Rebirth to the Eighties to Get Rich

Chapter 68 – Being a Father

It was not that cold at home as long as a person was covered up. Cooking at home would warm up the place first, so food to feed the chicken was cooked first.

The chicks were still very young, so Mother Ji cooked rice paste1. She specifically made this for Su Danhong to feed the baby. Mother Ji prepared a lot. There was also the new rice harvest coming, so she fed this paste to the chicks.

She went to make some rice paste with the new rice and for her little grandson to eat later.

The rice paste was boiled with spiritual spring water. Despite Mother Ji being a little hungry, she held back in front of Su Danhong and maintained the dignity of being a mother-in-law without saying that she wanted to eat some.

Who was Su Danhong if she did not see through this?

Thus, she said that she was hungry and wanted to see if it was okay to eat some. Mother Ji naturally said yes, so Su Danhong scooped two bowls of clear rice paste.

Mother Ji looked at her with gratitude. Then, she took it and ate it. As soon as she ate it, she praised the rice paste in her mind. She was worthy enough to experience the Great Fox Immortal’s magic. She had never tasted such fragrant rice paste before!

“I gave Renren a lot of newly milled rice that was dried under the sun. I’m sure he’ll like it,” Mother Ji said to her.

“Thank you so much, mother. I can worry less when I have mother taking care of me. I don’t understand much about those things,” Su Danhong said and smiled.

Mother Ji was also very happy when she heard this. After cooking the rice paste, she took it and gave it to the chicks.

Over the past few days, more than 200 chicks grew extremely well. They were all healthy, even the ones that did not look very good. Mother Ji looked and thought they were going to die young, but they survived!

“Oh, Danhong, if we cook the chickens’ food in the mountains during the winter, will the chickens not like it very much?” Mother Ji couldn’t help but ask that question today.

“They will not, I’ll ask Jianyun to carry water from home and go up earlier,” Su Danhong replied.  Speaking of this, she remembered something. “Mother, I want a well at home, otherwise carrying water around will stick out too much.”

Mother Ji was a little confused, and then she recalled how the things she cooked using the water here were particularly fragrant. Even the rice paste smelled nice and the chicks liked it every time she sent it to them to eat. It turned out that Great Fox Immortal had casted a spell in the water!

This was indeed the case. On a cold day, they had to draw up water and carry it home for the Great Fox Immortal to cast her spell. Then, they would have carried it up to the mountain. The well in the village was on the west side of the village, close to the back mountain.

Going back and forth was really too noticeable!

People in the village were already making guesses, so wouldn’t this confirm their guesses?

“Okay, mother will go find someone to build it,” Mother Ji tacitly answered her immediately. “But we just don’t know if there is water underground around there.” The Great Fox Immortal should know. If she didn’t, then Lao San’s wife wouldn’t have asked to build a well in their house.

“There is spring under the jujube trees in the backyard. It can be there,” Su Danhong said and did not shy away from responding.

Two jujube trees were planted in the yard two years ago. They were always thin and looked half dead. It was like this until Su Danhong arrived. Now, they glowed with life like the fruit trees on the mountain. They could potentially bear fruit next year.

And just under the jujube trees, there was a good source of water.

Since Xiao Renren was born, her spiritual spring had become bigger. So aside from it becoming bigger, she needed to clear up where the water came from.

It was only then that she came up with the idea of building a well.

And say there was a spring under the jujube trees in the backyard that she had inadvertently discovered a few days ago.

As soon as Mother Ji heard there really was a water source, she absolutely believed in the existence of the Great Fox Immortal. Look, if the Great Fox Immortal did not exist, then how could Danhong know that there was a spring under the jujube tree? And speak so confidently about it?

When this matter was handed over to Mother Ji, she went to the village and asked if there was someone that could build a well. They said that the neighboring village had someone. Mother Ji was about to go there when she ran into Ji Jianyun, who was coming back. As soon as he heard what his mother said, Ji Jianyun went over to the neighboring village instead.

They agreed on a price and to start work tomorrow. Building a small well was not too troublesome. A small group of men worked on it and it was completed in a few days.

Ji Jianyun was very well known in the surrounding villages now because of their enormous orchard. There were no doubts about his credibility. He did not even have to pay a deposit for the well. He asked them to come build the well tomorrow and then it was a done deal.

While Ji Jianyun was walking over to look for someone to build the well, he was also thinking that there really should be a well at home. It would be really inconvenient if there wasn’t.

After four days of work, the well in the backyard was finished. They were very efficient, and a part of that was because Ji Jianyun also helped.

“It’s much more convenient now,” Su Danhong said with a very satisfied tone.

However, there was a woman and a child at home. For the sake of safety, Ji Jianyun spent an extra five yuan to go to the town to have an iron frame created to put on top of the well.

After all this was done, he was finally relieved.

“Jianyun, when are you going to go learn some things from Lao Qin? It is probably going to snow soon,” Su Danhong said to Ji Jianyun as she looked at the skies.

Earlier, Ji Jianyun said that he would go to Lao Qin to learn about managing fruit saplings. Although Lao Qin sold fruit saplings, he also had an orchard in the neighboring county. It was small, but a manageable size.

They only had a good harvest every few years. However, he could still get by. He had been running it for many years, so he had a lot of experience. Thus, Ji Jianyun wanted to go to his place to learn.

Ji Jianyun shook his head and said, “I’ll go to him when the snow melts next year.”

In his family, there was wife and now there was his son who was always crying for food. How could he be rest assured that he could just leave them like this?

Moreover, there were sheeps and chicks on the mountain. He couldn’t always have his parents take care of them. Otherwise, his eldest brother, second brother and fourth brother would complain.

Su Danhong did not interfere with him. He could make his own decisions on these matters.

In any case, it was actually an excuse when she asked him to go study. She wanted to use this opportunity to stop the village’s gossip so that they would not keep saying she had been possessed by the Great Fox Immortal.

As for the orchard, it didn’t matter if he learned some new skills or not. The orchard would definitely have a good harvest.

When Su Danhong gave their son to him, she said, “You can be responsible for putting our son to sleep. I’ll go do some embroidery. I haven’t done it in a long time, and I don’t want my skills to deteriorate.”

Ji Jianyun was so helpless, and took his son into his arms with a grin. He began to tease his son, who wanted to grab his finger and put it in his mouth.

Su Danhong could hear the laughter of their father and son in the next room. She smiled. She didn’t worry about them, and began to embroider.

She did not embroider for long. After embroidering for half an hour, Ji Jianyun came over. The baby must have been coaxed to sleep if he didn’t come over with Ji Jianyun.

At this time, Mother Ji’s voice was heard from outside. Ji Jianyun quickly went out before he had time to say anything.

“Mother, you can go cook the food for the chickens first. I’ll bring it up the mountain with Danhong later,” Ji Jianyun said.

Mother Ji was looking forward to when Danhong was going to go up to the mountain to have a look. Things would certainly grow better when she went to see the sheeps and chickens!

“Okay, you guys go ahead. Just leave Xiao Renren to me,”Mother Ji said.

“He’s sleeping. He doesn’t wake up that fast. Mother, you can just help us go through the beans in the room. There are a lot of bad beans. You will know when he is awake by his cries,” the man being a father said.