Chapter 5 Planting Melon

Qi Sui couldn't wait to settle down on the day she bought the land. From then on, she had a real place to call home in this world. Yunyan Village was her first hometown in this world.

The system also reminded: "Congratulations to the host! You have one thousand points."

Qi Sui had never thought that there would be so many points, and asked in surprise: "I can actually get one thousand! It's more than I usually get from growing and selling vegetables."

The system explained: "Host, we are very humane! As you become more proficient and capable in this era, your system points will increase."

Knowing that the system has this hidden benefit, Qi Sui rubbed her hands and tried to ask "What if I become successful here, can I still go home?" Home would naturally mean her home before she traveled through time, a small house of 60 square meters. Although she has no parents to rely on, she still has her grandmother to take care of her.

The system could not empathize with her homesickness, and could only say truthfully: "I'm sorry, I can't."

Qi Sui's eyes gradually dimmed, and she pretended not to care: "Oh, I don't really want to go back, it's nothing big."

System: ...

After putting the land deed and the settlement book away, Qi Sui used her points to buy several bags of fertilizer, picked up her hoe and hurried to the east of the village. She lived far away, Not only does she have to take care of the vegetable fields and rice every day, she also has to go to the town to sell vegetables. Recently, Director Liu introduced her to several businesses, and if she needs more vegetables, she has to speed up the development of the newly purchased fields.

With two or three hours of leisure every day, Qi Sui worked hard to hoe, plow and fertilize an acre of wasteland. It took her more than half a month. She was tall, so she worked ten days in a row. After a few days of busy work, she became even thinner. The farmers in Yunyan Village finally waited until June. Most of the crops in the fields were ripe. They had to harvest the rice before autumn and dry the threshed ears of rice during the midsummer.

Qu Sui took a sickle and looked at the sky which was just beginning to brighten. She only had half a field of rice and it wouldn't take long for her to finish harvesting it. The rice lay neatly in the yard, a large area of ​​golden rice. She was so tired that her mouth felt dry. She drank three bowls of tea but still felt thirsty. She sat and stared at the door in a daze. Suddenly, she slapped her thigh and said, "Isn't it a good time to plant watermelons now?"

She thought that every household in Yunyan Village should plant watermelons. Qi Sui looked around and found that people here didn't grow fruit. There were a few fruit trees in the village, but they only produced sour pears, which were small and astringent and tasted terrible. Only then will they reluctantly pick one and eat it. She seemed to smell a business opportunity and immediately decided to use the newly purchased field to grow watermelons.

Qi Sui's usual style is to do what she thinks. Farmers' livelihood depends on the weather. Even if she has a system plug-in, she cannot interfere with the weather and can only sow seeds slowly according to the season. She bought a batch of ripened watermelon seeds at the Props Mall, saving her the tedious steps of artificial growth. She just planted them directly in the soil, waited for them to slowly sprout and then applied fertilizer, and the harvest would be ready in about a month.

After finishing all this work, it was already past noon, and Qi Sui's stomach was rumbling with hunger. Aunt Zhang's family was harvesting grain recently, and even Zhang Yuerou was too busy, so she didn't come to bring her food. She felt unworthy of it, so it's better this way. Qu Sui shuttled through the fields and vaguely caught a glimpse of aqua blue not far away, across the field. The figure moved slightly, and she thought of the fields in her grandmother's hometown.

it was spring, and a blue butterfly with it's wings flapping flew past her. She raised her hand gently, and the butterfly did not hide. instead it slowly cicled around her before finally landing steadily on her fingertips. After pausing for a moment, Qi Sui was about to get closer to take a closer look when the butterfly suddenly flew away from her sight, heading towards the horizon, getting farther and farther away.

During the days that Shen Yu came to Yunyan illage, she sorted out the number of fields in the account book, and knew exactly how many were abandoned. She also checked the deficits of the past few years one by one from the beginning and finally found out that someone had privately used the public funds of the farm to buy fields but the fields they bought were barrens and the money paid was more than enough, but no on e knew who had swallowed up the profits.

She asked Ruo Wei to bring the list and notebook of all the tenants of the manor, which clearly recorded who bought how many acres of land and when. However, she found that no one was willing to rent the wasteland, so it had to rot in their hands. Due to the drought and average grain harvest, the deficit could not be made up. Instead of sitting in the house and worrying about the account books, it's better to go directly to the farm to check the actual situation.

So Chen Yu seemed to be strolling in the fields, but in fact she was checking how many people were planting in the farm. When she passed by a farmer's house, she would ask people to prepare more tea and water for supply. Before long, everyone knew this young lady, She's the new steward of the farm. Just then, Shen Yu came across a barren field with no harvest. She stopped and thought carefully whether she should sell it or find someone to reclaim it, and how much money it would cost to do so.

When she turned around, she saw a familiar figure standing between heaven and earth, looking straight ahead with a serious expression. Perhaps they both noticed each other's presence. Across the empty land, they nodded to each other and then went their separate ways. Qi Sui did not talk to Shen Yu this time. She thought there was still a long way to go and they could continue the conversation.

Qi Sui was so hungry that she quickly prepared a meal after she got home. It was just a bowl of rice with a plate of fried eggs with tomatoes. The eggs were bought from another store, Qi Sui always liked to think about things while eating. as she picked up an egg, she decided to raise a few chickens after she finished her work, so that the yard would not be empty and there would be meat during the New Year.

There's a market tomorrow, and Qi Sui was thinking about going to town to buy chicks. When she was absorbed in the thought, she heard something fall outside the door with a loud noise. She hurried to check and found that the crossbeam hanging in the corner of the house could not withstand the erosion of termites and finally collapsed. Qi Sui was afraid that something would fall from the house again, so she stood outside the fence and observed the house carefully. It wasn't an exaggeration to describe it as being shaky.

She sighed: "If this were modern times, I think they would all be low-income households."

System: "Your  job is not bad."

Qi Sui choked and was speechless. She could only find a carpenter to repair it temporarily, When the watermelons are grown, she'll see if she can make a lot of money and rebuild the house.

Shen Yu had been walking all day and her back and waist were already sore. It was dark when she returned to the mansion. Ruo Wei heated the dishes up and cooled them down, and finally waited for her master to come back and wash her hands and change her clothes. Although she did not follow Shen Yu today, she wasn't idle at the mansion either. She took care of everything from top to bottom. With her outgoing nature, she also knew a lot of news these days.

"The former steward fell ill the year after the death of the eldest lady, and temporarily handed over the affairs of the manor to his wife's nephew Lin Dalang. From that year on, a lot of the manor's land was sold and a lot was bought, but The silver and grain in the account book are decreasing year by year, I am afraid that they all went into Lin Dalang's pocket."

Shen Yu was drinking hot soup and frowned when she heard this. Her father had never mentioned this matter. She put down the bowl and asked Ruo Wei: "Where is Lin Dalang now?"

Ruo Wei sighed and looked embarrassed: "This is what I want to tell you, Miss. Lin Dalang left at the beginning of this year, saying that he was going back to his wife's home to open a shop. The difficulty is that Lin Dalang has never told the people here where his wife's family is."

Shen Yu remembered that at the beginning of the year, her father had brought her brother and sister to the manor. She don't know if he had read the account book, or if he asked a question unintentionally, which would have been the reason why Lin Dalang run away secretly. There were vacant wastelands, a shortage of silver, and poor grain harvests, a series of messes in total. Shen Yu felt upset and went to bed early.

In her dream, she somehow thought of what Qi Sui said to her when she signed the land deed that day. "Madam Shen must be my destined benefactor." She muttered, "Benefactor?" and finally fell into a deep sleep.

Meanwhile, Qi Sui slept anxiously in the shabby house all night, her mind full of the words of the sage: "I wish I had thousands of mansions to shelter all the poor people in the world!" After several days of drying the rice, the grains were clearly visible. Qi Sui waved her hand and exchanged them for a grain cart in the points mall. She is very nimble and quick-witted. What an ordinary family would need two or three people to work together, she can complete all the steps by herself and thresh 100 kilograms of rice in just one morning.

As the harvest entered July, the chicks raised by Qi Sui grew up gradually and chirped around her. She was happy to see them, clucking and scattering food, muttering to herself: "Eat more, grow taller! Hurry up, lay eggs quickly." After feeding the chickens, she went to check on the watermelons in the melon field as usual to see if they were ripe. Today, she even carried a backpack, intending to pick a few more to send to Aunt Zhang's family, and also... Shen Yu.

After Qi Sui cured the wasteland she bought, she divided it into sections for sowing, planting watermelons in the north and rice in the south. No matter what era, food is the most important thing for people. When she walked to the melon field, she caught a glimpse of a familiar figure and recognized it as Shen Yu.

"Miss Shen? "Qi Sui put down the backpack and called her softly.

Chen Yu turned around and bow slightly: "Miss Qi."

Just when Qi Sui didn't understand why she was here, Shen Yu spoke first: "I passed by here unintentionally, but I saw a strange thing growing here, with green skin and black stripes. I remember that this fields was bought by Madam Qi, so I had the intention to wait a lot."

Qi Sui understood and went to the field without saying a word," It seems that we are really destined to meet. I was thinking of picking a few watermelons today and giving them to you to try. "

She bent down, patted them one by one, picked out the watermelon with the crispest sound, and said with a smile: "This way you don't have to make a trip, you can eat it right now."

Chen Yu listened to Qi Sui's frank and straightforward speech, as if they were friends who had known each other for a long time.

"Miss Qi just said that this is a watermelon. Although I have never planted a crop, I have seen a lot and know some, but I have never seen this thing."

Qi Sui raised the knife and chopped it into several pieces, She picked up the largest piece and handed it to Shen Yu. "Try it. If it tastes sweet, it's called a watermelon. If it tastes bitter, it's called an ugly melon."

After the words fell, Shen Yu's face was calm, She took the melon and obviously didn't understand that she's telling a joke.

The system felt embarrassed for Qi Sui: "How dare you tell such a cold joke."

Qi Sui was secretly sad, with a smile on her face but cursing in her heart: "What do you know? Ladies from noble families are all so steady and generous."

The system was too lazy to talk to her and log off again.

Shen Yu took a bite slowly and her eyes widened in an instant. Qi Sui, who had been watching from the side, naturally did not miss it and asked hurriedly: "How is it?"

"It's sweet and delicious, very unique."

Qi Sui felt her face suddenly light up, and after Shen Yu finished eating one piece, she stuffed several more pieces in her mouth, and made an excuse: "Madam Shen and I are destined to be together."

She stopped feeding her when she saw that Shen Yu really couldn't eat any more. The two sat on the ridge of the field, chatting endlessly. This was the first time Qi Sui had chatted with a girl of the same age since she came here. I don't know if it was because she had been lonely for too long, or Seeing that Shen Yu had a face as white as a jade plate up close.

Qi Sui learned that Shen Yu was the daughter of the county magistrate and exclaimed: "No wonder I felt that you had a unique temperament when I first saw you." Shen Yu had never been praised directly since she was a child. People often criticized her for her faults and the gap between her and her brothers and sisters. She felt a little uncomfortable and quickly changed the subject: "You are not ordinary either. You have all kinds of skills, unlike ordinary farmers."

Qi Sui raised her eyebrows and wanted to admit it proudly, but was interrupted by the system: "It is important for a person to know himself."

She had no choice but to change her words and said, "Everything in the world has spirituality. If you respect and provide for them, you will be able to get food and clothing." Chen Yu understood and said solemnly: "Miss Qi's sincere heart is witnessed by heaven and earth." Qi Sui smiled guiltily.