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Ye Mingyuan went to work in the afternoon, and Su Jiao was going to plant some cabbage on her private plot for the cats to eat during the winter.

The weather here is cold, the winter is long, and only one crop is grown every year. The autumn harvest takes place in October every year, and spring plowing begins when the ground thaws around April of the following year.

After every autumn harvest, the public grain is handed over and the members distribute the grain, and the team is basically fine. At the end of the year, after the pigs are handed over to the unified purchase and the pork is divided, the commune members will be completely idle. Of course, some wealthy production teams will do some side jobs after the autumn harvest, such as making vermicelli, corn noodles, etc., to earn extra money on the hour. Members will also receive a few kilograms as a benefit at the end of the year.

Vegetables cannot be grown in winter, so every year I grow some cabbage, radish, potatoes, carrots and other vegetables in my private plot and store them in my vegetable cellar for winter consumption. Some vegetables that are not easy to store, such as beans, eggplants, peppers, cucumbers, etc., are also used. It will be dried into vegetables.

There are also mountain products, because there are more mountains in the north, and there are more wild vegetables, mushrooms, nuts and other mountain products. Villagers will also pick mountain products in their spare time in September and October, and dry wild vegetables, mushrooms and nuts.

Because there are fewer people here and more land, each household has plenty of private land. Since the Ye family has two adult laborers, Ye Mingyuan and Su Jiao, her family has 2 points of land. Now there are potatoes, beans, and radishes in the land. , peppers, eggplants, leeks. Beans, peppers and eggplants are already mature and can be picked and dried, while others are still in the growing stage.

Su Jiao took Ye Yao, the little stickman, to pick the ripe eggplants, peppers and beans and put them in the kitchen, and then pulled out the old bean seedlings and eggplant seedlings.

After doing this, Su Jiao, who was about to take a break and plant cabbage, lowered her head and discussed with Ye Yao, who was following her step by step: "Yao Yao, my sister-in-law bought you chicken cakes and fruit candies in the county town, and put them in the kang cabinet. You go Take some and play with your friends and share it with them, okay? My sister-in-law is going to plant cabbage and dry it. I will go out and call you back after my sister-in-law is finished, okay?"

"I want to grow vegetables with my sister-in-law. She will be tired by herself, so I want to help her." Ye Yao said coquettishly while holding Su Jiao's trouser legs.

Listening to her sensible words and looking at her dependent appearance, Su Jiao felt energetic all over and thought to herself: "My Yaoyao is really a little angel on earth. Her pain is really not in vain. She is so sensible."

"Okay, how about I give my little helper some delicious oil as a reward that night?" Su Jiao knelt down and kissed Ye Yao's little face, and said with a smile.

"Thank you, sister-in-law, I like to eat fried rice the most!" Ye Yao kissed Su Jiao and responded sweetly.

The aunt and sister-in-law worked hard all afternoon and finally planted cabbage, and dried beans and eggplants in the yard.

Ye Mingyuan finished work, went to the team's public room to record his scores, and was about to go home. Before he had gone far, several aunties from the team caught up with him.

Ye Mingyuan looked back and saw that it was a few typical gossiping aunts in the team, and stopped, knowing that they should have something to ask him.

"Yuanzi, we heard from Fengzhen that your wife went to the county town to buy meat for the old couple today? Is it true? Is she putting it on her own to put money on her girl's face? We also see the child Jiaojiao. He looks like a child who grew up with me, but he is not such a filial child!" As expected, the aunts started firing off a barrage of questions as soon as they walked up to Ye Mingyuan.

Fengzhen, Su’s mother, whose full name is Li Fengzhen, is Ye Mingyuan’s mother-in-law and Su Jiao’s mother.

Ye Mingyuan: "..."

Ye Mingyuan also asked what the aunt wanted to ask. Now there is no need to think about it. It must be her mother-in-law showing off to her teammates how filial her daughter is when she goes to work in the afternoon.

Everyone in Xiangyang Village knows that Su's mother likes to praise Su Jiao. In the past, the original owner was so good that she could be praised by Su's mother.

But because many people in the village also watched Su Jiao grow up, everyone knew what Su Jiao was like, so no matter how much Su's mother praised her, everyone just took it as a joke.

Recently, people in the village have been saying that the girl from the Su family has changed. Now she goes to work every day to cut pig grass and is very kind to others. Ye Yao is also clean every day, seems to have gained a lot of weight, and seems to be well taken care of.

Teammates who work with Ye Mingyuan all say that Ye Mingyuan has been in high spirits recently and is very motivated at work. It can be seen that the family is well taken care of at home. Otherwise, there are so many troubles at home that would be so troublesome, let alone Said it was work.

But when everyone in the village thought of what Su Jiao had done before, they still had doubts about Su's mother's words. Why didn't they come to Ye Mingyuan for confirmation?

Ye Mingyuan knew that Su Jiao bought meat for the Su family. Su Jiao told him during lunch. Ye Mingyuan had no objection to this. On the contrary, he was very happy that his wife could tell him frankly.

Because the Su family's parents had always taken good care of his family, and they didn't make things difficult for him when they got married. The bride price was only 20 yuan, and they didn't make any other demands. They took care of him in every way after the marriage.

There are no elders in the Ye family now. Ye Mingyuan has always treated the Su family's parents as his biological parents and is filial to them.

Listening to the aunts arranging his wife in front of him, Ye Mingyuan felt that he needed to explain it to everyone again, because his wife was really good.

Now is the opportunity to let everyone know through the mouth of the aunts, which is more effective than going door to door.

Ye Mingyuan organized his words and said: "Auntie, it's true. You can't look at people with old eyes. You have all misunderstood Jiaojiao. She was just young and ignorant before, but now she has grown up. Jiaojiao is kind and capable. , she takes good care of her family, is filial to her parents, and is very kind to me and Yaoyao. Yaoyao also likes Jiaojiao very much, and now I am ranked second in Yaoyao's heart."

Ye Mingyuan's words surprised the aunts. They all thought that Su's mother was buying the meat to give her daughter face, but it seemed to be true.

Some aunties felt that Su Jiao had really enlightened herself. Of course, some people think that dogs can't change their eating habits, and think that Ye Mingyuan is afraid of public disgrace and is lying to save face.

After Ye Mingyuan finished speaking, he didn't care whether the aunts believed it or not. He looked at the sky and felt that his wife should start cooking. He immediately said goodbye to the aunts and wanted to go home quickly to help and behave well.

As soon as Ye Mingyuan walked to the door of his house, he smelled the aroma of meat and immediately quickened his pace. He walked to the kitchen and saw Su Jiao filling pork into an oil jar. Behind him stood Ye Yao, who was holding a bowl and eating lard residue. .

When Ye Yao saw her brother coming back, she hurriedly ran to Ye Mingyuan with the bowl in her arms, raised the bowl in her hand, chewed the lard residue in her mouth and said vaguely: "Duoduo, chop it a little, it's dripping with grease paper."

Ye Mingyuan looked at Ye Yao's bulging mouth like a little squirrel, and couldn't help but said with a smile: "Don't worry, just swallow what's in your mouth before talking to your brother."

"Brother, the oil made by my sister-in-law is so delicious. Try it quickly." Ye Yao said excitedly after swallowing the oil in her mouth.

Ye Mingyuan happily ate a small piece of lard residue and said with a smile: "It's so delicious. Yaoyao goes to eat on the kang. Can my brother help my sister-in-law cook?"

Seeing Ye Yao nodding obediently, Ye Mingyuan carried her to the kang and went to the kitchen to light the fire.

"Daughter-in-law, what should we have for dinner?" Ye Mingyuan chatted with Su Jiao while adding firewood to the stove.

Su Jiao opened the lid of the pot, stir-fried the vegetables in the pot, and said without looking back: "There is still some ribs left at noon, I will add some beans, eggplant and oil to make a stew, and then stir-fry the peppers to stir-fry the large intestines. The main food is the leftover rolls from lunch and some rice porridge to relieve fatigue."

Ye Mingyuan started to swallow when he heard Su Jiao announcing the names of the dishes. He couldn't react automatically because his body was too short of oil and water.