The sun sets in the west, and the rabbit rises in the east.

Shanghe Village, a small courtyard at the end of the village.

Because they brought back four portions of pork offal from Ah Cai today, the number of fish balls needed at the hot pot stall was reduced by more than half. In addition, since it wasn't the first time they had made fish balls, the Su family worked together very well and had already finished kneading the fish balls and had dinner.

As for the fish scale jelly that Su Hua said she wanted to give to Xiao Jinhan, Su Bai had Su Sanhu deliver it as soon as it was made.

Besides a large bowl of fish scale jelly, what was sent over included chopped chili fish head, fish head tofu soup, spicy fish tail, and spicy fish offal, each in a large bowl. In Su Bai's words, it was because Xiao Jinhan had been bullied by Old Man Xiao today, so he needed to eat more delicious food to change his mood. It didn't matter that the group of bloodsuckers in the Xiao family didn't care about him; the Su family would take care of him.

Therefore, Su Hua had to suppress her desire to ask Xiao Jinhan about the black wooden box for the time being.

Moreover, just thinking about his actions in the vegetable garden today made her heart pound.

It's better that we don't see each other for now.

Moonlight streamed in through the window and fell on the bed. Su Bai turned over and saw Su Hua staring at the windowsill not far away with her big eyes. Following her gaze, she saw two pots of flowers, one red and one white.

She couldn't help but feel a little worried. "What's Hua'er thinking? Is she still worried about not being able to sleep because of yesterday's nightmare?"

Su Hua was stunned when she heard the voice, and then she remembered what the nightmare Su Bai was referring to was.

She quickly shook her head and glanced at Su Sui on the other side of the bed. Su Sui had woken up once in the evening. Although she still couldn't speak, she could drink more than half a bowl of rice porridge. She fed her some space water droplets along with the rice porridge, and now she was snoring softly.

Su Hua withdrew her gaze and lowered her voice to a whisper, "Mother, I was just thinking, shouldn't we start preparing to build a new courtyard?"

Su Bai was slightly taken aback, and pondered for a moment, "The mala tang business has only just started, and you have to send Da Hu to Baichuan Academy tomorrow. There are many places where money is needed. Why don't we put the house building on hold for now and talk about it after the business has stabilized?"

Hua'er originally planned to send all three Su brothers to school.

She refused without even thinking. All three sons came from her own womb, and she knew their personalities better than anyone. Only the eldest son might be good at studying, while the second and third sons would just stare blankly at the mention of books. Sending them to school would be like throwing away the money that Hua'er had worked so hard to earn.

Studying doesn't matter where you study. Once the eldest son returns from school, he can teach what he learned there to his other two sons. Isn't that the same thing?

Moreover, when the eldest son returns, he can not only teach the second and third sons, but Hua'er can also learn along with him.

That couldn't be better.

Upon hearing this, Su Hua knew that she was worried about the money, and chuckled softly, "Mother, there's no need to worry. Building a large courtyard with blue bricks will only cost twenty or thirty taels of silver at most. If it were the old Su family, we would indeed have to wait, but now, we can earn it back by setting up a stall in Qingshui County for two or three days."

Aside from the first day when I set up my stall and only earned six taels of silver because I had prepared too few ingredients, I made a net profit of about twelve taels of silver every day in the following days. Especially today, the trouble at Zuixianju made my business even more booming, and I earned fifteen taels of silver in one day.

Adding the eighteen taels and eight mace she had left over from buying the calligraphy, and the twenty taels she had swindled from Meng Yun'er, she now had nearly one hundred taels of silver.

Madam Su shook her head again, "But this money is yours, Hua'er. How can we use your money to build a house?"

"What do you mean, 'yours' and 'mine'?" Su Hua chuckled softly. "Mother, the way you're saying that makes it sound like I don't live in this house. Besides, I can't manage this spicy hot pot business by myself, yet you give me all the money you earn, while my brother and sister-in-law only get ten copper coins a day. How can I possibly accept that?"

Su Baishi, however, didn't care at all. "What's so hard about this? If it weren't for Hua'er, they would all be carrying bags at the docks. How could they find such an easy job where they can earn money at home? If you ask me, they should be grateful to you!"

Su Hua's lips twitched slightly upon hearing this.

Her mother really is someone who always does things in a way that benefits her daughter.