“What should we do?” Listening to the conversation between herhusband and her daughter, Mrs. Cheng got worried immediately.
Cheng Bi Yuan took a look at his wife and said, “Don’t worry,Yuqin. We will figure something out.”
After saying that, he turned to his daughter and asked gently,“You have any thoughts, Xiao Xiao? If so, do share, we can figure it outtogether.”
“Well…”
Cheng Xiao Xiao frowned lightly and looked hesitant. Mrs. Chengwalked up to her daughter and touched her arm, tenderly she said, “Xiao Xiao,it will be alright. You can share any ideas that you may have. If we don’tresolve this, we won’t dare to go sell any more items at the market.”
She was not an ignorant villager. Mrs. Cheng understood that thishas to do with their livelihood. She had thought they were faced with a bigchallenge. She hadn’t expect her daughter would suddenly received somemysterious dimension that changed the course of everything, and also solvingall their everyday issues.
It was because of that that she didn’t want any other accidents,nor bringing about any troubles or disasters.
“Mom, I know!” Cheng Xiao Xiao nodded lightly, she thought for asecond longer then said, “Dad, mom, what I am thinking is perhaps we shouldstart a small farm and we will raise the chickens and rabbits in the dimensionthere. Preferably, we will also start some rice paddy and ploughed them. Thatway, we will be able to explain things away when people asks.”
“That will work. Let’s arrange for that!”
Cheng Bi Yuan, who seemingly had something on his mind, agreedwith Cheng Xiao Xiao’s suggestion. Then he said to his wife, “Yuqin, I am goingto have to rely on you and Xiao Xiao. We have a few mu1 of fields, you and Xiao Xiao will have to plough it.Luckily the sowing season for rice is coming soon, we will plant the seedlingsthen. Let’s carve out some of the baron land on the side for the farm animals.Whatever’s remaining we will plant some vegetables. That way we will haveeverything. Unfortunately that will be a lot of work for you and Xiao Xiao.”
After finishing what he was saying, Cheng Bi Yuan was consumedwith guilt. He couldn’t help his wife and daughter in his current condition.Instead, he had turned into their burden. Suddenly his heart with filled withhatred for the culprit of his injury. He had already left that place, yet theystill did this to him, that was unforgivable!
Cheng Xiao Xiao didn’t know what was going through her dad’s mind,but Mrs. Cheng had noticed the flash of hatred in her husband’s eyes, as thoughhe had thought of something. Silently she walked up to him and sat down on theside of the bed, “Dear, we are doing well now. We are happy, don’t worry aboutother matter and don’t think too much. Where there’s a will there’s a mean. Ourfamily will find our own path!”
“Mmm!2” Was his response.
From her parents’ look Cheng Xiao Xiao could sort of guessed thecontext. She turned and left the room to give her parents some s.p.a.ce. Shebelieve she will find out what had happen one day.
She left the house and the yard and walked to the outside. Shetook the opportunity to inspect the area for the fields and had an idea hadformed in her mind!
She spent about an hour to inspect the area round the house. Therewere about 3-4 mu of rice paddies.Problem was that the irrigation system was broken and never been fixed. Oncethey fixed the irrigation system and connect it to a water source, they will beable to grow rice in these fields.
The area to the left and right of the house were all dry land,they could be used for either growing vegetables or raise farm animals. Nowthat Cheng Xiao Xiao were able to inspect the area and formulate some ideas,she felt better. She planned to get everything all set up in the next day ortwo.
Standing in front of the house, dusk has arrived. A beautifulscene of the sun setting played in front of Cheng Xiao Xiao’s eyes. She sightlingered at the smoke from all the cooking in Willow Village. They danced inthe evening sun, rose, and slowly dissipated into the sky.
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1.Common measurement of areas in Asia. 1 mu = 60 square yard, 540 square feet, or667 square meter.
2.A sound of affirmation, similar to “Okay!”but less chirpy.