The poor little girl who traveled through the book, her father was lazy, her mother was stingy, and

Li Taohua's father's full name is Li Zhong. Just like his name, he is a loyal and honest man.

He married Zhang Qiao'e from the same village and had four sons and one daughter.

Li Taohua has three older brothers and a younger brother.

Li Zhong was illiterate. When he had his first child, he saw mountains in front of and behind his house, so he named the child Li Shan.

Before the second child was born, Li Zhong was rushing home and slipped when passing a bridge in a panic, so the child was named Li Qiao.

The third child was even more casual, as there were stones everywhere in the mountain, so he was named Li Shi.

After giving birth to three boys in a row, Zhang Qiao'e wanted a girl.

After waiting so long, she finally gave birth to a daughter in April.

It was the time when peach blossoms were in full bloom all over the mountain in Shadi Village. Li Zhong waved his hand and said, "The peach blossoms are so beautiful," so he named the girl Li Taohua.

Li Taohua has a younger brother named Li Zhu. Bamboo is also a common plant in the mountains.

With four sons in the family, Li Zhong and Zhang Qiao'e dared not have any more children.

But when his sons grew up and got married, the first two babies born to his four daughters-in-law were all sons. Li Zhong suddenly had eight grandchildren, which scared him to death.

Shadi Village was already poor, and before the four sons had even divided up the family property, eight grandsons came.

Although having many children means more blessings, only those who are rich can enjoy these blessings.

The youngest son already has two sons, but the Li family has not yet split up.

Why don’t you split up the family? It’s because you don’t have money.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to split up the family, but after the split, each of his four sons wants to build a house, and Li Zhong simply can’t afford to spend any extra money to build houses for his sons.

The situation was not good in those days, but fortunately the Li family was kind and there were no quarrels. The brothers worked together and worked hard to go hunting in the mountains to save money, so that they could save enough money to split up and build a house as soon as possible.

A big tree has many branches. Seeing that his eldest grandson is already twenty years old and still has not started a family, Li Zhong has not been able to sleep for several nights.

The four sons of the Li family went into the mountains and stayed there for two days. They met the three sons of the Zhang family from the same village. The seven of them were lucky enough to catch a wild boar together.

After the division, the Li family only kept one pig's trotter and sold the rest in the town.

Because people gathered in front of Lin Xiaoman's stall, it boosted popularity and helped Li's family sell a lot of wild boar meat.

When he was free, Li Shi couldn't help but talk to his second brother Li Qiao: "Second brother, Xiaoman is really amazing. The ice-cold frozen food he made is really delicious. What kind of business do you think our family can do?"

Li Qiao thought about it but had no clue.

Shadi Village is surrounded by mountains, and he couldn't think of anything else to do except hunting.

They don’t know how to make frozen food, and they can’t even make the meat buns sold at the end of the alley look as good as they do.

So he said sullenly, "I don't know."

Li Zhong was afraid that his two sons would be obsessed with money, so he advised them: "You have to be down-to-earth when making money, and don't think about unnecessary things."

Li Shi muttered quietly, "Why are you so down-to-earth? Xiaoman can do business and make money, but why don't I, as his uncle, have any ideas?"

Regardless of what Li Shi thought, Zhang Qiao'e couldn't help feeling happy when she saw Taohua's family's booming business.

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A bucket of frozen food was quickly sold out, and even the smoked fish and crispy pork were mostly sold out.

Four fish may seem like a lot, but in reality each fish weighs only a little over two kilograms, and four fish weigh only about ten kilograms.

Thirty wen per pound, except for the remaining four or five pieces of smoked fish, the rest were sold for two hundred and forty wen.

After all, crispy pork is made of pork, and it is more expensive than smoked fish, at 40 cents a pound, which is only 5 cents more expensive than the pork sold at the pork stall. So the profit is not that much.

The fish was caught in the river, but the meat was bought. Although Lin Xiaoman mixed some crispy meat from the space into it, she didn't dare to add more in order to prevent the space from being discovered.

The crispy pork was sold for a total of two hundred coins.

Only the bottom of half a bucket of ice-cold frozen food was left. Lin Jingzhe counted and found that he had sold ninety-three bowls in total and earned one hundred and eighty-six copper coins.

Lin Xiaoman gave four bowls of the remaining ice-cold soup to her two uncles and grandparents.

Li Zhong refused to take it. "Xiao Man, Tao Hua, you can keep it and sell it for money. We have a lot of places to make money after the separation."

Lin Xiaoman smiled and said, "Grandpa, you haven't tried Bingliangdong yet, it's delicious."

Li Taohua's eyes were sore. She had been married to Lin Dajiang for so many years, but she had never shown filial piety to her parents during the holidays. Now that they had separated, her father was reluctant to even eat a bowl of iced frozen food.

"Dad, if Xiaoman tells you to eat it, just take it. It's all empty and doesn't look good. Let's eat it ourselves."

Only then did Li Zhong take a spoon and scoop a spoonful.

It is soft and smooth, cool and refreshing, and it seems to take away all the heat in one bite.

"Taohua, this iced jelly is really good."

Zhang Qiao'e was reluctant to eat it and wanted to take it back home for her children to try. Even Li Qiao didn't eat it.

Li Taohua guessed what her mother and second brother were thinking, and couldn't help but feel sad, "Mother, it can't be kept frozen for a long time, you should eat it first. When Xiaoman is ready, I'll ask Dajiang and Jingzhe to send it to Shadi Village."

Zhang Qiao'e was anxious, "That won't do, you have to keep it and sell it for money."

"Aren't you going to save it for the child?"

Zhang Qiao'e knew her daughter's temper, so she quickly scooped a spoonful of icy cold soup and put it into her mouth.

No wonder so many bowls were sold.

On a hot day, a bowl of ice-cold food makes you feel refreshed.

When Li Qiao saw his mother eating, he thought that with so many children in the family, one bowl would not be enough.

In addition, Li Shi next to him kept shouting what Taohua said about frozen food not being able to be kept for a long time, so Li Qiao also took a bite.

One sip makes you feel refreshed.

Lin Xiaoman smiled with her eyes narrowed.

Isn’t the expression on Second Uncle’s face the same as the one she used to have when she was eating popsicles on hot summer days?

The two families were eating enthusiastically when a man came rushing over.

"Are there any more ice cold ones?"

"Another bowl of iced ice."

Lin Dajiang apologized, "Sir, the frozen food is sold out."

"So fast?" The man wiped the sweat from his forehead.

He bought a bowl of ice-cold soup for two cents and got scolded by his wife. He was feeling very depressed, but then he turned around and found that his wife was cheating on him.

Just when he was about to scold her, he heard his wife tell him to take two copper coins to buy a bowl for his son who was studying in Yiyi Hall.

I rushed here in a hurry, but it was still sold out.

I'll be scolded by my wife again when I get back.

"Uncle, we will set up a stall in town tomorrow, please come early."

The man had no choice but to give up and walked away dejectedly.

He walked a few steps and turned back, "I'll come early tomorrow morning."

Lin Jingzhe was overjoyed, "Xiaoman, we have a repeat customer."

Li Taohua and Lin Dajiang were also secretly happy. Li Taohua wanted to learn how to make ice-cold jelly as soon as possible, while Lin Dajiang wanted to catch a few more fish with Jingzhe in the evening.

The sun was high in the sky and the Lin family was preparing to close their stall.

The Li family had a few pieces of wild boar meat left, so they forced a piece on Li Taohua to take away.

Li Taohua refused to accept it no matter what. Finally, Li Zhong said with a stern face that the meat was for Xiaoman to nourish her body, and if she refused to accept it, it would mean that she did not recognize him as her grandfather.

With that being said, Li Taohua had no choice but to accept the meat, while she was still thinking about how to return the favor.

Finally, regardless of the objections from Li Zhong and Zhang Qiao'e, he grabbed a banana leaf, stuffed all the smoked fish into it and put it in Li Shi's backpack.

After a bit of tug-of-war, Li Taohua responded to Li Zhong with the same harsh words he had just used, and Li Zhong was so stunned that he was speechless.

The two families separated in the town.

On the way back, Lin Dajiang was still pulling the cart.

The heat wave blows on my face and the summer heat is rolling.

The Lin family members walked happily with a slight smile on their faces.

When we arrived at the village, the whole family seemed to be possessed by some evil spirit. They all had gloomy faces and sighed whenever they saw anyone.