After Huang Shan's wedding, the weather got warmer and warmer.
Yu Yin found all the seeds she had saved in the space, and they could be planted soon. Uncle Hu turned over the soil in the yard again.
Uncle Hu has been bringing back a lot of humus-rich soil from outside recently. He feels that the soil in the yard is a bit barren and needs to be improved.
Grandpa Lu was busy and happy doing everything. The two men, who were more than twenty years apart in age, got along very well and had no generation gap at all. Grandpa Lu liked growing flowers, and Uncle Hu liked growing vegetables; they were both in the planting industry.
Uncle Hu not only cleaned up the yard of the garden villa, but also the yard of Yu Yin's family. He also bought a few more chickens. An'an likes to raise chickens and collect eggs. I remembered Uncle Hu after hearing about it only once.
Ping An is 11 years old and almost 1.6 meters tall. She will be graduating from elementary school soon.
During this time, Liang Chao found a rental house near the Green Sprouts dried goods store. It had two rooms, with a total area of over forty square meters. Liang Chao signed an agreement and rented it. He also asked Brother Zhang to help make two bunk beds for Chang Qing and the others to live in.
Yu Yin looked at the room Liang Chao rented. It was very close to the back of the dry goods store; you could hear almost anything happening on one side. The room was also very tidy, with bunk beds and wardrobes bought from the secondhand market. This was the dry goods store's staff dormitory.
Liang Chao also had Chang Qing and the others move the bunk beds from the second floor into the rented room. The second floor would mainly be used as an office and storage area from then on. Because the security situation had been a bit chaotic lately, the store didn't actually keep much stock; it was all stored in the transport team's warehouse.
Yu Yin and her team rented all the old warehouses of the transport team. Although the annual rent was quite high, it ensured the safety of the goods, so Yu Yin felt that the money was well spent.
Wu Dali, Chang Qing, and Zhao Tong lived in the dormitory; the others all had families. Zhao Tong's family also had limited space, especially since his brother and sister-in-law had recently given birth, making it too cramped for him, so he moved to the dormitory.
Yu Yin had also talked to the others, suggesting that if they had extra money and found a suitable house, they should buy one or two. Zhao Tong looked at Huang Shan and Liang Ge, who had already bought a house, and thought the same thing, but hadn't found a suitable one yet.
Liu Hang and He Dong have been working with Yu Yin for quite some time, but they both have several children and their expenses are quite high. They still need to save some money if they want to buy their own house.
After the staff dormitory for the dried goods store was rented, Yu Yin's original yard became vacant. Coincidentally, Liu Hang and He Dong's leases expired, so the two families rented rooms in Yu Yin's house, and Yu Yin collected the rent as usual.
Yu Yin's original house was a two-story house with three rooms upstairs and one room downstairs, for a total of four rooms. The two families each rented two rooms. The living room, kitchen, and bathroom were all shared.
They were also given a section of the yard to grow their own vegetables. Uncle Hu only planted vegetables in the area in front of the fruit trees, mainly for raising chickens.
Uncle Hu and Grandpa Lu started seedlings of the vegetables they wanted to plant in the greenhouse. The seeds had been soaked beforehand by Yu Yin using water from her spatial storage; they were all common vegetable varieties: green beans, eggplants, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, as well as Shanghai bok choy, garland chrysanthemum, pickled vegetables, scallions…
Yu Yin's goal was to sow these seeds in the space several times in the outside land, select the best seeds, and keep them for future use in opening a farm.
Uncle Hu categorized everything according to Yu Yin's instructions, and Grandpa Lu was responsible for recording it, since Uncle Hu was illiterate. Grandma's leg is recovering well; she recently went to the hospital for a checkup, and the doctor said the recovery is going very well and there will be no long-term effects.
I've taken off my sweater and put on a light shirt. The vegetables in the yard are already lush and green. Cucumbers, eggplants, and green beans have been planted in the yard, and everything is thriving.
"Grandpa and Grandma, the Dragon Boat Festival is just around the corner. This year, we'll make several kinds of zongzi with different fillings. Luckily, we recently received some good cured meat and ham from Yunnan Province. We'll make some savory zongzi and some sweet zongzi to celebrate properly. This is our first Dragon Boat Festival since we moved into our new house, so let's have a good time. We'll also fold some gourds, gather some mugwort, and get all our winter gear up."
"Okay, let's have a good time. Let's get some colorful threads for Ping An and An, and make some sachets or something. I'll take care of that. I have some nice fabrics, not much, but enough to sew a sachet."
Grandma was also inspired and became interested. She likes doing handicrafts and can even embroider some simple patterns.
Lu Churui has finished his internship and returned to school to study for the postgraduate entrance examination. He performed well during his internship and received a high evaluation.
After the Dragon Boat Festival, Yu Yin will finish her internship and return to school to prepare for graduation. After that, she will be assigned a job and officially graduate from university.
Yu Yin and the others were preparing for the Dragon Boat Festival, while the rest of the Lu family were also talking about the upcoming holiday.
"Old Lu, how are we going to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival?"
"What do you mean 'how to get through it'? Just get through it normally."
Mr. Lu was baffled by the question. He replied, "Just do it the same way we did in previous years. What's there to ask?"
"Aren't you going to visit your parents and spend the holiday with them?"
Lu's mother had long wanted to see Shu Rui and his family's garden villa, but she had never had the opportunity or the excuse.
"Grandma, where are you going? I want to go too."
Lu Xiangqiang pushed the door open and came in. Hearing his grandmother's words, he wanted to go too, hoping to get some good food.
"We're not going anywhere. Have you finished your homework?"
Mr. Lu could easily see through Jiang Wanling's little scheme. She didn't want to support her parents-in-law and even wanted to cause trouble for Shu Rui and the others. What was she thinking?
"Old Lu..."
"grandfather……"
The grandfather and grandson shouted together, but were silenced by Lu's father's glare, and both of them deflated.
The conversation at Lu Xiaogu's house was similar, only the person asking the questions was different.
"Mom, aren't we going to visit Grandpa and Grandma during the holiday?"
The second son's wife, Bai Lanhua, looked at her mother-in-law with eager eyes. She had heard that Lu Shurui's family's garden villa was very large, and she had long wanted to go and see it. Maybe she could even get a good meal there. Since returning to Shanghai, her living space had become smaller, and she didn't have much money to eat well.
“No, it’s too noisy. How will your grandma rest?”
"The point of holidays is to have fun and be surrounded by people. Aren't the elderly happier with that?"
Bai Lanhua spoke enthusiastically, adding that she also wanted to ask if they could borrow her grandmother's house to stay in.
"Alright, put aside your little schemes."
Exhausted, Lu Xiaogu returned to her room. Sometimes she wondered how her life had turned out this way. Once upon a time, she was the darling of her family, the apple of her parents' eye! She never imagined that in her old age, her life would become such a mess.
Yu Yin and her family were unaware of these matters and hadn't considered inviting relatives over for the holiday. Those who genuinely wanted to see their grandparents came back on their own. Those who weren't interested were better off not coming; the noise and commotion were worse than noisy visits.
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