My sister became the empress, but I'm still growing vegetables and raising chickens

The younger brother rolled his eyes and muttered, "Third sister is really lazy," and ran to the kitchen to help light the fire and cook.

Si Muyan took a look and thought that it was indeed wise to leave Aunt Jin at home. In the morning, she had done most of the housework and the house was much cleaner and tidier than the previous few days.

"Miss, Master, you must be hungry. The food will be ready soon." Aunt Jin said while busying herself.

Si Muyan said, "Take out the meat from yesterday. I'll make some roast pork."

Aunt Jin was stunned, her mouth half open. "Roasted meat? Why roast good meat? Aren't those meant to be sold?"

Both meat porridge and wonton porridge require lean meat. Yesterday, I used only a little over two taels of it, and the rest can be used slowly.

"Meat gets old and becomes smelly. If the porridge doesn't taste good, it won't sell well. I bought new meat for tomorrow, so you can eat yesterday's."

Aunt Jin was so distressed that she could not express it in words. If she had known that the meat was to be kept for herself, she should have persuaded the young lady to buy less. How could she finish more than a pound of meat?

There is only a little over a pound of meat. How can it be enough for such a big family?

Si Muyan was cutting meat while thinking that if he wanted to satisfy his appetite, he had to find a way to make more money.

The braised pork made with lean meat was not that delicious, and the seasoning was not enough, but for the Si family, it was a great treat, and each person got two large pieces of meat.

Aunt Jin couldn't bear to eat it herself, so she gave an extra piece to Shao Qin and her second sister.

But Si Muyan didn't even raise her head: "Eat it yourself, I gave them more. Now we need to divide the work and cooperate with each other in order to live a good life at home. We all need to eat well and have enough."

Si Xingzhi worked in the fields for the whole morning. He had never done this before. Although the village head was kind enough to teach him, he still couldn't do it. He was out of breath and covered in dust, and really wanted to throw away his farm tools and quit.

But when he returned home and looked at the rather spacious house, he thought that it was full of the elderly, the weak, women and children, and he was the only adult man left. They all depended on him, so how could he not do it?

Life is really hard when you have no money.

When he entered the house and smelled the aroma of meat, Si Xingzhi was shocked: "Is there meat to eat today?"

The younger brother served the meal: "There is meat to eat, Dad, come quickly, we are waiting for you."

Si Xingzhi swallowed hard and said, "I'll go hold the baby. You guys eat first."

Aunt Jin said hurriedly, "Master must be tired after working all morning. Come eat quickly. I'll go look after the child."

The younger sister quickly finished her meal and carried Xiaoxiaer to Shaoqin's room. Shaoqin didn't recognize Xiaoxiaer, but she knew she was looking at her and narrowed her eyes: "Wan'er? Did Wan'er cry today?"

Wan'er is my younger sister's name.

The little sister's eyes turned red. They were triplets, but their mother loved her the most. Now looking at Xiaoxia, she thought it was her.

The second sister came out after eating and wanted to wash the dishes: "Sister, I have rested well and can't do other things. I can still do an easy job like washing dishes."

"You're still in confinement, you should rest more, otherwise you'll develop a chronic illness."

The second sister shook her head: "The peasant woman gave birth in the morning and went to work in the fields in the afternoon."

"Which one is like this?" Si Muyan asked with a frown.

The second sister was speechless.

Si Muyan glanced at her coldly: "Did that stinky woman from the Jiang family say that? She told you to go to the fields and serve them after you give birth, right? As long as a family treats women as human beings, they would never let a woman who is still in confinement work. Besides, how long can a woman like that live to work?"

Her tone was a bit harsh, mainly because this second sister was pretty, but really stupid! Not only was she stupid, she also couldn't understand what people were saying. If she didn't say it directly, she didn't know anything at all.

The younger sister heard the noise and quickly pushed her older sister back into the house: "Why did you run out and cause trouble when I told you to rest?"

The second sister's tears fell.

The younger sister couldn't help but roll her eyes. She was really impatient but had to persuade her kindly: "Second sister, you are still in confinement, you can't cry like this. Big sister is doing this for your own good. We are a family, so we know how to care for you. If you cry and hurt yourself, aren't we worried about it? If you make Big sister cry, you can expect to be scolded again."

The second sister wiped her tears and said, "I know, my eldest sister is doing this for my own good."

"That's good to know. Don't be so upset. My eldest sister got up in the middle of the night to make porridge. We walked for an hour to sell it on the street, and then walked back again. We were really exhausted. She has a bad temper to begin with. You should give her some leeway and don't overthink it."

"I'm a burden to you."

The younger sister tilted her head and rolled her eyes again: "What's the family talking about being a burden or not? The family situation is not good right now, but the eldest sister is worried that you won't be able to take good care of yourself after the confinement period, so she insisted on making meat for you. It shows how much the eldest sister loves you."

The second sister was a little happier now. She nodded and said, "Little sister, you are right. The eldest sister is just tired and has a bad temper. I should be considerate of her and not cause trouble for her."

The younger sister breathed a sigh of relief. She was really convinced. It had been like this since she was a child.

The eldest sister has a bad temper and just keeps cursing at people, while the second sister is too stupid to understand anything, and the family is in turmoil every day.

If she didn't want her mother to get upset and have an attack, she really wouldn't want to stay in this house for a moment.

Si Muyan was so tired after getting up in the middle of the night that she went back to her room to rest after dinner.

Originally, she and her second sister lived in that room. After her second sister ran away, she was left alone. When her second sister came back, she lived there again. Last night, Aunt Jin stayed with her second sister. She didn't go to her third sister's room, but came to the room where her eldest and second brothers used to live.

When the eldest brother was around, he was very particular and the house was very clean. After the eldest brother left, the second brother moved in. Even though Aunt Jin cleaned the house every day, it was not very clean.

It would be a lie to say that she didn't dislike him, but she couldn't allow Si Muyan to dislike him either. She was a flexible person, and it was good enough for her to have a place to stay.

Just as I took off my coat and prepared to go to bed, I heard my younger brother's anxious voice at the door: "Big sister, big sister, please get up quickly. The chickens and ducks are all listless. I don't know what's going on."

After Aunt Jin came back from buying the chicks and ducklings yesterday, she set aside an empty room in the back room to raise them.

Feeding the chickens and ducks is the younger brother's responsibility. He also plans to dig a shallow pond in the backyard so that the ducks have a place to swim.

The younger brother remembered this incident and went to see his chicks and ducklings after dinner. What he saw was shocking. Several of them were lying there motionless, which made him very anxious.

How could she forget about the chickens and ducks?

Si Muyan stood up immediately. She had originally planned to take good care of the chickens and ducks after buying them, feeding them with feed from the mall so that they would grow fast. By the New Year, the chickens and ducks would have grown quite a bit.

But yesterday, because of her second sister and the child, she completely forgot about the chickens and ducks.

When we got to the empty room in the back, Aunt Jin had already come over and fished out the sick chickens and ducks. "It's usually like this. Chickens and ducklings die easily. If we raise them in spring, it's normal for six or seven out of ten to survive. If they don't grow up in winter, I estimate that more will die."