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Not long after, Wang really got the pepper back, but the quantity was not much.

Liu Siyu was a little disappointed. If this tofu could really be made delicious, it would not work without peppercorns.

"Mom, can I buy peppercorns in the village?"

Wang thought for a moment and asked, "How much do you want to buy?"

“Buy at least one basket.”

"What?" Wang was a little surprised. A basket of peppercorns might not be available even if you went to a few more villages, let alone in Yingshan Village.

"Sichuan peppercorns are just a condiment, and they can't be eaten as a meal. Many people don't even use a handful in a year. Now you can't even buy half a basket, let alone a whole basket."

Liu Siyu sighed secretly, it was not easy to run a small business, always lacking something.

"Mom, just walk around the village this afternoon and buy as much as you can."

Although Wang was reluctant to exchange the copper coins for the peppercorns, she secretly hoped that Liu Siyu could make delicious food and earn more money.

Liu Siyu put the cut tofu aside and waited for it to grow mold, while Wang made a fire and cooked.

When Liu Sihan saw that her sister had time, she tugged at the corner of Liu Siyu's clothes slyly and said, "Sister, come here quickly. I have something good to show you."

Liu Siyu followed Liu Sihan to the main room with confusion. Sihan took out a sand table from the room with an expectant look on his face.

"Sister, what do you think of this?"

Liu Siyu took it in his hand and took a look. It was made from a few old boards, filled with sand, and there was a polished wooden stick next to it.

He smiled and said, "Not bad, when did you do it?"

Liu Sihan was a little embarrassed. "I started doing it early in the morning, but I was afraid that I wouldn't do it well, so I didn't dare show it to you."

Liu Siyu tried it and found the sand was very fine and pressed very flat. After writing the words, she just wiped it lightly and it became flat again.

"How did you do this?"

Liu Siyu was a little confused. Logically speaking, Liu Sihan had never seen him before, so why did he think of making a sand table to practice calligraphy?

"My mother taught me. She saw my father make one for you before. She envied your ability to read and write, so she secretly watched it many times in private. She thought that when I grow up, she would make one for me so that my father could teach me how to read."

When Liu Sihan talked about his father, his eyes were full of loneliness.

Liu Siyu knew why he was sad. The word "father" was full of envy to him, but also seemed strange. When he was a child, his father didn't like him, and when he grew up a little, his father was gone.

He has never felt the love of his father, but that father has always influenced him.

He touched Liu Sihan's forehead, his tone full of tenderness.

"Don't be sad Sihan, I will be your support from now on. Come, write a few words for me to see if you have been working hard recently."

"Well," joy appeared in Sihan's lonely eyes again. She immediately put the sand table on the ground, picked up a wooden stick and carefully wrote every word she had learned.

Although it's still a little crooked, you can tell that it was made with a lot of effort.

Liu Siyu gave Liu Sihan a thumbs up without hesitation.

“Great, keep it up!”

Liu Sihan was encouraged and wrote with even greater effort. The crooked little earthworms on the sand table also became much straighter.

Wang had prepared the meal and was just about to shout at the two of them to eat.

But she couldn't bear to interrupt the scene in front of her. She stared at it for a long time before she said softly, "Hurry up and wash your hands and eat."

The two looked up and smiled at each other. After washing their hands, they went into the kitchen and saw a rare dish of fried radish slices with lard on the lid of the water tank.

Liu Sihan sniffed and said, "Mom, what day is it today? Why are you cooking?"

Wang glared at her son in dissatisfaction, "As long as there is food at home, there is no need to worry. As long as we can make ends meet, who doesn't want to be generous?"

Liu Siyu chuckled.

"Mother has also started to become more refined. There is food at home, so there is no need to panic. It sounds quite rhyming, and it also uses the word '大方方', which is an idiom. If anyone dares to say that you are vulgar and uneducated again, I will not tolerate it."

Wang didn't hear Liu Siyu's teasing, but blushed instead.

Hesitantly, he asked, "Do you really think that mother has become knowledgeable?"

Liu Siyu nodded against her conscience, she knew that this was what Wang cared about the most.

"Well, Sihan and I are both educated people, and we live in the same house. It's impossible for you to be uneducated."

Wang showed a rare hint of shyness. She picked up the chopsticks, picked up a portion of fried radish slices with lard for Liu Siyu, and then picked up a multi-grain pancake.

She said softly, "Eat it quickly, or it will get cold."

Liu Sihan looked at her mother, then at her sister, her face filled with happy smiles.

"The three of us are all educated people. We are the first in the village. Who will look down on my family in the future?"

Liu Sihan raised his little head as he spoke, showing his pride.

Wang filled three more bowls of corn paste and placed them gently in front of Liu Siyu with both hands. She did the same to Liu Sihan.

Finally, she picked up her bowl and drank it in small sips.

Liu Siyu was stunned. She had only casually praised Wang, but she didn't expect such a big change in Wang.

It was really hard to adapt at first.

"Mom, you should just go back to your old ways. I really can't get used to the way you talk and act like this."

Wang was stunned. "What's wrong? Did I do something wrong? Wasn't your father like this before?"

Liu Siyu was speechless. It seemed that Wang was still worried about being despised by her husband for being uneducated and vulgar.

"My father is my father. Everyone has his or her own living habits. The most important thing is to be yourself."

Wang immediately relaxed, "I also feel tired holding it like this, do you really think mother's original appearance is good?"

Liu Siyu nodded immediately.

In the afternoon, Wang had already cut the bright red cloth and was sewing a wedding dress for Liu Siyu stitch by stitch.

Liu Siyu and Liu Sihan were busy pounding the acorns and grinding the soaked ones into tofu, preparing to make another batch of acorn tofu.

Soon the agreed day arrived.

Liu Siyu finished breakfast early and rushed to the town with Liu Sihan.

When they arrived at Liulin Village, Liu Siyu did not go to Li's house as agreed in advance.

Instead, he went into the town alone with Liu Sihan and went straight to the pharmacy.

As the two men walked to the door, a young man's eyes lit up and he hurriedly asked for leave from the shopkeeper, saying that a relative was visiting.

The shopkeeper glared at the young man in dissatisfaction and said, "Go and come back quickly, you are just a lazy donkey that only makes shit and piss on the millstone."

The young man didn't care at all about being scolded. He thanked the shopkeeper with a smile, looked at Liu Siyu and her brother meaningfully, turned around and went straight to Chaxiangji.

Liu Siyu seemed unaware of anything, but Liu Sihan tugged at the corner of her clothes.

"Sister, I think that person just now seems to know us."

Liu Siyu smiled lightly, "You think too much, we are not landlords, who would know us."

Liu Sihan touched his head. Could it be that he was overthinking?

Besides, the young man went straight to Chaxiangji. When Shopkeeper Fu heard that Liu Siyu went to the medicine shop, he confirmed again and again: "Are you sure?"

The boy nodded vigorously.

"It's definitely right. Your people have taken me to see it several times. That boy comes less often, so I'm not sure, but that girl is definitely right."