By midday, Zhiming had also returned home with his wife and children. Mrs. Zhu was still the same; she started helping with the chores as soon as she came back, and Jingwan and Jingxian came over to help too. Mrs. Chen, looking at her two granddaughters, was overjoyed, "Jingwan, Jingxian, don't bother with the chores, go play with Jinghan instead; she didn't go to the mountains today."
Jingwan and Jingxian then wiped their hands and ran to Jinghan's room looking for her, but she was nowhere to be found inside. They finally located Jinghan in the garden after searching everywhere.
Jinghan, having a rare day off at home, couldn't sit still and had run off to the garden to pull up the mustard greens. By this time, the mustard greens had grown well and if not pulled out soon, they might be ruined by an unexpected frost. Today they were planning to make dumplings, and the tops of the mustard greens were especially delicious in dumplings, so Jinghan volunteered to pull the greens.
