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"Wang Jiawa is just a barefoot doctor. He usually goes up the mountain to collect herbs for his patients. If the herbs you want are not common, he would not be able to buy so many."

Liu Siyu was a little disappointed, but when she thought that safflowers were not easy to pick, she became cheerful again.

"I see you are pretty familiar with the doctor. Red flowers are not something you can just step on in the mountains. Since he has them, he must have bought them outside. Why don't you talk to him and ask him to buy some more for me?"

Lai Xi still shook his head.

"I have asked about all these. He bought some safflower this spring to prepare medicine for his wife. He bought it all at the pharmacy in town."

Liu Siyu felt very sad that such a good road was gone.

I lowered my head and counted the medicinal herbs. There were actually 50 of them, and each one was 400 wen cheaper than in the pharmacy.

There are no middlemen to make a profit from the price difference, so I can say I got a bargain, but unfortunately this road has come to an end.

With 50 pieces of medicinal materials, Liu Siyu took action immediately and made all of them into hand ointments on the same day.

If she deducted a little from each portion, it would be enough for her and Wang to last for the whole winter.

In the afternoon, under Liu Siyu's instruction, Wang sent the cow and the calf to the village chief's house.

He also explained that Liu Siyu was already engaged and would be getting married next year.

The village chief congratulated him with a forced smile, feeling somewhat unhappy inside.

If this happened in the past, they would definitely use the excuse that the millet had not been stored for a full year and not give even half a pound of it.

But after what happened by the river, I heard that Liu Siyu chopped the matchmaker with a knife.

What puzzled him even more was that Mrs. Zhang actually came to apologize with drums and gongs.

He sent his wife to inquire about the matter, and Mrs. Zhang only said that she apologized because she was truly repentant.

This kind of nonsense is enough to fool a three-year-old child. The village chief didn't believe a word of it.

I became wary of Liu Siyu.

Besides, 60 kilograms of millet is no problem for his family.

He happily asked his wife to take out 60 kilograms of millet.

This surprised Wang greatly.

I couldn't help but mutter to myself when I got home.

"It stands to reason that we did something wrong. We resigned before a full year, and we thought the village chief would at most give us half. To our surprise, the village chief gave us 60 kilograms without complaining."

Liu Sihan was so happy to see that this year's hard work had not been in vain that he could not help but smile.

"What's so strange about this? It's already the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, and it's less than a month away from the end of the year. We've been taking good care of the calf since he was born. This is what he should give. Besides, how dare he not give it to him when his sister is around?"

Liu Sihan's words reminded Wang.

Liu Siyu's fierce behavior instantly emerged in his mind, and he agreed with his son's words.

However, Liu Siyu felt that these words were too much. Who was the village chief? A Zhou Pa Pi had seen all kinds of things, how could he be scared by her words?

"You think the village chief was scared? We work hard all year round, taking care of the calf day and night, and even sacrificed a rabbit for it. Just because the village chief didn't say anything doesn't mean he doesn't know."

"If he really quits before the Chinese New Year, he should at least be rewarded. Now that he says he doesn't want to let go, it suits his heart. We can find another one before the Chinese New Year."

Wang felt that this made sense and felt relieved.

"Sihan has learned a few words from you. She has gained some knowledge. She is almost speaking the same accent as your sister."

Liu Siyu raised her eyes. This was an obvious matter. What did it have to do with literacy?

The main reason was that Wang, like the other villagers, was too afraid of the village chief.

On the agreed date, Liu Siyu delivered 30 bottles of moisturizing cream to Cha Xiang Ji.

Shopkeeper Fu's eyelids twitched. She asked someone to bribe two pharmacy clerks.

But the strange thing is that no one has ever seen Liu Siyu not go to the pharmacy, and no one else has ever seen anyone else buy a certain kind of medicinal material separately.

I began to suspect that the medicinal materials used in the moisturizing ointment were not bought by Liu Siyu, but provided by the person behind the scenes.

I was thinking whether I should ask Manager He to investigate the person behind that girl in Qingshui County.

After leaving Chaxiangji, Liu Siyu started strolling around again. The New Year was coming soon, so she had to prepare some New Year's goods.

First buy some rice so you can have a good meal of rice during the New Year, and then fry some rice candy.

These things are things that this family has never eaten before.

Since we are destined to be a family, let’s enjoy the New Year.

She will marry into the Tian family after the new year, and after a year she will be established as a female household, so she may have less contact with this family.

When I arrived at the grain store, I was attracted by a tofu shop not far away before I even entered the door.

There were a lot of people gathered at the door, making a lot of noise.

When Liu Siyu saw the excitement, she didn't even bother to buy rice and squeezed into the crowd.

At the door of the tofu shop, a fat woman with a lot of flesh on her body was scolding a simple and honest man.

Liu Siyu listened carefully for a while before she understood.

It turned out that the man was a handyman in a tofu shop. He had a plate of tofu accidentally placed in a corner and forgotten about.

The shopkeeper happened to see it today and he could smell it as soon as he found it was rotten.

In such cold weather, tofu will not go bad if kept for two or three days. This piece of tofu has indeed been forgotten for a long time.

A pound of tofu costs two cents, and a plate of tofu is about 20 pounds, worth 40 cents. The clerk's daily wage is only 15 cents, so the shopkeeper lets him use his wages to pay for it.

The man pleaded for mercy and explained that the tofu shop had been too busy in recent days, which was why he neglected it.

He also has a wife who has been bedridden for many years, and his two daughters depend on his wages for their livelihood.

If he is really fined this money, the children at home will go hungry, the man's eyes turned red as he spoke.

Passersby felt sad when they heard this, and those who knew him pleaded for the guy.

"Mrs. Zhou, Mr. Li does the work of two people in your tofu shop. He not only takes care of all the work in the shop, but he also fetches the water for your family. He makes a mistake occasionally, but you punish him like this. It's really heartless."

Old Mrs. Zhou had always been stingy, and she was furious at having wasted a piece of tofu for nothing. The neighbors' persuasion only added fuel to the fire.

"He works for me, I pay him. If he spoils the tofu, he should compensate you. You feel sorry for Boss Li, is it because Boss Li is slacking off at my place during the day, saving his energy so that he can work at your place at night?"

Everyone heard what Mrs. Zhou said was so unpleasant that no one dared to speak out.

Boss Li was so angry when he heard this.

"Boss, I accept your scolding and punishment, but you can't bully me like this. I've worked for you for more than half a year, getting up before dawn and going home after dark, and I've never been lazy."

"If it wasn't for the fact that I wanted to be closer to my wife and daughter, I wouldn't have endured this kind of humiliation here for fifteen cents."

Mrs. Zhou, however, showed no mercy at all and snorted coldly with her eyes turned upwards.

Liu Siyu's eyes lit up and she had a new idea.

Just as Mrs. Zhou was about to start cursing again, Liu Siyu stopped her in time.

"Stop scolding me. I'll buy the rotten tofu."