Chapter 333 I heard that I am the best (20)
"Sister! Don't you live with me?" Zhou Shiwan asked nervously.
"Yes, we live together, but not in the same room. Now you are over seven years old and a grown-up girl. You should have your own room that can be filled with your favorite clothes, jewelry and decorations. Don't you want it?" Zhou Shichu coaxed.
When Zhou Shiwan thought about having a room full of his favorite beautiful clothes and various toys, his eyes suddenly lit up and he was no longer afraid. Instead, he couldn't wait and nodded repeatedly, "I want it!"
"That's good enough. Our house is spacious now. We don't have to sleep in one room like we did in the Li's house. No one will blame us for decorating the room however we want. How great is that." Zhou Shichu added. Now that she has left the Li's house and there is no shortage of rooms in the new house, she doesn't want to sleep in the same bed with her step-sister. Since they have such good conditions, they should not suffer any grievances.
Afterwards, Zhou Shichu really took Zhou Shiwan to the street to buy all kinds of things to decorate their house. Everything was according to her own wishes. Zhou Shichu did not restrict her preferences. Even if she bought exaggerated and brightly colored bed curtains, flashy dresses, and all kinds of rough and low-quality toys, he let her do as she pleased.
Of course, Zhou Shichu's own house would not be so messy. She secretly took out the good things in her space to use. The quilt was silk, the bed curtains were mosquito repellents from the future, and the dressing table was an antique from a certain world...
After finally tidying up his own place and loosening the vegetable patch in the backyard, Zhou Shichu went to the Li family and transplanted the fruits and vegetables he needed from the Li family's vegetable garden to his new house.
Not to mention that her behavior of picking vegetables from her ex-husband's vegetable garden after the divorce was very low. She is not an elegant and generous person. Instead, she is a well-known unscrupulous person. Isn't it normal for her to do such a thing?
Therefore, Zhou Shichu had no psychological burden at all.
While pulling out the seedlings, Aunt Qian looked at Zhou Shichu several times while helping, seeming to want to say something but stopping herself from doing so.
Zhou Shichu asked her, "Aunt Qian, do you have something to say to me?"
Seeing that she had asked all these questions, Aunt Qian had no choice but to tell the truth: "Um... Madam Zhou, can I make the food you made before in the future? The master and the young master like to eat it..."
As Aunt Qian spoke, her face turned red with shame. In that era, private recipes were kept confidential, and the better ones could even be heirlooms. Zhou Shichu's dishes were one of those that could be heirlooms, so Aunt Qian's desire to cook Zhou Shichu's dishes was seen by people of that time as stealing someone else's secret recipe.
However, Zhou Shichu did not take these recipes seriously. After all, she had traveled through the era of information explosion in the future and had seen all kinds of precious recipes. Moreover, although those dishes could be cooked by anyone, if they wanted to be delicious, it depended on the cook's skills and various seasonings.
For the dishes that Zhou Shichu had made at the Li family before, she had personally mastered the core steps and key seasonings. Aunt Qian was just helping out and didn't know the details, so even if she wanted to, she couldn't make it as delicious as Zhou Shichu's.
"You can make it if you want, but you can only make it for yourself, not for business." Zhou Shichu smiled and said, "After all, it would be too unfair to use my recipe to compete with me."
"No, no! How could I use it for business? I just make it for my family to eat. Madam Zhou, you must believe me." Aunt Qian said hurriedly.
"Of course I believe you." After all, Aunt Qian only knows the basics and it's impossible for her to copy her own dishes. She probably can't even find some of the seasonings.
This is also the reason why Zhou Shichu is not afraid that the secret recipes of steamed buns and braised food will be leaked after her divorce from Li Wei. These two things are her magic weapons to make money to support herself and her sister. Would she not keep any backup plan?
It was for this reason that even when the employees in the store knew that she and Li Wei had divorced, they were only surprised and did not have any other thoughts, because the core of the secret recipes of these foods were only in her hands, and no one else knew about it.
Because of the divorce and the purchase of a new house, Zhou Shichu had spent all the money she had earned recently. She had always been unwilling to compromise herself, and after leaving the Li family and having no outsiders around, she let herself go with Zhou Shiwan. She accidentally spent too much money, and it was impossible for her to buy a farm recently.
Zhou Shichu sighed. She didn't want to make any big moves, buying a new house and a farm. Otherwise, others would think that she was really rich. There was no man in the family, only two "weak" women. Wouldn't she be a fat sheep in the eyes of those who had ulterior motives?
So she couldn't use the gold and silver in the space, because it would be too conspicuous. Although she was confident in her ability to protect herself, she could avoid some troubles. After all, she just wanted to live peacefully in this unstable world. Why bother to cause trouble? Besides, it wasn't like she would die if she bought the farm later.
After Zhou Shichu finished comforting himself, he immediately got rid of the guilty feeling in his heart for spending all his money lavishly.
She refocused her energies on the store's business. As soon as various buy-one-get-one-free promotions and discounts for old customers came into play, the store's business immediately reached another level. She and her sister counted coins every day and were extremely happy.
Mu Yunchao is good at managing his base, so Zhou Shichu's store runs smoothly and his life is uneventful but enjoyable.
However, other people who did not belong to Mu Yunchao's territory were not as lucky as her.
Zhou Shichu keenly noticed that there were more unfamiliar faces on the streets recently, many of whom were ragged strangers with numb or sad expressions.
"Why are there so many outsiders coming to our Cuicheng recently? Is there a war again?" Zhou Shichu was standing outside the store, and the proprietress of the grocery store next door asked her with a frown.
Zhou Shichu shook his head: "I don't know, but there are so many outsiders in the city at once. There must be a war or other disasters outside. I see that they are with their families. They must be fleeing."
"It's pitiful! When will the world be peaceful? Fortunately, we have General Mu in Cuicheng, so we can live a peaceful life and don't have to flee our homes like them." The proprietress of the grocery store sighed.
Because Mu Yunchao used to be a general, even though he has rebelled and is now ruling a certain area, the people are still accustomed to calling him General Mu.
"Yes, General Mu is indeed a good man." Zhou Shichu did not deny Mu Yunchao's character. Although the protagonists of some worlds may be scumbags, most of the protagonists are positive. Mu Yunchao is a positive protagonist. He is upright and brave, kind and benevolent, and loves his people like his own children. As a founding emperor, he is a man of great talent and strategy.
Now that he is a person under his protection, Zhou Shichu will not lie with his eyes open.
"I heard that those people who led the troops to rebel in the south didn't treat the common people as human beings. After they captured a city, they would first burn, kill and loot. Only one in ten people could survive. How terrible." The grocery store owner lowered her voice and said to Zhou Shichu.
(End of this chapter)
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