As for water.

He Jijun frowned and said nothing more.

He Zhiqiang, who was listening nearby, spoke up, "The team is discussing the well right now."

"It should be our team's turn in the next two years."

"Really?" He Jidong was surprised. "With a well, we don't have to go to the river to fetch water anymore."

"It's not easy for every household to have a well," He Jijun said, "but it's not difficult either."

He Jidong didn't take it too seriously, "Yunluo City has running water, so we must not be much worse."

"In just two years, tap water will surely be available in our village."

This is what He Jidong said.

But he didn't know that he had been waiting for more than 20 years in the past two years.

It was not until the early 2000s that Hekou Village officially had running water.

At that time, he was already very old, but he could still tell the younger generations about the glorious deeds of the 1970s and 1980s.

Of course, these are all later stories and have little to do with the present.

The fish is cooked, and all that's left is the vegetables.

He Jing is very good at stir-frying vegetables, and she is so skilled that she won’t make any mistakes even with her eyes closed.

We still had sweet potato leaves for dinner, but they were all fried with garlic and tasted almost the same.

Just for something new.

The children already knew there were fish, and they all sat there eagerly, waiting obediently for dinner.

The food was on the table and the adults sat down.

He Zhiqiang looked around before picking up the chopsticks.

"Have a meal."

Everyone picked up their chopsticks.

The children were the fastest and took a large piece of fish, but few touched the vegetables.

Here, no one doesn't like meat.

Take a bite, your mouth will be filled with oil, and then go out for a walk, everyone in the village will be envious.

However, the He family was modest and low-key. They wiped their mouths after eating, and no one knew that they had meat at home.

After dinner, the women got busy, but the men were not in a hurry to go to the river to take a bath. They just sat in the yard, holding big sunflower fans and chatting.

After nightfall, the moonlight descends and the sky is full of stars.

Looking around, in the fields, the crops are green, and the frogs and insects are chirping, rising and falling.

He Jing finished taking a shower and washing her clothes, and was drying her hair in the yard.

Shi Chunlan was also busy, and after her grandchildren finished taking a bath, it was her turn.

"Are you still dizzy?" Shi Chunlan was still very concerned about He Jing.

He Jing turned around and looked, "I'm not dizzy anymore."

"I slept for an afternoon and feel much better."

"I can go to work tomorrow." He Jing said.

Shi Chunlan took a small stool and sat down nearby. There was moonlight outside the yard. Even though it could not be compared with daytime, it was brighter than the kerosene lamp.

At this time of year every year, instead of sleeping, I would sit in the yard for a while.

Or I would open the door, sit at the door, and chat with the neighbors opposite or next door.

Next to the He family is Zhou Cuihong's family. The two families have had a long-standing grudge and they don't get along with each other. They even spit at each other when they meet on the road.

That's definitely not something we can talk about.

Shi Chunlan hummed, "It's good to be able to go to work and move around."

The mother and daughter just sat there, and even if they didn't talk and were quiet, they didn't feel awkward.

He Jing enjoyed a moment of silence.

However, when the children came out of their bath, the yard became lively again.

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Once the seedlings are planted, the busy farming season is over.

But you still have to take care of it carefully.

After all, even with fertilizer, weeds are likely to grow.

In the afternoon, He Jing took a short nap and then got up.

It's summer now and the weather is hot and humid.

Her room is small and the windows are small, so the wind can hardly get in, so she can only use a large sunflower fan.

He Jing couldn't sleep and her clothes were soaked with sweat, so she had to get up, change into dry clothes, and then go to the back mountain to take a cold shower.

Zhou Qi'an had long been accustomed to He Jing's love of cleanliness, and she would always show up on time.

Seeing He Jing coming out, she leaned on a banana leaf picked from the roadside and took the basket where she put her clothes with one hand.

"It's been hot and humid recently, and more people have gone into the mountains," said Zhou Qian'an.

"If you go into the mountains, tell me, or ask your eldest or second sister-in-law to accompany you."

"If it really doesn't work, a few children can go together." Zhou Qian'an thought that if something really happened, there would be no big problem as long as the children could help deliver the message.

He Jing shook her head, "I'm not going anywhere."

"I still have to work, so I'm only free during this time." He Jing thought about how it was May, "Are there any lychee trees in the mountains?"

"Hmm?" Zhou Qian felt that the topic had changed too quickly and he couldn't react immediately, but he answered honestly, "Yes."

“But there are no lychees.”

"Then let's go check it out later." He Jing explained, "I want to see if there are any litchi mushrooms."

Zhou Qianan raised his eyebrows, "Lychee mushrooms, you have to get up early to get them."

"We have to pick them at dawn, otherwise they will be dry by noon." Zhou Qian knew this, but he didn't care about the time when the lychee mushrooms appeared.

"Besides, we have to wait until it rains, right?" Zhou Qian looked up at the sky. There were not many clouds and the sky was very blue.

It won't rain in the next few days.

"If you want to eat it, let's go pick it when it rains. You don't have to go." The mountain was slippery after the rain, and it was already dawn. If I went out so early, I wouldn't be able to sleep well.

The important thing is, if someone sees it, they might gossip about it.

He Jing thought for a moment and said, "Then pick more."

“The nutritional value of litchi mushrooms is high.”

Zhou Qian'an didn't think much about it. He felt that they were just mushrooms, and no matter how high their nutritional value was, it would definitely not be as high as meat.

He thought that he had to nourish He Jing's body again.

"After work in the afternoon, I will go to the river to see if there are any fish or shrimps."

"Can you eat crabs?" Zhou Qian asked, "This is also good for making soup."

"There are also clams. I'll pick some and you can eat more."

Zhou Qi'an can say anything in front of He Jing, but he can't stay idle, "Look at you, you've become so thin."

"I've only been gone for two days, what happened?" Zhou Qian'an frowned.

He Jing couldn't help laughing when she saw his old man look. "If you know, you are my boyfriend. If you don't know, you might think you are my stepfather."

"You keep talking so much. Even my dad doesn't talk so much."

Zhou Qi'an muttered, "How can this be the same?"

When we get married in the future, that’s the person I’ll be holding while sleeping.

It must be a little more meat so that it will be more comfortable to hug.

He is too thin. He feels uncomfortable when I hold him in my arms and he doesn’t look healthy either.

But Zhou Qian didn't say these words, because he had a hunch that He Jing would be unhappy.

As they were talking, the two of them arrived at the thatched hut again.

At this moment, there was someone in the hut, and He Jing subconsciously frowned.

Zhou Qi'an looked over and saw that it was someone from the next village. He frowned and said, "It's okay. We just do our own thing and don't bother with them."

"Wait a moment, I'll stay in the house."

"Forget it." He Jing shook her head. Her clothes were in the basket, covered and no one could see them.

"If you're not here next time, I'd also like to come. It wouldn't be safe for me if these people knew about it," He Jing explained.

Zhou Qian thought about it for a while and realized that this was the truth.

He looked at the sky and felt that it was still early, so he whispered to her, "How about going to the pig farm?"

The pig farm is your own territory.

Zhou Qian'an, don't worry.

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