Su Qingluan put down the "rice cake poison bomb" and ran away, completely unaware that in addition to the two target persons, Mu Xingzhi and Song Bo, who were about to suffer the "taste baptism" in the next few days, there was also a very innocent young man Kaiyang.
Not to mention that when Brother Kaiyang ate the rice cake with stinky tofu filling, he thought he was poisoned and fell into a state of doubt about his life. At this moment, Su Qingluan felt refreshed.
Especially when she imagined that no matter which of the four rice cakes Mu Xingzhi ate, the effect on his tongue would be absolutely explosive. Just by imagining this scene in her mind, Su Qingluan felt that the depression she had felt after drinking the bitter and deadly Chinese medicine soup for several days had been swept away.
Humming a tuneless little song she made up, Su Qingluan skipped and danced on her way home.
The weather is getting colder and colder. Even though it is past noon now, which should be the highest temperature of the day, you can still feel a little warmth from the sun if there is no wind. But if there is even the slightest "stir", the coldness seems to come from all directions and surround you.
The summer clothes that were originally light and bright in color have long been put away by everyone, and all that comes into view are clothes that are darker in color, thicker and warmer.
Even the Su family had changed into thick two-layer jackets, and in the past two days, Yang had been arranging to go to the town to see if there was any cotton spinning shop with good handmade products to make a few new soft cotton quilts. Su Qingluan and Yang had taken out the quilt used last year and had seen it before. It had been completely rotten due to moisture and too much time.
Not to mention reuse, even if it is used as a cleaning tool, it is too damp to absorb water.
So Su Qingluan decisively tore up those quilts and used them as fuses for the stove. Not to mention, because the tattered cotton wool was loose enough, even though it was a little damp, it was still easier to burn than ordinary fresh firewood. Adding some dry grass, the effect was simply amazing.
So Yang joked that when quilts, cotton coats, or cotton pants became unusable in the future, they could use them to burn in the stove.
While thinking about the interesting little episodes at home, Su Qingluan did not forget to say hello to the neighbors who were walking towards her.
Ever since she hired twenty or thirty people to work overtime to make a batch of fruit jam for the Xie family to rush and sell on a trial basis, Su Qingluan's "fame" and "prestige" in Huaxi Village have increased a lot - it can be said that the changes are earth-shaking.
Before, everyone’s perception of Su Qingluan was just “the eldest girl of the Su family”, “she was taken away by mistake for more than ten years and was only recognized in recent months”, “she is pretty and can help with the family expenses, and seems to be a good candidate for a future daughter-in-law”. Basically, these are the only words people can describe her.
To put it bluntly, the evaluation of her in the village was not much different from that of other teenage girls. The only thing that was worth talking about was the more than ten years when she was taken away by mistake.
However, Su Guangfu and Yang Shi didn't intend to use this incident as a topic for after-dinner conversation. In their view, their negligence had led to both their adopted and biological daughters not having a happy life, and it was entirely their fault. They felt sorry for both their biological daughter and their adopted daughter, so they kept silent about the more than ten years that Su Qingluan was mistakenly taken away.
Su Qingluan was not a real child, and she was not quite sure why she was taken away by mistake - after all, she was a ghost who had come back to life through borrowing a corpse, and if she accidentally revealed her true identity, there would be a lot of subsequent trouble.
The other two younger ones in the Su family are even easier to deal with.
After a period of awkwardness, Su Xuanhe has accepted the fact that "his original sister left and returned to her own home, and now this one is his own sister."
As the little girl Su Xueyan was so young, after spending half a year together, she had basically forgotten what her "original elder sister" looked like.
It was precisely because the whole family kept silent about Su Qingluan's past ten years that, although there had been various rumors about this matter behind the scenes, it ultimately did not become a factor that affected the Su family.
On the contrary, Su Qingluan's previous vigorous large-scale recruitment, which had allowed many people to actually receive considerable wages, had recently sparked a wave of heated discussion in the village.
Those who stayed until the end were all thankful that they had persevered. Although it was a bit hard, they earned more in less than half a month than they had earned in the previous few months.
And there are those who have not been selected and have missed the opportunity, especially those who signed up but were eliminated because they were afraid of hard work or did not abide by the time and other rules, they are even more heartbroken and regretful, secretly hating themselves for missing such a good opportunity to make money.
The villagers passing by on the road either came to thank Su Qingluan, the "conscientious employer", for the generous salary she gave them, or to tell her that next time there was any work to do, she must post a recruitment notice and he would do the job well. In short, it was very lively.
Although Su Qingluan herself is not a particularly sociable person, she naturally has a different kind of "battlefield friendship" with those who have shared "joys and sorrows" with her.
Su Qingluan noticed that although there were no other odd jobs at the moment and the busy autumn harvest season was basically over, everyone was busy and was all in a hurry.
When asked, I found that they were either busy buying autumn vegetables at the market, or going to the river to wash and process winter vegetables in their gardens in preparation for the winter.
"Thanks to you, Madam Su, for hiring me to do the work for a few days. I was able to earn enough money to buy salt!"
"Even though we can't afford meat, at least with this little extra silver, we won't have to starve for most of the winter like we did last year!"
"Ah, if there had been this little ounce of silver last winter, my child's grandfather wouldn't have been in such a state..."
Words of gratitude or sighs made Su Qingluan realize that the wages she had distributed to everyone after hiring them to make jam were indeed playing a certain role!
As she had initially imagined, the ancient times were just backward in technology and production levels, but people were not fools.
As long as people have the ability to eat, they will use their brains to find ways to preserve as much food as possible.
The main reason why more than one or two people died every winter in Huaxi Village was that the villagers were essentially dependent on the weather for their livelihood. The snow closed the mountains in winter, making it impossible to go out and forage for food, so they had to eat what they had at home.
What to do if the stock is insufficient?
One or two days, three or five days, you can still hold out. But winter is not something you can just endure in a few days. The weak and the elderly can't make it.
If they had had something to eat, they would not have starved to death in the winter.
So now Su Qingluan has thought of a way to help the whole village survive the winter. Although it is clumsy, it is indeed beginning to show results.
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