Yan Jing nodded, "Thank you very much."

"You're welcome. I should be the one thanking you for your support and trust."

Yan Jing handed her the check she had prepared in advance.

Shen Mingzhu took the check, but before she had time to look at the amount on it, she heard Yan Jing say, "There's an event in Aocheng at the end of the year, and I've been invited to be a judge for a cooking competition. I heard from Susu that you're quite knowledgeable about food. Do you want to go and take a look?"

Seeing Shen Mingzhu's surprise, Yan Jing smiled and said, "When I found your postcard on the plane, I accidentally saw the message on it. It can be seen that Miss Li likes it very much, otherwise she would not have specially invited you to visit Australia City."

"Mrs. Ning, you misunderstood. In fact, I am not familiar with Miss Li. We have only met twice. She left me a postcard probably out of politeness."

"So that's how it is."

Looking at the Ning family villa getting farther and farther away in the rearview mirror, Shen Mingzhu couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

She originally thought that Yan Jing ordered mooncakes from her for Yan Su's sake.

But Yan Jing's attitude when she mentioned Li Shiman before made her realize that Yan Jing seemed to have misunderstood the relationship between her and Li Shiman.

Now that she knows that she and Li Shiman were just casual acquaintances, Yan Jing probably won't buy mooncakes from her again.

…

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, Shen Mingzhu took Pei Yang and the children back to Shenjiagou.

One reason is to go back to my parents' home to celebrate the festival, and another reason is to pick sour jujubes this year.

As soon as they returned to the village, the village chief Shen Dequan happily took her to the mountain to see the fruit-bearing rate of sour jujube this year.

The jujube trees in Shenjiagou are all wild, but since Shen Mingzhu started purchasing jujubes in the village, the jujubes, which were previously not eaten even by pigs, have suddenly become a popular commodity among the villagers.

Last year, several families in the village almost got into a fight over the ownership of the jujube trees.

In the end, Shen Dequan made the final decision and divided the wild jujube trees on the hillside into a unified category.

Guoguo sat on Pei Yang's shoulders and rode a horse. It was her first time going up the mountain and she was extremely happy.

He finds everything new and he keeps shouting that he wants to catch rabbits.

At the beginning of the year, Shen Jianguo caught a pair of wild rabbits and sent them home for Guoguo to raise and play with.

Guoguo loved the rabbit so much that he insisted on putting it on the bed to sleep with it, but ended up suffocating it to death.

Guoguo cried sadly for several days and no one could comfort her.

It was Pei Ziheng who went out and caught a puppy and brought it home, and only then was he able to calm the man down.

The puppy was not long old when it choked to death after being fed a glutinous rice dumpling by Guoguo.

Since then, Shen Mingzhu only dared to raise turtles for her daughter.

After all, turtles are tough.

What a coincidence, on the way down the mountain, I actually met some villagers who caught a wild rabbit.

The hare was plump and weighed about five or six pounds, and was being carried by its hind legs.

As soon as Guoguo saw the hare, his eyes were fixed on it and he refused to leave no matter what, insisting on taking the other person's hare.

The villagers wanted to please Shen Mingzhu and were willing to give the hare to her.

After all, Shen Mingzhu is the big boss now, and the whole village is counting on Shen Mingzhu to buy sour dates and get rich.

However, Shen Mingzhu did not receive the items in vain, but paid three dollars according to the market price.

Guoguo was so happy to get the hare that she insisted on holding it in her arms. However, her delicate arms could not bear the force and the hare was knocked unconscious after being thrown several times by her.

When he returned to the Shen family, Shen Jianguo found the bamboo cage at home and put the wild rabbit in it.

Guoguo squatted in front of the bamboo cage and played with the wild rabbit for a while. Later, he felt tired and was carried into the house by Pei Yang to sleep.

Shen Mingzhu talked to the village chief about the picking period of sour jujube this year.

The process of processing sour jujube is complicated. With the current staff of the food factory, they can process at most 300 kilograms a day.

After discussing the picking of sour dates, Shen Mingzhu asked the village chief to lead people to move moon cakes and stationery from the trunk.

All the school-age children in the village, regardless of age, can receive a Mid-Autumn Festival gift package.

The gift package contains six moon cakes, two pencils, two exercise books, an eraser and a dictionary.

She hopes that in this way, every villager can send their children to school.

The gift packages were distributed by Shen Mingzhu herself, and the children lined up to receive them.

For every child who received a gift package, Shen Mingzhu would ask a few simple questions about their situation, such as what grade they were in, how many points they got in the last test, which subject they did best, etc.

Soon it was the turn of a little girl in tattered clothes.

"What's your name? What grade are you in?"

The little girl picked at the hem of her clothes and whispered, "Second grade."

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"Liar!"

"She didn't go to school, her mother ran away, and her father married a stepmother and didn't want her anymore!"

The kids at the back were shouting loudly.

The little girl's pale and skinny face turned red in an instant, and she turned around and ran away in shame.

Shen Mingzhu withdrew her gaze from the little girl's thin back and continued to distribute gift packages to the children in line.

After the last child received the gift package and left, Shen Mingzhu asked the village chief about the little girl.

As the village chief sighed, Shen Mingzhu learned that the little girl was from the next town and her father was a notorious lazy man who lived in extreme poverty.

The little girl's biological mother couldn't stand the poverty, so she ran away with someone and moved to another place three years ago and has never returned.

The lazy man got married last year, but the new wife refused to raise a money-losing child for others, so the lazy man sent the little girl back to her grandmother's house.

The little girl currently lives with her uncle’s family.

…

Led by the village chief, Shen Mingzhu came to the little girl's uncle's house.

Even from a distance, I could hear a loud scolding voice, "What's the point of raising you? Everyone else got it, but you didn't. Why are you so stupid? It makes me so angry!"

Shen Dequan walked forward and pushed open the fence door. He frowned and asked the woman in the yard, "Fengxian, what are you doing? I can hear your loud voice from a long distance away."

Turning around and seeing Shen Mingzhu and the village chief, Zeng Fengxian immediately put on a friendly face and warmly invited them to come in and sit down.

"Village Chief, what brings you here?"

Zeng Fengxian was talking to Shen Dequan, but her eyes were fixed on Shen Mingzhu.

In the hearts of the people in Shenjiagou, Shen Mingzhu is more respected than the Bodhisattvas in the temple. He runs a big factory, drives a car, and lives in a big villa. He is truly rich.

If they leak a little bit of it through their fingers, it would be enough for their family to enjoy a delicious life.

Shen Dequan pointed at the little girl under the eaves and said, "Ask your niece to come over. Mingzhu has something to say to her."

"Daniel, come here quickly!"

Zeng Fengxian winked at her niece, trying to get her to please Shen Mingzhu.

As the little girl walked over, Shen Mingzhu noticed that she was not only wearing tattered clothes, but was also barefoot.

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