It has been three months since Mei arrived in this side of the world, and it was finally her harvest time. In this month, she will harvest her millet legumes and tuber, while the rice will take at least two more months since it will be ready to be harvested as for her flower garden she will move them to her new house.
As usual, Mei woke up early that morning and prepared breakfast. While at it, she also prepared their lunch to take to the farm as they had no time today to take a break. She set the table as her brother joined. After finishing breakfast, she asked him to ready their tools and baskets while she went to change them into her farm clothes.
Today was the day she had been waiting for was finally her big harvest day was here, the farming attire in this era was not restrictive or too complicated like the normal clothing but since the farmer clothes were for commoners, the original host did not feel okay with wearing it so she just wore her normal clothes to the farm but Mei found it too difficult when planting and decided and to create farming clothes as per the trend with a few of her tweaks of her own some days ago, she made a grey knee-length, loose-fitting tunic with a narrow sleeve and instead, it being full arm she made it to shorter since she didn't want to keep rolling her sleeves up every time.
For the trousers to wear under the tunic she made them baggy and shorter than opposed to the standard which was ankle-length instead of silk she made her clothes with Hemp though it was coarse but was better than silk when it comes to being on the farm and after that she wore to check and it was decent and will not show her body much not that she minded showing a bit of skin but she guessed as they say when in Rome do what the Romans do.
After wearing her farming clothes she really liked them and decided to make some pajamas, night dresses and some comfortable stay-at-home clothes once she moves to the capital as it will just be here at home with even her brother leaving.
She enjoyed making her own clothes as her grandmother had tailoring machine and thought her how to sew and make clothes using both the machine or and just her hands, she just wished there were cotton fabrics in this era because she couldn't find any maybe she will help with the production of cotton here and she can sell production methods information to some clothes shop or she could even create one but that was a later thought for now she put own her tunic and trousers and felt really comfortable.
She finally felt comfortable walking and moving around, and that made her more resolved to create more comfortable clothes for herself. With that, she went outside, Her brother who had his farming tools waiting for her, was shocked. Jaws dropped. His sister looked stunning. She had on a grey tunic with black trousers and her hair tied up and secured with colorful clothes. She looked very free and comfortable.
They headed to the farm, and when they reached, they started with the millet. Once each one had a full basket, they had a grain silo next to the house built by their grandfather before, so once they had a full basket, they would go pour the millet in the grain silo and come back to collect again.
They stopped for lunch and repeated till the sun started setting, casting the sky orange. Then they went back home and continue tomorrow as they were exhausted. When they reached home, her brother went to the kitchen to heat bath water for both of them and then went to have a bath each. As he was the first to finish, he went to the kitchen, his hair still wet, to cook dinner.
He had learned to cook this past month from his sister. He made some rice, and while his rice was cooking, he made a soup and some vegetable to with it. When Mei exited the shower, she found her brother cooking, so she removed some watermelon, pears and lychee, and after setting them on the table, she started munching on some while she dried her hair.
Her brother was very hardworking. He had learnt how to cook, and now that he knew she was tired, he started cooking just to let her rest some mornings he would wake before her to cook breakfast and she was so grateful in this era when men were not even supposed to go near the kitchen her brother cooked for her and that warmed her heart. Once she finished drying her hair, he brought the food, and they ate. Once finished, they had some fruit while she helped dry his hair.
While waiting for the food to digest before sleeping they developed a tradition of playing games she created out of their boredom as there were no cellphones here she asked her brother to bring her bamboo and created mahjong tiles painting them with dots and characters and she taught him how to play and when he asked her how she learnt she just gave him an excuse and told him it just comes to her mind, she also created Go got a board wrote and it got small pebbles painted them black and white. Though she was the one who created and taught him. After a few rounds, he started winning, and now, two months down the line, she could never win against him again. This frustrated her so much that she suggested they switch the game. He still worn the new game, so she just gave up and went to sleep while he laughed at her frustrations.
She washed her farm clothes since she only had one pair to wear tomorrow. After she hung the clothes to dry, they retired to bed for the night as they had a long day tomorrow and were exhausted from today's harvest.