Ye Zhanying listened to what those people said, then got off his horse and went to the fields to take a look. After looking at several fields in a row, he looked at his old father in disbelief.

General Ye glanced at his third son, meaning, "See?"

"This is amazing."

"It's best if our family knows about this, but no one else is allowed to know about it."

"Father, don't worry. Your son is not stupid. How could he tell others about our family affairs?"

"It's good to know."

"Then my son will go back to the Hundred Households Office first, and wait for my eldest and second brothers to come back."

"You should go home and see your wife first. What happened last night must have frightened her."

"Eh."

...

When Jiang Yan learned that the Thirteen Banners had been blessed by the gods, she almost choked with joy.

"Oh my god, the Thirteen Banners are so cute."

"Mom, this is perfect. Otherwise, it would be hard to explain."

"Yes, I have to thank them for their simple and unpretentious minds."

Jiang Yan's family of three was having so much fun that the other people from the Thirteenth Banner started to go to the fields to pull weeds.

Dajun and Xiaojun were also working hard in the peanut field. Yichen saw them and hurried to help.

Jiang Yan heard the voices of the three brothers and sisters outside the wall and knew that she could not be lazy any longer, so she changed into work clothes and went to the paddy field first.

She planted ten acres of paddy fields this year and wanted to remove all the weeds in the paddy fields as quickly as possible, which was a big project.

Jiang Yan first went to tidy up the paddy fields near the river, which could be seen by people on the other side of the river.

She secretly increased her speed a little, but did not dare to go too far, for fear that people on the other side of the river would notice.

Jiang Yan felt like a clockwork machine, repeating the same action over and over again. Her waist seemed to be bent like a shrimp.

Fortunately, the whole family on the other side of the river was out weeding in the fields and had no time to pay attention to others.

If the children look away for even a second, they will be scolded by the adults at home.

Jiang Yan finally finished pulling out the weeds on the outermost part, and the ones inside were easier to deal with. She could use her wood-related abilities to quickly clear the weeds in the paddy field.

The process was even faster for other plots of land that were not visible to outsiders. No matter how dense the weeds were, Jiang Yan quickly cleared them away.

In order not to make people feel awkward, she pretended to pull weeds late at night. She didn't know whether others were fooled or not, but her three children were fooled by her.

Dajun and Xiaojun are both practical children. Seeing their mother working so hard to pull weeds, they also became anxious.

When Jiang Yan returned home in the dark, she saw torches lighting up the yard outside her house from afar.

Jiang Yan got closer and saw that it was the Dajun brothers holding torches and pulling weeds. Yichen, scrambling on her short legs, carried the pulled weeds and threw them into the composting area she had designated.

Jiang Yan felt warm and a little distressed when she saw this scene, so she asked the three children to go home with her. "Dajun, Xiaojun, Chenchen, it's getting late. Let's go home and eat. We can pull it out tomorrow."

"Okay, mother."

"Mom. You're back."

"Ah."

Dinner consisted of sorghum rice porridge, scrambled eggs with shepherd's purse, and the mushroom meat sauce that Jiang Yan had made earlier.

We were tired too. The three kids were not in the mood for dinner. After dinner today, they washed up and went to bed without any urging from their parents.

Jiang Yan felt distressed and wanted to help the children with some work overnight. But Ye Zhan would not let her, "My wife has been working all day, go take a shower and go to bed early."

"But…"

"I'll help the three kids with some of their chores tomorrow."

"Sister-in-law~"

"I can squat and stand up now, no problem. I just have to walk slower, but I don't think it will affect my weeding."

Seeing that Ye Zhan kept insisting, Jiang Yan had no choice but to agree.

The next day, Jiang Yan had some free time and wanted to go down the river to take a look.

From a distance, Jiang Yan saw nine figures swaying in the cornfield and heard them talking.

Uncle Zhou Er: "Let's pile the weeds over by the toilet and make compost together. You have to keep the wild vegetables. Have you tasted it? The wild vegetables this time are particularly delicious."

Zhuang Dahai was the oldest of the eight wounded soldiers and usually didn't like to talk much, but whenever something happened, the other wounded soldiers liked to look to him for advice.

At this moment, there was a large patch of chicory near Zhuang Dahai, and he was having trouble pulling them out.

However, this did not stop him from speaking: "Uncle Zhou Er is right. I didn't even taste the bitterness in the salad greens we had last night."

“Yeah, we didn’t taste it either.”

For these soldiers who grew up in military settlements, they all grew up eating wild vegetables.

As we all know, some wild vegetables are edible, but most of them do not taste good, such as this sonchus, which is bitter.

The nine people present, including Uncle Zhou Er, had all grown up in poverty. For them, simply having enough to eat was good enough; whether the food tasted good or not was never a consideration.

This might also be the time when sonchus is at its most lush. From time to time, one of the nine people would shout, "I have another big patch here."

Uncle Zhou Er was a little worried. "We can't eat so much in one day. I really want to blanch these sonchus and dry them into dried vegetables so that we can eat them later."

"Then let's dry them into dried vegetables."

"Help Uncle Zhou Er with it when we finish work tonight."

"Okay." Uncle Zhou Er didn't expect that just by mentioning it, several children agreed.

Jiang Yan listened quietly for a few words. Seeing that although they had various physical inconveniences, it did not delay their work, she did not go over.

She still has a lot of work to do.

After several days, the weeds in the fields of the Thirteen Banners were finally cleared away by each household.

The weeds in the Wang family's last field were finally pulled out. Old Wang didn't care whether the ground was dirty or not. He lay down on the grass at the edge of the field with his head raised and began to groan. "Oh, this is going to kill me."

Old Wang's groaning was so loud that Zhang Xiaoqi, who was sitting across the street from him, heard it and looked over here.

Zhang Xiaoqi was a little scared when he saw Old Wang lying on the ground tired again. He was afraid that after lying down, Old Wang would never be able to get up again.

Fortunately, around noon, Old Wang was pulled up by the cursing old lady.

Looking at the staggering figures of the family of four, the old and the young, Zhang Xiaoqi thought to himself, "Another day that has passed."

To be honest, Zhang Xiaoqi didn't want anything to happen to Old Wang. If something happened to Old Wang, the old lady wouldn't be able to hold on for a few more days.

He didn't dare to think about the two remaining children.

Guan accidentally looked up and saw her husband staring at the Wang family again, so she said casually: "God will not let a blind sparrow starve to death."

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