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

"Dajiang, why don't you honor your parents when you sell frozen food? You did send a bunch of wild vegetables just in time."

A sharp sneer came, and Lin Dajiang saw clearly that the person who was speaking was Aunt Wang, the most gossipy woman in the village. Next to her stood the equally gossipy Lady Lame.

Lin Dajiang explained seriously: "Aunt Wang, we can't make much money from selling frozen jelly. The recipe was given to us by the nobleman, and we just run errands to earn hard-earned money. There is a fixed number of bowls of frozen jelly. If there are fewer, we can't explain it!"

After he finished speaking, he still had a look of fear on his face. He stared at Aunt Wang and said again and again: "Aunt, please don't harm me! We brothers have divided the family property, and we have to give our parents one or two taels of silver every year as filial piety. If you destroy the frozen food business next year and I can't give the filial piety money, I will go to your house to ask for justice from my uncle."

Aunt Wang's face turned pale.

She almost forgot that Mrs. Lin was a ruthless person and she demanded one or two taels of silver a year as filial piety money from her son who had received a share of the family property.

Lin Dajiang is lazy and likes to eat, so I'm afraid he won't be able to save any money.

This lazy guy can even act like a rogue to his own brother. If she really goes out and screws up his business, he will come to his house every day and make a scene to demand an explanation.

If she causes unrest in the family, the head of the household will not let her off easily.

I'm really afraid of him.

"There are so many people here, what if Laizi Niang accidentally tells others?"

Before Aunt Wang finished her words, the beggar woman pointed at her nose and cursed: "You are so good, Wang Guihua, you can't keep your broken mouth and you blame me, I will tear your mouth to pieces."

After saying that, Laizi's mother grabbed Wang Guihua's braid.

Wang Guihua was not willing to be outdone, so she grabbed Lai Zi's mother's hair and pulled it out.

When Linda's wife saw the two men were about to fight, she hurried over to persuade them: "You are all villagers, why are you fighting? Stop it, stop it!"

Lin Dajiang was frightened by the fight between the old women and stepped back.

He pretended to be surprised and said, "Aunt, why are you fighting? I didn't say anything!"

"Don't blame me. I still have to send wild vegetables to my parents."

After saying that, he ran away in a hurry.

The purslane in his hand was swaying as if to cheer.

Linda's wife and several other women finally managed to persuade the two sisters, but the sisters who were once good friends now ignored each other.

Wang Guihua's braids were all loose, a small clump of hair had fallen out, her mouth was swollen, and her face was scratched.

The bald woman's hair was spread out like a bird's coop, and the collar of her clothes was torn. At this moment, she was pinching the collar with her hands and gasping for breath.

Wang Guihua said to Lai Zi Niang, "Hmph, just wait and see," and walked away with her legs crossed, waiting for the next fight like a defeated rooster.

Lai Ziniang also refused to admit defeat. She stared at Wang Guihua's back and spat, "This old hag must not die well."

After cursing, he glanced at the woman who was trying to stop the fight and said in a bad tone: "Don't tell anyone, or I'll learn from that scoundrel Lin and go to everyone's house."

Linda's wife was furious.

I tried to stop the fight with good intentions but ended up getting into trouble.

"Go away." The woman who had a good relationship with Linda's wife said this, and the others dispersed automatically.

-

Lin Dajiang brought purslane to the old house, and Old Mrs. Lin happened to be sitting at the door talking to herself.

Lin Dajiang didn't want to get into trouble, so he went forward.

"Mother, Taohua picked some wild vegetables from her mother's home. Please take some and eat them."

Lin Dajiang put down the wild vegetables and wanted to leave, but was stopped by Old Lady Lin.

"You came all this way, just a bunch of wild vegetables?"

"Where are the frozen treats you sell? Why haven't I seen you guys out doing business recently?"

Lin Dajiang repeated the nobleman's words exactly as they were said.

"Mom, you gave birth to me, don't you know me? How can I make frozen food? Besides, Taohua doesn't know how to make it either. If Taohua knows how to make it, she must have learned it from her mother's family. Are my brother-in-law and his family so poor?"

Old Lady Lin was skeptical: "Since the nobleman asked you to give the job, why didn't you think of Dahai, and let Li Erli get the job instead?"

Lin Dajiang smiled and asked, "Mom, Li Erli has a cart, does my second brother have one?"

Old Mrs. Lin choked on her saliva.

She couldn't ask Dajiang to buy one.

"Mom, we are just the guys selling frozen food. We don't get any benefit from the good sales of frozen food."

"If you let me sell frozen food again next year, I'll call Lichun. My second brother still has housework to do, so how can he leave?"

Lin Dajiang assured sincerely.

Mrs. Lin finally felt relieved. Seeing that her eldest son still had a handful of wild vegetables in his hand, she frowned and asked, "Why are there only two handfuls? Aren't you going to give your third brother some?"

Lin Dajiang: "...Isn't my third brother in town?"

"The town is in greater need of these foods, and everything costs money. So, you should hurry up and deliver them to your third brother." After saying that, Old Mrs. Lin also handed the wild vegetables on the ground to Lin Dajiang.

Urge him to leave quickly.

Lin Dajiang had a headache. His mother was getting more and more partial as she got older.

He was even asked to send a bunch of wild vegetables to his third brother.

"Mom, I'll give the wild vegetables to my second brother."

Lin Dajiang wanted to take the opportunity to get away, but unexpectedly, Mrs. Lin stood up and snatched the purslane from his hand, "There are still vegetables in the vegetable garden of the second brother. What are you going to give? Keep them and send them to your third brother."

Wang Chunxiu came out of her house and said, "Mom! You can't be so biased!"

She heard everything in the room. Her mother actually wanted to eat all the wild vegetables given by her eldest brother for herself.

"Why, are you rebelling? Aren't there only vegetables in your vegetable garden?"

Wang Chunxiu had suffered a setback from Li Taohua today and was feeling aggrieved. What Old Lady Lin said brought out all her sadness.

"Mom, those were also planted by Dahai and I with great effort. My third brother is in such need, why doesn't he plant them himself?"

"I used to support my third brother's education, and as his sister-in-law, I accepted it. But now we have separated, and it doesn't make sense for me to give everything to my third brother."

"The palms and backs of your hands are all made of flesh, so you should consider it yourself."

Old Mrs. Lin was feeling guilty at first, but when her second daughter-in-law contradicted her, she suddenly felt that her face and dignity were stripped away.

"Second brother, come out here. Do you think so too?"

Old Mrs. Lin walked angrily to the second son's house and kicked the door open.

He pulled Lin Dahai's ear and came out, talking nonsense.

"Lin Dahai, I raised you up like this, and you act like a coward every day, ordering your wife to anger me?"

"Do you want to piss us off to death so you can save money on tributes and food?"

When Lin Dajiang heard this, he was outrageous.

If you are accused of being unfilial, you will be criticized by everyone in the village.

If it is not handled properly, it will affect future generations.

Although he only knew a few words, he knew that people who were disloyal, unjust, unfilial and unfraternal would not be able to take a single step forward and would be despised by the whole world.

"Mom! Please don't say such discouraging words. Taohua and I went out to sell frozen food in the hot sun to save money for the filial piety. Our throats were burning but we couldn't bear to buy one for ourselves. The children were so greedy that they cried but I didn't even give them one."

Lin Dajiang, a man in his thirties, cried heartbrokenly: "Mom! You are embarrassing your son by saying this!"

Old Mrs. Lin was frightened by Lin Dajiang.

She was angry and was scolding the second brother, why was he, the eldest brother, joining in the fun?

"Boss, are you crying? Stop standing there and send the wild vegetables to your third brother!"

Lin Dajiang wiped his tears and said, "Okay, I'll listen to mom. I'll go home and get a big bundle to send to my third brother."

After saying that, he ran out without looking back.

An old man watching the fun pointed at Lin Dajiang and said, "What's going on? Is there something unclean chasing you? Are you running so fast?"

"Uncle, mother asked me to bring wild vegetables to my third brother, I dare not delay."

As soon as Lin Dajiang left, Lin Dahai's ear finally escaped from his mother's hands.

Wang Chunxiu sobbed and shed tears, "Boss, please say something!"

Old Mrs. Lin squinted her eyes and said, "Second son's wife, why are you so fond of instigating? You are such a troublemaker that our family has already been split up, and now you want to make the second son turn against us?"

"Mom, I don't have any. We have separated, so you have to treat everyone equally. The wild vegetables that my eldest brother gave me, you gave them to my third brother before we even said anything."

"Noisy, noisy. Every day they quarrel over trivial matters and the house is in turmoil." Old Mrs. Lin was extremely unhappy. The old man was very concerned about his reputation, and she would scold her again if he knew about this.

It's so unlucky that I gave birth to a son who can't even fart freely.

I am controlled by my wife every day.

"Mom... let's stop arguing. We're going to be laughed at by others." Lin Dahai advised for the first time.

Standing between my mother and my wife, he looked like a punching bag.

Seeing that Lin Dahai was still weak, Old Lady Lin felt so disappointed that she didn't plan to do anything about it.

"Now that the family has split up, you've become too independent and are looking down on me, an old woman, for meddling in other people's affairs. I won't care about you even if you die in the future." Old Mrs. Lin said harshly, picked up the purslane from the ground, and walked into the house without looking back.

Leaving behind was Lin Dahai with a conflicted look on his face and Wang Chunxiu who was angry and aggrieved.

Lin Xiaoxue, who was watching the situation quietly in the room, looked at her weak and incompetent father, her indifferent brother, and her irritable and useless mother...

Thinking back to her dream of herself being so glorious and traveling with a group of servants, she vowed not to sit there and wait for death any longer.

These burdens blocked her way. Instead of staying in Shanglin Village and waiting for the helpless people to rise up, she might as well go out and make a name for herself.

Lin Xiaoxue opened the dressing box given by Young Master Liu, turned the button, and with a "bang", the interlayer appeared, inside which lay a two hundred tael silver note, two silver ingots, and some small change.

This money was enough for her to go to Chiayi County to find a way out.

If Lin Xiaoman were here, she would have to sigh at the powerful halo of the heroine.

Her family worked hard from dawn to dusk for two months, selling recipes for cold noodles and jelly, but they didn't make more than 100 taels.

Lin Xiaoxue's sweet words coaxed Young Master Liu into giving her more silver and jewelry.

After the Liu family fell, all the money became Lin Xiaoxue's.

-

After Lin Dajiang returned home and chatted with Li Taohua, he grabbed a handful of purslane and walked towards the town.

When he came back, there was a palm-sized piece of meat in his hand.

Aunt Wang's house was right at the entrance of the village. Seeing Lin Dajiang's smug look, she couldn't help but mock him.

"Da Jiang is actually willing to sell his meat? Didn't he say that he couldn't save enough money for his filial piety?"

Aunt Wang stared at the piece of meat in Lin Dajiang's hand, thinking that she must uncover Lin Dajiang's true face.

"Aunt Wang, you probably don't know this. Mother asked me to give wild vegetables to my third brother. This piece of meat is a return gift from my third brother."

Lin Dajiang said nothing and left with a smile.

Sure enough, around dinner time, the aroma of stewed meat wafted through Shanglin Village again.

Aunt Wang licked the corner of her mouth and her stomach growled at an inopportune moment.

She hadn't eaten meat for more than two months and she almost forgot what meat tasted like.

"Who is so wicked as to cook meat so deliciously?"

He leaned closer to his aunt and said, "It's from Lin the Poor Man's family. He traded it with his third brother for a bunch of worthless wild vegetables."

"What? Lin Lao San is so generous? Trading meat for vegetables?

"How can Lin Lao San, a scholar, be more generous than Lin Dajiang?"

......

The story of Lin Dajiang exchanging vegetables for meat spread in the village.

This is exactly the effect Lin Dajiang wants.

At least his family can eat meat openly in the next two days.

The shanks hidden in the backpack were stewed into soup by Li Taohua, and the chicken mushrooms picked by Xiaoman were added. Lin Dajiang didn't know how to describe the taste.

The warm and nourishing bone soup is mixed with the freshness of chicken mushrooms. You taste it in your mouth and then it goes down your esophagus into your stomach.

The taste is so satisfying that one can't help but sigh.

The Lin family members were eating with relish. The scenes of them talking to each other in the past were no longer seen. Apart from gnawing on bones, they were drinking soup slurpingly, sweating profusely.

After stopping selling frozen foods, Lin Xiaoman has been researching food.

Let’s make meat buns. We already have them in town. To be honest, the buns in the town’s bun shop are delicious, and the buns she makes may not be as good as them.

Let’s make noodles. It’s troublesome since they don’t have a shop, as they have to prepare the soup base, side dishes and noodles.

They had a borrowed cart, and the soup was full and easily spilled.

Unlike ice-cold frozen food which is in a solidified state, it will not spill even if it is pulled from Shanglin Village to Dayi Town as long as the ride is not too bumpy.

After much thought, she decided to make soup dumplings. If they sold well, she would add fried dumplings and pan-fried xiaolongbao.

In order to test the indigenous people's preference for soup dumplings, Lin Xiaoman asked Lin Dajiang to find a carpenter to make a few bamboo steamers.

She sold meat and bought flour, and finally made a bowl of pork skin jelly in front of Li Taohua's puzzled look.

Knead the white flour into a ball, let it sit for half an hour and then continue kneading it into a ball.

While waiting, Lin Xiaoman began to prepare the meat filling. He added wild onions from his home doorstep and ginger water. He also chopped up the pork skin jelly and mixed it into the prepared meat filling, continuing to stir it evenly.

The flour is white, soft and smooth. Lin Xiaoman rolls it into long strips and cuts it into small pieces.

Use a wooden stick to roll the dough into a thick middle and thin sides.

Wrap the prepared meat filling into the dough and put it directly into the bamboo steamer with gauze on the bottom. After all the meat filling is wrapped, put the steamer into the pot.

Steam over high heat for 15 minutes and then remove the lid.

The aroma of meat mixed with the scent of wild onions penetrated the noses of the Lin family.

Lin Xiaoman looked at the people who had just finished their meal and said happily, "Please help me taste it. I plan to go to town to sell steamed dumplings."

As he spoke, he wrapped the dumplings in wet cloth and took them out one by one. He opened the lid of the dumpling steamer, and the plump and crystal dumplings appeared in front of everyone.

"Xiaoman, is this the juicy soup dumplings you mentioned? Is it full of gravy?" Lin Jingzhe could only feel the glutton in his stomach screaming wildly.

But I still endured and waited for Xiaoman to make arrangements.

Lin Xiaoman carefully picked up the dumplings with chopsticks and put them on the plate.

She made six trays in total, and steamed three of them, with eight dumplings in each tray.

Twenty-four dumplings were placed on a plate, and the Lin family members gathered around to watch.