After returning from my cultivation journey, I built a farm through fortune telling.

Chapter 35 Angry
"I know."

The egret took a deep breath.

Of course she knew Qin Xiu's straightforward nature, and of course she knew that Qin Xiu loved her.

"I'm not angry because of the money. It's only 200,000 yuan, it's not like I don't have that much!"

Bai Wei, who had just caught up: "!!!"

She was so shocked!!!
How can a person have so much money?!
Bai Chen quickly tugged at her, signaling her to calm down. Bai Wei nodded hurriedly and closed her wide-open mouth. After all, Bai Lu was angry, and she didn't dare to provoke her or get beaten up.

Bai Lu didn't notice their subtle interaction; her thoughts had drifted far away—

"I'm angry because she's never willing to listen to us properly, never willing to take our advice, and never willing to understand our thoughts! She's stuck in her old-fashioned and rigid thinking her whole life, going down the wrong path!"

This applies not only to Bai Lu, but also to Bai Wei and Bai Chen!
It has been like this since childhood!
They make all decisions for them under the guise of doing what's best for them!
Bai Chen sighed with his hands behind his back like an old man: "Haven't the three of us grown up like this? Our mom is definitely number one at pouring cold water on things, no matter what you say to her, the moment she thinks about it, she thinks of the worst possible outcome."

Then she'll immediately throw cold water on you, drenching you completely, and then earnestly tell you—"I've eaten more salt than you've eaten rice! Trust me, you won't go wrong!" Doesn't she often say this to you—"Second Sister?"

"Huh? Yes!" Bai Wei didn't expect Bai Chen to call her name, but at this time, nodding was definitely the right thing to do.

"but--"

Bai Chen glanced at Bai Lu, and seeing that her expression was normal, he continued—

"We can't entirely blame her, can we? After all, she didn't even finish elementary school. She's an uneducated rural woman. The principles she understands are all based on her life experiences. Naturally, she doesn't want us to repeat the mistakes she made, right?"
And most importantly, our family is poor, so the cost of trial and error is low. For her, throwing 200,000 yuan into the land she's farmed her whole life and lived in poverty her whole life—she sees no return! Of course, her reaction will be huge!

He didn't dare mention it, and he let Bailu reveal that she had cultivated immortality. He could only try to circumvent the conflict between the two women he dared not offend.

The egret understands the principle, but understanding the principle and being angry are not contradictory, so the egret is still very angry.

Bai Chen continued, "But we know that farming can make money! Since it's a sure-fire way to make money, let's do it! Mom may disagree now, but once we make money, will she still disagree? She's just afraid of losing money! Let's ignore her for now. We have money and manpower, let's get the land started! Anyway, I've already quit my job, and my second sister has quit hers too. We're all grown up now, she can't control us anymore, let's just do it!"

"Hey!" Bai Wei clenched her fist in agreement. "But there's a problem. If we hire someone to farm, will Mom kick them out?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Bai Chen waved his hand: "You know Mom, she's extremely concerned about her image. If she really hired someone, she would definitely personally supervise their work and then happily hand them over their wages!"

Qin Xiu has a quality that many parents lack: no matter how much she misbehaves at home, she never embarrasses her children in front of outsiders. Therefore, Bai Lu and the others always get the results they want by acting first and informing later, at the cost of being beaten with rattan and pork afterward. Moreover, Bai Lu and the other two are very sensible and would never do such a thing unless it is absolutely necessary.

Actually, the egret was being dramatic today.

Actually, she didn't need to argue with Qin Xiu about these things; she could have just fooled or glossed over it like before. But for some reason, she suddenly got stuck on this today.

Before she traveled through time, Bailu's feelings towards her mother were quite complicated.

Because her family was poor when she was young, her parents worked very hard every day. As the saying goes, poverty makes a couple miserable, and they often argued at home. So much so that every day when she came home from school, she would first look at her mother's face to decide whether she should speak and how she should speak.

Later, she gradually figured out a way to appease Qin Xiu: stand in her shoes, share her hatred of the enemy, say what she wants to hear, and do what she wants to see.

When Qin Xiu saw the other women in the village wearing gold and silver, she would talk to Bai Lu about it. She didn't directly ask Bai Lu for gold and silver; she just kept saying that those women were lucky.

Egrets aren't stupid; how could they not understand?

When I was earning a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan, I started saving money to buy her gold jewelry, starting with gold earrings and gold rings, and then moving on to gold bracelets.

She always thought that her mother was like that because she didn't have money, so she worked hard to earn and save money. When the family needed money to buy a house, she gave it to Qin Xiu when she asked.

Because of the trauma she suffered as a child, Bailu still believes that only when Qinxiu is happy can the family be happy. So she always tries to appease Qinxiu and pretend that everything is fine. Later, when Qinxiu underwent several surgeries, Bailu felt sorry for her and would never disobey her again.

But in reality, she had always been suppressing herself.

She hadn't dared to confide in Qin Xiu since she was very young. Unlike other girls, she couldn't confide in her mother because she knew that even if she did, Qin Xiu wouldn't take it to heart. That's why Bai Lu was especially fond of Bai Wei. This kind of pain was like reliving her past self.

Qin Xiu's way of loving her child is different from other mothers. Bai Lu can feel the love, but this love is something that Bai Lu has cultivated herself. Bai Wei is not as good at winning Qin Xiu's favor as Bai Lu is.

But in reality, Bailu rarely tells Qin Xiu the truth—except when buying gold jewelry, only expensive pieces can demonstrate Bailu's respect for her.

But when Bailu buys clothes or shoes, even if she only spends 99, she can only report 30, because that's the price Qin Xiu can accept. Any more and she'll start nagging. To avoid these nagging, Bailu would rather lie.

When there is no controversy and she is obedient, she and Qin Xiu can be a loving mother and daughter. Once a controversy arises, Qin Xiu is bound to be the winner. Once she is in a losing position, she will immediately cry about her miserable fate in order to make Bai Lu give in on her own.

Bai Lu looked at the two of them and said, "Do you think your mother's personality is something that can't be changed even if she becomes rich?"

"Well..." Bai Chen wasn't sure either, but he spoke the truth: "At her age, it's basically impossible for her to change."

Bai Lu pursed her lips: "Fine, if you don't want to change it, then don't. Anyway, from now on, everyone in this family will have to listen to me!"

Bai Wei and Bai Chen: "..."

That's such a cringey statement.

But that's not wrong. For them, it's all about listening to Bailu. As for Qin Xiu, once Bailu started earning over ten thousand yuan a month, she could no longer control Bailu. To be precise, Bailu always managed to change Qin Xiu's mind in her own way.

If egrets were like this in the past, how much more so are egrets today?

Their dear mother is more obedient than they were when they were children, if she wants to!

Bai Chen: "Then what do we do now..." "Help people! Didn't you say so!"

Egret led her younger siblings toward their grandparents' house.

Nowadays, in rural areas, oxen have long been replaced by oxen for plowing and farming. Using oxen to plow the fields is a thing of the past. Now you can hardly see any oxen in the village, and even if someone raises oxen, they are not used for plowing.

Many families now use small agricultural machines; Bailu's family has one, which is diesel-powered.

Bailu has a lot of land planned for planting now, so she has to hire people. But hiring people is something that the elders in the family have to talk to. She just had a fight with Qin Xiu, so she definitely won't give in so quickly. Her grandparents are the best candidates.

Grandpa Bai's house is not far from Bai Lu's house, just a few houses away. It is an old house with a mud courtyard in front of it. In one corner of the courtyard, there is a chicken coop and a duck shed.

"Huh? Your mom wants me to hire people to plow the rice paddies now, and it's 200 yuan a day for me to bring my own farming machine? And in a few days I'll need about ten people to plow the fields and plant rice?"

Grandpa Bai was weaving baskets, and bamboo of all shapes and sizes, long and short, were scattered all over the yard. Hearing this, he wondered if he was hard of hearing and had misheard.

"About ten people! How many acres of rice does your mother plan to plant? Didn't she just tell your second uncle the day before yesterday that she'd plant only eight-tenths of an acre?"

"But we've changed our minds!"

Bai Lu said without batting an eye that although she was having a one-sided falling out with Qin Xiu, it didn't stop her from using Qin Xiu's name to achieve her own goals.

“My mom said that our family plans to plant ten acres of rice this season, which is indeed a lot. We can’t handle it all, so we’re thinking of hiring people. Since we’ve already hired people, we’re thinking of hiring more. With more people, we can quickly prepare the fields so we can transplant the rice seedlings!”

"You can't calculate it by the day! You have to calculate it by the acre! People these days are so shrewd! If you calculate it by the day, they'll split one day's work into two days' work—hey, why am I telling you this? Why does your mother want to farm so many acres of land?! How can she possibly manage all that!"

"So that's why we hired someone!!"

Grandpa Bai was even more displeased upon hearing this: "We need to hire people to plow the fields, we need to hire people to transplant rice seedlings, and what about weeding and pest control? What about fertilizing and spraying pesticides? We need to hire people for those too! How much money will we lose by doing that!"

Ugh.

Not only did her parents think farming wasn't profitable, but even her grandfather, who had spent his entire life toiling in the fields, thought so.

Agriculture is the foundation of a nation!

When did it become so worthless!
Bai Lu sighed inwardly, but said mysteriously to Grandpa Bai, "My friend got me a batch of seeds. The rice grown from them can fetch a high price, yielding 2,000 catties per mu, and the rice can sell for five or six yuan per catty! Grandpa, do you want my uncle's family to grow some too? If not, can I have their land?"

Bai Jiang has two siblings: an older sister, Bai Shan, and a younger brother, Bai He.

Baihe was a notorious lazy man in the village. Laziness was one aspect, and poverty was another. He didn't get married until he was thirty-two years old, after several introductions and changes of partners. His aunt was also from this town, and the two had only one daughter after many years of marriage.

Baihe's laziness is manifested in working for half a year and then resting for the other half.

Unlike Bai Jiang, he didn't learn the craft of bricklaying. Instead, he learned pile driving. When he was young, he followed construction teams, working locally or elsewhere for half a year, and then spending the other half at home.

He would go out to work again once his money was almost gone, so his family was never well-off, and their savings were pitifully small. Now his child is getting older and has started junior high school this year, which has made things even worse for this already struggling family.
Only then did he begin to worry, but it was too late. His aunt suffered from epilepsy, and since giving birth, her seizures had become increasingly frequent. Baihe could no longer go out to work as before, and there were no large construction sites in Xicheng. He could only do odd jobs to make ends meet.
Even so, he still doesn't farm.

Grandpa Bai and Grandma Bai no longer live with either of their sons, but in their daily lives they still tend to favor Baihe's family more.

They cultivate two mu of land each season, enough for the elderly couple to eat and also for Baihe's family.

Grandpa Bai was intrigued: "Then you should ask him, but I reckon that lazy bum probably won't know how to grow rice anymore—are you sure the rice can sell for five or six yuan a pound?!"

"Absolutely! It's a newly developed variety, not yet on the market in large quantities! I went to great lengths to get my hands on it! Don't tell anyone else, or if they find out and start growing it too, our family will lose its unique advantage!"

Only those who are in the best interest of themselves can keep a secret. Grandpa Bai nodded repeatedly: "I won't say, I won't say. Um, can you tell your aunt? Can you get her some favors?"

"We only have so few seeds, not enough for her. Let's wait until next year and save the seeds then."

Bai Lu's aunt was extremely snobbish; she disliked her and didn't like her as much as her uncle. Although her uncle was a bit of a scoundrel, he was very good to Bai Lu and her two siblings. When he was young and went out to work, he would often buy them things that Qin Xiu wouldn't buy for them.
"That's fine too." Grandpa Bai didn't think much of it.

Then Bailu told Grandpa Bai about Qinxiu's plan to plant peanuts, sweet potatoes, vegetables and melons, which scared the old man so much that he rushed to Bailu's house to ask what was going on with Qinxiu.

Qin Xiu: "..."

She really wanted to know what was going on! She hadn't agreed to anything yet, so how did it become her being the one to plant it!
Damn kid!

"Egret!"

Qin Xiu called out to Bai Lu, but the latter didn't even glance at her before going upstairs!
Hi!

She wasn't angry, so why is she getting angry?

Qin Xiu didn't think she had said or done anything wrong that morning, but she could clearly sense that Bai Lu was throwing a tantrum!

She even threw a tantrum!
She's not even angry that 200,000 yuan went down the drain!
Did she say something wrong? Knowing she'd lose money, she should have used it to pay off debts!
So Qin Xiu got angry too.

But she didn't show it when facing Grandpa Bai. Instead, she agreed completely—go ahead and plant! If you love farming so much, then plant as much as you want! Lose that 200,000 yuan and that's it!
The thought of losing all 200,000 yuan made Qin Xiu even angrier!

Although Grandpa Bai was puzzled after receiving Qin Xiu's confirmation, he still went to the village to look for people.

Although Grandpa Bai is 75 years old, he is still in good health. He is tall and slender, and even though he is old, he is still 1.75 meters tall. Unfortunately, Bai Jiang did not inherit Grandpa Bai's height, but inherited Grandma Bai's short stature, barely reaching 1.7 meters. Bai Chen, on the other hand, seems to have inherited his height from a different generation, standing at 1.8 meters tall, a tall and handsome young man.

(End of this chapter)