Everyone's plan

  Bai Wenyi is kind-hearted and considerate of her brother, but when she returns home and tells Li Qian about helping her older brother manage the orchard in the future, she pouts and says, "Your older brother is really something, saying he'll give you a salary, who knows how much money he'll actually give you? You're better off staying at home to help take care of the kids."

  Li Qian can tolerate anything else today, but questioning Bai Wenli's sincerity towards him is something that Bai Wenyi cannot tolerate from anyone, especially when it comes to his own brother.

  He looked at his wife with a hint of gloom, he was also a man who didn't have a temper, but felt that living in the army with these women wasn't easy. Since he had married this woman and brought her back, he had to take good care of her and couldn't let her suffer any grievances. However, there was one thing - he couldn't say anything bad about his family members.

  "Li Qian, listen to me today. If you dare say a word against my brother from now on, you can go wherever you want and I won't care. The way my brother treats us siblings is not something you can question. Even if it's for free, I'm willing to help him out. Don't forget how I got my job, so think carefully before saying anything that shouldn't be said."

  Bai Wenyi rarely spoke so seriously to his wife since their marriage, and Li Qian had never seen Bai Wenyi lose his temper before. She wanted to argue back, but seeing the look in her husband's eyes, she immediately dispelled that idea.

  "Pouting, he complained somewhat resentfully, 'Wen Yi, I'm doing this for your own good, you know. I didn't say no when you went to help Big Brother with his work.'"

  Li Qian rarely lowered her posture in front of her husband, coquettishly and cutely, just to make the unpleasantness from earlier disappear. Because she knew clearly that although Bai Wenyi usually didn't have a temper, it was because she hadn't touched his bottom line yet. If he really got angry, she wasn't confident that she could surpass the position of her husband's older brother in his heart.

  Bai Wenli sat on the kang with his son and daughter, reading idle books. Yu Tong and her brother finished writing today's words to learn and pulled Bai Wenli to tell stories.

  Bai Wenli rubbed his nose, thinking hard about the stories he used to hear when he was a kid, but unfortunately, in his impression, it seemed that his parents had never told him this kind of thing.

  "Hey, kiddo, you're making it a bit hard for me to live this down. Alright, I'll tell you about my childhood then. Sigh... back then your grandma's family was really poor, and our brigade wasn't doing well either. We were going through a famine, so we all ate soybeans, and each person got a limited number of them. If you had more, there wouldn't be..."

  When Bai Wensheng and others talked about their miserable childhood, Yu Tong couldn't help but sigh, her father's life was really bitter.

  "Dad, when we grow up, we'll definitely buy delicious food for you to eat."

  Bai Haoran nodded vigorously, "Dad, from now on I won't eat sweets anymore, I'll save money to buy you good food."

  Look at these two kids, Geng Mei burst out laughing, "You guys, just don't provoke us to anger in the future."

  "Brother, did you hear that? From now on, listening to Dad and Mom is the greatest filial piety."

  Geng Mei listened to the conversation between the young couple beside her, a smile on her face as she watched them, not saying much, but her hands were busy knitting a sweater for her son.

  Early in the morning, the brother and sister were dragged up by Geng Mei. There was no one at home to take care of the children, so whenever they got up, Yu Tai and the others had to get up too. This way, they could follow their parents to the mountain together. The fruit had already been sold out, leaving only a worm-eyed and rotten one that couldn't be sold.

  Geng Mei picked some good apples from the pile for her family to eat, and those that were not so good she planned to feed to the pigs. If she didn't do this, there would be no way to store them, and after a long time they would rot, which would be even more of a pity.

  I didn't expect Bai Xinyi to come back at this time.

  Bai Wengui was somewhat surprised. Today wasn't a rest day, so why would his sister come back at this time? Had something happened?

  Bai Xinyi looked at her brother's worried face and couldn't help but smile, "You, don't think nonsense, I'm fine, nothing's wrong. I'm planning to go to the teacher's department to rely on my friend, she said she's already found a job for me, so we can take care of each other. I heard about second brother's situation, sigh, it's really unfortunate. But you don't have to worry either, after I get there, we'll think of a way together and help find a job."

  Bai Xinyi has already said so, and Bai Wenli can't say anything else. The elder sister is always right, he should know that in his heart.

  "Go on, sister, or else you can stay at home for a couple more days before going over. Once you leave, it'll be far away from us, and even taking the bus will take a long time."

  She knew that her brother was reluctant to part with her, but there was no way out. She also had to think more about her own future; she couldn't stay at her brother's house forever.

  Look, Geng Mei has picked out the apples, she thought they were going to be sold. Unexpectedly, when she heard Geng Mei say that they were going to feed the pigs, Bai Xinyi felt a little heartbroken. "Younger sister, even if you give them to the pigs, they can't eat so many, besides, it's such a waste of things. You leave some for me, I'll make dried apples for you, and later on, they can be used as snacks for the kids."

  Geng Mei had never dried apples before, so she just handed them over to her elder sister. Bai Xinyi quickly removed the rotten parts of the apples, peeled and pitted them, washed them clean, and then cut them up to dry in the sun.

  Fortunately, it will take no more than two days for them to dry the fruit as the temperature is rising on their side.

  Old Lu from next door came over to chat with Bai Wenli during his free time, and they were just complaining about the poor sales of their lychees.

  "Old Bai, you really got lucky, the apples came down early. You didn't see our few households, the apples can't be sold and can only be cheaply disposed of. Our pigs even ate a lot of them. Fortunately, other fruits in our households are still selling for some price, otherwise we would have lost so much money. I'm just waiting for autumn fruit."