Joe's Farming

A month later, the Gu family welcomed another happy event.

Hongxiu gave birth.

It's a girl.

When Gu Gang heard it outside the door, he hugged his brother and cried excitedly.

Then, despite the midwife's objections, he went into the house to see his wife and children.

Hongxiu was lying weakly on the bed. When she saw Gu Gang coming in with red eyes, she smiled at him comfortingly.

Gu Gang couldn't stop crying again.

"Xiu'er, are you feeling uncomfortable? Does it hurt?"

Hongxiu didn't have the strength to speak, but still insisted: "Don't cry, I'm fine."

Gu Gang nodded, held Hongxiu's hand in his own and kissed it again and again.

The little girl next to her was still crying loudly. Hongxiu smiled and said, "Hold her."

Gu Gang picked up the baby who was wrapped in a small quilt with trepidation.

I felt that she was so small, and I was afraid that if I used too much force I would hurt the child.

The child seemed to feel safe. He opened his mouth twice, as if he was about to howl, but finally he calmed down in Gu Gang's arms.

Gu Gang said to Hong Xiu happily, "Look, she's not crying anymore. She knows I'm her father, so she's not crying anymore!"

Hongxiu nodded and smiled happily: "Well, the child likes you."

Qiao Yu and Gu Feng waited outside the yard for a while, then looked at each other. It seemed that the eldest brother would not come out in the short time.

"I'll let Xia He come over to watch over us, let's go home." Qiao Yu said.

Gu Feng nodded. He also wanted to go back to see his baby.

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Two years later.

In the Gu family's courtyard, a little kid wearing a red coat trimmed with white rabbit fur, holding the candy his brother had just given him, jumped into Qiao Yu's arms.

"Daddy, give it!"

Gu Heng held up the candy in his hand and smiled happily.

Qiao Yu picked up his son.

I took the candy from his hand, it was a mint candy.

Qiao Yu kissed Gu Heng's little face: "Thank you, Hengzi, for thinking of Daddy. Daddy likes candy the most. In the future, give Daddy all the candies that others give you, okay?"

Gu Heng uttered an “ah”. He wanted to keep one for himself, but he still nodded: “Okay, give them all to Daddy.”

Then he took out another red one from his pocket and gave it to Qiao Yu.

Qiao Yu accepted it because he was afraid that Gu Heng was too young and might choke on the candy when no one was watching.

"Do you want to eat, Hengzi?"

Qiao Yu asked him.

Gu Heng nodded vigorously, drooling.

Qiao Yu put him down and said, "Wait, Daddy will go and process it for you."

Gu Heng followed Qiao Yu closely like a cute little tail.

"Daddy, Daddy. What are you doing?"

"Be good, you'll know in a moment."

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It’s the New Year’s market again, and the scene in front of the villa is bustling with activity.

Every time at this time, the villa's accommodation will be full, even though the villa has been expanded twice in the past two years.

The extra guests who are too lazy to go to the town will pay to stay overnight in the village.

The concepts of the villagers in Shangtian Village have begun to change quietly.

They also began to find ways to do business.

Gu Feng and Gu Gang led people to burn charcoal on the mountain. There were many guests in the villa, so they had to burn enough charcoal before the heavy snow.

"It's almost time for today. Let's go back first and come back later."

Gu Feng sealed the charcoal kiln and said to Gu Gang.

Gu Gang nodded: "Well, I also want to go back early to accompany Yaoyao."

Gu Gang and Hong Xiu's daughter was named Gu Yao, nicknamed Yaoyao, who is three months younger than Gu Heng.

They are all the treasures of their parents.

At this moment, Gu Heng sat obediently on the bench that Qiao Yu had asked him to sit on, watching Qiao Yu heating the candy with a tile.

"Daddy, Yaoyao."

Gu Heng suddenly said something.

Qiao Yu realized that the child wanted to call Gu Yao.

"Be good, just sit there, Daddy will be ready soon."

Qiao Yu used two bamboo sticks to stir the half-melted and half-solidified sugar liquid, then turned it in her hand until it became the shape of a small lollipop before handing it to Gu Heng.

Gu Heng happily took the "lollipop" and licked it carefully.

"Daddy, sweet!"

Qiao Yuxin said, you have the sweetest mouth.

He rolled up the remaining sugar liquid on a bamboo stick, then removed the tiles and asked Xia He to pay attention to the brazier.

She carried Gu Heng to find Gu Yao.

Before he even reached the door, Gu Heng started yelling, "Yaoyao, Yaoyao!"

After a while, a little girl dressed similarly to Gu Heng poked her head out from the crack in the door. When she saw Qiao Yu and Gu Heng, she ran up to them with a smile.

"Yaoyao, slow down!"

"Hey! Yaoyao, wait for mom!"

Qiao Yu and Hongxiu in the yard spoke at the same time.

Gu Yao ran to stand in front of Qiao Yu, then stretched out her hands to Qiao Yu: "Uncle, hug me."

Qiao Yu looked at Gu Heng in her hand, and then looked at Gu Yao who had her arms outstretched: ………

Hongxiu came up and said with a smile: "How can uncle hold both of you by himself?"

Gu Yao tilted her head: "Daddy can, uncle can too."

Hongxiu picked her up and said to Qiao Yu with a smile, "Hengzi is here to see Yaoyao?"

Qiao Yu nodded.

Gu Heng handed the "lollipop" that Qiao Yu had stuffed in front of him to Gu Yao: "Yaoyao, here you go."

Gu Yao took it happily and licked it.

"Thank you, brother."

Gu Heng was extremely happy. Although he was still young, he knew that Gu Yao was his sister.

A younger sister needs her older brother's love and care.

Just like his brothers and sisters love him.

When Gu Feng and Gu Gang came back, they saw two children squatting at the gate of the yard, watching the ants on the ground carrying the candy they had not finished eating.

Qiao Yu and Hong Xiu were chatting in the yard while watching the two children.

Qiao Yu was the first to see Gu Feng and shouted, "Are you back?"

The two children looked up when they heard this, and then rushed towards their father like two little cannonballs.

Gu Feng and Gu Gang hugged one each and smiled at each other in silence.

"Where are my brother and sister?"

Gu Feng asked Gu Heng.

Gu Heng thought about it, then said loudly: "Make money!"

Gu Feng then knew that the three little ones had gone to set up a stall again.

Two years later, the three little ones have changed from running a fried potato stall to a stall selling various fried vegetarian dishes.

All the vegetarian dishes are washed and cut in advance, and customers can choose their own portion, ranging from ten cents to fifty cents.

After frying, mix it with chili powder, Sichuan pepper powder, chopped green onion and watercress. It is delicious.

Even when Qiao Yu and Gu Feng were free, they would order one and eat it slowly.

Their New Year market has been extended from half a month last year to twenty days this year.

As the goods in the market became more and more abundant, it attracted many merchants from other places to come and purchase goods.

Xie Changyu even discussed with Qiao Yu and suggested to continue holding the market so as to attract more caravans to Taoyuan.

But Qiao Yu refused.

The reason why the New Year’s Market is so successful is that it only happens once a year.

If it happened every month, it wouldn't be so rare.

Moreover, the cooperating caravans could not afford to bring so many goods to the market every month.

Moreover, if it weren’t the end of the year, not so many people would buy New Year’s goods.

And another reason is that they have many promotions for New Year goods.

There is a promotion once a year and everyone will consume with the mentality of getting a bargain.

But if there are promotions every month, then this promotion is worthless.

The most important thing is that opening for twenty consecutive days is already Qiao Yu’s limit. He won’t be exhausted to death if he opens every month, but the employees of the villa will be.