The first step to a rich country is to get rich first and then get richer

"And your aunt, her face is so yellow and black, it's obvious that she has a serious deficiency of Qi and blood. Her two babies are already so big, but she hasn't had any more. It must be because..."

Lan Ning looked at Old Man Mu with an expression as if he was looking at a swindler.

"Grandpa Mu, can you bear it? You caught a little girl like me and took advantage of her. Even if you are taking advantage of me, you can't do it the way you do."

"Cough cough."

Old Man Mu felt a little embarrassed by what Nan Ning said, and he immediately straightened his back and coughed twice.

"I am doing this for your uncle and aunt, old man. All right, I'm going to get the medicine. Don't you have other things to do? Stay here and come get the medicine later."

After saying that, he ran faster than a rabbit with his old arms and legs.

Mu Zhongting sat in the carriage and looked at his grandfather like this, shaking his head with a look of "the old man is unteachable".

Lan Ning turned around and looked at the man who was still hanging on the carriage and refusing to get off.

"Brother Mu, why don't you get off the carriage? I still have things to do."

Mu Zhongting immediately straightened his sitting posture.

"I'm worried about you being out there alone. What are you going to do? I can come to help you faster."

Lan Ning looked at Mu Zhongting as if he were a mentally retarded person. Does free labor mean that she can use him in the future?

Gave him a thumbs up.

"Brother, you are awesome. Brother Zhuzi, let's go, let's go back to the restaurant first."

"Well, Sister Lan, he won't get off the carriage?"

The pillar scratched another line on Mu Zhongting's thick skin.

"We still have things to do, let's go back first."

"Row."

The carriage clattered back to the restaurant.

It was the time when guests came to the restaurant for lunch. Since they left during the day, the people in the restaurant were very busy.

Seeing this, Lan Ning was thinking about her share of the profits, so she threw Mu Zhongting on the counter and went to help with the work on her short legs.

Mu Zhongting couldn't bear to see Sister Lan working so hard, so even though he had never done these things before, he still went to cause trouble here when things were very busy, and looked for work that had been done by others there. Anyway, he was the busiest person at the end of the trip, but he didn't do anything.

Lan Ning was a kind person. Although Mu Zhongting had done nothing but harm in the restaurant today, she thought that he had helped her a lot before, so she generously invited him to dinner at the restaurant and put the money into her account, which would be deducted when the time came to pay.

Mu Zhongting was so happy that he drank three full bowls of the food that Sister Lan treated him to. Lan Ning gave him a thumbs up.

"You are amazing. You look so thin but you can eat so much."

Mu Zhongting felt a little embarrassed.

Hmm? Why are you so shy?

There were no customers in the restaurant at the moment. After finishing his meal, Shopkeeper Ye was about to go upstairs to rest for a while when he was stopped by Lan Ning.

"Uncle Ye, wait a moment, I want to discuss something with you."

"Ah~"

Shopkeeper Ye yawned loudly and turned to look at the little girl.

"what's up?"

Lan Ning was infected and yawned as well.

"Isn't your restaurant hiring? Our neighbor's uncle and aunt are very capable and good at work. I'll introduce them to your place to work. The money is easy to negotiate, just give them the same salary as we paid."

Hearing this, the business genius Shopkeeper Ye immediately started to do the math in his mind.

Two adults, 600 wen each. No matter how hard adults work, they can do more work than Lan Ning and the other kids and the old woman. Two people can do the work of four of them, so he can save 1200 wen a month.

Shopkeeper Ye agreed immediately without thinking.

"I don't want people who like to cheat and play tricks here. If they don't do their job well, I will fire them immediately."

Lan Ning nodded quickly, and his big dark eyes narrowed with laughter.

"That's natural, but my uncle is injured and may need to rest for two days."

"Then you have to come and help me for a few more days, otherwise the restaurant will be too busy. Our restaurant's business is not to be underestimated right now, and we can't be short of people for a day."

Lan Ning thought about it and nodded. It was just a few days, so it was okay.

The restaurant was not busy at the moment, so Lan Ning went to the kitchen to get a backpack and went to the street with Mu Zhongting.

I have to buy some food for Uncle Lan and the others to nourish their bodies. They and the two little ones look so skinny.

Normal days are not easy either. Alas, she is so careless. Why didn’t she notice this before?

Of course, meat is indispensable for nourishing the body, still pork and mutton.

I also bought some chicks and asked Uncle Lan and the others to raise them and wait for them to grow up and lay eggs.

I won’t buy eggs. In fact, every household in the countryside has enough eggs, it’s just a matter of whether you are willing to eat them or not.

Thinking of the worn-out thin cotton-padded jackets on Uncle Lan and his family, she went to the clothing store she often visited and bought four thick ones, two large and two small, for the same price of 200 wen each.

Looking at the full basket of things he had bought, Lan Ning thought for a moment and decided not to buy any more.

In fact, she didn't know much about what gifts were given in ancient times, mainly because she had never experienced it. Personally, she thought that the things she bought should be enough. After all, compared with the gifts of cigarettes and alcohol in later generations, the prices of these meats and clothes were about the same after conversion.

But Uncle Lan and his family were seriously injured because of them, so they owed him a favor. Favors and these things cannot be exchanged.

Knowing that Sister Lan was going back, Mu Zhongting patted his chest.

"Sister Lan, oh, no, Sister Li, let me take you back."

Mu Zhongting mistakenly called her "Sister Lan". He didn't know if she heard it or not, and whether she would realize that he already knew her real name.

Lan Ning looked at Mu Zhongting with her eyes wide open, feeling a little embarrassed. It seemed that she had been discovered to have lied about his name, but he was kind enough not to expose her.

"Brother Mu, I didn't mean to lie to you. The main reason was that I didn't know you well at the time and I was afraid you were a liar. There were only my brother, sister and my grandmother at home. My grandmother was old and my brothers and sisters were still young, so I had to have some way to protect myself."

Mu Zhongting quickly waved his hands, looking like a dog licking his own dog. He was obviously the one being deceived, but because of a careless slip of the tongue, the other party discovered what he had already discovered. Instead, he was worried that the other party would feel guilty for deceiving him.

"It's okay, it's okay, Sister Lan, I'm not angry, I can understand. Now you know I won't hurt you, that's all."

Lan Ning smiled sweetly at Mu Zhongting, knowing that he was most vulnerable to this trick of hers.

Sure enough, when he smiled, Mu Zhongting began to roar in his heart again.

"Brother Mu, when did you find out that my name was fake?"

"Not long ago, when you were injured last time."

"It's been so long, and you haven't exposed me. Now that you can find my home, you can come over to play. I'll make delicious food for you. My cooking is delicious. My grandma even said that I have a talent for cooking. My cooking is better than hers."

When Mu Zhongting heard Sister Lan invite him to visit her in the future, his tail wagged like a propeller.

That’s great, that’s great. I can see Sister Lan often in the future. When I have the chance to meet my parents, I will definitely ask them to adopt Sister Lan as their goddaughter. Then she will really be my sister.

It seems that the desire to have a younger sister has become Mu Zhongting's inner demon.