Chapter 185 How can you eat what I made with confidence?
Sang Zhixia was really angry. Seeing that the door to the main hall was closed and no one seemed to be about to challenge him, she pulled Xu Yu to the side and whispered through gritted teeth, "Are you stupid?"
"They scold you for no reason and take it out on you, and you just stand there quietly and let them spit on your face?"
The old lady was not Xu Yu's biological grandmother, but she was the title after all. The Xu family had strict rules, and Xu Yu could not contradict her, otherwise he would not be able to justify himself to the old man.
But you can't just stand there like this!
Sang Zhixia glared at Xu Yu with dismay: "Can't you just hide?"
"It's really hard to talk back, isn't it better to just avoid getting caught?"
You usually look at me with all your heart, but why at times like this you can only watch helplessly as you get scolded?
Where's that devilish motive of competing with me in wits and courage, insisting on sharing the same bed with me in such a hot day?!
Sang Zhixia grew angrier and angrier as she thought about it. She grabbed Xu Yu's face bitterly and said, "You're just standing there like an idiot. Why can't you learn from your uncle?"
"Look at Third Uncle!"
"Uncle San hid very well! He was excellent!"
Ever since the old lady got angry, Uncle Xu had developed many tricks to dodge, and the old lady couldn't catch him easily.
Xu Yu's face was twisted by the pulling, and he deliberately lowered his head to make it easier for Sang Zhixia to exert force, so as not to make her hands sore. After she vented her dissatisfaction, he didn't explain, but said with a squinting eye: "Okay, next time I will follow Uncle San's example and get out of the way early."
Sang Zhixia was still worried, so she rolled her eyes at him and said, "You big-headed ghost."
"You can't even talk back, and you dare to send me away? Next time I'll just listen and yell at you, and I'll yell back at you!"
Anyway, the old lady has disliked her for a long time, and she has had verbal fights with the old lady more than once or twice, so it doesn't matter if it happens a few more times.
Seeing Sang Zhixia's angry face, Xu Yu felt amused. He coaxed her with a soft voice, and persuaded her to go into the house to fold clothes. He rolled up his sleeves and continued cooking.
The weather is hot, Sang Zhixia doesn't like greasy food, so the dishes on the table are very light.
Rice porridge with minced meat and mushrooms, stir-fried vegetables, a plate of pickled radish, and plump white steamed buns.
The little ones were eager to join in the fun, so they went to the brewery early in the morning and had fun there, and the adults were also there.
The old lady closed the door and did not respond to her calls. Sang Zhixia lost her patience after being invited once, so she simply took a small stool and placed the reserved food in front of the door of the main room.
Sang Zhixia clapped her hands and said, "Xu Yu, eat."
As for the old lady...
Eat if you like, if not, just go on a hunger strike.
Who cares to spoil you?
Sang Zhixia was full and sleepy, but she still didn't feel like sleeping. She muttered, "I don't want to go to the doctor tomorrow."
Xu Yu said calmly, "You're not sick, we're just going for a walk."
Sang Zhixia felt extremely resentful: "I don't want to drink the tonic soup either."
She slapped the edge of the bed and said dissatisfiedly, "Why do I have to drink? Are you really as strong as you say? Are you really not fooling me?"
Xu Yu cupped the back of her head with his large hand, lowered his head, and nibbled the corner of her lips. His voice was low and strangely hoarse, "Zhizhi, I've been suffering from a lot of internal heat lately. If I drink two more bowls of tonic soup, I probably won't need to sleep tonight."
"Why, do you feel that you sleep too soundly at night and lack fun, so you want me to accompany you to have some fun?"
This man was talking nonsense and his hand was placed on Sang Zhixia's waist dishonestly, but his expression was serious and there was nothing unusual about it. His serious and cold face seemed to be the real thing!
Sang Zhixia's nose twitched as she caught his hand that was trying to reach into her clothes. She pulled it out and said righteously, "I think what you said before is right. I really haven't had a good night's sleep in a long time. If this continues, it's really not appropriate."
"So that I can soon defeat Xu Mingyang and crush Xu Mingxu at the dinner table, and step on Xu Yanran and overpower Xu Jinxi, I really should go to bed now."
Xu Yu looked at her with his lips curled up, half smiling. Sang Zhixia suppressed her smile and hooked her arm around his neck. She kissed his nose, turned over, and mumbled, "Sleep."
Xu Yu pulled the quilt over Sang Zhixia and pressed her into a small spring roll. Unable to bear it any longer, he leaned close to her ear and gritted his teeth: "It's fine if I don't bother you first, but stop trying to provoke me."
"If you don't sleep now, no one will sleep."
Sang Zhixia shook his shoulders and fell silent. Soon, his breathing became even and slow.
She was indeed exhausted, but now that she had accomplished something important in her heart, she slept much more soundly than usual.
Xu Yu was sure that she was soundly asleep and would not get up and make trouble, so he quietly opened the door and walked out.
Sang Zhixia regards the experimental field she mentioned as her lifeblood and cannot afford to make any mistakes.
The harvest time was approaching soon, and the separated fields were filled with golden undulating waves of rice. No one except Sang Zhixia could tell the difference.
The rice in those places cannot be left to others, so Xu Yu plans to harvest it himself. After the harvest, he can classify it according to Sang Zhixia's wishes, so that she won't be anxious when she sees it and has to roll up her sleeves and go to the fields herself.
But there are other chores to do before the harvest.
With the help of the silver moonlight shining from the sky, Xu Yu took out the papers on which Sang Zhixia had written her notes in a mess, one by one, and took out some extra paper and pen to write down the things he needed according to the details she had written down.
After harvesting, each experimental field with a different brand of rice must be threshed and weighed separately. Samples must also be taken from the field to measure and record the length and size of the rice stalks and the weight of the grains in a single rice ear. The rice yield per mu of land and the amount that can be retained for rice seeds are then estimated.
In addition, the rice seeds collected from the experimental fields need to be stored separately and cannot be mixed. In this case, the number of wooden barrels available for storing rice at home is somewhat insufficient.
Xu Yu recalled the number of experimental fields and wrote down the need to purchase six wooden barrels to store grain, and also listed many other trivial matters.
After copying several densely packed pages, Xu Yu marked the page numbers and dates and put them away carefully. Looking at the thick stack that had been produced during this period, he couldn't help but laugh.
He had never done such proofreading work before.
Now, in order to make Sang Zhixia as less tired as possible, the book boy's work has become easy to do, and he does it quite skillfully and with great experience.
Xu Yu laughed at himself a few times and put away all the neatly organized booklets. The people who were busy at the winery had not returned yet.
He looked back and saw that the food that Sang Zhixia had placed in front of the main room door had already gone cold. The door was still tightly closed with no sign of opening, and there was no sound in the room.
If nothing unexpected happens, the old lady won't touch any of the food.
Xu Yu's eyes revealed a hint of sarcasm, and his tone was subtle: "That's right."
"How can you eat what I made with confidence?"
People who have something to hide will look at everyone they meet with suspicion.
At this point, even if it was made by someone else, I'm afraid the old lady wouldn't dare to eat it...
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