Chapter 53: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor
Chapter 53 Farce (2)
Old Mo couldn't avoid being knocked over and hit the back of his head on the cold hard ground. Waves of dizziness swept through his mind, and before he could regain his senses, Hong Shi twisted her obese body and sat heavily on him, almost suffocating him.
"You useless old thing, how dare you lay a hand on me, I'll let you hit me, let you hit me!"
Hong Shi's eyes were red from being slapped, and her intact left hand scratched Old Mo's face one after another, quickly leaving behind a patch of blood.
Old Mo, being small in stature, couldn't resist Hong Shi's tight grip. He pushed and shoved her while shouting at his dumbfounded son and daughter-in-law, "Hurry up and help!"
Niu Shi and the others snapped out of their daze and rushed over, hastily pulling and tugging at Hong Shi. Once Old Mo was free, he slapped Hong Shi hard again. Hong Shi refused to yield, screaming and pouncing on Old Mo once more, raining punches and kicks on him.
Outside the door, Wu Shi, the eldest daughter-in-law, watched coldly while soothing her three-year-old son. Thinking of her daughter who had been sold by Hong Shi, hatred flashed in her eyes, and she had no intention of intervening in the fight.
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Meanwhile, Mo Yan and Mo Qingze, who were discussing opening up new land for vegetable farming, were completely unaware of the turmoil in the Old Mo's household.
Mo Qingze looked with interest at the sketches drawn by Mo Yan. After listening to her explanation of what "greenhouse vegetables" meant, he pointed to the crisscrossing lines on the sketch and asked, "Are these meant to divide the twenty mu of land into plots?"
Putting down her pen, Mo Yan shook her head and said, "These lines represent water channels. We can pump water from the river and irrigate the land, making irrigation easier."
Mo Qingze nodded repeatedly after hearing this. He was quite confident in the greenhouse vegetables his daughter described and didn't question why the vegetables in the yard grew well without greenhouses.
Mo Yan breathed a sigh of relief. She had been worried that her father would inquire about the vegetables in the yard. Since the upgrade of her space and the spring's upgrade, she hadn't used the spring to bathe and instead diverted the spring water to the well for the family to use for body conditioning. The water used for bathing and washing vegetables every day could be poured into the vegetable garden, nourishing the vegetables with spiritual energy, making them resistant to frost and growing lush green.
Originally, that piece of wasteland didn't need greenhouses. She just didn't want to attract attention, so she thought about building them as a cover. As for the materials used for construction, she had also figured it out. She would collect bamboo and wood from the mountain and use oilcloth instead of plastic film from her previous life.
Oilcloth had good waterproofing properties, but its light transmission and insulation were inferior. In order to conceal her actions, she planned to build a clay stove in each greenhouse to burn wood and warm the greenhouse. In the future, if anyone in the village wanted to grow greenhouse vegetables, they could use it as a reference.
Mo Qingze was not good at farming, but he grew up in the countryside after all and suggested many improvements, which surprised Mo Yan greatly.
"Yan'er, you'll be fourteen next year, and it's not appropriate for you to show your face anymore. Leave the greenhouse vegetables to me in the future. If I don't understand anything, I'll come back and ask you. How about that?"
Looking at his daughter, who was already showing signs of becoming a young woman and becoming more and more outstanding in appearance, Mo Qingze was really worried.
Mo Yan, upon hearing this, suddenly realized that she had been in this world for almost half a year, and her body was almost fourteen years old. In her previous life, she was still a junior high school student, but in this ancient era where women could marry and have children at the age of fifteen, she was indeed considered a big girl.
Thinking of this, she smiled and readily agreed, "Father, then I'll leave it to you!."
Although she retained memories of her past life, the influence of modern women's independence and self-reliance always affected her. However, in this era of strict etiquette, her so-called independence might harm her. Moreover, since these dogmas existed, there was a reason for their existence. Although she enjoyed reading novels with strong and capable female protagonists, she lived in the real world and just wanted to live a peaceful life with her family and do more good deeds to accumulate merits using her space.
Mo Qingze touched her head, his face full of affection, "Why be polite with me? You're really a silly child!"
Mo Yan closed her eyes slightly, enjoying this kind of indulgence. The affectionate father in front of her was becoming more and more similar to her father in her previous life...
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