At seven in the morning, the sky was bright.
"Get up quickly and eat."
Xia Xue, having prepared a rich breakfast, called Lin Fan, who was still in bed.
She took out new clothes prepared for Lin Fan from the wardrobe. "What's wrong? Did you sleep badly in the new place?"
Lin Fan scratched his hair listlessly. "There's a smell of glue and cement in the new house."
"It'll be fine in a few months, all new houses are like this."
Xia Xue smiled gently and placed the clothes on the bed. "I'll go dish out the millet porridge. Put on your clothes and come eat, don't dawdle."
"Got it." Lin Fan waved his hand and slowly put on his clothes.
After putting on his thermal underwear, he realized that all his clothes, from inside to out, were brand new. The washing labels on the back of the collar had been removed, and not even a snag could be felt.
Lin Fan couldn't help but smile.
He had always disliked the washing labels on the back of collars, finding them uncomfortable.
In the world, besides his sister-in-law, no one else understood him so well and cared for him so meticulously.
"If you're looking for a wife, you should find someone like sister-in-law," Lin Fan said with a smile.
After changing, Lin Fan, energized, went to the kitchen to have breakfast with his sister-in-law.
"Xiao Fan, are you home?"
Just then, a clear and pleasant voice came from outside the door.
Xia Xue immediately recognized it. "It's Secretary Tian, I'll go open the door."
"Sister-in-law, you sit, I'll go."
Lin Fan swallowed the egg in his mouth and gently pushed his sister-in-law's soft shoulder, asking her to sit back down.
Outside the main door, Tian Mengyao held a seedling of radix Isatidis, still bearing the dew of the morning.
A bright smile adorned her lips, and she seemed to be in a very good mood.
Creak~
The solid door opened. Lin Fan squinted to avoid the direct sunlight and smiled, "Good morning, how did you find me?"
"I knocked on the clinic door for a long time and no one answered, so I figured you must have moved back home."
Tian Mengyao said proudly, as if to say, "See how smart I am!"
Lin Fan chuckled inwardly. It must have been that the villagers saw his sister-in-law moving things, and the news reached her ears.
"Look, look." Tian Mengyao dangled the plant in her hand. "Can you tell?"
"It looks good," Lin Fan immediately remembered that she had the Tongtian Pot. It seemed the green liquid inside was working.
Tian Mengyao was overjoyed. "It grew so much in just one day! I only used a little bit of what you left, diluted in water, and watered half a mu of land."
"It's magical!"
She excitedly patted Lin Fan's shoulder.
Xia Xue came out at this moment. "Secretary Tian, you're here."
"Sister Xue," Tian Mengyao greeted with a smile.
Xia Xue genuinely liked this pure, sweet, and diligent village secretary.
Even though Song Yue had spoken ill of her quite a bit, Xia Xue didn't have any strong negative feelings towards her.
Compared to Song Yue, who had settled in Wangjia Village, Tian Mengyao was, after all, just a visitor who would leave in a few years.
"What are you two talking about so happily? Come in, let's eat breakfast together," Xia Xue beckoned, inviting her in.
"Okay." Tian Mengyao nodded and cheerfully entered the house.
At the dining table, Tian Mengyao highly praised Luofeng Village's pleasant climate and fertile soil, which resulted in good growth for the medicinal herbs. She said that the villagers would make a lot of money by the end of the year.
Xia Xue smiled gently. "The villagers will finally not have to suffer poverty anymore."
"Yes." Tian Mengyao's face was full of anticipation. "I can't wait for the end of the year. I really want to see everyone happily collecting their money."
"Actually, there's no need to wait until the end of the year. Once the medicinal herbs are produced, it's possible to give everyone a taste of the benefits early. If they only work without seeing any results, people will lose motivation," Lin Fan interjected.
"Oh, I almost forgot something."
Tian Mengyao slapped her forehead. "Sister Xue, the house is built. Do you have anything important to do recently?"
Xia Xue was slightly taken aback. "Nothing major, besides tidying up the house and getting a few more things, there's no rush, it can all be done slowly."
"Then do me a favor."
Tian Mengyao said enthusiastically, "Xiao Fan and I discussed collecting the *ma mi chi* from the mountain to sell. The village doesn't have enough manpower, so Xiao Fan said to let people from nearby villages come and collect it, and the village committee will purchase it uniformly."
"I've asked for everyone's opinion, and they all agreed to do it this way."
"Sister Xue, since you have nothing to do at home, why don't you be in charge of it?"
Xia Xue hadn't expected it to be such an important matter.
"I... I don't think I can do it."
Ever since she got married, apart from doing housework and farming, she hadn't done anything else.
If anything went wrong, the villagers would surely blame Tian Mengyao and Lin Fan.
"Sister Xue, you graduated from high school, right?" Tian Mengyao asked.
"Yes, how did you know?" Xia Xue couldn't recall mentioning this.
Tian Mengyao pointed at Lin Fan. "He told me."
"Sister Xue, please don't refuse."
"Think about it, Luofeng Village has the old and the young. You and Xiao Fan are rare laborers, and you're educated. If you're not in charge, only Xiao Fan can do it."
"I can't. I'm so busy at the clinic that I don't have time at all." Lin Fan had never liked doing very detailed work.
"Sister Xue, look..." Tian Mengyao's voice was almost pleading.
Xia Xue thought about it. It did seem to be the case.
Wait, there was one other suitable person!
"Can't the village head do it?"
"Him? Don't even mention it."
Tian Mengyao's face was filled with disdain. "I asked him to procure pesticides. For something less than two thousand yuan, he still managed to skim off two hundred yuan, and ended up buying fake pesticides, which caused a lot of delays."
"If he were in charge, the villagers would be in great misfortune!"
Xia Xue felt indignant. Doing such a thing that harmed the country and its people, one could hardly call them human!
"Then... I'll try, okay?"
Helpless, Xia Xue could only agree.
Not for herself, but at least for the villagers to earn a little more hard-earned money.
Tian Mengyao gave her a thumbs-up. "No need to try, you'll definitely succeed!"
She still had work to do, and after breakfast, she left.
Xia Xue looked worried. "Xiao Fan, did you tell her that I should be in charge of this matter?"
Lin Fan quickly shook his head. "Sister-in-law, don't overthink it. I guess she really didn't have anyone else available, so she thought of you."
"Sigh." Xia Xue sighed.
"Why are you sighing? It's just collecting wild vegetables, checking the quality, and keeping accounts. How big a deal is that?" Lin Fan consoled.
"You say it so easily. I've never done this before. When people pick the *ma mi chi*, if there are old or rotten ones, should I say something or not?"
"If I don't say anything, I might ruin the village committee's business and betray Secretary Tian's trust."
"If I do say something, we all live in the same village and will see each other every day. Wouldn't they have opinions?"
"In the end, I might not gain any benefits and offend a large group of people."
Xia Xue rambled on about her concerns.