Regret

The four plots of rice seedlings were sorted out quickly. Zhou Chenglei, Zhou Chengsen, and Tian Caihua were all experts at farming, and after Zhou Chengxin finished plowing, he also picked up a hoe and started tidying up. The four of them, together with the two people helping out, had the rice paddies ready by ten o'clock, and had applied the base fertilizer as well.

The waterworks would start releasing water tonight. Tomorrow evening, once the rice had sprouted, they could scatter the seedlings into the rice paddies.

The group shouldered their hoes and headed back together.

Li Xiuxian had sat on the mountaintop for half the day. As the sun grew stronger, she prepared to head back as well. Walking down the mountain, she happened to see the group ahead, chatting and laughing as they returned.

She did not deliberately avoid them. She simply followed behind them at a neither-near-nor-far distance.

Ahead, Ruan Tang said, "Sister-in-law, Xiao Xia is coming over to eat at our place tonight. Chengsen and I got our marriage certificate, but we still haven't had a meal at home."

The day they returned had been the Lantern Festival, and they had eaten their reunion meal at Jiang Xia's home. Before they got married, they had also eaten at Jiang Xia's place every day. Now it was nearly eleven, so Mother Zhou should have started cooking. There was a very good chance they would be eating at Jiang Xia's place again for lunch today.

She would be returning to the city to work tomorrow morning, so they absolutely had to host this meal tonight.

Jiang Xia agreed. "All right. I'll come over to help after I wake up from my nap this afternoon."

Ruan Tang said, "No need. Chengsen and I can manage. You just need