Jiang Yue became a fortune teller.

In the early hours of the morning, she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar and was shivering with cold.

She reached out to the side, but was caught by Jiang Nian.

After a while, she was wrapped in a thick quilt and felt very warm.

Half asleep, she was still thinking about the livestock in the yard and muttered, "The pigs haven't been put into the cage yet."

Jiang Nian tucked her hands into the quilt, patted her back, and said softly, "Go to sleep. I'll go downstairs and take a look."

Then he got up and went downstairs.

The mule had huddled up in the straw, but it had been through the two previous snowstorms with the two men and was well adjusted.

The roosters and hens had already huddled together in the cage to keep warm. Jiang Nian gathered the scattered straw and closed the door.

Only a few stupid pigs were left. They had no hair and refused to enter the cage. Instead, they lay on the straw, shivering and grunting intermittently.

Jiang Nian walked in and patted the cage, "Come in."

The pigs still didn't move, so he found a wooden stick and drove the pigs into the big cage one by one like chickens.

The cage had large gaps between them, so it wasn't insulated, but it was still warmer than being outside. After a while, the pig's grunting quieted down.

The next day, when Jiang Yue woke up in the warm quilt, Jiang Nian had already lit the stove and there was hot soy milk on it.

She sat up wrapped in the quilt, exhaled, and instantly turned into fog. Looking through the window, it looked like it wasn't snowing outside, but it was gray.

If the weather gets colder, they should go downstairs to heat the kang.

"When did you get up? And you even ground the soy milk?"

Jiang Nian poured her a bowl and brought it over to feed her.

"I woke up early and went down to see that the mule was freezing, so I put it to work to warm itself up."

Mule: You are the living devil! You are the living devil!

"Take some rags and make a blanket for it. It won't be comfortable in the cold at night."

"As for the chickens and pigs, why don't we just collect all the straw in the house and leave only the straw in the cages, and then burn it in the house? It will be warmer."

"The cage is made of woven bamboo with straw inside. Can you guard it all the time? If the wind gets strong enough and the flames catch, I can just eat the roasted pig and chicken."

Pig and Chicken: You are the living devil! You are the living devil!

"Then move the pigs into the chicken house and block up the doors and windows. It'll be warmer that way, but it'll stink them to death..."

There is nothing to say about Jiang Nian. He is the one who feeds and cleans up the feces and urine every day, so he might as well die of stink.

After drinking a bowl of hot soy milk, Jiang Yue felt warm from the inside out and her mind became clear.

"Did you grind enough soy milk? Leave two cans and we'll go to the store later to check."

"good."

What’s better this year than the previous year is that there was no sudden heavy snowfall at the end of summer without any warning, and we had a week’s “autumn adaptation period”.

Slowly, the weather should return to normal.

They were walking on the road wrapped in thick cotton coats. Passersby were in a hurry, wearing thin clothes, with cold hands and feet. They were not as leisurely as them.

Their cloth shop was booming again. When the weather turned cold, those who had been reluctant to change their cloth came to do so.

Jiang Yue ordered a new stove from the pottery shop in the city and left an old one for the three of them.

She had just come in the day before yesterday to clear the firewood and check the accounts. Fan Mo couldn't read, but she was clever and had her own way of keeping accounts, using some special symbols.

As long as she could remember and explain it clearly, Jiang Yue didn't demand that the account book look good. You have to know that at this time, less than one percent of people could read and write.

Jiang Yue checked the accounts and made new records in her own account book, and the discrepancies were not big.

In half a month, these three had run the store successfully. The other two were one honest and one erratic. Fan Mo had become the backbone of the store, but she faced an important problem.

When the snow falls heavily, I don’t know if she will still hibernate.

Jiang Yue thought about it and decided to close the store after Fan Mo went into hibernation. She would definitely not be able to get up to do business anyway.

She also needs to enter a "hibernation period". After leaving her social life, she must at least enjoy this short life.

Being a willful boss, living a life of eating and sleeping, how wonderful it is~

After leaving firewood for a few of them and taking away the rest, the two men came out of the warehouse and happened to meet the housekeeper Wang who was going to deliver the invitation to them.

Steward Wang got off the carriage, holding an invitation in both hands, and said with a smile, "The Wang family's new house has been completed, and we would like to invite Madam Jiang and Mr. Jiang to come and have a warm-up banquet."

Arriving in the new territory, he naturally treated the Jiang family, with whom he had many interactions, differently from other families. Moreover, they were fellow villagers from the same prefecture!

The cold wind was blowing, and seeing that Butler Wang's hands were red from the cold and he had frostbite, Jiang Yue invited him into the store to sit down and have some hot water.

Having just arrived in the city, the Wang family had to rush through the construction of their new house while also busy gathering information about the city. Housekeeper Wang was practically overwhelmed.

He had heard that there was a Jiang's cloth shop in the city that sold Jiangnan cloth, so he guessed that it would be these two people. However, since their family did not need cloth, he did not go to their store.

After a few pleasantries, he said goodbye and had to go and entertain the next family.

Jiang Yue was astonished. This wealthy family was really particular.

Seeing snowflakes starting to fall, Jiang Yue told Fan Bai and the others to sweep the snow carefully to prevent the roof from collapsing. Then she hurried home.

She thought that since the Wang family had specially sent an invitation, it would be fine to go there if there was nothing else to do.

But a day later, she changed her mind. She simply prepared a large gift package of fruit and asked the boy from the He family next door to help deliver it to Wang's house, and apologized, saying that she was not feeling well.

This is not an excuse, some people are indeed unwell.

Jiang Nian's temperature was frighteningly high.

She originally thought that the weather was too cold, causing her temperature perception to be unbalanced.

But Jiang Nian just hugged her and warmed herself by the fire, and she felt so hot that she had to take off her cotton coat. Even her back, which was pressed against her, felt like it was on fire.