Chapter 41 Changes

Lin Zhuzhu still felt a little unsatisfied when she thought of the taste of the leek dumplings.

"The other day, a woman came to buy pig's trotters. She smelled the aroma and asked me what I had made that tasted so good. I told her it was leek dumplings, but she had never heard of them."

Lin Zhuzhu was talking about what happened after Jiang Zhiluo brought her the leek box two days ago.

"Sister Jiang, I think you can definitely start a food business at the dock. As long as the food is delicious, you can make a lot of money every day."

After interacting with Jiang Zhiluo for a while, Lin Zhuzhu felt that she liked Jiang Zhiluo very much and treated her as her younger sister.

I couldn't help but persuade her to do some small business.

Seeing her wearing coarse linen clothes, I knew that her family was ordinary, and she was reluctant to buy more meat every time. However, Lin Zhuzhu would always give her something as a gift.

The most important thing is that Lin Zhuzhu thought that if Sister Jiang set up a snack stall, she could go buy food.

She still wants to eat the chive dumplings.

Dad had no appetite since he fell ill. That day, Sister Jiang gave her four leek boxes. When she took them home, her parents praised them highly and said they were delicious.

Jiang Zhiluo pondered and said, "I have thought about starting a food business and setting up a stall at the pier, but I don't live here."

"You know I live in Donghe Village. It's inconvenient to carry things back and forth. It's easier to sell brown sugar. I just need to bring the goods over."

Jiang Zhiluo sold brown sugar at the dock for a few days and also observed the business of the snack stalls. The ones that were doing well were really good.

I sell buns. Vegetarian buns are three cents, and meat buns are five cents. I can make several hundred buns in the morning and make several taels of silver.

She thinks it saves time to make money than brown sugar.

She spends an entire afternoon making and boiling brown sugar, and may only earn a few hundred coins a day.

It takes too much time to boil brown sugar in a big pot.

"That's nothing. The dock is close to me. You can just leave your things at my house and come pick them up in the morning."

"I live here on weekdays, too."

In order to facilitate the butcher business, Lin Zhuzhu usually lives in the small courtyard at the back.

Jiang Zhiluo didn't refuse Lin Zhuzhu's kindness and said with a smile, "I'll think about it carefully later."

After Jiang Zhiluo left the butcher stall, seeing that it was almost time, she went to the school to ask for leave for Cui Hejin.

When Mr. Li learned that Cui Hejin was ill, he said very understandingly, "Don't worry, young lady. Let Mr. Cui rest well at home. It won't be too late to come back after he has rested well."

Mr. Li looked at Cui Hejin's wife and sighed in his heart, this girl really doesn't look like a girl from the countryside.

Whether it's her appearance, temperament or the way she speaks, she's very extraordinary.

When did the countryside become filled with so many hidden talents?

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When Jiang Zhiluo was carrying the basket on her back on her way home, she was thinking about what kind of business she could start.

I worked hard for seven or eight days making brown sugar and only earned four taels of silver.

Still a bit slow.

If Zhuang Xing'an had not trusted her medical skills and asked her to see patients, she would not have been able to take some medicinal herbs under the pretext of seeing a patient.

If these herbs were purchased separately, they would cost several taels of silver.

And it does not include those extremely precious medicinal ingredients.

If she wanted to completely restore Madam Cui and Cui Hejin's health, she would need a lot of money.

She also wants to buy land to grow crops, vegetables and other things.

It was already mid-morning when Jiang Zhiluo returned home.

At this time, Mrs. Cui was not at home, and Cui Hejin was reading in the house.

The sun was shining brightly at this time. Cui Hejin heard the sound of the door opening and turned around to look at Jiang Zhiluo, who seemed to be as gentle and ethereal as jade.

Especially when the sunlight shines on him through the window lattice, there is a poetic and picturesque feeling of flowing light.

The sunlight made his eyes and eyebrows shine with dazzling brilliance.

He clearly only turned around to look at her because of the voice, and his expression was clearly the coldest, but he also gave off a sense of concentration and bewitching.

In just a moment, Jiang Zhiluo quickly avoided his gaze, not allowing herself to be bewitched and imprisoned by his eyes.

"Are you feeling better?"

Cui Hejin restrained his expression slightly, and the joints of his hand holding the book tightened a little. He whispered, "Yeah, much better. Thank you for last night."

Jiang Zhiluo was surprised. Was he saying thank you to her?

She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she felt that when Cui Hejin spoke to her, his voice was gentler than before, no longer as quiet and silent as frost and snow.

But Jiang Zhiluo would not be so self-indulgent.

"You're welcome."

It was her duty to be kind to him and save him; she owed him this.

It’s just that he doesn’t have those memories, so he doesn’t know.

"Where did Mom go?"

Jiang Zhiluo was a little worried when she didn't see Mrs. Cui when she entered the room.

"Mom went to the river to wash clothes."

The sun was shining brightly today. They had been busy making brown sugar these days and had no time to take care of household chores. It just so happened that they were not going to town this morning, and Cui Hejin looked fine, so the old lady took her clothes and went to the river.

Jiang Zhiluo nodded and said, "I saw a patient today and earned ten taels of silver, as well as some medicinal herbs."

"This is my mother's medicine, and this is your medicine, it can help you recover."

"Is there anything you want to buy?"

Jiang Zhiluo sat on a chair and took out ten taels of silver to look at it.

Cui Hejin listened to Jiang Zhiluo's words and looked at the silver in her hand, a look of slight surprise flashed across his eyes.

"Just take the money. I don't have anything I need to buy for now."

Jiang Zhiluo nodded and said, "Well, I went to the academy to ask for leave for you. You can rest at home for the next few days and go to the academy when you feel better."

After a pause, Jiang Zhiluo added, "Things will get better at home, and we'll have more money. You don't have to work so hard. Your health is more important."

I thought Cui Hejin wouldn't say anything, or would insist on something, but he just responded calmly, "Okay."

It gave her the illusion that Cui Hejin would listen to her arrangements.

After Jiang Zhiluo talked to Cui Hejin for a few words, she put her things down and went to the yard to check on the malt she had planted before.

When Jiang Zhiluo saw that the malt had grown well, she smiled and said, "We can make malt sugar now."

Jiang Zhiluo thought that after making malt sugar, she would send some to her parents and younger brothers and sisters. They would probably be very happy.

Jiang Zhiluo pulled out all the malt and put them in a basin to wash.

When she was scooping water, she found that there was not much water left in the tank. Jiang Zhiluo took a shoulder pole and a wooden bucket from the yard and went to the well at the village entrance to fetch water.

The sun was shining brightly at this time, and the children in the village were running and playing, while many old men and women were looking for a place to bask in the sun at the door with their stools.

There were also people driving ducks and geese into the river, and there were also sounds of dogs barking.

Various sounds interweave into country tunes, giving people a sense of rural leisure.

When Jiang Zhiluo went to fetch water, she happened to meet the village head's eldest son Zhou Zhaoxi who was also fetching water.

The boy's eyebrows and eyes were as handsome as the sun, his bronze skin was healthy, and his arms were full of muscular strength when he was carrying water.

When he saw Jiang Zhiluo, he smiled brightly and said, "Sister Jiang, do you want to fetch some water? I can help you carry it back."