Jiang Yuwei pushed the cart and quickly arrived at Aunt Zhou's door. Seeing that the door was not locked, she knocked a few times and pushed the door open:

"Aunt Zhou, what are you busy with at home?"

Aunt Zhou heard the shouting in the yard and hurried out of the house. Seeing that it was Jiang Yuwei, she greeted her warmly:

"Yuwei, come and sit down."

Jiang Yuwei smiled and waved her hand:

"I won't sit today. You and Uncle Youcai were not at home when I came this morning. I came here today to ask if you have saved any eggs at home."

Before Jiang Yuwei finished speaking, Aunt Zhou nodded and said:

"Yes, yes, yes. We have plenty of eggs at home. If you want a few, I'll get them for you."

Jiang Yuwei smiled and said:

"Aunt Zhou, I want to buy some eggs from your house. I want to save them for pickled preserved eggs. Please bring out whatever you have at home. I'll buy them all."

Aunt Zhou also laughed and said:

"Look at me, I thought you were going to eat it yourself. Fortunately, I have a lot of it at home. I have been saving it and have no time to sell it in town. I will give it to you, so we don't have to go to town."

After that, Aunt Zhou went back to the inner room to get the eggs. Soon she came out with a basket full of eggs. Jiang Yuwei took out a scale to weigh them and said:

"It's exactly 20 kilograms of eggs. How about I charge you 15 cents per kilogram?"

Aunt Zhou nodded quickly and said:

"Okay, okay, okay, you charge the same price as in town, and it saves us from taking a bullock cart to make a trip. From now on, we will save all the eggs for you."

Jiang Yuwei smiled and put the eggs on the cart, then took out the silver and handed it to Aunt Zhou and said:

"Okay, I'll go back first, Aunt Zhou, you go do your thing."

When Jiang Yuwei got home, she saw Ning Huaizhi cleaning up the dishes. Ning Wan saw her mother coming back, so she hurried forward, took her hand and said,

"Mom, have you had lunch? Daddy specially left some food for you."

Jiang Yuwei was led by Ning Wan to the stone table and said with a smile:

"Not yet. Let me see what delicious food your father has left for me."

Jiang Yuwei looked at the fried bean dregs balls and bean dregs cakes, as well as fried chili peppers with bean dregs on the stone table and smiled:

"Huaizhi, you've even learned how to cook these dishes? It looks like you'll really have to be the chef at home from now on."

Ning Huaizhi scratched his head embarrassedly and said:

"I learned it by watching you do it. I didn't wait for you for dinner today. I was afraid that Tiezhu and Ningwu would work on an empty stomach, so I prepared the meal first and ate with them."

Jiang Yuwei sat down, picked up the chopsticks and started eating, completely ignoring what Ning Huaizhi had just said. She had been walking for the whole morning and had a fight with Grandma Sun at her house. She was indeed a little tired and hungry. Now she just wanted to have a good meal.

Seeing Jiang Yuwei eating quickly and happily, Ning Huaizhi couldn't help but smile. When he was with Jiang Yuwei, he didn't need to pretend, nor did he feel like a useless person. Seeing Jiang Yuwei enjoying the food he cooked so much, Ning Huaizhi felt a great sense of happiness in his heart.

Jiang Yuwei ate up all the food left on the table, touched her round belly, and burped with satisfaction. It turned out that only when you are full can you have the strength to work.

Ning Huaizhi smiled and handed her a cup of soy milk and said:

"Wife, are you full? Have some soy milk to relax. Then come check on the tofu I made."

Jiang Yuwei then remembered that she had gone out early this morning and left the task of making tofu to Ning Huaizhi, so she hurriedly got up to check on the tofu. She saw that the tofu in the mold had been drained of water and could be cut into pieces and covered with wood ash.

Seeing Ning Huai's expectant look, Jiang Yuwei smiled and said:

"Yeah, you did a great job. You've become a master! You're much better than what I did!"

Ning Huaizhi was delighted when he heard Jiang Yuwei's words:

"Really? Then I'll take care of the tofu, you go back to the room and rest."

Jiang Yuwei looked at Ning Huaizhi's motivated expression and was secretly delighted. This man really needed more praise. Thinking of this, Jiang Yuwei patted Ning Huaizhi on the shoulder and said with a smile:

"Then I'll leave this place to you."

After that, Jiang Yuwei went to the paper mill in the backyard, wanting to see how Ning Wu and Tie Zhu were doing. Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered, she saw Ning Wu excitedly grabbing Tie Zhu's arm and shouting:

"Brother, it's done, we did it!"

After hearing this, Jiang Yuwei quickly stepped forward, took the paper from Ning Wu's hand and said with a smile:

"That's right, it's this kind of paper. You are awesome. From now on, you will be the master papermakers of our paper mill!"

Seeing this, Tiezhu was also very excited and picked up Ning Wu and spun around on the spot, saying happily:

"Sister Yuwei, Ning Wu and I won't go back tonight. We'll make all the paper overnight!"

Jiang Yuwei calculated the days. Tomorrow was Ning Zhao's ten-day holiday. When she went to the town to pick up Ning Zhao, she could take the paper strips she made to set up a stall and sell them. The price could be slightly lower than that of Ge's Paper Shop, so there would be no problem selling them.

So Jiang Yuwei said:

"Don't work too hard, you two. You can rush to make some tonight. I'll take as many as you can and sell them in town tomorrow. There are no beds here, so you shouldn't sleep in the paper mill. It's not far from home anyway, so you should go home and sleep."

Ning Wu nodded and said:

"Don't worry, Sister Yuwei, my brother and I will try our best to make as many as possible."

Jiang Yuwei nodded and went back to the front yard. It seemed that the papermaking business could be handed over to Tiezhu and Ning Wu in the future. Jiang Yuwei had to sign a document with them quickly so that she could employ them for a long time and save trouble in the future.

When Jiang Yuwei arrived at the front yard, Ning Wan and Ning Huaizhi were busy making gray tofu. Jiang Yuwei took all the eggs from the cart, washed them first, and began to prepare the ingredients for making preserved eggs. After cooking a full pot of preserved egg marinade, she put the washed eggs in and stirred them evenly so that each egg was covered with mud. Then she took them out one by one and kept them cool and away from light.

Jiang Yuwei thought that Ning Huaizhi had cooked so many dishes with bean dregs at noon, so it was time to change the taste at night. It would also be a good opportunity to celebrate the success of Tiezhu and Ningwu Papermaking, so she took out some meat.

Jiang Yuwei first picked a piece of top-quality pork belly and cut it into cubes of equal size. She put the meat into a pot with cold water and brought it to a boil. She then poured a little oil into the pot and put the pork belly in to stir-fry. She then added cooking wine and soy sauce and stir-fried until fragrant. She then poured in hot water, added onions, ginger, garlic and honey and simmered on low heat for half an hour. The soft, sweet, fatty but not greasy braised pork belly was ready to be served.

Jiang Yuwei cut another long strip of pork belly with alternating fat and lean parts, and marinated it with pepper powder, chili powder, soy sauce, onion, ginger, garlic water, honey and vinegar, preparing to use it to make honey-roasted pork belly.

Jiang Yuwei first built a fire in the yard, set up a rack for roasting the pork belly, and asked Ning Wan to help hold the pork belly and roast it.

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