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

Yang Xiuying took Taohua to a piece of land under the vegetable patch and scattered seeds, three or five seeds at a certain distance, leaving enough distance. These seeds are the newly developed King Melon 007. Compared with ordinary watermelons, they mature faster, are drought-resistant and flood-resistant, and have lower requirements for soil.

When summer comes, you can eat sweet and juicy watermelon.

After Yang Xiuying explained to Taohua the precautions for growing watermelons, she took the second child out in a ox cart.

Since A Niang was not at home, Taohua was in charge of the household affairs. After sowing the seeds and applying fertilizer, it was already late, so Taohua took her sisters back home. On the way home, they just cut some grass to feed the livestock.

The kitchen at home was just a shed, but fortunately, Yang Xiuying's uncles were good at craftsmanship. They not only had a stove, but also made two stove holes half a person's height, which was just the right size for Taohua to stand in front of.

The big iron pot bought by Yang Xiuying and the one brought by Yang Kui were placed just right on the two stove holes.

The third brother squatted in front of the stove and added firewood, the eldest brother stirred the noodles in the pot, and the fourth brother put in the washed vegetables.

At noon, my mother and second sister were not at home, so the food was simpler. My mother said that food can be simple but not lacking in nutrition.

Thinking of this, Taohua added six more eggs to the big iron pot. Eggs with noodles are both simple and nutritious.

Yang Xiuying bought the noodles from the mall, removed the outer packaging and placed them in a box on the stove.

After the noodles were cooked, they were picked up and placed in six stoneware bowls.

"Sister, these noodles are delicious."

“How can it not be delicious if you add eggs to it?”

"I mean, these noodles are really thin, different from what I've seen before."

"This... this is what my mother did in her spare time."

Taohua buried her head in the noodles in her bowl. She couldn't possibly say that her mother had bought them from merchants outside the Great Wall, could she? In the past, when buying livestock, seeds were acceptable.

Thinking of this, Taohua looked at the eggs in the bowl and added, "Our mother is really good at cooking, but she just didn't show it before."

At this point, Taohua added, "Our mother not only knows how to cook, but she also knows how to make rice paper. Today, she brought your second sister to the city to discuss the rice paper business."

A few little kids stared at the peach blossoms with wide eyes.

I couldn't believe that their mother could actually make rice paper, but since this sentence came from the eldest sister's mouth, I had to believe it.

They forgot to chew the delicious noodles they put into their mouths.

Their mother is so awesome!

Taohua wiped the soup from the corner of her mouth and said to her sisters, "I can't tell anyone about my ability to make rice paper for now. I'll tell you when the time comes. Do you understand?"

"Um"

"Ah."

A few little kids nodded heavily with their mouths closed.

Taohua smiled and decided to tell her sisters about it first, so they could be prepared and deal with any problems.

After lunch, the sisters began to feed the cut grass to the chickens, ducks and rabbits. After cleaning the yard, the sisters were busy with their own things, and everything was in order.

Jingle bells…jingle bells…

It's the sound of cowbells.

“It’s an oxcart!”

"Mother and Second Sister are back."

Shi Liu was driving the ox cart, and Yang Xiuying was sitting beside him with a rosy face and a smile, waving to her daughters on the hillside.

"My dearest ones, your loving mother is back."

Seeing Yang Xiuying returning with joy, Taohua also became happy. It seemed that she had negotiated a good price for the Xuan paper.

The ox cart stopped at the dam outside the wooden house. As soon as Yang Xiuying got off the cart, she was surrounded by a few little kids.

"Auntie."

"Auntie."

"Auntie."

Yang Xiu took out the mung bean cake that he had bought in the mall from the ox cart. He had removed the outer packaging and wrapped it in brown paper.

"Here are the mung bean cakes I bought for you. Share them!"

Then he handed the three bundled mung bean cakes to his third daughter.

When the daughters heard that there was mung bean cake to eat, they jumped for joy.

A box of mung bean cakes contains twelve pieces. Yang Xiuying bought four boxes and wrapped them in four pieces of brown paper.

"Taohua, come in for a moment. I have something to tell you."

Taohua did not go with her sisters to share the mung bean cakes. She followed Yang Xiuying into the house, and Shiliu followed behind.

"Mother, have you sold all the rice paper?"

Taohua asked with concern. She actually wanted to go to the city with her mother today.

Looking at her twelve-year-old daughter, who was already sensible, Taohua felt some inexplicable emotions.

"I went to several calligraphy and painting shops in the city, and after seeing it, they all said that they had never seen such quality rice paper before, and the workmanship was really top-notch, and they wanted to buy it in large quantities.

The price was 120 wen per sheet, which was about the same as what I had estimated, so I sold all the rice paper I had brought with me.

The Wenmofang in the city was equivalent to the current wholesale market, mainly engaged in the wholesale trade of the four treasures of the study, making a profit from the difference between buying and selling.

Taohua smiled and nodded, "Mother, that's amazing!"

Shi Liu continued, "Let's go to the city again in a few days. One hundred sheets of rice paper will earn us twelve taels of silver, and two hundred sheets will earn us twenty-four taels of silver."

Thinking of the bright silver, Yang Xiuying became excited: "If I pay once every three days, that's ten times a month. If I pay two hundred tickets each time, I can earn twenty-four taels of silver. That's... two hundred and forty taels of silver a month!"

The mother, her two daughters, and their two children covered their mouths excitedly, fearing that shouting would alarm the little kids who were sharing the mung bean cakes outside.

Yang Xiuying was very satisfied with the price. In less than a month, she would be able to build her dream villa!

"Mother!" Shi Liu's expression turned serious.

Yang Xiuying looked at her second daughter and asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

Shi Liu frowned and said, "Today, when you were negotiating the price with the owner of Wen Mo Fang, I saw Uncle Da and Uncle Zhou on the street."

It was almost noon when Yang Xiuying was negotiating the price with the owner of Wenmofang. Afraid that her daughter would be hungry, she bought her a few buns and a bowl of porridge and asked her to wait in the bun shop on the street.

The more Shi Liu thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong, so she told Yang Xiuying about it. It was Zhou Dazhu who started the trouble with the last acquisition, but she didn't understand why her uncle was with Zhou Dazhu.

Hearing this, Taohua's joyful expression turned into worry: "It costs one penny to enter the city, and uncle has lost his job in the city, so how can he spend one penny to go into the city?

Uncle Zhou is even more impossible. He has no relatives in the city and no job. People in our village go to Yangliu Town when they need to exchange or buy something, because there is no entrance fee there."

There's only one reason why it took so long...

The two daughters looked at Yang Xiuying with concern.

Yang Xiuying stretched out her arms and embraced her two daughters: "Don't worry, no matter what happens, I am here."

In addition to worry, there is also panic in the peach blossom eyes