Traveling through the ages with the hotel, being doted on by four brothers

Chapter 198 Treat Her as a Pocket
The school had not yet closed for the holiday, so after distributing the food, the school started classes as usual. When Xia Chan was not driving the tractor, he went into the mountains to look for things in the morning and went to school to teach in the afternoon.

The brothers were not idle either. They took turns digging the reservoir, chopping wood and picking mountain products in the mountains... The yard was filled with things drying every day. The more things there were, the happier they were, because the more they did, the less the summer cicadas would have to do.

After the stream dried up, the fish business came to a halt because there was no place to catch fish. However, the brothers went into the mountains to hunt small game, and they also had pheasants and quails at home, so they still went to the city every few days to sell things.

Although their income has dropped sharply, it is still good overall and they can still get a lot of money, so they are not greedy.

Xia Chan originally thought that after she wrote back a letter of rejection, Yuan Bingchao would give up, but she didn't expect that Yuan Bingchao would write to her again just a few days after school started. His intransigence and stubbornness made Xia Chan feel very uncomfortable.

It’s like he is a goat and Yuan Bingchao is a wolf, and the wolf will never give up until it eats the goat.

But Yuan Bingchao loves himself more. When he got married, he didn't care much about his wife and children. Some people just need a wife and children to prove that someone wants him, that he is fertile, and that his family is harmonious and happy. If he can manage his own family, he can naturally do any job.

Just talking about this person, Yuan Bingchao is naturally excellent, but he rationally only loves himself. Such a person is really not suitable for marriage and living together. Anyway, Xia Chan will never consider him, not to mention that she doesn't like him.

Xia Chan knew that this was not a solution, so she sent a letter directly to Xiao Yunfan. Her dream had saved Xiao Yunfan and so many people in his team. She asked him to do her a small favor. He shouldn't refuse, right?

She directly said that Yuan Bingchao's behavior has affected the lives of ordinary people, and she hoped that as a leader, he could properly restrain his subordinates and not let down the people's love for them.

Xia Chan wrote the letter and went to the post office to mail it the next morning. The earlier she sent it, the sooner it would reach Xiao Yunfan’s hands. Otherwise, she was really afraid that Mrs. Yuan and Yuan Bingchao would take her as their own.

She could understand Mrs. Yuan's desire for a good daughter-in-law. She wanted to find a kind and filial daughter-in-law so that their lives would be better when they were old and there would also be someone who could help her daughter.

Although she understood, Xia Chan didn't want Mrs. Yuan to focus her attention on her.

November soon arrived after the autumn harvest. Xia Chan asked her brothers to help her dig up the yams left over from last year. As for the yams newly planted with yam beans last year, they were not dug up because it was the first year and the yams would not be that big. So it was better to let the new yams grow more!
Just dig up some old yams.

Xia Chan began to dig cassava. She had to finish digging the cassava on her own hill first, so that she could take everyone to dig cassava on the hills in the village. Otherwise, if everyone got to know the cassava leaves and then saw the cassava on her hill, they would understand everything.

In this way, one person dug for more than half a month and finally finished digging about two acres of cassava. All the cassava stalks were spread on the ground to dry. Those that had been dried were moved to the woodshed, and those that were not dry were left outside to continue drying.

After that, Xia Chan spent another day picking persimmons from the persimmon tree near the swamp. She occasionally went over to water it, so the persimmon tree had a high yield and large fruits. The tree was of good quality. Last year, Xia Chan also cut branches and used cuttings to cultivate them. Now there are several small persimmon trees nearby. Xia Chan plans to transplant the persimmon seedlings in a few years. After all, these are the seedlings she cultivated herself. If they are planted here all the time and discovered by others, they will become collective assets.

This year was dry and rainy, so the summer cicada left some more persimmons for the birds. But this year she took good care of the persimmons, so she picked about 300 kilograms of persimmons, leaving dozens of them to ripen and eat the soft ones, and peeled the rest to dry in the sun as persimmon cakes.

In Xia Chan's yard, all kinds of mountain products were drying on winnowing baskets and cattail mats.

It's not just their family, other diligent families in the team are almost the same. Maybe they just don't have as much stuff as Xia Chan's family. After all, Xia Chan has four older brothers who are stockpiling goods together!

The housework was almost done, and Xia Chan felt that it was almost time to hand in the cassava. That morning, after going down the mountain, Xia Chan called a few families with whom he had good relations, and went to the team leader's house together.

The captain's family was shocked to see such a scene. They thought Xia Chan was looking for someone to support her!
"Uncle Captain, Aunt Lin, please come with me." Xia Chan didn't explain much, just said one sentence, and then led everyone to continue walking. Seeing this, the captain thought something had happened, so he quickly got off the kang with Aunt Lin, put on his shoes, and caught up with the main group.

Everyone followed Xia Chan up the mountain and came to the road that the winter hunting team had to pass. In front of everyone, Xia Chan dug out a cassava, broke off a root, peeled it, took a bite, and started eating it.

She grew sweet cassava, a northern variety that was improved in later generations. It is non-toxic and can be eaten raw without soaking for a long time.

"This is..." the captain asked in surprise, "Is this the cassava you gave everyone last year?"

"I found last year's cassava on the mountain, but there were not many, so I gave some to everyone. This year's cassava was planted with last year's cassava. I planted more than ten acres, and the yield should be tens of thousands of kilograms."

One or two trees can be said to have been found on the mountain, but with such a large area, if you say they grew on their own, no one will believe it. Instead of waiting for the leaders to come down and investigate, it is better to explain it proactively.

What's more, she did this so that everyone could fill their stomachs. She believed that the leaders had brains and could think, and would not arbitrarily punish those who did practical things for everyone.

Xia Chan whispered to the captain, "Uncle Captain, the next thing is up to you to handle. As for how to tell the outside world, you can say that this is an experiment done by the two of us. We just started planting and don't know the results. We are also afraid that everyone will be disappointed, so we chose to hide it from everyone."

The captain was pleasantly surprised. He really didn't expect that Xia Chan had done so much quietly. He patted Xia Chan on the shoulder and said seriously, "Don't worry, Xiao Chan. I will take care of anything and will never let you take any risks."

"Uncle captain, after digging out the cassava, you have to keep some for seeds. Bury the cut cassava stems in the soil, cover them with straw and then cover them with soil, that's it." Xia Chan was afraid that the captain would distribute all the cassava to everyone at once, so she would have to spend money to buy them again next year.