Taking away my family's luck? I won't stand it!

"Ninth brother."

Chu Xiao also stood up and saluted Lu Jiu with a hearty smile on his face.

"Well. What do you think of the fruit I just had people bring up?" Lu Jiu asked.

“It’s very fresh, in great condition, and has a rich fruity aroma.”

Chu Xiaoyi held a round and plump apple in his hand. The red apple in his hand formed a sharp contrast with his fair skin.

"Boss, try this apple, it's absolutely delicious!" Old Lady Liu tried to sell it.

Chu Xiaoyi glanced at Shopkeeper Lin. Shopkeeper Lin was very considerate and took the apple from Chu Xiaoyi's hand, peeled it and handed it back to him. Chu Xiaoyi took the apple but did not rush to eat it. Instead, he cut the apple into two halves and handed the other half to Nanny Nan.

Nanny met the man's amber eyes, a complex expression flashed across her face, and her arms around Yaoyao suddenly tightened.

"Ahhh!" Yaoyao felt pain, frowned and shouted at Nanny Nan in dissatisfaction.

Nan Ma came back to her senses and looked down at Yaoyao's wet eyes. She felt particularly distressed. She raised her head and smiled at Chu Xiaoyi, "Thank you, Master Chu."

Seeing her reach out to take it, Chu Xiaoyi breathed a sigh of relief. With a faint smile on his lips, he took a bite of the apple. It was sweet with a hint of sourness, and the flesh was crisp. After taking one bite, he wanted to take another.

Chu Xiaoyi widened his eyes in surprise. What he didn't expect was that after eating the fruit, there seemed to be a warm current spreading through his limbs and driving away the fatigue.

This apple is no ordinary apple.

Lu Jiu asked, "How does it taste?"

He and Nanny Nan ate the three kinds of fruits sent by Old Lady Liu last night, and naturally discovered the differences between the fruits.

"It tastes great. This apple seems to be able to dispel fatigue." Chu Xiaoyi asked, "Excuse me, old man, did you grow this fruit yourself?"

"Wild apples picked from the mountains."

Old Lady Liu, Old Master Yuan, Old Second Yuan, and Shen Chulan were all stunned. How could an apple dispel fatigue? Why didn't they feel it?

The Yuan family had been eating and drinking the spiritual spring water provided by Yaoyao during this period, so they naturally couldn't tell the difference.

In addition, they had never eaten these things in their lives, so naturally they thought that this was the taste of the fruit.

"How about this, I'll offer 35 wen per jin for apples and 40 wen per jin for pears. What do you think?

If you think it’s too low, you can negotiate further.”

Chu Xiao also smiled.

"So high?" Boss Yuan exclaimed.

"Oh, I'll go with the price you mentioned. But I have over 500 kilograms of fruit here. Are you sure you want them all?"

Old Mrs. Liu slapped her thigh with joy, then thought of the more than 20 bags of fruit at the entrance of Qingshui Building, and looked at Chu Xiaoyi hesitantly.

"I want as many as I want." Chu Xiao also said.

This fruit has this effect. If the restaurant can use it as a gimmick, there will be no need to worry about not making money.

What is most abundant here is rich people, and rich people are interested in gimmicks of prolonging life.

By then, more than 500 kilograms may not be enough.

Chu Xiaoyi thought so in his heart, but he also knew that there were only so many wild fruits on the mountain and it was impossible to mass-produce them.

I earned nine taels of silver from 270 kilograms of apples, and twelve taels and four cents from 310 kilograms of pears. In total, I earned twenty-one taels and four cents from selling fruits today.

Old Mrs. Liu held the silver in her hand, her face wrinkled with smile.

I didn’t expect selling fruits to be so profitable. I hugged Yaoyao and kissed her again and again.

Seeing that Lu Jiu and the others still had something to say to Chu Xiaoyi, Old Lady Liu found an excuse to take the eldest and second sons and their daughter-in-law out of Qingshui Pavilion.

Although Yaoyao still had more than four hundred silver coins, Old Lady Liu knew that she couldn't live off her savings. The more money she had, the better, so that she would have a solution if anything happened at home in the future.

"The quilts at home are old and hard, so today we will buy 70 kilograms of cotton to make new quilts.

Then go to the cloth shop and buy some fine cotton cloth to make new clothes for a happy New Year."

All the quilts at home are moldy and hard and not warm at all. The cotton inside the cotton-padded clothes is thin and hard and can't keep out the cold at all.

These are the pains in Old Lady Liu's heart, all caused by poverty.

With the eldest son's great strength, he can earn a lot of money by finding a job in town. With the second son's archery skills and the third son's craftsmanship, the whole family will not starve to death.

But people are so unlucky that they may be hit on the head by a stone flying from nowhere while walking, or they may be robbed by bandits just after receiving their wages. After they have finally managed to save their money, their children may catch a cold or get injured. In short, they cannot save the money at home.

Even if you save money, various things will happen and you will spend the money.

Otherwise, how could there be only seven taels of silver in the family?

However, since Yaoyao was born, these bad things have not happened in the family.

With a new quilt and new clothes to wear during the New Year, Shen Chulan also showed a happy smile on her face.

This family is getting better and better.

It seems that the Yuan family's life has been getting better and better since Yaoyao was born.

Yaoyao met Shen Chulan's eyes, sucked her fingers and gave her mother a bright and cute smile.

Old Lady Liu took Old Man Yuan and the others to Old Man Si's Hanlin College and gave him one or two taels of silver, and then went directly to the cotton shop.

After buying the cotton, he went straight to the cloth shop and bought five pieces of four-cotton cloth and three pieces of coarse cotton cloth. The Yuan family had a large population, and he didn't know if this amount of cloth would be enough.

Old Mrs. Liu also bought some malt candy and meat-filled snacks for the kids in the family. Yaoyao, who had no teeth, got a pair of shoes with a tiger head embroidered on them.

The family was walking down the street carrying bags of all kinds.

On the other side, the third brother's wife was giving her brother Zhang Tiezhu one or two taels of silver at the entrance of the casino. These were the silvers that Yuan Lao San had earned from helping people exchange citrons these days. She secretly withheld one or two taels of silver.

"Tiezhu, I stole this from your brother-in-law with great difficulty. You have to spend it sparingly for the time being. That old hag still has our written agreement in her hand. If they catch me, I will be in big trouble." The third son's wife said earnestly.

Recently she feels that her whole family is on guard against her, which makes her feel very uncomfortable.

Moreover, Yuan Laosan has been avoiding her recently. No matter how she tries to please him, all she gets is indifference and he doesn't even want to say a word to her.

She had secretly stolen the two taels of silver from Yuan Laosan's arms while he was asleep.

Zhang Tiezhu was a little disdainful of the tael of silver. The Yuan family was so stingy after receiving more than 500 yuan in notes, but when he thought about how he was penniless now, he accepted it with a stern face.

Glancing out of the corner of his eye, he asked, "Sister, why didn't your mother-in-law and the others bring you with them when they came to town?"

When the third daughter-in-law heard this, she hurried to look for it: "Where is it? Why can't I see it?"

"Over there, they are choosing jewelry in Liu Meige store!

Could it be that your mother-in-law secretly bought a bracelet for your second sister-in-law without your knowledge?" Zhang Tiezhu said sinisterly.