Yu Xiaocao, who had handed the job of processing the abalones, sea cucumbers, and shark fins to her father, occupied her mother with Xiaolian at night. Yu Hai could only aggrievedly sleep on the same kang bed with his eldest son, Yu Hang! When his youngest daughter wasn’t at home, he missed her. But, when she was at home, she would steal his wife away from him. Yu Hai felt so conflicted ah!

The next day, Yu Xiaocao, who finally had time to rest at home for a couple days, couldn’t stay idle. She followed her father early in the morning and went to help in the melon fields.

For the Yu Family’s first batch of watermelons, there wasn’t really a lot of ripe watermelons. There were about three to five thousand catties every day. Since Wang Ergou often came to help and did his best to take care of the watermelons, he and her two maternal uncles naturally got priority for the watermelons!

Wang Ergou earned quite a lot of money from selling watermelons last year, so he bought an ox cart this year. Why did he buy an ox cart and not a horse carriage? It was more economical ah! Think about it, he could only sell watermelons for a little over a month every year. If he bought an ox cart, he could normally pull people to town, and when he was busy with farming, he could...