"How could you do that?" Zhong Mingwei turned his head to look at Mei Ya's bright smiling face, and curled his lips as well.
"I don't know how to do it, but I watched an old man fishing, so I should be able to do it just like him, hehe!" Mei Ya was a little proud. She raised her chin towards Zhong Mingwei, "So you have to please me quickly, otherwise I won't teach you how to fish!"
Zhong Mingwei looked at Mei Ya's smug face and wanted to laugh and cry. In the end, he held back and reached out to take a bowl of donkey-hide gelatin and longan soup from the kang and handed it to Mei Ya: "Is this enough?"
"It's okay." Mei Ya took the bowl and drank it slowly, spoonful by spoonful.
She actually couldn't get used to the taste of donkey-hide gelatin. But she kept drinking it obediently. Since that typhoid fever, she has not drunk ginger and brown sugar tea again. Expensive donkey-hide gelatin and bird's nest have replaced ginger and brown sugar. Now when she has her period, she doesn't feel stomach pain. At the beginning, she would pretend to cry out that her stomach hurts. Then Zhong Mingwei would rub her stomach as before, and rub it all night long. Later, she was too embarrassed to pretend, but Zhong Mingwei still rubbed her stomach every night.
How could there be such a nice and gentle man?
Mei Ya thought about Zhong Mingwei's meticulousness and patience last night. She couldn't help but smile.
Zhong Mingwei's eyes never left Mei Ya. When he saw her smiling secretly, he was stunned. After a long while, he looked away. He turned his head to the other side. Against the light, no one could see the expression on his face.
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"Pang Yi, where are our fields?" After finishing the donkey-hide gelatin and longan soup, Mei Ya suddenly asked Pang Yi, "I heard that spring ploughing has begun in Ningguta, so our fields can't be left idle!"
Pang Yi was stunned: "Madam, do you mean to hire people to plow the fields and sow seeds?"
"Why should we hire people? It's more interesting to grow crops on our own land. We don't have much anyway," Mei Ya said, counting on her fingers as she continued, "Growing some red beans, mung beans, kidney beans, soybeans, etc. is enough. Forget about rice and wheat. We don't have much land, so we can just buy food." At this point, Mei Ya was busy asking Zhong Mingwei, "Mingwei, what else do you think we should grow?"
"Let's plant some sunflowers." Zhong Mingwei said in a deep voice, looking at Mei Ya's bright face.
"Yeah! Why didn't I think of that?!" Meiya suddenly slapped her thigh, "Sunflowers are great, they look good and they taste good!"
"Then I will go down the mountain to buy seeds now." Pang Yi wrote down everything in the booklet, then stood up.
"Pang Yi, will you buy it?" Mei Ya looked at Pang Yi a little worriedly, "Um... have you ever farmed?"
Pang Yi looked embarrassed: "Well... I have never farmed before."
"Then why would you buy seeds? You don't even know that they are cheating you!" Mei Ya said with her eyes wide open. She jumped off the kang and put on her shoes while muttering, "I'll go with you! I know what kind of seeds Grandma Chen bought and where she bought them."
"Okay, I'll go get the carriage ready," Pang Yi nodded hurriedly. Just as he was about to leave, he saw Gu Changlin coming over. Pang Yi hurriedly bowed and greeted him, "Sir, you're here."
"I heard that you are going down the mountain to buy seeds?" Gu Changlin said.
"Yes, we want to buy seeds and then grow them ourselves!" Mei Ya was very happy.
"Then I'll go with you. I haven't been down the mountain for a long time," Gu Changlin said, sighing, "Girl, planting melons and beans is actually my specialty. I'm no worse than your Grandma Chen."
"Haha, then you can come with us, and you can pick out the best seeds for us!" Mei Ya said with a smile, but then she paused, then waved her hands, "Not today, how about going tomorrow?"
"What's wrong? You clearly want to go," Zhong Mingwei asked. After a slight pause, Zhong Mingwei stretched out his hand and led Mei Ya in front of him, lowering his voice and asking softly, "Are you feeling unwell today? It's too inconvenient to walk because of too much?"
"No! Stop talking nonsense!" Mei Ya said with a red face. She didn't understand why a grown man would always bother about a girl's private affairs. She pushed Zhong Mingwei away and glanced at Gu Changlin and Pang Yi. After making sure that they didn't hear what Zhong Mingwei said, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You have just recovered from the cold. I was afraid that you would catch a cold when you go out. The wind is a bit strong today."
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