Zi Qing walked to the gate and asked: "Who is it?"

  It turned out that Grandma He brought over Eldest Uncle, Second Uncle and their families. Zi Qing quickly opened the door and took a look. Oh, there were indeed many people. Eldest Auntie Xu and Second Auntie Zhao, Eldest Uncles familys Third Cousin Wan Fu and Third Cousin-in-law Li, Second Uncles three cousins - Zhang Fu, Xin Fu, and Jin Fu - all came. Third Cousin Wan Fu was even pushing a unicycle with a basket on one side and an empty space on the other, probably where Grandma He sat when she came over. Grandma He was holding a bundle in her hand, while Auntie Xu and Auntie Zhao were both carrying baskets of vegetables. Zi Qing saw that there were big bok choy, lettuce, napa cabbage, scallions, and a whole basket of wild garlic greens - green and tender. Zi Qing thought to herself that if they wrapped dumplings with these ingredients, they would definitely be delicious.

  "Qinger, wheres your mother?" He asked while closing the door and walking inside.

  "My mother took second brother to the mountain to chop firewood. They wont be back until almost noon. Grandma is on the mountain behind."

  "Oh, Wanfu, you take Changfu and the others to search around, and help your aunt chop some firewood on the way back." Shen Wanfu led them away with a nod.

  He and Shen Jianshan first saw the basket of Zi Xi and Zi Shou standing beside it, hastily picked up Zi Xi, and Zi Shou called out to everyone one by one. He touched Zi Shous head and smiled: "Our little three is really clever, so young and already bringing his younger brother along."

  After finishing, Mr. He didnt wait for Zi Qing to lead the way and went into the wooden house by himself to take a look around. Zi Qing thought the wooden house was too small, the lighting was poor, and it wasnt as warm as outside, so he moved all the stools, chairs, and small benches outside, letting everyone sit in the courtyard.

  Hes family walked around the yard, looking at the neatly arranged vegetable garden and dozens of chickens. Madame Hes face slightly improved, while Shen Jianshan and Shen Jianshui looked surprised. Shen Jianshan said: "Mother, little sister has grown these vegetables really well, the cucumbers and beans are already on trellises, ours havent even sprouted yet. Shes planted so many, is she planning to sell them? If so, its a good time to get a good price. Ill ask her later how she did it, I remember when we were at home, she couldnt do farm work. What are these things in the ground over here, Ive never seen them before?" He asked Shen Jianshui, who also said he didnt know.

  "Big uncle, second uncle, those are foreign potatoes." Zi Qing replied.

  "Potatoes? This is potatoes, I heard from your third uncle that the yield is quite high. Then what about this seedling in the ground, should be able to transplant it now, right?" Shen Jianshan asked again.

  "Its time to transplant the watermelon seedlings, but mom said one person cant do it alone and told me to wait for dad to come back and transplant together."

  "Watermelon? It seems like a precious fruit, mother. The things my sisters family grows are all good stuff, and in just one year theyll be able to turn their fortunes around. I told you not to worry, brother-in-law is an educated man, he cant possibly have any ulterior motives. In the past, we didnt separate households, so we couldnt make our own decisions. But this time, my sisters good days are finally here. Look at these chickens, there must be fifty or sixty of them. With a chicken coop this big, theyll start laying eggs in less than two months." Zi Qing found that her eldest maternal uncle was more talkative than her second maternal uncle, and felt very close to him.

  "Thats good, you also know, your younger sister is the youngest, I only have this one daughter, at home she was also spoiled. I thought that marrying a scholar would mean not having to work in the fields and we could live a good life. Who would have thought that your brother-in-laws family would be like this? It has been over ten years, and its all been for nothing. My mother had wanted your older brothers to help out, but they couldnt do anything about it either. Now its fine, I can finally rest easy. By the way, you two shouldnt just stand there idle, go help your younger sister plant those watermelons. There are so many seedlings, when will she be able to finish?" He Shi said. And then asked Zi Qing if he knew how to plant them?

  Zi Qing listened with joy and hastily said: "I know, Grandma, its in the courtyard, look, there, a large empty space."

  "The yard is good, and its also convenient to watch out for thieves. Im really satisfied with this yard." He Shi smiled and said. Then she let Shen Jianshan go into the house to find tools. Shen Jianshan took out two hoes, and then found a pair of water buckets, letting Shen Jianshui go fetch water. Zi Qing said that was for fetching well water, and also brought him to the back of the house to get the bucket used for watering. So, Shen Jianshan loosened the soil, Shen Jianshui fetched water, Xu Shi and Zhao Shi and Li Shi pulled out seedlings, Zi Qing watched as Xu Shi poured a bucket of water and then pulled out the seedlings, each one carefully dug up with mud, and piled them up. Then Xu Shi and Zhao Shi went to plant, leaving Li Shi alone to dig.

  The He family sat under the sun, watching them busily. Zi Qing felt that this moment was great, with loved ones caring for you every moment, its hard not to feel happy. Zi Qing thought that the people in her maternal grandmothers house were much better than those in her paternal grandmothers house, diligent, generous and sincere. At least Zi Qing had never seen Tian Shi and his family hug Zi Xi, and Yan Ren Da was lazy and stingy, bringing a large family to live in the old house for twenty days without doing anything, when Zi Qings family was hiring people to build a wall around the yard, Yan Ren Da didnt even show up on the construction site, as if nothing had happened. Zeng Rui Qing at least came over a few times and helped out for two days. On the day of the move, Tian Shi brought her three daughters over to take a look, but never came again.

  About an hour later, Shen and the nephews returned together. Wanfu and several others dragged back a large bundle of branches, while Zirong was still carrying a basket of pinecones. Zirong had learned to use pinecones to steam rice, and recently he had been doing most of the cooking, which saved Shen a lot of trouble.

  Shen saw He and his family, was really excited, He patted Shens hand with one hand and said: "My little grandson is over a hundred days old today, exactly 99 days, the weather is also good, just come to see you. These years it wasnt convenient to come, but now its all right, my daughter finally made it through, when are you going to come and see me and your grandsons?"

  After chatting with each other, Madame Shen suddenly remembered that she wanted to go buy some rice and dishes. Madame He hurriedly said: "No need, I asked your brothers to bring some over, one family brought a little bit of everything. A small bag of rice, a small bag of noodles, eggs, meat, vegetables... For lunch, you dont have to make anything else, I had them pick a big basket of wild garlic chives, the dough is already risen, why dont you wrap some wild garlic chive buns? Your older brother said that your filling is delicious, but he hasnt gotten to eat any yet. You go wash the vegetables first, your second brother is transplanting watermelon seedlings, have Wanfu go fetch some well water, and just wash them at home. The vegetable washing water can be used to water the plants, it wont be wasted. At home, weve already sifted through all the soil.

  Shen Wanfu went to find the bucket, he had helped Shens family fetch water when he was working before. The heavy and tiring work at home were all done by them, later on, when I have the chance, I must repay them well, thought Zi Qing.

  Before long, He thought of something and said to the three sons of Shen Jian Shuis family: "Chang Fu, you three dont idle around either. Let your sister Qinger take you to the vegetable field and set up that cucumber frame. If there arent enough sticks, go cut some bamboo."

  Zi Qing was even more delighted after hearing this, now the household chores are no longer a worry. After arranging for everyone to go do their work, He Shi carried Zi Xi and Shen Shi into the house.