Dressed as a farmer's widow, she brought her daughter to stock up on food and reached the top

Jindan looked at the backs of Xiuying and her daughter as they walked away and said, "Mom, I feel like Aunt Xiuying has become a different person."

Mrs. Sun held up a bamboo basket and warned her children, "Don't talk nonsense, kids. Aunt Xiuying is in a better mood and has better luck since the family split. Naturally, she is a better person than before.

Now we must seize this opportunity to pick more milk apples and bracken to exchange for more rice. The real thing is, after we exchange the rice, we can trade it for black flour, so that we can have food at home, and you can also eat black flour steamed buns.

Also, stop talking about your Aunt Xiuying outside. Do more and talk less."

The children immediately promised to do more, talk less, and not talk about Aunt Xiuying behind her back.

Mother is going to make them black flour buns. They will finally be able to eat black flour. We can't mess up the opportunity given by Aunt Xiuying.

Xiuying brought Taohua out of Mrs. Sun's house and went to more than ten households in the village. These families had helped her talk in the morning.

When everyone heard that milk apples and bracken could be exchanged for rice, they were as surprised as Mrs. Sun. They had never imagined that the wild fruits and vegetables all over the mountains could be exchanged for precious rice.

When he learned that it was Fenglai Restaurant in the city that was going to acquire it, he felt relieved. Laifeng Restaurant was a famous restaurant in the city, with great wealth and served a wide variety of delicious food.

Knowing that the owner of Fenglai Restaurant gave Xiuying such a good job because of her dead husband, and Xiuying was thinking of Murakami's people, everyone was grateful to Xiuying.

Xiuying also explained to everyone in detail the specific details of the purchase, how to exchange milk apples and bracken, and how much they could be exchanged for.

When we came out of the village, Taohua's bamboo basket was already filled with various vegetables, which were little gifts from the villagers.

Walking on the country road, Taohua took out a cucumber from the bamboo basket, wiped it on the hem of her clothes, and handed it to Xiuying.

"Mother, quench your thirst."

Xiuying took the cucumber and took a bite. It was refreshing and fragrant. Green food is delicious.

The next step was to get busy. The daughters had to rely on picking milk apples and ferns. Although they could earn a lot every day, it was very dangerous for one family to be the only one rich. Moreover, the people in Futian Village were simple and honest, and most of the villagers were kind. After all, families like the Zhao family were a minority.

Xiuying is willing to lead this group of hardworking villagers to become rich. Kind and hardworking people should not suffer from poverty.

In Futian Village, even wealthy families like the Zhao family can only eat black-flour steamed buns. The village chief's family eats dry bread during the busy farming season and can only eat thin bread during the slack season.

Most families eat wild vegetable porridge with black flour steamed buns. They can only have black flour steamed buns once a day, and there is not a drop of oil in them all year round. Even if the chickens at home lay eggs, they are reluctant to eat them. They save them and exchange them for salt. Farmers cannot do this without strength, so they can only eat the salt they exchange for during the busy farming season. Only by eating salt can they have strength.

Xiuying looked at the undulating mountains in front of her. She would have to purchase other products from the villagers in the future. She also had regrets from her previous life, such as the drought-resistant and flood-resistant rice No. 889. She wanted to make the rice flowers in Futian Village fragrant.

"Taohua, if you had to choose one of the sisters to be your assistant, who do you think is the most suitable?"

As the purchase volume increased, barter became an open matter, and Taohua alone was clearly not enough to handle the workload.

"The second sister, the sixth, is quite clever, but she's too young. I'm afraid she'll let something slip. The fourth is too honest, and the third isn't scheming."

Xiuying nodded: "You think the same as me, let's just go with the second one. Just find a chance to tell her."

The second brother not only has the strength of a lifetime, but also the most important thing is that Xiuying realizes that the second brother has noticed something, but she chooses to believe unconditionally. Just because of her trust, Xiuying decides to bring the second brother into the business. With the help of the second brother, the business grows bigger and bigger.

Thinking of the sumptuous meal at noon, the second child asked, "Mother, what are we going to make for dinner?"

The tenants, uncles, and other uncles who had finally come here were all doing manual labor, so they couldn't eat too badly, but they couldn't be too ostentatious either. Xiuying thought for a moment and said, "I bought some pork belly this morning, which is perfect for making steamed buns. The aunts also gave us so many vegetables. Let's make vegetable and meat buns tonight, cook some porridge, and make some flatbreads with cornmeal. What do you think?"

Xiuying's family has a lot of meat now. She bought some in the morning and her parents' home brought some over. In this era without refrigerators, meat will easily go bad if left for a long time. Xiuying thought about marinating the meat with salt, but salt is more expensive than rice now. Three stone of rice can be exchanged for a bag of salt. Although the salt in the space is only two yuan a bag, it is not suitable to take it out now.

She put the leftover meat in a bamboo tube, sealed it with layers of leaves, and placed it in a mountain spring behind the mountain. This way, it could be preserved for half a month without spoiling.

Taohua thought for a moment and said, "Okay, then let me talk to my second sister. I'll find a good time to tell her about the treasure."

Xiuying nodded. The eldest daughter had always been independent-minded, but she wouldn't act rashly, which was something she was confident in. The second daughter had shown her strength at the Zhao family, yet she hadn't shown it at all, which showed she was also smart. She was confident in her two daughters.

Taohua thought for a moment and then asked, "Mom, are you sure you want to make meat buns for dinner?"

Most people would just make vegetarian dumplings with wild vegetables, and those who were better off would at most add some lard. But my mother used pork belly, both fat and lean, and even used vegetables as the side dishes. Aren’t the dumplings she made so delicious?

But it was only at noon that my grandfather told us not to eat such good food at night. We had to eat vegetable and pork buns, rice porridge, and cornmeal pancakes.

Why does it feel better than the meal I had at noon?

Yang Xiuying looked at Taohua and smiled. Eleven or twelve years old is a critical period for the formation of a child's character. Taohua has lived in a hungry environment for a long time. As the eldest sister in the family, the first thing she considers is to save food for the family. Her starting point is good, but she does not understand the ways of the world and needs correct guidance from adults.

Xiuying covered Taohua's rough hand and said, "Your grandfather is worried that we'll go hungry, but think about it, your uncles and aunts came all the way to help us repair the house. Who asked them to do that?"

Taohua had never seen A'niang so gentle. It was as if she treated her like a child. But she was obviously twelve years old and would be an adult in two years.

How could A Niang still treat her like a baby? Thinking of this, Tao Hua's face turned slightly red and she replied softly and meekly, "Grandpa called me."

Yang Xiuying continued, "Since it was my grandfather who called us here, then my uncles and aunts are the ones who inherited my grandfather's kindness."

Then Xiuying asked the key question