Having enjoyed a satisfying and filling meal, Yue Jiuyue was in a great mood. If she weren't afraid of scaring Lin Chaodong and the others, or of being exposed, she would have hummed a few lines like "Today is truly, truly joyful" and "Today is a good day."
Unable to hum a tune, Yue Jiuyue channeled her excitement into hard work, which involved extracting the core from the roots of Polygala tenuifolia.
Farmers are reluctant to work late into the night with lamps, so after dark, Yue Jiuyue would go back to her room, take a bath, brush her teeth, and clean up the rat holes as needed, before crawling into bed and sleeping soundly.
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Because they were about to start clearing the land, Yue Jiuyue's family had to stop digging for medicinal herbs. After all, they only had seven people in their family, and one of them was not at home, while the other was only two years old.
The land they cleared was on the northern mountain behind Yue Jiuyue's house. All of her family's land was cleared on this mountain, and the medicinal herbs were also dug up from this mountain.
Picking up stones, pulling weeds, turning over soil—this is just the beginning.
Afterwards, fermented farmyard manure is used to nourish the soil before grain crops can be planted.
Because the sweet potatoes were limited, only one acre of wasteland was cultivated this time. When Yue Jiuyue heard Lin Chaodong and the others say "only", and looked at the large area of land in front of her, she suddenly felt that the sun was too strong and she felt a little dizzy.
Nine mu! Her family already has nine mu of land!
Thinking back to when she was a child at her maternal grandmother's house, it would take several days to work on just one acre of crops. Now, with a full nine acres of land, her arms and legs began to tremble uncontrollably.
This is going to kill me!
The wasteland was prepared, and all that was left was to let it ferment and become fertile. Yue Jiuyue didn't have the stamina of a young person, so while Lin Chaodong and the others continued to go up the mountain to dig for medicinal herbs, she chose to stay at home and do nothing.
No, it's rest.
After closing the door, Yue Jiuyue started browsing the online store.
After three days of clearing the land, the rice and sweet potatoes at home were all gone. This morning, it was the long-awaited wild vegetable soup again, still the kind that couldn't taste salt. Yue Jiuyue felt uncomfortable from her mouth to her stomach after drinking it, and desperately needed something delicious to cover up the strange taste in her mouth.
Should we have some rice? Or some dessert? Or some fruit?
Only children make choices; Yue Jiuyue is greedy, she wants it all!
Everyone says that nothing tastes better than dumplings, so Yue Jiuyue chose dumplings. Afraid that meat fillings would be too heavy for her stomach and cause gastrointestinal disorders, such as diarrhea, she specifically chose chive and egg fillings.
As for desserts, Yue Jiuyue liked everything she saw, but she was reluctant to spend money on them. In the end, she bought a small cake, about the size of her palm, and finished it in a few bites.
For fruit, strawberries are definitely the first choice!
Just as Yue Jiuyue was eating a strawberry in two bites, she suddenly heard someone calling her from outside:
"Chao Bei's mother! Come out here right now! Something's happened to your Chao Bei!"
Upon hearing this, Yue Jiuyue hurriedly stored everything into the shop's storage space. She even took a sip of water to rinse her mouth before opening the door and running out, asking the woman as she ran:
"Sister-in-law, what's wrong with our house facing north? Didn't he go up the mountain to fetch water?"
"Oh dear! It's just that your family is having bad luck! When he went to dig for wild vegetables, a wild boar suddenly ran out and gored him! He has a deep, bloody hole in his thigh! Luckily, he wasn't alone at the time, and several people worked together to save him. After they chased the wild boar away, your family was also unconscious, so they quickly carried him down and are now taking him to the clinic in town!"
The woman shuddered as she recalled seeing the blood on the child's leg facing north.
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