By the time Jiang Jiang finished all her work, the sun was about to set, and it was already dark when she got home.

A few children were guarding the door and saw a vague figure walking towards their home from afar.

Li Yuanchang had the sharpest eyes and recognized at a glance that it was his grandmother, so he quickly ran forward to greet her.

"Grandma, you're finally back! Let me carry it for you." Li Yuanchang and the two brothers Li Dongliang who came over shortly after took the things from Jiang Jiang's hands. The two sisters Li Zhaodi and Li Pandyi escorted Jiang Jiang over the short distance.

"Mother, you are back. The porridge is still simmering on the stove. I will bring it to you."

After saying that, Huang Ying went to the kitchen and brought back a bowl of porridge, as well as a small plate of pickles and cold cucumbers.

After walking all the way, Jiang Jiang, who was hungry and thirsty, liked this porridge the most. He picked up the bowl without hesitation and ate it all up with pickles and cucumbers.

"Put the meat and bones in the kitchen cabinet and make something good for the children tomorrow. They all look pale and skinny. It would be better for children to be a little fatter."

Jiang Jiang took out the key to the kitchen cabinet and handed it to Sun Qiaoqiao.

Receiving the "important task" from her mother-in-law, Sun Qiaoqiao looked at Huang Ying provocatively. Her mother-in-law still attached great importance to her as the second daughter-in-law.

Huang Ying reflected in her heart, wondering if she had done something wrong recently that annoyed Jiang Jiang.

In fact, Jiang Jiang didn't think much about it. She just handed the key to the person closest to her. She didn't expect that someone would rush to do this errand job.

"By the way, the children should stay at home, and you adults should follow me."

Seeing Li Cuicui's excited face, Jiang Jiang added another sentence.

"Cui Cui, you stay at home and look after the children."

"Hmph." Li Cuicui looked unhappy but still did not refute.

There must be a reason why my mother does this.

Jiang Jiang took the first and second wives and walked out in the dark.

It’s a dark and windy day today, and I can’t see the road clearly.

When they arrived at the threshing ground, Jiang Jiang took advantage of his position ahead of everyone else and took out the grain at the corner.

"You guys wait here, I'll go over and take a look."

Without waiting for anyone to answer, Jiang Jiang went straight forward.

The few people only heard a faint conversation, followed by Jiang Jiang's call.

After hearing what their mother said, the first and second wives came to the place where the voice came from.

"Is this the food we bought before? Why is it delivered so late at night?" Li Xu was a little puzzled.

Huang Ying reacted faster and slapped Li Xu.

"It would be better to deliver it at night. In broad daylight, the whole village will know that we have bought food."

"That's it."

Sun Qiaoqiao followed suit, and Li Sheng was glad that he reacted a beat slower, otherwise he would have asked the same question as his brother.

"Okay, okay, stop talking and move the food to the cellar quickly. If someone sees us, all our efforts will be wasted." Jiang Jiang urged them to act quickly.

The injured Li Xu was left to look after the food, while the rest of the people each carried a bag of food and rushed home.

Jiang Jiang secretly used the space to help with transportation in the dark, greatly improving efficiency.

Looking at the food that filled half of the cellar, everyone felt relieved.

Li Xu wiped the sweat from his forehead, as if he had thought of something, and suddenly asked: "Mom, how is our shop in town going?"

Everyone was concentrating, this was the highlight of today.

Jiang Jiang gave everyone an affirmative look.

"Everything has been settled. There is a vacant stall in the north of the city. Just pay ten cents a day. Let's test the waters first."

"Don't we have a few big pumpkins and mung beans at home? We can make some iced mung bean and pumpkin soup. Mom also bought a lot of sugar cane today. We can add some water chestnuts and white grass roots to make a sugar cane, water chestnut and white grass root water. We also have a lot of winter melons at home, so we can make some winter melon tea."

"Besides, we have a trump card."

Jiang Jiang was mysterious and she wouldn't say anything no matter how people asked her.

Early the next morning, everyone started to work and brought several buckets of mung bean pumpkin soup and winter melon tea to the town. The two brothers Li Sheng and Li Xu were left at home to look after the affairs in the fields.

After arriving at the rented stall, Jiang Jiang asked his two daughters-in-law and Cuicui to set up a shed for shade, set out the benches and table brought from home, and went to the rented yard to bring a bucket of ice and a bundle of sugarcane.

After Jiang Jiang took the things back, he saw Huang Ying and the others looking at each other. Some curious customers came to the stall to look around, but the three of them were like frightened quails and did not dare to talk to anyone.

This won’t do. How can we do business like this?

Jiang Jiang rushed forward and said to the curious old man, "Would you like a bowl of iced mung bean and pumpkin soup? It's guaranteed to be sweet. If it's not sweet, it's free."

The old man’s first reaction was to refuse, thinking that it must be very expensive since it’s chilled.

He licked his dry lips and prepared to leave.

Li Cuicui and the other two were a little disappointed. Could it be that they had started off badly and couldn't even sell a bowl of sweet water?

Unexpectedly, Jiang Jiang stopped the old man who was about to leave, directly poured him a bowl of mung bean and pumpkin soup, and took out two ice cubes from the ice bucket and put them in.

"Uncle, today is our first day setting up a stall here. I don't know how this sweet water tastes. Please try it and give me some suggestions. It's free."

Hearing that it was free, the old man was obviously tempted. He took the bowl, and a cool feeling came from the palm of his hand. He lowered his head to take a sip, sighed comfortably, and then drank it all in one gulp. The cool feeling instantly spread throughout his body.

He returned the bowl and gave Jiang Jiang a thumbs up.

"Sweet enough! Ice enough!"

"But big sister, listen to my advice. Ice is expensive now and no one can afford to drink it. At most, you can drink some herbal tea to cool down."

It turns out that they were worried that the iced sweet water was too expensive.

Jiang Jiang finally understood what everyone was worried about, and she immediately asked Li Cuicui to find a piece of wood and write the signs "one bowl costs two cents" and "three bowls cost five cents".

A bowl of ordinary herbal tea usually costs one penny, and Jiang Jiang selling it with ice is not expensive at all.

The old man who had just drunk a bowl of iced mung bean soup frowned again.

Is there another problem?

"Big sister, are you sure you won't lose money at this price?"

It turned out to be the case.

Jiang Jiang smiled and replied: "Don't worry, sir, we didn't lose anything, we just earned some hard-earned money."

"Okay, give me three bowls of this mung bean soup. I need to take it back to my baby, otherwise the ice will melt in a while."

The first order, a successful opening.

After knowing that the sweet water in Jiangjiang is both ice-cold and cheap, many curious people come to have a bowl. It is really rare for ordinary people like them to eat ice in this weather.

In the morning, all the mung bean pumpkin soup and winter melon tea cooked by Jiang Jiang and his family at home were sold out, and only a thin layer of ice was left at the bottom of the full bucket.

Looking at the customers who still wanted to buy more, Jiang Jiang had no choice but to ask them to come back in the afternoon.

At noon, several people who were too busy to eat were taken to the rented yard.

"This is the yard where my friend stores ice. He has to leave for something recently, so he asked me to help look after it. We can continue to boil some sweet water here at noon. Don't touch other people's things."

Jiang Jiang said, pointing to the solar generator in the yard that she had disguised with wooden boards.

Although they were a little curious about the big thing, they still had to listen to their mother. If they angered her and she didn't give them ice, they would lose their business.

"Mom, how much sweet water did we sell this morning? How much did we earn?"

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