"What do you know? Xiaoyu knows more than you."

Chen Xiaoying pulled Xiaoyu and put a chair into the bed of the tricycle.

She once had the experience of riding on a bus. After walking one stop, she almost fainted. There were so many people in the car, and the smell of gasoline gave her a headache. There were also various strange smells that blocked her heart and throat, making her breathless.

I got out of the car quickly and vomited on the side of the road. I was staggering for a long time and couldn't walk.

For people who get carsick, riding in a car is a form of torture without using a knife.

Li Yutong suffered from motion sickness when she was a child, but she got used to it after doing it more often when she grew up, so she suffers from motion sickness now.

A tricycle is fine, it's open-top and just the right size for sitting. You can move a chair onto it, sit on it, hold on to the carriage with your hands, and feel the wind, so you won't get dizzy.

The grandparents and grandchildren climbed into the truck bed and sat down.

Li Hongwei used the crank to start the tricycle, which started making a clicking sound. Three generations of his family went to the county town and officially took the first step in their business.

Kaiyuan County is a county with a population of over 700,000. It has more than a dozen towns under its jurisdiction. It is neither big nor small, and the county is quite lively.

The tall buildings of the previous life have not been built yet, and the tallest one is only a six-story collective building.

After finding a place to park the tricycle, Chen Xiaoying took Li Yutong and followed her eldest son Li Hongwei to the busiest People's Market in the county.

The People's Market is full of people buying clothes. In the middle is a large shed of more than 600 square meters, and underneath are stalls selling food: clay pot noodles, rice noodles, oil-splashed noodles, sesame cakes, fried noodles, fried dough sticks, steamed buns and dumplings, wonton noodles, and everything else.

Even from a distance, I was greeted warmly.

"Come and eat noodles, casserole noodles, stewed noodles, everything."

"Do you want to eat rice noodles?"

"Fresh sesame cakes from the pan, fresh sesame cakes from the pan."

…

They are thin-skinned and cannot stand being invited. They just sit down wherever anyone comes to eat.

Chen Xiaoying didn't eat it. She took a look at the sesame cake. It was different from the ones she made. It was directly rolled with vegetables and meat, flattened, and then baked sideways on the coal stove. The cake was greasy and satisfying just by looking at it.

Then, one dollar each.

"What does Xiaoyu want to eat?" Chen Xiaoying asked Li Yutong.

Li Yutong looked at the market. The layout was exactly the same as when she saw it in her thirties. It hadn't changed at all, except for the signs and the pots and stoves used now, which were not as fresh and convenient as those of later times.

In the future, Kaiyuan County will develop rapidly with the vigorous development of minerals. The county will be abolished and changed into a city, called Kaiyuan City. This place will become the old market, while the new market will be opened next door, selling clothes, furniture, wedding supplies and other things. It still has no impact on the cooking business of the old market.

Until the end, Kaiyuan City was developing rapidly, and this people's market remained the sentiment of the people of Kaiyuan City. It was always bustling and crowded.

In the later period, various demolitions and reconstructions were carried out around the People's Market to establish the largest commercial circle in Kaiyuan City.

Because it's lively here, if you want to rent a stall or a shop here, you need solid skills. What's more, they don't have enough money now. Just in case, they don't have the cost to try and make mistakes now.

“No.”

Li Yutong glanced at Shaobing, shook her head, and didn't look at him a second time.

Li Hongwei discovered that the child really didn’t want to eat.

He didn't know that Li Yutong was reborn. She had already tasted all kinds of food in the future and had started out by selling snacks. So, even though she was living in a poor home and eating bland meals every day, she didn't feel greedy.

"Mom, what do you want to eat?"

Li Hongwei asked his mother Chen Xiaoying.

Chen Xiaoying also shook her head: "It's too early. I just came here after breakfast. Let's talk about it later."

They looked at the entire People's Market inside and out. Not only were there stalls and shops inside the market, but outside the market, and on both sides of Renmin Street, there were shops, credit unions, and small restaurants.

There were also shops with "For Rent" signs on them, so they went to inquire.

It costs at least four thousand yuan a year, and there are also those who cost two thousand yuan. The place is only about ten square meters, and there is no room to move around after putting tables and chairs in it.

After looking at all the shops, the three of them drove the tricycle to the housing estate of Chen Xiaoying's sister Chen Xiaonao.

Her family had been landlords in earlier years and their conditions were pretty good. Her sister had married a man from the county town, and when she married the old man Li Pingwang, Li Pingwang was still the team leader of the production team. He was a good farmer, tall and strong, and he raised seven children. He didn't give them away or put them in the chamber pot. He did contribute a lot, but there was nothing extra.

It was already eleven o'clock when we arrived at the family building.

I also brought two chickens from home, two packs of pastries I just bought at the People's Market, and apples and pears, which filled a large bag. It is a tradition among Chinese people to visit someone's home, and never go empty-handed.

He came with a request, and the things he brought were decent.

When Chen Xiaonao saw her sister Chen Xiaoying, she was extremely surprised: "Why are you here? Aren't you carsick?"

Li Hongwei, who was carrying a lot of things in both hands, smiled and said, "Hongwei, please sit down quickly. Is this your eldest daughter Xiaoyu?"

"Auntie." Li Yutong called.

"Sit down, have some candy, have some candy."

Chen Xiaonao has good conditions. He has two sons, both of whom have formal jobs. His wives are also from the county and work in public institutions.

"Hongliang and Hongjun are not here?" Chen Xiaoying sat down and asked about her two nephews.

"He's not here. He went to work." Chen Xiaonao invited him to sit down.

Li Yutong looked at her neat aunt. When she saw her in her previous life, she had white hair, wrinkles all over her face, droopy eyelids, and looked confused. She spoke in a mumbling voice and needed her daughter-in-law to support her wherever she went. She was already old, but now she was a very energetic old lady. Calculating her age, she was in her early sixties.

"Auntie, don't be in a hurry, just sit down." Li Hongwei said.

Chen Xiaonao still brought apples and candies and invited them to eat.

"Is there something wrong at home?" Chen Xiaonao asked after sitting down.

Chen Xiaoying told him that she wanted to rent a storefront in the county town to do business.

Chen Xiaonao didn't understand this, she didn't have a job. Her eyes flashed, she hummed a few words, and said that she usually cooked and looked after the children at home.

"I'll ask Hongliang and the others when they come back."

"Will they be back at noon?"

Chen Xiaonao was in a dilemma: "Sometimes he comes back, sometimes he doesn't. How about I go and call Hongliang back?"

She threw the question to her sister Chen Xiaoying.

Chen Xiaoying subconsciously looked at her son, then at her granddaughter Li Yutong, and felt embarrassed to trouble her nephew like this.

Li Yutong took a look at this aunt and realized why she was not familiar with her. It was because this aunt had never been to the village to visit her grandmother Chen Xiaoying.

Although the two sisters were speaking in a familiar manner, they were not so close that they could talk to each other without any concerns and speak their minds.

It is the custom of Chinese people that as long as they are relatives, they will immediately have an extra layer of trust over others. Her grandmother Chen Xiaoying felt that if she asked her eldest sister for help, her eldest sister should be willing.

But her grandmother didn't know that her aunt seemed to have misunderstood what she meant.

She felt as if her grandmother was asking her to borrow money.

Still using the business hint method, she didn't want to borrow it, so she changed the subject or laughed it off.

"Then we wait?"

Chen Xiaoying lived in the village all her life until her death, and had little contact with people in the city...