Stepmother in charge: Making a fortune through farming and raising her children to fight back

It was the first time Xiaowen saw her mother's hopeful eyes. She was stunned for a moment, then compared them with her fingers: "Hmm... the biggest one is thicker than my little finger."

"Row."

Yun Zhenzhen smiled and said, "You can take some time to dig some more. Then we can stir-fry the garlic sprouts and wash the fruits underneath to pickle radishes. They are crispy and delicious, perfect with rice."

Just hearing her description like this, everyone's mouths started to sour.

"Okay." Xiao Nan nodded happily and said, "Let's go as soon as we have time."

night.

It was drizzling outside, and it got heavier at dawn, and it didn't stop all night.

Yun Zhenzhen stayed in bed for a while in the morning and felt that the temperature seemed to have dropped. The quilt on the bed was not warm enough, so she had to get up. As soon as she opened the door, she shivered from the cold.

At that moment, she felt as if winter had arrived overnight.

Xiao Nan got up early to feed the pigs. When she saw her open the door, she said softly, "Mom, it's a little cold this morning. Please put on more clothes."

"I know, I know." Yun Zhenzhen responded and went back into the house to find clothes to wear.

This little one, although young, acts like a housekeeper.

Now Erya has more help with the household chores. The little girl is very capable. She gets up an hour early and cleans the chicken, duck and pig sheds in the backyard.

Following her teachings, I started sprinkling wood ash on the ground to prevent infectious diseases. After disinfection, I laid clean straw on the ground. It looked much cleaner.

Seeing Qin Wen jumping around in the yard in thin clothes, Yun Jing said helplessly: "Awen, the weather is getting colder, put on more clothes when you go back."

Qin Wen could only obediently go into the house, but he kept glancing towards Yun Zhenzhen's room for the last time, muttering to himself, "I clearly heard my mother's voice just now. Is she still asleep?"

"Get up, get up." Yun Zhenzhen heard his voice in the room and replied quickly.

Ah Wen quickly put on his clothes and ran to wait outside her room: "Mom, are we going to make that new food you mentioned today?"

It's no wonder he was greedy. Last night he had potato pancakes and eggs, which smelled really good. As a result, his dreams at night were all about braised pork and the new food his mother had mentioned. He was so greedy that he couldn't sleep well at night.

"Okay, let's do it." Yun Zhenzhen walked into the kitchen. Yun Jing had already lit a fire in the fire pit and was roasting potatoes underneath.

As soon as I entered the house, I smelled the aroma of potatoes. We have had a good harvest recently, so we simply eat baked or boiled potatoes every morning at home. It is simple and convenient.

Perhaps because he was concerned about the potatoes we talked about eating yesterday, Awen didn't recite the lesson today. He just followed me to help, looking left and right from time to time.

The water in the wooden barrel had been replaced with starch yesterday. This morning, Xiaowen got up early to change the water without Yun Zhenzhen's instructions.

She tilted the wooden barrel and poured out the water on top. As the yellow water flowed, the powder underneath gradually appeared. The powder had not been processed and was not particularly white. There were some yellow attachments on it.

Xiao Nan looked at the remaining layer of flour at the bottom of the bucket and asked in confusion, "Mom, is this the new food you're going to make? Why are there so few potatoes out there?"

Yun Zhenzhen picked up the chopsticks and probed the powder at the bottom of the basin. There was a thick layer of powder. She was still very satisfied. The powder yield was already very high.

Yun Zhenzhen smiled and comforted her: "Don't worry, just wait and see. First, pour out the water in the remaining buckets like I did."

After all the water in the buckets was emptied, she directed several people to add some clean water in, stirred it with a stick, and washed the powder sediment again.

Yun Zhenzhen wiped the water off her hands and said to everyone, "Alright, go study first. This powder will be almost ready in two hours. We can have potato powder tonight."

Erya made potato pancakes in the kitchen, and the radish and pork ribs soup was still cooking in the pot. The pork ribs had been cooked three times in a row, so they couldn't keep them after eating them again, so she gave them to Xiaoshan and the others to chew on.

Suddenly, she heard a shout from outside the yard: "Piglets for sale, healthy and easy-to-raise piglets, lively and energetic piglets, only two hundred coins each..."

When Xiaonan heard about the piglets being sold outside, her eyes lit up instantly: "Mom, let's buy another piglet to raise. Xiaobai has no companion."

In the past, my family had no money and only raised one piglet. Now our conditions are much better and we have more and more livestock in the backyard, so it wouldn’t be a problem to have two more piglets.

What's more, there are many people in the family now, and there are often leftover soups and soups, which are just right for feeding pigs. In this era without refrigerators, food can easily go bad, so there is no need to worry about getting diarrhea from eating leftovers.

Thinking of this, Yun Zhenzhen no longer hesitated, put down the things in her hands and walked out: "Let's go out and see how this little piglet is doing."

When Xu Ling'er heard that they wanted to buy piglets, she hurried out. The one at home had already grown very big, and she had never seen a newborn piglet.

Several women walked out of the yard and saw an ox cart parked on the main road at the entrance of the village. It was a ox cart owned by a merchant who traveled around the villages, specializing in selling piglets.

There were more than a dozen piglets tied to the car, and they were squealing non-stop.

The autumn harvest had just begun and the weather was pretty good. Many people from the village came here to see the piglets and some just came to join in the fun.

"Everyone, take a look! These little piglets of mine are fat and strong and easy to raise. Don't miss them if you pass by." The pig seller patted the pig's butt proudly and said, "Two hundred coins per pig is already the cheapest price. After a few days, they will be almost sold out. I will have to raise the price when I go to other villages."

"Think about it, everyone. If you buy a pig now and raise it for a few months, it will definitely grow to two or three hundred kilograms by the New Year. Whether you kill it for yourself, sell the pork, or sell it whole to the town, you'll make a lot of money. Last year, people who bought pigs from me raised a pig to adulthood and sold it for two or three taels of silver..."

Aunt Zhao wiped her hands and wanted to buy one very much, but she was too busy at home and was worried about her child. She really couldn't spare the time to raise one and could only sigh.

Aunt Yang pushed through the crowd and came out. She pulled out a piece of silver from her clothes and threw it on the ox cart: "Here are two taels of silver. Pick out two of the fattest piglets for me, and change the rest into copper coins."

The village head's wife was a little surprised: "Aunt Yang, you work in the fields every day, how can you save so much money?"

"I can't save money, but my niece from Chenjia Village is very promising." Aunt Yang said with a proud look on her face: "You don't know, ever since Chen girl married into the Wang family, the lives of us relatives have been getting better and better. I am her cousin, so she has to help me a little. Look, she brought back some small change to honor me a few days ago..."

"Oh, that's really incredible. She'll be an official's wife in the future."

"Tell your girl if there's any rich young master you know who can help introduce her to someone so she can marry into the town and live a good life."

"Please ask around for my girl too. She's hardworking and can do any job. She's exactly the type those young masters like."

"..."

When the aunts around heard Aunt Yang bragging, they hurried over to flatter her.