"How is it? Does it look good? Do you like it?"
Yue Jiuyue asked Xiaoman'er.
"Beautiful! Very beautiful! I love it!"
The little girl smiled happily, like a flower in bloom.
"Grandma! I want one too!"
At this moment, Dazhuang shook his chubby little hands, showing Yue Jiuyue his bare wrists.
He had been quiet the whole time. When he saw Xiaoman cut the five-strand rope and throw it into the rain, he followed suit and cut his own five-strand rope and threw it into the rain. Then he waited quietly until Yue Jiuyue finished braiding the colorful rope for Xiaoman before he made a sound.
Yue Jiuyue really likes this little guy. Although he's mischievous, he can be incredibly well-behaved at times!
"Okay! I'll make one for Dazhuang too."
When Yue Jiuyue was braiding colorful ropes, everyone in the yard stopped working and crowded into the house to watch how she braided them.
Actually, braiding colorful ropes is very simple. The only difference is the beginning; the rest of the process is the same until the end.
"It's beautiful! Dazhuang also really, really loves the colorful ropes that Grandma braided!"
Look, the little one speaks even better than his sister!
"Yes, thank you for liking it, Dazhuang!"
Yue Jiuyue pinched Dazhuang's chubby, soft face.
"hey-hey……"
Dazhuang laughed so hard his eyes disappeared from his grin.
Yue Jiuyue is absolutely not sexist; she herself is female, so if anyone should be biased, it should be against girls. She simply likes Dazhuang—a cute little rascal who's mischievous when he needs to be and well-behaved when he needs to be!
Well, he can be naughty when he's being mischievous, but she only likes this moment.
"Alright, it's getting late, everyone go back to sleep!"
After teasing Dazhuang for a while, Yue Jiuyue started to chase him away.
"Then, Mother, you should go to sleep early too. We'll head back now."
As they spoke, Lin Chaodong carried Xiaoman'er, Lin Chaonan picked up Dazhuang, and Lin Chaobei helped Wang Xiaoxue, and they all left.
Yue Jiuyue naturally washed up and went to bed.
The next day, the family didn't have breakfast together either, because Yue Jiuyue got up late and the others wanted to go out to play.
Lin Chaodong and his family strolled around the town yesterday, and fearing they wouldn't have time to have dinner together as a family, they decided to go to the county town today.
Yue Jiuyue didn't want to go, since she had been there before. If the journey wasn't bumpy, she might be able to stretch her muscles and go again.
I'm too old for that.
At this moment, she completely forgot that she had been thinking about taking a spontaneous trip not long ago, but in the end, she couldn't go for one reason or another (excuse).
She didn't just sit or lie around drying salted fish at home. Sometimes she would write a few large, scribble-like characters, sometimes she would paint a few ink paintings that only she could understand, sometimes she would watch the maids do their needlework, or she would take a stroll around the farm, or check out her soap workshop...
Time flies by every day, whether you do nothing or just find something to do.
Yue Jiuyue ate lunch alone, and she also ate dinner alone, because those people were going to stay overnight in the county town and might not come back for a few days.
The Dragon Boat Festival is just a few days away, and it's already the season for shoppers.
Harvesting wheat is also a very hard job, because it can rain at any time. So this farm work always involves the whole family. No matter if they are young or old, men or women, as long as they can move, they must go to the fields to work and try to harvest, thresh, dry and store the wheat in the shortest possible time.
rush in the harvest.
Yue Jiuyue's family had many servants, but they didn't grow much wheat. If they had enough sickles, they could harvest it all in less than a day.
Well, because they couldn't each have a sickle, it took them two days to finish harvesting.
Drying and threshing don't require as many people. Yue Jiuyue doesn't care whether they're helping the villagers to earn extra money or doing good deeds. Anyway, besides cooking, there's no other chores that need to be done every day, so she lets them do whatever they want.
After the wheat harvest is finished, we'll start planting corn.
The corn seeds in Linjiagou Village are all bought from Yue Jiuyue. Even if other villages have them, they all originate from Linjiagou Village and the quantity is definitely not large. If the planting goes well this year, they might be able to sell a whole batch of corn seeds next year.
After planting the corn, there wasn't much urgent farm work to do. We'd either water the fields or weed, and then things would be relatively relaxed.
Meanwhile, Yue Jiuyue's family was busy picking peaches again. There were nectarines, hairy peaches, yellow peaches, and flat peaches. Yue Jiuyue picked the first batch, along with the newly harvested wheat, the poultry and livestock they raised, the various pickled eggs, the vegetables they grew, oh, and watermelons, and crayfish. The things filled several carriages, and finally, they asked Magistrate Tang to send them to the capital.
They had to send it once or twice a year, and Magistrate Tang was used to it.
Yue Jiuyue didn't know what would happen to the things she sent in the end, but they certainly wouldn't be thrown away. If cherries and strawberries weren't unsuitable for long-distance transportation, she really wanted to share these two fruits with the emperor. They were so delicious, and they were her favorites!
Actually, peaches aren't really suitable, but unripe peaches are hard. Maybe if we send them to the capital, some good ones will be left, and someone who's destined to find them can taste the peaches she grows. They're not as sweet as strawberries or cherries, but in summer, besides watermelon, peaches are the only other fruit. We should be content with having fruit to eat.
Yue Jiuyue was very content; contentment brings happiness!
Because she can eat whatever fruit she wants, and she'll never miss out on out-of-season fruit because of the season; after all, she has an online store.
It had been a long time since Yue Jiuyue had sold anything in the mall. Since she was no longer short of money, she often bought this and that from the mall. Now that the peaches were ripe, Yue Jiuyue picked a few pounds herself, put them on the mall, and they sold out in seconds.
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