After spending the whole day at Ling Xiao's company, the couple drove to Mr. Qiu Sanye's place when they returned in the afternoon.
The two were also preparing to go back.
Mr. Qiu San was relieved when he saw his daughter was full of life.
Four people and two cars drove towards Songyuan Town.
I haven't seen Meng Qidi for two days. The two little guys were waiting at the door early. They were very clingy, one on each side of her and never left her side.
Meng Qidi was also quite helpless, so she took the two of them to take a look around the shed. In two days, the vegetables here had grown a lot.
During dinner, Zhao Dezhong said, "I will return to Beijing tomorrow, and Ling Xiao will take me to the train then."
Not only were everyone surprised at why he suddenly wanted to go back, even Wang Jinhua and his wife were stunned.
Yang Shihua said, "Why didn't you tell us in advance? Ling Xiao will leave early tomorrow morning, and we won't have time to prepare anything."
Zhao Dezhong waved his hand, "It's because I didn't want you to be busy, so I didn't tell you in advance. Oh, Xiaoqi, Lao Luo called today and asked you not to eat the rice after it's harvested, but to send it to him. He wants to keep the seeds for experiments."
That guy really put his knowledge into practice. I heard that he was planning to build a shed over the paddy fields, saying that it was for the purpose of better studying these things.
"Yeah." Meng Qidi nodded. It was her honor to be able to contribute to the country with such a small paddy field. Of course, the prerequisite was that she was not allowed to do any research.
Zhao Dezhong refused to take anything with him, and there was no way Yang Shihua and the others would let him go back empty-handed.
So when I waited for Zhao Dezhong to come for dinner early in the morning, there were already two snakeskin bags in the yard. One bag contained the family's cured meat. It was summer, and there was not much cured meat left. The other bag was leaking water stains.
When I opened it, I found that there were lotus roots with mud on them and two lively fish.
Zhao Dezhong was helpless, "You guys... at least cook it for me. If I sit on the train for a few days, the fish will go bad..."
Yang Shihua was stunned for a moment, then he realized that he had forgotten about this, and hurriedly took out the fish. It was definitely too late to make it again, so he simply put a few more dried fish in, as there were plenty of fish at home.
Recently, when he has nothing to do, he would put a fishing net at the door, and take his dog to the reservoir in the back mountain, and get some game to improve the diet.
Meng Qidi didn't go to the county town, so Ling Xiao and the others took another car. On the way to the county town, Yi Bo was reluctant to leave and insisted on talking to him all the way...
Ling Xiao and the others went to work, Meng Qidi and the others were busy, and the more than one acre of rice allocated to Yang Shihua needed to be harvested.
As soon as the gate of Qiyuan was locked, Yang Shihua drove his tractor-trailer, carrying Wang Jinhua, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and two children, and the family of five went to harvest rice.
“Do we still have to pay back the food?”
Returning grain means returning agricultural taxes.
Meng Qidi suddenly remembered this. If the sandy land that their family exchanged for was added to the land that Uncle Yang had allocated, then there would be quite a lot of land...
So the rice Uncle Yang grows probably isn't enough to pay the agricultural tax...
In the past, we worked as a group, so we didn’t have to worry about paying taxes; that was the team leader’s responsibility.
Now that the land has been divided, every household needs to pay the agricultural tax on their own.
"Well, I'll return it when the rice is dried."
Meng Qidi hesitated. "Is it enough?"
Although there was no reform and opening up before she was sold in her previous life, every time the village returned the grain, what she heard most was complaints that after working hard for a year, most of the grain was returned.
They are now paying back the agricultural taxes of three families...
Yang Shihua was helpless, "I guess it's just enough to pay back..."
Meng Qidi sighed, "It's okay, we'll keep it for ourselves. I'll use the money to cover the cost first, and it will definitely be enough for next year."
Next year's rice seeds will be produced in the space and kept for our own consumption, and the agricultural tax can be directly paid with money.
"Xiao Qi, I still have money, you..."
"No, keep your money for my mother and don't worry about my money." Meng Qidi refused directly.
Wang Jinhua in the back seat was afraid that he was overthinking, so she smiled and said, "Xiao Qi is not short of money. She is probably the richest person in our family. Even though she has been spending a lot of money recently, she still has money to pay back the grain."
Meng Qidi smiled, "Of course, I'm not short of money. Even if we don't work, we won't starve to death."
After hearing what Xiaoqi said, Yang Shihua felt relieved. It didn't matter if he didn't have a child. He could just keep the money to supplement the household expenses. Even if he couldn't spend it, when he and Jinhua were gone in the future, the money would belong to the child.
Harvesting rice is certainly not easy. Fortunately, Yang Shihua's paddy fields are all on the roadside, and the tractor is parked on the roadside.
A simple sunshade shed was built next to the tractor, and a cool mat was put inside. Some food, drinks and some small figure paintings were placed inside, and the rest area for the two children was ready.
After telling the two not to run around and to tell her if they felt unwell, Meng Qidi went to the fields to harvest rice.
Fearing that someone might steal the rice, the three men planned to drag the harvested rice directly home to dry it, since the road to their home was long and wide.
Moreover, the straw can be used to keep the vegetables in the shed warm in winter.
Even though Meng Qidi had never harvested rice since her rebirth, her hand speed was not slow. She was far behind the other two when they were setting up the shed, but after she had been harvesting for more than ten minutes, she actually caught up.
Most of the morning had passed and the five mu of land had been harvested. Wang Jinhua and the other woman began to load the rice onto the truck.
Meng Qidi took the opportunity to prop up the shed with bamboo poles so that they would not lose the shade when the car drove back.
It was definitely impossible to haul all the rice from the five-mu field back in one trip, so Yang Shihua tied the rice up on the car before driving back with Wang Jinhua.
Meng Qidi stayed here and looked after the rice with the children.
There was a lot of food in the space, but the weather was a bit hot and humid, so Meng Qidi told the two of them not to move and got up to leave.
Two minutes later, she came back and took out three popsicles from behind her like a magic trick, "Do you want some?"
The two little guys' eyes lit up, "Yes!"
Meng Qidi gave each of them one and sat down outside.
"Chujiu, let me tell you, my aunt is a fairy. This ice bar must have been made by her."
Ling Cheng licked the ice bar with a proud look on her face. This was a secret between her and her aunt, and she only told Chujiu.
Chujiu was young and nodded in agreement while eating a popsicle.
In the space, Xiao Meng gloated, "Oh no, the master's little tricks can't escape their eyes."
Meng Qidi rolled her eyes and ignored it.
After eating the popsicles, the two of them, one adult and one child, felt much cooler.
Meng Qidi was afraid that the two of them would be bored, so she found some storybooks and started telling stories to them.
When Wang Jinhua and her partner came back, the two children were fast asleep in the shed, with Meng Qidi fanning them from time to time with a hand fan...
Wang Jinhua breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the two children were not overheated. She lowered her voice and said, "Let's send them back one last time. I'll go back to cook while I'm there. I'll ask your uncle Yang to pick you up later."
If they make one more trip, they might be able to fill half the truck, just enough to take the three people back.
Meng Qidi nodded, "Well, you guys be careful, don't worry, we are not hot."
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