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Kyoto Ho Family
He Chenglin never expected that just a few days after his daughter left, they would receive a large package from her.
Yu Huiru opened the package and saw several bags of milk powder inside, knowing that her daughter had prepared it for her grandson. Her daughter said she hadn't expected the milk powder to arrive so quickly, as she had solved her grandson's milk powder problem.
Besides the milk powder, Yu Huiru opened all the remaining packages and looked at them. Most of them were dried goods, including dates, dried longan, goji berries, mushrooms, and wood ear fungus.
Yu Huiru looked at these things with a mixture of relief and worry for her daughter. She wondered how her daughter had managed to get them. These were all excellent tonics, but not easy to obtain.
Yu Huiru looked at her husband sitting to the side and said, "Old He, how do you think Yuhan got all these things? Did she ask the Han family to do it for her?"
He Chenglin shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be. Although I haven't spent much time with Yuhan, I don't think she would bother the Han family. I always felt that our daughter is not simple either."
This is a gift from her to us as a token of her filial piety; we should just accept it. Didn't you see what our daughter said in her letter? She told us not to be stingy, and that she would get more if we ran out. Our daughter definitely has her own ways; we shouldn't pry. We'll send her more money in the future.”
Yu Huiru nodded and said, "That's for sure. These things aren't cheap, and they're even harder to get. We can't let our daughter keep spending money. Sigh, I really want her to come back and stay with us right away. It's so agonizing to finally find our daughter but not be able to be by our side."
He Chenglin said, "Didn't our daughter say that she would be back with us in two or three years at most? We've waited so many years, can't we wait two or three more?"
Besides, we didn't know where our daughter was before. Now that we've found her, isn't that a hundred times better than before? Heaven has really been kind to our family. Not only did they find our grandson, but they also brought our daughter back to us. You should be content.”
Yu Huiru sighed and said, "What else can I do if I'm not satisfied? I just hope that my daughter can really cure Han Yixian's leg and come back to us as soon as possible."
My daughter has already turned sixteen, and in a few years she'll be getting married and moving out to her husband's family home. She won't be living with us for more than two years. It just doesn't feel right. We haven't done anything for her, yet she's already worrying about us.
Seeing his wife about to wipe away tears, He Chenglin put his arm around her shoulder and comforted her, saying, "Then let our daughter get married two years later. No matter which young man wants to marry our daughter, I have to investigate him carefully before making a decision. At least for a few years."
Yu Huiru smiled and patted her husband, saying, "If you keep breaking up this couple, your son-in-law will definitely resent you. But I also hope that our daughter will marry two years later."
Du Yuhan was unaware that her parents had already begun considering her marriage. She was currently taking stock of the family's belongings and preparing for winter.
Liu Gang and Yuan Qiwen take care of the rabbits at home. Now the rabbit population has grown to several dozen.
During the month or so that Du Yuhan was away from home, Liu Gang and Yuan Qiwen even slaughtered two male rabbits for a treat.
The weather is getting colder soon. The little rabbits will grow up quickly. Their old burrows will be too small and won't keep them warm in winter.
Du Yuhan and Liu Gang discussed getting some grass clippings and making some adobe bricks by the river. Once the adobe bricks were dry, they would use them to rebuild the chicken coop and rabbit hutch, so that the chickens and rabbits could safely overwinter.
The two men cut some grass, dried it, and then chopped it into sections. They then added these sections to the mud to make the adobe bricks more compact.
The two men made adobe molds and then made a large batch of adobe bricks by the river.
After drying for a few days, the adobe bricks were ready. Yuan Qiwen and Liu Gang together used a wheelbarrow to transport the adobe bricks back to the yard. Then they built a burrow for the rabbits and chickens next to the existing rabbit hutch and chicken coop.
Du Yuhan designed the chicken coop according to her own ideas: the top part was for laying eggs, and the bottom part was where the chickens stayed at night.
The rabbit hutch is also suspended, with a perforated wooden frame at the bottom. One side of the frame is covered with hay for the rabbits to rest on, while the other side is just the wooden frame. When the rabbits relieve themselves, their droppings fall directly to the lower level, making cleaning easier and keeping the hutch more hygienic.
In two days, Liu Gang and Yuan Qiwen, under Du Yuhan's direction, finished building the new chicken coop and rabbit hutch. This time, the original simple hutches had been transformed into luxurious mud-brick hutches.
After the nest was built, Du Yuhan and the others let it air out for a few days before moving the rabbits and chickens to a new place. Then they dismantled the old makeshift nest.
Du Yuhan was completely relieved to see the sturdy and warm rabbit and chicken coops. Now the rabbits and chickens would have no problem getting through the winter. She would have to take good care of the hens so they wouldn't stop laying eggs during the winter.
Du Yuhan knew that hens usually stopped laying eggs when the weather got colder, but with the well water in her space as a backup, the number of eggs laid by the hens shouldn't decrease too much.
After taking care of the chicken coop and rabbit hutch, the weather gradually started to get colder. With the autumn harvest finished, some farmers began going into the mountains in groups to forage for wild fruits and other mountain produce. Du Yuhan reduced her trips into the mountains, not wanting to compete with the local farmers for food.
In late autumn, the trees on the mountain began to change, and most of the leaves gradually began to change color. Du Yuhan knew this was a sign that the weather was getting colder.
Once the leaves turn yellow, they will soon flutter down to the ground like colorful butterflies.
D doesn't get much snow, but she still has to prepare food for her rabbits in advance.
Rabbits can eat some dry leaves in winter. Du Yuhan specially bought some burlap sacks, waiting for all the leaves to fall before going to the forest to collect dry leaves to feed the rabbits in winter.
They need to feed these rabbits carefully, as it's related to their meat consumption.
Du Yuhan raises several large roosters. She plans to slaughter these roosters for the Chinese New Year. She intends to give them as gifts to the Yuan family and Director Yao, as it's a matter of etiquette.
Before Han Yixian could even ask Liu Gang to buy coal, Yao Jingsong had two cartloads of coal delivered to the courtyard. These two cartloads of coal were enough for Han Yixian and his family to burn for the entire winter.
Because Du Yuhan's west room didn't have a heated kang (a traditional Chinese bed-stove), Han Yixian had Liu Gang install a stove ahead of time. Since a long chimney had been installed in Du Yuhan's room, it was much warmer even though the stove was kept closed most of the time.
Du Yuhan has grown rapidly in the past six months, reaching 1.62 meters tall. That's not short at all.
In her previous life, Du Yuhan was only 1.6 meters tall. She felt that her height was about right, so she had the new military uniform that Han Yixian gave her altered to be smaller so that she could wear it over a cotton coat in the winter.
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