A Good Country Wife-Chapter 125: Particularly Impressive_1

After buying the ox cart, Lin Yue and Zhao Xinglin said their goodbyes. Recalling what his wife had said yesterday, Zhao Xinglin spoke up, "Little sister, you have come to the city so many times but have never visited our home. Yesterday, Sister Chunhua was still nagging me to invite you over for a meal. There’s a saying, ’a planned invitation is not as good as a chance encounter.’ How about coming to my house for lunch today?"

"Thinking about it, Sister Chunhua is already over eight months pregnant; she must be due in just a month or so, right? I hope she has been feeling well these days?"

"She’s been doing really well. You’ve been sending over food quite often, and your sister-in-law is very happy eating it. She said she wants to thank you herself, but it’s not easy for her to come out while she’s pregnant. She insists on having me bring you to our house. Just indulge me this one time; otherwise, Sister Chunhua will nag me again." Zhao Xinglin’s words were full of the affection Chen Family had for Lin Yue.

Since setting up her stall at the market, Lin Yue had received quite a bit of care from Zhao Xinglin, and she, too, had intended to visit Chen Family. However, she didn’t feel it was right to go empty-handed today, and besides, she had other matters to attend to. Therefore, she simply said, "Brother Xinglin and Sister Chunhua have extended such kind invitations that I really should not decline. I’ve been wanting to visit Sister Chunhua for quite some time, but I’ve been too busy to find the opportunity. It’s just that today I have other matters to deal with; I will make a special trip to visit another day."

"Why so formal? We’re practically family. Since you have other things to take care of, I won’t insist. You often come to the city to set up your stall at the market. Just visit Sister Chunhua when you have time."

"Alright then."

After parting with Zhao Xinglin, Lin Yue tied the goat’s leash, which Dalang had been holding, to the back of the ox cart, and placed the basket and other things on it. With the load off her back, she felt much lighter.

Oxen are docile creatures, and driving an ox cart isn’t a particularly difficult skill. Even Dalang could manage it well by himself. Still, since they were on the main street, Lin Yue didn’t dare to be careless. She led the ox from the front, while Dalang sat on the cart, swinging a whip leisurely in his hand, looking particularly proud. Lin Yue found it amusing to watch him.

Children all enjoy boasting to one another, and even the most sensible ones cannot change this fact. In Dalang’s eyes, having an ox cart was something to be very proud of, as only a few wealthier families in the village owned one. Usually, he could only listen to his friends brag, but now that his own family had an ox cart, he sat up straight and tall, feeling a sense of long-awaited pride.

Lin Yue first visited a shop that specialized in seeds. It was said that this shop had a complete variety of seeds, and many of the seeds used in the estates of affluent families were purchased here.

With spring plowing upon them, most fields in the village were planted with rice. Lin Yue had been too young to work in the fields even back when they lived in a rural area, and her grandfather never let her take part in rice planting. She wasn’t particularly skilled at it, and the thought of grasshoppers and other pests in the rice fields made her shudder. Besides, the yield of rice at this time wasn’t very high, so Lin Yue decisively decided against planting rice, planning instead to grow vegetables in the fields to sell at the market for Silver Coin, which could just as well buy grain.

Lin Yue had inquired with Sister Chunhua beforehand and knew that the majority of the crops currently grown in the village were corn, peanuts, soybeans, and cabbage, with a few families cultivating string beans. There were no other vegetables, after all, there wasn’t much land to spare for other crops when it wasn’t even sufficient for grain. Those varied types of vegetables were only favored by the large estate owners. Given the limited variety of seeds available in the village, Lin Yue had come to the shop today specifically to see if there were any suitable seeds to buy.