Since Yue Jiuyue's household had more and more servants, Zhou Daya was freed from farm work. She only needed to teach Xiaoman'er and the others how to do embroidery every day, and she could arrange her other time freely.
Zhou Daya usually helps her family with chores, especially Old Mrs. Zhou. She is old and no longer the main caregiver for Dazhuang. Dazhuang runs around all day, and Old Mrs. Zhou can't keep up with him, so she can only cook, water the flowers, and clean the house every day.
Actually, there were several maids, servants and young men taking care of Dazhuang. It wouldn't have mattered if Old Madam Zhou did nothing, but she just couldn't sit still and would find things to do for herself every day.
Zhou Daya also found work for herself, although it was all to help her family.
Therefore, when Zhou Daya heard what kind of clothes Yue Jiuyue liked, she would carefully find out and then take the initiative to make them for Yue Jiuyue.
How could Yue Jiuyue not like such a good child!
The idea of bringing her home as a daughter-in-law was stirring within him, but Yue Jiuyue suppressed it all.
She was already afraid of getting into trouble, and since the children weren't interested, she wasn't going to get involved. She just thought about it; she wouldn't do anything unnecessary.
Thanks to the new summer clothes and new women's blouses, this summer doesn't seem as hot as in previous years. Almost every woman in this era knows how to sew, the only difference being whether she can embroider. So, everyone is busy making new clothes in their spare time, making them for themselves and their families. They stay cool while they are busy, and that's how they get through the summer.
The autumn harvest has begun.
Cut sweet potato vines, dig up sweet potatoes, slice sweet potatoes into dried form or store them directly in the cellar, collect dried sweet potatoes, dig up peanuts, husk corn, harvest millet...
Yue Jiuyue's family also needs to pick apples, pears, pomegranates, and large pomegranates, as well as chestnuts and cotton...
busy!
The soap workshop was so busy that it had to shut down for several days!
Fortunately, we had guests at home, and they were the kind of guests who liked to help themselves, so some of the fruit picking was done by the guests, especially the big pomegranates, which symbolize many children and many blessings. Except for the ones that weren't very good in appearance, all the others were bought by the guests.
Yue Jiuyue: ㄟ(▔，▔)ㄏ
Fortunately, she still has an online store.
Yue Jiuyue bought a lot of larger, better-looking pomegranates from the mall, filling an entire cart.
Then they loaded a cart with apples, pears, chestnuts, sweet potatoes, corn, peanuts, millet, cotton, and other crops from their home.
It wasn't that Yue Jiuyue didn't want to give more; would the emperor lack what little she had? The entire world belonged to the emperor! She only needed to give a token amount.
All she had were the produce from the fields, especially grain and cotton, which were what she valued most. Now that her adopted second son was coming back, she wanted to use Lin Chaoxi's connections to send everything away.
She didn't have much of anything, but she had the most sweet potatoes! Most of the fruit trees were planted with sweet potatoes, covering ten hilltops. Just imagine how much she harvested.
However, compared to the number of soldiers, this amount of food was nothing.
Yue Jiuyue was somewhat worried; there was still too little food.
I wonder if sweet potatoes can be grown in the border town? This kind of grain is quite simple to grow. It doesn't require too much effort. As long as it takes root in the ground, even if it doesn't grow well for various reasons, there will still be some harvest. Its stems and leaves are edible, so it won't be a waste of time.
We'll probably only know the answer to this question after Lin Chaoxi returns.
But when will Lin Chaoxi come back? The Mid-Autumn Festival is just around the corner.
Lin Chaoxi, who was on his way: Achoo! Achoo! Achoo!
He rubbed his nose, thinking dismissively that it must be people from an enemy country cursing him!
All I can do is yell at him.
"drive!"
Lin Chaoxi cracked his whip and lashed his horse. He was still hurrying on his way, hoping to get home before the army returned to the border town!
At Yue Jiuyue's house, Xiaoman'er has started a new round of innovation.
Who says mooncakes only have five-nut filling?
Last year's mooncakes were just like the zongzi for the Dragon Boat Festival. Following Yue Jiuyue's advice, the servants made several kinds of mooncakes with different fillings. Then, some people wanted to try other fillings, and Yue Jiuyue did not stop them, letting them do as they pleased.
Little Man'er certainly tried it too, but she wasn't as creative as when she made zongzi (sticky rice dumplings). She even wrapped stinky tofu and large intestines inside the zongzi.
In Xiaoman'er's heart, mooncakes are sweet snacks, so all the mooncakes she made last year were sweet, whether they were red bean paste or mung bean paste, and she even put a lot of sugar in the egg yolk mooncakes.
My little girl is a year older this year and isn't as greedy anymore. When making mooncakes, she no longer limits herself to sweet ones; she can try savory, five-spice, spicy, and more.
Having experienced making zongzi before, she at least knew which flavors she didn't like, so she skipped those and asked Zhou Liuya what other ingredients she could use as fillings for mooncakes. Then the two little girls started making mooncakes.
Well, there's a little troublemaker next to him. Dazhuang is also learning to wrap mooncakes by himself. After all, wrapping mooncakes is much easier than playing in the mud.
Dazhuang doesn't have any particular ideas at the moment, so he does whatever Xiaoman asks him to do. He's only responsible for wrapping the fillings, no matter what kind of filling they are.
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a full moon hangs high in the sky. People on the ground look up and feel as if there are people on the moon looking down at them.
Is the fairy Chang'e homesick?
Nobody knows.
Even the question of whether the fairy Chang'e truly exists on the moon remains a matter of skepticism among people on Earth.
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