Leisurely mountain village

Even after he posted it on his WeChat Moments, some of his good friends asked him to mail some rice crackers to try.

"Okay, we can only go after we finish what we're doing, about a month, which will be perfect for the crisp autumn weather. We'll contact you then." Ye Yingying nodded; they couldn't leave right now.

The richer you are, the busier you are—that's no exaggeration. True financial freedom and having nothing to do is Ye Huan's ultimate goal.

"Okay, contact me in advance and I'll pick you up in the county town."

Okay, bye~

"Bye~"

After hanging up the phone, Ye Huan tried to sleep but couldn't. Seeing that it was already 2:30, she got up. The workers had already started working. The weather was pretty good today, not hot and a bit windy. Ye Huan guessed that it would rain tonight or during the night.

Back in the courtyard, he handed a pack of cigarettes to the workers and told them to go about their business. They nodded and went back inside.

The two little girls were probably tired from chatting, and they both fell asleep on the sofa. Ye Huan smiled, took off their shoes, and put them on the sofa so they could sleep a little longer.

After turning off the TV, I saw that my mom had also gotten up.

"Why didn't you sleep a little longer?" Ye Huan glanced at the two little girls and said softly to her mother.

"I can't fall back asleep now that I'm awake. It's a bit stuffy in the room, and there might be heavy rain tonight," Mom said softly.

"Well, you and Sister-in-law Bai can pick the vegetables for tomorrow morning this afternoon. Let them sit overnight; it'll be fine. Just spray them with the nutrient solution in the big vat once to keep them fresh," Ye Huan suggested to her mother.

"Alright, otherwise if it rains heavily, we won't be able to pick them tomorrow morning. I don't know how many vegetables will suffer from this heavy rain. I'll go check this afternoon and pick the ones that are easy to fall off first." Mom nodded.

The mother and son were chatting when Bai Jie walked into the house: "Auntie, it looks like it's going to rain heavily tonight. Should we go and set up a shed?"

"No need. We'll pick tomorrow's vegetables this afternoon, so we won't have to pick them tomorrow morning. I don't think this rain will be light," Ye Huan's mother shook her head.

"Okay, let's go now." Bai Jie pushed the electric tricycle, put a few vegetable baskets on it, and rode towards the vegetable garden behind the house with her aunt.

Ye Huan stayed home and didn't go out. He'd take the two little girls out to play after they woke up. He was acting like a lazy bum now; he didn't have to cook, plant, or pick vegetables.

During the day, he usually doesn't enter the spiritual spring space. He's afraid that if something happens at home or outside and they need to find him, it wouldn't be safe. So he almost always goes in at night to cultivate or study the things inside the jade tablets.

Anyway, one night is enough for five or six days inside. Although he won't stay that long, it's much safer than during the day. But if something really happens and someone calls him, his soul inside can sense it. He can just come back.

"Uncle~" Jingjing woke up, and then Xiaotangyuan woke up too.

"You're awake? Come on, have some fruit, then I'll take you to pick some vegetables," Ye Huan said with a smile, giving each of the two little girls a small bowl of watermelon balls she had scooped out.

"It's delicious." The two little girls provided a lot of emotional value.

After the two girls finished eating, Ye Huan tidied up and led them towards the vegetable garden behind the house. It was sweltering, and there wasn't a breath of wind. Ye Huan knew that this was the calm before the storm, and tonight's rain was likely to be quite heavy.

Upon arriving at the vegetable garden, the two little girls started mischievously picking cucumbers, but Ye Huan ignored them. She walked over to her mother, squatted down, and helped her pick vegetables: "Mom, pick more, I'm afraid this rain won't stop in one day."

"Is the vegetable still fresh?" Mom asked worriedly. It costs 30 yuan a pound; we can't cheat them.

"Don't worry, I'll have my dad send over more tomorrow. The restaurant will also stock up a bit, in case there's a heavy rain and we can't get out of the village. That road is difficult to drive on," Ye Huan said, explaining the situation.

If it weren't for that broken road leading out of the village, so many people wouldn't have to go out to work. These days, mountain delicacies are so valuable! But the road is ruined. The key is that you can't just go to the town; the town can't handle such expensive things.

At the very least, they'd have to go to the county town, and even if it weren't raining and there were no special circumstances, it would take Ye Huan a long time to drive there. His dad was a novice driver, and the road at the village entrance was practically impassable in rain or snow; walking was barely possible, but a car could get stuck. It was terrible.

"Alright, you should talk to them properly. The roads in the village are really terrible. Your father and I used to grow fruit trees and gather wild delicacies at home, but because of this road, we finally had to go out to work in a fit of anger." Ye Huan's mother sighed. The village is located deep in the mountains.

Development is out of their reach; there are no scenic spots, and the town is dirt poor. The city and county wouldn't invest money in such a small village to build a road just for them.

"When I make a lot of money in the future, I'll repair it myself. It doesn't have to be fancy, just enough to lay some gravel so that cars can't get stuck." Ye Huan nodded. No wonder the old people always say, "If you want to get rich, build roads first."

"How much will that cost? Building a road isn't something you can just do on a whim." Mom worried, "How much will this road cost?"

"I definitely don't have the ability now, let's talk about it later. I'm not stupid, I'll only do this once my own life is better." Ye Huan smiled.

"Okay, just don't do anything stupid." Mom nodded.

Soon after, Ye Huan's father came over to help pick the vegetables. He could also tell that the rain was going to be heavy.

"The rain isn't going to let up today. Will we still be able to deliver the vegetables tomorrow morning?" he asked worriedly. He felt heartbroken seeing ten or twenty thousand yuan in cash every day.

Ye Huan was just about to tell her mother what she had been saying when the phone rang again. "What's going on today? I haven't answered many calls since I got back."

Upon seeing that it was Manager Du, I guessed it was about the food, so I answered: "Hello, Manager Du."

"Boss Ye, the weather doesn't look quite right. Are the dishes for tomorrow okay?" Manager Du asked anxiously.

"The road out of the village isn't easy to travel, but as long as it's not a storm, it shouldn't be a big problem. At most, we'll be a little late," Ye Huan said honestly.

"How about you send a batch over now? We can refrigerate it properly, and it will last for two days. I'm worried there might be a heavy rainstorm today."

"Now? Let me see how many we have. Okay, how many watermelons and peaches do you have? I'll bring you more too. With this rain, the melons will probably be out of stock for a few days." Ye Huan was also helpless; this kind of torrential rain was beyond his control.

"Okay, I'll have the workers prepare it, and you can deliver it as soon as possible."

Ye Huan hung up the phone and looked at the vegetables in the bamboo basket, which weighed about three or four hundred pounds: "Dad, you and Mom take these vegetables back first and load them into the car. Sister-in-law, go check the peaches. If any are ripe, pick them. I'll go check the watermelons. Let's deliver them while it's still dry."