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The corn and beans in the fields have all ripened.
Pei Qin turned to attend to the affairs of the fields and Tian Zhuang, and the workshop activities also stopped, as the hired workers had gone home for the autumn harvest.
Jiujiu said she'd stay at home to watch her little sister, but as soon as Sun Xingwang and Zhao Xiaolang called for her, she couldn't sit still.
This time of year the fields were full of grasshoppers and crickets, and by the ditches on the edges of the fields, one could find black night plums and fragrant lady fruits to eat, sweet and tart to taste.
Zhang Gengshan couldn't follow, so he had the guards secretly dispatched to follow Jiujiu closely. He went to help Pei Qin.
Xiao Yi, seeing no one else at home, didn't hurry him and couldn't resist going to the edge of the fields himself.
He saw Jiujiu and the others enjoying the fragrant lady fruits and stood off to the side with a pout.
