I traveled back to ancient times, but I was able to lie down and relax.

The weekend is almost here.

Before this, the eldest branch of the Liu family, after being frightened by the "ghost" that night and suffering the "punishment" of diarrhea, acted quickly and, as soon as they felt a little better, made things clear with the Liang family in Canghe Village.

As for the Liang family, they were already very dissatisfied with the fact that the bride price of twenty taels of silver had not been paid in time. A few days ago, after hearing the matchmaker Li tell them the truth about the Liu family, they were naturally very angry and wanted to go directly to their door to refuse the marriage.

But he received a message from the Liu family first, saying that they had been bewitched and should not have lied to him, which surprised Liang Xiucai. In the end, they reconciled in a daze.

Anyway, one family was after money and the other was after fame. The Liu family had deceived them first, but they had also apologized. So the marriage was called off, and they didn't pursue the matter any further.

The matchmaker, Zheng, who had introduced the two families, was quite unhappy because she had lost a deal. However, since both parties had already made their decision, she couldn't force them to be brought together again. I heard she left with a very unpleasant expression.

After what happened, the Liu family's old house has been unusually quiet these past few days, avoiding them in the village as if afraid their parents would come looking for them again.

Grandma Liu finally stood up for herself. She had previously disagreed with her husband, son, and daughter-in-law doing those immoral things, but she had been suppressed by Grandpa Liu her whole life and dared not easily resist, so her words carried no weight.

Now that Grandpa Liu is sick, Grandma Liu first gave her son and daughter-in-law a severe scolding. She was the one who forced the eldest son and daughter-in-law to go to the Liang family.

Moreover, for the first time in decades, he stood up in front of his wife and stopped obeying her every command.

Grandpa Liu was naturally furious about this, but he still needed to rest in bed and relied entirely on Grandma Liu for care.

Doctor Li had specifically instructed that if he didn't rest properly, he would likely suffer a stroke. Compared to his authority at home, Old Master Liu was more afraid of dying, so he had no choice but to swallow his anger.

Liu Nanjia was naturally happy to see this happen. If she had asked her, she thought that if her grandmother, as the only person in the family with a sound mind, had been able to do this sooner, perhaps her parents' tragedy would not have occurred.

But it's too late to say anything now; she could never forgive them.

Since they don't intend to reconcile with the eldest son's family, they need to try to improve relations with the other villagers.

We can't let things turn out like Song Chen said, or let others say that Liu Yanxi is a person who "does not uphold filial piety," because that would have a great impact on his career.

So, after dinner that day, Liu Nanjia gathered the four family members to sit down in the main room.

"Let's have a family meeting now to discuss how our family should develop in the future," Liu Nanjia said, feigning seriousness.

Liu Yanxi and Liu Sirou were completely confused and looked at her with bewilderment.

Song Chen laughed for a while and then explained to them, basically repeating what he had told Liu Nanjia that night.

"Yes, it's really just about raising our family's reputation in the village and improving our relationships with other villagers." Liu Nanjia couldn't help but laugh.

After laughing for a while, Liu Nanjia said again, "Brother, how are you teaching those temporary students? If there are no problems, then you can officially start teaching them."

Liu Yanxi nodded: "I also have this plan. Si Rou, Brother Da Hu and Xiao Hu are all easy to teach. Shi Tou... Shi Tou is still a bit young and can't sit still. So I plan to talk to Uncle Li Zheng and suggest that it's better not to recruit people who are too young."

Liu Nanjia agreed, "It's a waste of time to bring very young children. We should at least wait until they can understand what we're saying before we can teach them. They should be six or seven years old or older."

Let's just go with the age we used to take for first grade.

The teaching arrangement was settled simply like that.

As for the second step, how to help other villagers get rich, Liu Nanjia was somewhat troubled.

“We can manage our fried chicken stall ourselves now. Even if we hire someone to help, one person is enough. We can outsource the tasks of killing and processing the chickens. Unless we expand the business, it’s unlikely that other people in the village will benefit from this as well.”

“Indeed, we can’t entrust other matters to them; the formula must remain a secret.” Liu Yanxi also began to think.

“We can’t let them participate in the specific process, but we can start with the raw materials we need. Although Aunt Wang has already started raising them, we still need more than ten every day. Relying on just one family, we probably still can’t supply them all,” Song Chen said after thinking for a moment.

"You mean you want the villagers to help us raise chickens? That's a good idea, but we need to do the math. There are strict requirements for the chicken meat we need; it can't be more than three months old."

At this time, the chickens were all free-range, and they were usually ready for market at around five months old. In order to make the fried chicken more tender, and since they didn't have modern broiler chickens, they used chicks that hadn't grown up yet.

Liu Nanjia thought Song Chen's idea was good, but the specific implementation required some consideration of the methods.