How can someone travel through time and space and become a beggar?

"Excuse me for disturbing you. Is my Shaorong in there?" A woman's voice came from outside the door. Shaorong turned around and said, "Mother! Aunt!"

Dong Xiaohuan stood up and followed the four children out. The man was dressed in brocade, with an elegant demeanor and a faint smile on his face. He didn't look like someone who was difficult to approach. "Madam, would you please come in and sit down?"

"Sorry for disturbing you. I won't go in." Mrs. Shao bowed and saw the children chewing something with oil on their lips. She glanced at her eldest son with a look of reproach. She apologized to Dong Xiaohuan, "I was not careful enough and let a few of you run over here. I'm really sorry."

"It's okay, it's okay. I have many children at home. Maybe the roasted lamb is too delicious today and we can't finish it. We wish someone could come and help us eat it." Dong Xiaohuan said with a smile.

"Thank you for your hospitality, Madam. I'm sorry to bother you." Madam Shao held down her son's outstretched hand. How could she bear the greasy mess if it got on her? "Rong'er, why don't you thank this Madam?"

"Thank you, ma'am, for the hospitality." Shao Rong bowed properly, but he was holding things in both hands, which made him look a little funny.

"You're welcome, you're welcome." Dong Xiaohuan likes children and always smiles at them.

"I have something to do at home, so I'll take the children back first." After Mrs. Shao said goodbye, the few of them went back.

The children looked back reluctantly. The mutton was delicious and the flatbreads were fragrant.

After leaving Wang's house, Shao Rong stretched out his hand and said, "Mom, try it. It's delicious."

"Mom, eat mine. The pancakes are delicious too." Shao Ting also raised her hand.

"Aunt, I have one too."

"Auntie eats mine."

Mrs. Shao took two steps back, feeling both angry and amused. "You guys can't even afford to eat or drink on weekdays, yet you actually go to someone else's house to beg for food. Aren't you ashamed?"

At the Wang family's side, only Xia Tian and Wang Yong were still eating. There was still quite a bit of mutton left, so Wang Yong asked Guan Xu to pack it up for him, saying he would take it to the government office for his brothers to eat.

Guan Xu kept the sheep bones, preparing to stew the sheep offal and radishes that Xia Chu wanted to eat tomorrow.

Wang Qiuyu held his stomach and burped, "I'm so full."

Dong Dongdong secretly felt his stomach and found it was a little bloated.

Xia Chu brewed some tea and poured each of them a cup. I hadn't noticed it while I was eating, but now my mouth was filled with the flavor of mutton, and the tea made me feel much better. The light aroma of the tea cleansed my mouth, leaving a sweet aftertaste on my tongue. "This tea is delicious."

"I never drank tea before, so I bought the wrong one." Dong Xiaohuan laughed at her.

"Only after drinking good tea did I realize that the bitter tea I tasted before was not real tea." Xia Chu took another sip.

"The timing of picking tea leaves and the method of frying tea are different for different people. It's like cooking. Even with the same ingredients and the same recipe, the final product will be different." Jia Qingwu said softly.

"Yeah." Xia Chu nodded. "Third brother was taught to cook by my grandmother, but the dishes they made taste different. I didn't expect that the roasted whole lamb he made the first time was so delicious." She turned her eyes and said, "Third brother, how about roasting suckling pig next time? Let's see if it tastes the same?"

Guan Xu laughed and said, "Okay."

"Aren't you full?" Dong Xiaohuan laughed.

"Don't we have to eat better food and gain weight during the New Year?" Xia Chu took another sip of tea happily.

"You're talking nonsense again. Only pigs grow fat." Dong Xiaohuan glanced at her and couldn't help laughing.

The New Year passed with feasting and drinking, and then the Lantern Festival arrived, and the family went to a lantern festival for a feast. Dong Xiaomao, sixteen, took Dong Dongdong away, but he hadn't yet made it to the horse ranch. Bai Wuxia had gone to her maternal grandparents' house for the New Year, and Xia Chu wasn't sure if the horse ranch was open. It was cold, so Dong Xiaohuan wouldn't let them go.

After that, everyone opened shops, studied, and became busy again.

Xia Chu began to prepare for the opening of Yin Ge Garden. She invited a few good friends and let the girls in the garden try out the business for a day.

Afterwards, we collected feedback from friends and made some adjustments, striving to satisfy all the ladies who came and keep them coming back.

Xia Chu went to the pawnshop and hired ten maids to do the cleaning. She trained her staff to handle only the reception, and hired a cook. All that remained was to plant the flowers in the garden. She planned to hire two gardeners to ensure that Yin Ge Garden could be enjoyed year-round.

She couldn't find a professional gardener at the dental clinic, so she thought of Grandma Chang. However, Grandma Chang was old and probably not very capable. If Grandma Chang's son had reformed, he might be a good choice.

She decided to go there herself, and this time she borrowed two guards and a driver from the Jia family. She had suffered a loss last time, and she couldn't fall into the same pit twice.

Grandma Chang's house was still the same. Cuihua went to knock on the door, and it was Grandma Chang who opened it. She didn't look sad or haggard, so it seemed her son hadn't been gambling recently.

"Miss Wang!" Grandma Chang welcomed the person in with surprise. "Would you like to buy flowers? Last time I took your money because my family was in financial difficulty. This time, you can pick whatever you want. I won't charge a penny."

"That won't do," Xia Chu said with a smile, "I think I'm going to empty your place this time."

Grandma Chang opened her eyes wide in surprise, "You need so many? Can we store them at home?"

"I'm not keeping them at home." Xia Chu walked into the flower garden. As usual, the flowers were in full bloom. They were divided into different flower fields, and the air was filled with a blend of floral fragrances, which was refreshing. She turned to Grandma Chang and said, "I bought a garden and need a lot of flowers. I think even if I dug up all the ones you have at home, I still wouldn't be able to find enough. Do you know any gardeners?"

Grandma Chang didn't expect it to be such a big deal. She thought about it and really remembered someone, "If it's not much different, there really is one, a widow with her brother-in-law and a little son. She doesn't have many flowers at home, but she takes good care of them and has many repeat customers."

Xia Chu nodded. To be on the safe side, seeing is believing. "Is it far? Would it be convenient for Fang to take me to see it?"

"It's not far, we'll be there in a short walk." Grandma Chang also felt sorry for Madam Hua, whose husband died at such a young age, and she had to raise two children alone. She locked the door and took Xia Chu to Madam Hua's house while talking about her. "Her surname is Hua, and we all call her Madam Hua. Her husband died of illness, and she has no parents-in-law to help her at home. She also has a nine-year-old brother-in-law and a three-year-old son. She is pretty and not very old. Her family originally wanted her to remarry, and some idle men even came to her house to tease her. But she is a ruthless person. She even cut her face and disfigured herself but she refused to remarry."

Xia Chu was shocked, "Is my face disfigured?"

"Yes, her brothers from her natal family insisted on taking her back to remarry. She took a pair of scissors... Her face was covered in blood, and her brothers were so scared that they couldn't speak. But she smiled and said she wanted to go home to see who would dare to marry her." When Grandma Chang talked about this, her brows were tightly furrowed and she sighed several times.