After finishing her meal, Chen Hong handed the house key to the village chief, saying, "Uncle, I've put all the fermentation starter in the storage room. You can use it as you see fit!"

I took some bamboo shoots and mushrooms with me, and my aunt helped me dry and store the rest.

There's something else. Don't forget the tea trees deep in the mountains. When the season comes, send a few people to pick the tea leaves, find someone who knows how to process them, and save them for me so I can give them away.

You can just deduct the money from my account. Call me if anything happens. You can take care of the house!

Once the permits for the breeding base are completed, you can start operating. Find a law firm to draft the partnership agreement, and call me when you need my signature.

I've taken the kids back to Jinan. Let's keep in touch by phone if anything comes up!

After explaining everything at home, Xiao Feng drove Chen Hong and her son to the airport to catch an afternoon flight back to Jinan.

On the evening of their arrival in Jinan, Chen Hong and her son first went to her parents' home and had a sumptuous dinner, which marked the end of their visit to relatives and the end of the New Year celebrations.

On the morning of the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, Yu Yang started teaching. It was the first time they met after the New Year, and Chen Hong gave each of the two teachers a box of fruit.

Yu Yang was already very familiar with the training center, and Chen Hong no longer waited for him to finish class or leave school; she would just pick him up at 11:30 a.m.

After leaving the training center, Chen Hong went to the supermarket for a big shopping spree, buying a lot of beef ribs and daily necessities.

After shopping, I went home to cook, and then left home at 11 o'clock to pick up the children.

After lunch, the child took a nap. Classes started at 2 PM and ended at 5 PM. After picking the child up, the mother and child went to the stationery and sports goods street to buy some new stationery.

The mother and son drove home excitedly. Yu Yang was very happy because his teacher praised him again, saying that he had made great progress and had high self-discipline!

While Chen Hong was having dinner, her phone rang!

Chen Hong put down her chopsticks, took out a tissue to wipe her hands, picked up her phone and saw that it was Zhou Yi calling.

"Hey, you've finished your mission? Yeah, yeah, we're back in Jinan. Yu Yang has to go to a training course. Okay, yeah, I told Yu Yang."

Do you need me to go to the airport? Okay, we'll wait for you at home. Okay, I got it, bye!

She put down her phone, glanced at her son who was listening intently to her call, picked up her chopsticks again to eat, and said to him with a smile:

"The call was from your Uncle Zhou. He's back from his mission and will be home tomorrow morning!"

Yu Yang was overjoyed: "It really is Uncle Zhou, I think it should be him too."

Uncle Zhou will be back tomorrow morning, that's great! I even left him a gift!

But then she thought about having to go to class tomorrow and felt a pang of regret: "But I have to go to class! What can I do? I can't wait for him at home!"

Chen Hong glanced at him and put some pea sprouts on his plate. "Eat quickly! You have classes in the morning, and you're not going home for lunch."

Besides, your Uncle Zhou is on vacation this time and will be staying at home for a while. We'll be living together every day, so don't give me that gloomy look.

You should attend classes as scheduled and not even think about taking leave. Nothing is more important than your studies right now.

Oh, right, you also prepared a gift for your Uncle Zhou. What was it? I didn't know! The New Year is almost over, and I haven't received a New Year's gift from you yet!

Oh dear! I forgot about Mom! Yu Yang thought to himself. He almost forgot to chew the food in his mouth, and when he tried to chew it properly and swallow it, his little face turned red from choking.

He quickly explained to his mother, "No, Mom, during the Spring Festival, I learned how to glue together a seashell boat with the villagers and other children, just to try it out."

I want to give this little boat to Uncle Zhou. Next time you're more skilled, I'll glue together a villa for you. I know you like houses.

"Mom, don't be jealous. Next time I find the blueprints, I'll build you a castle villa like those in foreign countries."

After all that, what she gave Zhou Yi was still an experimental sample. Chen Hong's lips twitched: "Alright! You can do whatever you want with it. By the way, where did you get those seashells?"

Yu Yang replied with a smile, "It was given to me by Xiao Hao's grandma, Mom. You didn't know, did you? Many grandmas and aunties in the village make seashell crafts."

It's hard to find pretty seashells on the beach in our village now. The villagers have picked them up and made them into handicrafts to sell and make money.

We all learned how to stick seashells together from Grandma Xiaohao and other older women. Grandma Xiaohao is really good at it.

In the summer, she made a dolphin that was only the size of her palm, which was bought by a tourist for 300 yuan!

I was thinking that once I learned how, I could use seashells to make animals, houses, boats, mountains, and things like that; they would definitely be beautiful.

Chen Hong: "Son, let me sign you up for another art and painting class!"

Yu Yang was startled: "Mom, didn't you tell me I could learn whatever I wanted? I don't want to learn art or painting right now!"

Chen Hong said calmly, "No, you want to learn!"

You want to make a lot of seashell crafts. What are crafts? They are handmade works of art.

To create art, you need to learn fine arts and painting, and master some basic color matching and shape assembly. Can you make seashell crafts with beautiful colors and shapes?

Son, when you started to like seashell crafts, you had already embarked on the path of learning art.

I feel you'll definitely be able to make really beautiful seashell crafts someday. Keep it up!

Yu Yang was stunned. Making seashell crafts required studying art and painting? He'd never heard of that before!

He watched Grandma Xiaohao turn seashells into treasures and thought that the things made from seashells were beautiful, fun, and interesting, so he decided to try making them for fun on a whim.

He thought that once he learned how to make a small trinket for each of his family members, they could just play with it. He could make one whenever he felt like it, and forget about it if he didn't.

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