Back at ho, the younger siblings were all waiting for him.
Nowadays, they cooked cabbage and radishes in the evening, adding so salt. Now that they had so lard, they could also add a bit after the soup was boiled, which made it quite fragrant.
"Big Brother, tomorrow morning let’s move all the luggage over there first. We also need to light a fire there."
Zhao Qingxiang looked at his younger siblings, feeling quite complicated. But he knew this was the only way.
"Qingjie, you have one hundred acres over there as well, does that an the farm departnt will also give you a donkey?"
"Yes, they gave a donkey."
"So we have two hundred and fifty acres then."
"Big Brother, let’s also plant wheat next year."
"We’ll plant in the spring."
"But there’s no seeds."
"I don’t understand what Yuanyuan is thinking. Why plant winter wheat? Isn’t it the sa if we plant in the spring?"
"Yuanyuan might be unwilling to give up. She wants to try and see if we can grow two crops." Zhao Xiaoli had heard Su Yuanyuan ntion it.
"If it doesn’t work out, then three hundred-plus jin of seeds would be wasted."
"If it does work, then we would have a yield from two seasons."
"I just hope it works. Even if we don’t plant two crops, we will have our own seeds."
"I hope it succeeds too."
Everyone had the sa thought. Many people had gone to see the wheat fields.
"I wonder when Yuanyuan will be back?"
With her around, Zhao Yanli felt a sense of reassurance.
"Xiaoli, did Yuanyuan tell you where she went?" Zhao Xiaojing asked.
"No, I didn’t ask, and she didn’t say."
"Xiaoli, are Yuanyuan and Tan Shaoting together?" Zhao Qingjie suddenly asked.
"Haven’t they always been together?"
Zhao Qingjie looked at his little sister’s confused expression and didn’t know what to say.
"Second Brother is asking if they’re dating." Zhao Xiaojing was also very curious.
From the first mont she saw Tan Shaoting, she liked him. But he was with Su Yuanyuan, so she always avoided him.
But in her heart, she hoped that they were just working and eating together, and nothing else.
"I don’t know. They seem comfortable together. I once asked Yuanyuan, saying many families were interested in Tan Shaoting, but Yuanyuan just smiled and didn’t say anything to ."
The siblings felt a bit down because they still didn’t know the nature of their relationship.
Zhao Qingjie had liked Su Yuanyuan since their old ho days, but they had too large an age gap, and people said her fortune was bad. Back then, she was too young, so he didn’t say anything.
What caused him to like her? Maybe it was the image of her herding sheep and working the fields?
But when they moved here, seeing her living with another boy, he thought they were still young. Besides, it was probably because they had a lot of land and were both alone, so they tead up.
But why did they do everything together?
After the five siblings finished dinner, they all went to rest.
The two brothers lay down on the heated platform. "Big Brother, should we write to Mom and Dad?"
"I’ve already asked the account of the farm departnt to help write it."
Qingjie, you and Yuanyuan are not a match."
"I know, it’s just that I can’t give up. That girl is so lovable and capable. She’s so smart; I like that Su Yuanyuan."
"Our family wouldn’t care about her fortune, but Yuanyuan has to be willing too. Besides, you’re several years older than her."
"I know all of this."
After Zhao Qingjie finished speaking, he stopped talking.
Among the girls, when Zhao Yanli fell asleep, only then did Zhao Yanping speak, "Xiaojing. Tan Shaoting won’t fancy you, and besides, there’s Yuanyuan."
"Big Sis, I know. Haven’t I always been avoiding Tan Shaoting?"
"If you can figure it out, that’s even better."
After that, Zhao Yanping didn’t say anything else. The younger sister was growing up, and it was normal to have soone she liked, but it was a person she shouldn’t like.
The next morning, after the five siblings had breakfast, Zhao Qingjie hitched the cart and took their four siblings’ luggage away.
Zhao Xiaoli also went along, as they needed to light a fire there as well.
This house was the sa as the one they lived in, and it had already been cleaned up. They just needed to put their luggage in.
The two siblings stayed there for over an hour before driving back since the eldest sister-in-law would be brought over by the big brother shortly.
Sun Yun wore a new set of clothes today, looking much more spirited.
She still had quite a lot of things. Her family hadn’t withheld anything, letting her take what she needed with her.
Zhao Qingxiang knelt down to Sun Yun’s parents, acknowledging them as his in-laws.
"Qingxiang, you two live well together.
You are both hardworking and diligent people, you’ll surely make a good life."
"Mom, don’t worry, I definitely will."
"Qingxiang, Xiaoyun has a quick temper, be more accommodating to her. If she’s really wrong, co back and tell , and I’ll straighten her out."
"Mom, I will treat Xiaoyun well."
The little couple paid their respects to their parents with three kowtows and then left with the cart. In fact, the bride price was quite hefty around here, but Sun Yun refused, and the Sun family didn’t want their daughter to be troubled, so they only symbolically asked for twenty yuan and even returned it with the daughter.
As the couple drove along the road, the weather had been very gloomy these days and was even colder than yesterday. So Zhao Qingxiang hugged Sun Yun all the way back ho.
By then, Zhao Qingjie and the siblings were back.
Zhao Yanping was cooking, as today was the happy day for the big brother. Even though there wasn’t a feast or blessings from friends and relatives, just the siblings, Zhao Yanping still prepared a good al.
Underneath were oil dregs and sauerkraut stew, with cornal cakes stuck to the side of the pot. This ti, no vegetables were added to the cake mix.
Seeing the big brother and sister-in-law co in, all four of them called her sister-in-law. They would be family from now on.
Sun Yun answered gracefully, without any shyness.
It was rare to have such a good al for lunch. The six of them sat on the heated platform, eating with great gusto.
"Big Sister, it’s snowing outside."
"It really is. The snowflakes are so big."
They had been here for almost two years now, but this was the first ti they saw such heavy snow.
"Eat quickly, go back soon, and take so grains. Judging by this, if it snows for a day and night, we won’t be able to open the door tomorrow."
Sun Yun’s hotown wasn’t far from here, and she had co here more than three years before Zhao Qingxiang and the rest, so she had experienced such heavy snow before.
"Sister-in-law, is the snow really that heavy?"
"Of course. Eat quickly, and after, pack so grains, and take so oil back too."
The five siblings were quite surprised and sped up their eating.
Actually, they’d already sent over quite a bit of cabbage, radishes, and sweet potatoes. This ti, they were just taking so lard and a bit of cornal, along with the utensils for eating.
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