Chapter 520: Chapter 520 Haystack Chapter 520: Chapter 520 Haystack Shopkeeper Fan held a notebook and a charcoal pencil in his hands as he was busy weighing the watermelons while counting them.
Xuexue also watched from the side. Today’s watermelon harvest had reached the required quantity. After a rough calculation, it was about a cartload, so she stopped and planned to pick more tomorrow to ensure the watermelons’ freshness.
Big Bull strode over and told him that an assistant had helped the village head move the watermelons home.
“No problem, just shout if you need them to do anything, don’t need to tell me,” Shopkeeper Fan said as he counted, smiling back at Big Bull.
Shopkeeper Fan had always felt that since meeting Big Bull and Xuexue, he had started to experience good fortune. The business at Xiaohe Restaurant was thriving more and more, and with the business of watermelons, the silver he made in these few months had multiplied several times over compared to previous years. He regarded them as nobles in his heart; why would he mind having his assistants help out with some minor tasks?
In less than two hours, the watermelons were fully loaded onto the carriage, and Shopkeeper Fan packed up his things, ready to head back to town.
Coincidentally, the assistant who had helped deliver the watermelons had also returned and climbed onto the horse carriage to return with Shopkeeper Fan.
Shortly after Shopkeeper Fan left, Madam Xie rushed over in a hurry.
“Big Bull, what’s up? Did Shopkeeper Fan leave?” Madam Xie, out of breath, arrived and glanced around, surprised by the emptiness of the field, then asked curiously.
“Yeah! He just left!”
Big Bull looked at Madam Xie, feeling somewhat puzzled. Madam Xie was a diligent farm woman who usually did things efficiently; why had she come to the field so late today? However, he dismissed the thought, assuming something at home had held her up, without giving it much thought.
“You must be tired, right? You’ve really worked hard. Big Aunt will go back and cook something tasty for you,” Madam Xie said somewhat apologetically, feeling embarrassed that as an elder, she hadn’t led by example in the field work, letting the two younger people toil instead.
Xuexue casually asked, “Mom, why did you come so late today? It’s almost noon.”
Madam Xie smiled, “I remembered I hadn’t fed the pigs after hanging the clothes to dry, and then I realized there was no pig feed, so I had to cook some. You know, one thing led to another, and here I am.”
Of course, she didn’t dare to mention that Old Lady Mo had asked her to deliver the watermelons to the Mo family, and she had ended up doing all the household chores there, cooked lunch, and only then was she allowed to leave the house.
Xuexue nodded, not saying anything more. People from farm families were like that, always having lots of miscellaneous things to take care of at home, and she understood that very well.
“Where is Chuner?” Madam Xie looked around, not spotting Chuner’s small figure, and felt curious as she had clearly seen her come to the field with doggy in the morning.
Xuexue raised her arm and pointed to a pile of dry grass not far away, laughing, “They are over there, the two little ones.”
It turned out the two little ones found the sun too harsh and had constructed a small hut made from dry grass, and were hiding inside eating watermelon!
“Those two little ones sure know how to enjoy themselves,” Madam Xie laughed and shook her head, then shouted loudly towards the pile of grass, “Chuner, doggy, time to go home!”
Indeed, Chuner’s crisp voice came from inside the dry grass pile, and soon after, a little head poked out. Pouting, clearly unhappy, she said, “Mom, why do we have to go so soon? Xiao Gougou and I don’t want to leave yet!”
Xiao Gougou’s head also appeared, as he climbed out from the pile of grass.
The two little ones had been playing ‘house,’ thoroughly enjoying themselves, only to be interrupted by Madam Xie, somewhat reluctant to leave.