I trade in both worlds

After signing the contract, the auction house staff began to publicize and promote this batch of jadeite.

It will take a month for the jadeite to enter the auction process.

Xu Ziqing simply returned to Baiping Village and prepared to establish a fan group.

She posted an announcement about establishing a fan group on the homepage of her online store and on social media platforms, and invited all her fans to join.

However, although her online store has more than 20,000 followers, only more than 500 people have actually joined the fan group.

This number made her feel a little disappointed, but she knew that some things needed time to accumulate and settle.

"It doesn't matter. Having fewer people has its advantages. The chances of winning are greater." Xu Xu comforted.

Xu Ziqing nodded: "Indeed, 500 people draw 30 pairs of earrings, the chance of winning is quite high."

Xu Xu looked at the earrings in the box and said, "Should we go to Sister Feng to buy some purses to put the earrings in?"

"Yes, indeed. These earrings are not cheap. They look more upscale after being packaged." Xu Ziqing nodded in agreement.

"Is it packaged in a purse or something else?" Xu Xu asked.

Xu Ziqing pondered for a while and said, "I'll go online and order a few small gift boxes and print the name of our store on them."

A week later, the small gift boxes arrived, and Xu Ziqing began to post detailed rules of the lottery in the fan group and announced that the event would officially start in three days.

In the next three days, Xu Ziqing interacted with fans in the fan group every day and answered their questions.

She found that although the number of people was small, the fans were very enthusiastic and everyone was looking forward to the lottery.

The day of the lucky draw has arrived.

Xu Ziqing posted a message in the fan group, announcing that a lottery would be held, in which thirty lucky winners would be randomly drawn and each lucky winner would receive a pair of jade earrings.

She specially prepared a random lottery procedure to ensure fairness.

As the program ran, the names of the lucky winners were announced one by one, and the atmosphere in the group became more and more enthusiastic.

Thirty pairs of earrings were given away smoothly, and the number of fans of the store increased by more than a thousand because of this lucky draw. The sales of thousand-layer soles also increased a lot.

One third of the custom-made shoes have been sold.

Time passed by as the two of them were busy, and it was the end of February. A few days later, it was March, and Xu Zhuang began to prepare for spring ploughing.

Xu Xu bought some corn, sweet potatoes and some vegetable seeds online.

All the grain seeds were sent to the clan leader's house, and the vegetable seeds were kept for Xu Jizong's family and his own family, and the others were also taken to the clan leader's house.

On March 1st, just after dawn, Xu Xu came to Xu Jizong's house carrying sweet potatoes, corn seeds and vegetable seeds.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw that the whole courtyard was quiet. Xu Xu put the burden under the eaves of the main hall.

He looked into the main room but saw no one, so he went to the kitchen and saw Xu Jizong sitting in front of the stove, making a fire.

"Second Uncle." Xu Xu greeted him with a smile: "Second Aunt and the others are not at home? Did they go to the county?"

Xu Jizong looked over when he heard this and said, "Xuxu is here. Your second aunt is in Youyin's room. Youyin's wife is in labor, so Youyin went to find a midwife. Youliang and his wife stayed in the county with their child last night and have not returned."

"Is Lihua blooming? Have you had breakfast?" Xu Xu asked.

Xu Jizong replied while lighting the fire: "Not yet, I'm boiling some hot water."

Xu Xu looked around and said, "Uncle, I have some dried noodles. I'll go get them now. Let's cook some noodles and fry two eggs for Lihua to take in."

When Xu Jizong heard this, he immediately agreed. He had rice and flour at home, but neither was as quick to make as noodles.

"Okay, go get it. Take more. You also need to prepare a bowl for the midwife."

Xu Xu trotted back home, found a cloth bag for food and a piece of oil paper, then went to Modern to take apart four rolls of noodles, wrapped them in oil paper and put them in the cloth bag, and grabbed a handful of soybeans to soak.

I called Xu Ziqing to wake her up, entrusted the children to her, and asked her to help buy two pig's trotters.

He ran back to Xu Jizong's house without stopping and met Xu Youyin and the midwife at the door.

Xu Xu stopped and said, "You have silver. Take your aunt in first."

Xu Youyin nodded at her: "Aunt, let's go in quickly."

Seeing them walking towards the wing room, Xu Xu went straight to the kitchen. Xu Jizong had already boiled a pot of water on the small stove, so Xu Xu took out the noodles and put them into the pot to cook.

Soon, two bowls of fragrant noodles were cooked, with two fried eggs on top of the noodles.

Xu Xu walked towards the delivery room carrying the noodles and told Xu Youyin, who was waiting at the door, to go to the kitchen and bring the midwife's noodles over.

Xu Xu walked into the delivery room carrying noodles and eggs, her eyes falling on Chen Lihua's pale face.

Second Aunt Xu stood in front of the kang, assisting the midwife in the examination and comforting Chen Lihua.

"Lihua, don't be afraid. Your aunt has delivered many babies, and every delivery goes smoothly." Aunt Xu's voice was gentle but firm.

"Mom, I... I'm not afraid..." Chen Lihua's face was pale and she replied while biting her pale lips.

After a while, the midwife said while washing her hands: "The fetus is in a normal position, and the cervix is not yet fully dilated. Let her eat something first to accumulate some strength."

Xu Xu placed the noodles on the table beside the bed and said softly, "Second Aunt, I cooked some noodles. Let Lihua eat some first."

Aunt Xu turned around and saw the noodles on the table. She nodded and asked softly, "Have you prepared food for the midwife?"

Xu Xu replied affirmatively: "I have prepared it."

Aunt Xu and the midwife helped Chen Lihua up, then took the bowl of noodles and prepared to feed her themselves.

Seeing Chen Lihua eating, Xu Xu said to the midwife, "Aunt, I cooked you a bowl of noodles. Do you want to eat outside, or should I bring it to the side room?"

"I'm going out to eat." The midwife said this and walked out, waving her hands.

"Lihua, how do you feel now?" Xu Xu asked with concern.

"It hurts. It hurts every now and then." Chen Lihua lost her appetite due to the pain, but in order to give birth to the baby smoothly, she still swallowed the food as if it was tasteless.

Second Aunt Xu slowly picked up some noodles and fed them to her, comforting her: "Eat first. When you are full, your cervix will open faster, and you will have more strength to give birth faster. This way you can suffer less."

After Chen Lihua finished her noodles, Xu Xu took the bowl. Seeing that she couldn't help much if she stayed in the delivery room, she planned to leave: "Second Aunt, I'll go out and make some breakfast for you."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work today." Aunt Xu replied.

"It's not that hard at all." After saying that, Xu Xu went out.

Seeing Xu Xu coming out, Xu Youyin appeared from nowhere and rushed to Xu Xu, anxiously asking, "Sister, how is Lihua?"

"Don't worry, Lihua is fine." Xu Xu handed him the empty bowl in his hand and said, "Look, this bowl of noodles is all eaten."