Chapter 23: Figuring Out How to Buy Flour
They continued to be busy in the fields, where just weeding the over twenty acres every day was already a heap of tasks.
Qin Guohua truly was not behaving like a real father anymore, even assigning tasks to his son, twelve acres for him, twelve for Qin Xiangyang, not allowed to return home or eat unless finished.
Qin Xiangnuan crouched on the ground, her small hands helping to pick up rotten vegetable leaves.
The Qin Family’s over twenty acres, with more than ten acres planted with winter wheat and others with sweet potatoes, soybeans and the like; winter wheat and soybeans are fine since they barely need care after planting, but vegetables are actually quite precious, almost needing daily maintenance, planting, watering, applying pesticide, and field tidying after harvest.
Qin Guohua indeed sees his son as less than human, it’s easy for him since over half of his twelve acres are wheat, while Qin Xiangyang, at such a young age, got all vegetable plots, no wonder he has to go to the fields before dawn and only returns when it’s completely dark.
So much land, not just one child, even several adults might not be able to finish.
Chun Xiangnuan’s determination to leave the Qin Family grew even heavier.
Once she has saved some capital, she will find a chance to leave the Qin Family once and for all. She doesn’t believe she, a person who has lived forty years more than others, can’t support herself and her elder brother. She wants to earn money, a lot of money, to provide her brother with meat, nice clothes, and also allow her brother to go to school, become an educated man capable of marrying and having children, instead of being buried young.
When noon came, Qin Xiangnuan still had to go back and prepare the afternoon’s meal, she really wanted to help her brother weed more, but she was just too slow and weak.
She patted the dirt off her hands, then walked over to Qin Guohua, lifted her face, sniffled, and said in a timid whisper,
"Dad, I can only make noodle dishes."