Begging You to Break Off This Engagement! Chapter 21 part2

Edited by Ahzinal

“Apparently,  it's a high fever. People from the Jiang Family even came over and even started to fight with Qin Guizhi. When I went there, I heard that the Jiang family wanted to take Jiang Baining away.” Han Xu suddenly smirked. “But you know what the most interesting thing is? Qin Guizhi actually didn't try to stop them, saying that they would save the money from medical treatment, and she angered the Jiang family so much that they smashed something from their family on the spot.”

“Tsk tsk tsk, really so lively. It's like that old saying, when it's far away, it smells fragrant. When it's close, it smells bad. When they hadn't gotten together yet, everything was fine, but there was a big change when they finally got together." Luo Fei stretched lazily. “But the rain was quite interesting. It started raining when I returned to the village with the big tiger. I was worried that the seeds must not be soaked at first, but I didn't expect it to be so heavy right at the start and then afterwards it would stop. Later, the big tiger said, it's also convenient for sprouting. It's estimated that as long as the day does not suddenly turn cold, you will be able to see the green seedlings in a few days." He has never seen newly sprouted corn seedlings, so he was very curious.

“The heavens opened their eyes, taking care of the two of you young couple. Jiang Baining and Qin Guizhi haven't fared so well. From morning to night, always running into bad luck.” Han Xu followed with a smile. “Right, why haven't I seen your tiger brother today?” When he just came, he hadn't seen Xi Yanqing.

“Went out saying that he's going to look for something.” Luo Fei said, “Aside from when it's time to eat or sleep, he does not spend any time idling. He's especially hardworking.”

“You are also diligent. What are you embroidering now?” He hadn't visited Luo Fei in two days and he had already embroidered another thing.

“Butterfly purse.” This was his grandmother's original creation. The craftsmanship was very complicated, and requires high precision. But it is really beautiful after it is made, so he thought about first making one to see if he can sell it.

“It's so beautiful, can you give it to me as a wedding gift?” Han Xu asked with a thick face.

“All right!” Luo Fei was somewhat reluctant, after all, although it is a small object, he had to put a lot of work into it. However, whenever Han Xu had something good to eat or drink, he would always think about him. If you are this stingy, then there would be no way to even make friends like this, might as well just gift it. Even if he didn't gift this, he would still have to gift something else.

“I just knew you wouldn't be stingy with me. Alright, then I will go back first. In the afternoon, my brother carpenter will be coming. I have to go and make him some food.” Han Xu smiled, waved at Luo Fei, and left.

Luo Fei continued to embroider for a while, while rubbing at his neck and eyes. When embroidering things, you had to bow your head. If you did it for too long, your spine would feel uncomfortable.

In his previous world, he was talented in this aspect, but in the end, he didn't do it too much because it was arduous. Although it is easy to just sit there without moving and embroider, when you looked at it, it wasn't that easy.

Yet in this world, there is not much room for choice, at least not now.

He wants to have meals with white rice and meat, or even if they just had some sort of wheat flour base [like noodles or steamed buns], he still wanted to be able to have two side dishes and also be able to eat fruit every day. To reach this level, he must work hard. Xi Yanqing worked hard, using his own method, he naturally also could not be lazy.

In fact, the life in Hua Ping Village is not particularly good, but there was no problem just scraping by. As long as you worked hard to cultivate the land, you could pass always half full. The problem was that you would need to have enough farmland.

Zhang Yangfan's family including Jiang Baining is a family of five, and the five people have thirty to forty acres of land. But on top of their farmland, they also have their own land they plowed in the mountains and additional land they later purchased. The land distributed by the government would eventually be taken back, but the land that were plowed by their own family and bought later could be passed down from generation to generation. The Zhang family has lived in Huaping Village for many generations, and had that much land. Saying that his family is in the top three in Huaping Village, there is nothing wrong with it. However, the Luo family and Xi family were not the same, because both of them had run into problems. A lot of their land has been sold, so there is no surplus every year. Usually, they just ate a meal to pass the days, couldn't get sick, and rarely added new clothes to their wardrobes.

Not obtaining new clothing was fine, but who would be able to guarantee that they wouldn't get sick?

The most crucial issue was that the yield of the farmland in this area is too low.

Luo Fei had no concept of modern food production, but according to Xi Yanqing, the modern ordinary rice paddies could produce up to four or five hundred kilograms per mu. If it was a hybrid or the best quality rice, plus scientific management, it was possible to produce 800 to 1,000 kilograms per mu. But here? The rice yield here is only about one stone and half stones to two stones. Calculating it, it is only around 80 to 120 kilograms? How many times worse than modern times was that?

In brief, if he wanted to rely on farming to become prosperous here, then they should just rest. Unless one day you can become a landlord, you can only live by renting some land, or see if Mr. Yuan Longping* also transmigrated here with his scientific research equipment. Otherwise, it is unlikely. Didn't they see the Zhang family, even with so much land, having to work in the fields?

[T/N: Yuan Longping according to Wikipedia: Yuan Longping is a Chinese agronomist and educator, known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s. Hybrid rice has since been grown in dozens of countries in Africa, America, and Asia—providing a robust food source in areas with a high risk of famine.]

While Luo Fei embroidered the butterfly purse, he also talked to himself. After a while, after embroidering the part he set to be embroidered today, he went to the Luo House. When it came time to cook with Luo Ru, he couldn't be absent.

When Xi Yanqing came back from outside and did not see Luo Fei, he knew that Luo Fei must have gone to the Luo House. He was not in a hurry to go looking for him, so he took out the sieve and sifted the buckwheat husk that he had gotten from the Pan family.

When Luo Fei came back, he saw that Xi Yanqing had poured something into a plain looking bag and asked him: “What are you pouring?”

Xi Yan said with a smile: “Buckwheat husks. Don't you dislike the wooden pillows because they are too hard? I will fix this stuff for you. Didn't you just finish making that pillowcase? Put this inside and try the pillow.”

[T/N: Luo Fei you lucky bastard!]

Luo Fei hearing these words, not knowing why, stood at the doorway for a long time not moving.

Unexpectedly, a gust of wind, caused the peach flower petals to flutter about, and many of them fell onto Xi Yanqing's body.

Luo Fei, with the gods and demons at work, walked over and removed the peach petals that fell onto Xi Yanqing's head. He looked down at the ground, the little horse, and the person sitting on the small horse cart sorting through the buckwheat husk, trying to get rid of all the impurities that might prick him. He suddenly felt a little sadness in his heart.

Suddenly he had a question to ask Xi Yanqing.

Qing-ge, when did you start… to like me?

“What's wrong? Why are you looking at me?” Xi Yanqing looked up at Luo Fei. “It can't be that you were so moved by me  you have decided to let me plant your land?”

“Get out! Your whole brain is full of dirty things!” The good mood was destroyed like this, this indecent guy!

“Tsk, I thought the vixen would finally want to open, and decided to take me this yang-rich farmer to a round of earth-shaking dual cultivation*.”Xi Yanqing raised his chin, wanting to laugh but not laughing, he looked at Luo Fei. “Wife, this husband thoroughly feels a sense of loss.”

[T/N: Something you would see mentioned in xianxia danmei a lot. It's basically having sex while cultivating together at the same time. More info on it here: ]

“Feel a sense of loss my ass!” Luo Fei glared at Xi Yanqing, “Are you brainless? Find a big wooden stick to go dual cultivate with you!”

"A big stick?" Xi Yan said thoughtfully, "You really do remember…"

“I didn't say anything!” Luo Fei grabbed the sack with buckwheat and ran away like his ass was on fire!

Chapter end