A ragged cub at the beginning

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the children came to school happily. The kindergarten no longer sold moon cakes, but Mrs. Wu's shop wanted to continue selling them.

Tang Xu asked Aunt Feng to continue working. As usual, Du Yun came to have lunch with her, and the two talked about this matter.

"Should I open a shop that specializes in baking mooncakes? I definitely can't continue to run the kindergarten. Aunt Feng and the others don't have a break all day. My main job should still be cooking for the children. I can't put the cart before the horse."

"If you want to open a shop, you can. But will this shop only supply goods to Madam Wu? If you supply more, the town is so small that it can't handle it. If you supply less, will you lose money? These mooncakes are fresh when they are first eaten, will they still be so popular after a long time? How can we find people to buy or recruit? Will the recipe be leaked?"

Tang Xu was confused by the numerous questions, but when she heard the last question, she froze for a moment and whispered, "Everyone in the kitchen knows how to do it. If it was leaked, it would have leaked out long ago."

Du Yun didn't care. "I'll draw up a contract later. Anyone who leaks the recipe will have to pay a thousand taels of silver. I don't think anyone will want to try it."

"You have a way, why are you asking me so many questions?" Tang Xu puffed his lips.

"You said that Madam Wu's orders were increasing, and that's what I was thinking." Du Yun motioned for her to continue eating. "You can open a mooncake workshop. I have a small shop in the county town that doesn't make much money. I'll sell your mooncakes exclusively there. Once you've found workers, have them sign the contract. Let's agree in advance on the fine for leaking the recipe, and then file it with the government."

"Have you thought it through?" Tang Xu laughed. "I'm still wondering whether to sell houses or make mooncakes."

Du Yun chuckled, "Your workshop will make the strange foods you come up with from now on, that's great."

"Okay~" Now that his worries were gone, Tang Xu had a good appetite.

After dinner, Du Yun drafted a few contracts and went to the kitchen for Aunt Feng and others to sign.

The price for leaking the recipe was not one thousand taels as previously agreed upon, but two hundred taels. Tang Xu felt that this price was enough.

“Two hundred taels???” The hands of several people holding the contract began to tremble.

"Yes, as long as you don't leak it out, you don't have to worry about it." Tang Xu explained.

Zhao Xinhuaye couldn't read, but she took the ink pad without saying anything and pressed her fingerprints on it. "Anyway, I won't leak it."

"Yes, it's okay as long as it's not leaked." Aunt Feng knew a few words, read them carefully and put her fingerprints on them.

The others looked at each other and thought that it would be fine as long as they didn't do it. The two hundred taels had nothing to do with them, so they all did as they were told.

"Okay, now I want to tell you something." Tang Xu handed all the contracts to Du Yun, "I'm going to open a workshop specializing in making mooncakes, and I'm going to select three people from the kitchen to go there. Does anyone want to go?"

Aunt Feng hesitated and said, "Can I not go? I just like cooking for the children."

"You can't go. We still depend on you here." Tang Xu reassured her.

"Are the wages over there the same as here?" one asked.

"The wages are the same, but the working hours will be shorter, and the rest days will be rotated."

A few people discussed it in a low voice for a while, and the aunt whose two children were not in kindergarten agreed.

"Okay, then I'll pick you two first. We'll transfer over when the workshop can start working." After the discussion, Tang Xu called Zhao Xinhua out alone.

"The director wants me to go too?" Zhao Xinhua looked clear.

"Yes, is that okay?" Tang Xu trusted Zhao Xinhua, and the workshop needed a manager.

"What about Axue?" Zhao Xinhua was worried about her daughter.

"She will continue to stay here. You can still come and stay here after the workshop closes every day."

"Okay, I'll go." She didn't bring a face towel in the kitchen. She smiled, and the scar on her face was no longer noticeable, but instead added a bit of heroic beauty to her. "This is the director's trust in me. I won't let you down."

"Thank you." Tang Xu also smiled. Every time he saw these women who had been stuck in the mud and had nowhere to climb back to life, he would be moved. They did not give up on themselves. They had been working hard to live. As long as they were given a hand, they would be able to bloom their own flowers again.

With nothing to do, Tang Xu began to draw the daily life of kindergarten children. Tang Yao suddenly came in with a serious face, "There is a trouble outside."

"What? Who?" Tang Xu stood up and followed him out.

"It looks like they are from a certain village. They carried a man and said that he was beaten by you and they are here to seek justice." Tang Yao stopped and said, "There are a lot of them, and they have attracted half of the town. If this matter is not handled properly, it will have a great impact on the kindergarten."

"I haven't hit anyone recently, have I? I'll go and take a look." Tang Xu came to the entrance of the kindergarten, which was surrounded by people.

In the front was a group of people wearing patched sackcloth, holding hoes and rakes. A man with a bruised face and nose was lying on a cart, with his right hand and right leg tied with wooden boards, and it was unclear whether they were broken.

"Tang Xu, come out! Give me justice." They shouted while holding up the farm tools in their hands.

Tang Xu stood beside Tang Yao, "I don't know that person at all. Where did they come from?"

"Banshan Village, there is no evidence to prove that you were the one who beat him, but the person who was beaten insisted that it was you." Tang Yao said.

Tang Xu retracted his head and came up with an idea. "Brother Tang Yao, wait a moment."

After a while, Tang Ling came over and walked out. The crowd was silent for a moment, and a middle-aged man came out, "Are you Tang Xu?"

Tang Ling ignored him and walked up to the injured man, "You said I hit you?"

The man opened his eyes and showed surprise, but thinking of the money at home, he squinted his eyes and looked at the person in front of him, and said: "You are not Tang Xu, ask Tang Xu to come out."

"You really know me?" Tang Xu frowned. She thought about it and walked out, but when she looked at the man carefully, she didn't recognize him at all.

"It's you! You rely on the fact that you are the mayor's wife to commit crimes everywhere! You beat up many people in Xiaoxi Village before!" The injured man pointed at Tang Xu with his uninjured left hand.

He also knew about what happened in Xiaoxi Village, and it seemed that this was aimed at him.

"How is it possible?" Someone nearby couldn't help but say, "Director Tang has good intentions. You farmers are here to extort money, aren't you?"

"I live nearby and I've never seen Director Tang beat anyone. If you say he beat someone, then he beat him. Where's the evidence? If not, report it to the police!"

"Yeah, I've never seen her hit anyone. Are you trying to extort money?"

"That's right. The farmers are crazy because of poverty."

"Call the mayor. These people are going to cause trouble."

"We can't let them cause trouble. My child is still in there."

Perhaps they didn't expect Tang Xu to have such a good reputation, so many people spoke up for her and the people in Banshan Village were a little at a loss.

"I am the chief of Banshan Village. We are not here to extort money. We just want justice." A middle-aged man came out. He was wearing a half-worn robe, with his hands behind his back and no farm tools in his hands.