Who doesn't enjoy going to a big city to explore and have some fun? Even if you don't buy anything, just taking a look and experiencing it is worthwhile!
Now, she and Lin Chaobei are both taken care of by their two older brothers, who manage the shops in town nearby. They don't have to worry too much, as the managers of each shop are very dedicated.
Therefore, they can take a few days to go out for a stroll. She has been to the county town several times, but the prefecture city is too far away, and she has never been there.
There were opportunities to go before, but she hadn't married into the Lin family yet. Lin Chaobei invited her to the city to buy things for the wedding, such as fabric for her wedding dress and jewelry. She was too embarrassed to go. She was very shy back then and didn't dare to go with Lin Chaobei to such a far place, not to mention that the round trip would take two or three days, and spending the night together, even with the servants, would not be appropriate.
Now is the perfect opportunity. Things are relatively quiet at home right now, and I can still spend time with my mother-in-law. In a few more days, when the weather gets hot, traveling will be difficult enough. If she gets pregnant again, it will be even harder for her to travel far after she has a child.
"I'm not going. You two can go by yourselves."
Not to mention how far the capital city is, how much trouble and suffering must they have endured along the way. With that young couple right in front of her, and her, an old woman, just standing there like that, is she just bored and looking for trouble? Or is she just eating their dog food (a Chinese slang term for witnessing public displays of affection)?
Besides, the roads nowadays aren't like modern roads, which are either paved or asphalt. Even when it's not raining or snowing, the old dirt roads are full of potholes. Just going to the county town makes her buttocks numb from the bumpy ride. How could she go to the prefecture city?
Spare her!
When Yue Jiuyue said she wouldn't go to the prefectural city, Wang Xiaoxue's enthusiasm for going waned by half. She still wanted to go, but not as much as she had at the beginning.
Should we continue to persuade Yue Jiuyue?
Wang Xiaoxue wasn't unwilling, but she felt that if she continued to persuade Yue Jiuyue, even if she reluctantly agreed, she probably wouldn't be very happy, so it was better not to persuade her at all.
As for the capital city, she can go there in the future. She's still so young; she can go wherever she wants in the future.
This was Wang Xiaoxue's way of comforting herself, so she completely ignored all the things she had initially thought about, such as what if she got pregnant, the sweltering heat in summer, the icy roads in winter, and the busy farming season in autumn.
As for Yue Jiuyue, seeing that the young couple no longer mentioned going to the state capital because she had refused, she felt a little guilty.
After all, her children are also filial to her.
Of course, she felt guilty, but not much. She really didn't want to go to such a far place and go back and forth. With her old arms and legs, she definitely couldn't manage it.
After a moment of guilt, Yue Jiuyue naturally let it go. The family's strawberry field had been completely taken over by those ladies and young women. Some picked the strawberries themselves, while others instructed their servants to do so. Besides eating them themselves, they also shared some with their family and relatives to enjoy. Some even bought a few strawberry seedlings from Yue Jiuyue's family, planning to grow them themselves so they could eventually achieve strawberry freedom.
These were none of Yue Jiuyue's responsibility. She simply put the money collected by the steward into a money box and then hid it in her spatial storage.
The strawberries in the field haven't been finished yet, and the cherries on the trees are already ripe.
Another round of harvesting, and once again, pockets are bulging.
Yue Jiuyue didn't participate in picking strawberries. Bending over all the time was quite tiring, and there was nothing wrong with eating what was readily available. Only the ladies and young women were seeing for the first time how a strawberry turned from a flower into a strawberry, and they were also hearing for the first time that they could pick strawberries themselves for money. Even though they were a little tired, they were happy.
Cherries grow on trees, and these people had never participated in such an activity before. So they paid again and entered the cherry orchard. A group of elegantly dressed ladies and young women, each with a small bamboo basket, carefully selected what they considered to be the best cherry.
Yue Jiuyue also joined in the fun, carrying a small bamboo basket the size of her palm, climbing up and down in the cherry orchard. It's unclear what's wrong with her, but she didn't pick the cherries that she could easily reach, but insisted on picking the ones that grew at the top of the trees. The saplings were only two or three years old and couldn't support her weight of 100 or 200 pounds, so she had to use ladders to pick them, but she didn't seem to mind the trouble.
Is it so that the cherries that are easy to pick can be left for the guests?
Obviously, that's impossible.
She thought she could just reach out and pick them, and the bamboo basket would be full in no time, which is why she went through all that trouble.
Yeah, it's just for fun.
This can also be described as having a childlike heart.
"Hey, these were picked today. Take them and eat them. We'll have someone pick some more tomorrow morning and send them to your in-laws when you get to town, so they can also try our strawberries and cherries."
Yue Jiuyue said to the fourth couple who had returned home early.
The strawberries were snapped up as soon as the first one ripened. Apart from Yue Jiuyue, Wang Xiaoxue, Xiaoman'er, and Dazhuang eating a few, the rest were bought up by the guests. Even though they had to pay to go every day, they insisted on going into the strawberry field every day and having their own people pick the strawberries. This made things much easier for Yue Jiuyue's servants and meant they earned less money, which in turn enriched Yue Jiuyue.
After all, not only did she pay less for the servants' picking work, she also earned extra money for picking the strawberries herself. The cost of the strawberries had to be paid separately, so it would be strange if Yue Jiuyue didn't make money.
Strawberries were so popular that even Yue Jiuyue's family barely got to eat any, let alone Wang Xiaoxue's family.
Things are better now. With the advent of cherries, strawberries are no longer in such high demand. And seeing her youngest son and daughter-in-law, Yue Jiuyue finally remembered her in-laws.
"Thank you, Mother!"
Wang Xiaoxue was so moved that she wanted to hug Yue Jiuyue. Her mother-in-law was so wonderful. She must have been a good person in her past life and did a lot of good deeds, otherwise how could she have met such a good mother-in-law in this life?
Looking at her mother-in-law in front of her, and then thinking about her own mother in town, Wang Xiaoxue really didn't want to go back if they weren't so close, and she really didn't want to see her own mother every day.
However, she still had to go to town every day to look after the shop, and she couldn't help but see her mother.
Sometimes she thought, maybe she should go to another town, far away from her mother.
However, she couldn't bear to part with her mother-in-law, who was so good to her. If they lived far apart, it would be inconvenient for her to go home every day, and she wouldn't be able to eat with her mother-in-law from time to time like she does now, receiving her mother-in-law's advice and being fed by her.
She knew this wasn't her mother-in-law's favoritism, but she just couldn't bear to part with the warmth her mother-in-law gave her.
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