The next day was New Year's Day. Since the Tang family was new and not familiar with the villagers, and the old Tang family lived in the village, Tang Qiyue immediately decided not to pay New Year's greetings, thus saving this step.

However, we still have to visit Village Chief Fu’s home.

So, Tang Laosan and Tang Qingshu, with their faces wrapped in cotton cloth, as well as Xu Fang, Hu Lao Da and Lin San, went to Village Chief Fu's house to pay New Year's greetings, while the rest stayed at home.

Tang Qiyue glanced at Xie Changjin, who was teasing Zhaobao, who was giggling in a red jacket, and asked, "Aren't you going home for the New Year?"

"No reply." Someone answered very straightforwardly.

Tang Qiyue thought for a moment and asked again, "Did your family make you sad?"

Xie Changjin hugged Zhao Bao's round arm and paused, "No."

Seeing that she couldn't get any information out of asking, Tang Qiyue simply stopped asking.

At that time, the people of Daohua Village who were lying in their thatched houses had not even eaten the New Year's Eve dinner, let alone paying New Year's greetings. It was because they did not have much money, so how could they afford a New Year's Eve dinner with fish and meat?

If your family doesn't cook, neither will my family, so even the Tang family, who were a little better off, didn't have the New Year's Eve dinner. Each person only had a whole-grain steamed bun and a piece of meat for the New Year's Eve dinner.

Village chief Fang's family is in a very bad situation. He is very worried. He cannot let the villagers live off their savings like this. He is no longer the village chief, but the villagers still listen to what he says.

"Everyone, when the weather warms up, after you build a house for Dagui's family, go to the town to find some work to earn money to buy land!"

"We are real farmers. What's the point of having no land?"

Xu Some people listened to the proposal of Village Chief Fang and shouted disdainfully, "Of course we want to buy land to grow crops and have enough food, but how much money does it cost? Is it something we can earn in a day or two?"

"That's right! We can't even get enough to eat during the New Year, how can we work and buy land?"

"Come out and see! Everyone, come out!"

Just when Village Chief Fang was about to try to persuade them with kind words, he was interrupted by a sound at the door and quickly ran out.

At this time, Village Chief Fu led the villagers to the door of the thatched house with a cart, and said with his hands in his pockets, "This is the relief food given by the court to the refugees. It is divided into three catties of brown rice and half a catty of cornmeal per person. You can't steal it."

As soon as these words were spoken, the crowd suddenly became excited and the older people were already crying with joy.

The court did not give up on them, no!

Everyone lined up obediently to receive their own food. The moment they really got the food, they couldn't help but have tears in their eyes. They were saved!

Village Chief Fang pulled Village Chief Fu aside and asked him something in a low voice.

Village Chief Fu raised his eyebrows when he heard this. "Want to buy land? Sure, you can buy it if you have money and a household registration? Do you want to buy it now?"

"No, I don't know if the money I have is enough."

Village Chief Fu nodded and said, "If it's enough, buy it as soon as possible. There are not many fields in Baile Village." After that, he told Village Chief Fang the price of the fields.

Village Chief Fang sent Village Chief Fu and his group away with a smile on his face, and immediately told his fellow villagers about the matter.

Unfortunately, everyone still complained that they had no money and could not buy the land. Village Chief Fang had no choice but to give up and let his son go to Village Chief Fu to buy the land tomorrow.

Their family didn't have much money, but it was still enough to buy two acres of land.

Sun's eyes rolled around, "Mom, aren't we going to buy some land? The village chief's family wants to buy two acres!"

Old Mrs. Tang glanced at her eldest daughter-in-law who was obsessed with money and snorted, "If you don't buy land, you'll just eat dry food!"

"Mom, I'm just asking, please don't be so mean!"

As a result, only Village Chief Fang and the Tang family in Daohua Village bought two acres of land each, while everyone else was waiting for the weather to warm up before going to the town to find work.

Tang Qiyue was the last to know about this. Why? Because as soon as the snow stopped, she found an excuse to go deep into the mountains. When she came back, she brought back 200 kilograms of peppers and a bunch of red pepper saplings.

"Dad, just plant this seedling and take good care of it. It will bear fruit in a few days."

At this time, it was already the seventh day of the New Year.

Whether it was peppers or red pepper saplings, they were all moved out by Tang Qiuyue from the space.

Tang San stared at the 200 kilograms of red peppers and was shocked. "My girl, why are there so many red peppers in the mountains?"

At this point, seven-star pepper and millet pepper have been defined as red peppers in everyone's mind.

Tang Qiyue smiled and said, "There are only so many in the mountains. There are no more. I picked them all back."

"Dad, hurry up and move the saplings to the greenhouse. When the weather warms up, we'll find a piece of land to plant them. Then we'll have more red peppers than we can eat."

Tang Laosan quickly responded and took Xu Fang and a few others to transplant the saplings that Tang Qiyue brought back into the greenhouse, spending half a day.

There was a reason why Tang Qiyue said this. She had been observing the celestial phenomena for several days and found that it would no longer snow, so now she was just waiting for the snow to melt and spring to come.

There are about 300 kilograms of red peppers stored in the cellar and brought back from the mountains. Tang Qiyue plans to make all of them into chili sauce and sell it during the Lantern Festival market.

Tang Qiyue did not teach everyone all the methods of making chili sauce. She always had to be careful. The most important step was naturally in the hands of her own family.

More than a dozen people worked for two days and made chili sauce from 300 kilograms of red peppers. However, there were only fifty porcelain jars of one kilogram. Tang Qiuyue packed the remaining peppers in two large jars and would sell them in small quantities when the time came.

On the Lantern Festival, Lin made sweet and salty glutinous rice balls according to Tang Qiyue's instructions, so that everyone could eat their fill.

The market was very big. The place where ordinary people set up stalls was requisitioned to be the market. The market was extended to the middle of the street, and red lanterns were hung on the shops on both sides.

Tang Qiyue brought Tang Lao San, Xu Fang, Hu Lao Da, Lin San, and Zhao Bao who was clamoring to follow them.

Milk Tuanzi is coming, and Tuanzi’s father is coming too.

So, although they were clearly there to set up a stall and sell chili sauce, they almost all went out, and it was Tang Qiyue who stopped them.

Several people put out porcelain jars and large vats filled with hot sauce one by one. Tang Qiyue didn't shout, but opened one of the large vats and fanned it to let the aroma spread to the crowd.

Even though the weather was so cold that people were shivering, people couldn't bear to miss the fun and watched more and more people come to the market.

"What smells both sweet and pungent?"

"It smells weird, what are you selling?"

Many people came here following the smell, just to look but not to buy.

Upon seeing this, Tang Qiyue immediately asked Lin San to go to the nearby bun shop to buy a few big steamed buns. He scooped a spoonful of chili sauce from the big jar and put it in an empty bowl, and asked Tang Laosan and the others to eat the steamed buns with the chili sauce.

Zhao Bao drooled and fluttered his legs in Xie Chang Jin's arms, "Eat! Mommy! Bao wants to eat!"

"I want to eat! I want to eat!"

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