After experiencing the luxury and comfort of the future, so habits had followed her back, and she wasn’t willing to wrong herself.
Gu Jin had just put down her chopsticks after finishing her al when her aunt’s loud voice rang out in the yard.
"Minmin! Co with to plant cucumbers and beans behind the house!"
It was the season to plant vegetables and fruits, and Gu Jin, reminded of sothing, showed a hint of hesitation in her eyes.
Now it’s the end of May, and around the end of June or early July, there will be a whole month of continuous heavy rain.
August is the harvest period for grains, but unfortunately, before the harvest is complete, unfavorable weather brings a whole month of heavy rain, ruining the crops in the North China Region, leaving less than one-tenth of the harvest after the rain.
The disaster across the North China District will arrive in a little over a month.
The beans and cucumbers her aunt was shouting to plant outside the yard definitely wouldn’t reach maturity; even if planted, it would just be a waste of seeds.
Gu Jin’s face gradually beca serious. She didn’t have any grand ambition to save people during this nationwide disaster; her current concern was how the Gu Family would make it through.
She rembered from the previous life that this disaster starved many people in the entire North China Region.
Thinking about that large area of space available, Gu Jin had an idea. If she could plant grains now in the space, then after the rainy season and enduring another month more or less, the grains in space would also be mature, and the Gu Family might withstand the disaster.
But the premise is that grains can be planted in the space.
Gu Jin glanced at An Mingji, who was watching beside her.
If she entered the space, she couldn’t bring this child.
"Little An, do you rember what the teacher taught before?"
An Mingji nodded vigorously, "I rember!"
Gu Jin smiled warmly, "Then shall we review it once more?"
Although An Mingji felt it wasn’t necessary—he had all that content morized in his mind—he still nodded, "Okay."
"So good." Gu Jin smiled.
She led the child back to the house, rummaging through boxes and cupboards to find her elentary and junior high school textbooks, stacking book after book onto the bed.
"Look through all these, and if there’s anything you don’t understand, mark it, and I’ll teach you when I co back."
"Sister Jin, are you going out?"
The child only noticed this part.
Gu Jin nodded, "Yes, I have to go out for sothing and can’t take you; you stay ho and wait for obediently."
"... Okay."
Even though he wanted to go along, he didn’t want to be disliked.
Gu Jin patted the child’s head, "Good."
After reassuring the child, she left the room to find her aunt and cousin behind the house.
Behind the house, there was a patch of land where the family often planted fruits and vegetables to ensure they had food, especially in winter, when they would fill the ground with cabbages that could be eaten until after New Year’s.
By the ti Gu Jin arrived, her aunt and cousin had already planted several rows of cucumber and bean seeds.
Seeing Chen Hong slowly walking from the edge of the field, Gu Jin called out, "Aunt."
"What are you doing here? We don’t need your help with this."
Chen Hong thought Gu Jin ca to lend a hand with planting cucumber and bean seeds, waving her off dismissively.
Gu Jin smiled and pointed at the remaining seeds in Chen Hong’s hand, "Aunt, I wanted to ask where these seeds were bought."
"What do you want them for?" Chen Hong frowned, looking at her in confusion.
Gu Jin only smiled without speaking.
Chen Hong still needed to continue planting and had no patience to question her, bluntly saying, "At the small shop in town, they sell seeds there; the cooperative also sells them abundantly."
With that, she bent down to continue digging holes to plant the seeds.
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