Song Sanniang's Journey to Wealth

As soon as the couple finished their discussion, Song Ersao's two brothers came over.

Song Ersao’s family is surnamed Liu, and they are outsiders to Songjia Village. However, their ancestors have lived in Songjia Village for generations and they did not move here from outside.

Song Ersao's father, Liu Dali, used to be a businessman and saved some money. Later, when he got older, he got his two sons jobs collecting grain in the village and retired himself.

Song Ersao's mother, Chen Fang, was a maid in a wealthy family who was released from her indenture.

Liu Chengming was the eldest son. He married Chen and had two sons, Liu Zezheng and Liu Zecheng, who were about the same age as Song Dalang.

Liu Zishen was the second son. He married Fang and had one son and one daughter, Liu Zehuan and Liu Zexi.

Liu Zhenshi was the third daughter. She married into Hejia Village and had two daughters and one son.

Song Ersao is the youngest, and her maiden name is Liu Xiwan.

Liu Dali was a tall and strong man, and his two sons inherited his height, standing at over 1.8 meters tall.

Uncle Liu was just tall when he was young, but now that he is older and a bit fat, he must be about 180 pounds, tall and strong. Uncle Liu also has a full beard, and he looks like someone who is not someone he is going to mess with.

Second Uncle Liu is a little thinner than First Uncle Liu. He only has a line of beard on his lips, and looks less domineering than First Uncle Liu.

"Second sister, I heard you had something to ask us." Uncle Liu arrived before he did. He was holding a paper bag of braised meat, while Second Uncle Liu was holding a bag of cakes.

Mrs. Song happily welcomed them in. "Big brother, second brother, where have you been recently? Why did you take so long to come back?"

"When we were collecting grain in the village, we ate the villagers' food. We thought it was unclean, so we ate the food and died. We stayed there for two or three days." Uncle Liu looked gloomy.

"Why is it like this? Are you feeling better now?" Mrs. Song looked worried.

"Do you think we look like we're in trouble? Haha." Uncle Liu laughed.

"I brought some cakes for the children. Let them eat." Uncle Liu put down the cakes.

When Sanniang and the other two heard the voice, they all ran out and greeted them obediently, "Uncle, Second Uncle."

Uncle Liu beckoned Sanniang to come over, and Sanniang obediently stepped forward and asked, "Uncle, what's wrong?"

"I heard that you were so sick that you couldn't get out of bed. Are you much better now?" Uncle Liu looked at Song Sanniang's face carefully and found that her complexion was rosy, except that it was a little dark, and seemed to be a little rounder than before.

"It's okay. It's been a long time. Thank you for your concern, uncle." Song Sanniang felt warm in her heart.

Here, Uncle Liu was teasing Si Niang and Wu Niang with some cakes. After a while of greetings, everyone started to discuss business.

Song Lao Er said, "Big Brother, Second Brother, I'm here to ask you for help with two things.

We are now making our own sweet soup and selling it. Business is pretty good. We need cassava flour. We have harvested all the cassava in the village and planted one acre of our own, but it is definitely not enough.

We just want you to help us harvest cassava during the grain harvest, and we don’t have time to harvest in the fall, so we want you to help us harvest rice.”

When Liu Dajiu heard this, he thought it was nothing. "It's nothing. It's just something that comes easy. I'll do it." He turned to ask Liu Erjiu, "Old Second, what about you?"

Uncle Liu nodded, "I have no objection. But isn't cassava poisonous?"

Song Lao Er replied, "Cassava is poisonous. Well, we have a way to deal with cassava. I think we should collect all the cassava on the market and process it ourselves. After a while, we can spread the method and let everyone grow it. In the future, we can directly collect cassava flour."

Uncle Liu nodded and said, "That's a good idea. We have visited so many villages and found that many wild cassava plants are rotting in the fields and no one is taking care of them."

"Brother, we should settle accounts clearly. We can't let you work in vain. We will give you two cents for each pound of cassava flour. The price is not high. I hope you can forgive me."

Uncle Liu and his brother were very happy. Although the quantity of cassava flour would be greatly reduced when made into flour, only 30 to 40 kilograms of cassava flour could be obtained from 100 kilograms of cassava. However, all these cassava were free, which was equivalent to a no-cost business.

The two brothers discussed it and decided that they certainly could not collect so much, so they would earn less themselves and let the villagers help them collect the cassava flour, which they would make at half a cent per pound and collect from them. In that case, the two brothers would earn one and a half cents per pound.

After the two men finished discussing, Song Lao Er said, "The most important thing now is the autumn harvest. We get ten cents a day for rice, including one meal.

In addition to you two, I also want to invite Da Zhuang. I don’t know if my eldest brother is free to come back. If he doesn’t come back, I will ask the third brother to help. Recently, the third brother has been busy making wooden bowls for me. "

"It's just a few days of work, why charge me? If you don't have enough people, call my three brothers over. We can harvest your ten acres of land in a few days."

"Okay, brother, just listen to him, otherwise when you harvest rice, no one will help you." Song Ersao couldn't help but speak out.

So it was settled. Second Sister Song and Third Sister Song went into the kitchen to prepare today's dinner. Uncle Liu and his wife were also eating at home, so Second Sister Song prepared the food even more carefully.

Rub a little salt on the chicken, add three slices of ginger, and steam it for twenty minutes. While the chicken is steaming, prepare a secret scallion oil, add minced sand ginger and chopped green onion, drizzle with hot oil, and add salt and soy sauce.

Song Sanniang helped peel and cut the loofah into pieces, and cut four large pieces of tofu powder into small pieces of appropriate thickness.

By the time Song Ersao has steamed the rice, the chicken is almost cooked. Poke it with chopsticks and if no blood comes out, take out the chicken, chop it into pieces and drizzle it with scallion oil. The tender and juicy scallion oil chicken is ready.

Heat oil in a pan, put the tofu in and fry until both sides are golden brown. Then pour in the thickened sauce and cook it for a while. Sprinkle some chopped green onions and the fried tofu is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside and is ready.

With two more uncles Liu, there wasn't enough food, so Sister Song beat a few eggs and made an egg custard to steam before the rice was ready.

Heat the oil in a pan and fry two eggs. Then add water and put the blanched chicken necks and offal in. Cook until the water boils. Then put the loofah in.

Add the pork at the very end, so that the pork will be tender. A loofah and lean meat soup is ready, sweet and delicious.

Take out the egg custard, drizzle it with soy sauce and oil, and sprinkle some chopped green onions.

Put the braised meat that Uncle Liu brought on a plate, and dinner of four dishes and one soup is ready.

Looking at the delicious four dishes and one soup on the table, Uncle Liu couldn't help but praise, "Little sister's cooking skills are getting better and better. She has inherited everything from mother."

Mrs. Song was very happy to hear this. "Eat more. Eat as much as you want. I cooked a pot of rice."

Song Ersao was very busy during the meal. She picked up food for her two brothers and then for her two younger daughters. Song Laoer was so annoyed that he also put food in her bowl.

The two uncles looked at him and found it funny. The second uncle said, "Little sister, eat quickly and don't worry about us. Do you think we will starve ourselves?"

Song Ersao finally calmed down. After the meal, everyone was full.

After dinner, Uncle Liu and his partner began to ask about the division of the family of Song Laoer. At first, they were filled with anger.

Later I heard that it was a blessing in disguise and I started a business and started making money, and I became happy again.

Then Sister-in-law Song came to move the rice, and finally Mrs. Song had a slight change. The two of them were actually a little sad in the end.

Finally, Uncle Liu said with some emotion, "Your life will get better and better in the future."

Uncle Liu said, "Remember to come to us if you have any problems in the future." Finally, they agreed to harvest the rice the day after tomorrow, and then they went back.

Mrs. Song went to Cuihua's house and asked her husband Song Dazhuang to help her harvest rice. She also packed some of the cakes that Uncle Liu brought.

Song Dazhuang agreed readily. Song Ersao came back at the agreed time.

That night, after deducting various expenses, the total income was 6 taels, 653 coins. The whole family was smiling and even fell asleep with a smile.