Transmigrated as a Peasant Baby Who is Pampered by All-Chapter 310 - 226: Pregnant (Part 3)

Jiang Hu was at a loss whether to laugh or cry: "Then walk slowly, don’t rush, be careful not to slip."

The few of them didn’t walk far; the vegetable garden is better located as close to home as possible.

Except for Ding Shan, everyone else was skilled at work, and they grabbed hoes and went straight into the field.

After several days of rain, the ground was indeed very muddy, with every step leaving a hole and bringing out a large chunk of mud.

Xiaomi and Wei Ziang couldn’t be of much help, so they just watched from the roadside, but they had come to play, not expecting the two to do anything.

During the rain, Xiaomi and Wei Ziang had come out several times holding oiled paper umbrellas.

But they always left through the back door, looked at the fish in the pond, then walked a lap along the little stone path, and returned, without even seeing the whole village.

Today was the first time they saw the entire village from the front.

After taking a few glances, Xiaomi slightly frowned: "That’s strange, there doesn’t seem to be many households in the village, and the distances between them are quite far." 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Though they were even further away from others, the village essentially had no houses clustered together, which was quite odd.

And those separated houses didn’t look like individual homes, but rather like a large, simple building with many people living in it.

Most were straw huts, the buildings were long, resembling a courtyard and yet not quite, and each straw hut had many people coming in and out.

Men and women, old and young, were all present.

She had never seen such a village; could it be that the entire village was impoverished? Unable to build their own houses?

Or did local customs differ here, with many people living together?

Fortunately, Wei Ziang had some understanding, looking at the village situation, he pondered seriously.

"Those are probably not ordinary villagers, but tenant farmers for the landlords, or house servants, specifically farming with no land of their own."

"You see on the outskirts of the village, there are some separate little houses, those should be the villagers of Xiangmu Village."

Ordinary villagers were just common citizens.

Though tenant farmers also had citizen status, having signed contracts with their masters, they farmed the master’s land. After taxes, they could only keep the grain stipulated in the contract, the rest belonged to the master.

And house servants were naturally under the master’s slave status, an entire lifetime, even their offspring, unless the master released them, they would always be the master’s house servants, subordinates.

They farmed simply as labor, with no grain retained, only relying on the master’s monthly provisions, and the rest had nothing to do with them.

Wei Ziang explained the distinctions to Xiaomi.

"This place is quite close to the county town, so it’s normal for some large households to buy up vast fertile lands, specifically to farm."

Xiaomi somewhat understood: "So that’s how it is! So each separated large straw hut is where tenant farmers or house servants from a large household live, right?"

Wei Ziang nodded, indicating she was correct.

Xiaomi suddenly admired him: "You’re amazing, little brother, you know everything."

Wei Ziang immediately became bashful, his face reddening for a moment: "These are all from books. There’s a lot to learn in books."

Xiaomi remained impressed: "Well, you’re still amazing. Even if I read it, I’d probably forget it immediately."

Wei Ziang smiled without any response.

Xiaomi glanced back at her parents, who were sowing seeds and would likely take a while longer.

"Mom, I’m going to look around the village with little brother."

Not waiting for her mother to agree, she dragged Wei Ziang along as they ran off, leaving her mother to only shout to be careful.

The muddy path was very slippery, so Xiaomi stepped on the wild grass on both sides of the trail, waddling like a penguin.

However, Wei Ziang obviously didn’t know what a penguin was; he walked behind Xiaomi, watching her cute antics with a face full of smiles.

Indeed, Xiaomi was everyone’s source of happiness; no matter what happened, no matter their mood, seeing Xiaomi seemed to instantly brighten their spirits.

"Wow~ What a big pond." Xiaomi’s exclamation brought Wei Ziang back to his senses, and then he saw that the two of them had already distanced themselves from Uncle Jiang and Auntie and arrived at a large pond.

This pond was different from the one they dug in Fu’an Village; theirs was oval, cone-shaped.

But this pond was round, with soil dug straight up and down around it, and the surrounding walls were built with large stone blocks to prevent soil from sliding.

The pond was large, with lots of grass inside, lush green.

"Uncle Jiang takes it home to feed pigs and chickens, I think it’s this."

"Yes, it’s called water hyacinth; it’s said to grow quickly, with just one flower spreading across a whole pond."