Chapter 28: Hiding Wealth

"It's better to be prepared. If there's a heavy rain, we won't have time to clean up the rapeseed and millet. They will get wet and wet. That will be a real problem. Mom, you should come and help us clean them up." Liu Xihua was working in a hurry, and kept persuading Aunt Jiang to help.

However, Aunt Jiang just glanced at him calmly, rolled her eyes and said, "I would only do those useless things if I had nothing better to do! If you want to do something stupid, do it yourself, don't drag me into it."

After saying that, she glared at Liu Xihua fiercely, and sat there steadily without moving.

Faced with this situation, Liu Xihua was helpless and had to continue working alone.

When most of the rain had been collected, the sky began to darken, and the originally gentle breeze suddenly became strong and powerful.

The wind whistled past, blowing the fallen leaves, discarded papers and worn plastic bags all over the ground.

There was a loud "bang" and then a "bang". The open door was blown violently by the strong wind, and it closed tightly and then bounced open again.

In the yard, the clothes drying rack built with bamboo could not withstand the strong wind and was blown away two meters away.

"Mom, it's definitely going to rain heavily in this weather! Please come over and give me a hand!" Liu Xihua stamped her feet anxiously, her voice full of anxiety and eagerness.

This time, Aunt Jiang finally couldn't sit still anymore.

She got up in a hurry and ran to pick up her clothes one by one.

He shook it, rolled it into a ball and threw it back into the cool bed in the main room.

He quickly returned to the yard and helped Liu Xihua harvest the millet.

Liu Xihua also quickened her movements.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, one of them used a broom to sweep the millet into a pile, while the other used a shovel to put the grains into a snakeskin bag.

They worked together, and the work that would have taken longer to complete was completed in a short time.

Just as all the grain that was drying outside was moved into the main house, suddenly, a deafening thunder came from the sky, as if it was going to tear the whole world apart.

Immediately afterwards, large raindrops as bright as snow fell down.

In just a short moment, a pool of rain water had accumulated on the village road in front of the yard.

"Oh, it's a good thing we harvested quickly, otherwise the rapeseed and millet would be in trouble!" Aunt Jiang looked at the people hurriedly running to avoid the rain on the village road, and couldn't help but patting her thigh and smiling with relief.

Liu Xihua, who was standing by, also breathed a sigh of relief. She glanced at her mother-in-law and said, "Mom, I told you a long time ago that it might rain after noon, but you didn't believe me."

In fact, Liu Xihua was secretly feeling lucky, thanks to her daughter who informed them in advance to go home early. Otherwise, if they waited until the sky got dark and then rushed back from the fields of Canal No. 2, it would definitely be too late.

Aunt Jiang was caught by Liu Xihua's braid today, and she looked a little embarrassed.

She straightened her neck and muttered stubbornly, "You're awesome, okay?"

Liu Xihua knew that she had no chance of winning over her mother-in-law, so she wisely chose not to continue arguing and instead cleverly changed the subject, "It's raining, Dad and Daguo Meihua should be home soon, Mom, we should get ready to cook."

"Cook, cook." Aunt Jiang patted her sleeves and turned into the kitchen.

Liu Xihua washed her hands, went into the bedroom, picked up Jiang Xiaoxiao and changed her into a clean diaper.

She held Jiang Xiaoxiao and sat at the door of the main house, letting her breathe some fresh air.

At this moment, suddenly a man came running hurriedly. Because he ran too fast, he accidentally fell on the village road in Jiangjiayuan.

"Oh my, my old bones!" the man yelled.

Liu Xihua blinked quickly and asked loudly, "Aunt Gui, are you okay?"

Aunt Jiang, who was busy in the kitchen, heard a noise outside saying that Aunt Gui had fallen. She quickly put down her work, walked quickly to the kitchen door, and looked in the direction of the village road. When she saw Aunt Gui, who was soaked all over, struggling to get up from the muddy puddle, she couldn't help but slap her thigh and said, "Oh, Aunt Gui, what's wrong with you? Is there someone handing out gold bars in front? Are you in such a hurry to run away? Are you rushing to collect them?"

After saying that, Aunt Jiang burst into laughter.

It suddenly started to rain, and those people who were running hurriedly were all anxious to go home to pack their clothes and food.

In the field, Aunt Jiang had been ridiculed and mocked by Grandma Gui for a long time. Now, seeing Grandma Gui's miserable appearance, she felt particularly happy and couldn't help clapping her hands and laughing.

Mrs. Gui's face looked quite ugly. She glared at Aunt Jiang and then ran home in a hurry.

Aunt Jiang put on a bamboo hat and followed closely to watch the fun.

I saw Grandma Gui running to the yard in front of her house, hurriedly folding the quilt, and cursing why no one else in the family came home early to help.

Seeing that all four pieces of cotton wool were soaked by the rain, Grandma Gui was anxious but helpless.

Aunt Jiang raised her eyebrows triumphantly, turned around and went back home, and told Liu Xihua the joke she had seen.

Liu Xihua frowned, secretly rejoicing in her heart that her Xiaoxiao was such a lucky child! She was able to foresee the future and notify her in advance to go home and collect her things, otherwise it would be her family that would be laughed at by others.

You know, she just brought in 200 kilograms of rapeseed and 100 kilograms of millet.

Although the things are not much, it is not a small amount for this poor family.

After a while, Jiang Daguo, Uncle Jiang, Jiang Meihua and Jiang Meilan who was at school returned home one after another. Although everyone's clothes were wet, they were in a good mood when they heard that the food and clothes at home were not exposed to the rain and were harvested in advance.

Because on their way back, they saw clothes, quilts, grain and seeds drying in front of many people's houses, all of which were soaked by the rain to varying degrees.
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After working on my own, every day is very busy and the time goes by quickly.

In a blink of an eye, all the grains that should be harvested in the fields of Jiang Daguo and Liu Xihua were harvested, and they started the next planting season.

For example, after the rapeseed is harvested, the soil can be deep plowed and dried for a few days before sweet potatoes can be planted.

Sweet potatoes can be used as staple food and can also be fed to pigs.

Aunt Jiang went to the fields once. Except for her neighbor Aunt Gui who made fun of her, everyone else just looked at her from a distance and didn't say anything to her.

Besides, Gui Po made a fool of herself in front of Aunt Jiang, and she dared not say anything bad about Aunt Jiang anymore.

After a few times, Aunt Jiang was no longer afraid to go to the fields.

The family goes out together every day and comes back together. On Sundays, Jiang Meilan will go to help. The crops in the Jiang family's fields are growing stronger and stronger, visibly.

On a fine day, Jiang Daguo transported the dried rapeseed to the town's granary on a cart, exchanged it for some food coupons and cash, and bought some steamed buns and snacks to bring back for his family to change the taste.

After returning home, Jiang Daguo parked the cart at the gate and called Liu Xihua, "Xiaoxiao's mother, come out and get the things. Look what I bought. And guess how much I made from selling rapeseed today?"

He said in a good mood.

Liu Xihua didn't come out, and Jiang Daguo heard Jiang Xiaoxiao's thoughts.

[Dad, you have to hide your wealth. Someone is coming to borrow money from us.]

Jiang Daguo frowned. Borrow money?

Who is coming?
Jiang Daguo walked into the main house holding a paper bag of buns in one hand and the meat he had bought in the other.

"Brother, you're back? Did you sell rapeseed? The harvest in the fields is good." Jiang Meizhi said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)