They've all separated, so what does it matter to me if they get poorer and poorer?

Chapter 66 is particularly suitable.

When Zeng Xiaoyan heard her mother-in-law say that, she smiled and mumbled that she bought them in the city. "They weren't too expensive, and they smell really good. I bought some especially for you two to try."

Xiao Shuang and Xiao Dong, the two nieces and nephews, were also attracted and their eyes followed. Zeng Xiaoyan handed each of them a small piece of rib: "Here, have a taste!"

Xiao Shuang and Xiao Dong happily accepted it.

"Wow, it smells so good!"

"Delicious!"

Aunt Liang smiled helplessly, "It looks delicious. I'll stir-fry it for lunch and everyone can try it."

The third son's wife is truly magnanimous. Although she can argue fiercely with the second son's wife, she is incredibly kind to her nephews and nieces from the second branch of the family.

No wonder the two kids like her too.

Inside the house, behind the backs of everyone else, Zeng Xiaoyan and her husband handed over the money they had earned that day to Aunt Liang.

Aunt Liang was shocked as she counted, "Nine hundred and forty-six coins! How can there be so much!"

Zeng Xiaoyan and her husband were smugly waiting for her to be surprised, and when they saw it, they smiled with satisfaction.

"I sold some other things today, so I made a little more money!"

"Don't worry, Mom, this money is all clean, hehe."

Aunt Liang's hands trembled slightly again as she counted out two hundred and eighty coins for the two of them. "Keep them, but don't let your sister-in-law and second sister-in-law know."

"Ok!"

They know how to make money quietly. Although they can keep 30% of their profits after handing them over to the public treasury, their 30% is really too much. Even if it's their due, it still affects family harmony if word gets out.

Family matters are never just about reasoning; you also have to consider emotions.

The two hid their savings, said goodbye to Aunt Liang, and went to Xu Zhichun's house for lunch.

Aunt Liang smiled helplessly and let them be.

The braised pork and ribs were really delicious. Xu Zhichun also soaked some bamboo shoots and dried tea tree mushrooms that she said she got from the mountains, and made a dry pot duck with chopped duck meat, fried a lot of poached eggs and stir-fried green peppers, and served two vegetable dishes.

Let's start cooking.

Aunt Zhu'er and Zeng Xiaoyan were both astonished by Liang Chunfen's enormous appetite.

Zeng Xiaoyan was incredibly impressed and laughed heartily as she gave Liang Chunfen a thumbs-up, praising her good appetite. Aunt Zhu'er was surprised and couldn't help but think that with such an appetite, she probably rarely had a full meal at home. She felt sorry for her and kept urging her to eat more.

Liang Chunfen chuckled, having been a little reserved before, but now she completely relaxed. Everyone around Sister-in-law Zhichun was a good person.

In the afternoon, Liang Li returned from the city and gave them the completed land deeds.

Xu Zhichun's family bought over a hundred acres, Zhu'er's aunt's family also bought ten acres, and the village head's family bought forty acres.

With the land title in hand, everyone felt at ease.

If we plant sweet potato vines everywhere, we can harvest lots and lots of sweet potatoes!

We need to hurry up and clear the wasteland.

Everyone felt it was better for them to handle the konjac tofu matter themselves, and both Xu Zhichun and Aunt Zhu'er's families planned to hire villagers to clear the land.

Xu Zhichun hired the same people as before, but added four more. Zhu'er's aunt hired two brothers from her family.

Liang Chunfen finally had a chance to use his skills again, throwing himself into the land reclamation work with boundless energy and enthusiasm. His boundless strength overwhelmed all the men in the village.

Although none of the people they hired were gossipy, the news still spread like wildfire throughout the village.

Fortunately, both Liang Lizheng and Aunt Zhu'er's families helped share the burden. Even the villagers hired to clear the land didn't know that Xu Zhichun's family had bought over a hundred acres of land; they thought it was only a few dozen acres. Before they could even wonder if Xu Zhichun and his family could really make that much money selling konjac, Liang Lizheng's speech quickly grabbed everyone's attention.

"The village head said everyone should plant more sweet potatoes, the more the better, it's a good thing, and if you can't eat them all, you can sell them. Is your family planning to clear land?"

"I don't know. Clearing land requires money to buy land, and then there are taxes to pay later. I don't have the money."

"Sigh, I'm also reluctant to spend the money. I've finally saved up a meager amount of savings, and I'm afraid it won't be worth it."

"Our family is the same. We plant everything we can in every nook and cranny of the vegetable garden, along the edges of the fields, and under the fence in front of and behind the house. I think that's about enough."

"Yes, that's a good idea."

"My family and I have discussed it and decided to try cultivating two acres."

As a result, the sweet potato craze that had just subsided swept through the entire village once again.

Many people are planning to buy land for reclamation, and although they are only two or three acres or one acre, the total number is quite considerable.

Everyone busied themselves with their own affairs and no longer cared about discussing whether others were making money.

Xu Zhichun had originally planned for the first and second wives to come and ask how to deal with them, but unexpectedly, nothing happened.

Little did she know that Uncle Liang and the others were overjoyed when they learned that Master Liu of Quanshan Village had dismissed the school due to illness and left Quanshan Village, leaving Liang Mingxuan with nowhere to study.

They knew about it but pretended not to—after all, if they had known, as elders, they should have shown concern and even stepped in to find a school for Liang Mingxuan.

They would never do something like that.

So they simply pretended not to know anything and naturally stopped asking.

Besides, in their view, once Xu Zhichun remarries, wouldn't all the land belong to their family anyway? It doesn't matter whether they look at it or not at this point.

It's better to keep a distance from her at this time, so that no matter what happens in the future, it won't be related to our family.

Just two days after we started clearing the land, it suddenly started raining.

It was a heavy rain; it started falling last night and continued all day the next day.

We had already agreed with Manager Tang that we wouldn't be delivering goods into the city if it rained.

Today, I'm not even going into town to sell konjac tofu. Luckily, konjac tofu can be soaked in water for another day without any problems. If it rains again tomorrow, I'll have to go into town anyway.

Wearing a raincoat and a straw hat is fine; as long as the rain isn't too heavy, it doesn't matter.

However, with this heavy rain, the lantern fruits, which were already teetering on the verge of bursting, were definitely all blown away by the wind and rain and were gone.

The villagers felt it was a great pity that they could no longer earn money to supplement their household income, and Xu Zhichun and her group also felt sorry for them.

Zeng Xiaoyan and Aunt Zhu'er were particularly worried, wondering if the harvested fruit would be enough to last until the new lantern fruit ripened.

Xu Zhichun knew exactly what was going on and offered a few words of comfort.

With nothing else to do, Xu Zhichun found a simple version of the "Welcoming Spring and Bringing Fortune" flower bun in the harbor warehouse and showed it to Zeng Xiaoyan.

"How about this? Make a birthday flower pattern that's brightly colored, big, and several layers high. It would be quite novel and unique. The main ingredient is flour. As for the color, I picked a lot of wildflowers and leaves from the mountains, crushed them, and extracted the juice to use as color. Don't worry, they're all non-toxic and edible."

After much deliberation, Xu Zhichun felt this one was particularly suitable. It had auspicious connotations of good fortune and longevity, was made into several tall, multi-tiered pieces, had rich colors, and a unique and beautiful design, making it a very presentable piece.

Moreover, the cost is not high.

Of course, the dyeing and stuff was pure nonsense, and she didn't know how to make flower-shaped steamed buns either. Anyway, there were some in the warehouse space, so she just used them.

This is something the Liang family could easily afford to make; it's a very suitable birthday gift, and it shows that they put a lot of thought into it.

(End of this chapter)