After becoming a top-notch peasant woman, she continues to be a top-notch

When Qiao Chao returned, he explained the situation, "Let's prepare the food in the next two days, and I'll bring it over on the third day?"

Zhen Yue shook her head. "Then the vegetables won't be very fresh. Tomorrow everyone in the family will go to the vegetable garden to harvest the vegetables and bring them over early the day after tomorrow. It might be hard work."

Qiao Dashan: "Let's set off early tomorrow."

Qiao Chenshi: "Okay."

Today, Qiao Dashan and Qiao Er went up the mountain to chop firewood. They had been planning to continue making charcoal tomorrow, but there was no other way now. The important thing to do was to harvest the vegetables first.

On the second day, even Qiao San was not taken to the vegetable garden. The weather was still a little cold early in the morning, and it would only get warmer around noon.

Xiaohua and the other two also went with them, so only Zhenyue and Xiao Achu were left at home.

Zhen Yue couldn't sit idle either. She needed to wash clothes, prepare lunch after washing clothes, and take care of little Ah Chu, such as taking care of his poop and pee, feeding him, and coaxing him to sleep. After he fell asleep, she had to cook...

Thinking about everyone's hard work today, Zhen Yue cooked a little more rice and made several dishes, including fried eggs with leeks. The meat that Qiao Chao bought yesterday was made into braised pork, but the color didn't look as good without sugar. There was also fried mushrooms with minced meat, wild vegetable soup, cabbage with vinegar, and fried sour beans with minced meat.

At noon, Qiao Dashan came back driving a donkey cart. The cart was full of harvested vegetables, which looked to be about four or five hundred kilograms. The donkey cart could only carry that little bit, and the cart was still not big enough.

Xiaohua and the other two were also in the car. They jumped out of the car. Xiaohua twitched her nose and said, "It smells so good."

Xiao Cao also followed suit, "It smells like eggs."

Xiaonian: “There must be fried eggs.” Although the Qiao family can’t eat eggs every day, they can eat them at least once every few days, so they would know it as soon as they smelled it.

The three of them no longer looked timid, and when they saw Zhen Yue, they no longer looked scared, but greeted her happily, "Aunt."

Zhen Yue looked towards the door, "Where are the others?"

Xiaonian: "Mom and the others are walking at the back." After all, the donkey cart was loaded with vegetables, so they had no choice but to walk.

After a while, the others came back, and each of them had a basket of vegetables on his back.

Qiao Chao put down the backpack, pounded his shoulders, and looked at Zhen Yue. "When I came back, Mrs. Zhang saw it and kept asking questions. Maybe there will be rumors about our family again in a few days."

Zhen Yue: ...Mrs. Zhang has a big mouth!

"Wash your hands first and eat." When the enemy comes, we will fight him; when the water comes, we will block it with earth.

After a short rest after dinner, Qiao Chao went back to the fields with them.

Zhen Yue asked Xiaohua and the others to help look after Xiao Achu at home, while she went to the back of the house to burn charcoal. She made two furnaces of charcoal in total. If one furnace didn't work, maybe the other one could.

But the final result was good, both furnaces were successful, but Zhen Yue was in a very bad state. After coming here, she delegated most of the things to other people. Except for taking care of little Achu, she did most of the work herself, and the rest she gave to others.

She didn't want to be a workhorse serving her family, but now everyone else was busy, so she had to do it herself.

After returning to the front yard and washing her face, Zhen Yue went to see the child, feeding him, changing his diaper, etc. She told Xiaohua and the others to pick and wash the vegetables. After they were done, she could almost start cooking.

In the afternoon, Qiao Chao and his friends came back with another donkey cart of vegetables, which he also carried on his back. In total, there were about 1,000 kilograms of vegetables. The vegetables in the vegetable garden had been mostly harvested, and the remaining ones were not usable.

Then they fetched water for washing, and the family, who were so tired that they could not straighten their backs, could finally eat.

Zhen Yue: "We can't take all the food from two donkey carts in one go."

Qiao Dashan: "I went to the Zhong family to borrow a donkey cart." The Zhong family is a relatively wealthy family in the village, and they also have a donkey cart. The son of the Zhong family had passed the examination for a tongsheng and now seems to be in a college in the county town.

Zhen Yue didn't know much about the Zhong family. She only knew that they didn't seem to interact much with the people in the village.

Qiao Dashan: "Of course I will pay for it. Your Uncle Zhong Peng has agreed to it. Tomorrow I will drive the donkey cart with the old man."

Qiao Er: "I'll go too."

Zhen Yue nodded, "That's fine."

Qiao Chao noticed a large basket of charcoal in the corner of the kitchen. "Did you burn charcoal?"

Zhen Yue: "Yeah, I did it in the afternoon." It took her a lot of effort.

Qiao Chao also noticed the scars on her hands and glanced at her. He remembered that she would not do it if she could avoid it, but he didn't expect that she would burn so much charcoal today.

On the second day, the Qiao family took two donkey carts of vegetables and rushed to the county town early in the morning. Many people in the village had just got up, so no one saw them.

The Song family was very happy that the Qiao family sent so many dishes. They quickly gave silver and asked the servants to carry the dishes in.

Qiao Chao said to Song Tiesheng, "Maybe you won't come here often in the future." After all, it's impossible for the vegetables to grow so well in just three or five days.

Song Tiesheng: "I understand. The weather is getting colder. And the busy farming season is almost over, so you guys should go ahead and do your work first. But Brother Qiao, why don't you seem to go hunting recently?"

Qiao Chao hasn't sent any prey over for a long time.

Qiao Chao: "I didn't go because I couldn't finish the farm work at home."

Song Tiesheng, "That's true. If you have prey in the future, you can send it over."

Qiao Chao: “No problem.”

This time I made more than four taels of silver from selling vegetables. It sounds like a small amount, but in fact, more than one or two taels of silver is enough for an ordinary family to live on for a year.

After buying some food, the three of them returned home.

As soon as they arrived under the big banyan tree in the village, Mrs. Zhang saw them and shouted again, "Dashan? Did your family use the vegetables to pay off the debt?"

Qiao Dashan didn't say anything, and Qiao Er didn't know what to say.

Qiao Chao: "...Yes. Please make way."

Mrs. Zhang: "I knew it. They must have bought so many vegetables to pay off their debts. It looks like the deadline has come. How pitiful! They have to pay taxes and prepare for winter. Will the Qiao family be without vegetables to eat?"

"Who asked them to borrow money at high interest? Don't worry about it, or they will have to borrow money from us."

"you're right."

After returning home, the three grown men ate and went to sleep. They were really tired in the past two days, and they had to prepare for the harvest.

Mrs. Qiao Chen and Mrs. Qian finally made cotton-padded clothes for everyone in the family. Zhen Yue was the first one to try them on. She found them very nice and felt very warm.

Xiaohua and the other two also tried on the new clothes. They were all very happy and touched the new clothes carefully.

Qian looked at her daughter and said, "She seems a little older."

Qiao Chenshi: "Bigger is better. Children grow up fast."

Qian: “That’s right.”

In the evening, the others also tried on the new clothes and were all very happy. Qiao Chao also felt that they were very good after receiving them. In his previous life, the Weaving Department would make those special exquisite clothes for him every month, but this feeling was completely different.