Lu Yanzheng nodded, "My fields are about to be harvested, and we can't let my wife, a weak woman, do the work in the fields."
Qin Shen opened his mouth, looked at Lu Yanzheng and then at Jiang Qinyu, and wanted to say: General, you have left your wife at home for six years. Isn't it too late to say this now?
But he didn't say it out loud. He just ate breakfast reluctantly and went to the county town alone.
Jiang Qinyu tidied up in the kitchen, Lu Yanzheng went back to the house to change clothes, and the two children packed their things in the yard.
"Brother, I want to help today too!" Pan'er clenched her fist, her little face full of "Don't underestimate me."
Shufan smiled and nodded, "Yes! Auntie has agreed. We can follow behind the adults and pick up the sweet potatoes they didn't find and put them in our baskets."
They had eaten a lot of sweet potatoes before. Besides cooking sweet potatoes in porridge, their aunt would sometimes make roasted sweet potatoes for them, but they didn't know where sweet potatoes grew before.
Pan'er pursed her lips and giggled, "If I can't carry it anymore, I'll put the sweet potatoes from my basket into my uncle's basket. He's strong."
"You're so clever," Shu Fan laughed, "but your uncle won't hold it against us."
Over the past few days, he has become more familiar with Lu Yanzheng and knows that he is not the kind of person who would hold a grudge. Moreover, he is very protective of his own. No matter how much trouble the second branch of the family makes, Lu Yanzheng always protects them.
Thinking about all this, Shu Fan's smile faded a bit. He really couldn't understand what was wrong with Lu Tianbao's brain. He knew that his uncle didn't like him, but he still always tried to get close to his uncle. Sigh!
"Shufan, what's wrong? Why are you frowning like that, kid? Be careful you don't frown so much that you'll grow old and then you won't be able to find a wife!" Jiang Qinyu came out of the kitchen and happened to see Shufan frowning, so she laughed and teased him a bit.
Although Shufan was young, he understood what she meant, and awkwardly called out "Auntie," then defended himself, "I don't frown all the time..."
"Alright, alright, I was just kidding. Have you both taken your things?" Jiang Qinyu began checking the two little ones' belongings.
The weather has been a bit strange lately. It's very dry, but the air is freezing. The children wanted to go to the fields with her, so she prepared hand warmers and heat packs for them.
The children stick the hand warmers on their bodies and take them off when they get hot while working. If it's still cold outside, the children have to find a sheltered spot to hold the hand warmers to keep warm.
In addition, Jiang Qinyu also prepared children's water cups, folding stools, snacks, etc. for the two of them. In order not to be noticed, she also put a coarse cloth bag over the water cup.
In short, she disguised everything she took out of the supermarket to some extent, so that even if someone saw it, she could have an explanation.
Her own life was much simpler; she could manage with just a basket on her back and a folding entrenching tool.
At this moment, Lu Yanzheng opened the door and came out.
Jiang Qinyu turned around and saw Lu Yanzheng dressed in shorts, with the cuffs of his trousers tightly tucked in, and a dark blue belt around his waist, tucking all the excess fabric into his trousers.
But this also fully revealed his lean and muscular physique, with broad shoulders and narrow hips. If you didn't look at his face, he would be a strong and handsome man.
Judging by his appearance... he's a handsome, masculine scholar.
No wonder the villagers had such a deep impression of Lu Yanzheng. Putting aside everything else, no one could easily forget his face.
"Do you have a hoe at home that I use?" Lu Yanzheng looked around and found that there were no farm tools that he could use.
Jiang Qinyu and her two nieces, however, each had something in their hands.
Lu Yanzheng's gaze lingered on the small shovel in Jiang Qinyu's hand for a few moments, then shifted to Shufan and Pan'er, where he saw that they were both holding small hand rakes.
"Go borrow it from Dad. You weren't home before, so..." Jiang Qinyu smiled apologetically.
The items the children were holding were purchased by her from the system's in-game store, and she had spent a huge amount of points to unlock new purchase slots just a couple of days ago.
However, fearing that Lu Yanzheng would ask questions, she did not prepare farm tools for him.
Lu Yanzheng nodded in understanding and headed towards Old Man Lu's house.
A short while later, he came out carrying a pair of baskets on one shoulder with a hoe.
"Let's go, let's go to our field first," Lu Yanzheng said.
He didn't know the way, so Jiang Qinyu and the others led the way.
Jiang Qinyu had an indescribable feeling when she saw him like this. Logically speaking, given Lu Yanzheng's aura, this outfit should not suit him at all, but the fact was quite the opposite.
Lu Yanzheng, carrying baskets, looked like a god who had accidentally wandered into a pastoral oil painting, as if he could break out of the painting at any moment.
Just as Jiang Qinyu composed herself and was about to leave, the gate to the Chen family's courtyard next door opened.
Chen Shao and Aunt Qin's family also came out with their tools.
"Ah Zheng, Ah Zheng's wife, are you going to the fields too?" Aunt Qin greeted them with a smile.
When Chen Shao saw Lu Yanzheng, his eyes lit up and he immediately rushed to Lu Yanzheng's side, asking him all sorts of questions with admiration.
Chen Hong ran over to Jiang Qinyu's side; she wouldn't have wanted to leave if Aunt Qin hadn't urged her.
But there was one exception.
The moment Liu Ruyi saw Lu Yanzheng, her eyes fell on him.
"General Lu, my daughter would also like to go to the fields today. May I join you?" Liu Ruyi looked at Lu Yanzheng with affectionate eyes.
Lu Yanzheng didn't even look at her, and called out to Jiang Qinyu, "Qinqin, it's getting late, let's go."
Jiang Qinyu suppressed a laugh and glanced at Liu Ruyi, but didn't say anything to her. She only replied to Lu Yanzheng, "Okay, Uncle Village Chief and the others are probably already waiting for us in the fields."
Today is the first harvest of the high-yield grain. Village Chief Li and others had already discussed it beforehand: they would first go to Jiang Qinyu's field to harvest, and then go to the other families who had grown sweet potatoes.
Sure enough, when Jiang Qinyu and the others arrived at the field, Village Chief Li and Grandpa Jiang were already waiting for them.
"Oh dear niece, why are you only arriving now? Grandpa Jiang has been waiting impatiently!" Village Chief Li said with a smile, seemingly complaining.
Grandpa Jiang objected upon hearing this, "Ah Yuan, don't talk nonsense. You weren't among the people who were anxious just now, were you? Who among us doesn't want to know how much sweet potato we can get?"
"Hehe, Grandpa is right, shall we begin?" Village Chief Li didn't say much and quickly urged Jiang Qinyu to start.
Jiang Qinyu gave instructions on how to dig sweet potatoes, and then Village Chief Li led the people to start digging.
Lu Yanzheng and Jiang Qinyu naturally joined in as well, but as they sat close together, Lu Yanzheng's gaze repeatedly fell on the small shovel in Jiang Qinyu's hand.
The shovel that he thought was small when he went out has now become about the same length as a normal farm tool, and Jiang Qinyu, a woman, uses it without any effort.
Where did she get that shovel?
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