Qi He and Fu Xin Ci both wanted to go and watch the excitement, but Grandpa Meng, thinking that the Jin clan was indiscriminate, stopped them.
"It's quite cold outside, you should honestly stay at home."
"Okay," Fu Xin Ci replied, and then sat on the edge of the heated brick bed, whispering to her grandfather, "Grandfather, I have a lot of peanuts, should we take some out and roast them to eat?"
"Peanuts are good things, they can be snacks or used in dishes. Grandfather will think about it."
"Okay." Turning her own problem into her grandfather's, Fu Xin Ci went out with a smile of success.
Before dinner, Qi Yuan Shan drove the donkey cart back to Mengjia Village with Tian Xing Wang and his family of four.
Meng Yu Luo very enthusiastically got the key from his mother and drove the donkey cart with the Tian family of four to his former home.
In the middle of winter, Meng Yu Luo's three houses had not been lived in for a long time and had no trace of warmth. Moreover, they had not been properly tidied up, so the rooms were drafty and as cold as an ice cellar.
Zhao Shi got off the donkey cart, looked around with eyes full of warmth.
"Mother," Da Niu followed her mother closely, her eyes sparkling just like her mother's.
Zhao Shi looked around with a smile, and did not forget to thank Meng Yu Luo.
Meng Yu Luo, a little shy, lowered his head, and after stealing a glance at Er Xi, pointed to his family's woodshed and said, "Er Xi, there should still be some dry firewood and branches in our woodshed. I collected them before, you can use them."
"Thank you, Meng Yu Luo." Er Xi said thank you sincerely countless times today. He had thanked Captain Qi, Duke Meng Er, and the friends he played with.
"You're welcome, saying thank you would be too formal." Meng Yu Luo, imitating adults, wanted to pat Er Xi's shoulder.
But he was only eight years old this year, and he was still a bit short of patting the twelve-year-old Er Xi's shoulder.
Hehe, so embarrassing!
However, everyone seemed not to have noticed, so he smiled awkwardly and waved goodbye to Er Xi, "You guys tidy up the house, I should go back."
"Okay, see you tomorrow, Meng Yu Luo."
"See you tomorrow, Er Xi."
"Thank you, Yu Luo." Zhao Shi thanked Meng Yu Luo along with her son, and then watched him drive the donkey cart away.
She then loudly ordered Tian Xing Wang to go to the river to fetch water, while she took the two children to move things into the house.
"Wife, let your husband move the grain bags, they are heavy."
Zhao Shi did not stop him when she heard him say this, and let him carry the grain bags inside.
Tian Xing Wang was quite happy. As long as his wife still let him do work, it meant there was no major issue. At most, she wouldn't sleep in the same room with him.
These were minor matters. They had a long way to go, and he believed he would eventually warm her already cold heart.
Late at night, Fu Xin Ci, wearing only a set of loose cotton home clothes, was busy in her space.
She first did a set of military boxing to warm up.
Alas, it was all her fault for being lax before. Now that she picked it up again, coupled with her physique, she felt she was far from her former self.
Xiao Bai: Are humans crazy? Otherwise, why would a good girl be doing this?
Fu Xin Ci: "Of course I'm full of hot-blooded passion."
Xiao Bai: It feels like she's going crazy.
Longcheng—
The lights on the vending machine finally turned on. In the crowded trading hall, which was in low spirits a moment ago, it was now bustling with noise.
Someone shouted: "Look, the lights on the vending machine are on."
"Yes, we all see it."
"Why do I feel like crying?"
"You're not the only one."
"As long as the lights on this vending machine are on, even if not every day, we won't be wiped out."
"Wiped out? Why use such a polite term? Just say, will we be exterminated?"
"Why are you so rude?" Everyone understood that the person was right, but that sentence was too heavy, and implicitly, no one wanted to face it.
The base leader had been worried for the past few days, as if the entire Longcheng was against him.
Even when he returned home, it wasn't peaceful. The mother and son at home were also secretly working against him.
Alas, what should he do! To quell the public anger.
That's right, he had self-awareness. He had incurred the wrath of the masses.
The lights on the vending machine had not been on for the past two days, and his heart had been hanging.
He had almost been moved to tears when he heard someone say just now: the lights on the vending machine are on.
He would never again do things that only cared about so-called face and not the feelings of the people of Longcheng.
No one understood his inner feelings these past few days. As long as the lights on the vending machine didn't light up, he would consider himself a sinner of Longcheng.
If his little friends knew what he was thinking, they would unanimously tell him: you deserve it.
The captain is more reliable. He asked everyone present to think about what they wanted to trade in advance, so as not to waste everyone's time when it was their turn.
Everyone thought the captain's words made sense, and each family or team carefully considered the supplies they wanted to trade today.
The captain led his teammates to maintain order and reassure everyone that Xin Ci had all the daily necessities they wanted to trade.
Actually, the captain was not confident. No matter how big Xin Ci's space was, it couldn't handle so many people in Longcheng.
He had also been losing sleep these past few days. Before coming to the trading hall, he had discussed it with his teammates.
They wanted to talk to Xin Ci properly after everyone had finished trading, to see if Xin Ci could buy more grain in the place where she stayed.
The minimum life guarantee for these residents in Longcheng was food. As long as Xin Ci had food, they would fear nothing.
As the night deepened, Longcheng's purchasing power today was too strong, and Fu Xin Ci's waist was so tired that she could barely straighten up.
She really wanted to lie on the warm heated brick bed and move freely now.
But she hadn't seen the notes from her teammates, so she persisted.
When the captain's floating handwriting came over, Fu Xin Ci read it at a glance, and then gave the captain and the others an answer that made them ecstatic.
"My god! Xin Ci's space... mmm."
The captain covered Xiao Ai's mouth, making her hold back all her sounds. Then he whispered in her ear:
"Xiao Ai, we don't need to read the words on the note aloud. The few of us know it, and we don't need outsiders to know. Also, we must keep this secret, especially from our big-faced cat base leader."
Several teammates nodded vigorously, their eyes filled with laughter.
Ah, they shouted inwardly, after Xin Ci's space was upgraded, there were ten mu of arable land. Grain and other crops could mature once every seven days, and vegetables could mature once every three days.
As for fruit trees, Xin Ci said she hadn't figured them out yet.