After dying early, I traveled to ancient times and became a boy

After the rice was harvested and the tax paid, there were about four sacks left, but they were not full.

"This should be enough to last until next year's wheat harvest." Feng Jingheng and Ye Xunqing settled accounts. "After paying back the money to my cousin's family, we still have three taels of silver and seven hundred and sixty-two copper coins."

"Manager Liu asked about the donkey for me and said he could give it to us in a month. He wanted one or two ounces of silver." Ye Xunqing said helplessly, "This is already the lowest price. If we go to the market at this price, we won't be able to buy a donkey at all."

"I know." Feng Jingheng was still very grateful to Manager Liu. "We'll take good care of the donkey after we buy it. It will be able to work again next spring."

"We have to cut more grass and make hay while it's still there, and then feed the donkeys in the winter," said Ye Xunqing.

"Donkeys can eat a lot, they don't necessarily need hay." Feng Jingheng smiled, "Qing, don't worry about the donkey not eating well. Leave the donkey care to me."

"Oh, okay." Ye Xunqing then handed all the matters over to Feng Jingheng. Raising donkeys was indeed not his forte. He couldn't even raise a pet properly, so how could he raise a donkey?

The two men put the money in a jar and a chest, and hid them separately so that no one would notice them.

It's September now, the weather has become really cool, and the persimmons and pomegranates on the trees can be eaten.

Feng Jingheng had planted a lot of fruit tree seedlings before, so he had fruits to eat basically every spring, summer and autumn.

Ye Xunqing took Mo Yuyan and the others to pick persimmons and pomegranates. Liu Xiaojing also went with Feng Xu. This was what Ye Xunqing told her. He said that Feng Xu should go out more, interact with people, and walk more.

The persimmon tree was quite tall, but fortunately its branches were strong enough to support the weight of a person. Ye Xunqing climbed up the tree without any instruction and picked the ripe persimmons.

There are two types of persimmons: astringent and sweet. Astringent persimmons need to be baked in rice to remove the astringency before eating. Sweet persimmons are crisp and can be eaten directly after peeling.

It just so happened that one of the persimmon trees planted by Feng Jingheng produced astringent persimmons and the other sweet persimmons. The sweet persimmons ripened early, while the astringent persimmons had to wait for a while.

"Xiao Jing, take this." Ye Xunqing took a cloth bag, picked up all the persimmons, and hung it down with a rope. Then he asked Liu Xiaojing to pour the persimmons into the basket.

"Put it down, I'll take it." Liu Xiaojing said with his head raised.

Ye Xunqing and Liu Xiaojing were picking persimmons, Ye Xunbai was playing with Xiao Xuer, and Mo Yuyan was picking pomegranates from the tree next to them.

Pomegranate branches are soft and can be easily hooked off by hooks. Therefore, as long as the pomegranate tree is not too tall, the pomegranates on the tree can basically be picked.

After picking half a basket, Ye Xunqing planned to go back. You can't eat too many persimmons. Just taste them. If you eat too much, you will get kidney stones.

He and Liu Xiaojing each carried a basket. Although Liu Xiaojing was a young girl, she was very strong.

Ye Xunqing praised: "Xiao Jing, you are really amazing. You can carry such a heavy pomegranate just by carrying it on your back."

Liu Xiaojing panted as he said, "When I was at home, I also had to work every day. Back then, we had to carry stones up the mountain to build the pigpen. My mother didn't want my younger brother to go, so she asked me to go with my father and older brother. I could carry dozens of kilograms by myself."

Even so, her family still thinks she is a lazy girl.

Ye Xunqing felt a little uncomfortable after hearing this. If Liu Xiaojing was born in their family, she would definitely be the apple of their eye, the kind that they would hold in their hands for fear of dropping her and hold in their mouths for fear of melting her.

"Put some in my basket, I can add some more." Ye Xunqing said as he took the pomegranates from her basket.

Liu Xiaojing said, "Second sister-in-law, you already have enough in your basket..."

"It's okay, I can carry it." As he spoke, Ye Xunqing took some more, "I'll take some and give it to Grandma San and the others later, you carry the rest back home and we'll split it equally."

Liu Xiaojing was very surprised. "Really? So many..."

"It's okay, we can't eat that much." Ye Xunqing said with a smile.

And there are still some on the tree. If they want to eat them, they can just come and pick them.

Mo Yuyan was walking in front with Feng Xu on his back. Feng Xu fell asleep due to tiredness from playing. Ye Xunbai was picking wild flowers on the roadside, sometimes ahead and sometimes behind.

Ye Xunqing and Liu Xiaojing walked behind with the baskets on their backs so that they could keep an eye on the children.

In Ye Xunqing's mind, everyone, including Liu Xiaojing, was actually still a child. Although his body was only Class 17, his mental age was already 25 or 26.

He has always taken good care of them and treated them as his own brothers and sisters.

Ye Xunqing gave persimmons to many families: Third Granny, Uncle Yu, my aunt's family, Da Mi and Xiao Mi's family, everyone he knew. So much so that by the time he got home, only a third of the half basket of persimmons was left.

You can't eat too many persimmons, and they should be eaten after meals, so Ye Xunqing only allowed Ye Xunbai and others to eat one a day, and also told Liu Xiaojing not to eat too many persimmons, as it would cause stomachache.

In the past, Liu Xiaojing would have eaten most of it in a day, but since her second sister-in-law said that eating too much was not good for her, she would not eat so much. She was an educated person now and could not be so ignorant.

As the days passed, Ye Xiyun's marriage was finally set on the 22nd day of the 12th month, which is commonly known as the 22nd day of the 11th month of the lunar calendar. However, people here are accustomed to calling November and December the 12th month and the twelfth month.

After the wedding date was set, Ye Xiyun rarely went out. He had to rush to make wedding clothes and quilts as dowry.

Ye Xunqing thought about himself. It seemed like he hadn't brought anything with him, and he had to feed two mouths. Even so, Feng Jingheng hadn't complained a single word. It seemed like he really loved him.

The weather was getting cold, and Ye Xunqing planned to make two thick quilts, but he didn't have the skills to make quilts, so he bought cloth and asked Liu Laiyan to help him make them.

The newly harvested cotton is soft and white, making it perfect for making quilts and cotton-padded clothes.

But the cotton that Feng Jingheng was allocated was small, and even if he harvested all the cotton, it would only be enough to make two quilts.

However, Feng Jinghua had a lot of cotton in his dry fields, so Ye Xunqing planned to ask him to buy some.

When Feng Jinghua learned that Ye Xunqing wanted cotton, he gave them all the cotton without saying a word, on the condition that they had to pick it themselves.

Ye Xunqing couldn't take them all. He wanted to make a quilt and a set of cotton clothes for Feng Jinghua, and then he would take the rest.

Feng Jinghua did not refuse.

The next morning, Ye Xunqing took Mo Yuyan and Ye Xunbai to pick cotton. The cotton had already burst, and if it was not picked, it would soon be stained by dry leaves.

The dry fields in Yejia Village are basically connected, and the crops planted there are similar, so there is a lot of cotton in this area.

As soon as Ye Xunqing and his friends arrived at the field, they met Ye Xiyun and his sister who came to pick cotton with them.