The Second Sister of a Farmer's Family's Path to Imperial Destiny

"Aunt, I weighed it, and it is indeed the full amount, two hundred kilograms."

After struggling for a while, Guo Zhi took out the silver she had prepared and said, "This is exactly one tael."

The woman stared at the silver closely. She didn't expect that such a shabby house could produce even an ounce of silver. She was a little worried about whether the silver was real.

After taking it, he bit a piece with his teeth and said with a smile: "Thank you very much. I wonder if your family needs more cassava?"

If this family still needs cassava, they won't have to worry about their livelihood in the winter for the time being. Maybe they can stay in the town instead of going back to their parents' home. Then the children may be able to go further to the county town. Anyway, it's better than staying in the village.

"It's not needed for now. How about you leave me your address? If we need it, we can go to you to order it, okay?"

The woman nodded excitedly: "Okay! Of course it's good!"

The little girl next to her answered quickly, "Sister, we live in Room 6 on Yulin Street in the town. Go in and find someone called Aunt Hua."

She had memorized this address a long time ago. When she went out to deliver goods with her parents, people would always ask her where she lived.

Guo Zhi looked at the soft and sticky little girl and said with a smile: "Okay~ Sister, remember, if I need anything, I will come to you."

After saying that, he and Guo Xi returned to the kitchen and kept an eye on the new workers, fearing that they would make mistakes again.

……

At noon, Guo Xin and his wife finally returned home.

The cart made a clanging sound as it rolled on the uneven ground, which immediately caught the attention of Guo Xi in the kitchen.

"Sister, the aunt sent some cassava and put it in the backyard, a full 200 kilograms."

When Guo Xin heard that the cassava was delivered so quickly, he thought of all the delicious foods made from cassava.

It's so cold today, and the stove is always on in the kitchen. It's dry and hot in the kitchen, and there's a smell of oil smoke. If there's a bowl of cold taro and sago pudding at this time, I wonder how delicious it would be.

"Okay, I'll use this cassava to make something delicious later. But it won't be ready that quickly. It'll take at least four or five days."

After putting down the things on the cart, Guo Xin went straight to the backyard. As soon as he entered the backyard, he saw a lot of cassava. He pinched it with his hand, revealing the flesh inside. It was very tender and it was obvious that it had been dug out not long ago.

I drew a full basin of water from the well and prepared to wash the cassava.

Smoke kept rising from the kitchen as the work of baking taro chips never stopped. The kitchen was very hot from the fire.

Mrs. Guo came out to get some fresh air. As soon as she went out, she saw Guo Xin busy washing things. Then she looked at the pile of cassava next to her and said, "San Ya, let me help you wash some. You have too much. I have already gone through everything in the kitchen. There is no hurry to go back."

After saying that, without waiting for Guo Xin's reaction, he squatted beside the wooden basin, picked up the cassava and started scrubbing it.

Guo Xin was a little surprised, but did not refuse the kindness.

After a while, there was a large basin of washed cassava, weighing about sixty or seventy kilograms. It was ground into fine powder with a rough stone slab, then mashed into fine cassava pulp with water and filtered through gauze.

Get two more basins of clean water and wash the cassava flour in the gauze twice more. Finally, pour out the residue in the gauze.

After repeating these steps over and over again, even Guo Xin, who was a little stronger, was too tired to lift his hands and shook them vigorously.

"Sister, what are you doing?" Guo Xi took advantage of Guo Ruo and Guo Zhi being in the kitchen to supervise and came out. Seeing Guo Xin's exhausted face, he said, "Let me help you."

Guo Xin handed the slate in his hand over and taught Guo Xi how to do it step by step.

Guo Xi was a little confused. This was indeed very similar to the steps of making tofu, but this was cassava. Could it be made this way? "Sister, won't it be a waste if we cook this way?"

Guo Xin was wiping the cassava with a cloth in one hand and swinging the other hand in the air, trying to relieve the pain. His hands had turned white from being soaked in water for a long time, and the weather was a bit cold, so his knuckles were a bit red.

Still smiling, she said, "Of course not. Look at the food I make. Which one is not the best?"

"That's true." Guo Xi chuckled.

But it seems that the second sister was not like this before. Although she is also very strong, she does not have such great skills. She asked again: "Sister, but how come you suddenly know so many things?"

When Guo Xin heard this, he stopped what he was doing and put his hand on his neck to warm it.

She knew that someone would ask this question sooner or later. After all, she was quite different from the Arya she used to be. So she explained, "Alas, actually I didn't want to tell you at first because I was worried that you would be scared."

"I fell and injured my head that day, and was unconscious for a while. During that time, I saw my parents and an immortal. She said that our family had accumulated good deeds and become virtuous.

He couldn't bear to see us, the only orphans left in our family, suffer, so he taught me some ways to make money so that we can be independent and live a good life."

After saying that, Guo Xin saw Guo Xi's eyes filled with tears, and he choked up and said, "I know that my parents have always been thinking about us..."

Then he said, "Sister, you should have told us earlier. We are not afraid. This is not a..."

Guo Xin knew that people in this dynasty both respected and feared ghosts and gods, so he thought of using this as an excuse, but he didn't expect his fourth brother to cry like this. He could only touch his head and said softly, "It's okay. It's the same now that you know."

By nightfall, Guo Xin had used up almost half of the cassava and left the starch water in the wooden basin to settle overnight.

……

It was the hour of Chou. Perhaps because he almost lost his family again in the morning, or because of what Guo Xi had said to him, Guo Xin was experiencing the moment of separation between life and death in his dream.

At that time, they were a happy family of four, including her, her sister, her father and her mother. Unexpectedly, one day, the world seemed to have changed. Suddenly, crises arose everywhere, and mutated beasts and plants were attacking humans.

That day, her father and mother went out to get some food, leaving her and her sister at home. However, they had waited too long, and her five-year-old sister kept crying. She was afraid of attracting strange beasts, so she had to take her sister to find her father and mother.

At first the journey was smooth, but unexpectedly, just when they found their parents, a group of mutated wolfhounds suddenly appeared. Their parents risked their lives to clear a path for them and told them to take good care of their sister.

However, just a short while after she desperately protected her sister, her sister passed away.

That was when she was at her most depressed. She had no relatives and was unable to protect her younger sister who depended on her for everything...

Thinking of this, a tear mark appeared at the corner of Guo Xin's eye in her dream.

But she also forgot that she was only ten years old at that time...