Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Mother Zhong reached out and touched the new cabinet. It felt smooth under her hand. The cabinet body was a date red color and was made of rosewood. It gave off a very faint scent that could not be smelled unless you got close.

"Sure! How much did you pay for this cabinet?"

Aunt Chen was very proud of the compliment and made a gesture with her hand.

Mother Zhong was a little surprised. "What? Four taels?"

This is too expensive! She couldn't help but smack her lips, but when she thought about the good workmanship and material, she felt it was worth it.

"You are really willing to spend money on Hui Niang!"

These four taels of silver can be spent whenever you want!

Aunt Chen looked at Mother Zhong's surprised eyes and became even more proud. She pretended to be reserved and said, "Mother Hui gave birth to three good children for our Chen family! She is a great contributor to our Chen family!"

Aunt Chen gave birth to a son and a daughter. Her daughter married and moved to the next county and only came back once or twice a year.

My daughter-in-law, Yu Huiniang, gave birth to two sons and one daughter, all of whom are well-behaved and obedient children.

The eldest grandson Xiaolin attended a private school for two years. The teachers in the school all praised him for being a good student. The youngest grandson Xiaoan was also a smart child. Such a young child could accurately quote the price of tea wanted by customers when the adults were not at the store.

There is also a place to put the tea that guests request, and the Chen family loves it very much.

Not to mention the eldest granddaughter of the Chen family. She was pretty and sweet-spoken when she was young, and now she has grown up and is an amazing embroidery worker.

She sold a round fan she had embroidered for fifty taels, and it was embroidered on both sides.

Yu Hui Niang and Aunt Chen's son grew up in the same alley. Aunt Chen liked her very much. When she grew up, Aunt Chen arranged a marriage for her son early and married her when she was old enough.

"Your family is truly a blessed family that married a blessed daughter!"

Although Zhong's mother said this, she was not envious at all. After all, her two daughters-in-law were not bad either.

The two chatted for a while, and seeing that it was getting late, Mother Zhong got up and went back.

It was not until Aunt Chen brought the dumplings to the table in the evening that we discovered that they were stuffed with shepherd's purse.

The children loved it very much, especially Xiaolin. Yesterday the teacher told them a story about dumplings.

After his son, who was fighting on the front line, was killed by the enemy, his soul has been wandering in the world. The King of Hell asked him how he could be at peace to be reincarnated.

The son said that as long as he could go home and make one last meal of dumplings for his elderly parents, he would be able to be reincarnated with peace of mind.

"He wanted to make one last meal of dumplings for his parents and see them one last time."

The Master finished saying this.

All the students below were crying, except for another classmate, Sun Chen, who was sitting next to him and seemed to be thinking about something.

As a result, at noon the next day, he took out the lunch box he brought, and inside was a bowl of dumplings.

This made him want to eat dumplings, so he went home and asked his grandmother to make dumplings for him.

I didn’t expect that just because I said yesterday that there would be food today. He was so happy.

Tonight at Zhongji next door we had steamed buns with pickles and dried fish, as well as a plate of stir-fried chicken offal with sour radish.

Zhong Ruyi ate the pickled radish happily. "I thought I would have to wait until next time to pickle the radish before I could eat it. I didn't expect that Brother Dongzhi said Aunt Chen pickled a lot and brought me a jar."

The last time it was honey, then it was hairpins and bracelets, and this time it was sour radish.

Mother Zhong had to admit that this boy was quite good at pleasing her daughter. He knew what she liked and gave her what she liked.

But she still pretended to be disdainful and said, "What your father gave me before was much more valuable than this! It's not even a fraction of what your father gave me!"

Zhong Ruyi was helpless, "Mom! You want to compare this too? What's there to compare? Just be thoughtful! It's so boring if you keep doing this."

Seeing that she was really a little angry, Zhong's mother stopped talking and quickly put a piece of pickled radish into her bowl with chopsticks. "Eat it quickly! I won't say anything more!"

"That's right!" Zhong Ruyi picked up the dish her mother gave her and continued eating.

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Chen Dongzhi returned home with two oil-paper bags in his hands. One bag contained two kinds of pastries. He gave one bag to his sister and returned all the money he earned from selling shepherd's purse today to her.

Xiaoxue's face flushed with joy. This time, shepherd's purse was sold for four hundred coins!

She took out three hundred coins, which she would give to her mother later, and the remaining one hundred coins would be given half to her and half to Xiaoman. He happened to be out playing now, so she would give it to him when he came back!

Just then her mother came back from the yard behind the house, and she immediately ran up to her happily.

"Mom! This is the money Xiaoman and I earned from digging shepherd's purse. I give it to you!"

Chen's mother didn't expect that the shepherd's purse her two children dug would be sold for so much money, but the money was earned by the children's hard work, so she didn't take it.

"Keep this money, and buy whatever you want in the future! But don't give Xiaoman too much, or he won't know where to spend it!"

Xiaoxue refused and pushed the money onto Chen's mother. Chen's mother couldn't persuade her and finally took out fifty coins from the three hundred coins and gave the rest back to her.

"Take it for yourself! Just buy whatever you want to eat later!"

This was the case before her son came back. Xiaoxue took her brother out every day to dig some wild vegetables and bamboo shoots and asked the villagers to help bring them to the town to sell.

The money from the sales was used to supplement the family income. At the end of the year, together with the money from selling rice and wheat, the family of three could barely make ends meet.

But if she wanted to make new clothes for her children during the New Year like other families did, it would be absolutely impossible. Xiaoxue didn't have any of the hair ornaments or colorful strings that other little girls in the village had.

Xiaoxue also knew that her family’s life was better now, and they no longer had to be careful about every penny they spent like before.

Seeing that her mother really didn't want it, she accepted it. The oil paper bag in her hand gave off a faint sweet fragrance. She put it on the table and went out to look for Xiaoman.

Mother Chen was just about to ask her son who had just returned to help her re-fix the fence of the chicken coop, but before she could say anything, her son went out again with the oil paper bag.

Eh?

Why did he buy two bags of cakes? Who was he going to give the remaining bag to?

She followed him out stealthily, but Chen Dongzhi had already walked some distance away, and she finally caught up with him.

What happened is that the person standing in front of her son is Cuicui, the eldest granddaughter of her good sister!

She didn't hear the first few words, but only heard what Cuicui said at the end: "I don't like you! Even if you buy me cakes, I won't like them!"

She didn't hear clearly what her son said later, she just felt that she had suffered a huge shock.

She returned home in a daze, and sat in the yard, feeling thunder and lightning rolling in her sky and unbearable heartache.

No wonder! No wonder my son refused every time I found a girl for her. It turned out that he had someone in his heart.

But, but it would be fine if it was a girl of the right age, but Cuicui is only eleven years old after the Chinese New Year, and their generation relationship is calculated as uncle and niece.

How dare he!

How could she face her good sister? She might as well just kill herself!