novelaction Chapter 198 Harvesting Sugarcane
Chapter 198 Harvesting Sugarcane
Seeing that this was a year of bumper harvest, Sun Ruhua was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling.
After she sorted out the food from the granary, Xie Jiaojiao took her upstairs again.
Sun Ruhua thought she was mysterious.
"what happened?"
Xie Jiaojiao pushed her in front of the dressing table in her room: "Mom, I have a lot of things here. I've been busy since I came back and haven't had time to give them to you."
As she spoke, Xie Jiaojiao took out a makeup box and placed it in front of Sun Ruhua.
Sun Ruhua was amazed.
"Mom, this is all for you."
"All for me?"
Xie Jiaojiao nodded, and Sun Ruhua looked at the box full of things: "This must be a lot of money, right?"
Xie Jiaojiao took out the white jade hairpin that Jiang Weinan had taken from Li Qiuhe's head before and put it directly on Sun Ruhua's head.
"Mom, look, how beautiful is it?"
Sun Ruhua couldn't help but look at herself in the mirror, her hands rubbing her hair, she said, "My mother is half buried in the ground, why are you buying her all these good things!"
"What are you talking about? I'm busy with business all day long, and you run the house and the outside world, which is harder than me. Even if I pay you wages, it's more than this. And as your daughter, isn't it my duty to buy you some jewelry?"
Then he put his hand on Sun Ruhua's shoulder and said with a smile: "Mom, look, how beautiful she is, like the wife of a wealthy family!"
Sun Ruhua looked at herself in the mirror shyly: "What's the point of being madam or not! Mother is blessed by you!" As she said that, she patted the back of Xie Jiaojiao's hand, and her eyes became red.
"It would be great if your father were still alive. He suffered all his life and passed away without even thinking about the blessings of his grandchildren..."
"Mom, we don't want to think about those happy things. I also bought you a lot of new clothes. Take a look. You can wear them with jewelry when the time comes."
Sun Ruhua stood up hurriedly: "No, no, no! These are enough for me. You can pick up the remaining jewelry and wear them yourself. The same goes for clothes. You usually don't even want to dress up. You don't have to make them for me!"
However, Xie Jiaojiao refused and brought out a pile of new clothes, saying that they had all been bought and if she didn't want to wear them, she would have to give them away.
Sun Ruhua had no choice but to carry her clothes and jewelry back to her room.
When she got into the house, she couldn't let go of the clothes and jewelry.
She kept muttering, "Old man, look at how amazing our daughter is! She bought all of these for me. These clothes are so comfortable to the touch, and these jewelry are so pretty!"
"Zhiyi is also an apprentice in the clinic. It seems that life is getting better and better..."
At the end, he wiped away his tears and said, "It would be great if you were still here!"
After saying that, she put away her clothes and jewelry.
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Since the autumn harvest, work in the fields has never stopped!
Everyone knows that Xie Jiaojiao's family harvests soybeans, so there are fewer people planting sweet potatoes in the fields and more people planting soybeans.
Every day I am busy harvesting food from the fields so that I can sell it at a good price!
Once the soybeans in the field are harvested and sold to the Xie family, the family will have extra income!
Xie Jiaojiao was also busy. She had to find a place to store the soybeans she had collected, and she was also thinking of finding someone to help her expand the space at the warehouse!
Once the soybeans are harvested, they become cold.
Gao Shen also came at this time.
Someone brought a letter here before.
Xie Jiaojiao prepared the dried mushrooms and fermented tofu early in the morning.
She personally selected the mushrooms and taught Chunxiang and the others how to make fermented tofu.
After everything is ready, just wait for him to take it away.
On the day Gao Shen arrived, Xie Jiaojiao asked, "Boss Gao, why is it so early this year?"
She remembered that when Gao Shen came last year, she had already finished making the brown sugar!
Gao Shen said, "Don't call me Boss Gao. This is our second business venture. We will be acquaintances from now on. I'm older than you, so just call me Brother Gao."
Xie Jiaojiao nodded: "Brother Gao."
Gao Shen then explained: "The weather is getting colder this year than in previous years. We need to go back earlier, otherwise we will run into a heavy snowstorm on the way and the things will break. Once the things break, all our work for the year will be in vain."
"Then wait a moment. I have already prepared the things. I will have someone move them to the carriage for you."
Gao Shen nodded, and then asked, "Did the young man who helped you at home go to the county town to be your shopkeeper?"
"Have you met Boss Gao?"
"I have seen him. When I first saw him, I knew he was a capable guy!"
"It seems that Boss Gao thinks highly of him!"
Gao Shen smiled and said, "I just feel that the energy in him is very similar to that of me when I was young. Don't worry, girl. I will definitely not steal your man!"
Then laughed a few times.
Xie Jiaojiao smiled bitterly: She didn't mean that. On the contrary, if Tian Hu was willing, she also hoped that he could go out and see the world!
After packing the things, Xie Jiaojiao invited him to have dinner. Gao Shen waved his hand:
"I have to leave as soon as possible. Only when I bring these things back early can I feel at ease!"
Seeing him say this, Xie Jiaojiao didn't want to keep him any longer. She turned back to the house and filled him with a piece of brown sugar: "Take it back for your sister-in-law to try."
Gao Shen took a look and smiled: "It's cold over there. Your sister-in-law loves this in winter. She said that drinking it with water can warm her body up."
"As long as my sister-in-law likes it."
Then he bowed to Gao Shen and said, "Brother Gao, have a safe journey."
Gao Shen also bowed and said, "Sister, see you later!"
Then he mounted his horse and left with his caravan.
After seeing Gao Shen off, Xie Jiaojiao took the silver he gave her back into the house and put it away, changed her clothes, and went to the warehouse.
Everyone is still picking soybeans.
Xie Jiaojiao said: "Everyone, please stop what you are doing for a while."
Everyone quickly put down their work and walked up to Xie Jiaojiao.
Wang Long asked, "What's the matter, Master?"
Xie Jiaojiao pointed at the soy sauce jars in the field and said, "Come on, everyone, help move these jars together and make some space. I can use them!"
In one afternoon, half of the venue was vacated.
Xie Jiaojiao notified everyone about the sugarcane harvest the next day!
The whole village was in an uproar.
The village chief was a little puzzled and ran to Xie Jiaojiao's house: "It's still half a month before the sugarcane harvest last year! Can it be harvested?"
Xie Jiaojiao nodded: "It's okay to harvest. It got cold too quickly this year. If it's any later, it will be difficult to transport the brown sugar out for sale!"
When she said this, everyone immediately became anxious.
Xie Jiaojiao asked everyone to be quiet: "We can start collecting from today. We still have time. Now I will arrange the order of collection!"
Xie Jiaojiao started from her own home and arranged them in this order all the way to the end of the village. Seeing that the fire was of no use, they all worked together to harvest sugarcane.
Xie Jiaojiao brought out the equipment for squeezing sugarcane, and this year she went to the town to buy a few more.
Seeing the extra equipment for squeezing sugarcane, Niu Fusheng sighed slightly, thinking about the incident when Li Lihua stole Xie Jiaojiao's soy sauce. Xie Jiaojiao said that she would never ask him to make furniture or anything like that again. Unexpectedly, she really didn't ask him for anything in the past year!
In this year, he saw her family bringing new furniture back from town several times...
If he were the one to fight all these things, he could make a lot of money!
Of course Li Lihua also saw it, and when she got home she said, "This Xie Jiaojiao is such a jerk, she won't let us do any work! Your mother even helped them before!"
Niu Fusheng smoked a pipe and exhaled a puff of smoke: "Okay, you know why she didn't look for me!"
Li Lihua threw the handkerchief in her hand and said, "Then you still blame me. Even if I took her things, it was for our family! She is so stingy that she couldn't even give us a small bottle of soy sauce!"
Niu Fusheng couldn't stand her nonsense, so he smoked a few cigarettes and went to the field to help cut sugarcane.
Li Lihua was so angry that she kicked the basin in the yard, causing it to spin around. Her foot also hurt so much that her mouth was agape...
Some people are cutting sugarcane in the fields, some are transporting it, some are pressing sugarcane in the fields, and some are boiling it!
Although tired, everyone had smiles on their faces and the whole village was filled with laughter. The adults worked hard in the fields, the older children helped to deliver water and meals, and the younger children played and laughed on the edge of the field!
Jiang Weinan was sitting in the room on the second floor, watching this harmonious scene and calling Lai Fu.
"Go and get my calligraphy, young master!"
"What is it used for, Master?"
Jiang Weinan kicked him directly and said, "When did I need your help in what I did?"
Lai Fu went away, covering his butt.
It was just sunset at this time. Jiang Weinan picked up his brush and could not help but paint everything he saw.