My second uncle had a simple, honest smile on his face. "There's nothing much going on at home, but the signs are getting clearer and clearer. It's only here that we don't lack water. I heard that the drought in the south is already very serious, so we have to bring back anything edible. Every little bit helps."
Yunxi nodded in agreement, "Second Uncle is right, so after I saw Li Xingtang off, I came over as soon as possible to bring more food home so that I won't go hungry so often in the future."
"The Li family boy left so soon? I thought he could stay a few more days, but I didn't expect him to leave so quickly."
But Yunxi doesn't need to worry. The Li family boy is a good one; you just need to wait for him to come home.
Yun Shanjun was worried that his niece would be sad, so he quickly comforted her.
Yunxi felt quite warm and fuzzy. Although her parents and grandmother had already passed away when she came here, she had so many kind elders who cared for her, so she didn't feel any regret at all.
"Okay, I know. Don't worry, Erbai. I'll be fine at home. You guys are here to look after the village."
Yunxi was talking to her second uncle and Shengnan, while her hands were still busy.
Seeing the sweet potato vines that had sprouted again and were spreading everywhere, I took the scissors and started cutting them, planning to water them again after cutting them once.
By then, it will be around mid-afternoon, which is the only time to water the plants. You don't have to worry about it being too hot and burning the roots.
Originally, I was thinking of filling the basket with tender stalks and storing them in my spatial storage, but there were other people around besides my second uncle and Shengnan, so I had to give up on that idea.
Once the basket is full, I take it home first, and then return it.
They worked until the sun was high in the sky, and stopped around noon.
The others nearby had also packed up and gone home, planning to have lunch and rest before coming back.
On the way back, Shengnan walked with her second uncle. For some reason, Shengnan went straight up to Yunxi, quietly tugged at Yunxi's hand, and asked her to move aside a little, as if she had something to say.
Yunxi was curious, so she followed the force of Shengnan's hand and walked to the side. After they were some distance away from her second uncle, Shengnan whispered in Yunxi's ear, "My family is arranging a marriage for me."
Yunxi looked puzzled. "Isn't this how it should be? You're about my age, and I'm already engaged, so you should be engaged around the same time!"
The two sisters, one was engaged and the other was not. People wondered if there was something wrong with the unengaged one.
Shengnan stomped her foot, feeling that Yunxi hadn't understood her. "Oh, it's not like that. You see, your fiancé is your classmate, and you two know each other quite well, right? But the one my family is talking about, I haven't even met him yet. I'm just worried my mom might do something inappropriate."
With her lips pouting high, looking displeased, she said, "You know how much your second aunt, my mother, favors boys over girls. I'm really worried that if she meets someone with a high dowry, she'll just sell me off."
Yunxi felt that she was overthinking things. Although her mother was a bit unreliable, she only had one son and one daughter. She still cared about her daughter, just not as much as she cared about her son.
But to say that you would push your daughter into a fire pit is definitely not an option.
“You still have my second uncle, sixth grandfather, and sixth grandmother at home, so what are you worried about? Besides, although my second aunt prefers Yun Libao, you are still her daughter. How could she just marry you off so easily? She definitely hopes you will have a good life in the future.”
When you're looking for a partner, if you don't like them, just say so. Don't hesitate. If you hesitate, they might think you like them. Your own feelings are the most important, but you should also listen to your family's opinions. There's an old saying that goes, "They've eaten more salt than we've eaten rice; they have more life experience and can definitely judge people more carefully than young people like us." Just listen to their advice.
Yun Libao is the youngest son of his second uncle and aunt. He is fourteen years old this year and is still a mischievous boy.
Despite having so many uncles and elders, there are actually very few girls in Yunxi's generation. Apart from her and Shengnan, only her great-grandfather's sixth uncle has a ten-year-old daughter. In fact, they don't discriminate against girls at all, except for her second aunt.
In other people's lives, daughters are much more pampered than sons, because there are a lot of naughty boys, but only three daughters, and they all cherish them.
Sheng Nan listened to what Yunxi said.
After thinking about it, she realized that her mother had indeed treated her quite well, compared to the other girls in the village.
It's just that people love to compare themselves to others. At home, she couldn't accept that her younger brother was more favored than her, but looking at it from a different perspective, she was much better off than the other girls in the village.
Thinking about it this way, my mind instantly broadened, and my mother's slight favoritism didn't seem so important anymore.
"I understand, Yunxi, you're right. Thank you for telling me all this; I feel much better now."
Seeing that she was no longer dwelling on things, Yunxi felt relieved. They parted ways when they reached their own doorway. Shengnan was still some distance from her home, so they each went their own way.
As soon as he entered the courtyard and closed the gate, he put all the tender stalks in the basket on his back into his spatial storage. The ones he had brought back that morning were also in his spatial storage; if they had been left outside, they would have withered long ago.
After basking in the sun all morning, I lost my appetite when I was preparing lunch. I didn't want to cook, so I took a cold shower and then lay on the kang (heated brick bed) and just lay there, not wanting to move.
I feel mentally exhausted, but physically I feel fine.
Yunxi realized that she really didn't like doing farm work; she felt that the investment was too great and the returns were too small, which was disproportionate to the investment.
You'd be better off spending that time digging for medicinal herbs in the mountains; that's where you can earn more money.
Moreover, with such a strong sun, it would be a waste if those mature medicinal herbs didn't get dug up and died from the heat.
However, I still have to be busy all afternoon today. Everyone else is doing it, so I have to do it too. I should at least try to fit in.
I'll try to finish this afternoon, and go through all the sweet potatoes in my plot. Then I can go up the mountain tomorrow.
Thinking about this, I don't feel so tired anymore. I took out the kudzu root powder I made, added various roasted nuts, and brewed it with boiling water. That's how I'll eat today.
After eating and drinking my fill, I set an alarm for two hours. When I got up, it was only a little past two o'clock. Getting up to work in the fields at a little past two o'clock is already considered very diligent.
I must say that a midday nap is really necessary. After a nap, you feel especially energetic all afternoon, and even if you're working non-stop in the fields, you can still handle it.
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