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Chapter 244: 244: If He Doesn’t Come, She Will Go

As the bean sprouts grew quickly, the wheat harvesting work was also drawing to a close.

Then a problem arose.

Where should the harvested wheat be stored?

Qiao Xiaomai’s house had three brick rooms, with her room and Qiao Changshun’s room filled with wooden boxes for growing bean sprouts. The hall was filled with miscellaneous items, so there wasn’t enough space to store the wheat.

“Just sell it,” Qiao Xiaomai decided with a wave of her hand.

The harvest this time was more than two thousand jin, which simply couldn’t fit in the house.

On top of that, the freshly harvested wheat had a high moisture content and needed to be sun-dried before being stored.

The task of sun-drying the wheat was a troublesome one.

Qiao Xiaomai was unwilling to undertake it.

In addition, there was still a lot of land left to take care of, so her choice was clear: sell it.

In Bailu Town, there was a grain shop. Qiao Xiaomai asked them, and found out that wheat that hadn’t been sundried was cheaper than the other wheat. Nevertheless, Qiao Xiaomai didn’t mind. The over two thousand jin of wheat sold for three cents a jin, and she kept a few hundred jin for her family to eat. She sold off the remainder.

After these tasks, a few more days passed.

During this period, the wheat continued to ripen gradually. Soon, Anping Village entered the wheat harvesting season, and everyone became busy.

Every family was busy, so it was not easy to hire workers at this time.

However, since Anping Village was heavily populated, people did come. Qiao Xiaomai raised the daily wage by an extra fen, which drew more people. At the very least, they had ten workers each day.

After about ten days of this busy schedule, they had harvested a third of their wheat.

What was left were the fields that were far away from Anping Village—the land that Yang Ye had given to her was also quite some ways off from Anping Village.

As the distance from Anping Village was too great, simply walking back and forth would take too much time.

Desperate, Qiao Xiaomai had to go to the town again to buy two ox carts to transport people there.

With two more oxen at home, the three-member family became even busier. Qiao Changshun was responsible for overseeing work in the fields, Qiao Xiaomai for household chores, and Qiao Dami for cutting green fodder and collecting firewood.

It was during one of these exhausting days that Qiao Xiaomai wished for the first time that Zhuang Luhe could come back.

The lack of a woman of the household was proving to be a hassle.

However, when she laid down on her bed at night, she quickly put aside the thought of Zhuang Luhe returning.

The father-son duo of Qiao Changshun and Qiao Dami were both naive and innocent, not realizing at all that her soul had been replaced.

Furthermore, no matter what she said, even if they resisted initially, they would eventually agree.

But Zhuang Luhe would be different. Mothers knew their daughters best. Zhuang Luhe would definitely sense her abnormality.

Therefore, she sincerely hoped Zhuang Luhe would live well outside, and never return home.

Soon, the end of the month arrived and a big event was coming.

Tong Tiehu’s sixtieth birthday was around the corner.

A month ago, Tong Sanlang had come to discuss the menu with her. However, with Tong Tiehu’s sixtieth birthday only two days away, Tong Sanlang hadn’t come to find her yet.

The Zhang Family wouldn’t forget about something as important as hiring a chef for the birthday banquet.

So, there was only one possibility: The Tongs did not intend to hire her anymore.

Given the implicit hint, she should’ve been glad.

But…

One should keep their word. Since she had agreed to the negotiation a month prior, she had to abide by the agreement.

If Tong Sanlang refused to visit her, she would go find him instead.

Feeling pleased with her decision, she filled a basket with bean sprouts, tofu, and dried tofu that evening. After paying the day’s wages, she headed to the Tong’s.

The entire Tong family was home.

Even the couple Tong Xingda and Mrs. Zhang were present.

The family was sitting in the courtyard, having dinner..