School starts on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.

The three siblings resumed their old business of selling braised dishes and cold dishes, as well as selling fish and shrimp.

On the weekend, Yang Wanwan took Er Ye and Shang Tao several miles to the mountains to dig for winter bamboo shoots and mushrooms.

The local climate is humid, and thanks to the recent rains, many winter bamboo shoots should be sprouting in the mountains. The mushrooms in the pine forest should also be emerging.

Yang Wanwan wanted to dig bamboo shoots to sell, and also wanted to improve her family's meals.

These two delicacies from the mountains are delicious and nutritious.

Of course, this involves cheating by exploiting spatial limitations.

At this time of year, many people go up the mountain to hunt wild game, but the siblings alone have the biggest harvest.

When Er Ye and Shang Tao were in school, Yang Wanwan would occasionally ask the teacher for leave and go up the mountain alone.

That day, she received a reply from a publishing house.

The publishing house explicitly proposed to sign a contract with her to publish her book, "The Story of Consort Yan," offering a fee of 10,000 yuan for 500,000 words.

Yang Wanwan hesitated.

She knew that when online literature flourished later, a top-ranked bestseller could sell for tens of millions of yuan.

If I were to release this book several years from now, excluding film and television rights, it would be entirely possible to sell hundreds of thousands of copies online and in print.

Therefore, this amount of 10,000 yuan is a bit too little.

It would cost at least 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.

Therefore, she did not rush to reply, but continued to wait for responses from the other two publishers.

After selling the winter bamboo shoots, I went into the mountains to collect small bamboo shoots and ferns. The income wasn't much, but it was enough to make ends meet and cover daily expenses.

Actually, mushrooms don't sell very well. People who are willing to spend money have all gone out to work, leaving behind the elderly, weak, sick and disabled. Who would be willing to spend money to buy this to eat?

Some people still buy winter bamboo shoots to enjoy as a treat, but Yang Wanwan sells them for a lower price than others, otherwise they wouldn't sell well.

So she sold these wild vegetables along with braised meat, fish, and shrimp.

Fortunately, there is a two-month gap between harvests. Winter vegetables are too old to eat, and summer vegetables such as eggplant, peppers, green beans, and water spinach have not yet grown. At this time, greenhouse vegetables have not yet entered the rural market.

Therefore, the bamboo shoots, wild fungus, and wild mushrooms that Yang Wanwan picked filled the gap in vegetables during this period, which is why she was able to sell some of them.

Among them, the small bamboo shoots are the most popular.

After peeling, bamboo shoots can be stir-fried or braised, and they are delicious and very popular with local residents.

The only difficult part was peeling the bamboo shoots. But Yang Wanwan had her spatial ability, so she used her skills in the mountains to peel the bamboo shoots, only picking the small bamboo shoot flesh to take back. She would pick dozens of kilograms at a time, which could sell for tens of yuan.

Bamboo shoots that couldn't be sold in one market were dried and sold.

Similarly, my family relied on the pickled vegetables we made last summer and autumn, along with these mountain delicacies, to get through the lean season of spring.

These mountain delicacies are delicious. With just a little oil and salt, they can be made into very tasty dishes. Er Ye and Shang Tao ate them with great relish, and each meal required two large bowls of these mountain delicacies.

Therefore, Yang Wanwan made this a daily routine, and she would always bring back a lot of mountain delicacies to cook and eat.

I often bring some to Grandpa and Grandma Yang after I've made it, and the two old folks enjoy it very much. It's definitely fresh vegetables; they taste much better than pickled radishes and green beans from the jar.

Thanks to the frequent extra meals provided by Yang Wanwan and her siblings, Grandpa Yang and his wife ate quite well, with rosy complexions, unlike others whose faces turned pale and sallow in the spring due to insufficient nutrition.

Afterwards, Yang Wanwan would also mail some to Pan the mute.

Because of that commotion during the Spring Festival, the Yang Dali family never caused any more trouble, and they would avoid Yang Wanwan and her brother whenever they saw them.

But Yang Wanwan didn't believe that they had changed their nature of eating shit.

Out of concern for her younger siblings' safety, she always takes Er Ye and Shang Tao with her when she goes up the mountain on weekends.

There's a lot of farm work to do in the spring. With Nian Meili giving birth, not only is there less labor in Yang Dali's family, but they also have to take care of Nian Meili during her postpartum period. They're so busy that Cao Xinchun doesn't have time to bother Yang Wanwan.

Besides, Yang Dali wasn't just sitting in the police station for nothing. Whenever Cao Xinchun had even the slightest thought, Yang Dali would immediately reprimand him.

Does Yang Qingqiu still have a future?

If Yang Wanwan, that reckless woman, were to call Yang Qingqiu's school, although it might not lead to Yang Qingqiu's expulsion, it would certainly not be good for Yang Qingqiu, would it?

Yang Qingqiu was a student leader in college. If Yang Wanwan made a fuss about him, he would lose face.

We'll see!

Yang Youneng lost his ability to work, and Maodouhua was very irritable from serving him all day, so the couple often quarreled.

It's nothing more than that Maodouhua suspects Yang Youneng of having had some inappropriate thoughts and actions before.

Yang Youneng was like a mute eating bitter herbs, unable to express his suffering.

After Yang Yimei transferred Yang Yixuan to a school, Yang Yixuan's school became farther away, requiring Maodouhua to spend more time and energy.

Maodouhua was too busy to bother Yang Wanwan for the time being.

Even if she suddenly remembered Yang Wanwan, this troublemaker, and wanted to come and mock her, when she arrived at Yang Wanwan's door, the gate was tightly closed, and the siblings had already gone into the mountains to pick wild vegetables or go to the market to sell things.

Maodouhua would mutter a few curses, mostly meaningless. Occasionally, Yang Wanwan would see her, but she would ignore her and remain cold. For some reason, Maodouhua would feel a little intimidated, and after uttering a few more curses, she would leave.

Yang Youneng rarely went out and stayed at home. Yang Wanwan had seen him once, and when Yang Youneng saw Yang Wanwan, he looked at her as if she were a ghost and quickly looked away.

Yang Wanwan and her brother enjoyed a period of peace.

In March, two other publishing houses contacted her, both wanting to collaborate.

After careful consideration, Yang Wanwan finally chose to sign a contract with a publishing house called Anqi Publishing House. The price offered by this publishing house, based on Yang Wanwan's expected printing volume, would allow her to receive 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.

Having made up her mind, Yang Wanwan completed the agreement and mailed it along with the first volume of the manuscript.

This semester, Xu Yao is no longer sitting next to Yang Wanwan.

Xu Yao's academic performance is good; she has consistently ranked among the top students in her class and within the top twenty in her grade in several exams. While she is not quite as good as Yang Wanwan, who is first in her grade, getting into a good high school or vocational school should not be a problem for her.

Xu Yao not only excels academically, but also in other areas. She joined the school's dance team and led the dance, represented the school in the county's 800-meter race, and participated in the town's English speaking competition.

They excelled in every aspect and achieved excellent results.

These achievements earned her many fans. With Kuang Jie transferring back to the county town, Xu Yao became a veritable school beauty, attracting adoring glances from boys wherever she went.

Yang Wanwan, on the other hand, is only good at studying; everything else is just average.

The old-fashioned bangs on her forehead made her look old and unattractive.