Old Mrs. He and her daughters-in-law all turned green with rage.

"Is this all you're going to give us to eat?"

Sheng Yueqing looked completely innocent. "I eat this too, it's delicious! You guys should eat it!"

She's not eating the good food alone, she's eating the same food as them, what's wrong with that?

"You, you're so stingy."

Old Mrs. He thought she was the stingiest person in the world, but she never expected there was someone even stingier than her.

Sheng Yueqing smiled and said, "Brother Shen told me that when she was little, she wanted to eat taro, but you wouldn't let her eat it. Now I'm willing to give you such a big taro, which shows how filial I am."

"Sisters-in-law, eat some too! This taro is so fragrant."

The sisters-in-law looked unhappy, but they were starving, so they could only pick up the taro and take a bite with grumpy faces.

"yue~"

The first bite was so dry that I couldn't swallow it and almost vomited.

Sheng Yueqing scoffed, "Sister-in-law, look how impatient you are. Eat slowly, there's more."

The dried taro she cooked was about the size of a head, dry and powdery, even harder to swallow than raw flour.

Especially since there are no seasonings yet.

The sisters-in-law were so full of food they wanted to pound their chests.

Old Mrs. He rolled her eyes, choking, "Give me...give me a sip of water."

Sheng Yueqing exclaimed, "Oh dear, I forgot to boil water."

"Wait a minute, I'll boil some water."

She fetched a kettle of water and put it on the stove.

But the stove only has one lump of coal, so it's very slow.

While waiting for the water to boil, the He family members were all pounding their chests in frustration.

There was no way to swallow it; the taro was too dry.

Sheng Yueqing suppressed a laugh and said to them, "Sister-in-law, we are country folk, we must cherish food and not waste it."

"There's still so much left in this pot, remember to finish it all."

Several of the sisters-in-law were on the verge of tears, pleading, "At least give us some seasoning!"

Sheng Yueqing asked innocently, "What seasoning do you need? Seasoning is free!"

"Rice, oil, and salt are so expensive, I don't have the money."

"Besides, it tastes so good when it's eaten dry, I love eating it dry."

As he spoke, he began to eat heartily right in front of them.

Her taro is different from theirs; it's fragrant and sweet.

She took big, hearty bites, enjoying them immensely.

Old Mrs. He and the others frowned when they saw it.

"This Sheng Yueqing, is she desperate for money? Even in our rural areas we don't eat dried taro like this anymore."

They can eat good potatoes now, and even potatoes with seasoning.

The sisters-in-law of the He family gathered together and said, “Mom, we think we’ve been scammed by a fellow villager. This Sheng Yueqing has no money at all. Judging from how she’s wolfing down her food, she’s probably even poorer than us.”

Old Mrs. He was also worried, "What should we do? We can't come all this way for nothing!"

Since she was already here, she couldn't leave empty-handed; that wasn't her style.

Several of her sisters-in-law thought the same thing.

"Then let's wait for Lao Liu to come back and borrow money from him."

If you can't get the money from Sheng Yueqing, you can definitely get it from Lao Liu.

In the past, when they asked He Yushen for money, all they had to do was cry a couple of times, act pitiful, and complain about being poor, and they would get the money.

Let's wait a bit longer this time, until He Yushen comes back, and then ask him for the money before going back.

Sheng Yueqing knew what they were thinking, and had already sent Hu Zi and a few children to the dock to check if He Yushen would return and tell him what had happened.

He also insisted that He Yushen must return empty-handed and pretend to be poor.

Tiger and the others got the candy and ran off happily.

At this time, He Yushen was still in the car and had not yet arrived.

Sheng Yueqing hadn't expected him to come back at this time. After finishing her taro, she went back to work.

She spent the whole day preparing various ingredients, including chestnuts, eggs, red beans, and mung beans, constantly busy in the machine room.

She only goes out to sell a box of wedding cakes when a customer comes by.

Old Mrs. He and her daughters-in-law watched the whole thing.

Seeing that she had accepted five yuan from the person, he widened his eyes and asked, "You're selling this wedding cake for five yuan?"

So expensive.

"A wedding cake in the countryside costs at most one yuan, and you're selling it for five yuan?"

Sheng Yueqing carefully put the money away. "Don't you even know where we are? What can one yuan do? It's not even enough for rent."

"Besides, we only have one customer all day. How am I supposed to eat if I don't make five yuan?"

Grandma He and her daughters-in-law also felt that the shop was too deserted.

It's been a whole day, and only one person has come.

And I'll only buy one box.

Even if a box costs five yuan, five yuan is really not enough.

They didn't believe in superstitions and went outside for a walk.

We went to the first street and found that the shops there were very lively, with almost every shop having more than five customers.

Moreover, there was a constant flow of people coming and going, the owner was always collecting money, and there were several employees in the shop.

When they returned to the corner where Sheng Yueqing had been, there was still no one there.

They were still secretly peeking from the corner, but when they found no one there, they gave up.

"That damn fellow villager, he's a complete fraudster!"

If you could really earn that much, how come you don't have a single customer?

"Mom, let's go find Lao Liu instead."

“At least Lao Liu can work, and he must have money.”

Grandma He nodded, "But we don't know where he is now."

Where are they supposed to look?

The eldest daughter-in-law of the He family said, "Then let's wait in the shop. I don't believe he won't come back."

They knew that He Yushen had been protecting Sheng Yueqing before.

I don't believe He Yushen wouldn't come back with such a beautiful wife in the shop.

So they went back into the shop to wait.

Sheng Yueqing was glad that all the recent goods had been delivered, otherwise it would have been quite an eyesore for the customers to see these people here.

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