Chapter 442: Cold Response
Ye Mingzhu showed Uncle Yan the way and they went directly to the sweet potato field.
Zhou Jinman had been lifting the curtain to look at the scenery outside, but when she saw that it was all yellow earth outside, she asked hesitantly, "Cousin, aren't we going to eat sweet potatoes that we haven't eaten before?"
Ye Mingzhu smiled and said, "I don't know if the sweet potatoes have been harvested. Let's go to the fields first and take a look."
The carriage finally stopped at the edge of the outermost field. The sweet potatoes here had already been harvested. A tenant farmer pointed to the distance and said to Ye Mingzhu with a smile: "Village head Wu has taken people to harvest the land over there."
Ye Mingzhu looked at the sweet potatoes on the ground that had not yet been transported back and asked the tenant farmers if they had been weighed.
The tenant farmer shook his head and said he didn't know.
Ye Mingzhu, who was originally planning to take a few sweet potatoes, was now in a dilemma. What if these sweet potatoes had not been weighed yet? It would be bad if she took them now.
"Why don't we go over and take a look? I've never seen anyone harvesting sweet potatoes." Aunt Qing became interested as she looked at the piles of sweet potatoes on the ground.
Uncle Yan would definitely listen to Aunt Qing for such a small matter, and Ye Mingzhu didn't care. In the end, only Zhou Jinman and her maid were left.
The three of them followed the direction the tenant farmer had pointed and walked all the way over. Sure enough, they saw some people harvesting sweet potatoes and some weighing them.
Soon someone noticed them and stood up: "Hello, Boss."
Ye Mingzhu responded with a smile, and then saw Yu Jiaming who had just raised his head.
When Yu Jiaming saw her, he stood up immediately, but he didn't stand firmly and almost fell into the pit. It was Wu Zhuangtou beside him who helped him up.
"Mingzhu, why are you here?" He immediately realized something was wrong and changed the subject, "We have a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes on the farm this year. We just weighed them, and they're quite good."
"Yeah." Ye Mingzhu nodded coldly and looked at Wu Jiang: "Wu Zhuangtou, I think the sweet potatoes we harvested this time are very good. I want to take some to make roasted sweet potatoes, is that okay?"
Wu Jiang personally picked out some big, smooth sweet potatoes and handed them to her: "Boss, are these enough? Otherwise, I'll ask my wife to make them for you."
"No need, it's just roasted sweet potatoes, we can just make it ourselves." Ye Mingzhu refused.
Although her cooking skills are average, she can still roast a sweet potato.
She originally planned to watch here for a while, but Yu Jiaming was here, so she didn't want to watch here anymore.
She took the sweet potatoes and walked back. Uncle Yan and Aunt Qing looked at each other, said nothing, just nodded to Yu Jiaming and followed Ye Mingzhu.
Yu Jiaming knew that Ye Mingzhu was angry, but no matter whether it was his fault or not, he was the beneficiary and could only take the blame.
Xiaowu had just gone with others to transport sweet potatoes. As soon as he came back, he saw Uncle Yan and others coming out of the field.
"Uncle Yan, you're here. These are the sweet potatoes we dug out first. I heard from Village Head Wu that freshly dug sweet potatoes are especially delicious. I'll go get some for you."
Xiaowu greeted Uncle Yan happily, and then Aunt Qing and Ye Mingzhu.
Uncle Yan held up the sweet potatoes in his hand and said, "We've already got the sweet potatoes and are preparing to roast them."
"Such a big sweet potato, it must be prepared by Wu Zhuangtou for you, I want to go too." Xiao Wu said a few words to the people next to him, took the sweet potato from Uncle Yan's hand, and said with a smile: "Uncle Yan, you can't chase me away, I worked for half a day and now I'm hungry."
Uncle Yan had a good relationship with Xiao Wu. He smiled and nodded when he heard this: "You kid, you're not hungry, you just want to be lazy."
Xiao Wu actually shook his head: "Uncle Yan, how could you expose me."
A few people returned to the carriage while chatting and laughing.
Zhou Jinman was not familiar with Xiaowu, so she only greeted him in the carriage and did not come out.
Xiaowu also got on the carriage and sat on the shaft, and several people returned to the main courtyard together.
Ye Mingzhu went to wash the sweet potatoes, Xiaowu lit the fire, and Uncle Yan went to wash the rice.
Although we are eating roasted sweet potatoes, we cannot just eat roasted sweet potatoes. We still need to make some other foods.
After steaming the sweet potatoes, Ye Mingzhu suddenly remembered that she could actually steam some sweet potato buns. She could just cut the sweet potatoes into small pieces and steam them together with the fermented dough, which would definitely save food.
Aunt Qing also thought her idea was good, but it would take a little longer to steam the buns.
Xiao Wu laughed and said, "Now that we have roasted sweet potatoes, we don't have to rush to eat the sweet potato buns. We can wait."
Ye Mingzhu shook her head. Among the people who came this time, only Aunt Qing could cook. She brought Aunt Qing out to relax and have fun, not to let her be a cook.
Roasting a sweet potato and cooking porridge is not that tiring. But if you steam buns, do you also need to stir-fry a few dishes?
Anyway, they just want to eat it for fun, so the sweet potato buns can be saved for next time.
Seeing that Ye Mingzhu disagreed, Xiaowu guessed the reason and didn't say anything more.
Aunt Qing cut the sweet potatoes into small pieces, put them into the pot with the rice, buried the washed sweet potatoes in the stove, and started to light the fire.
There were too many people in the kitchen, so Aunt Qing drove Uncle Yan and Xiaowu out.
After leaving the kitchen, the smile on Uncle Yan's face immediately disappeared. Xiao Wu said flatteringly, "Uncle Yan, how many days do you plan to stay at the farm this time?"
"Xiaowu, now that you are here, both I and Hongyu have treated you well, right?" Uncle Yan's words almost implied that they were ungrateful.
Xiao Wu smiled bitterly: "Uncle Yan, you guys are very kind to us and have helped us a lot."
"You haven't even gotten the credit yet, and you're already trying to distance yourself from us." Uncle Yan almost pointed at Xiaowu's face and said that they were eating in an ugly way.
Although Uncle Yan was not there when Nanny Gui delivered the things, he quickly realized after he found out that the Yu family wanted to distance themselves from them. He was unwilling to believe that this was Yu Jiaming's idea, but it was the Yu family who did it.
"Uncle Yan, whether you believe it or not, this is not what Brother Li and I meant. We are both so grateful to you that we can't express it enough. How could you do such a thing?" Xiao Wu explained hurriedly.
Uncle Yan waved his hand and said, "You don't need to explain to me. If you do this and it gets out, everyone will know that you are trying to get rid of us."
Xiaowu certainly knew this, so he tried his best to explain it, and finally promised to help Jiang Hongyu with his promotion in the future.
Uncle Yan laughed directly: "Xiaowu, do you think Hongyu will be able to move in the next one or two years?"
Xiaowu was speechless. Of course there was a possibility that Jiang Hongyu would be promoted in the next two years, but it was really not very likely.
"Okay, I won't make things difficult for you. Since the Yu family wants to keep their distance from us, we won't cling to you."
"Uncle Yan, we are the ones holding you down." Xiao Wu had personally witnessed how Uncle Yan treated the prisoners, so he didn't dare to be rude to Uncle Yan.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore." Uncle Yan pushed Xiaowu away immediately when he saw Aunt Qing coming out to call him.
Xiaowu's eyes lit up. He could start with Aunt Qing.
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