The road leading to Dongshan Village is not smooth, especially that section of the mountain road is very bumpy. Xia Furong felt that her internal organs were about to pop out. She had a stern face, with endless resentment in her heart: Auntie is really, she can't live in a good house in the town, so she insists on running to the poor and remote countryside. It's all that cheap girl. If she hadn't said that my uncle had always lived in Dongshan Village, my aunt might have settled down in the town by now!
Whoops! One who didn't pay attention, Xia Furong's head hit the window of the carriage, making a loud noise. The little girl covered her painful head, and looked at her aunt, Mrs. Fang, with teary eyes.
After all, Mrs. Fang practiced with her own man. She sat upright in the carriage, no matter how bumpy the carriage was, she sat still like a clock.
Yu Xiaocao followed the bumping trend of the carriage, shaking her body, but kept her legs crossed all the time, her waist twisted and twisted, as if she was dancing.
Hearing the sound of Xia Furong hitting the car window, Yu Xiaocao turned her head, looked at her with a smile, and said, "Cousin, after passing this mountain road, you will find Dongshan Village. If you concentrate, you won't get hurt!"
The smile on Xiaocao's face, in Xia Furong's eyes, was laughing at her. She clutched the bag on her head, and complained to Mrs. Fang angrily: "Auntie, look at her! I was hit like this, and she is still talking sarcasticly."
Yu Xiaocao opened her big black eyes and looked at her innocently: This person really doesn't know good people, so I'm comforting her, okay!
Mrs. Fang patted her daughter's thin shoulders, and said softly to her niece: "Furong, your cousin is caring about you, reminding you to be careful, don't hurt yourself again."
"Auntie! You are so biased!! She obviously has bad intentions, yet you still speak for her!! Auntie, since you have a goddaughter, you won't love your niece anymore, woohoo..." The little girl cried aggrievedly.
Yu Xiaocao twitched her lips: How old are you, and you still cry and fight for favor, is it interesting? Our family is pampered by parents, so we don't lack love, so we don't have the same knowledge as this little girl!
Mrs. Fang saw Xiaocao's little movements, and the more she looked at it, the more cute she felt. Then look at the niece who was crying with snot and tears. She is already a member of her husband's family, and she is competing for favor with a little girl who is less than ten years old. It's also my own fault, the love and affection for my niece has raised her mind. After the wish is shattered, it is inevitable that there will be a psychological gap.
"Don't cry, you've reached the age where you can say goodbye, and you're still fighting for favor with a little girl, aren't you afraid of being laughed at?" Mrs. Fang handed over the handkerchief in her hand and comforted softly.
Xia Furong is a big girl after all, she blushed when she heard this, she lowered her head and did not forget to take a good look at Xiaocao, and said in a low voice: "Auntie, who else would laugh at me here except her?"
Mrs. Fang said helplessly: "Xiaocao is my goddaughter, you are sisters now, you have to get along well, don't always be like a cockfight, you will fight as soon as you meet..."
The expression on Xiaocao's face became even more innocent, she pursed her mouth and said, "Mother, I don't have one!"
Mrs. Fang smiled and comforted her: "Our Xiaocao is a good boy... Your cousin has just arrived in a strange place and is not very used to it. You should do your best to be a landlord."
"I will!" Yu Xiaocao looked at Xia Furong maliciously, thinking whether to take her to the mountains to catch caterpillars, or go to the beach to dig sea intestines to catch sea cucumbers
Xia Furong glared at her fiercely, and responded aggrievedly: "Don't worry, aunt, I will let my cousin!"
Aunt mentioned her marriage just now, as long as she is obedient and sensible and doesn't make her angry, aunt will naturally plan for her. She'll put up with this cheap girl first, and it's best to see her less in the future, so that her heart will be pure!
In their respective thoughts, the carriage drove through the most difficult mountain road, and saw the outline of Dongshan Village in the distance.
Xiaocao pointed not far away, and said with a smile: "Godmother, over there is our melon field. It's not big, only about three mu. But watermelon grows very well, and one mu of land can yield several thousand catties!"
Mrs. Fang looked at the small fishing village as if embraced by Cangshan Mountain, surrounded by green trees and fragrant with birds and flowers. Where the grass is pointing, it is lush and green, making people feel comfortable looking at it.
"The plants on both sides of this road are..." Mrs. Fang asked with some doubts as she had never grown such crops in the village where she married as a dowry.
Yu Xiaocao glanced at the sweet potato seedlings by the roadside, and said with a smile, "Dongshan Village is near the sea, and most of the land here is sandy, where wheat and soybeans are grown, and the yield is relatively low. Therefore, most of them grow sweet potatoes, which are not picky about the land. crop."
"Sweet potato? Is it a new crop that can produce thousands of catties per mu?" The emperor brought back sweet potatoes, a high-yield crop, on his first voyage back then, and it was quickly popularized. With this kind of high-yield crops, more people would not die of hunger in the early Ming Dynasty, which was plagued by wars...
Yu Xiaocao nodded, and said: "The yield of sweet potatoes is indeed very good. If it is grown well, it may be two to three thousand catties per mu."
"Stop bragging! It's about this time, the wheat on Zhuangzi is heading, and the sweet potato has nothing but leaves left. In the remaining one or two months, it can bear more than 2,000 catties of fruit? Coax Who is it!" Xia Furong curled her lips, her tone full of finding fault.
Seeing the strange expression, Yu Xiaocao said in amazement: "Cousin, you don't think sweet potatoes grow on vines, do you? Pfft... Don't get me wrong, I'm not kidding you... But, it's really funny... The fruits are grown in the ground. Uncle coachman, please stop in front..."
Yu Xiaocao jumped out of the carriage, picked up a dead branch from the side of the road, and dug down the sweet potato vines in the nearby field.
"Hey! How can you dig other people's sweet potatoes casually? Isn't that a thief's act? Come up, how embarrassing to be caught!" Xia Furong's voice was bluffing, as if she was afraid that others would not hear her.
Yu Xiaocao ignored her, and dug out a sweet potato that weighed more than one catty from the sweet potato vine, and several small sweet potatoes that weighed less than one catty. After getting out of the car, he said to his wife showing off: "Godmother, look, this is sweet potato. Sweet potato can be eaten with rice, steamed, or baked! It tastes delicious and sweet. If you eat it once in a while, it's still delicious. Not bad!"
Xia Furong showed contempt in her eyes, and said: "I didn't expect you to be such a person! You call him a thief without telling. Didn't your mother tell you this truth?"
The smile on Yu Xiaocao's face gradually faded, her big eyes stared at Xia Furong full of dissatisfaction, and said word by word: "You can say anything about me! Please don't involve my parents!! What do you know? That one The field belongs to my great-grandfather's family!!"
Xia Furong was so stared at by her that she was restless, and she argued in a low voice: "You can't just dig your grandfather's house..."
"Grandpa, do you always go for a walk?" Xia Furong was interrupted by Yu Xiaocao before she finished speaking. Sitting on the shaft of the car, Xiaocao greeted the figure approaching not far away with a smile on his face.
As soon as Yu Lichun looked up, Xiaocao sat in a strange carriage, nodded to her first, and said: "Yes, I have nothing to do, go to the field and have a look! Whose carriage did you come back from? "
"My godmother, my godmother came from the capital, I'll take her home to rest first—Grandpa, I'm hungry for roasted sweet potatoes, I just dug a few sweet potatoes in your field..." Yu Xiaocao said hehe Smiling, no embarrassment at all.
Yu Lichun knew that when the family was not separated, the Yu family ate two meals a day, and Xiaocao had a weak stomach, so he had to add a piece of roasted sweet potato as a snack between the two meals every day. The little girl has eaten roasted sweet potatoes for so long, now that she is living a better life, she still does not forget the taste!
He chuckled, and said, "If you want to eat something from your house, you can dig it out in the field! Your family didn't grow sweet potatoes this spring. When it's time to harvest, I'll ask your third uncle to send you a few bags."
"Thank you, Grandpa! I'll go to the field and pick a watermelon for you to send to your home!" Yu Xiaocao understood the principle of reciprocity.
Yu Lichun hurriedly shook his hands, and said repeatedly: "No, no! A watermelon costs two taels of silver, I can't bear it for your uncle! You can keep the silver for sale..."
A flower bloomed on Yu Xiaocao's face with a smile, and said, "Grandpa, what can't you afford? Can you afford to eat the things you grow at home? Last winter, if you hadn't lent me money to see a doctor, I would have said Maybe... You have always been kind to me, so what is eating a watermelon? That's it, you haven't tasted my watermelon yet!"
Yu Lichun wanted to say something, but Xiaocao waved to him, jumped into the carriage, and drove past him. Yu Lichun smiled and shook his head, Xiaocao is really a sweet girl, she knows how to be grateful.
"This is your great-grandpa? You two have a good relationship! Why did your godfather say in the letter that your family doesn't seem to get along with your grandparents..." Mrs. Fang didn't treat Xiaocao as an outsider. Thinking of the content of the letter, she felt a little asked with concern.
Yu Xiaocao didn't hide it in front of her godmother, and said lightly, "It's because my relationship with my grandma is not harmonious. My grandma... I'm a junior who doesn't like to comment, you'll know in a few days .My great-grandfather’s family is pretty good. It was so difficult last winter, and he lent me all the money in the family to see a doctor!”
"What? Are you in poor health? Didn't hear what your godfather said!" Mrs. Fang asked worriedly, looking at the slightly slender but energetic little girl in front of her.
Yu Xiaocao hugged Mrs. Fang's arm, rubbed her small face against it, and said softly like a coquettish cat, "I was not in good health before, but I was seriously ill last winter and almost died! However, It’s all good now! People often say: If you survive a catastrophe, you must have a future blessing. As expected, thank God for allowing me to meet your godfather and godmother!”
Mrs. Fang hugged the little girl in her arms, and said with a smile on her face: "You, this little mouth is as sweet as honey. The godmother has a century-old ginseng, and it's a gift for you. You asked your mother to use ginseng stewed chicken to nourish your body, you are too thin!"