Xu Qingzhi responded: "Yeah."

Since her mother said so, she didn't ask any more questions.

She herself has no intention of opening a store. It is a good thing that the higher-ups are interested in building one, but the opportunity to make money should be left to others.

Xu Fuqiang had just returned from the fields. When he heard the words "open a store", he didn't hear them completely and asked, "What store? Do we want to open a store too?"

"The county called Qingzhi and said they could provide it for free and asked if we had any ideas about opening a store. Qingzhi didn't ask me," Wang Yanmei explained.

"It would be great if you could open a shop. Didn't you think of opening a breakfast shop before? Later you envied others who opened hotels in the city, saying that if they made money, they would open a hotel themselves." Xu Fuqiang joked with his wife.

Wang Yanmei glared at him and said, "The past is the past, and the present is the present. We have so much work to do in the fields right now that we don't have the time to open a store."

"Then I won't open it." Xu Fuqiang immediately followed up, fearing that if he made his wife unhappy, he would be unhappy too.

Wang Yanmei changed the subject and asked, "Have you negotiated with him? When will he help us harvest the rice?"

"It will take seven or eight days. Everyone is lining up now. A Zhong has been very busy lately." Xu Fuqiang said.

Wang Yanmei nodded: "It's not too late. We can dry them in the sun for a few days and then inspect them to see if they are rice. Qingzhi, you can ship out all the rice that you pre-sold before."

"Got it, Mom." Xu Qingzhi nodded in agreement, lying on the recliner, closing his eyes and taking a short nap.

Wang Yanmei was afraid of disturbing her daughter, so she pulled Xu Fuqiang into the house to discuss the matter.

This fifty mu of land is no small matter, and since the rice was pre-sold, this matter must be done steadily and nothing can go wrong.

In the evening, Xia Liannan and Aunt Zhou brought back all the vegetables they had picked today on a trailer and began to sort and pack them. Xu Qingzhi sat on a small stool and typed out the express delivery form.

Xia Liannan said, "By the way, Qingzhi, I see that the wild flowers around the field are blooming well, and there are often bees gathering around to collect nectar. You have so many fruit trees planted in the back hills, and there are strawberries in the field, do you want to build a few beehives to raise bees?"

"But I don't know how to raise one." Xu Qingzhi said bluntly.

After all, the honey in her space was stolen by the two little ones...

Xia Liannan: "It's not difficult. I have an uncle whose family has been beekeepers for three generations. I have helped him before. I think the hill behind is a good place to raise bees. If you want to raise some, I will ask my uncle to get a few beehives. I am not busy anyway, so I can just look after them from time to time."

Xia Liannan knew in her heart that these jobs were easy for her, and even adding one more job to look after the beehives was not a big deal.

She could see that Qingzhi had no objection to raising bees.

She had been struggling for the past few days as to whether or not to say more about this, but thinking that she and Qingzhi were not outsiders, she spoke out today.

Afraid that Qingzhi might be overthinking, Xia Liannan added, "The bees go in and out on their own to collect honey. You don't need to worry about it. The beehive will produce honey in a month or two. It's okay if you don't know how to take care of it. Just leave it to me when you need to collect honey. It's not a big deal."

Xu Qingzhi thought that there were so many fruit trees planted in the back mountain, and it would be best to rely on bees for pollination. If it was not troublesome to keep them, that would be fine too.

"Lian Nan, thank you for your help. I will transfer the money to you at that time."

Xia Liannan nodded: "No problem, I'll take care of it. Qingzhi, you don't have to be polite to me."

"Thank you." Xu Qingzhi said with a smile.

After the vegetables were delivered, the Xu family started to have dinner.

A bowl of crisp and delicious cabbage, a pot of milky and delicious radish fried egg soup, and a bowl of braised pork with dried beans.

As a family of three, the dishes are more homely.

Xu Fuqiang ate the white radish and praised it highly, "Well, the white radish we grow is really delicious. You can't grow radishes as delicious as ours anywhere else."

Wang Yanmei said, "I haven't eaten chicken in a few days. Kill one for lunch tomorrow. I'll go to the pharmacy to get some Chinese medicine and make some medicinal soup for Qingzhi to nourish his body. Look at this child. He's been at home all day and he's become thinner again."

"Mom, I'm not thin." Xu Qingzhi retorted.

Wang Yanmei stretched out her left hand and pinched her arm: "Look, I've got a knuckle left after holding your arm with one hand, don't you think you're thin? If you go out, people will think I'm abusing you at home."

"You need to nourish yourself well. Winter is coming soon. You have no meat on your body and your bones are very cold." Xu Fuqiang followed.

There is a kind of thinness when your parents think you are thin.

Xu Qingzhi chuckled and said helplessly, "Okay, okay, I'm thin, I'm thin. Mom, you make delicious food for me, I always eat it, I'm always the most supportive one."

"I can't digest what I ate at night." Xu Qingzhi certainly wouldn't say that, for fear that he would be too full and would be affected by his return to his room at night to practice in the spiritual space.

She had been practicing diligently recently, and had a vague idea of ​​making a breakthrough, so she subconsciously controlled her grain intake.

Then, after finishing another bowl of food, Xu Qingzhi put down his bowl and chopsticks under the deathly gaze of his parents.

"Mom and Dad, I'm full. I'll go upstairs first."

Wait until my daughter goes upstairs, to the dining table.

Wang Yanmei sighed: "What's wrong? Has my cooking skill declined recently? My daughter doesn't like the food I cook anymore?"

"It hasn't dropped, it's still delicious." Xu Fuqiang wisely picked up the cabbage bowl and poured it into his mouth. He ate up the remaining cabbage. He was still chewing, and words of praise came out of his mouth: "Well, this cabbage is really delicious, Yanmei, there is no better cooking than yours."

Wang Yanmei looked at her man and snorted.

Think about how delicious the food was in the past when there were many people around.

Now that we have a family of three, there are fewer people eating, so no matter how delicious the food is, it doesn’t taste as good in our mouths.

After careful consideration, Wang Yanmei said, "I'll call Xiao Huo later to ask about his recent eating habits."

In the bedroom.

Xu Qingzhi took a break and went to wash up. After he finished washing up, his phone rang with the notification tone of a new WeChat message from "Guigui".

She turned on her phone and saw the message from Huo Fengyan.

"Auntie just told me that you haven't been eating much lately, and you don't look very happy. You've also lost a lot of weight. Are you in any trouble?"

Xu Qingzhi: "Not thin."

After he replied the message, the next second, the other party sent a video call and Xu Qingzhi answered it.

On the other side of the video, through the huge floor-to-ceiling window behind the man, one can see the bustling lights of Kyoto.

She was leaning against the head of the bed. She had just washed her hair and had it blown dry by the paper man. It was now draped in front of her.

Huo Fengyan's voice was hoarse: "Yes, I have lost weight."

Xu Qingzhi pinched her face and looked at herself in the video. "It's okay. I don't feel that I have lost weight."

Huo Fengyan smiled faintly, looked at the person in the video, and asked with concern: "I heard from Auntie that there are a lot of tourists coming recently. Are they disturbing your life? Or have you encountered other troubles?"

"No, those tourists are now going to Dongyang. I didn't encounter any trouble, but I didn't eat much." Xu Qingzhi found a topic: "By the way, I plan to raise bees."

"Zhizhi is great," he praised her, "but be careful not to get stung by bees."

When Xu Qingzhi heard this tone, he felt like he was coaxing a three-year-old child.

Forget it, don’t bother with him.

Xu Qingzhi thought for a moment and said, "When the honey is grown, I will send you some."

"Zhizhi treats me so well."

The words sound more annoying than a bee.

Xu Qingzhi couldn't stand it anymore and frowned: "Feng Yan, can you speak normally?"

"Oh..." Huo Fengyan sighed, "I just miss you a little." I want to see you.

But this world is too troublesome. If you were in the world of immortals, you could leave a talisman and make a hand gesture to pass through.

Talisman?

After taking the magic herb, he felt much better than before, so it shouldn't be a problem for him to leave a talisman there when the time comes.

(End of this chapter)