"I'll give it to you in a few days, I don't have any now." Li Chunxiang wanted to wait for her husband to come back to deal with this matter; even if she had money, she wouldn't give it to Wang Xiaobao.

"Give me a specific time, how many days from now?" Wang Xiaobao asked impatiently.

"Let's wait three days!"

"Okay, if I don't get the money in three days, I'll go to the provincial capital to find Lan Yin." Before leaving, Wang Xiaobao picked up a bag of snacks from the ground, tore it open, and swaggered away from the Lan family while eating.

Li Chunxiang was so frightened that she trembled all over, and it took her a while to recover.

"Xiao Nuan, Lan Yin's mother is back." Aunt Hua was the first to run to the Xiao family. "On the way, no one in the village paid any attention to her. Only that scoundrel Wang Xiaobao went to her house. Lan Yin didn't come back. I guess she was too ashamed to come back."

"Aunt Hua, don't mind her!" Su Xiaonuan was busy weaving straw hats. She and her sons had actually received orders for the straw hats they wore. "I have some handicrafts here. Do you want to do some with me? My mom and Moxi have gone to get the materials for weaving straw hats."

"You can make money from this too?" Aunt Hua asked, holding up the vines and willow branches.

"Hmm." Su Xiaonuan didn't even look up, her hands flying. "These straw hats can be sold for 80 cents each. The materials are free. If you're quick, one person can make 10 hats a day."

"My goodness, these can sell for 80 cents apiece? Those city people are really rich." Aunt Hua became interested and sat down next to her. "Xiao Nuan, then you teach Aunt Hua. If I learn, I'll be content if I can weave 3 a day, let alone 10. That's more than two yuan a day, and more than sixty a month. That's enough to match the salary of those staff members."

"However, there aren't many orders. This time, there's only an order for 50 straw hats. If you learn how to make them now, I'll give them all to you next time there are more orders, and then you can teach everyone how to make these straw hats." Su Xiaonuan also wanted to earn some money, so she didn't share these straw hat orders with everyone.

"Okay," Aunt Hua readily agreed. "Then I'll learn from you now."

Su Xiaonuan taught Aunt Hua how to weave straw hats step by step. Before long, Aunt Hua learned it. She already knew how to do this kind of handicraft, but she was only weaving bamboo strips. It was good that she found the right person to ask Aunt Hua.

After one of the finished products was completed, Aunt Hua put the straw hat on Su Xiaonuan's head and exclaimed, "Wow, it looks so good!"

"Your craftsmanship is quite good, even better than mine." Su Xiaonuan took it off and examined it in her hands. "I'll pay you for every straw hat you can weave now. With this skill, you could definitely be a master craftsman."

Aunt Hua became even more enthusiastic. "Xiao Nuan, Aunt Hua isn't greedy. I'll be content if you give me five cents for making a straw hat. Besides, the materials need to be gathered by hand, don't you think?"

Just then, Xiao Moxi and Zhang Yulan returned, each carrying a bundle of materials. At first, the mother and daughter were a little unhappy about Aunt Hua's involvement, because with one more person to share the materials, they would earn one less share of money.

When they saw Aunt Hua's finished products, they all fell silent. If the sales channels were opened up, it wouldn't be fifty orders, but five hundred, or even five thousand. These were the words Su Xiaonuan had told them, so they tacitly accepted Aunt Hua's involvement.

Several women were chatting and doing handicrafts in the courtyard.

Su Xiaonuan guessed that the children would wake up soon, so she washed her hands and went into the kitchen to make them something to eat. She felt that the children were too young to eat much at regular meals and would get hungry easily in the afternoon.

It was hot, so after lunch she prepared the dough, picked some camellias in the yard, washed them, and steamed a pot of sweet camellia rolls.

"My goodness, your cooking skills are amazing!" Aunt Hua hadn't quite believed Haozi's wife's praise of Xiao Nuan's cooking skills before, but now that she had actually witnessed it, she couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"Mom!" DouDou and GuoGuo ran out.

"You two little gluttons, did you wake up to the smell of the aroma again?" Xiao Nuan quickly gave each of her two sons a steamed bun.

"Mommy, eat." Both DouDou and GuoGuo wanted to feed her.

She didn't show favoritism; she took a bite of the steamed bun in each of her two sons' hands.

"Ah, Mom is still the best!" Moxi sighed.

"Go quickly!" Xiao Nuan winked at Dou Dou and Guo Guo.

"Auntie, eat."

"Grandma, eat."

The two children held up the steamed buns in their hands and went to feed them.

"Look, Xiaonuan has taught these two children so well," Aunt Hua said enviously.

"Aunt Hua, wash your hands and have two."

Aunt Hua had been swallowing her saliva for a while, and immediately got up to wash her hands. If she wasn't afraid that Su Xiaonuan would find it disgusting, she would have eaten it without washing her hands.

"Mom, Moxi, you should wash your hands and eat something to tide you over."

"It smells so good, Xiao Nuan, what delicious food have you made this time?" Xiao Moran returned with a basket full of treasures she had found in the mountains.

Su Xiaonuan glanced into his basket, grabbed a steamed bun, and fed it to Xiao Moran. "You've brought back so many treasures, here, have one as a reward."

Xiao Moran looked at her with delight. He could have eaten the steamed bun in one bite, since it wasn't big, but he couldn't bear to eat it all at once. Instead, he ate it in small bites.

"Oh, the young couple is quite affectionate," Aunt Hua joked. "Would you like Aunt Hua to bring you another pot of medicinal wine? Dou Dou and Guo Guo are both three years old; it's time to give them a younger brother or sister."

"I dare not have children, the family planning policy is enforced so strictly." Zhang Yulan shook her head.

"What's there to be afraid of?" Aunt Hua took a bite and was speechless for a moment until she swallowed the whole steamed bun. "At worst, we'll just pay a fine. With Xiao Nuan's skills, she could easily support three children, or even five."

After Aunt Hua finished speaking, she grabbed two more steamed buns and held them in her hand.

"Aunt Hua, you still haven't told me the recipe for your medicinal wine?" Su Xiaonuan teased. "I've already told you the recipe for my herbal tea."

"My medicinal wine is a family secret recipe, and the wine is also brewed at home. It's just that the medicinal effect is too good, so I dare not let my descendants learn it easily. I have a few naughty boys in my family, and I'm afraid they will do bad things after drinking it. This family craft will be lost with me."

"How about we start a winery?" Xiao Nuan suddenly had a brilliant idea.

"That must require a significant investment, right?"

“That’s easy. Let everyone in the village invest, and we can share the profits.”

“I doubt anyone would be willing to invest,” Zhang Yulan said. “People are afraid of being poor, and they all prefer tangible money. They’ve only just made a little money, so asking them to invest it as shares is definitely not something they’d be willing to do.”

"Those with money can contribute money, and those without money can contribute their labor." Su Xiaonuan had a feeling that this wine would definitely sell well, because she had been through it all. As living standards improved, people paid more attention to health and wellness.

"No!" Xiao Moran was the first to object. "This medicinal wine is too strong; it could incite people to commit crimes."

“We’ll modify Aunt Hua’s recipe to make a health tonic that everyone can drink, so it won’t incite people to commit crimes,” Su Xiaonuan suggested.