Ms. Liu was like the big bad wolf that swallowed Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother in two mouthfuls. Yang Ruoqing brought out snacks and fruits for her. Except for the two porcelain plates, she couldn't eat them all.

her belly.

No, when he stood up after burping, he was pushed up and down, as if he had lost his balance.

"Fourth Aunt, can you do it?"

Yang Ruoqing also stood up and looked at Mrs. Liu, unable to help but ask more questions.

Mrs. Liu held the table with one hand and freed her other hand to swing towards Yang Ruoqing's confident gesture.

"No, no, you underestimate your fourth aunt and me. I'll have no problem letting me have a big banquet!"

Yang Ruoqing pursed her lips and smiled, jokingly saying: "Fourth Aunt, your belly is like a bottomless pit in an empty mountain, and there is a rat spirit living in it."

Ms. Liu didn't know which one it was, but she just laughed and said, "It doesn't matter if it's a mouse or a cat, Qing'er, please hurry up and find me a fast handkerchief. I'm going to use these sleeves and orange belts."

superior."

Mr. Liu's target was the pile of peels piled like a hill in the corner of the table.

"Fourth Aunt, what do you want these peels for? It's not edible. Oh, are you taking them back to feed the chickens and ducks?"

"Chickens and ducks can just scatter some wheat bran and rice. Why do we need to eat these good things? I will take these peels back to make candies!"

"Ah, Fourth Aunt, you can also make fruit peel candy? I've never seen you do it before."

"I went to Ju'er's house last summer and saw that Ju'er used watermelon rinds to make watermelon candies. The grapefruit rinds and orange rinds should be similar. When I finish them later, I will bring you a handful so you can try them too.

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"Okay, then I'll wait for Fourth Aunt's fruit peel candy."

Yang Ruoqing smiled and encouraged Mrs. Liu, turned around and found a handkerchief for her, swept all the peels on the table into the handkerchief, wrapped it up, and tied it with a knot.

Mrs. Liu grabbed it and was quite satisfied with the weight of the peel. She weighed it and said, "I will prepare a pound of sugar later. If this batch is successful, I will make more next time to entertain relatives and friends during the New Year. If relatives and friends are all

I like it. When the New Year comes, I will roll up my sleeves and make candies, and then send them to your restaurant to sell them for money. You have to help Fourth Aunt with this!"

Yang Ruoqing said: "Fourth Aunt, please make it first and then talk about it."

If it's really good, Yang Ruoqing wouldn't mind adding such a snack to the restaurant's morning tea.

How could we refuse a win-win situation for everyone?

But if this thing is made so that people can eat it, that would be bad.

However, since Mr. Liu can take the initiative to think in that direction, it is enough to show that Mr. Liu has some savvy in business.

"Fourth Aunt, you and my Fourth Uncle have made a lot of money selling sawdust and bamboo chips in the past six months, right?" Yang Ruoqing asked about this again.

When Yang Yongqing was preparing to get married, Yang Yongqing took away the sawdust from the furniture, weighed hundreds of kilograms, and brought it to the county town to sell it for money.

And she also found a market for it, that is, it is used as a base material for making fires under the braziers of wealthy families in winter. It is used to warm the homes of chickens, ducks, cows, horses, and sheep in the winter to prevent frostbite. It is soft, has good thermal conductivity, and absorbs water.

Performance is also good.

Some pretty ladies raise hamsters and so on, but they happen to be short of this kind of sawdust and bamboo chips.

So in the second half of the year, it was the off-season for the Taoist temple. When Yang Huaming had something to do, he would go to the woods behind the Taoist temple to do private work. Liu often went there to help, and the couple just made money and made a fortune.

Hearing Yang Ruoqing ask about her income, Mrs. Liu chuckled.

He firmly grasped the peel in the handkerchief with both hands, and laughed so hard that his body twisted into a ball like a twist.

"You can make a lot of money from a small business..."

"What a small business? Your business is cost-free. It's just a matter of effort!"

"Okay, okay, I guess it's just this amount. A small business can't make much money."

Ms. Liu raised a few fingers and gestured towards Yang Ruoqing.

Yang Ruoqing said: "Wow, this number is quite good. It can cover the gross income of many families of five or six who are busy from the beginning of the year to the end of the year!"

Mrs. Liu waved her hand, "No, no, you can't make a fortune. You have to go back and forth to the county town to eat and stay in a hotel, and you have to maintain relationships. Only about 60% of them will actually fall into your hands."

"Your fourth uncle and I still have to split the 60% or so. I really can't make much money, I can only polish it off."

"It would be nice to polish it up. Fourth Aunt, don't be too greedy." Yang Ruoqing said.

If calculated like this, after another three to five years of hard work, the fourth aunt should be able to realize her wish and build a new four-bedroom house before Tiedan gets married. It belongs to her, He'er, and Kang Xiaozi.

A home for several people.

Of course, it also belongs to the fourth uncle's home.

Mrs. Liu was probably afraid that Yang Ruoqing would ask her again how much money she had saved, so she made an excuse and hurried away with her fruit bag.

Looking at her hurriedly running back, Yang Ruoqing wanted to laugh.

Is she the kind of person who breaks the pot and asks for the truth? She won’t ask too much about other people’s privacy, just click on it. Besides, aren’t we ‘comrades’ who often gossip together? What an unjust fourth aunt!

Yang Ruoqing would not be serious with Mrs. Liu. After Mrs. Liu left, Yang Ruoqing went back to the bedroom to see the two children. She guessed that they needed to sleep for a while, so she came back to clean up the small hall, arrange the dishes, wash the tea bowls, and wipe the table.

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Ms. Liu's feet ran to many places, leaving some dirty footprints on the blue water-polished tiles on the ground where she sat. Layers upon layers of them, Yang Ruoqing took the mop and mopped it again, and finally diffused the three-legged scented tiles next to her.

Empty the incense ash in the stove, replace it with new agarwood incense pieces and light it again.

Seeing that her little home was so neatly and warmly decorated, with the children sleeping soundly and peacefully in their bedrooms, Yang Ruoqing sat down by the window and looked at the setting sun outside the window, feeling an indescribable sense of comfort and satisfaction in her heart.

When Luo Fengtang came back, the sun had already set and the lanterns were already lit in the bedroom.

"Why did it take you so long to come back? Is the situation very difficult?"

Yang Ruoqing was a little surprised when she saw someone who went straight to the cradle to see her sons after entering the door.

After Luo Fengtang finished reading his son, he turned around and came to her, and said in a low voice: "It's okay, it's not difficult, but I have to come back to change a pair of shoes because I have to go out again soon."

"Ah? What are you doing out there?" She was even more surprised now and looked at the sky outside. It gets dark early in winter. The sun is going down now, and it will be twilight after two circles. It doesn't look like summer at all.

That way, the hazy dusk can last for a long time. Even if the moon hangs on the treetops, there are people walking around outside. People who finish work late will probably return to the village with their farm tools.

But this winter is different. As soon as the sun goes down, everyone rushes home. When it gets dark, there is almost no one outside.
Chapter completed!