Reborn 99 Days Later, Becoming a Landlady and Getting into Tsinghua and Peking Universities

"It's time to eat!"

Liang Yili looked up and saw that it was Hua Anshan and his wife who had come to deliver lobsters.

He hurriedly put down his chopsticks and prepared to get up.

Hua Anshan stopped him, saying, "No need, no need, you eat yours, I'll just put it in the kitchen!"

Yan Moli then entered the main room carrying a cloth bag:

"Uncle, the potatoes at home are ready. I'll add something to your meal."

"You finished digging so quickly? Okay, just dump it in the corner."

Seeing the large potato rolling out of the bag, Liang Yili's mind stirred slightly.

The next second, her eyes widened suddenly, and she slapped her forehead.

"I see!"

Everyone was completely baffled by Liang Yili's inexplicable excitement.

"What do you know?"

Liang Yili swallowed the food in her mouth and pressed Yan Moli for answers:

"Auntie, do you have a lot of potatoes at home?"

Yan Moli nodded, puzzled: "This year's potatoes are so ripe, you can dig up a whole bunch from just one plant. Plus, we planted a lot, so we harvested quite a lot!"

Thinking of the mountains of potatoes piled up in the sweet potato cave, a hint of worry crept onto Yan Moli's brow.

Potatoes are good.

But nothing can withstand eating it every day, at every meal.

Eating too much of this stuff can be quite a problem.

Liang Yili walked quickly to the potatoes, picked one up at random, and looked at it.

Yan Moli thought Liang Yili liked potatoes, and quickly said:

"You like it? No problem, your aunt will bring you more when you finish. We don't have anything else at home, but we have plenty of potatoes!"

Hua Yuansheng also said, "If you like potatoes, we'll plant some potatoes next year after the crops are harvested!"

As he spoke, a hint of annoyance flashed across his face.

Back in the spring, Hua Yuanqing asked him to plant potatoes, but he thought they were too much trouble to grow, so he didn't.

If we had known earlier that pears love potatoes, we wouldn't have bothered with all this trouble.

Plant a few acres, and you'll have pears to eat until you're tired of them.

Liang Yili was unaware that Hua Yuansheng was already considering which plots of land to choose for planting potatoes.

All she knew was that she knew what to sell next!

With the crayfish season fast approaching, she was worried about what would replace them!

And here we are, the potatoes have been delivered right to our door!

Liang Ruotao raised an eyebrow. How come she didn't know that Pear loved potatoes?

Then, his eyes flashed a few times, and suddenly a sharp glint appeared in them.

Liang Yili turned to look at Liang Ruotao. The two looked at each other and understood something from each other's eyes.

Liang Yili smiled brightly: "You understand me best, sister!"

The sisters' words were like riddles, leaving others puzzled.

"Uncle, is Grandpa home? I'd like to ask him to make something for me."

August is almost here, and with the crayfish gone, it's time for the wolf tooth potatoes to take center stage.

Upon learning that Hua Yuanqing was alright, Liang Yili ate the last mouthful of rice in her bowl.

With pouting, she grabbed Yan Moli's arm and rushed towards her house.

Hua Yuanqing, who was sitting on a small stool planing wood, heard a series of hurried footsteps approaching from afar.

Looking up, I saw Liang Yili rushing towards me like a gust of wind.

"Grandpa, are you busy? Can you do me a favor?"

After saying that, Liang Yili took out 3 yuan from her pocket and handed it to Yan Moli:

"Auntie, this is the money from yesterday's lobster processing. I'll give you today's money tomorrow!"

Yan Moli took the money with a beaming smile, panting, "Okay! No problem!"

"Grandpa, I want a little car like this..."

Since she plans to sell wolf tooth potatoes, she needs at least a small cart that can hold gas cylinders and display stands.

Based on the image of the small cart she had seen when she was a ghost, and combined with the actual situation, Liang Yili explained her needs to Hua Yuanqing as much as possible.

Seeing that Liang Yili was busy with important matters, Yan Moli didn't dare to disturb her.

Overjoyed, he clutched the money in his hand and hurried back to his room.

In the simple room, a round winnowing basket sat on the only wooden table.

In the winnowing basket, two pairs of cloth shoes, already taking shape, lay quietly.

Yan Moli carefully hid the 3 yuan in her hand under her pillow.

Humming a little tune, he carried a round winnowing basket to the window.

Listening to Liang Yili and Hua Yuanqing talking in the main room, she continued making cloth shoes.

"Pear, with wheels and iron plates, it must have cost a lot of money to make this!"

After getting a general understanding, Hua Yuanqing frowned and said.

Liang Yili was taken aback: "Will it be very expensive?"

Hua Yuanqing mentally estimated, "I'll try my best to save you money, but not a hundred, a few dozen yuan is definitely not an option."

A few tens of yuan?

Liang Yili pouted and hesitated, then said, "Let me think about it some more."

"Okay! Go back and think about it carefully."

Hua Yuansheng poured the dirty water into the ditch and looked up to see Liang Yili returning from outside with a gloomy expression.

He frowned slightly: "What's wrong?"

When we first went out, she was as cheerful as a little swallow. Why did she become unhappy after just one trip?

Seeing Hua Yuansheng looking at her with concern, Liang Yili pursed her lips and said, "Grandpa~"

Hearing Liang Yili's noticeably different tone of disappointment, Hua Yuansheng's brows furrowed instantly.

Liang Ruotao, who was preparing things in the kitchen, quickly came out and looked Liang Yili up and down.

"Not smooth?"

Liang Yili nodded.

Once inside the kitchen, he explained quietly, "The crayfish season is almost over, so I'm going to make wolf tooth potatoes to take their place."

what?

A potato with wolf teeth?

A hint of surprise flashed across Hua Yuansheng's eyes, and he said tactfully:

"We have potatoes, but wolf teeth are hard to find, aren't they?"

Liang Yili, who was looking worried, was visibly stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter after a while.

Hua Yuansheng scratched the back of his head with a simple and honest expression, and laughed along with him.

Liang Ruotao looked at her younger sister, then at her maternal grandfather.

A big question mark flashed through his clever mind.

After laughing, Liang Yili explained, "Uh, the Wolf Tooth Potato doesn't have wolf teeth!"

It's like shredded pork with garlic sauce without fish, or wife cake without a wife.

Only after I finished speaking did I realize that my explanation had been in vain.

Because neither my maternal grandfather nor my sister seem to know about shredded pork with garlic sauce or wife cake!

"Wolf tooth potatoes are just called that. They are actually potatoes cut into wavy strips, cooked, and then mixed with seasonings."

Hua Yuansheng then realized what was going on.

Liang Ruotao raised an eyebrow: "If you want to sell this, you'd need a portable heating tool, right?"

"Yes! I originally wanted to ask my great-grandfather for help."

But he said the production cost of this thing would be at least several tens of dollars, and I hesitated a bit. Liang Yili frowned.

She counted on her fingers and said, "Potatoes have low costs, but they don't sell for high prices... I'm afraid the profit will be too low, and it will be difficult to break even."

Most importantly, she always felt that there were better, more profitable businesses to be done.

She just hadn't figured it out yet.

"Besides making 'wolf tooth potatoes,' what else can potatoes be used for?" Liang Ruotao asked.

Liang Yili thought carefully for a moment: "Potato tower? Potato chips? French fries?"

"If we only do one thing, we might not be able to break even. Why don't we do a few more?" Liang Ruotao suggested.

Liang Yili narrowed her eyes and muttered softly, "Make a few more?"

Suddenly, an idea flashed through her mind.

"I know what to sell!"

Liang Ruotao's eyes suddenly lit up, and she asked, "What are you selling?"

Hua Yuansheng also looked at Liang Yili with curiosity and anticipation.

But Liang Yili smiled mischievously and said mysteriously, "You'll find out in a couple of days! Oh no, time's almost up, and the crayfish aren't cooked yet."

Upon hearing this, the other two disregarded everything else.

He immediately put the matter out of his mind and got busy.

As they approached the county town that day, Liang Yili touched the letter she kept close to her body in her pocket, knowing she couldn't delay any longer.

She said, "Sister, Grandpa, you go to the crossroads first. I have some personal business to attend to and will be back in a bit."

"Okay, take care of yourself!"

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, Liang Yili secretly slipped the letter out.

When I returned to the three-way intersection, it was shortly after the factory closed for the day.

From afar, I could see that my stall was surrounded by layers of people.

Liang Yili rushed to the stall, squeezed through with difficulty, and was immediately caught by Liang Ruotao, who was extremely busy:

"Pear, that uncle wants two pounds of crayfish."

Before he could finish speaking, someone from the ring toss team said:

"Give me a ring toss game that costs one dollar."

"I got it!"

To maintain order at the scene and prevent anyone from taking advantage of the chaos, Hua Yuansheng kept shouting:

"Don't rush, take it one at a time!"

"Everyone, step back a bit, don't push!"

"Adults should keep a close eye on their own children. Hey, hey, hey, I'm talking to you! Your child has run away!"

Standing behind the table where the crayfish are placed.

Liang Yili smiled apologetically at the customers who had been waiting for a while, holding lunchboxes in their hands, before throwing herself into the frantic work of selling shrimp.

"Hello, could you please give me 2 jin of shrimp?"

Liang Yili, who was busy to the point of being dizzy, looked at the crayfish in the basin, which were clearly less than two pounds.

I looked up and was unexpectedly met with a pair of clear, watery eyes.

"Sorry, we don't have two jin left."

As the setting sun cast its slanting rays, the boy's tall and slender figure stood before the table like a poplar tree.

"It's alright, take as many as you have."

The boy answered in a low, gentle voice.

Liang Yili paused for a moment as she looked at the young man's elegant and handsome features and his noble demeanor.

He then took the lunchbox from the other person's slender hand and quickly poured all the remaining shrimp into it.

"Give me one dollar and fifty cents."

Watching the boy's departing figure, Liang Yili shook her head, her expression full of pride.

There's no way around it, her crayfish are just that delicious.

Look, even people who look like they stepped out of a painting are buying!

……

"Yi'an?"

At the dinner table, Liu Hao stared at the bright red contents in the lunchbox that Gu Yi'an had just brought back, a hint of surprise flashing across her usually calm and elegant face.

An Hongxin put down the newspaper in his hand, adjusted his glasses, and a shrewd glint flashed in his eyes.

"Is this what those two little girls sell every day?"

Gu Yi'an, who had just come out of the bathroom after washing his hands, nodded.

"Then I'd better give it a good try!"

"Little girl? What little girl?" Liu Hao was completely confused.

An Hongxin picked up a crayfish, looked at it again and again, and a hint of helplessness flashed across his refined face.

His wife's persistent questioning was like a timely rain.

An Hongxin silently placed the crayfish into the bowl and began to recount the information he had gathered over the past two days:

"The mother of these two little girls drowned while trying to save three children who had fallen into the water."

Their father remarried soon after, and to continue their schooling, the two girls helped their grandfather set up a stall near the factory gate every day to earn tuition fees.

Liu Hao sighed for a moment.

As they were talking, An Hongxin glanced at Gu Yi'an out of the corner of his eye and noticed that his nephew was actually peeling shrimp.

He silently memorized the other person's key points of movement.

After speaking, he calmly picked up the crayfish from the bowl again and began to peel them.

"Both of them were admitted to the No. 1 Middle School in the city. Their junior high school homeroom teacher sympathized with their plight and was also a person who valued talent."

After some negotiation, they filled out an application form for tuition reduction and submitted it.

However, the school has its own rules, and only students with outstanding academic performance in their second and third years of high school are eligible for tuition reduction or exemption.

Once approved, the funds will have to come from our side.

Upon hearing this, Liu Hao immediately pressed, "So what are your thoughts?"

"Exemption is definitely going to be granted, the question is how much to exempt..."

"Cough cough!"

Gu Yi'an's fair and jade-like face suddenly turned bright red, and he coughed violently.

Liu Hao quickly poured him a glass of water and placed it in front of him: "Drink some water!"

"Thank you, Auntie, I'm fine!"

After finally peeling the shrimp, An Hongxin hesitated for a moment when he saw his nephew's bright red ear tips.

"A little spicy."

An Hongxin, who loves spicy food, didn't hesitate any longer and quickly put the shrimp into his mouth. The numbing and spicy taste instantly spread throughout his entire mouth.

"Not bad!"

Seeing that Gu Yi'an, who never eats spicy food and was just choked by the spiciness, was about to pick up some crayfish again, An Hongxin quickly stopped him:

"If you can't eat spicy food, then don't eat it."

There weren't many in total, just enough for him to have with his drinks.

Before he could finish speaking, Gu Yi'an's slender fingers had already peeled another one in no time.

In a hurry, An Hongxin quickly grabbed a few shrimp from the plate and put them in his wife's bowl.

Upon seeing this, Gu Yi'an silently sped up his shrimp-peeling process.

This was the first time Liu Hao, who had been married into the family for so many years, had ever seen her usually calm and collected nephew so emotionally expressive.

An Hongxin was also surprised.

But that didn't stop him from grabbing shrimp.

However, Gu Yi'an's skills, honed since childhood, were now on full display.

Seeing that Gu Yi'an had peeled another one, An Hongxin, who was always a step behind him, complained:

"Why did you only buy so few?"

While eating and chugging water, Gu Yi'an managed to squeeze in a reply: "Sold out."

"Then go earlier tomorrow!"

So, unsurprisingly, Liang Yili saw this boy, who looked like he had stepped out of a painting, come to buy shrimp every day without fail.

Sometimes it's 2 jin, but most of the time I buy 3 jin.

As Gu Yi'an turned to leave with the three pounds of shrimp, a thought suddenly flashed through Liang Yili's mind.

Eating such spicy food every day, is he... okay?

Liang Ruotao saw Liang Yili staring blankly at Gu Yi'an's departing figure.

A hint of sorrow appeared between his brows.

After much deliberation, when I got home that evening, I couldn't help but subtly probe:

"Pear, what do you think of that guy who comes to our stall to buy shrimp every day?"

Liang Yili asked, puzzled, "What boy?"

With so many people coming to buy shrimp every day, she had no idea what her sister was talking about, given how often this seemed to be happening.

Liang Ruotao exclaimed anxiously, "It's that boy who stands like a little poplar tree, he's obviously not an ordinary person!"

As soon as Liang Ruotao said that, Liang Yili understood instantly.

She gave Liang Ruotao a meaningful look, noticing that she seemed hesitant to speak.

He feigned silence.

When Liang Ruotao was getting impatient, she slowly said, "I just feel..."

"Ok?"

Liang Ruotao and Hua Yuansheng immediately perked up their ears.

Liang Yili chuckled and whispered, "I just think his digestive system is pretty good."

Liang Ruotao's brilliant mind visibly froze for a moment.

Hua Yuansheng's hand holding the bullwhip hung suspended in the air.

The two asked in unison, "What do you mean?"

Don't you think he's amazing?

Our crayfish are so spicy, and he buys 2 or 3 pounds of them every day, but he never gets constipated or has an upset stomach!

Liang Yili replied in a low voice, but with a hint of admiration.

Liang Ruotao, who had countless guesses in her mind but never expected this, closed her eyes tightly and looked at the sky speechlessly.

Got it!

She really thinks too much.

Why would someone worry about Liang Yili having a puppy love?

It's obvious they haven't figured it out at all!

What girl wouldn't feel her heart flutter and her soul race when she sees a handsome boy?

Her family's pears... cough cough, that's quite a surprising statement!

Hua Yuansheng slowly lowered the bullwhip that was hanging in mid-air, revealing a set of white teeth.

Don't let her daughter Pear's usual mature demeanor fool you; she's still just a little kid!

Kids are great, kids are great!

……

Time flies by in the midst of our busy lives.

In the following week, Liang Yili bought another batch of defective products from Wang Xingzi and took them to the countryside to sell.

When there were no defective products, they would drive an oxcart to the countryside to collect scrap.

In addition, they set up stalls at night.

My savings suddenly exceeded 1000.

That afternoon, the three of them, grandfather, grandfather, and grandson, had just returned from collecting recyclables in the countryside when they were greeted by Hua Anshan and his wife, who looked worried.

The two placed the crayfish in the kitchen and said anxiously, "Pear, we're almost out of crayfish."

What he didn't say was that the number of crayfish in the ditch had suddenly decreased a few days ago.

What used to take just over an hour to catch crayfish now takes half a day.

Liang Yili was taken aback.

Looking at her family members with furrowed brows, she smiled slightly:

"That's perfect, we'll rest during the day tomorrow and try out the new products!"