Chapter 36 Effect

After eating it, Mrs. Cui felt comfortable all over.

It’s so delicious.

It deserves such a fragrance.

The taste is simply amazing.

Mrs. Cui felt that she would like to eat this in the future.

Mrs. Cui ate three in a row without realizing it, and she still looked unsatisfied.

It was so delicious that she wanted to eat more, but her stomach couldn't hold any more.

Fortunately, Zhiluo made some extra, so we can eat it tomorrow.

Thinking that she could eat such juicy and delicious roujiamo every day, she had a big smile on her face.

Days like this really give people hope. Every day they look forward to the arrival of the next day, looking forward to making money the next day and eating delicious food the next day.

Old Madam Cui felt that she had rarely thought about things in the capital these days.

Being busy and motivated every day is really fulfilling.

Cui Hejin didn't move at first. After a while, he began to eat gracefully. His movements were slow and his expression was calm.

However, seeing Cui Hejin eat two, Jiang Zhiluo knew that he was not forcing himself to eat them.

She also thought the taste was really good.

"Mom, it's not seasoning, it's just that the stewed food tastes better with these spices."

Mrs. Cui suddenly realized, "So you bought the spices to make seasonings."

Jiang Zhiluo bought spices at the market before, and she thought she would use them to fumigate clothes.

Thinking about the habits of bathing and burning incense in the capital, I can’t care about them anymore. Here, the first thing I think about every day is how to have enough food.

“No wonder such a small thing is so expensive, but it’s really worth it.”

Jiang Zhiluo nodded and said, "Well, pig offal is not worth much. I still have some of these seasonings. I only need to use a little each time I cook. I won't need to buy seasonings in the short term. So if I set up a stall to sell roujiamo, I will need white flour to make the steamed buns, which will cost some money."

Jiang Zhiluo did a quick calculation in her mind and figured that if the business was good, she could make a lot of money.

Although Mrs. Cui wanted to make money, she didn't want to burden her daughter-in-law.

"Zhiluo, if we make both brown sugar and food, you'll be very tired."

Jiang Zhiluo shook her head and said, "Mom, it's okay. I can't stay idle, so I might as well do something."

In this era without mobile phones or computers, if you are idle, you will be really bored and have nothing to do.

If her family was well-off, she wouldn't have to work so hard.

The key point is that the Cui family now has no place to live, and the clothes they wear are all old clothes.

My parents, my younger brothers and sisters all have clothes covered with patches. They have to help with housework at such a young age and they don’t even have enough to eat.

Thinking of her father's legs and her mother's thin appearance, Jiang Zhiluo couldn't allow herself to relax and play.

Old Madam Cui sighed in her heart that her daughter-in-law was really virtuous and capable.

After dinner and cleaning up, Jiang Zhiluo and Old Madam Cui only needed to burn firewood and boil brown sugar. There was nothing much they needed to do. They were both capable of handling it, so there was no need for Cui Hejin to help.

Cui Hejin returned to the house.

It takes time to boil all the beets into syrup and then cook it. Jiang Zhiluo feels that she can handle it alone and wants to let Madam Cui rest.

How could Mrs. Cui let Jiang Zhiluo stay up all night alone to watch over her? She stayed with Jiang Zhiluo no matter what.

Otherwise, let Jiang Zhiluo go and rest while she watches the pot.

In this way, the two of them stayed up all night together with resin candles.

After I finished working, it was already quite late, almost midnight, but I finally managed to boil the brown sugar.

Jiang Zhiluo took a quick look and estimated that it could be cut into about 500 pieces.

However, it is indeed tiring to work like this, but when I think about earning one or two taels of silver for about five hundred yuan, I don’t feel it’s hard anymore.

Jiang Zhiluo felt very sleepy.

She washed up briefly and went back to her room to prepare for bed.

But when she returned to the room, Jiang Zhiluo found Cui Hejin sitting at the table. She was stunned for a moment, and her whole body shuddered, and her sleepiness disappeared a lot.

"Husband?"

Cui Hejin responded calmly, "Yeah."

Hearing Cui Hejin's voice as clear and melodious as a spring, Jiang Zhiluo suspected that she had heard it wrong.

I thought he wouldn't respond if she called me like that, but I didn't expect that he would actually respond to her.

Jiang Zhiluo calmed herself down, blinked her eyes in confusion as she looked at his quiet figure under the candlelight, and said softly, "It's so late, why aren't you asleep yet?"

"Well, organize the lesson plans."

Jiang Zhiluo was confused and thought that even if she was organizing the content needed for teaching the children, she wouldn't have to be busy so late.

Jiang Zhiluo pursed her lips, thought for a moment, and then asked tentatively, "It's so late, why don't you go to bed early? You have to get up early to go to school tomorrow."

"good."

Cui Hejin put down the brush, washed his hands, and then went back to the room and went to bed.

Jiang Zhiluo was already lying inside, almost falling asleep in a daze.

Cui Hejin blew out the candle, and the room suddenly became dark. Jiang Zhiluo fell asleep almost instantly.

Subconsciously, she seemed to hear a long sigh, but she didn't know if it was an illusion.

…

After a good night's sleep, Cui Hejin went to school early after breakfast the next day.

Jiang Zhiluo and Mrs. Cui cut the brown sugar, packed it, and then took it to town.

It was still mid-morning when they arrived in town.

At this time, there were several women waiting at the dock.

As soon as he saw Jiang Zhiluo coming, he didn't even wait for her to call out, but hurried over and said, "Miss Jiang, did you bring any brown sugar?"

Jiang Zhiluo smiled and said, "Yes, I brought some brown sugar. I brought a little more this time, but that's all."

Jiang Zhiluo said this while patting the backpack on her back.

This time there was too much brown sugar to fit in the basket, so I put it in the backpack.

"Still two cents a piece?"

Jiang Zhiluo nodded and said, "Yes, that's the price. Feel free to buy it."

"I'll buy ten."

"I'll take twenty dollars."

"Give me eight..."

Everyone was talking about buying a few pieces.

Jiang Zhiluo happily packed dumplings for everyone, and Mrs. Cui collected the money with a smile.

Yesterday I was planning to sell brown sugar and go home to count the money, but then Zhiluo bought something and I couldn’t go home to count the coins.

There are so many today, I should be able to take them home and let her count them.

She just wants to enjoy the joy of counting money.

But I also feel very excited and happy when I receive the money.

Jiang Zhiluo didn't even shout much, but she had already sold more than a hundred yuan.

Jiang Zhiluo took advantage of the air raid to shout loudly, "Brown sugar, selling brown sugar, two cents a piece, drink it to strengthen your body..."

Jiang Zhiluo said a lot of nice things.

At this time, a young man came up from the dock. He didn't care about the women around him and hurried over to say, "Young lady, young lady, I want to buy some brown sugar for my mother and my wife..."

"I bought two pieces yesterday. My mother felt energetic after drinking them and no longer had to get up at night. My wife also said that drinking them warmed her body. It's really effective. I'm going to buy some more..."

The man's voice was honest but loud, and it seemed a bit abrupt when mixed with the woman's voice.

Everyone looked at him.

The man was being stared at by everyone and his face suddenly became thin, but Jiang Zhiluo also noticed him.

He scratched the back of his head and blushed, "Can I buy some more brown sugar?"