The first step in the book is to start selling tofu

"You can't eat it. It's poisonous."

Lin Zhi's words earned him three frightened faces.

"Daya and I are immune to all poisons. It's fine for the two of us to eat it. Give it to us."

As he spoke, Lin Zhi reached out to take their bowls, but ended up getting nothing.

The two brothers quickly stuffed the food into their mouths, stuffing their cheeks full while not forgetting to glare at Lin Zhi.

How dare you play tricks on us? Humph!

"Oh my, I was hoping to have an extra bowl, but unfortunately someone was too smart."

Daya nodded in agreement.

She didn't realize that Lin Zhi was teasing her two younger brothers, she just simply wanted to eat another bowl of rice.

"belch!"

After quickly finishing a bowl of food, Dalang couldn't help but burp.

"How can grandpa be so kind?" Dalang was still very suspicious.

Among the three children, only Dalang is Grandpa Yang's biological grandson. Although he has no sense of belonging to Grandpa Yang, for the sake of his dead father, he is the only one among the three who still calls Grandpa Yang "grandpa".

"There is no good without reason, and there is no bad without reason. He is good to us now only because he wants something from us."

Old Master Yang is wary of his former adopted son and worried about his current descendants.

Who can remain calm with a knife hanging over their head every day?

He was worried every day, afraid that he would not wake up one day. Suddenly one day, someone told him that he could destroy the knife.

Believe it or not, if we have this hope, we have to do something good for them.

"Alright, alright. Once you're done eating, go wash up. We have things to do later."

Everyone went to fetch water and wash up.

While the three little ones were washing up, Lin Zhi went to the Yang family's old house alone.

Everyone in the Yang family was surprised at Lin Zhi's arrival.

"Tomorrow morning I will take my three children and leave here to live somewhere else." Lin Zhi said straight to the point.

Everyone was even more surprised to hear the news.

After a long silence, Mr. Yang finally asked, "Where are you going?"

"The county town." Lin Zhi explained, "You can't earn a hundred taels of silver in a short time in a mountain village, and it's hard for the two children to have a chance to succeed."

"I understand." Old Master Yang said as he handed over the silver he had prepared long ago: "All the money in the family was used to support that ungrateful bastard's studies, so I can't give you much."

He was telling the truth. If Yang Anping had not been away for more than a year, their family would have no money at all.

Outsiders knew that the Yang family had a lot of land and several sons were capable of making money. But they didn't know that they had a son who could not afford to spend all the money earned by the whole family.

The cost of studying is much higher than outsiders know.

Yang Anping, who used to be his beloved baby, has now become an ungrateful person in Mr. Yang's eyes. It's really...

Lin Zhi accepted the money without thinking.

She needs money for many things here. And she can only feel at ease after receiving the money from Mr. Yang.

She is a person of her word. She said she would help the Yang family and she did so. There is nothing to feel guilty about.

"When we get to the county town, can you ask someone to pass on a message so I can know where you live?"

Only when something is about to be lost will people know how to cherish it.

Mr. Yang is such a person.

"Of course you can, but I suggest you don't contact each other. Not contacting each other until you die is the best way for all of us to get along." Lin Zhi told him bluntly.

Unless there is a vested interest in the future, the relationship between them is worse than that of strangers.

The link between the original body and the Yang family was her husband. After her husband died, the bond between them was almost severed.

After Lin Zhi came through, the bond was broken immediately.

She doesn't have the kind of ideological awareness like the heroine in the novel, who thinks, "Since I have accepted this body, I must bear the cause and effect of this body..."

The fact that she traveled through time was just a deal with her original self.

She will do what is required by the transaction, and if it is not within the scope of the transaction, she will do it if she wants to, and not do it if she doesn't want to.

Old Master Yang was very disappointed. His already bent back seemed to become even more bent.

Lin Zhi was not interested in his psychological process and emotions, and rushed back home immediately after receiving the notice.

The two boys at home had already finished taking a bath, but Daya had just gone in and hadn't come out so soon. Lin Zhi asked the two brothers to find out all the valuable and usable things in the house.

"Mom, I've brought the water in for you, go wash up too!"

Daya came out and called Lin Zhi to go into the makeshift bathroom.

Lin Zhi went in with the clothes.

The house was not soundproof, and she heard the three little ones talking in the bathroom.

Daya: "Why did you turn all the things inside out and make a mess?"

Dalang: "Mother told me to find out everything that is valuable and useful."

Daya didn't understand, her voice was full of doubt: "What are you looking for?"

"You don't know?" This was Dalang's loud voice.

"How could you not know?" This was Erlang's voice.

There was silence outside.

Lin Zhi was in the bathroom, and the image of Daya's confused look had already appeared in his mind.

She couldn't help but chuckle, and then she took a bath enjoying herself, no longer listening to the noise outside.

Inside the room, Dalang and Erlang looked at Daya with disbelief, as if Daya didn't know why and it was something she couldn't understand.

Daya: ......

They are together every day, so why does it always feel like they are not living together?

"Have you found everything?" Lin Zhi walked out in high spirits.

"It's all here."

The three of them sat by the bed waiting for Lin Zhi's instructions.

"Go get a torch." Lin Zhi directed Daya.

The room was already dim to begin with, and when it got dark, the unlit room was pitch dark, making it inconvenient to do anything.

Making a fire was a piece of cake for Daya. After a while she came back with two torches.

After lighting the torches, Lin Zhi asked them to pour out all the copper coins they had earned that day.

"Crash..."

The sound of the copper coins colliding with each other was very pleasant to the ear, and the piles of copper coins piled on the quilt on the bed were also pleasing to the eye.

"Da Lang and Er Lang will be in charge of counting the copper coins, while Daya and I will sort these things out."

Daya is still semi-illiterate, so her uncle doesn't need her for this kind of work for the time being.

On the bed, Dalang and Erlang began to count copper coins quietly. On the floor, Linzhi and Daya were sorting out useful things.

There weren’t actually many useful things, and the several baskets at home couldn’t be filled with them. It didn’t take long to finish sorting them out.

"Mom, why do you put everything into the basket?"

Glancing at Dalang and Erlang who were concentrating on counting, Daya leaned close to Lin Zhi and whispered in his ear.

Lin Zhi raised his eyebrows: "Didn't they tell you just now?"

Speaking of Da Lang and Er Lang, Daya immediately became angry: "They are so mean, they kept teasing me but I just refused to say anything."

After asking so many questions, Dalang and Erlang let her figure it out on her own.

How could she figure it out?!

I couldn't figure it out and they both laughed at me for being stupid...

"They are really abominable."

Lin Zhi laughed, but immediately became serious under Daya's accusing eyes: "I will criticize them well."

Among the three little ones, Daya is a few months older than them and is the older sister. But in their daily interactions, Dalang and Erlang treat her like a younger sister.

Daya’s anger immediately subsided, and she immediately started to talk “bad things” about the two of them, waiting for Lin Zhi to teach them a lesson.

Lin Zhi listened and responded to her with "hmmmm", but in fact he was already very happy in his heart.

After talking for a long time, Daya stopped talking. Thinking back to what she had just said, she couldn't help but blush.

She seemed to be going further and further.

"Oh? So this is how we are in your mind?!"

Daya's body stiffened, and her head turned mechanically towards the bed. She saw that the two people who were concentrating on counting money just now were now squinting at her.

Daya: ......

Oh my god, how much did they listen to?

At this moment, Daya wanted to lower her head to the ground.

It's so embarrassing, it really is - so embarrassing!

"Alright, alright, you two stop teasing her."

Lin Zhi pulled Daya up and sat next to her.

Daya knew she was in the wrong, but she didn't dare to raise her head.

Children of this age are very concerned about their reputation, so Lin Zhi did not go out of his way to comfort her, but chatted with Dalang and Erlang about other topics.

"Have you counted it? How much money is there in total?"