The night was hazy, with a half moon hanging in the sky. Chu Xiao walked slowly while touching her belly.

A breeze blew by, and Chu Xiao felt a hint of coolness.

Yan Zhenshen put his arms around his waist to help block the wind.

When the fiery body came closer, Chu Xiao raised his head and smiled: "Tomorrow, my third sister and I will go to sell wild vegetables and buy some vegetable seeds. Do you want to eat any vegetables?"

As a man, Yan Zhenshen was embarrassed to discuss with his mother what dishes he wanted to eat, but when his husband asked him, he actually thought about it.

"Let's buy some squash and plant a few next to the wall."

Chu Xiao nodded and agreed, "Buy some more cucumbers. I think they taste better than cucumbers."

I picked some at Luoger’s house last year, and Chu Xiao has been thinking about it since then.

"Then buy some cantaloupe seeds. They taste sweeter."

Yan Zhenshen knew that her husband liked to eat sweet food, but farmers only cared about filling their stomachs when growing food, so almost no one in the village would waste land to grow melons.

Chu Xiao naturally hadn't eaten it yet.

"Then I'll buy more varieties tomorrow. If there's not enough to plant in the backyard, I'll plant in the wasteland behind."

"Yes." Yan Zhenshen responded: "If you have time, you can open up the wasteland near your home and plant whatever you want."

Chu Xiao raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "You really have no place to use your energy. There are rocks under those wastelands. Even if you open them up, you can't grow much food. I'm afraid that medicinal herbs won't grow well either. Don't waste your energy."

If it were a good place, it wouldn't be a wasteland. I'm afraid someone would have gone to reclaim it long ago.

Even for his house, when the workers were digging the foundation, they didn't know how many stones they dug out, and the backyard was filled with dug soil, otherwise how could they grow vegetables?

"But the wasteland behind the yard can be reclaimed after a few years."

If animal manure is piled up there all year round, the land can be maintained better over time, and it would be suitable to reclaim some of it to grow vegetables.

"Well, it's all up to you."

As they spoke, the two of them wandered over to the old house, and after locking a few hounds into the yard, they headed back.

The wolf cub who followed Taxue in found himself locked inside, so he started scratching the door with his claws and whimpering non-stop.

Yan Zhenshen glanced back and said, "No matter?"

Chu Xiao did not stop: "Annoy it."

The wolf cub has been a bit annoying lately. He doesn't sleep in the middle of the night and just lies under the window and howls.

Yan Zhenshen laughed disapprovingly: "It's normal in spring."

Chu Xiao suddenly raised his head and looked at him: "It's still a cub."

Yan Zhenshen shrugged. Although wolves generally reach adulthood at around two years old, they are basically mature after eight months, so it is normal for them to go into heat in the spring.

That is to say, the hunting dogs are all locked up in the old house, otherwise it would be even more lively at night.

Yan Zhenshen walked back holding her husband's hand, and felt the touch was not right, so she touched it again.

After a whole winter of using badger oil, my hands have become white, tender and soft, and even the calluses have softened a little.

But in the spring, there was more work to do, and calluses appeared on the palms of his hands. Yan Zhenshen took a closer look and said with some heartache: "You don't know how to be lazy at all. You don't know how to do some easy work."

Chu Xiao also touched Yan Zhenshen's big hands. It goes without saying that he had calluses on his hands due to years of heavy work, and there were also many scars on them. In the past few days, he had scratched his hands from somewhere and blood scabs had formed on them.

"You're talking about me?" Chu Xiao was unconvinced and asked him to look at his hand.

"I'm a man."

Chu Xiao nodded. He knew this very well. He was not only a man, but also a man with great physical strength.

"So I didn't steal your job." Chu Xiao said with a smile: "This is just the beginning. Back then, I was..."

Next, Yan Zhenshen listened to his husband bragging all the way, saying that one person managing a hundred acres of land could supply food for tens of thousands of people in the entire base.

Later he complained about how bad the food in the base was and how miserable the people at the bottom of the base were. He grew all the food, but he couldn't eat it.

Until his eyes closed, he kept muttering about the inhumanity of the base managers.

Only when his breathing became even did Yan Zhenshen caress his back with concern: "I'll be there for you from now on."

Early the next morning, Chu Xiao and his third sister divided the wild vegetables and carried them towards the county town.

When they passed the village entrance, they saw Brother Lin carrying Xiaobao in front, and Chu Xiao called out to him.

Brother Lin looked back and greeted with a smile: "Brother Xiao, are you going to the county town too?"

Chu Xiao and Sanmei hurried up a few steps to follow him, and took out a candy from their pockets and handed it to Xiaobao: "Go sell some wild vegetables and buy some seeds."

"I'm going to buy seeds too." When Brother Lin turned his head to look at them, he happened to meet the sunlight. His eyes narrowed slightly, and he quickly turned his head away.

They were all going to Anning Town, so the three of them traveled together.

When they arrived at the county town, Chu Xiao and the third sister went to sell vegetables, while Brother Lin had to buy some other things besides vegetable seeds, so the few of them separated temporarily.

The four-leaf clover has just grown not long ago, so not many people are buying it right now. It is also the time when it can be sold at a high price, otherwise Yan Sanmei would not be so excited and would pick it instead of just cutting the grass.

The vegetables they made were very tender, and many people bought them at four cents a pound. If they met those who bargained, Chu Xiao would give them a discount if they bought a lot, or at worst just grab a handful more.

After a while, nearly 20 kilograms of wild vegetables were sold out. Chu Xiao counted them and found that they were exactly 70 cents.

He gave it directly to Yan Sanmei. It was rare for her to come to the county town, so she bought whatever she liked.

Yan Sanmei was too embarrassed to take it all, so she said giving her twenty cents would be enough. But Chu Xiao, who had ten gold nuggets, didn't care about this little copper coin.

"Take it. We can buy some cakes and eat together later."

There are many kinds of pastries. Some simple ones like red date cakes and corn cakes can be bought for only one or two cents. There are cheap ones and expensive ones, such as Yuntao cake and Furong cake, which have nice names, but their prices are much higher.

Chu Xiao bought a lot of them in the provincial capital last year and kept them in his space for the whole winter without finishing them. However, there was a peanut crisp in the pastry shop in the county town that tasted very fragrant, and Chu Xiao quite liked it.

The price is not cheap, three cents a piece, the size of a child's palm, and Chu Xiao sometimes eats three or four pieces at a time.

I stop thinking about it until I choke on it, but after a while I start to think about it and start to feel hungry again.

As they were talking about buying cakes, the two of them went to buy ten pieces of peanut cakes, and the third sister also bought some corn cakes. However, in the time it took them to go in and out, the seventy cents from the wild vegetable seller was gone by half.

Now the third sister was reluctant to buy other things. She even refused to take a look at the stall selling silk flowers when passing by, for fear that she would not be able to control herself and end up spending the thirty or so cents.

Instead, Chu Xiao pulled her over and asked her to pick whatever she wanted and Brother Xiao would buy it for her.

The auntie who was selling silk flowers couldn't help but joke, "If this wasn't a boy, I'd really think it was a man who doted on his wife like this."

Yan Sanmei explained shyly: "This is my brother-in-law."

Chu Xiao was a little unhappy, and said coldly: "My little sister is only thirteen."

What kind of man and wife, can they speak?

The aunt was stunned and quickly apologized: "Oh, you see, I was just talking nonsense. This girl is so beautiful, and it can be seen that she is favored by the family."

But I was thinking in my heart, this head doesn't look like that of a thirteen-year-old girl.

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