It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 285

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, we move from midsummer to late autumn.

For nearly three months, Jiang Yan looked for opportunities to go into the mountains to look for mountain products. Occasionally, he would be lucky enough to use the wooden stick he carried with him to bring back one or two pheasants or rabbits and taste some meat.

But it is not easy for forests to recover, and there are very few things that can be used.

In order to prepare enough supplies for the winter and buy essential necessities such as salt, she often sold some of the mountain products she had dug up, and the few copper coins she earned were spent before they could even warm up.

Jiang Yan lay on the kang, absentmindedly touching the fifteen copper coins left in the money jar again and again.

After a while, he ran to the backyard again, looked at the wilted young clover plant with great affection, and then carefully poured half a bucket of mountain spring water on it.

In the spring, she transplanted six seedlings from the mountains. She thought they would all be wiped out due to the drought and locust plague, but after a few rains, two of them began to sprout new buds.

But their growth was ultimately affected. One plant grew five leaves, and one grew three leaves. They looked so fragile that Jiang Yan had to inspect them every morning and evening, for fear that the leaves would be pecked by birds or eaten by insects.

Jiang Yangguang felt it was a pity if the trees died due to lack of nutrition and inability to photosynthesize. The difference was four, five, or six times worse than the total loss of income from the cliff fruits on the mountain this autumn.

The two little sisters Jiang Ai and Jiang Yun came out of the yard hand in hand, and went to Jiang Yan's house and Jiang Ying's house respectively to inform them that the millet harvest would officially start in two days.

After a long wait of nearly three months, everyone finally had a chance to fill their empty granaries.

After harvesting millet, the people of Dongshan Village immediately started planting winter wheat.

On October 17, the 15th year of Jianguang, the sky was clear and blue.

Jiang Yan walked into the kitchen, cut a piece of leg meat from the dried wild rabbit hanging on the beam, chopped it into small pieces and threw it into a clay pot. After adding hot water and boiling it, he threw in a handful of dried vegetables and then added the white flour dumplings that he usually didn't want to eat.

After a while, the fragrance spread throughout the kitchen.

Jiang Yan suppressed her hunger and greed, prepared the food, and took the whole earthenware jar and placed it on the straw mat on the small square table.

After scooping out exactly two bowls, Jiang Yan placed one of the bowls in his right hand, then straightened his back and showed a standard eight-toothed smile: "Happy birthday." Then he applauded himself.

Jiang Ying, who had stepped into the courtyard and was about to call Jiang Yan to go to the fields together, said:

She was only one year and four months older than Jiang Yan, but many of Jiang Yan's thoughts and actions did touch upon her blind spots in experience and were really difficult to understand.

"Happy birthday!" After sending her blessings, Jiang Ying suddenly had a lot of worries. After Jiang Yan's several attempts to show concern failed, she had to put it aside.

Jiang Yan advised herself that everyone has bad moods sometimes, and there is no need to delve into everything. Doesn't she also feel down from time to time?

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When they were about to finish work, Jiang Ying suddenly ran to the plot where Jiang Xing and Jiang Wang were, gesturing with her hands and saying something.

Whenever Jiang Yan looked over, she could see the two elders looking at her again and again with worried eyes.

Jiang Yanping couldn't help but start to reflect with a frown on her face. Has she gotten into any trouble or trouble recently?

Jiang Ying was even more convinced after seeing this. She said to Jiang Wang, who still didn't quite believe it:

"I have my grandparents by my side, but I still feel sad when I think of my parents. Jiang Yan is all alone, and today is her birthday, so her mood must be different from usual.

She has to set out two sets of dishes and chopsticks by herself, and she really needs everyone's care."