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Chapter 60 Printing Photos!

Li Lizhi was holding a bowl in the carriage, which was half full of persimmon frost.

The harvest was plentiful, and there were still quite a few left to scrape.

Princess Yuzhang was holding a tomato, and the two little princesses were each holding one as well.

Xiao Ran also gave them some maltose.

This candy is quite soft, and the two little princesses love it.

"Tiehuan, are you free to come again tomorrow?" Princess Yuzhang lifted the curtain and asked, discovering that Cheng Tiehuan was very reluctant to do delicate work.

“Come!” Cheng Tiehuan, riding his horse, answered without hesitation.

Aside from the persimmon frost, the rest is quite interesting.

I still miss Xiao Ran's cooking, especially.

Cheng Yaojin had eaten it several times and praised it highly.

Cheng Tiehuan had previously thought it was an exaggeration, but now she realized it was not an exaggeration at all.

“Then tomorrow will be at the same time,” Princess Yuzhang said with a smile.

"Okay!" Cheng Tiehuan didn't go back empty-handed either; Xiao Ran gave him some persimmon cakes.

Upon returning to Chang'an, Cheng Tiehuan went back to his residence.

"Girl, you're back. How are you feeling?" Cheng Yaojin asked with a smile.

Cheng Yaojin was very much in favor of his daughter being close to Princess Li Lizhi of Yuzhang.

Cheng Yaojin knew Li Lizhi's personality.

Following such outstanding people, even if you can't learn anything good, at least you don't have to worry about going astray.

"Father, the young master's cooking is very interesting. His cooking skills are truly remarkable; the noodles are absolutely delicious."

"Noodles? What are those?"

I've never heard of Cheng Yaojin.

“It’s very thin and long,” Cheng Tiehuan gestured. “The young master said it’s similar to soup noodles, but I think it tastes much better. Soup noodles can’t compare to noodles.”

"That's true!"

"Father, these are persimmon cakes, do you know them?" Cheng Tiehuan handed the items to Cheng Yaojin.

"I heard people in your household mention it before, but it seems they couldn't buy it when they went. Was this also made by my nephew?"

"Yes, Her Highness went to Kaolao Village for the persimmon cakes."

Cheng Tiehuan picked up the persimmon cake; the white frost on it had thinned considerably. "This white stuff on top is persimmon frost; it has miraculous effects in treating qi ailments."

Upon hearing the word "qi ji," Cheng Yaojin naturally understood.

"No wonder the princes wanted to go!" Cheng Yaojin picked up a persimmon cake.

"Father, this is delicious, you should try it."

"Good, good, good," Cheng Yaojin took a bite and nodded repeatedly, "Not bad, not bad."

It was already quite delicious, but it tasted even better since my daughter brought it back.

“Father, I’ll try some too,” Cheng Chumo heard this and leaned over.

"You stay over there. This is obviously medicine. Your mother has been coughing these past few days, take it to her to try first."

Upon returning to the Lizheng Hall, Li Shimin was pleasantly surprised to see the persimmons and frost, saying, "These should be enough for a few days."

“Father, the young master still has persimmon cakes from which we can extract the persimmon frost, but he won’t be making any more after that.”

"Hmm? Such a good thing, why not make it?" Li Shimin asked.

"The young man said that drying these would take a lot of time, and he was too busy building a house to manage it all. So he taught the other people in the village how to make persimmon cakes."

Empress Zhangsun was quite surprised, as she knew from the price of persimmon cakes that the profit margin was actually quite high.

"Being able to give up one's skills worth a thousand gold pieces to help one's neighbors shows a magnanimity similar to that of Tao Zhu Gong when he distributed his wealth."

Li Shimin nodded, "This shows great courage. He's not a stingy person. It's better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. The villagers should be able to increase their income considerably."

"Young master didn't hide his technique for making sugar-roasted chestnuts; it's just that sugar is a bit hard to come by, but I'm sure someone else will be making them later," Princess Yuzhang said. Anyone who's seen it knows that making sugar-roasted chestnuts doesn't require much skill.

Li Lizhi asked Yu Shu to bring paper and pen, "When we went there, we happened to catch the young master explaining the production process in the village. I wrote it down so that the palace can make it themselves."

Since Xiao Ran is willing to tell others, it's fine for Li Lizhi to write it down as well.

After reviewing the process, Li Shimin pondered, "Making some persimmon cakes during this off-season for farming is indeed a good idea!"

The two little princesses and Empress Zhangsun of Li Shimin excitedly talked about noodles and maltose.

Although Li Shimin didn't get to eat noodles, judging from the reactions of the two little princesses, he certainly didn't mind.

There wasn't much persimmon frost on Xiao Ran's side, but there will be more in the village later.

Li Shimin and Li Lizhi need not worry, for the time being, there is enough persimmon frost.

As the sun set, the villagers who had received their wages said goodbye to Xiao Ran and left one after another.

In the end, Wang Shen found Xiao Ran.

"Uncle, is something wrong?" Seeing Wang Shen looking troubled, Xiao Ran assumed it was a problem with the house or wages.

"My dear nephew! Could the other two villages learn from this persimmon cake business? There are actually plenty of persimmons around here."

"Uncle, of course there's no problem. This isn't just for me, nor is it limited to Kaolao Village. Anyone can learn it. I've already told everyone in the village that it's very simple."

Xiao Ran explained the process to Wang Shen; it would only take a few minutes.

"I was wrong to judge you with my own petty mind before. I'm ashamed." Wang Shen is the village head, and he has to consider the interests of three villages.

I previously thought Xiao Ran was willing to teach Kaolao Village.

I still can't help but ask today, so that Xinhe Village and Qujiangchi Village can also benefit from this.

"This is a great help to Uncle Shi, so you don't need to pay him wages anymore." Wang Shen stuffed today's wages into Xiao Ran's hand.

“One thing at a time, you can’t do it like that. Uncle is the village head, he’s doing his job to benefit the villagers, that’s public business. Building a house is a private matter, you can’t do it like that.”

Actually, Xiao Ran wanted to do someone a favor; this amount of money was nothing compared to that favor.

Although the village head is a grassroots administrator and not a high-ranking official, he is still very important.

We'll definitely be dealing with each other frequently in the future.

After everyone else left, Zhang Erya and her two siblings went back.

Xiao Ran didn't leave; he returned to the front of the cave.

The basic outline of the house is complete, and they've started building the walls.

Xiao Ran went around to the back of the house and entered the cave.

Find the printer and print out the photos of Third Aunt and the two little princesses.

Seeing the photo again, Xiao Ran couldn't help but laugh.

The little princess's smile is so healing and heartwarming.

The Chengyang Little Princess and Third Sister also had theirs, but they were not as good as the Little Princess's.

Xiao Ran printed out three copies: one for himself, one for his third sister Zhang Erya, and the other for Li Lizhi and the two little princesses.

Before going to bed tonight, as usual, I unloaded a lot of things from the RV, to be refreshed tomorrow.

The large cave behind it also contained quite a few things.

Cookies and pastries are fine to eat.

Xiao Ran really couldn't bear to eat those few sweet potatoes and potatoes.

There are a few ears of corn, but they are too young to be used as seeds.

"Never mind, we'll just boil corn for breakfast tomorrow!" We should bring more things home, since Li Lizhi and the others will be coming again tomorrow.

After everything was ready, I washed up and lay down.

"It's much more interesting than before."

(End of this chapter)