Chen Guixiang immediately smiled and agreed, "Of course, Mother has earned some money these past few days, so I'll buy Chunhua the best perfume."
Li Chunhua was finally satisfied and went straight into the house, feeling extremely smug. The thought that the Jiang family's business would one day belong to the Li family made her so happy she could laugh in her dreams.
These past few days, their family has been processing konjac, which is selling quite well in several nearby villages. They can earn about 60 or 70 coins a day, and that's just in those small villages.
Tomorrow she and her mother will go to a larger village further away, where they will surely be able to sell their goods for over a hundred coins. When the time is right, they will also follow the Jiang family's example and deliver their goods to restaurants in town. As long as their prices are lower than the Jiang family's, those restaurants will naturally accept their orders.
When that time comes, Jiang Yimian will have nowhere to cry.
As for Lu Cijian, who knows what he'll do once he knows the Jiang family has lost their business!
She'll find a good family to marry into later, and then those people will regret it.
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Lu Cijian, who was waiting to regret it, was just getting splashed with water by Mimi, who had accidentally fallen into the lotus pond.
Lu Cijian frowned and slapped Mimi's excited tiger head. Instantly, the tiger, which had been excitedly shaking its head and splashing water droplets everywhere, wilted and let out a pitiful "Awoo".
Jiang Yimian noticed the water droplets on Lu Cijian's face, reached out and handed him a handkerchief, and said with a smile, "Mimi must be tired from running around. The sun is strong today, so come to the lotus pond to cool off."
It's a pity that all the fish in the pond were scared away.
Lu Cijian took the handkerchief from Jiang Yimian's hand. His cool fingertips suddenly touched the other's warm fingertips. He paused for a moment, but quickly withdrew his hand and wiped the water droplets from his face.
Jiang Yimian watched Mimi swimming happily in the lotus pond, and saw that although the fish were scared away, none of them were eaten. She breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Lu Cijian.
Lu Cijian casually wiped the water droplets from his face, feeling a little uncomfortable under the gaze. He glanced at the person beside him, his deep voice tinged with nervousness, "What's wrong?"
Jiang Yimian stared at the glistening water droplet on the other person's jawline. The droplet slowly traced its way down the other person's neck and past their Adam's apple. She subconsciously reached out and wiped the droplet away.
The person next to him froze, and the Adam's apple bobbed up and down.
Jiang Yimian paused, about to withdraw her hand, when Lu Cijian grabbed her wrist, his dark, peach-blossom eyes staring at her without blinking, raising an eyebrow and chuckling, "What does Mianmian want to do?"
Hearing the soft "mianmian," Jiang Yimian's eyes widened suddenly. She tried to break free from the other person's hand, but coughed lightly and said casually, "I was just helping you wipe the water droplets, that's all."
The boy let out an "Oh~" sound, the last syllable rising in pitch, seemingly a little disappointed, yet also carrying a hint of a smile.
A pair of peach blossom eyes stared intently at her, and he said in a deliberately lighthearted tone, "Then Mianmian will be punished by having to wipe it for me."
After saying that, he nervously clenched his fingers.
Jiang Yimian looked at the handkerchief that was put back into her hand, and without much hesitation, she reached out to wipe the other person's half-damp hair. Staring at the handsome face in front of her, she asked after a while, "Did you leave last time to go find your family?"
Seeing that Lu Cijian remained silent, she quickly added, "We're so familiar with each other, you should at least tell me something about yourself."
Otherwise, you'll always assume that the person has left again when they suddenly aren't home.
Lu Cijian smiled, feeling inexplicably good, but still asked, "How did we become acquainted?"
Jiang Yimian glanced at him, withdrew her hand, and said seriously, "We've been riding the same horse, aren't we familiar with each other yet?"
After all, the last person she rode a horse with was a companion she knew well, a little girl much younger than her.
Lu Cijian was startled. The fragrance seemed to linger around his nose again, and the feeling of being wrapped around the other person yesterday returned to him. His ears suddenly turned red again.
Jiang Yimian chuckled softly, noticing a slight blush creeping onto his sharply defined face. She suddenly leaned closer and whispered, "You've already called me Mianmian, aren't we familiar yet, Aci?"
Lu Cijian paused for a moment, then smiled slightly and said, "Yes, we're very familiar. However, I don't have any family members now, but I will in the future."
Those people weren't his family.
Jiang Yimian was taken aback, clearly not expecting this answer. Seeing that the other party didn't seem to care much, she breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "It's okay, my family will be your family too, and the people of Xiaowadi will all be your family as well."
Lu Cijian raised the corners of her lips slightly and said, "Okay."
As they were talking, they heard Gou Sheng's voice from afar.
"Sister Yimian, Brother Cijian, come and see! Father has finished making it."
The two snapped out of their daze and immediately headed towards Gou Sheng.
Seeing that its owner had left, Mimi lost interest in playing in the lotus pond and quickly jumped out of the pond to catch up with the person in front.
Upon arriving at the Chen family's courtyard, Chen Tiezhu waved to the two of them and said with a smile, "Yimian, take a look, is this what you need?"
The two men each held a bamboo tube and a bamboo product with rounded ends and a narrow middle, similar to a syringe, except that the openings at the bottom of the bamboo tubes were of different sizes.
Jiang Yimian smiled and nodded, "That's exactly what it is."
As she spoke, she went to the soap pot that Old Liu had already stirred into a paste, poured some soap paste into the bamboo tube, and put it in.
Once it was full, she inserted the piston shaft into the top and slowly pushed it outwards.
The soap bars inside the bamboo tube flowed out smoothly in strips, much like the effect of a piping bag.
My initial worries about exposing the piping bag were finally gone.
She just smiled and said, "It works very well. It can be put into use when the workshop starts operating."
As for cleaning, it's quite easy to clean before the soap completely hardens.
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