Travel to the mountains and make a fortune in silence

If so many people were to walk back through the village, they would inevitably be bombarded with questions, and she didn't want to waste her breath explaining herself to them. Besides, she didn't know how to explain herself to them.

“Yes, you can walk along the foot of the mountain to the back door of your house.” Mu Lin pointed to a winding path at the foot of the mountain.

"Is the road easy to walk on? Can you walk it?" Wang Qing'er asked the children in front of her.

“Sister-in-law, of course we can walk here. We walk this road all the time.”

"Yes, we often walk there when we're cutting pig feed."

"I walked this way when I was herding cattle."

“I often dig for wild vegetables along this road.”

……

The children chatted amongst themselves, indicating that they could walk.

"Alright, let's go! I'll treat you to something delicious when we get home." Wang Qing'er directed these mischievous children like a leader of the kids.

"set off!"

"set off!"

"Let's go!"

A small team digging aloe vera marched along the path at the foot of the mountain toward the Mu family's backyard.

"Li Youtian, didn't you say you wanted to see my spotted cow? I'll take you to see it today."

"Mu Lin, I want to see it too."

"And me, Mu Lin, don't you have sheep and rabbits at home?"

"Wow! Mu Lin, your house has everything!"

"I've seen your spotted cow. I wonder if its calf will also be spotted?"

"I guess so? They haven't had any puppies yet, so I don't know."

The children chattered incessantly the whole way.

"Wait a moment." Wang Qing'er saw two oval-shaped cobblestone slabs by the roadside, each only about one centimeter thick. The surfaces of the slabs were extremely smooth. She squatted down and examined them carefully, but she couldn't see any cracks.

Her first thought upon seeing the stone was that it would be great for grilling meat.

The size is also just right, about 50 centimeters in length and 40 centimeters in width, which should fit perfectly on a clay stove at home.

When the children saw Wang Qing'er squatting on the ground carefully examining the stone slab, they all crowded around to look at it curiously.

It's just an ordinary stone? What is Sister-in-law Mu Lin looking at? How strange.

"Mu Lin, come help me put this stone slab on the wooden bucket." Wang Qing'er beckoned Mu Lin to come and help.

"Sister-in-law, what do you need this stone slab for?" Mu Lin asked curiously, and the other children also looked at her with great curiosity.

"Take this home and use it to cook something delicious for you. Tomorrow, all of you come over to my house and I'll cook something delicious for you, okay?"

"Okay." Although Mu Lin and the other mischievous children still had questions, they obediently helped to move the bucket onto the wooden platform.

Two stone slabs covered the wooden barrel perfectly, and the original barrel full of aloe vera was divided into baskets by him.

"Sister-in-law, you're not going to use this stone slab to make aloe vera for me, are you?" Mu Lin finally couldn't help but ask his question.

"Huh? No, no, I'm not taking the aloe vera home to eat. I have other uses for it." This child, why does she want to eat everything?

Okay, although aloe vera is edible, let's forget about it. She thinks it would be more valuable to make it into aloe vera soap or aloe vera gel.

"Okay! I thought aloe vera could be used to make delicious dishes." Mu Lin was a little disappointed because she couldn't eat it.

"Little foodie."

"Sister-in-law, what's a little foodie?"

"Yeah, what's a little foodie?"

Wang Qing'er, "..."

Okay, I accidentally used a modern term.

"A little foodie is a child who loves to eat."

"So, is a big foodie an adult who likes to eat?" the boy named Wang Er asked innocently.

"Uh, yeah... right."

"My dad is a big glutton. He eats three big bowls of food at every meal."

"Second kid, be careful your dad finds out and spanks you, haha..."

"Hahaha, that's right, give him a good spanking."

"Hahaha……"

Laughter and cheerful voices echoed from the path at the foot of the mountain.

Soon they arrived at the backyard of the Mu family. Wang Qing'er asked them to take out all the aloe vera and place them by the roadside.

Anyway, she bought up all the mountains here, so she just planted the aloe vera here.

Wang Qing'er observed the environment here, which was similar to that aloe vera mountain area, and should also be suitable for the growth of aloe vera.

"Mu Lin, take your friends to the front yard. Mu Qin, go get some candy and pastries to serve them, and make a pot of lemon honey water and mulberry water. I'll be there as soon as I'm done here."

Wang Qing'er instructed Mu Qin and Mu Lin to take the children to the front yard.

She wanted to put the aloe vera petals in her small courtyard, which has now become her workshop for making scented soap.

In the afternoon, she could make some aloe vera soap and aloe vera cream. Luckily, she had beeswax and elm bark at home, which she could use to make aloe vera cream.

Mu Lin failed to lead his companion to the front yard. A sharp-eyed child spotted the cows in the cowshed and exclaimed, "Wow, spotted cows! Mu Lin, are these your spotted cows?"

A child was peering into the cowshed from the gate.

"Where? Where? Let me see too." Wang Er ran over and lay down by the door.

"Let me see too!" Before long, several children gathered at the door.

Everyone craned their necks to look inside.

"What's so interesting about cows? There are rabbits here too!"

"There are sheep here. This sheep has a very big belly. Is it about to give birth?"

The other two children, who couldn't squeeze in to see the cows, were watching rabbits and sheep, respectively.

Mu Lin originally planned to take them to the front yard to eat something first, and then show them around, so he could show off his cows and rabbits.

Sigh! Now he's been pushed aside, and even if he wanted to show off, probably no one would listen.

After putting her things away, Wang Qing'er went to the front yard, but she didn't see the group of children.

"Mom, they're looking at the spotted cow and the rabbit."

"Oh, is that so? Then how about Yao'er goes and calls Uncle and the others to come and drink some sweet water?"

"Okay, I'll go call Uncle and the others right now." Xiao Yao'er said as she went to the backyard to call for them, muttering to herself as she went, "So many people, I hope they don't scare my little bunny."

Muqin brewed a pot of lemon honey water.

Wang Qing'er then drew up the mulberry juice dripping from the well and scooped a bowl for each of the children. She had soaked many buckets of mulberry juice that morning and stored them all in the well, so they could take it out whenever they wanted to drink it.

In ancient times, having a deep well in the house was like having a natural refrigerator, let alone having two wells in the house, so they definitely had to make good use of them.

The well behind her contained over a dozen jars of her homemade mulberry jam, along with several lemon slices soaked in honey.

The sealed mulberry jam and honey lemon are put into a bucket and then dropped into a deep well. They can last for half a year, and after summer, there is even less worry about them spoiling in winter.

They placed the water in the pavilion, along with candies and melon seeds that the children loved, two plates of dried goat milk fruit and dried mulberries, and small cookies that Wang Qing'er had made herself.