Chapter 96: sweet potatoes

   "I just said why I haven't seen Sister Ru recently. It turns out that she went to her husband's house, but why has she been there for so long?"

Mu Xuan grabbed a weed by the side of the road, put it in his hand to play with, and answered casually: "I heard that it's my husband's cousin or something. She got admitted to Juren, and the whole family moved to the capital to settle down. Rujie was called Went to help."

   "It's not necessary to let sister Ru and the whole family go to help? It's really weird."

  Mu Yun can't figure it out, she's just a cousin, do you need sister Ru and the others?

"What's so strange? It's not like showing off, and then letting Rujie and the others work for free. Does this kind of thing happen rarely? I guess, if Rujie and the others didn't come back, they were probably sent to the capital. This time and time again I'm afraid I won't be able to come back in two or three months, it's still fast. If it's not the Chinese New Year, sister Ru and the others will be able to come back."

   "Isn't there only grandma Mu and grandpa in the family? The old ones, the young ones, no wonder the sweet potatoes are so late."

  Mu Yun sighed. He had neglected it during this time. If he paid attention to some grandma Mu and his family, they would have gone to help earlier, so that the sweet potato would not be so late to pay back.

   Fortunately, there has been no frost these days, otherwise the sweet potatoes would have rotted in the ground.

   "Grandma Mu and the grandpas got into a fight, and she didn't want to ask for help. Grandma Mu froze, but in desperation, she asked Goudan to come over and call us for help."

  Mu Xuan is very happy for Goudan to come to ask them for help.

   After all, since their parents left, they have hardly interacted with people in the village.

   Occasionally only Grandma Mu and the others came to help their brothers.

  Always being helped by others, he does not help with something, which is quite uncomfortable in my heart.

   "Did you see a doctor?"

  When Grandma Mu flinched, Mu Yun became a little anxious.

  After their parents left, Grandma Mu was the best person to them.

   "It's all right, but I can't do heavy work, I'm energetic."

  Hearing Mu Xuan said that Grandma Mu is fine, Mu Yun's worries eased a lot.

  The two walked for about two sticks of incense before arriving at the hillside of Grandma Mu's house.

   It has only been a few years since the wasteland was opened up, and the grain yield is low, and the water is not enough, so we can only grow some drought-resistant grains such as sweet potatoes.

   "You guys are here."

   Qiao Yi's eyes lit up when he saw Mu Xuan and Mu Yun approaching.

   "Grandpa, Second Grandpa."

  Mu Yun and Mu Xuan greet Grandma Mu's two husbands.

   "Hey, okay, okay. I'm really bothering you. This man is old and can't even do this job."

  Grandma Mu's grandpa sighed and said helplessly.

   "This man, he really can't accept his old age."

  Grandma Mu's second grandfather also sighed.

  If this was done ten years ago, the brothers could finish this thing in a few half days.

   "Grandpa, Second Grandpa, you are still in good health. You are not old. This is not troublesome at all. Don't you help us too much? If we don't help you with some work, we will feel sorry."

  Mu Yun said with a smile.

   "You're the one with sweet lips."

  Grandma Mu's grandpa laughed.

   "God, you play with the grandpas, and I will go with your Uncle Xuan to help Aunt Yi."

  Mu Yun took out a handful of jujubes from his arms, patted Goudan on the head, and then walked with Mu Xuan to Qiao Yi who was sweating profusely.

   "Have you seen the sweet potato seedlings over there?"

Seeing that Mu Yun and the two nodded, Qiao Yi continued: "After picking up the sweet potatoes, you go and pull off the stem that connects the leaves. As long as the stem is not needed, the leaves are not needed, and the thick vines are not needed. It is a good thing. , I’ll cook something delicious for you when I get home.”

"Um."

  Mu Yun nodded.

   "Is that edible? Aren't they all fed to pigs?"

  Mu Xuan looked disgusted, no matter how poor he was before, he never ate this sweet potato seedling.

   "That's because you haven't eaten it, so it's sure to be delicious. Let's work quickly, let's spread some black today, and the sweet potatoes in these two acres of land should be able to be harvested."

   After Qiao Yi finished speaking, she spit, picked up the pickaxe and started digging sweet potatoes.

   "I dig too."

   After Mu Xuan finished speaking, he went to find the pickaxe.

   "No, your elder brother and I can just dig. You can pick it up, put it on the ground, and pull it back with a bullock cart at night."

  There are many advantages to being strong. A normal person can turn the sweet potato out three or five times, but she only needs a pickaxe.

  Because she used to dig sweet potatoes in modern times, so today she can do it easily.

   Not a single one was broken, and it was very accurate. A pickaxe just turned a whole sweet potato out of the ground.

   This speed is seven or eight times faster than Mu Qing.

  Mu Qing and Mu Chen are too busy to pick it up by themselves, but behind Qiao Yi, Mu Yun, Muxuan and the dog who came to help are too busy.

  Lunch at noon was delivered by Grandma Mu and her third and fourth husbands.

   When Qiao Yi saw that it was a steamed bun made of white flour, his heart immediately felt warm.

   "Grandma Mu, you can just make yellow flour pancakes for us. You don't need to make white flour steamed buns. How much white flour do you need?"

   "There are still a lot of white noodles at home. You help me with the work, and you don't need wages. You only need those useless sweet potato seedlings. If I don't make you something delicious, I will feel sorry for you, Grandma Mu."

   "Look at what you said, I am angry that Grandma Mu is here."

  Joy pretended to be unhappy.

   "You, it's alright if I'm wrong, next time I'll make yellow noodle pancakes and boiled water for you, will that work?"

  Grandma Mu laughed so hard that she couldn't see her teeth.

   "This is the best way. The rural people can only eat yellow flour pancakes."

  Joy picked up a big steamed bun and started to eat it.

   After a whole morning of physical work, she was already hungry.

   "Eat slowly, you eat slowly, there is still soup here, don't choke."

  Grandma Mu saw that Qiao Yi was in a hurry, so she couldn't help but speak.

  Mu Yun gave Goudan, Grandma Mu, Grandma Mu's eldest grandpa, second grandpa, and the third and fourth grandpas who came over, each took a steamed bun.

   "Grandma Mu, there are so many steamed buns, we can't finish them, so you too."

   After Mu Yun finished speaking, he ate the steamed buns.

  This white flour steamed bun is a precious item in the countryside.

   Those with poorer conditions can eat two or three meals of white flour steamed buns a year.

   Those who eat two meals of white flour steamed buns a month are rich people.

   "Grandma Mu, you also eat, we can't eat so much."

  Mu Xuan also followed suit.

   "Hey, we eat too."

  Grandma Mu nodded, she knew that the Mu family boys would do this, so she steamed a lot of steamed buns.

  Seeing that Grandma Mu had spoken, and that the grandparents of the Mu family still had dog eggs, they ate the steamed buns in their hands.

   "I'm full, eat slowly, I'll walk."

   Qiaoyi stopped eating after eating two big steamed buns.

   With these two steamed buns and a bowl of soup, my stomach is bulging.

  Joy got up and walked around the two acres of land.

  This morning, plus what Grandma Mu and the others raised before, there are more than half an acre of sweet potatoes.

   It is estimated that it will be finished before dark.

  (end of this chapter)