It was a small cloth bag, and judging from the contents, it weighed only two or three pounds. I wondered what was inside—millet? sorghum? or soybeans?
It was nothing more than the grain that had just been harvested these past few days. As for other things like flour or meat, Yue Jiuyue wouldn't even think about it. On the contrary, there was a slight possibility of it being old rice and flour.
"You two are welcome to come, there's no need to be so polite."
Yue Jiuyue didn't take the cloth bag from Qin Shi's hand. Her family didn't lack these things. They usually ate wild vegetable dumplings and drank wild vegetable soup. It was just that Liu Shi was worried about squandering the grain too early and not being able to harvest the grain in the fall, which would make this winter difficult.
"Oh dear! How can we come empty-handed? This is just a small token of our appreciation as your younger brother and sister-in-law!"
Qin said politely.
She didn't feel embarrassed about taking such a small amount of food, even though her family had eaten sweet potato leaves for two months thanks to the sweet potato seedlings Yue Jiuyue gave them, saving a lot of grain.
However, their sweet potatoes didn't grow very well. Yesterday, she dug up a few sweet potatoes and looked at them. Each one was only slightly larger than a plum. Although they weren't enough to fill their teeth, they tasted really good!
They were thinking that it was time to dig up the sweet potatoes at Yue Jiuyue's house, which is why they made this trip today, and unusually, they brought gifts.
As for what the gifts are, that's not important. What's important is that they didn't come empty-handed. How could Yue Jiuyue possibly let them leave empty-handed?
"Oh, it's really unfortunate that you two came today. My house is not convenient to receive you right now. Why don't you come another day?"
Anyway, it won't make a difference if we stay a day or two. I'll go back to my parents' house on the sixteenth, and then we can sit together and chat!
Yue Jiuyue didn't want to invite the two of them to her house, not because she was afraid they would find out that the county magistrate had come to their house.
She was simply afraid of the ancient laws, which could easily lead to the execution of several clans. If the couple didn't keep their mouths shut and said something they shouldn't, she would be implicated.
Even though she is now a middle-aged woman of grandmotherly age, she still wants to live a good life and doesn't want to say goodbye to this world too early.
"Huh? Third sister, that's going too far! Your brother and I traveled dozens of miles to see you, and you just want us to go back like this? What, you think you're so great just because you grow sweet potatoes, and you don't respect your family anymore?"
Qin was extremely dissatisfied with Yue Jiuyue's attitude!
In the past, it wouldn't have to be too far. Around the time of the Lunar New Year, if the third sister-in-law knew that she was coming to visit, even if she came empty-handed, she would have to kneel down to welcome her.
Although this statement is an exaggeration, the way my third sister-in-law treated her family back then was incredibly high!
After all, her maternal family was her support and the foundation of her confidence in the Lin family.
Although they didn't help her at all, they actually managed to squeeze a lot of things out of her.
None of that matters!
The important thing is, how come this person has changed so much in just one Dragon Boat Festival? Not only does she disregard their family, but now she's even preventing them from entering her home. Does she look down on them?
It's just planting sweet potatoes, why are you acting so arrogantly?
“Sister-in-law, that’s not what I meant. It’s just that our village’s clan chief, village head, and elders are all here, so it’s really inconvenient for me to entertain you two right now.”
If she weren't afraid that Qin would cause trouble regardless of the occasion, would she be here wasting her breath stopping people?
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