Xiao Wangshi genuinely wanted to persuade Yue Jiuyue and the others, but Yue Jiuyue seemed to have lost her soul, hanging her head and seemingly lost in thought. It's likely that all the things she said were ignored.
Little Wang left helplessly. Although her sisters-in-law helped with the housework, she couldn't just dump everything on them. She couldn't very well ask her sisters-in-law to wash her husband's clothes, could she? That would be too much.
Yue Jiuyue, like a walking corpse, saw off Xiao Wangshi, then gathered the family together and asked them:
"How will you live from now on? What are your plans?"
As soon as the question was asked, Yue Jiuyue saw one, two, three, four blank faces.
The owner of the fifth face is happily eating rice, oblivious to all worries.
"Haven't thought about it yet? Then start thinking about it now."
After Yue Jiuyue finished speaking, she went back to her room.
The three brothers were left in the main room, looking at each other, then frowning and starting to think.
Yue Jiuyue personally preferred to leave Linjiagou, but she knew that people in ancient times were bound by family ties, and perhaps Lin Chaodong and the others were unwilling to leave?
She didn't voice her thoughts, nor did she want to make decisions for them. After all, her thinking was different from theirs, and she was used to being alone. But even if Lin Chaodong and the others didn't intend to leave, she could still live the life she wanted in Linjiagou.
Picking chrysanthemums by the eastern fence, gazing leisurely at the southern mountains—this idyllic and beautiful rural life was the dream of those who had never experienced the hardships of farm work. How poetic and picturesque!
Yue Jiuyue also wanted that, and in this fictional ancient world, as long as she had money, she could achieve that kind of life, a life full of poetry and art, without the hard work of farming.
For example, she wants to be a landlady. This small wish, if the sweet potatoes sell well this winter, she might be able to buy the hill behind the mountain next spring. Then she can build a wall around it and do whatever she wants. She can laugh herself awake just thinking about the wonderful life she'll have.
However, the county magistrate said that sweet potatoes would be planted all over the state capital next year, so her little wish as a landlady had to be postponed.
That's why she was so angry that day that she wanted to flip the table.
"Knock knock knock!"
After the knocking, Lin Chaodong called her out.
“Mom, we’ve thought it through. We’ll live the same way we did before. Anyway, our house is so far from the village, they can’t say anything bad to us. We’ll just close the door and live our own little life, ignoring those gossipy women.”
"Mom, how many more sweet potatoes can we sell? I'm thinking of making some money before it gets too cold so we can fix up our house properly."
"Mom, let's go and harvest the sweet potatoes. Can you teach us which ones to keep for eating and which ones to keep for planting? My brother and I will do the rest!"
"And the sweet potato vines, which were even stored in the cellar, shouldn't we get rid of them too?"
The three brothers chatted away, their previous dejection completely gone.
“Come on, let’s go prepare the sweet potatoes first. In a little while, I’ll ask Xiaoman’s mother to cook the sweet potatoes, and you three brothers can go to town to sell them. I’ll ask Xiaoman’s mother to stay home and deal with the sweet potato vines. When you come back, we’ll dig the pits and store them in sand. By the way, has the sand been sifted out?”
"They're all sifted and piled up behind the house!"
The family went to the yard while talking. Lin Chaodong went down into the cellar, and Lin Chaonan and Lin Chaobei stood at the cellar entrance and pulled the sweet potatoes up. Then the family began to divide the sweet potatoes.
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