Xu Lai typed as he instructed and replied to 'Always sleepy': "You already have a boyfriend."
The fans were in an uproar, refusing to believe it. "How could this be? Is Xiao Lai just kidding us?"
Xu Lai couldn't hold back any longer, "See? Nobody believes me."
"Xiao Lai has always stayed in the village. Who took this big cabbage?" Fan A said.
"What kind of good partners are there in the village? Xiao Lai should think it over carefully. Don't just listen to your family's arrangements and get married without thinking," fan B chimed in.
Xu Lai showed it to Zhao Qingyun, and he laughed, though he was angry.
"So, I'm a pig? Are there any inferior men out there?" he asked his soul.
Xu Lai almost burst out laughing. "Don't talk about yourself like that, I can't accept it."
Zhao Qingyun snorted, "You must clear my name."
Xu Lai thought for a moment and said, "Then you can appear in my first vlog on my alternate account. I'll cover your face in the video."
After hearing her suggestion, Zhao Qingyun finally smiled, as if she had been appeased.
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Xu Lai didn't expect that the next morning, her grandfather would be preparing to peel sugarcane leaves. The leaves were very prickly and long, so the sugarcane leaves had to be removed first so that people could move around in the field more easily.
She covered her face completely, put on gloves, and went to the field. Her grandparents had already peeled a third of the sugarcane. The peeled sugarcane was bare, standing straight up. She couldn't help but marvel at how well the sugarcane her grandfather had planted was growing.
Xu Lai joined in, and the three of them worked until eleven o'clock. They were almost done with the sugarcane leaves, with only a small portion left. Her grandparents were finishing up, and she went back to cook.
Passing by her own vegetable garden, Xu Lai opened the bamboo gate, went in and picked a handful of red mustard greens, and also plucked a handful of scallions.
Back home, she set up her camera and started filming videos. In response to her fans' requests for more, she filmed any footage she could find.
For lunch, I made braised pork belly, stir-fried red mustard greens, scrambled eggs with scallions, and a quick seaweed and egg drop soup.
After the soup was cooked, she brought it to the table. Because she didn't wrap it in a towel, she flinched from the heat and quickly touched her earlobe after putting down the bowl.
Grandpa and Grandma were still in the field, and they couldn't hear Xu Lai calling them, so she took a few steps to go to the field to call them.
Grandpa and Grandma were pulling off the last few strands, saying, "We'll be done soon."
After Grandpa and Grandma finished, they walked home together. After washing their hands, they first made a bowl of egg drop soup. It was very cold, so they wanted to drink something hot to warm their stomachs.
After lunch, since it was cold and people weren't often sleepy, no one rested and went straight to the sugarcane field.
Since the cleavers had all been taken by the grandparents, Xu Lai took a kitchen knife instead.
Once in the field, rows of sugarcane stood like sentries. They simply cut down the sugarcane at the base, laid it down, and once a certain quantity was collected, they bundled it up and placed it by the roadside.
Xu Lai was slacking off a bit while working. She cut off one end of a stalk, took a bite, and found it quite sweet, but not as juicy as the black-skinned sugarcane. Moreover, this kind of green-skinned sugarcane is only suitable for making sugar.
The sugarcane was cut very quickly; in less than an hour, the sugarcane in this field was all harvested.
Xu Lai thought it was over and was about to carry a bundle home when her grandfather said, "Where are you going? There's another piece of land here."
Xu Lai exclaimed, "They didn't say this area was ours too! I thought it belonged to my third uncle's family!"
Grandpa said seriously, "This is indeed your third great-uncle's land, but he didn't cultivate it this year, so I took over and cultivated it."
After another two hours of peeling leaves and an hour of cutting sugarcane, the sugarcane harvest at home was finally finished.
Grandpa collected the top part of the sugarcane, dug a huge pit in the ground, buried the sugarcane tops in it, and said that next year they wouldn't need to buy sugarcane seeds.
She borrowed Xu Shen's tricycle to transport the sugarcane back; otherwise, the three of them would have had to carry it until dark.
When Zhao Qingyun returned home, she was driving the last truckload of sugarcane. The sugarcane was a bit long, and her grandfather was holding it from behind to prevent it from dragging on the ground and getting worn out, thus avoiding waste.
He saw the tricycle and his forehead twitched. He couldn't help but recall the time he was transporting grain; the scene of her slamming the door was still vivid in his mind.
Zhao Qingyun subconsciously moved a little further away. Xu Lai didn't notice his movement and only said, "You're back. Can you help unload the sugarcane?"
He waited until the car came to a complete stop before going over, and even checked to make sure her handbrake was engaged, in case the car suddenly started moving on its own while he was unloading.
The sugarcane is piled up in the yard and will be sent to the sugar factory tomorrow. We'll have to bring our own firewood, but they don't work the night shift; we can just guard it during the day.
The next day, Xu Lai made several trips to transport all the sugarcane. Her grandfather was there watching over it, so she went home first.
Once the sugar was cooked, she went over to take a look. Her grandfather was stirring the sugar. When he saw her, he said, "Want to try?"
Seeing how easily her grandfather handled it, Xu Lai felt confident, but when she took the stick, she felt it was incredibly heavy and somewhat out of control.
Grandpa laughed heartily, took the stick from her hand, and continued stirring in one direction.
Once it was almost ready, Grandpa took a few sugarcanes, dipped them in the syrup, then lifted them up, paused for a few seconds, and handed them to Xu Lai to hold after the syrup had slightly dried.
Some people who came over to play also took a sugarcane and asked Grandpa to pass it around for them so they could take it home for their children to try.
That's how it is in their village. When the villagers are making sugar, they will coat a sugarcane stalk with syrup when the sugar is about to come out of the pan.
When she was little, her grandma would wait for her at the school gate with sugarcane after school, take her schoolbag, and hand her the candy. She would be very happy because she could eat sweet candy again.
After the sugarcane is coated with syrup, the syrup can be poured into a board, spread out to cool, and then cut into pieces with a large cleaver. These are the pieces of brown sugar.
Xu Lai kept filming videos, wanting to show the process of making brown sugar and let everyone know how the brown sugar they eat is made.
Grandpa planted a lot of sugarcane this year, and the sugar yield was also high. He produced a total of about 100 kilograms of sugar this year.
Once the sugar has solidified, it can be packed in a bag, sealed, and stored properly; it can be eaten for a long time.
She took a bite of the sugar on the sugarcane; it was sticky, gooey, and incredibly sweet, and you could pull out long strands with each bite.
She took a few sugarcanes home, but the brown sugar wouldn't be available for another day. She gave the sugar to her grandmother, who took a bite and said, "This year's is sweeter."
Grandma Jiang couldn't eat anything too sweet, so she didn't take any. She left one for Zhao Qingyun, presumably because he had never tried it before.
After he got off work, he smelled a sugary smell in the house, a bit like sugarcane.
Xu Lai handed over the candy, saying, "I saved this especially for you, have a taste."
Zhao Qingyun asked curiously, "Why wrap it with sugarcane?"
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