Quick Wear: Men Farming and Women Weaving

Spring turned into winter, and a long time passed. Qi Xuanyi, who was searching for a medicinal herb among the vines and weeds, has grown into an adult. He is now a fourteen-year-old boy, wearing a short suit made of rough cloth. He has delicate features and looks more like his mother. He is over 1.7 meters tall.

I found a plant among the weeds and dead leaves. It was only as big as my palm. I carefully dug it out and put it in the basket on my back.

He walked carefully to the edge of the cliff, took out a rope and tied it to a tree, then climbed all the way to the halfway point of the cliff.

It turned out that he was collecting honey.

Over the years, Qi Xuanyi made a lot of money by selling the herbs and prey he collected from the mountains to restaurants and pharmacies in the nearby county.

The honey at the bottom of the cliff has recovered a lot this year after being harvested last year.

Qi Xuanyi carefully avoided the bees. Although the Qilin jade pendant prevented mosquitoes from approaching, she was still afraid of angering the bees.

I took out a plastic bucket from the space, cut the honey and put it in the bucket. I cut about 20 kilograms of honey and stopped cutting any more, leaving it for next time.

He happily returned to the cave, processed the honey, took out a clay jar to put the honey in, and kept almost two kilograms for himself to drink. He planned to give the rest of the honey to the old doctor in the pharmacy.

A lot of things were added to the cave, some of which he bought from outside, and some of which he made himself. Since he grew up, he could do more things.

To celebrate his birthday at noon, he dug out the flour and ingredients for making a cake in his space, made a small cake by himself, used an electric rice cooker to make the cake base, spread cream on it, and put a lot of fruits and his favorite food on it.

Dishes such as fried chicken with chestnuts, Longjing shrimp, West Lake vinegar fish, and fish head soup were made in the space kitchen.

For the sake of ceremony, I set up a round table in the cave, opened a bottle of red wine, placed a big cake in the middle and lit 14 small candles. After blowing out the candles, I ate a big piece of cake and felt that the cake I made was a success.

I ate a few bites of West Lake shrimps and West Lake vinegar fish with nostalgia. Although they were not very authentic, they did have the flavor of the tomb-robbing world of my previous life.

"Miss, the master and his wife are arranging a birthday party for you now."

"Hmph, I don't want to go." Ye Jiaojiao was a little angry and didn't want to pay attention to the maid next to her.

"Why doesn't Brother Xiao want to come and see me?"

"Aunt Chen doesn't come to see me often now"

Ye Jiaojiao sat at the dressing table somewhat unhappy, pulling at her handkerchief.

Ever since Ye Jiaojiao turned eight years old, Chen Yurong seldom came to the Ye Mansion and seldom brought her son to see Ye Jiaojiao.

Because Ye Jiaojiao's features were so similar to her when she was young, she was afraid of being discovered by Qi Wei, so she gradually stopped coming to the Ye Mansion.

"Jiaojiao, change your clothes quickly. Take out the clothes you just made two days ago." Qi Wei came to the west courtyard and walked into the wing room, instructing Jiaojiao's personal maid to take out clothes and change.

"Your father and elder brother are waiting for you over there."

"Haven't you always wanted Aunt Chen to come over? I sent her a message." Qi Wei helplessly picked up a pink chest-length skirt and a shawl of the same color from the maid's hand and motioned for her to put them on.

When Ye Jiaojiao heard that Aunt Chen was coming, she happily took her clothes and went behind the screen to change.

The Ye family held a birthday banquet and invited relatives and people of the daughter's generation to attend.

"Sister Ye, the pink dress you are wearing today looks so beautiful." A little girl looked at today's protagonist with envy. Only ten pieces of new silk from Yunshang Pavilion were divided up by the ladies and young ladies in the capital, and the clothes made from them were very beautiful.

"These are what my mother bought from Yunshang Pavilion. She used them all to make clothes for me," Ye Jiaojiao said proudly to the girl next to her.

At this time, Chen Yurong's family walked into the banquet hall. Xiao Zhengtao, the third-rank right attendant of the Ministry of Revenue, stood next to his wife and greeted General Ye who was not far away.

When Ye Jiaojiao saw Xiao Hongjing next to Aunt Chen, her heart beat very fast and her cheeks turned a little red with embarrassment.

"You little girls should go play in the backyard garden." Qi Wei knew from the look on her daughter's face that she liked Xiao Hongjing, but she did not agree with letting her daughter marry into the Xiao family. After all, the Xiao family had a chaotic inner house and many illegitimate children. She only wanted her daughter to marry an official family with a simpler family background.

"Jiaojiao, just take your sister out to play." Chen Yurong asked the little girl held by the nanny behind her to come down.

This little girl, Xiao Susu, was born to Chen Yurong seven years ago. She was her life and she never let her daughter out of her sight.

Ye Jiaojiao had no way of refusing Aunt Chen's words, so she could only shift her attention to Xiao Susu, walked up to her, took her little hand, and took her to the garden.

"Sister Ye, I haven't seen you for a long time." Xiao Susu left the front yard and spoke happily to Ye Jiaojiao.

Ye Jiaojiao softly said to Xiao Susu that she had to study, learn to read and practice needlework with her mother in the next few years, so they couldn't meet often.

Along the way, there were many girls of the same age, attending banquets with their parents and picking flowers and catching butterflies in the garden.

When the daughters left the scene, the men went aside to talk about state affairs.

The remaining two women were silent at the scene and did not speak.

"Yurong, you haven't come to me on your own initiative for a long time." Qi Wei took the initiative to step forward and hold her hand.

Chen Yurong was somewhat resistant and didn't want to contact her. She was really afraid of being discovered.

The maid who bribed Qi Wei back then has now become the housekeeper. After receiving her message, she learned that Qi Wei had become suspicious of her niece.

"You also know that I love my daughter the most, so I am taking care of her at home now." What Chen Yurong said was true. She only has one son and one daughter who she loves very much.

Qi Wei stared into her eyes until a trace of panic flashed across them, and then he realized that Yurong was hiding something from her.

"Sister Qi, this is a gift from me to your daughter." She signaled the maid to hand over a brand new set of jewelry on the tray to the servants of the Ye Mansion.

Qi Wei didn't plan to delve into it further. He would eventually know what he needed to know.

It was precisely because Qi Wei did not intend to investigate further that she lost the opportunity to reunite with her son.

"Susu, tell me what your brother likes." Ye Jiaojiao asked Xiao Susu, who was eating snacks at the side, about her brother.

Xiao Susu raised her head in confusion, with some crumbs on her lips.

"My brother seems to like eating cakes more. He brings me a lot every time he goes out."

Ye Jiaojiao cursed this stupid girl in her heart. The person was asking about her brother's preferences, not hers.

Seeing that this little girl couldn't get any answer, she could only waste time in the back garden.

By evening, when all the guests had arrived, the courtyard was brightly lit and bustling with people toasting each other with compliments.

Ye Jiaojiao received many gifts from ministers' wives, as well as gifts personally given by her father and elder brother.

At this moment, Qi Xuanyi, who was deep in the mountains, had just drunk a glass of red wine and fell asleep because he couldn't drink much.