After the separation, I took my whole family to eat delicious food and drink spicy

The next day, Li Xiaoxiao was woken up by Li Linlin, "Sister, sister, get up and have breakfast." Li Xiaoxiao felt pain all over her body, especially her hands. She felt like her fingers couldn't bend. Li Xiaoxiao thought, no wonder they always say that farmers are the most miserable people. Isn't my current condition the best proof?

"Lin'er, stop shaking. If you continue shaking, my body will fall apart." After saying that, she slowly sat up.

"Sister, are you feeling unwell? I'll go talk to Mom." Li Linlin said as she tried to run to find Bai, but Li Xiaoxiao quickly grabbed her and stopped her. "Sister, I'm fine. I just worked too hard yesterday and now I feel pain all over my body. I'll be fine after a rest."

Li Linlin was relieved to hear that Li Xiaoxiao was fine. Then the two went to have breakfast together. Seeing that Li Xiaoxiao looked listless, Bai wanted to ask her to rest at home, but Li Xiaoxiao disagreed, saying that she could do it herself.

After dinner, the family went back up the mountain to collect bamboo shoots. A week later, they had dried nearly 150 kilograms of bamboo shoots. The rice was also dried and stored. Mrs. Bai even took a bag of the newly harvested rice and pounded it into rice. As Li Xiaoxiao ate the fragrant rice, she felt like she no longer wanted to eat cornmeal or anything like that.

Early that morning, a carriage was parked in the Li family's yard. Li Fang ran out to see out of curiosity. It turned out to be the servant who sent them back last time. He hurried to call Li Xiaoxiao over. Li Xiaoxiao then remembered that today was the delivery day.

Bai was busy welcoming him in with a servant and even went to the kitchen to bring him a bowl of cold boiled water. "Young man, please sit down for a moment. We'll go get the pickled bamboo shoots."

The servant waved his hand and said he would go with them to move the bamboo shoots. Li Xiaoxiao agreed. After loading the ten jars of pickled bamboo shoots onto the carriage, the servant gave Li Xiaoxiao the remaining 750 coins and drove the carriage back to report.

Li Xiaoxiao turned around and gave the money to Bai, asking her to keep it.

Many villagers saw the carriage taking away a load of jars from Li Xiaoxiao's house. They only knew that the food Li Xiaoxiao made was sold to wealthy families in the town, but they didn't know what the food was. Some of them ran to ask Li Xiaoxiao what kind of food she made out of curiosity. Li Xiaoxiao ignored her because she was good friends with the second wife, Li Lin.

"Tsk, what's so great about that? If you don't want to talk, then don't." With that, the person spun around and walked off. Li Xiaoxiao had a feeling she must have gone to talk to Li Linshi. Seeing Li Xiaoxiao's attitude, the others didn't want to bother with her, so after watching for a while, they dispersed and went back to work in the fields. The rice was harvested, and it was time to prepare for planting other crops. Therefore, there were still many people in the fields these days.

Li Xiaoxiao discussed it with Mrs. Bai and decided to plant half of their two mu of land with sweet potatoes and the other half with corn. Mrs. Bai said that the villagers relied on sweet potatoes during the winter when rice was scarce. Plus, they didn't have as much work to do in the winter, so they couldn't eat as much as they do now. They could get by with just one or two sweet potatoes per meal. The thought of eating sweet potatoes every meal made Li Xiaoxiao's scalp tingle. She couldn't bear to eat sweet potatoes every day. However, she knew that sweet potatoes could be used to make a lot of delicious food. The key was to make more money.

"Mom, don't we still have two acres of wasteland at home? Why don't we plant something on it?" Li Xiaoxiao asked Bai.

"Alas, nothing grows on that wasteland. We planted it before, but the harvest was pitifully small. Then your grandmother said she didn't want to plant it anymore because it was a waste of manpower." Mrs. Bai sighed.

"It's okay, Mom. Let's prepare the land first, then apply some fertilizer and plant some soybeans. We'll harvest as much as we can." Li Xiaoxiao said.

"Okay then, let's clean up the wasteland first, apply some base fertilizer, and then plant corn and sweet potatoes.

When he arrived at the end of the field, Li Xiaoxiao was dumbfounded when he saw the two acres of wasteland in front of him. This was not land at all, it was clearly a wasteland overgrown with weeds!

Li Xiaoxiao shook her head helplessly, wondering how long it would take to finish this. But even if she complained, she still had to do the work.

She took the lead and jumped into the field, wielding her sickle and starting to cut the grass. Seeing this, the others followed suit.

The sun was getting hotter and hotter, and sweat was dripping down their cheeks and into the soil. However, no one stopped and worked hard.

After a morning of hard work, the two acres of wasteland finally revealed its original appearance. Although it still looked a bit barren, it was no longer overgrown with weeds.

Li Xiaoxiao looked at the fruits of his labor and felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart. At the same time, he became more determined to transform this wasteland.

"Mom, let's go to town this afternoon to buy some fertilizer and then nourish this land." Li Xiaoxiao wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Bai.

Bai nodded in agreement, her eyes gleaming with approval: "Okay, I'll listen to you. You've really grown up, kid. You have your own ideas."

In the afternoon, the family took their tools to the town market and bought enough fertilizer and soybean and corn seeds. They just had to get the sweet potato seedlings directly from Aunt Chen.

On the way back to the village, Li Xiaoxiao went to the mountainside to cut down a few bamboos and asked Bai to make a few simple fences, intending to use them to enclose the wasteland to prevent poultry and livestock from trampling on it.

When they returned home, it was already late, but the family did not slack off at all. They immediately set about fertilizing and tilling the wasteland in preparation for the next sowing. It was not until night fell and the stars twinkled that they finally completed all the preparations and dragged their exhausted bodies back home.

In the next few days, Li Xiaoxiao and her family were busy planting corn and sweet potatoes in the fields. Li Xiaoxiao and Bai were responsible for turning the soil and digging holes, while Li Fang and Li Linlin followed behind to plant the corn. Although it was slow, it took them four days to plant all the crops.

After finishing all these, the bamboo shoots on the mountain were about to go out of season. Although it was a pity, Li Xiaoxiao still decided to try her luck in the mountain to see if she could pick some fresh bamboo shoots to stir-fry with meat. Now the family conditions were much better, and people from the first and second rooms rarely came to make trouble. Li Fang and Li Linlin were visibly gaining weight and growing taller.

Looking at the changes in the two, Mrs. Bai was glad that they had separated and moved out. She heard from the villagers that there were quarrels every day in the old Li family house. It was scary to think about it. How could a child growing up in such an environment be good? Anyway, Mrs. Bai didn't believe it.