Juhua spaced out for a second, then asked Meizi with a laugh, "You haven't been out all afternoon. What have you been busy with at home?"
What she really wanted to know was what Meizi had roped Granny Hua into doing.
Meizi smiled. "I was tilling the soil with Mother. We planted a row of eggplants and weeded the chili peppers and cucumbers—just busy with chores all afternoon. Oh, Juhua, I didn't plant enough peppers. I want to plant more, but I don't have any more space or seedlings."
