Exiled to Lingnan, the Crown Prince's wife raises children, cultivates the land, and leads the

"Sister-in-law, are these flowers alright?"

Jin Xue'er handed over some wildflowers from the mountain. Ever since they learned the price of the flower dew, the women in the village had gathered all the flowers they could find in the mountains.

"Not all flowers will do."

Cheng Qiqi smiled and refused, but when she saw the oleander in the flower basket, she immediately said, "This flower is poisonous. Forget about making dew from it, even getting it on your skin will kill you!"

"And this little yellow flower, it's called 'heartbreak grass'!"

Upon seeing the two poisonous flowers, Cheng Qiqi quickly said, "You two should throw away the flowers immediately and wash your hands three times. These are all highly poisonous."

"ah!"

Jin Xue'er and Jin Qing'er immediately threw away the flowers, rubbing their hands together as they said, "Luckily, we didn't pick many."

Cheng Qiqi then explained the toxicity of these two flowers very seriously. Seeing that Jin Xue'er and Jin Qing'er were still confused, she simply took the flowers and explained the key points that evening, saying, "If you don't recognize the flowers, either don't pick them, or ask the villagers!"

The villagers should know which flowers are poisonous; quite a few, like Jin Xueer and her friends, have picked flowers and come to ask about them.

"Um."

Jin Xue'er was terrified and stood up to wash her hands three more times, scrubbing them until the skin was almost gone.

Jin Qing'er smelled her reddened hands: "Sister-in-law, should I soak my hands in hot water again?"

Fortunately, they thought the flowers were pretty, so they picked them and asked them about them.

"Qing'er, you mustn't pick flowers you don't recognize."

Li reminded him with lingering fear.

"Um."

Jin Qing'er nodded heavily. Not to mention Jin Qing'er, even the other members of the Jin family had only one thought in their minds: they couldn't just pick the flowers.

Dinner was filled with the aroma of meat once again.

These past few days, Heitu has been leading the village's best hunters into the mountains, hunting wild boars and rabbits every day, and the villagers are eating very well.

People began to have a deeper understanding of the Jin family: they could not only make money, but also hunt.

In previous years, when wild boars came down from the mountains and damaged the crops, they were furious, but they couldn't fight off those groups of wild boars!

Sometimes there would be jackals, and everyone could only watch helplessly as wild boars and jackals devoured all the grain in the village and swaggered back into the mountains!

This year, Heitu and the Jin family caught over thirty wild boars, and they've been eating meat every day for the past seven days.

"I wish we could eat meat every day!"

Jin Yanzhi patted his round belly. Although spring planting had not yet started, because they had been hunting every day and had meat, and because they had been tilling the Jin family's land together, they had been eating together!

Finally, I don't have to eat my stepmother's cooking anymore.

I'm just... a little tired.

Jin Yanzhi has been practicing martial arts morning and evening lately, and he also has to work in the fields during the day. The blisters on his hands keep breaking and reappearing, and now calluses have formed on them.

"The tide will be low again tomorrow and the day after. Let's collect more fish and shrimp so we can make fish sauce and shrimp sauce. It'll be a good source of meat when we plant spring crops."

Cheng Qiqi said excitedly, "I heard Sister Rong talking about the big low tide yesterday, and I've been looking forward to it for a long time!"

During the last major low tide, everyone missed it because they were making oyster sauce and didn't have time to go.

The next day, Cheng Qiqi got up very early and brought Jin Sui'an's hat, small basket, small hat, and small shovel with her!

"Mom, I want to catch lots and lots of fish!"

Jin Sui'an looked up at Cheng Qiqi, who was so excited that she had gotten up early.

She happily touched her new hat. Uncle Beard was so kind of him to make her a new hat so she could wear it interchangeably!

She also picked up some pretty little seashells and wove them onto her hat, which she loved!

"Stay close to your mother and don't wander off!"

Cheng Qiqi carried her daughter onto the cart, repeatedly giving her instructions along the way.

"Mother, I will stay close to you and to Sister Yun."

Jin Sui'an craned his neck, looking towards the sea every now and then: "Mom, when can we go to the beach?"

"Can I take off my shoes and play in the water?"

"Can I collect more pretty little seashells?"

"I want to collect lots of fish and lots of shrimp for Mom, for Grandpa and Grandma, for Great-Grandma..."

Jin Sui'an counted on her fingers: "I want to pick one, two... twenty, thirty, forty..."

After counting to twenty, Jin Sui'an started counting by tens.

*Pfft*

As Cheng Qiqi listened to her daughter's arithmetic, she couldn't help but laugh. Her daughter was clearly smart and could memorize poems after just one reading, so why was she so bad at counting?

"Seven seven, after twenty, is twenty-one, not thirty."

Cheng Qiqi corrected her.

Jin Sui'an counted on her fingers: "Twenty-one, thirty-one..."

"..."

Cheng Qiqi looked at her with a complicated expression. Would her silly daughter not even be able to count money in the future?

Hei Tu, who was in charge of pushing the cart, heard the mother and daughter's conversation and smiled slightly: It seems that I will have to find a numerate maid for my daughter in the future.

We arrived at the seaside, and after the great low tide, large areas of sand were exposed, with the coastline stretching far, far away.

As a southerner living in a coastal area, Cheng Qiqi was utterly powerless against the sea.

She dragged Jin Suian along as they ran, a far cry from the neat and tidy Cheng Niangzi she was in the sugar shop.

Heitu pushed the cart, carrying a bucket, and began to quickly catch fish and collect seashells.

The Jin family, who lived in Kyoto, had never seen such a beautiful sea before. Everyone started catching fish and collecting seashells.

"Mom, there's a snake!"

Jin Suian had only run a few steps when she was so frightened that she lunged at Cheng Qiqi.

Hearing the sound, Heitu, who was not far away, swiftly grabbed the snake.

"Miss Sui'an, this is not a snake."

Hei Tu picked up the green snake and said, "This should be seaweed?"

It was a long, thin thing floating in the water, and it certainly didn't look like a snake.

"Yes, it's seaweed."

Cheng Qiqi's eyes lit up: "We can dry the kelp and use it in soups or salads. It's delicious! Let's collect more."

"An'an is not afraid."

Cheng Qiqi coaxed her daughter, then said, "If you come across any seaweed, pick up a lot."

The Jin family took a look, and the seaweed that was everywhere became one of their targets.

"Huh, this seaweed is thin."

After realizing it wasn't a snake, Jin Sui'an grew a little bolder and picked up a thin slice of seaweed, offering it to her: "Mother, isn't this seaweed enough to fill you up?"

"what?"

Cheng Qiqi was happily picking up seashells. There wasn't much meat in them, but she quite liked their fresh taste after stir-frying them. When she looked up and saw the seaweed in her daughter's hand, her eyes lit up even more: "An'an, this isn't seaweed that's not filling you up, it's seaweed."

Cheng Qiqi asked, "Where did you find it?"

There was plenty of kelp, but she had only just noticed the laver.

"There are so many over there!"

Jin Suian gestured and led Cheng Qiqi to the place where she had picked seaweed. It was a small puddle of water, completely filled with seaweed.

"Mine, all of it is mine!"

Cheng Qiqi happily filled a bucket, dried it, added some dried shrimp, or added an egg to make a soup, it was very delicious!