Thank you for your company. "Wei'er, Celeste, I caught a few Haifei Fish out at sea today. They wouldn't sell for much, so I figured I'd bring them over to you instead. I hope you won't mind." A dark-skinned middle-aged man lifted the three fat fish in his hand and spoke to the two of them.
Celeste looked at the dark-skinned middle-aged man before him and greeted him politely. "Uncle, good afternoon."
Noenvi brought over two round stools and set them in the courtyard, then said, "Uncle, hurry and sit."
Seeing this, the middle-aged man handed the three fat fish to Noenvi, then sat down.
"You keep Uncle company and chat for a while. I'll go deal with these three fish first."
Hearing Noenvi's words, Celeste nodded, then sat down across from the middle-aged man.
After glancing at his niece bustling about by the water basin, the middle-aged man turned to look at Celeste and asked with a smile, "How have things been lately?"
"Pretty good," Celeste replied. "We planted fifteen mu of land this year. After paying the land tax and head tax, we still had seventeen hundred jin of grain left."
"You're a capable man." The middle-aged man gave Celeste a thumbs-up and praised him.
Hearing that, Celeste's expression remained natural as he said, "Uncle, without Wei'er's help, I'd only have brute strength. I couldn't have grown this much grain."
"Hahaha, looks like I made the right choice back then, sending you to Wei'er."
Seeing this, Celeste turned his head slightly to look at Noenvi, who was killing the fish. Her flushed cheeks already revealed what she was thinking inside.
Although he had lost his power, his physical constitution was still far beyond that of ordinary mortals. But when it came to farming, relying on strength alone without