Chapter 228 Su Taiding Portal
Huang Xinghua was so generous because Su Tai had really helped their family so much. Now that Chenxiang had become Su Tai's sister-in-law, she was even more generous.
Su Tai opened the rice and knew at a glance that it was aged japonica rice. Not only was it yellowish in color, but the grains were not full and the quality was poor. But this thing was indeed precious to them. After all, there was no rice in Langya Kingdom, and it was not easy to transport rice from Longxia Kingdom thousands of miles away.
She pretended to be delighted and said with a smile: "It looks pretty good. Thank you, Auntie."
With this rice, she could consider planting some rice in the Earth Time and Space, so that she would have an excuse to take it out when the time comes and no one would suspect her.
Huang Xinghua was happy to see that she liked it.
Chen Tian, who was standing by, asked shyly, "Sister Su Tai, are we going to start making pot cakes tomorrow evening?"
Su Tai nodded quickly, "Yes! At the end of the year, there are more pilgrims in the temple, and the temple will be closed on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month. They want to increase the supply, especially the sweet ones, cabbage, carrots, and pickles. We need to supply more than 3,000 of these three every day, so we need to add two more ovens."
"Oh! Can you handle so much? Why don't I go over and help? There's not much work to do at home anyway." Huang Xinghua said hurriedly.
Su Tai hesitated a little, "Auntie, Erya's belly is getting bigger, I'm afraid she won't be able to take care of the housework, can you handle it?"
Huang Xinghua laughed nonchalantly, "It's winter, and the child's father is idle, so let him do the housework, and Xiaotian's brothers help, that's enough. I'll come over after noon every day to help you wash vegetables and burn firewood. I can't make the pot cakes, but I can help."
Su Tai agreed and said, "Auntie, if Mu Bo is free, could you please ask him to take me to Dongmen Village? I want to send some New Year gifts to my parents."
Huang Xinghua felt a little uncomfortable after hearing this. She looked at Su Tai's belly and sighed, "If Chen Yi was here, you wouldn't have to work so hard. Wait, I'll go back and tell my wife, when are you going to leave?"
"Leave before dawn tomorrow and use my donkey cart, which is faster, and come back in the evening. When I'm not at home, you can ask Second Aunt to open the door next door, so you can go in and work anytime."
Su Tai arranged things in an orderly manner.
Huang Xinghua also felt a little relieved.
The next day, Su Tai got up before dawn to prepare.
Before Shen Yi went out, he had already pressed up the carriage of the donkey cart so that Su Tai could be more comfortable when she went out.
With the protection of the carriage, Su Tai could fool people more easily.
Only when Chenmu was almost at Dongmen Village driving the donkey cart did Su Tai take out the things from the Space-Time Gate Transfer Station.
The donkey cart was running very fast. Chenmu could not quickly notice the changes in the carriage behind, nor could he feel the donkey's speed slowing down. Even if he felt it, he would not think much about it. At most, he would just suspect that the road was difficult to travel on.
The two arrived at the Su family.
Seeing Su Tai coming back to give New Year gifts with a big belly, Han felt so distressed that she kept repeating, "When have you become so stubborn about face? What's wrong with not giving New Year gifts for a year? I really don't know what to scold you for!"
Su Tai picked her ears and begged for mercy, "Okay, Mom, I was just worried that you couldn't buy some things here, so I eagerly sent them to you."
Su Chunlin and Shen Yi are not here this year, and everyone seems to have lost the enthusiasm for doing business. In previous years, Han would send people over early to ask for fish, but this year there was no response.
Han opened the bucket and saw six big fish weighing five or six pounds lying in it. She felt sorry for Su Tai.
Su Tai didn't waste any time talking to her. She pushed out the tea, sugar, bread and cakes, clothes, shoes and socks, as well as a large pot of cooked food, and asked the Su Zhan brothers to help bring it in.
"I won't say much about other things. There are several kinds of tea. You can make tea with it when you are free or entertain guests. This kind of tea can also be boiled with goat milk to make milk tea, which is very fragrant. This big pot is the mutton hot pot I made. The ingredients are all the freshest. Oh, and there are some other dishes. You can arrange them as you like.
If you have time before the New Year, come visit me again and I will prepare some delicious food for you."
Mrs. Han couldn't stand it any longer and scolded him with a stern face: "You can't move things to your mother's house like this when your son-in-law is not here! If this gets out, you'll be scolded to death!"
Su Tai was helpless, "Mom, I've been so busy with work over there lately. Ah Zhan, Ah Ming, and Ah Xiang often go back to help me. I'm generous to other people who work with me, so how can I be stingy with my brothers and sisters-in-law?
Everyone in the village knows my style of doing things, who would say anything bad about me? Besides, my family makes money by selling pot cakes, can such a small thing bankrupt the Shen family? You are just worrying about nothing!
Well, I won't say anything more. The two children are still locked up at home. I'm going back now. Can I ask A-Zhan and the others to help me for a few days this evening?"
Han's expression finally eased a lot after hearing this. "Okay! Let Zhan and Ming go over there. Xiaoyu and I will be the only ones left at home."
If there wasn't a baby at home who needed to be breastfed, Han would have wanted to ask Ruan Xiaoyu to go over and help as well.
Su Tai smiled, turned around and immediately called Chen Mu to go back.
That evening, the workshop next door had not been heard since it started. Shen Ergou and Shen Tian came early to help, and went back to rest when it was almost dark, waiting for Chou Shi to come over to take over.
Su Zhan, Su Ming and the others started working from the evening until midnight, and then they would take over.
Because they came to help, the rooms on the workshop side had already been cleaned up by Su Tai and could be occupied at any time without affecting Su Tai.
After being busy for two days, Su Tai finally felt relieved to see that everything was in order in the workshop. She turned around and asked Chen Mu to help run a trip to the farm outside Dahe Town to notify Fang Wei to bring a few tenant farmers over to help with the New Year gifts.
Fang Wei was somewhat surprised when he received the news.
Last year they also received some New Year gifts, which were food and some meat. Those things successfully helped them get through the winter and everyone remembered them clearly. This year, because they knew that the boss was going to serve in the army, no one dared to think about New Year gifts at all. Unexpectedly, the boss's wife had already made preparations.
Yan Yong asked excitedly: "Brother Fang Wei, how many ox carts should we get over there?"
There are ten cows on the farm, which were purchased by the owner at the beginning of this spring. They built the cart themselves to facilitate the delivery of grain.
Fang Wei thought carefully for a while before saying, "Let's be conservative and all go over, but don't go into the village together. Just three people go together. If there aren't many things, we can take them away all at once. If there are a lot of things, we can call people from outside to come into the village to help."
Yan Yongkuang nodded, "Brother is really thoughtful. Let's do it this way."
A group of people came to Shenjiazhuang.
Fang Wei, Yan Yong and another strong tenant farmer entered the village together.
When Su Tai saw them, she nodded to them and let them go into the yard to move their things.
"The food you harvested this year should be enough!"
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