"However, until now, we haven't actually done anything for the Mountain Goddess..."
The old woman looked very ashamed.
"Where are those two, Deyun and Chongjiu? Let them see just how benevolent the Mountain Goddess is towards us, so they won't keep doubting this and that all day long!"
"Grandma, have you forgotten? Yesterday you assigned those two tasks to greet that grain merchant!" Zhang Niangzi reminded her.
Grandma Gongsun was slightly disappointed.
After the group of villagers from Linjia Village left, they couldn't wait to run up the mountain to dig up kudzu roots.
However, this group of people were very clever. They didn't take it down the mountain, but instead put it in the yard on the other side of the barren mountain, piling it up all over the yard, and everyone was very happy.
So, no matter how many times they came and went, the elderly Mrs. Lin and Mr. Lin in the village never knew what these people were doing.
In the old house.
Lin Anniang still hadn't left; she was asking Old Madam Gongsun when she would be going to the provincial capital.
"I can't go these next few days. I plan to go to the county town to sell some food and keep an eye on some people."
As for who to keep an eye on, Lin Anniang and the old lady Gongsun across the street both knew perfectly well.
"Don't worry, Madam An, we definitely won't go in the next few days. Of course, we have to complete the Mountain Goddess's task first."
"Once things are settled here, you can set off. Just leave the two children with me. As long as I'm here, they'll be the safest!"
Lin Anniang was naturally relieved. She then asked Ning Xiangqiao and learned that Lin Genzhu had not come to cause trouble. Only then did she take her two daughters back.
Back in the Lin family's small room, she saw Lin Erluo hammering and banging away, making a wooden door.
Lin Anniang looked at it for a while and finally made a summary.
This is a weakling with no strength.
Lin Erluo, unable to bear the gaze any longer, threw away the tools in his hand and stormed back into the main room, refusing to come out again.
Grandpa Lin's face turned pale with anger. Grandma Lin wanted to glare at him, but when she saw the big tree that Lin Anniang was carrying, she shuddered and turned back.
The next day, before dawn, Lin Anniang got up to prepare food.
She was still using the Lin family's kitchen, and the aroma emanating from her making jujube cakes made Wu Cuiying repeatedly bend over to check.
Wu Cuiying wanted to squeeze in to see what was going on in the kitchen, but Lin Xiu stopped her.
"My mother is cooking, you can't come in!"
“You little brat…” Before Wu Cuiying could finish speaking, she saw that a wooden board that had been installed a few days ago had been crushed to pieces by Lin Xiu.
"No, nothing, I'm leaving!" Wu Cuiying cursed inwardly and slipped away quickly.
Lin Anniang smiled and handed her daughters a few pieces of jujube cake: "You two go to sleep. Tomorrow I'll go sell food by myself. You can play with Grandma Gongsun then."
She felt she needed to hurry up and build her own small kitchen, otherwise it would be inconvenient to always use this place.
Moreover, she would have to make kudzu root jelly and kudzu root soup to sell, as this was a secret recipe given to her by the Mountain Goddess, and she couldn't let the Lin family next door find out.
Lin Xiu nodded obediently: "Mother, then I'll wait for you with my sister!"
Besides jujube cake, Lin Anniang also made wild vegetable boxes.
These wild vegetable dumplings taste better when pan-fried, but unfortunately there wasn't much oil available, so she only fried a small portion of them.
After finishing all this, she cleaned the kitchen; it was still dark outside.
Immediately afterwards, she picked out the food and hurried towards the county town.
When she passed through Dahe Village, she jumped on a tree and stared for a while. She vaguely heard some aunties who got up early to cook talking about which wives had recently given birth to big, healthy boys but hadn't had a chance to enjoy their newfound happiness.
These past few days, Lin Anniang has been secretly staking out this place for a while every day, and she has long since figured out the names of all the villagers in Dahe Village and the location of their homes.
Upon hearing this, she stiffened, memorized all the names these people were talking about, and then jumped outside the courtyards of those houses.
The house was quiet; there were no children crying, only the sounds of adults snoring.
The other courtyards were also very quiet, so quiet that they didn't seem like courtyards with newborns.
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