Her Cultivation Diary

Liu Ning saw Liu Liu talking like this, and helplessly sighed: "It's inconvenient to take care of the child when it rains these days. Wait for the rain to stop, just work an hour or two at night, and don't take the child with you."

"The child won't rest well, and you'll be tired."

Liu Liu looked a bit puzzled: "She's only half a year old, it's unsafe for her to sleep alone... I'm quite skilled at working with the child on my back."

Liu Ning had never raised a child and didn't understand this kind of concern, but seeing Liu Liu insist, he said nothing more.

However, Aunt Lianhua's mother-in-law, who was also having dinner nearby, heard this and slowly swallowed a piece of soft-cooked rib meat before saying:

"Xiaoliu, taking care of a child like this isn't the way to go."

The granny, now plump and amiable, had a natural warmth in her voice.

Liu Liu and her brother instantly quieted down, patiently listening to her.

And as a grandma who had raised children, Granny Lianhua spoke earnestly:

"I used to work with the child on my back. In the summer, I'd carry the child and go to the fields, nearly getting us both sunburned to death in the fields..."

"But back then, we had no choice, every household endured like that. Nowadays, conditions have improved, carrying on like this would be a bit foolish."

Liu Liu blushed: "I..."

"I" stammered for a while but didn't know what to say, ending up repeatedly emphasizing:

"I definitely won't let work be delayed, everyone says I'm quick at my job."

"It's not a matter of delay or not."

Granny Lianhua patiently instructed her: "On the mountain, harvesting vegetables, if there are fewer people, it takes three hours, if there are more, two hours, it's actually not a big deal. The schedule was set in case of delays en route."

"If you're really a bit slow, working three hours still earns the same wage."

"But now it's spring, you can wrap the child warmly while you work. But what about summer?"

The elderly lady's face was full of tolerance: "Let's not talk about the sun during the day, what about the mosquitoes at night? You might endure them, but how can you bear having a tender little child on your back getting bitten by mosquitoes in the vegetable field?"

A child's skin is tender, a mosquito bite can swell up, especially when Ran Ran is so thin and small, what mother wouldn't feel distressed?

Liu Liu's eyes turned red.

But Liu Ning was calmer than her and quickly asked: "Granny, then what should my sister do?"

Granny Lianhua then said:

"You two are young, how come you don't know how to use high-tech stuff?"

She proudly took out her phone: "We have that internet thing at home, buy a monitor pointed at the bed, and learn from Qiaoqiao, buy a phone holder to set it in the vegetable field."

"You work while keeping an eye on the monitor screen on the phone, what's hard to understand?"

At this point, Granny Lianhua's tone changed, also intending to guide the inexperienced young mother:

"Oh, must you carry the child on your back and make it all dramatic for comfort?"

"If I were the boss, I wouldn't want to hire you, we're hiring workers, not nannies."

Liu Liu blushed even more.

But Granny Lianhua changed her tone:

"If something urgent shows up on the monitor, isn't this old woman still sleeping at home? I'm a light sleeper, give me a call, I'll check it out, it's no trouble."

"If you really need me, you can bring over two boxes of milk later, isn't that a nice gesture?"

Granny Lianhua, as a fashionable old lady who can already search for knitting patterns online, with a smart electric wheelchair and a smart toilet, was now quite different from the villagers!

She spoke emphatically and confidently.

At the very least, the method she described seemed reasonable to the siblings after pondering for a bit.

This made Liu Liu feel even more embarrassed: "Why didn't I think of it before?"

"Even if you thought of it, it wouldn't help."

Liu Ning calmly added by the side:

"What kind of job would let you keep watching a monitor all the time? And if something happened, you couldn't just fly back immediately, could you?"

Liu Liu: ... That's indeed true.

But, I must say, taking another look at Ran Ran, who had a face full of crumbs from just eating a piece of radish, her troubled heart calmed down.

The one teaching the way was so practical, Granny Lianhua actually felt quite accomplished, but she still needed to emphasize:

"What I said wasn't for those two boxes of milk, I don't need that stuff, this old woman can earn money, I have a salary."

"Huh?" With Liu Liu's honest personality, she hadn't thought of that at all.

But Liu Ning laughed: "Granny, I know, I've heard! Heard you earned over 8,000 a month when you were weaving mats!"

"Of course!" Granny Lianhua had been waiting for those words, and seeing Liu Liu's shocked expression, she sat even straighter in her wheelchair.

Then she modestly cleared her throat:

"8,000 isn't much, I just know more patterns, learned a few more this year—however, Xiaoliu!"

This was referring to Liu Liu, who instinctively responded with an "ah".

"Don't be discouraged, don't think a wage of a little over 1,000 is low. Look at your build, you should strengthen your body first."

"In our village, the Song Family, there's work from spring to winter. You're diligent and quick at work, but if your body can't hold up, they'd worry you'd fall ill on the job and they'd have to pay for it!"

"If I were you, I'd definitely eat another bowl of meat, have three meals a day plus a night snack—strengthen up for half a month, and if you can manage, you could be a tea picker."

"By the way, during the day in spring, you can hire me to babysit—since there are no materials for mat weaving now, I'm idle."

The siblings: "..."

What to do? Suddenly feeling this old lady is so incredible, and what she says makes a lot of sense!

Liu Liu was enticed even before becoming a tea picker, and she quietly asked:

"Then, how would the salary be calculated?"

The elderly lady curled her lips: "I know you're short of money, if done too meticulously, you couldn't afford this salary. How about this—"

"I'll watch the child, feed them formula, change clothes and diapers—those can't be saved, formula is definitely more nutritious than breastfeeding, look at your own face, it's so sallow."

"Also, don't use cloth diapers, buy disposable ones. Otherwise, the time spent washing and drying could be better spent earning money!"

"Then, during meal times, I'll take her to the canteen to wait for you—set the wage as you see fit, would 1,000 work for you?"

Liu Liu's heart pounded, not sure why she was so tempted!

Granny Lianhua also clutched her fists nervously—though she was confident about earning more this summer, it's better to earn a few hundred while idle in spring, right?

Along with the rental of the old house, it adds up to over 2,000 a month, isn't this like a job?

She could even take time to tend to the vegetable field!

The little old lady thought, and her spirits soared.