"Oh! Sister-in-law, there's no need to see me off. This sun is too strong and it's too hot. Hurry home, your fifth grandfather still needs your help!"
"Sister-in-law, you're too kind. It's alright to come all this way, especially with the sweet potatoes you brought..."
"My family doesn't have much to offer, but the sweet potatoes we grew this year are a rare treat. They're the best we've grown this year, so we have to let Uncle Wu and the others have a taste. These sweet potatoes are soft and glutinous, perfect for the elderly. They'll taste even sweeter after a couple of days! Alright, we won't keep you any longer, we're off now."
Yue Jiuyue stopped the eldest daughter-in-law of the clan elder who insisted on seeing them off, and quickly headed home with her son, daughter-in-law, and eldest granddaughter.
The sun was blazing hot; she needed to hurry back and take a bath.
On the way, Yue Jiuyue ignored how Lin Chaonan and Lin Chaobei comforted Lin Chaodong. When they got home, they each drank a lot of water and then went to their rooms to rest.
Upon returning to her room, Yue Jiuyue immediately took out her bathtub, retrieved the bucket of water that had been placed under the bed behind the window, poured the lukewarm water into the tub, and began to soak in the bath.
This was the stupid idea she came up with after making several foolish mistakes.
As for taking a bath openly, that will have to wait until there is a bathtub at home. Currently, there is only one large bathtub in the house, and Yue Jiuyue does not want to share one with others, so she will occasionally move it into the house to pretend to take a bath.
Lying in bed, Yue Jiuyue was truly relaxed. She no longer worried about where the water from the ancient well and South Lake would come from. She fell asleep soon after lying down, with a slight smile on her lips.
Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yue Jiuyue's family had finished harvesting all their grain. They also planted some of the cut sweet potato vines, thinking that since the autumn weeds were starting to turn yellow and the wild vegetables were no longer edible, the sweet potato leaves could be eaten for a while longer, which would save the family some grain.
This method couldn't possibly have been Yue Jiuyue's idea. Of course, even if she didn't want to eat it, she wouldn't refuse.
"Mom, what are we going to buy in town today?"
Lin Chaobei kept asking Yue Jiuyue the question, he had asked it no less than ten times.
"I don't know, let's go and see."
Yue Jiuyue frowned, silently thinking to herself: If this kid dares to ask again, she'll break his legs!
Actually, she had repeated this sentence to herself five or six times, but she was too embarrassed to actually do it.
There was nothing she could do; this kid wasn't her son, and she would never hit someone else's child.
Although this kid is not young anymore.
"Alright, stop asking over and over again. You'll find out when the time comes."
After a while, Lin Chaodong stopped Lin Chaobei, who was trying to get closer to Yue Jiuyue again, and gave him a helpless word of advice.
He knew the family's money was limited. He didn't know if there was any money left from selling the medicinal herbs, but no one had touched the money from selling the ginseng, and there was also the half tael of silver given by the county magistrate for buying sweet potatoes. In total, it was only 820 coins, which wouldn't be much more than that.
With so little money, it's impossible to spend it all at once. They might just come and go the same way they came; this kind of thing has happened before.
The reason Lin Chaobei kept asking was precisely because he was afraid of this.
It would be so pointless to come all the way to town and then go back without buying anything!
However, he wouldn't be willing to spend a penny on a steamed bun or two pennies on a vegetable bun.
If you want to eat steamed buns or dumplings, you can easily make them at home. All you need to do is grind the flour and dig for wild vegetables in the mountains. Why spend money on that?
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