Fearing the road was difficult to navigate, Chen Hong used a flashlight to escort the person home before returning herself.

That evening, Uncle Erhu stayed behind to slaughter a sheep, with Wang Yusheng assisting. Chen Hong also went back to the backyard and slaughtered two chickens and two ducks.

When Chen Hong finished arranging for Yu Yang to sleep and returned to the front yard, Uncle Erhu had already slaughtered all the sheep and divided them into five portions.

The aroma of mutton wafted from the kitchen; Aunt Erhu had already put the sheep's head, trotters, and bones into a pot to stew.

Now that Chen Hong has nothing to do in the kitchen, Xiao Feng and Chen Hong, who were just sitting and watching others work, decided to find something else to do.

Without hesitation, Chen Hong asked Xiao Feng to set up an unused large pot in the yard. She went home and brought back a bag of chestnuts and a bag of peanuts in a cart.

The two found the river sand left over from building the house behind the house, sifted some fine sand with a fine sieve, poured it into a large pot and started to stir-fry it.

Once the fine sand was heated, they started roasting the chestnuts. The chestnuts Chen Hong grew in her space were sweet and soft, and even without adding sugar, they far surpassed all the sugar-roasted chestnuts sold in supermarkets.

Yu Sheng also had some free time at this point, and seeing Chen Hong and Xiao Feng frying chestnuts and peanuts, he came to help.

The three of them worked for two hours and produced fifty catties of chestnuts and seventy catties of peanuts.

Aunt Guo smelled the aroma of chestnuts, came out and ate a few. The old lady kept nodding: "These chestnuts are delicious, sweet and soft, and not dry at all!"

Where did Chen Hong buy these? Let's go buy some more after we finish eating these; they're much better than eating sunflower seeds.

Eating too many sunflower seeds can cause a sore throat and internal heat; chestnuts are much more satisfying.

Xiao Feng laughed and said, "Auntie, a pound of melon seeds can feed ten or so people all day. A pound of chestnuts can be eaten by each person with just three to five pieces."

If we let the guests eat as much as they want, they'd probably eat ten or eight pounds a day.