The next day, Yue Jiuyue earned back the money she had previously paid for the sweet potato roasting oven.
She took ten taels of silver and went to town for a stroll, focusing on the blacksmith shops, hoping to find something she could help with. Although she knew nothing about blacksmithing, she had bought a furnace herself and could explain things to them.
"Mother, what brings you to town? Is there something you need at home?"
Lin Chaonan asked worriedly after seeing Yue Jiuyue.
After leaving the blacksmith shop, Yue Jiuyue ran into Lin Chaonan after only a few steps. She couldn't help but marvel at how small the town really was.
After she graduated and started working, she learned from the class group that many of her old classmates were working in the same city as her, some even not far away, on the same street, but they had never run into each other.
“I had nothing to do at home. I was thinking about making a roasting oven for sweet potatoes, so I came to the blacksmith shop in town to see if they could make one. They said they could, but it would take about a month. Once the oven is finished, I can push my cart to the street and roast sweet potatoes to sell.”
Yue Jiuyue could just say what she had prepared in advance, because she had thought about it for a long time. Even if she suddenly ran into Lin Chaonan, she wouldn't have to rack her brains to come up with an excuse.
"Oh? Building a stove! Mother is really thinking of us. We won't have to carry sweet potatoes around anymore, and we won't have to worry about them getting crushed, pressed, or cold and hard to sell. We can make a couple more trips a day during this time and earn enough money to build the stove, and we can also earn enough to repair the house at the same time."
The thoughtful Lin Chaonan made Yue Jiuyue reach out and pat his head.
"Mom isn't worried about the money, and you three brothers don't need to feel too much pressure. The blacksmith shop owner saw that the stove I wanted was quite novel, so he said he would only charge for the iron. When more people grow sweet potatoes and want to follow the trend of selling roasted sweet potatoes, they can buy stoves from them. It's also a way to promote their business. Don't forget that when the time comes."
Wow! Mom is amazing!
Upon hearing that all the money was for iron, Lin Chaonan's sudden pressure vanished instantly.
"Okay, then you go ahead and sell your sweet potatoes. I'll just take a walk around. By the time I'm done, you'll probably have sold most of them. I'll wait for the three of you outside the town then."
After agreeing on a meeting place, Yue Jiuyue continued shopping on her own.
This time, she wanted to buy some cheap needles, thread, and fabric, and learn to sew clothes with Liu. The whole family also needed new winter clothes, and each person needed a quilt, so that this dry and cold winter wouldn't be so unpleasant.
As for autumn clothes, I'll just make do with what I have for now. I'll add a layer when it gets colder in a couple of days, and another layer when it gets even colder.
At this time, the stuffing for cotton-padded clothes and quilts is not cotton, but the cotton fibers from kapok seeds. The price is probably quite high. Yue Jiuyue didn't think about buying any at this time, after all, she didn't seem to have much money, so how could she afford so many things?
It was at this moment that Yue Jiuyue suddenly realized that she hadn't planted cotton!
She suddenly remembered that the seeds she had sown in the ground had disappeared. Could they have mistaken them for weeds and pulled them out?
She had also forgotten about the corn planted in the mountains, wondering how it had grown.
During this period, the family was too busy. After finishing the autumn harvest, they were busy selling sweet potatoes. In between, they also sent Lin Jiaming's second sister and brother-in-law to the place of exile. In addition, the family was disappointed for several days. How could she think of corn?
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