Chapter 98: Inviting Guests for Dinner
As soon as they returned to the Zhao Family, they saw a goji berry plant, roots still caked with soil as if freshly dug up, placed in the courtyard. Zhao Zhitong immediately put down her luggage box and ran over excitedly to take a look. After observing it for a while, she called her elder brother, Zhao Cheng, to help her plant it in the vegetable plot.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Dong immediately objected, "No way! Just look, we don’t have any room left in the vegetable plot. You bring home everything you dig up outside; are we even going to plant vegetables here anymore?"
Zhao Zhitong pouted, her eyes darting around before she quickly suggested, "Big Brother, let’s plant it here then!"
Saying this, she trotted over to a vacant spot on the west side of the courtyard. It was an area between the outhouse and the entrance that had previously been used to store some wood and planks but had recently been cleared. The vacant plot was about eight square meters in size.
Seeing Zhao Dong nod in agreement, the four little ones worked together to plant the goji berry.
「In the following days,」 Zhao Dong and his Younger Uncle, Sun Youcai, led the little radish heads in diligently clearing more land.
A mu of land here was about 667 square meters, roughly the size of one and a half basketball courts. Moreover, the plot Zhao Dong had chosen was filled with small shrubs and tree roots, which, lacking modern tools, they had to clear slowly.
During these few days, Zhao Zhitong managed to wake up very early with them twice, but after that, she couldn’t get up anymore. However, she did manage to move two more goji berry plants from the wild to her home, planting them together with the first one.
So, now her family had three ’trees’: one goji berry plant, and the other two were also goji berry plants. This was what Zhao Zhitong told Qiao Muchen and Wei Shulan. Listening to her, Qiao Muchen felt something was off but couldn’t quite pinpoint what it was.
「Qiao Muchen’s cold had completely healed after three days,」 and he returned to the school, full of life and energy.
As a result, the three of them agreed to look around the school for goji berries to pick during their break after lunch.
Once the Teacher announced the end of class, Zhao Zhitong immediately stood up, pulled Wei Shulan and Qiao Muchen along, and rushed towards the kitchen.