Xiangmu Village is close to Cheng County, where there are many people and quite a few wealthy individuals. They look down upon just a couple of acres of sugarcane land or hundreds of jin of sugarcane sugar and brown sugar.
Moreover, even if they cared, after knowing that the Jiang family and the Liu family were on good terms, they wouldn’t dare do anything.
Xiaomi has reason to believe that Big Brother must also know Uncle Liu’s identity, otherwise, he wouldn’t be so confident.
As for the villagers, they are not foolish. The people of Fu’an Village are more courteous to the Jiang family because of Grandpa Liu. Would the villagers of Xiangmu Village not notice the luxury carriage that often visits the Jiang family?
Even if they don’t know the Liu family’s status, they know they must be rich or noble; the Jiang family has strong backing!
In this way, there’s no more worry about being targeted by the villagers because of showing wealth.
Although, previously, it might have been overthinking on their part. Who knows, it’s always good to be cautious.
Jiang Hu listened as his children talked about planting sugarcane. Nowadays, there are many things at ho that bring money, and selling vegetables and at has beco more convenient.
As for planting sugarcane, it’s not necessary, but since the children have brought it up, it seems like there’s no harm in planting so.
"When Xiaoze and the others co back, we’ll ask them if your Uncle Liu can help get so sugarcane seeds back. If possible, we’ll plant so this year."
Growing sugarcane and making sugar—sugar is a valuable commodity. If possible, planting a bit isn’t a loss.
Chatting over als, after finishing, they went back to their rooms for an afternoon nap. After all, they slept late last night and got up early today, so they were all sleepy.
In the afternoon, Jiang Hu went to Yang Shulin’s house to talk about buying small fish.
With such a large fish pond, there’s no expectation to get enough small fish in just a day or two. It’ll probably take more than half a month, or even a whole month, with so caught each day.
By that ti, the fish pond will surely have enough water.
Apart from eating lots of good food and having new clothes to wear during the New Year, nothing seems different for the Jiang family.
After a nap, Xiaomi dragged Wei Ziang to water the saplings by the fish pond.
The grape saplings didn’t make Wei Ziang feel strange because Xiaomi had planted them in Fu’an Village before, and there are so in the yard now too.
Although they didn’t know what they were, since Xiaomi planted them, no one asked much and simply allowed them to grow.
"Oh no, this little sapling was trampled by the ducks."
The little sapling that was fine just a couple of days ago was now trampled into the ground. If it gets trampled a few more tis, it’s very likely that the sapling won’t survive.
Looking at the ducks and geese scattered around the shore, Wei Ziang said, "We need to fence these saplings off, otherwise, they’ll all get trampled by the ducks."
Xiaomi puffed her cheeks, "Tomorrow let’s go cut so bamboo and make a small fence to surround these saplings."
The ducks are free-range and don’t understand when spoken to, so the saplings must be protected first.
Wei Ziang nodded to show there was no problem, and the two of them stood the saplings back upright, taking so water from the fish pond to pour on them.
After making their round, quite a bit of ti had passed. They drove the ducks and geese back and went ho to prepare for dinner.
For the generally hobound Jiang family, the first day of the New Year passed just like that.
On the second day, after exercising in the yard for a bit in the morning and finishing up with the chickens and ducks, Xiaomi and Wei Ziang took machetes and baskets up the mountain.
No need to go to the bamboo sea behind the mountain; they only needed a couple of bamboo stalks.
After nearly a year of exercise, both of them had grown significantly stronger. Though not yet comparable to an adult, they weren’t far off from their elder brother Jiang Yu.
Just a few bamboo stalks, they could handle it.
They split the bamboo into strips on the mountain and chopped them into lengths of about a foot and a half. Xiaomi slightly sharpened one end, while Wei Ziang split two bundles of bamboo strips.
"Big brother, you’re really skilled. I still haven’t learned how to split the bamboo strips."
Xiaomi was envious; she wanted to learn but hadn’t managed to, instead getting a few cuts on her hands, after which it was strictly forbidden for her to learn.
Wei Ziang understood her intentions, "Just wait a bit longer. Once you’re a little older, you’ll naturally learn it."
When Xiaomi tried to learn before, she was too young and her hands weren’t strong enough, which is why she got hurt.
The two chatted away, making plans to co back to the mountain in the afternoon. They quickly got everything ready.
They carried a basketful of bamboo strips and tied a large bundle of bamboo slats, bringing back the remaining bamboo leaves and branches by hand when they returned to the mountain in the afternoon.
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