Chapter 283 Every Grain of Rice is Hard-earned
Juanjuan looked up and saw Siming walking towards her. She forgot that she was still in the mud and ran towards him anxiously.
“Dad!”
Siming looked at his little girl with a smile. Just as he was about to say something, he saw his body lean forward and was about to fall down due to an unstable center of balance.
He ran over quickly, put one hand under her leaning body, and caught her steadily to prevent her from falling into the mud puddle again and getting her mouth full of mud.
Juanjuan hugged his arm, tilted her head and looked at him with a smile: "Dad!"
Siming walked to the field and helped her straighten up: "You are already a four-year-old girl, and you can't even walk steadily."
"Hehe!" Juanjuan didn't care at all and laughed happily.
"Dad!" Si Jinchen also saw him, and pulled his feet out of the mud with difficulty and walked towards him.
Siming took Juanjuan and walked a few steps towards him: "Are you still getting used to it?"
"I've adapted, learned a lot, and realized the hard work of growing crops." Although Si Jinchen doesn't waste food on weekdays.
But when he started planting the crops himself, he realized what it meant to have every grain of rice harvested be hard-earned.
Siming used his clean hands to wipe away the mud on his face: "Let's go, we'll go together."
"Okay." The two children were next to him.
Old Madam Si looked at him with a smile, then looked at Si Tian who was sitting under the shade of a tree.
She was probably afraid that I would worry, so she brought Sitian here specifically for her to see!
"A Ming, have you guys dealt with everything?"
"Mom, there's nothing to do now, but the person hasn't left yet, so we may be busy for a while." Siming briefly explained the situation.
"You haven't been to the fields for a long time!" Old Madam Si threw him a handful of seedlings.
"Yeah! I miss it quite a bit." Siming said as he untied the rope and started planting rice.
The people nearby had just seen it. They all knew Governor Si, but when they saw him working in the fields, it seemed unreal to them.
"What did he just call that old lady?"
"Okay, it seems to be Mum."
"Hiss!" There was a sound of people gasping for breath all around.
"Those two kids seem to call him Dad!"
"Have we offended them recently?" The people began to think nervously about what they had done recently.
Adjutant Min had also gone down to the fields and heard the people around him talking: "The governor is not that kind of person. You just need to do your job well."
"Yes, yes, yes." The people did not dare to say more, and quickly bent down and began to work seriously.
Before, everyone was talking and laughing in the fields, and the work was easy. But today, when Sima Ming came, the atmosphere became especially quiet, and no one even spoke.
Jiang Ze just smiled and shook his head when he saw this. It was normal for them to be afraid and worried since they had never met the Si family.
Seeing so many people in the field, Si Tian turned to the driver who came with him and said, "Go to the city and buy some delicious food. It should be convenient and rich in content, preferably with meat."
"Master, how much do you want to buy?" The driver was about to leave when he remembered something and turned around to ask.
"It's enough for the people here to eat. Buy more." Siming said as he took out the money and handed it to him.
"Okay! I'll go now." The driver took the money and immediately ran to buy things.
"Dad! Have you ever done farm work before?" Juanjuan bent over and turned to look at Siming.
"Yes! Your grandfather didn't want us to be ignorant of the different kinds of crops, so when we were about the same age as Achen, we had to start learning a lot of things."
"Learning to read, practicing martial arts, and doing farm work is actually pretty much the same as you are now."
"When our husband gives us a day off, we come to help in the fields. We come less often after the rice planting, but we always come during the autumn harvest."
"Those were the happiest days for the people. Seeing the fields filled with yellow rice ears, they knew their hard work for the whole year had paid off."
Siming recalled the scene at that time, everyone's face was filled with happiness and joy.
For the people, being able to eat enough and having a good harvest is their greatest wish.
Juanjuan didn't quite understand what she heard, but she realized that these green seedlings in the field were very important.
Old Madam Si watched the father and his two sons planting rice, and remembered that when they were young, they also brought their children to the fields to plant rice.
But later the situation became increasingly unstable, and they rarely accompanied their children to the fields to plant rice.
She felt her face was a little wet, and she raised her sleeve to wipe her face, only to find that she had actually shed tears.
Seeing that no one noticed, she quickly wiped away her tears with her sleeve and said, "I'm going to take a rest."
Siming stood up and looked at her: "Mom, go to the shade of the tree where Sitian is. It's cooler there."
"Well. You take the two little ones to plant rice first." Old Madam Si walked to the edge of the field and walked towards Si Tian.
Si Tian had been looking at this side the whole time, so he saw clearly when Madam Si raised her hand to wipe her tears.
"Mom."
"I'm old now and can't compare to when I was young." Old Madam Si sat next to him.
"Mom, do you miss Dad?" Si Tian turned his head to look at the person sitting next to him.
"You saw it after all." Old Madam Si did not deny it and smiled as she looked at the father and his two sons in the field.
"Seeing them reminds me of the time when I took you to work in the fields. Ah Ming and Ah Chen were both very serious, but you were very cunning. Si Ning was always the most careful."
"Agu just needs to use a ruler to measure the size of the insertion, and there are also Xiaojiu and Pihou." She said with a smile on her face.
Those scenes seem very far away, yet seem like they happened just yesterday, and each one has never left me.
Si Tian put his arm around her shoulders and said, "Dad will definitely be happy to see the current Beiyang City."
"Yeah. I hope Beiyang City will get better and better." She reached out and patted his arm.
"I asked someone to buy some food at noon. As soon as my brother came, everyone became reserved and no one dared to speak in the fields." Si Tian changed the subject.
"I've noticed it even if you didn't tell me. I'm afraid they'll be reserved when we come next time." Old Madam Si said with some disgust.
She used to have a lot of fun chatting with the elderly people here, but I’m afraid no one will want to chat with her anymore in the future.
"What are you doing here?" She felt upset just thinking about it.
Si Tian touched his nose: "We just want to help."
"I think you are here to make things worse." Old Madam Si sighed.
She finally didn't have to chat with those people in the city with fake smiles, but with the arrival of these two unlucky children, she was afraid that she would have no one to chat with.
During the lunch break, Siming brought the two children out from the field and washed the mud off their hands.
Seeing that his mother looked unhappy, he looked at Si Tian and asked: Did you make your mother unhappy?
Si Tian just wanted to laugh: It was you who offended my mother, not me.
"Master, I bought the things." At this time, the driver ran over and broke the strange silence.
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