Chapter 211 Dad, am I disliked by grandma?
When Old Man Wen saw her come out, he ran to her mysteriously and said, "One by one."
Wen Zhenyi was startled by him and patted his chest: "Grandpa, scaring people can kill them."
Old Man Wen took her wrist and walked to the side, then looked at Xiong Lu's room again: "Yi Yi, is this Xiong Lu not mentally sound?"
"What's the matter?"
"He stays in his room every day, fiddling with all sorts of weird stuff. He doesn't like to talk, and sometimes he brings back junk from outside, but I don't know what he does with it."
"Grandpa, he's making something."
"If you hadn't said he was useful, I would have asked you if you were treating your home like a shelter, picking up anyone and everything."
Wen Zhenyi laughed when he heard it: "Grandpa, I'm not a good person."
"Are you really a good person? Little Peach is fine, but Xiong Lu and A Xiang both seem really weird."
Wen Zhen touched his nose. Some things really couldn't be explained: "Grandpa, did Xiong Lu make something?"
"Yes, I put it in the backyard. I don't know what it's used for."
"You'll know when the autumn harvest comes."
"Is this strange thing still useful during the autumn harvest?"
"some."
"Okay, if you say it's useful, then it's useful. Anyway, there aren't many people at home right now, and you four siblings won't be back for a few days, so a few more people will make it more lively."
"Grandpa, why don't I move back home?"
"If you move back, what will happen to your shop in town? Won't you be tired of running back and forth every day?"
"I can spend more time with you guys if I don't come back."
"Why do I need you to accompany me?" After saying this, Old Man Wen snorted coldly and walked away with his hands behind his back.
Wen Zhenyi touched his chin and thought, it would be nice if the village could be developed into a part of the town so that he could do business at his doorstep.
In the afternoon, everyone in the village, young and old, ran to their yard to buy lotus roots and learn how to make lotus root powder.
Wen Zhenyi looked at the people lined up outside the yard and felt a headache. "Grandpa Dong Li, I can't teach every family, young and old, all at once. Can you ask each family to send a representative to learn?"
"Okay, wait, I'll go talk to them." Dong Li said as he gathered everyone to the gate of the courtyard.
The villagers discussed it and finally sent younger members of their families to learn, thinking that they would have better memory.
Wen Chengwen helped her move the lotus roots out.
Wen Zhenyi began to explain to the people in the yard how to make it and what the steps were.
The villagers listened attentively, and those who didn't understand would ask again. She would patiently explain it again to ensure that everyone had fully understood it.
Dong Li looked at the lotus root starch that was still steamy and said, "Wen girl, is this made the same way as sweet potato starch?"
"Almost, but how would the village chief know?"
"When I saw you doing this, I wondered if the sweet potato noodles sold in grocery stores were made this way too."
"Indeed, I asked you to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes so that you can make flour."
"Now all the stores are selling it. Can we still sell it if we make it?"
"No one is selling lotus root starch now. As for sweet potato starch and potato starch, I don't want to sell them for the final purpose, but for the vermicelli produced after further processing."
"What is this?"
"It's a dry commodity that can be transported far away and is easier to store than sweet potato flour."
"Have you thought about this from the beginning?"
"Grandpa Village Chief, since only my family is doing well, it's inevitable that others will be jealous of us. Only when everyone's life is good will we not have so many thoughts about those things."
Dong Li looked at the girl who had just turned fourteen, and sometimes he couldn't help but sigh that she was really a very far-sighted person.
"Sister Wen, shall we buy lotus roots from you tomorrow?"
"Yes, I'll let you know when it's delivered tomorrow. You can just come and buy it. It'll be cheaper than at the market. Also, try to prepare the things I mentioned earlier in the next two days. It doesn't need to be a lot, as long as you learn a little bit."
"Chicken eggs are okay, but we don't raise many duck eggs in our village. We need to go to the market and other villages to check."
"You don't need to buy too much. I'm teaching you the method now. Once you master it, you can buy it and make it at home."
"Auntie Wang, do you have a lot of duck eggs? Sell us two so we can learn how to make them."
"Okay, since Miss Wen said to learn first, we will keep some and sell the rest to you." Aunt Wang agreed readily. You know, duck eggs are not as easy to sell as chicken eggs.
The others also bought and exchanged what they needed, and made an appointment to come to Wen's house tomorrow to learn the remaining two recipes.
All the lotus roots that Wen Zhenyi brought were sold. After the lotus root powder was dried, she had to go to the town to find a market for it.
She has been back for a few days and has been busy from morning to night every day. She is either teaching the villagers how to make things or working in the pig farm and fields.
Old Lady Wen saw that she had lost weight after a few days since she came back. When everyone in the village learned what she was doing, they collected her things and asked Wen Chengwen to send her back to town.
Also thrown onto the ox cart was Cream, who was still sleepy. He had been playing like crazy these past few days and fell into a deep sleep as soon as he got home. He suddenly realized that he had been moved to a new place and was a little slow to react.
When it saw Wen Zhenyi next to it, it leaned towards her and continued to sleep.
Wen Zhen blinked her eyes and watched the carriage slowly leave the village. There were still a lot of things beside her. She had bought the lotus root powder, preserved eggs and salted duck eggs made by the villagers in the past two days.
"Dad, am I disliked by grandma?"
Wen Chengwen turned his head and looked at his daughter who looked puzzled. "Your grandma saw that you've lost weight and doesn't want you to struggle in the village anymore."
Wen Zhenyi looked down at the clothes he was wearing and said, "I'm not thin at all!"
"That's what you think. Your mother told me to send you back quickly. If you hadn't finished your work, I would have thrown you back to town long ago."
"I've only been back for a few days, is that really that serious?"
"I think if you stay a few more days, they'll get anxious."
Wen Zhenyi touched his nose and said, "Dad, you don't sell pigs recently, do you?"
"No, I'm thinking of selling one a month, otherwise I won't be able to keep up. We've discussed how to breed piglets, otherwise it wouldn't be appropriate to buy pigs from outside."
"Dad, how much silver did you get from selling that pig last time?"
"In total, I sold it for a little over three ounces. The pig was fed swill as you instructed, and it gained quite a bit of fat, so I didn't lose much."
"That's good. The less loss, the better."
"I may have earned a few coins to support my family during this period of time."
"It's not bad. It's mainly because we were lucky to buy a Large White pig. If it were another breed, I'm afraid we wouldn't be so lucky."
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