Splendid Pastoral: Space farmers are good for farming

Chapter 22
Yao Jinfang believed it just like that, and said pleasantly: "So you really can change! Kikyo, you are really amazing, okay, I won't tell others!"

Kikyo said: "Don't even tell your mother!"

Yao Jinfang said: "Of course, I won't tell her. She's not at home all day, and she won't ask me these things!"

Kikyo felt relieved and said, "Okay, then let's go back."

After speaking, she took the beets out of the basket, and put back the wild duck eggs she had picked out, including the one that was not brought into the space, and fell out completely, and she put them in together.

Worrying about crushing the duck eggs, she didn't put the beets back in. She and Yao Jinfang carried them with their hands, and they walked towards the village together.

When the two came to the door of Jijiao's house, Mrs. Chen happened to come out from the yard of Jijiao's house.Kikyo looked at her suspiciously, not understanding why she ran to her house every other day.

Chen could never tell the difference between Bellflower and Zanthoxylum bungeanum, even if it was obvious that Bellflower was coming back from work, she couldn't tell. She stared at the beet in Bellflower's hand and asked, "Zanthoxylum, are you growing beets in your field?"

Kikyo didn't bother to correct her anymore, and said angrily: "What's wrong, my family is not allowed to grow it, what are you doing at my house, my mother is gone, who are you going to talk to?"

Chen stared and said angrily: "Hey, you girl, your family doesn't allow me to come, your mother is gone and your milk is still there, so I can't come and see your milk!"

After speaking, he twisted his buttocks and went out in a high spirited manner.

Ji Jiao glanced back at her, turned around and entered the courtyard with Yao Jinfang, Yao Jinfang put down the beets and went home.

Ji Jiao entered the room and asked Fen Xiang, "Sister, Ma'am, we always come to our house these days, are we keeping an eye on our few taels of silver?"

Fennel didn't care much, and said, "No, Dad left the money with Nanny, and Nanny won't give it to her, so maybe she will still grab it."

Kikyo was still worried, and asked, "Then what did she say today?"

Fennel said: "I don't know either, she talked to grandma and didn't let me listen."

Don't let me listen?Suspicious, Kikyo went into the small back room and wanted to ask grandma, but she saw grandma sitting on the kang with her eyes wide open, as if she had something on her mind.

"Grandma, what are you thinking?" She asked in a low voice.

Grandma came back to her senses, her dull eyes were a little bright, and she said in a disguised way: "It's nothing, Grandma just sits for a while."

"Oh..." Jugeng looked at it, climbed onto the kang, squeezed Grandma's shoulders, and asked, "Grandma, what are you doing here today? I heard she was talking to Mother."

Grandma was silent again. After a long time, she raised her hand and patted her little hand, saying: "Jiangyou, Grandma knows that you are the most sensible among the granddaughters. You are motherless now, and you should be more sensible in the future!"

Kikyo didn't react, and asked, "Grandma, what are you talking about?"

Grandma Qiao didn't continue talking, she lay down on her crooked body, and said, "It's nothing, my grandma is tired, I want to lie down for a while, you go and cook for your sister."

Seeing that grandma was in a bad mood, Ji Jiao said "oh", and went down to the kang to help fennel cook.

After dinner, grandma called Dad into the back room to talk, the two of them spoke in a very low voice, and Kikyo and Eldest Sister were too busy cleaning beet heads and boiling syrup to make sugar, so they didn't have time to listen carefully.

The process of making sugar is very complicated. After working for most of the night, the syrup is ready, and the tired and sleepy platycodon and fennel go to bed.

The next morning, my father didn't go out to work, he changed into clean clothes and lay down on the kang at home.

Platycodon and fennel didn't pay attention, they were busy making sugar again, while the gluttonous peppercorns and kidney beans watched from the side, occasionally reaching out their fingers to poke some in their mouths to taste.

While busy with work, Mrs. Chen came again, and this time it wasn't just herself, she was also accompanied by a woman with two children.

The woman had no flesh on her cheeks, small cheekbones, raised chin, and a trowel face.She held a three or four-year-old boy in her arms, followed by a seven-or-eight-year-old boy. As she walked, she looked at the dilapidated courtyard of Kikyo's house. Although she didn't say anything, she could see it from the eyes It can be seen that the eyes are full of disgust.

Walking up to the four Kikyo sisters, he muttered in a low voice: "So many children..."

Chen Shi laughed dryly in front, pretending not to hear clearly, and led her into the house.

Kikyo looked wrong, and asked, "Sister, who is that?"

Fennel also looked at it for a long time, then shook her head and said, "I don't know, maybe some distant relative."

Kikyo didn't look right, so she put down her work and went into the kitchen to eavesdrop.

I just heard Mrs. Chen in the room introducing her to her father and grandma: "This is the sister of the Fang family I was talking about. She is 28 this year, and she is also a poor person. The man died of tuberculosis, leaving their mother and child unaccounted for..."

Grandma and dad hurriedly said to people: "Sit down, sit down quickly, put the baby down and play..."

The woman seemed to see the apricot malt on the kang, and asked, "Why are there two more here? I see four children outside, all of which belong to the second brother of the Qiao family?"

Dad didn't speak, but grandma said: "Oh, yes, these children are also suffering. Their mothers were beaten to death, and all of them lost their mothers, big and small. They just need someone who can take care of them..."

Hearing this bellflower, he finally understood, it turned out that Mrs. Chen proposed marriage for her father, that is, she found a stepmother for her sister!
Although I am very adaptable, I will survive and live well with anyone, but it is too chilling for my father to marry again before my mother died a hundred days ago...

Disappointed, she walked out of the house and went to work silently beside Fenix.

Fenix ​​asked: "San'er, what did you hear when you entered the room? Who is that woman?"

Kikyo didn't say a word, and continued to cut her sugar cubes. Zanthoxylum bungeanum and Kidney Bean reached out to pinch the sugar shards again. Kikyo gave them two pieces each, and said, "Eat, eat more."

Fennel was surprised and said: "San'er, what are you doing, this is for Chinese New Year, and for grandma and malt!"

Kikyo said: "It's okay, I'll do it when I don't have anything left, and feed it to my sister, it's better than filling someone else's stomach..."

Although Fang was full of reluctance, her natal family and husband's family had no one, and she was eager to find someone to rely on, so she reluctantly agreed to marry Qiao Mandun.

Fennel and Shan Xing felt as if the sky had fallen when they found out. The two older ones thought too much, and the stepmother brought two oil bottles with her. The sisters must not have a good life.Bellflower and Zanthoxylum's mentality is much better than the two of them. Zanthoxylum is muddleheaded and ignorant, but Bellflower is off the hook. No matter what, this is still my own home, and I have my sisters, grandma, and dad. It's better to be at home than to be given away. good.

So she still has to do what she should do and continue to live her own life.

Fang's remarriage is not qualified to make a fuss. On the day of marriage, she carried a small bundle and brought two children with her, and accompanied by Chen's, entered the gate of Qiao's house.

Mrs. Chen put a lot of effort into hoarding Zhang Luo's daughter-in-law for Qiao Man. Of course, she couldn't work in vain. In the end, she had to take a tael of silver from Grandma Qiao before she was satisfied.

(End of this chapter)