taste especially good when fried.

But no matter how delicious something is, you can't resist eating it every day. Just by looking at it, Jianshu felt the taste of eggplant and beans rising in his throat.

No, she doesn’t want to see these dishes anymore for the time being!

As for these dishes? Jianshu has plans.

He closed the gate and walked next door with the basket.

"Knock knock knock," he knocked on the door gently, but no one answered. Jianshu naturally walked to the back of the house, and sure enough, he found Wu Xiufang plucking chickens by the pool in the backyard.

Wu Xiufang, who was facing the back door, saw her immediately. She squatted down and continued working. When she came over, she saw her and said, "Sister Shu is here. There are benches in the room. Feel free to sit down. I won't greet you."

Jianshu didn't care and put the basket on the table. "Sister-in-law, don't worry about me. Go and do your own thing. I've put the food on the table for you!" After being together for more than a year, their relationship is not as unfamiliar as it was at the beginning. There is no need to be so polite about such things.

"You brought vegetables again? We have some at home, keep them for yourself." Wu Xiufang felt a little embarrassed. Jianshu came over every few days recently with a big basket of vegetables. She didn't want to take them for free, but she didn't want money either. She just said that they couldn't finish them, and if she didn't want them, they would just rot on the ground. She kept giving him reasons, and she couldn't argue with him, so she accepted them in a daze.

But she felt really guilty and always felt that she had taken advantage of others.

Jianshu took a small stool and sat next to her, helping her pluck the chickens. "Sister-in-law, why are you being so polite to me? You know the vegetables in my garden keep coming back, and there are only two mouths to feed at home. How can we ever feed them all? Watching them age one after another makes me panic. We've only had a few good years, how can we waste them like this? Isn't it?"

"Yeah, it's not good to waste it." Wu Xiufang was confused by what he said. How could people nowadays tolerate leaving vegetables leaning against the ground?

"Really? So you can help me share some of the burden, which makes me feel a lot better. Otherwise, I would just be anxious looking at the vegetables in the backyard every day." Jian Shu looked as if he had been relieved of his worries and successfully fooled Wu Xiufang again.

But what she said wasn't entirely false. There were indeed too many vegetables at home. This year, with the vegetable garden, she hadn't planted any vegetables in the space. There were simply too many in stock, enough to last for years. It would be great if Wu Xiufang could help consume some of the vegetables in the vegetable garden.

"Forget it, forget it. I can't argue with you. What's wrong with your mouth? You have so many big principles, and they make people dizzy." Wu Xiufang reacted quickly and realized that she had been tricked again. She shook her head and smiled helplessly.

Jianshu plucked the chicken feathers and said casually without even looking up, "I can't help it, my parents gave me a good child!"

Wu Xiufang was stunned, then couldn't help laughing, "She's a beautiful girl!" The little girl looked lovable, and the more she got to know her, the more she liked her.

"Okay, I'll pluck the rest. Didn't you say a few days ago that you wanted to make a chicken feather shuttlecock? Look, the chicken feathers are all there, pick them yourself." Looking at Jianshu plucking the feathers one by one, Wu Xiufang couldn't be impatient. After she finished her part, she quickly found an excuse to send him away.

This kid is good in every way, except that he's a bit slow at work. But that's not a big deal. She was willing to work, wasn't she? She's much better than those young ladies who never had to do any housework. It seems like appearances can be deceptive.

"Hehe!" Jianshu understood her hidden meaning, but it was really unfair. It wasn't that she was too slow, she was just plucking the hairs very carefully, not wanting to miss a single one. When she was eating, as soon as she saw one, she would instantly lose her appetite. She didn't want to see it again in the short term.

He didn't argue with Wu Xiufang, and obediently stood up to pick the chicken feathers. "Sister-in-law, you are still thinking of me. It seems that I have found a place for my chicken feather shuttlecock."

Wu Xiufang worked much faster and quickly cleaned a chicken. Jianshu also picked out suitable chicken feathers, cleaned them, and prepared to take them back later.

Looking around, I found the house too quiet. "Sister-in-law, where are Tiedan and Yaya? Why aren't they home?"

Wu Xiufang used the baskets at home to take out all the vegetables. These vegetables were enough for them to have two meals. It happened that they killed a chicken today. Later, they would stew it with beans and potatoes, make a soup with old cucumbers, and stir-fry some eggplants. They would be able to handle the lunch.

Now that the children in the family are growing older, she gets worried every time she has to cook. People say that having more children means more blessings, but having so many children is also a worry!

Hearing Jianshu's question, he replied, "The eldest went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy soy sauce for me, and the second one went with him. The two youngest ones ran out early in the morning after breakfast. I don't know where they went. Anyway, you won't see them until dinner time. It's vacation time now, and they've been playing and running around all day. They've become wild."

"No wonder I haven't seen Tiedan for several days. Kids are like this. When I went back to Beijing before, my brother was like this too and was scolded a lot." The scolding would last for two or three days, but after a few days he would return to his old ways and then be scolded again, forming a perfect closed loop.

"Yes, it's like this every year. I'm used to it. Now I just let them be. As long as they don't make too much trouble, no matter what they do, nothing will happen in the family compound anyway." Wu Xiufang was used to it and her tone was very natural.

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