Chapter 240 - Chapter 240: Chapter 238: Guihua talks lightly about buying land, the old house is in a fuss about dividing the family (1/2)

Chapter 240: Chapter 238: Guihua talks lightly about buying land, the old house is in a fuss about dividing the family

Guihua followed and immediately understood when she saw Liu Sisi’s face.

She couldn’t help but sigh: “Sisi, don’t blame Brother Ye Lei for acting on his own. The weather is getting colder day by day, and the game on the mountain is becoming scarcer. Brother Ye Lei was anxious, so he went up the mountain behind your back. Besides, there are so many people in their party, and they all know about Brother Ye Lei’s situation and will help and support him.”

Liu Sisi remained silent for a while. Seeing her mood still wasn’t good, Guihua tried hard to reason with her but felt helpless. In her heart, she couldn’t help cursing those people for keeping Sisi in the dark. No wonder she was angry!

In the evening, Di Yelei didn’t come back.

Liu Sisi got up in the middle of the night to check on the two children to prevent them from kicking off their quilts.

As if in a daze, she seemed to hear faint moans of pain, but after searching all around, she could not find the source of the sound.

The cold wind outside cut like an icy knife, making her face and limbs ache.

Liu Sisi shivered and hurriedly covered the room door, crawling back into bed, shivering. It was so cold!

Knowing that Liu Sisi was home alone, Guihua came over early the next day before dawn. When she arrived, Liu Sisi was taking care of the Chinese chives!

There weren’t many vegetable varieties in winter, but Liu Sisi insisted on rotating daily between growing some mung bean sprouts and yellow bean sprouts, plus these few clumps of Chinese chives.

In the winter, the kitchen was always filled with cooking smoke, and every household was putting firewood in the stove.

Since they lived by the mountain, there wasn’t much to be found nearby, except for trees.

Di Yelei had already had the foresight to prepare a room full of firewood. In the evening, they would fill up the stove with firewood, close the stove door, and by the next morning, the fire would still be burning, warming the whole room.

Similarly, such an environment was perfect for bean sprouts and Chinese chives to grow. Small pots were neatly arranged on the edge of the stove, not taking up space and looking lovely.

“Hey! I say Sisi, I admire your brain for coming up with all kinds of strange ideas! Like these vegetables you’re growing now, how did you think of it? And the small bok choy outside the stable, how I envy it …”

Guihua was talking about the small bok choy Liu Sisi had planted using irrigation principles.

First, she cut moso bamboo to a length longer than the stable, dug out a groove in the center, connected the edges in a stepped arrangement, sprinkled small bok choy seeds inside, and then put soil inside, filling the hollowed-out bamboo. Then, all that was needed was to water it once a day. The excess water would flow from the top groove to the next level, and finally be drained into a gutter under the eaves.

It had been raining a few days ago, and Liu Sisi hadn’t bothered with it.

Unexpectedly, after a few days, the small bok choy had all grown! They were lush and green and very pleasing to the eye.

“Sister Guihua, why bring this up? What’s the difference between us? Later, you can take some of the larger ones home to eat. When the larger ones are plucked, the smaller ones will continue to grow. It’s simple.”

Liu Sisi said generously, grabbing the ready-to-eat bean sprouts.

“That’s great! With your method, we won’t be worried about not having vegetables to eat even if we don’t have land to plant them.”