Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 340: A Narrow Escape Leads to an Unplanned Mother-Son Reunion (2)_1

Chapter 340: Chapter 340: A Narrow Escape Leads to an Unplanned Mother-Son Reunion (2)_1

Hearing these words, Mo Yan was happy too, though she didn’t feel they needed to be grateful, after all, they worked very hard and did well, deserving the extra Ten Wen Money she spent.

After joking around for a while, an older person stood up, looked at the sky, and said to Mo Yan, "It might snow in the next couple of days. If it keeps falling, we won’t be able to finish tidying up the fields within this year."

Mo Yan didn’t know how to predict the weather, but seeing everyone else nodding, she figured it would definitely snow in the coming days. In fact, the weather this winter was a bit strange; at this time last year, several heavy snowfalls had occurred, but this year, since the start of winter, only a few flurries had come down, yet the temperatures were much lower than the year before.

"Uncles and counts, please handle this as you see fit. Once it snows, stop clearing the fields. If we can’t finish by the end of the year, I will still hire you after the New Year. We also need to plant trees and grass on these terraces to preserve the soil and water, which will require your hard work."

"Thank you, Little boss!"

Everyone was delighted upon hearing Mo Yan’s words, thanking her eagerly one after another, no longer worrying about the snow delaying work and causing them to earn less Silver. Moreover, at the beginning of the year, there wasn’t much work in the fields for most families. If they could work for the Mo Family, even for just a month, they could earn a few hundred Wen, which was much better than idling at home and letting mold grow.

Mo Yan let them continue working while she used a walking stick to make her way down to the pond in the depression, walking around its perimeter. Looking at the empty expanse of water, she thought it would be nice to raise some fish and shrimp in there.

Being somewhat north, Jing City had less annual rainfall, which made it hard for ponds to retain water, so ordinary ponds couldn’t sustain fish and shrimp. Most people fished from rivers, and prices were quite high. Her family’s pond was fed by a spring, and as long as no severe drought occurred, it wouldn’t dry up. Raising fish and shrimp in it, whether for their own consumption or for sale, would be very good.

However, it wasn’t easy to find fry, and she would need to fish them from a river. Liu Yang Village had a river full of fish, with gentle currents. Come next spring, when fish reproduced, it was possible to catch some that were about to spawn and raise them in the pond.

Mo Yan also checked the newly terraced fields and found no major issues. After greeting everyone, she returned home.

These next couple of days were when she would visit her father, but it was highly likely that she would encounter snowy weather, possibly heavy snowfall. Mo Yan decided to take her younger siblings to the Academy tomorrow. Concerned that her father might get cold, she had Lixiu sew two thick cotton quilts and picked up several large sacks of charcoal from the storage room.

This charcoal was made by an elder in the village who had dug a charcoal kiln on the mountain. It burned long and produced little smoke, its quality just as good as that sold in city shops but much cheaper. A hundred jin was only eighty Wen Money, so Mo Yan bought over a thousand jin to last until the weather warmed up next year.

She also prepared a good amount of vegetables, rice, and meat. There were ten Spatial Chickens. Xiao Hua Dabai had hunted eight pheasants and eight hares, plus she prepared one fresh wild sheep, whose meat was great for hotpot.

In such cold weather, the vegetables kept well, and the treated meat could last until the next spring without issues.

Learning that they would visit their father tomorrow, the two youngest were extremely happy. Seeing their sister preparing so many things for their father, they were also anxiously eager to contribute.

In the end, Xin Er hurried to finish the new cotton shoes she had made for their father and brought out a new book bag she had prepared earlier.

"You both have gifts for father, but Zhenzhen has nothing, Zhenzhen is so unfilial!"

Saddened at not being able to make anything for their father, Zhenzhen looked at her two sisters with big hopeful eyes, wishing they could suggest an idea.

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