The cellar was dug at a fast pace. Because Xu Jiaojiao was in a hurry and was willing to spare money, Xu Youde hired a few workers for ten cents a day to provide two meals of cornbread. There were many strong men in the village fighting for it.

Come and do it.

It's easy to do things if you have money. The next day, I went to the town to buy green sand, dry wood and other materials. I bought them all.

According to this progress, the cellar will be almost complete in one day.

The children would go to the mountains to pick fruits before dawn. Yuanshi and Luoshi had to peel the fruit at home all the time.

Ms. Xu Zhang is the supervisor and is responsible for overall management. She feels that she needs to personally supervise everything in front of and behind the house.

After breakfast, Yuanshi and Luoshi were peeling fruit pulp in the yard.

They have been peeling the fruit for two days and are very familiar with it. They have experience in where to start from the fruit and how much force to use.

Not only were the two of them peeling, Xiao Liuzi, with his nose running, was also carefully peeling the pulp.

Most of the people coming and going in Lao Xu's family today are in the backyard and front yard. The Xu and Zhang family don't allow people to come in and see, so only the Yuan family, the Luo family, etc. can come in and out.

While peeling the fruit, Luo Shi and Yuan Shi chatted.

While chatting, Luo Shi asked, "Has Erya gone to the mountains to pick fruits today? The sun is really scorching. I thought it would be easier to let Erya stay at home and peel the fruits."

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Yuan smiled, "There are not enough fruits. We can only pick them during the day, and we can peel them at night. Why is the little girl afraid of being exposed to the sun? She does whatever her old aunt tells her to do. She can't choose the work."

Luo Shi even said, "Yes, Erya is diligent and neat in her hands and feet, and she has the trust of her old aunt. She is the most important person in our family. Her old aunt takes her with her to make loquat ointment. By the way, her old aunt's

How is loquat paste made? Has Erya ever told you about it? How can such a sour fruit taste so sweet?"

Yuanshi raised his eyes and glanced at Luoshi, seeming to have captured all her thoughts.

"I never said that her old lady is a well-educated person. She can't even read a single Chinese character. What does she know? If you want to know, you can ask my sister. Maybe she will tell you."

Luo Shi said with a smile, "Hey, I don't know a word of Chinese characters. I guess I don't understand what my sister said. I just said it casually. Hehe... Hey, this basket of fruits is almost finished peeling. I'll go out and move some more.

Come in."

Feeling guilty, I got up and went outside the yard.

There are several baskets of fruits placed in the pergola under the eaves outside. They were just picked today and I didn’t have time to share them.

Luo Che wants to roughly classify them, and those that are more cooked are easier to peel.

While I was sorting fruits, a few wives and old aunts gathered around me.

"Hey, from Dagui's family, why haven't you seen anyone in the past two days? We are always one person short of Yepai, and you don't come out to chip in for us..." Xu Xuehua's mother, holding a handful of melon seeds in her hand

Son, talking while eating.

"I don't have time! I work at home every day..." Luo Che shamelessly stretched out his hand to get a few melon seeds and put them in his mouth. "Why do you have time to come to our house to play?"

"My man is helping you build a cellar in the backyard. Your mother-in-law has tightly closed the door to the front yard and won't let us go in to sit." Snow Flower Lady looked towards the yard while eating melon seeds.

An old neighbor's aunt also asked curiously, "What do your family do every day without closing the door? There is always a sweet fragrance wafting out of the yard."

"You don't know, the loquat ointment and loquat dew products sold in the town are all made at home, and they are said to be profitable. They belong to your family. You, your family, went to the county town for two days in a row. Is that right?

Didn’t you make a lot of money?”

Several other aunts and uncles also spoke out one after another.

Only then did Luo Shi understand what they were doing.

I'm here to get some news.

Everyone knew about the fruit sales the day before yesterday, so they all went to town to sell fruits yesterday.

Then yesterday, basically no one could sell any fruit, and I discovered that Lao Xu’s family made loquat paste and loquat dew. Today I came to find out how to make loquat paste and loquat dew.

Luo Shi is not stupid, and she has already made this idea herself, so how could she let outsiders get there first?

If she didn't say she didn't know, even if she knew something, she wouldn't be able to tell anyone about it.

It's all money!

Money is food!

"Hey, how much money can we make? It's just that we old girls learned some things from books, loquat ointment and loquat dew. There are many people in the county, so we can earn some hard money. We Dagui are just running errands. Mother said, make money

No matter how much you earn, it will be part of our sister's dowry, just for fun."

As soon as she finished speaking, Xu Xuehua's mother said, "I'm a good boy, yesterday I saw Mr. Xu Zhang selling more than 100 Wen in town, all to save for your sister's dowry! They can sell them all in town.

For more than one hundred pennies, how much can we sell in the county town? That's incredible! How much dowry we have to save! It's all cheaper than the young man Liao Qing."

One word made everyone envious.

Several aunts were amazed, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, no girl's family can save so much dowry. There are so many boys in your family. I think you should give advice to your father-in-law. You should give loquat ointment or something like that."

I will teach you the method. You are the daughter-in-law of Old Xu’s family who has given birth to a son, and you are the foundation of Old Xu’s family’s future. You can also make loquat ointment and sell it, and plan for your son..."

These words struck Luo Shi's heart.

you do not say!

Just when Luo was about to speak, Xu Zhang showed her head over the courtyard wall.

Luo Shi was so frightened that he swallowed everything he said.

Xu Zhang's voice came over, "If you don't go to work, what are you talking about here? What dowry? What son's?"

"No, mother, we went out to peel the fruit, and met the Snow Flower Lady, who asked me about the appearance of the shoes. I will go to work now..."

Luo Shi hugged a basket of fruits dejectedly and hurried into the yard.

When Snow Flower Lady and several aunts and ladies saw Mrs. Xu Zhang, they said hello casually and slipped away.

Before everyone had walked a few steps, they saw an old woman bending over and carrying her back not far away, walking over.

This lady was wearing patched clothes of coarse cloth, with an old floral scarf on her head. She also had a walking stick picked up on the road in her hand, and she was carrying a small bag on her back. I wonder if she was too tired.

I still saw Mrs. Xu Zhang here and was embarrassed. The closer she got to Old Xu's house, the slower she walked, as if she was moving.

"Hey, Mrs. Xu, your in-laws are here!"

The meddlesome aunt winked at Ms. Xu Zhang, but Ms. Xu Zhang said nothing and looked coldly at the approaching pack-carrying lady, Mrs. Yuan.
Chapter completed!