She gave birth to three daughters in a row, and was kicked out by her mother-in-law who favored boys

Chapter 268 Vegetable Patch

"Yang Xing, are you done with your work here? Do you want to go to the front yard with me?" Gu Qingqing did not rush to answer Luo Meihua, but asked Yang Xing who was feeding the chickens and ducks.

Yang Xing was carefully observing the chickens and ducklings in the house. When she heard Gu Qingqing asking her, she turned around and said with a smile, "You go first. I'll take a look here."

"Okay, come find me in the front yard if you have any problems." After Gu Qingqing said this, Yang Xing was here, so she and Luo Meihua walked towards the front yard, and then explained it to her in more detail.

"After killing the duck, first use hot water to pluck the down from its neck, abdomen, and wings. Then collect the down and put it in a cotton bag. Soak it in hot water again. When the water is no longer hot, add soap and rub it. This cleaning process needs to be done several times. When the water becomes clear, it's done."

"Ah, we need to use hot water? I remember that family in the village washed directly by the river." Luo Meihua said what she had seen.

"Ducks eat a variety of foods, including bugs, earthworms, grass, and sometimes even feces. That's why there's a layer of grease on their down."

Gu Qingqing was afraid that she would ask what grease was, so she said quickly, "It's a smell. If you use river water to wash, the smell can't be washed away. Even if it is made into clothes, it will emit a duck-like smell. Just use hot water to get rid of the smell better."

Although Luo Meihua didn't plan to do it herself, she was curious just listening to it. Seeing that Gu Qingqing had stopped talking, she urged him, "Sister-in-law, how come you know so much? Then, tell me about it as gossip."

"Then! Then put it in the pot and steam it for half an hour, just like steamed buns. Then rinse it again with warm water. If the weather is good, pat it while drying. Only then is it done."

Luo Meihua sighed again after hearing this, "So it's so troublesome. No wonder she couldn't get it that day, she just washed it and sewed it into her clothes."

Gu Qingqing wanted to say that what she had was nothing. She had also seen people using goose wing feathers arranged in order and sewn onto clothes. Wearing them, they looked like bird people.

"The day after tomorrow the Wang family will be putting up the main beam, do you want to go over and help? If you want to go, I'll come find you and we'll go together. No, no, I can't sit for a while and I have to go back." Back in the main room, Luo Meihua asked if she wanted to go to the Wang family to help, and when she saw her trying to pour tea for herself, her hand was almost shaking leaving an afterimage.

"Go ahead, they came to help my family at that time."

"Well, I'll come to see you early that day, and we'll go over and take a look together."

Luo Meihua did not stay here for long. Her family members went to the fields. She went back to cook some food and then went to the fields to help.

After Luo Meihua left, all the children in the family gathered around, not saying a word, and all looked at Gu Qingqing.

On weekdays, Wen Wuyan went to work in the mountains, and the children went out to find things to do on their own.

Today they seemed to have no idea what to do. They could have just treated it as Wen Wuyan going out, but Gu Qingqing was slandering them.

"Aunt, what are we doing?"

Now it's her turn. Gu Qingqing sighed inwardly. This is really different. Normally, she would just wait for Wen Wuyan to come back to discuss anything if she had any problem.

Now I can only rely on myself.

When the time comes, she will let Zhao Dong do the work in the fields, so she might as well just leave it alone. She doesn't know when he can finish it.

However, the land has been contracted out, and she doesn’t have a vegetable garden yet, so she can grow some in the vegetable garden herself.

Gu Qingqing picked up Sanhua, who was being held up by Dahua's armpits and able to stand up, and walked out, the sound of her voice reaching the children's ears.

"Let's go! Let's go to the open space outside and open up a vegetable garden. This year, we can grow more vegetables at our doorstep."

"Okay, I'll go get a shovel." Li Xin immediately said as soon as he heard that they had to dig the ground.

Gu Qingqing, who was walking in front, stopped and looked back at him and said, "Daxin, instead of taking the shovel, take the sickle and hatchet at home. There are vine roots all over the ground, let's weed first. The ground is too hard now, we'll dig the ground after it rains in two days."

"Okay." Li Xin said and ran towards the ear room.

Then Gu Qingqing asked Erhua, "Are you playing with your sister near us? Or are you staying at home with your sister?"

Erhua didn't even think about it, "Mom, I'll follow you."

Gu Qingqing originally wanted to say that she should put up the door curtain, but in the end she didn't say a word because she suddenly remembered that the door curtain was now hanging in the backyard.

Then she looked down at Sanhua's not-so-good clothes, and then at her delicate skin, "Dahua, you hold your sister, and I'll take down the door curtain."

The reason for using a door curtain is that it is thick, so the cat won't get too hurt if it sits on it and plays or accidentally falls.

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The land that Gu Qingqing planned to reclaim was right next to their house, but the land did not belong to hers; it belonged to the village.

Because it is close to the hillside and the soil is not good, no one cultivates the land next to her house. In the past, the land close to the main road was a normally cultivated field in the village.

This piece of barren land alone is about two to three acres in size. Gu Qingqing has no intention of reclaiming all of it. She only plans to make enough space for her to grow vegetables.

Li Xin looked at his aunt who was busy on the other side with some confusion, and then looked at the three-foot-wide space allocated to him to mow along a straight line. Why didn't he just mow out an area next to each other, but instead cut a path through the grass?

Even though I didn't understand, the sickle in my hand never stopped.

Dahua was assigned by Gu Qingqing to help Li Xin.

It was not until noon that they met in the field. Only then did Li Xin ask, "Aunt, why do you have to cut it like this? Aren't we going to plant the land over there?"

Li Xin raised his hand and pointed at the area he was looking at.

From a bird's eye view, you can clearly see that Gu Qingqing cut out a "匚" shape on the ground.

"We'll be thankful if we can finish mowing this area today. Let's go home and cook and eat. Today is a nice day with no wind. We can light a fire in the afternoon and burn the grass in this area directly."

All Gu Qingqing did was to cut out a buffer zone to prevent the fire from getting out of control and burning the hay and her home.

At lunch, Old Yang learned that she was going to light the fire in the afternoon, and said, "Don't wait until after lunch to go, I will watch with you, so that I can help out."

Gu Qingqing also declined. Theoretically it would be much safer with him helping to watch over them. However, in order to prevent any accidents, she still carried two buckets of water and placed them aside as a backup.

The smoke coming from their side scared the villagers who were busy in the fields. They couldn't see clearly where the fire was from the distance, so they all thought that Wen Wuyan's house was on fire.

You Qi, who originally lived outside the village, Niu Zhanghe threw down half a bowl of porridge and ran out, "Yuzhu, come with me quickly."