The Transmigrated Farm Girl's Journey to Wealth

"I'm too busy, can I go over now?" Upon hearing this, Li immediately wanted to follow him without saying a word.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Auntie. Uncle, I'll be going now!"

"Go ahead, just let me know if you're too busy, I can help out."

He was exaggerating a bit when he said that; in his entire life, apart from tending a fire and occasionally carrying a bowl, he had never done anything else in the kitchen.

When Li arrived at the Song family, Fang Xiaoning taught her how to make hawthorn cake and Su made acorn tofu.

Song An started the fire, while Song Feng began grinding the things they needed. To save time, they simply steamed large steamed buns and sticky rice cakes for lunch, and each person had a bowl of egg drop soup.

The village chief's wife was shocked by what she was eating. Their food was too good! The steamed buns were all made of white flour, without a single grain mixed in.

She only ate one steamed bun before stopping; she came to help, not to freeload.

"Auntie, keep eating. We still have a lot of work to do this afternoon. How can we have the energy if we don't eat enough?" As she spoke, Fang Xiaoning stuffed another big steamed bun into her mouth.

"I'm full, I'm full, you guys eat, you guys eat!"

"Auntie, have another one. Feel at home here, don't be shy."

"Hey, hey!"

As Li ate her white steamed bun, her heart was filled with warmth.

After being taught twice, Li was able to make hawthorn cake on her own. She never expected that the bitter red berries from the mountain could be made into such a beautiful and delicious pastry. Fengzi's wife was truly a wonderful person.

"Auntie, you take your time here, I'll go do something else."

After Song Feng finished grinding the acorns, he came in to help with the fire. With three stoves and two rooms, two people were needed to tend the fire.

"Mom, my aunt is coming tomorrow, so we'll have to work at the old house. We're still short two pots." We can get two more fire starters tomorrow.

"There are two people in my family, so we'll just take it and make do for now."

"Thank you, Auntie. If my aunt's family has a pot tomorrow, I'll bring it with me to tide us over. Even if we go to town to get one now, it will take several days."

"Okay, I'll have Brother Shunzi order two tomorrow."

Because he was going to Song Chunni's house tomorrow, he specifically instructed Shunzi to deliver the goods early.

When Li heard that they wanted to call Song Xiaogu for help, she couldn't help but sigh, "I haven't seen Chunni for many years. I wonder how she's doing now?" The Song family is really something else. Their own daughter came to their door, but they wouldn't let her in and chased her away.

Since that incident, Song Chunni has never returned.

Fang Xiaoning had no recollection of Song Chunni, smiled, and said nothing. Whether it was a family matter or someone else's business, it was best for her to keep quiet. If they didn't want others to know about their troubles, her meddling would only cause them displeasure.

"You might not know this, but you weren't that old when she got married. Your aunt is a capable and efficient person. Let me tell you, in the Song family, if we're talking about capable people, it's only Song Feng's father and Chunni. The others are really not that great."

I just don't know if the old man's eyes are blinded by greed; he treats those two good-for-nothings like gold nuggets, while the capable ones are nothing in his eyes.

Well, this was even harder for her to answer. Actually, she was also puzzled. They were all her own children, so why did she treat them so badly? Everyone says the youngest son and the youngest daughter are the old man's darlings. In the Song family, it was the other way around.

Just as her mother had said, Li's mouth was indeed very talkative; it didn't stop all afternoon. Fang Xiaoning spent the entire afternoon getting to know every household in the village. However, talking didn't affect her work at all; she was quite efficient, and judging from her demeanor, she could easily manage two stoves by herself if given the chance.

Capable and not boring, that's great. For the first time, I felt an afternoon went by so quickly!

Song Feng escorted them back, and also brought back a pot from the village chief's house.

When Fang Youcai arrived home, he was shivering from the cold.

"Damn it, you have to give me another chicken, I'm freezing! This year feels colder than usual!"

Zhao glanced at him and said, "Because you never left the house in previous years, you stayed on the kang (heated brick bed) all day long. Nobody else could feel the cold!"

Fang Youcai: It seems that's true.

“Dad, I’m thinking that our daughter’s family must be too busy to handle everything. We need to help them out.”

Fang Youcai's eyes lit up; he had been longing to learn his daughter's cooking skills for a long time. The Song family also had a heated wall; he had been there once and found it so comfortable he didn't want to go home.

"Wow! I'm strong and can do a lot more."

"No need, Tiezhu, go help with the fire or something. You stay home and make rice crusts with me, we can take turns. Do you really want me to break my arm?"

"But..." He wanted to help start the fire too! Starting a fire is so comfortable; sitting by it is warm. Making rice crusts is really hard on your arms.

"If you still don't have enough manpower, I'll go too, and I'll make you some crispy rice crusts."

"No way, Mom, I can definitely manage. We have to take turns with the rice crusts. If you give them all to me, my arm will be useless. How will I hug you then!"

Zhao's face turned bright red with embarrassment. This shameless bastard!

I glanced towards the door and thankfully the children were all inside.

"Watch your mouth from now on. You may not care about your reputation, but I do."

"Tch, what did I say wrong? You're my wife, who else would hug me if I didn't? Besides, who was it that kept leaning against me all night!"

"Fang Youcai!" She was freezing, and with a big stove next to her, how could she not keep moving closer to him?

Okay, he won't say anything more. He knows she's shy!

"Anyway, you can't go there. Leaving the whole family to me is definitely not going to work." He'd be exhausted, raising his child, spending his hard-earned money, sleeping in another man's bed, getting his feet warmed by another man...

Fang Youcai felt terrible about everything, staring at Zhao Shi with a mixture of anger and grievance.