The next morning at the breakfast table, Lin Chaonan earnestly advised:
"Mother, you must be good. It's getting cold, so you shouldn't stay outside for too long, or you'll catch a cold!"
Yue Jiuyue: ...
Has the roles been reversed? Aren't mothers usually the ones saying this?
"I know, I'm not stupid. Do you think I don't even know what hot and cold are?"
Yue Jiuyue couldn't help but roll her eyes at Lin Chaonan. How to put it... she herself felt she sounded like a child, and thinking about it made her feel a little embarrassed. So she immediately changed her words:
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. I'll know to go inside when it gets cold."
Lin Chaonan then stopped saying anything, and once the food was served, the mother and son ate quietly.
After finishing breakfast, Lin Chaonan still had to go to town to check on the shop. Now that it was cold, there weren't many people selling vegetables and wild fruits in the shop anymore. Most of the shops sold cabbage, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, all lined up in one shop. Although business wasn't great, at least they didn't have to freeze, which was enough to satisfy many people.
Of course, some people also actively went door-to-door selling roasted sweet potatoes, but their business was not much better than in the store. In the villages under Caolu County, every household grew sweet potatoes, so there was no shortage, and they really couldn't sell them.
Yue Jiuyue's soap has always been in short supply, and many buyers from afar complain about why they opened shops in county towns and prefectures, saying that they would not have trouble selling even if they went to the capital. Unfortunately, Yue Jiuyue just sticks to this small town and refuses to move.
Lin Chaodong, on the other hand, had some new ideas after hearing this, as he was currently in the stage of saving money.
Lin Chaodong wasn't the only one with ideas; many villagers shared similar thoughts. Some worked in Yue Jiuyue's soap workshop, while others had already become "soap agents." Some went to the neighboring town, while others went as far as the county seat or even the neighboring county seat. In a month, a family's income was quite promising.
Just as the first snow in Linjiagou Village was melting, the carriage that Yue Jiuyue had asked Magistrate Tang to send to the capital arrived. This time, she sent not only sweet potatoes, cotton and cotton seeds, but also soap from home, pancakes, and even flower tea made from various flowers and dried fruit made from various fruits. They were not new things, but they still made people feel her thoughtfulness.
Anyway, she sent over a dozen horse-drawn carts containing things that her family had but others didn't or even had in rare quantities. The main items were cotton and cotton seeds, as Yue Jiuyue felt that cotton was as important as sweet potatoes, and the sooner it became widespread, the better.
However, sweet potatoes can be planted using sweet potato sprouts and vines, while cotton can only be grown from cotton seeds. Therefore, cotton is more difficult to popularize than sweet potatoes, which is why she packed up the remaining cotton and cotton seeds at home and sent them to the capital.
At least, the original owner's second son had disappeared because he was serving in the military. Maybe he's training in some unit in the border town right now, or maybe he's fighting against the enemy army. The weather is so cold. If they could wear cotton-padded clothes sooner, they wouldn't have to worry about catching a cold or getting frostbite during these cold winters. They could concentrate on training, defeat the enemy as soon as possible, and go home sooner.
The fact that they retired from military service and returned to their fields also proves that the country is peaceful and prosperous.
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