The Country Maiden: Fields and Leisure-Chapter 25 - Ahem, Only When Sated and Warm Do Thoughts Turn to Longevity
25: Chapter 25 Ahem, Only When Sated and Warm Do Thoughts Turn to Longevity…
25 -25 Ahem, Only When Sated and Warm Do Thoughts Turn to Longevity…
Jinguan, when thinking of Old Granny’s temper, although she had been somewhat nicer to them these past few days, the psychological shadow from before still lingered.
At that moment, the thought arose: what if Old Granny got angry again and reverted to her old ways?
Jinguan also started to feel afraid and worried.
The two little Beans, with troubled expressions and faces that spoke of deep suffering, followed behind Song Chongjin down the mountain.
A trace of surprise flickered through Song Chongjin’s eyes as he listened to the Wang Family’s Boy.
Was that tone really one of eagerness to work for Wang Yongzhu?
And they were worried about not doing the job well, fearful that Wang Yongzhu wouldn’t want them anymore?
This Wang Family must be poisonous.
How could they all be so…
Song Chongjin found it indescribably strange.
All three of them were preoccupied with their own thoughts and remained silent, walking down the mountain without a word.
After bringing the two children down the mountain, Song Chongjin was supposed to go home, but somehow, he turned his steps and followed behind the Wang Family’s Boy from a distance, watching the two children, disheartened, push open the yard gate.
His eyes were sharp, and he instantly noticed two figures in the courtyard, one fat and one small—the fat one, needless to say, was Wang Yongzhu.
She was speaking to the Wang Family’s maid about something, and the little maid responded crisply and scurried into the house.
Then he saw the Wang Family’s Boy approach, say something, and Wang Yongzhu looked down at their bamboo baskets for a moment, said something, and the two boys immediately perked up, cheerfully placing their baskets down in the yard.
One picked up a broom, and the other a rag, and they merrily went inside to work.
Wang Yongzhu, on the other hand, shook her head, a resigned smile on her face.
By chance, her gaze met with her own self, standing under a tree some ten meters outside the door.
Song Chongjin’s heart skipped a beat, and he felt a bit like he’d been caught in the act, unsure of what face to put on at that moment.
Luckily, he was accustomed to being expressionless, so his thoughts weren’t immediately apparent.
But he saw Wang Yongzhu seemed taken aback for a moment, then calmly shifted her gaze, as if she hadn’t seen him, and turned around to head straight into the house.
Song Chongjin let out a sigh of relief, but at the same time, he inexplicably felt a bit stifled, and with a dark face, he turned without looking back and headed home.
Song Chongjin didn’t know what to make of his feelings as he left, while Ming Zhu was somewhat baffled.
Hadn’t Song Chongjin called off the engagement?
Why was he still standing from afar outside her door, looking inside?
Was he afraid that her family would have second thoughts or what?
They say a woman’s heart is as deep and elusive as the ocean, but men’s hearts are just as unfathomable!
Yet, Ming Zhu didn’t have the mind to dwell on Song Chongjin at the moment.
Though there was that bothersome love story mission, there was no set deadline, so she decided to wait until she had sorted out the Wang Family’s affairs and secured her position before considering it.
Isn’t it said that only upon being well-fed and warm does one contemplate the desires of the flesh, cough, or contemplate a lifetime…
With this thought, Ming Zhu felt it inappropriate to keep looking at Song Chongjin any longer, especially when Jinhua inside was calling her, “Old Granny, can you come and check if we placed this correctly?”
Ming Zhu thus averted her gaze and went inside.
The main room had undergone a complete transformation; the corners where spider webs and years-old dust had gone unnoticed were now all cleaned.
Although there were not many pieces of furniture in the main hall, with the eye for detail that Ming Zhu had carefully cultivated over the years, a slight rearrangement immediately made the space feel more open.
The side room next to the hall where Old Granny Zhang and her husband lived was also cleaned spotlessly.
Ming Zhu couldn’t help but sigh, the three Little Beans’ fighting spirit was indeed commendable.
Aside from giving a few orders and wiping the table with a cloth, she didn’t have to lift a finger; the three Little Beans swiftly completed everything else.
Nodding her head, Ming Zhu instructed Jinguan and Jinpan to move a wooden rack discarded by Old Granny Zhang’s house to the firewood room she planned to use for cultivating Yellow Pine Mushrooms.
This was also an excuse Ming Zhu found in order to complete the task of creating a spotlessly clean space; she didn’t dare to act on a whim and do things that did not suit Wang Yongzhu’s character anymore.
She merely said she had taken a liking to the wooden rack in Old Granny Zhang’s room and wanted to move it to cultivate Yellow Pine Mushrooms.
After moving it, she feigned dissatisfaction with the mess it caused and “casually” instructed the three Little Beans to tidy up the room, to avoid Old Granny Zhang scolding anyone when she returned.
Old Granny Zhang’s name carried weight; not only did the Little Beans not overthink, but they also felt their aunt had a kind heart, worrying they might get scolded, and reminded them in advance.
“The aunt is really nice!
She even helped to wipe the table herself, she must be fond of us!
It’s true what Granny said, the aunt is the best person, she always thinks of us!
We actually misunderstood the aunt in the past, that was so wrong of us!
We must listen to the aunt well!
If the aunt says east, we will never go west if the aunt says to beat a dog, we will definitely not chase a chicken!”
Thinking this way, the Little Beans cleaned up the room with great enthusiasm and then waited for Ming Zhu’s next order.
Although the Wang Family’s house in Qilidun was considered decent, it was only one courtyard, and it was packed full of people.
When Jindou and Jinhoo grew up and needed to get married, the house might not be big enough.
After searching around, the only space available for Ming Zhu’s use was the firewood room.
The firewood room was adjacent to the kitchen; every winter, they had to collect a room full of firewood from the mountain to keep the family warm and cook food.
Now that it was already spring, the firewood room had emptied out significantly, and Ming Zhu took advantage of this.
The firewood room had already been cleaned, and Ming Zhu had the Little Beans carry in the wooden rack.
She selected several suitable pieces of firewood to place on the rack and unearthed some old bamboo mats from the corner to spread on top.
Then she had the Little Beans evenly spread the pine needle soil they had brought back on the bamboo mats.
And just like that, a simple cultivation bed was set up.
The three Little Beans circled the cultivation bed, and after a long look, Jinguan cautiously asked, “Aunt, are the mushrooms going to be planted here?”
Ming Zhu nodded and gazed at the three Little Beans’ faces, which were patched with dirt from cleaning, “Alright, you’re done with today’s work.
Go wash your faces now, see how dirty you’ve become?”
The three Little Beans looked at each other and hurried to the courtyard to fetch water and wash their faces.
Taking advantage of the absence of people, Ming Zhu carefully planted two small Yellow Pine Mushrooms she had set aside into the pine needle soil.
She took out a bottle of Primary Gene Evolution Fluid, poured out a drop, diluted it with a large bowl of water, and watered it over the roots of the Yellow Pine Mushrooms.
She sprayed the remaining mixture over the cultivation bed, then grabbed a handful of pine needles to cover the two small mushrooms before leaving the firewood room and carefully closing the door behind her.
Back in her own room, Ming Zhu felt that she had completed the task of ensuring everything was clean and orderly; however, she waited and waited without hearing the System’s notification sound, “System, has the task not been completed yet?
Don’t tell me I have to clean every house of the Wang Family, right?”
If that were the case, she would rather the task failed!
What a joke, even if Wang Yongzhu lost her mind, she wouldn’t clean every house of the Wang Family!
If she really did that, she wouldn’t need others to accuse her, Old Granny Zhang would be the first to suspect her.
