With no one causing trouble at home, life became much more peaceful.
In the countryside, there is no rest all year round. They are either planting, weeding, or watering. After the grain is harvested and stored, they still need to go out to earn some hard-earned money during the off-season. Otherwise, with just a few acres of land, the family can't even make ends meet, let alone have any money left over.
After planting sweet potatoes, they will also need to plant millet and other crops. Their village doesn't have paddy fields, so they can't grow rice, but they can plant some cabbage and chives.
At that moment, Liu, who had already finished her postpartum confinement, tidied herself up, picked up Dazhuang, and followed Lin Chaodong to the county town.
They should have gone much earlier, but Lin Chaodong was still worried about the few acres of land he had just reclaimed, and insisted on waiting until all the crops were planted on those acres before setting off.
The couple themselves weren't in a hurry about this. Yue Jiuyue mentioned it once or twice and then stopped, just like when she advised Liu Shi to eat smaller, more frequent meals and move around more. She didn't want to nag and annoy people. Anyway, they would bear the consequences themselves.
Although spring planting is almost over, it is not really over yet, because the sweet potato seedlings in Yue Jiuyue's family have slowly stretched out long vines. After cutting them off, they can be planted again, thus extending the spring planting period.
It feels a bit like extending the meal service, but they like this kind of "extending the meal service" because it allows them to harvest more grain.
"Mom, why are the leaves of these sweet potato seedlings turning a little red? Are they spoiled?"
The family, carrying tools to cut sweet potato vines, had their way with Lin Chaobei, who was full of energy, run to another field because he felt that the sweet potatoes in this field were abnormal, something he had been noticing for a long time.
"It should be fine. Maybe some kind of mutation has occurred. Don't touch it. Just let it grow as it pleases. We'll see in the fall."
Yue Jiuyue frowned, with an expression that said, "I don't quite understand why they turned out this way, but I want to see what they'll end up looking like." To be honest, she even believed it herself.
What's the ultimate level of deception? It's deceiving yourself too.
"oh."
Seeing that Yue Jiuyue knew the difference here, Lin Chaobei stopped talking. At this time, cutting the vines was the most important thing, as it would determine whether their cellar would be full and how much money they could make this year.
Of course, priority is given to those from the local village, followed by those from nearby villages. Most of these people come to barter with goods; only a minority are willing to spend money to buy sweet potato vines, unless they are wealthy locals.
As the weather warms up, sweet potato planting continues. Many people in and around the village are busy planting sweet potatoes. After all, every part of the sweet potato is valuable. Even if it only grows vines and doesn't produce sweet potatoes, it can still feed a family. This stuff can grow much faster than wild vegetables.
Yue Jiuyue entrusted the task of cutting vines and trading them with people to Lin Chaonan. This kid had at least gone to sell herbs with Village Chief Lin and the others before, and sweet potato vines were almost always traded as barter, so it wasn't too difficult.
As for Yue Jiuyue, she locked herself in and dragged Lin Chaobei to dig a huge pit together. She then directed Lin Chaobei to carry water for several days to fill the pit, and then left it there. Lin Chaobei thought that Yue Jiuyue was digging a reservoir in the ravine!
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