This shop is decorated in a very stylish way. The outer hall is specially divided into rouge area, powder area, and lipstick area. The waiters inside are all women. There are two women in each area. They are all dressed in red and are very patient in answering customers' questions.

"What do you need, little girl?"

The young girl behind the counter saw that Jiang Yue was taking a long time to approach the counter and began to question her.

"Excuse me, please come in, the owner of your store." Jiang Yue said politely to show respect.

The woman's eyes curved slightly and she smiled, "I don't know what's the matter. I am the owner of this shop."

It has been two months since I came here. There are few women doing business here. Jiang Yue took a fancy to this shop and hired a woman as a clerk. She never expected that the boss himself would be the one doing the business.

Jiang Yue was neither impatient nor anxious, and slowly took out a piece of soap: "Boss, I want to discuss a business with you. Can we find a place where there is no one to talk in detail?"

"Please come in." The girl moved her clothes and took Jiang Yue into the inner room.

There were bamboo chairs and tea. The shopkeeper said his surname was He. After trying the soap, the negotiation between the two went very smoothly.

To be precise, Jiang Yue agreed to all her requests and provided her with soap at a price of 200 wen per piece. He, the shopkeeper, was in charge of selling the soap and followed Jiang Yue's suggestion to set the price at wen per piece.

Shopkeeper He immediately paid two taels of silver to buy the ten bars of soap.

Jiang Yue was not polite, and took two taels of silver and agreed to come back in five days. Not bad, not bad, making soap is not slower to make money than hunting.

Once she manages to make the deal, she can just sit back and make money.

After leaving Taoxia Pavilion, Jiang Yue disguised herself and went to the blacksmith shop to retrieve the parts. Jiang Yue was uneasy about the inexplicable closure and unsealing of the mountain, so she did not stay in the county town for long and returned home.

At home, Old Man Jiang came uninvited.

It turns out that while my family was busy developing soap, the Jiang family next door was also busy. The autumn harvest is coming, and the autumn test is also coming. But this year is different from usual. Jiang Youguang has the best hope for high school.

Old Man Jiang gritted his teeth and stamped his feet: "Let Youtian accompany Youguang to the exam this year. It won't matter if he delays the busy farming season for two days."

So Liu prepared money and clothes. There were still several days before the exam, and Jiang Youguang said he wanted to discuss the topic with his teacher, so he took Jiang Youtian to the county town.

The loot was received and the villagers were busy. Old man Jiang walked around the village and came to Jiang Youshan's house.

During the busy farming season, the school was closed. Jiang Youshan and a few other children brought back a few carts of stones. They were building the courtyard wall when they heard Old Man Jiang speak.

"Youshan, the autumn harvest has begun in the village."

When Jiang Ming and his children saw Old Man Jiang, they pretended not to see him and continued moving the stones in silence.

Jiang Youshan just thought of the autumn harvest. That’s right, when it comes to the autumn harvest, every household is busy. But what does this have to do with him?

He had more than two mu of wild land in his backyard, but it had not been cleared or sown, so there was no food to harvest. Thinking of Di Jiang Youshan, he began to imagine that he could turn the grass over and burn it into ashes to cultivate the land this year, and then plant spring wheat in the spring of next year, so that he could harvest food by this time next year...

Old man Jiang coughed and said, "You don't have to rush to harvest, which saves you trouble..."

Jiang Youshan was worried. Why didn't he rush to harvest? Did he have to dig it out first? If he had his own land when the family was divided, he would have been busy by now.

At the beginning, Jiang Youshan made his own decision to split the family business, so he naturally would not regret it and did not respond to what old man Jiang said.

Old man Jiang twisted his arm and said, "We are busy with the autumn harvest. You know the situation at home. Your brother... how can he handle it? Since you are not busy, come and give me a hand."

"what?"

Jiang Youshan was a little confused. He touched his head and couldn't come back to his senses.

Cai shook unconsciously while holding a basket of pig feed.

Jiang Xue bent down, picked up a large stone, and placed it against the wall, making a clanging sound.

After a while, Jiang Youshan scratched his head in embarrassment, "Well, I'm busy at home, so I won't go to work part-time to earn money."

Jiang Yue happened to walk in, and the corners of her mouth curved up. It was obvious that Old Man Jiang wanted to get his labor for free. Her father, on the other hand, was thinking the best of him.

This sentence stopped Old Man Jiang. His face turned red and he hesitated for a long time with a thick skin: "Dad is too busy. Dad is in a difficult situation too. Can't you go and help? Please help Dad."

Jiang Youshan then realized that he was working in vain.

"Dad, thank you for your concern. I don't have enough food to eat at home, so I can't take care of others."

Old man Jiang felt ashamed and turned away.

Cai was angry: "We have torn our faces apart and divided the family property, why do you still want to use you as a farmhand?"

Jiang Youshan didn't say anything, probably because he was hurt.

Jiang Ming said instead: "Let's build the walls as soon as possible to save labor costs."

Jiang Yue disagreed. How many stones could be moved with just a few people? It would be better to wait until the autumn harvest when the villagers had more free time.

"We need a lot of stones, so let's wait a while before we get them. Let's continue making soap in the next few days."

Jiang Xue's eyes sparkled, "Sister, have you sold all the soaps?"

Jiang Yue straightened up and said, "I sold them all. This is the money left over from buying meat. Dad keeps it for collecting stones."

Jiang Yue exchanged the entire bag for copper coins. Jiang Youshan took it and said, "It's so heavy."

Cai was feeling sorry for her family, so she took the fat meat and said, "Just listen to Yue'er. Your father has enough money in this bag to collect Shitou's commission. I'll go and make lard now. I'll put the lard in a jar and mix it with the ash later. I'll stew the remaining lard with cabbage for you to eat."

The children love to eat oil residue, especially those freshly taken out of the pot, which are fragrant and crispy. When they heard that there was oil residue to eat again, they narrowed their eyes and smiled.

In addition to the oil residue, Jiang Xue was looking forward to Jiang Yue making soap again because her sister said she wanted to add some fragrance to the soap. She kept jumping to the wild field in the backyard: "I'm going to pick flowers."

"I'll go as well."

"Haha, don't rush, look at what I bought?"

Jiang Yue pointed at the backpack leaning against the door and motioned Jiang Lei to go and take a look.

"Haha, I have so many peaches."

"Let's eat the peaches first and then go to work!"

Jiang Lei quickly washed six peaches and distributed them to his family members one by one, "Sister, you eat the big ones."

"how about you?"

There were still two peaches in the basket, one for him and one for Jiang Ming who was picking up stones. Jiang Lei rolled his eyes and said, "Brother will come back to eat peaches later. I will eat whichever one is left. I am not picky."

"Haha, it's true that things are different after going to school. Lei Zi even knows to give in to his elder brother? Did the teacher teach you?"

Jiang Lei said shyly, "Teacher talked about Kong Rong giving away his pears."

Jiang Youshan's family is happy and harmonious, but old man Jiang's family looks gloomy and miserable.

When Liu saw Old Man Jiang coming back, she hurried over to ask, "How's it going? Did he agree?"

Old man Jiang shook his head.

"This conscienceless ungrateful bastard, I raised him up in vain, if I had known earlier -"

"Shut up."

Old man Jiang was depressed. He was bewitched and listened to Liu's instigation to go to Jiang Youshan's house.

Liu had no place to vent her anger, so she turned around and yelled, "You are all idle and I am the only one who can support you! Go to the fields tomorrow."

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