Uncle Li took a few male neighbors and quickly rebuilt the utility room and thatched house of Shu Yao's house. For safety reasons, the original cellar was filled, and the newly built utility room was changed from the original all-wood house to a brick and wood structure.

Because Aunt Mei was going to make tofu to sell, the utility room was built much larger than the original one, and it was simply divided into two rooms, the big one inside was a tofu workshop, and the small room outside was built with shelves to place sundries.

When it was finished, Aunt Mei prepared a table of sumptuous meals, and Shujie also insisted on paying the neighbors who helped them, but everyone refused to accept them at first, but Aunt Mei said that now the Xia family still has a little savings, and she will also make subsidies such as tofu and soy milk, and life is not so difficult. In the future, there will be many places where neighbors are asked to help, and if they refuse to accept the wages they pay, they will be embarrassed to talk to their neighbors in the future.

When everyone thinks about it, the children taught by people like Xia Niangzi are naturally high-spirited and unwilling to take advantage of others in vain. It's better to accept it for the time being, the Xia family will really need it in the future, and it will be the same if they help, don't they still want to be a tofu stall? When the time comes, it would be good to help the business a little more.

Uncle Li fulfilled his promise and built a very beautiful chicken shed with the remaining bricks next to the utility room, and the cover on the roof could be lifted.

When Zhang Shiwen heard that the chicken shed was covered, he hurriedly sent six chicks over, as well as two hens that were laying eggs, and Shuwen and Xiutao were so happy that they circled around the chicken shed for most of the day. Shu Yao listened very carefully to Qiu Tao's precautions for feeding chickens, which made Qiu Tao Xiaonizi feel a sense of accomplishment, and she was responsible for raising their chickens, which can be regarded as "experienced".

On this day, Shu Yao came back with Shuwen and Xiutao picking up vegetable leaves, and there was one more guest at home, Wu's mother from Zhang's family (Xia Ruoyun's husband's family) in Lucheng suburb County. Xia Ruoyun just learned that her sister-in-law Donnie Yen had also passed away, but the last time she came to Yulin Town to give Xia Linxuan a funeral, she found out that she was pregnant, and it took nearly three hours to make a carriage from Lucheng to Yulin County.

Wu's mother brought vegetables, fruits, and some dried goods from the Zhang family's farm, as well as a few plain fabrics and concocted wild furs.

Before leaving, Wu's mother took out five silver tickets worth one hundred taels and handed them to Shujie: "Young master, our wife is pregnant now and can't come to see you, she said that if you are in trouble, let people carry a letter, or go directly to her, with her, you three brothers will not be hungry."

Shujie didn't take the silver ticket: "Trouble Mother Wu to tell my aunt that we are very good, and if we need it in the future, we will definitely go to my aunt for help." When my aunt was about to give birth, I would bring my younger siblings over to visit my aunt and little cousin. ”

Shu Yao took out a ginseng from the mahogany box: "Mother Wu, this is what my mother prepared for my aunt, after my aunt left last time, my mother said that my aunt might have a little brother, so I asked someone to find this." By the way, Mother Wu, I dreamed of my mother last night, and my mother said that you would come today, and asked me to tell you to let my aunt eat less, eat better, and walk more every day. Mother Wu, why did your mother say that if your aunt eats too much, your little brother won't come out? ”

Wu's mother was shocked, a while ago she heard that there was a noble lady in Lucheng who had a good fetus, but when she gave birth, she had a difficult birth, and both mother and child died. This uncle's wife is dreaming of asking her cousin to remind her wife. Looking at the ginseng that the cousin took out, it should be more than 100 years old, right? It is said that the uncle's wife is like a sister-in-law to his wife, and it is indeed true, and the sister is not so generous.

Holding Shu Yao's little hand, Mother Wu smiled and said, "Cousin, you are still too young, and your mother will tell you when you grow up." My mother will definitely pass on my uncle's words to my wife word for word. ”

Mother Wu went to put a pillar of incense on Xia Linxuan and Donnie Yen again, and then hid the ginseng and went back.

Shu Yao knew that this Mother Wu was the most loyal to Xia Ruoyun, and those words just now would definitely be conveyed to Xia Ruoyun and always remembered in her heart. I hope that Xia Ruoyun can escape that catastrophe in this life.

After the first seven days, Aunt Li and Sister-in-law Ajuan helped Aunt Mei arrange a few tables of meals together and invited all the neighbors on Xitang Street. The courtyard of the Xia family couldn't be placed, and a large table was set up in the small courtyard of Uncle Li's house and Sister-in-law Ajuan's house.

On the second day, the Xia family's tofu stall finally opened, and the business was surprisingly good. One pass ten, ten pass hundred, to the late guests can only be disappointed, repeatedly explained that tomorrow to leave a little for themselves, some customers even directly prepaid ten days of money, said good to come to pick up every day.

The tofu made by Aunt Mei is as white and tender as jade, smooth and fragrant; The tofu brain is fresh and tender, with an endless aftertaste; The soy milk is even smoother in the mouth, and the bean aroma is rich. Several wealthy families in Yulin Town and even Yulin County went directly to Xia's house to place a deposit for the whole month to ensure that the ladies and aunts, young masters and young ladies in the house had a delicious breakfast.

What's even more staggering is that more than a month later, the Xu family, a big family in the county, found that the natural dull yellow skin of their third lady began to become obviously white and tender, and Miss Xu San especially loves the soy milk and tofu brain of the Xia family, and has to eat a bowl of tofu brain and drink a few cups of soy milk every day. This discovery made Mrs. Xu very happy, not only doubled the ration, but also sent a lot of high-quality cloth, snacks and so on as a thank you.

The lord of the Xu family was an official in Beijing and served as the secretary of the third grade. The eight-year-old third lady Xu Nian'er is the only daughter of Lord Xu. At that time, Mr. and Mrs. Xu returned to their hometown from their place of office to worship their ancestors, and met bandits on the road, Mrs. Xu, who was pregnant with Liujia, blocked a knife for her husband and moved the fetal gas, and died desperately giving birth to her daughter who was less than a month old.

Lord Xu named his daughter-in-law Nian'er, which was intended to commemorate his deceased wife. I don't know if it was because of premature birth, but Nian'er, who has beautiful facial features, was born thin, with dark yellow and rough skin, and compared with several sisters, she became an ugly duckling.

However, Mrs. Xu and Lord Xu still regard Nian'er as the pearl of their palms and love them very much, and Lord Xu even refuses to continue for Nian'er. Because Xiao Nian'er didn't want to stay in the capital and be laughed at, Mrs. Xu took Nian'er back to Yulin County, wanting to wait for Nian'er to recuperate before returning to the capital.

I didn't expect that it was useless to use so many secret recipes, but after eating the Xia family's soybean milk tofu brain for more than a month, didn't Mrs. Xu be ecstatic?

Aunt Mei really didn't expect it, she learned to make tofu with her grandmother when she was a child, and she had done it before, but she never thought that she could make such a good taste and effect today, she was stunned when she tasted it on the first day, and she couldn't think of the reason when she thought about it, and it could only be attributed to the blessing of his wife in the spirit of heaven.

Only Shu Yao and Shu Jie knew that this was all thanks to the magical mahogany box. The soybeans and water used to make soy milk are all enriched in a mahogany box, how can it not be delicious?

Because the business was excellent, Shujie was worried that Aunt Mei would work too hard alone, so he asked Sister-in-law Ajuan and Sister-in-law Sun to help. Both of them were very happy and grateful. Sun's daughter-in-law was idle at home and hoped to find a job to subsidize the family, and Ajuan's sister-in-law set up a stall every day, because the capital was not enough, she was going to buy some small things such as needles and threads, and she worked hard and couldn't make any money.

Now the two of them are helping out at Xia's house, which is close to home, and they can go back to cook and do some housework for the family. The business of the tofu stall is good, and the salary given by Shujie is good, it is simply beautiful.

Every morning, Shujie and Chunsheng also helped to transport things to the stall on a board truck. At first, Aunt Mei refused to let Shujie work, but Shujie was very insistent, he said that he was not a big young master, and the family's livelihood naturally had to contribute, and he didn't want to become a nerd who was not diligent, and said that this was what their mother Donnie Yen said, to combine work and rest.

Shujie's daily schedule is very regular, when to practice martial arts, when to study, and when to help with the tofu business, all of which are arranged in an orderly manner, and Aunt Mei thinks of what Donnie Yen often said in the past, and she no longer objects.

Shu Yao's task is to take Shuwen and Xiu Tao, and the three children are also very busy every day to read and write, feed the chickens, and help pick soybeans.

Shu Yao and Shuwen also began to practice calligraphy and memorize the three-character scripture under the guidance of Shujie, and they had to copy three big characters every morning and evening. Shujie's plan is to enlighten his younger siblings first, and when the two of them have a foundation next year, and the family also has a better income on the surface, he will send Shuwen to the county school, and then invite a female gentleman and a teaching mother to come back to teach Shuyao.

In her previous life, Shu Yao only learned some words from Donnie Yen when she was at home, and when she went to Zhen Mansion and Murong Shangshu Mansion, no one asked her to study or invite a master for her, so in her previous life, she couldn't understand piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and she was still in the countryside for three years because she inadvertently saved an old woman, and was discovered that she had a talent for embroidery, and she learned embroidery skills, so she could be regarded as a skill.

also relied on exquisite embroidery, she did embroidery work day and night, for the prime minister Xue Minglang to be on the high school list, and also used the world's unparalleled colorful embroidery to dot him, who would have expected this white-eyed wolf......

In this life, she didn't go to Quancheng (Aunt Mei's hometown), so she shouldn't meet Xue Minglang again, right? I don't know if the poor Xiucai who has four walls in Lu Dao can still be on the high school list?

The Xia family's life was simple and warm, but what Shu Yao and the others didn't know was that annoying people and troublesome things would soon follow.