Chapter 288: Chapter 288 Garlic Shoots Chapter 288: Chapter 288 Garlic Shoots The weather gradually warmed up, and the villagers’ fields were all planted with crops.
Only Madam Xie’s field was still planted with garlic sprouts, and seeing this, everyone was afraid that she would miss the farming season and end up with nothing to harvest. “How will you get through this year?” they worriedly advised Madam Xie, “Hurry up and pull out the garlic sprouts, plant the crops. However profitable the garlic sprouts may be, it’s not a long-term solution. Grains are the real deal; they can fill your stomach anytime. If you keep hesitating, you will miss the spring ploughing, and your mother and daughters will go hungry this year!”
Madam Xie thought this made sense; for thousands of years, farmers have relied on their fields for food. Earning extra cash is never the main affair, so she quickly went home to discuss with Xuexue.
“Xuexue, our field is the only one left in the village without crops, so how about we pull out the garlic sprouts tomorrow and plant the crops right away?”
“That sounds good. Tomorrow, we’ll go to the field, harvest all the garlic sprouts, and deliver them to Xiaohe Restaurant,” Xuexue considered. After all, garlic sprouts were not so rare anymore. Ever since people found out about her profitable garlic sprouts, many villagers started planting them too. Now, at every street and market, there were people selling garlic sprouts.
Early in the morning, before dawn, Big Bull and Xuexue went to the field and harvested all the garlic sprouts, bundling them up and placing them in baskets, ready to be delivered to Xiaohe Restaurant on the ox cart in a while.
“Big Bull, you stay at home later, I can go to town alone,” Xuexue was always worried about leaving Madam Xie at home where she might be bullied. With Big Bull watching over her, she felt at ease.
“That won’t do, Wife. Last time you went to town alone, it was so dangerous. Big Bull is worried; it’s safer to go with you,” Big Bull said, still scared when recalling the last incident.
Xuexue regretted telling Big Bull about Master Zhang kidnapping her; simple-minded as he was, he would surely worry about her.
“Wife, if you don’t take me with you, I will tell mother about the kidnapping incident from last time. She will certainly agree that I should go to town to protect you.”
When Big Bull said this, his expression was as naive as ever. Xuexue didn’t sense anything unusual but was surprised that Big Bull actually knew how to threaten her. Without a word, she turned her head to the side and spent a good while scrutinizing Big Bull with her beautiful eyes.
“Wife, why… why are you looking at me like that?” a guilty Big Bull couldn’t help but feel nervous.
“Big Bull, look at you! You’re getting smarter, even learning to threaten me?”
“It’s all thanks to the wife’s good teaching!”
“Do you really want to go to town that much?”
“Protecting the wife is my unshirkable duty.” Big Bull puffed his chest out, assuming the brave posture of a man.
“Alright, I’ll take you with me,” Xuexue conceded as she placed the last bundle of garlic sprouts in the basket, and indeed, she truly feared that Big Bull might tell Madam Xie about her being kidnapped.
“Wife, you’re the best!”
Taking advantage of the moment Xuexue looked up, Big Bull swiftly planted a kiss on her lips.
Time seemed to stand still.
Xuexue was dumbfounded for a moment, then immediately snapped back, angrily shouting at Big Bull, “Big Bull, you bastard, are you asking for a beating? How dare you take liberties with me?”
It was fortunate that it was early morning, and aside from them, the field was empty; otherwise, Big Bull’s act of stealing a kiss would have been enough to cause a sensation throughout the Mo Family Village.
Big Bull, tall and sturdy, looked like a little wife standing in front of Xuexue with his head lowered, the very picture of aggrievement, “But you agreed to it, wife. Why are you scolding me now?”
“When did I agree to that?” Xuexue gaped in disbelief, convinced she must have lost her mind to have consented to such a ludicrous request.