As Xu Han listened, she shook Lu Chuan's arm even harder, eagerly asking, "What? What else is there? Stop keeping me in suspense and tell me quickly."
The person whose arm was being shaken looked on with a look of enjoyment at his wife's rare display of affection.
Just as Xu Han's patience was about to run out, Lu Chuan finally spoke up, "Yunyun and Yunhua both wrote to say that they will definitely come back for the New Year this year."
After Lu Chuan finished speaking, Xu Han covered her mouth in surprise, her voice rising twice as high, "Really? Are they really coming back for the New Year this year?"
No wonder Xu Han was so excited when she heard the news; it's just that they hadn't seen each other for a long time in recent years because of the war.
Yunhua and Zhao Yunyun are so busy every day that they don't even have time to communicate with them, let alone come back. So Xu Han hasn't seen them for a long time.
The last time I saw Zhao Yunyun was when Ze'er was very young. Now Ze'er is four years old, and I haven't seen him for several years.
After receiving a positive answer again, Xu Han danced with joy, all her fatigue vanishing in an instant. She pulled Lu Chuan along, talking non-stop about how they planned to spend the New Year this year.
Finally, Lu Chuan saw that it was getting late and advised, "There's still more than a month until the New Year, so don't rush, take your time to prepare."
"But it's getting late, and we have important things to do tomorrow, so let's get some sleep."
After saying that, he pressed Xu Han down to lie down. Xu Han was still very excited, her mind filled with all sorts of thoughts. No one knew exactly what time she fell asleep that night.
The next day, unsurprisingly, she overslept again.
Perhaps because she's been getting up the latest every day for the past few days, and it's happened so often, she's become quite shameless.
After Xu Han finished dressing, she pushed open the door and went out. The cold air that hit her made her shiver.
I wrapped my coat tighter around myself, but what I saw wasn't a vast expanse of white. It was only the first day of October, and although it was snowing, the snowflakes melted into rain as soon as they hit the ground due to the temperature.
After a night, no snow had accumulated on the ground, but the roads were wet, as if it had rained.
She looked up at the sky and noticed that the snowflakes that had been falling had turned into sleet, drifting sparsely in the air, posing no threat whatsoever.
Xu Han picked up the oil-paper umbrella beside her and went to the kitchen as usual.
When she arrived in the kitchen, Guo Daya saw her but didn't say much. She immediately started preparing the water for washing up and breakfast as usual.
After breakfast, Xu Han didn't plan to go to the shop, but she felt bored after staying at home for a while, so she went to the mountain produce shop with an umbrella.
The sleet lasted for three days, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, which really put me in a bad mood.
I can't go out to do anything, and I'm bored staying at home.
During the three days of snowfall, all the sweet potatoes accumulated in the workshop were processed and stacked against the wall in the shop to ferment.
The smell of many sweet potatoes piled together fermenting is really unpleasant, and the smell gets stronger and stronger as time goes on.
The smell is even stronger and more pungent when the lid is fully opened.
The neighbors near the workshop were very curious about the smell of spoiled sweet potatoes emanating from the shop.
A woman asked curiously, "There's such a strong smell, could it be that the sweet potatoes we harvested have all gone bad?"
"Oh dear, who knows? There's been a constant stream of people coming and going lately. If it all breaks down, we'll probably lose a lot of money."
Another person chimed in, "They can't just stand by and watch the sweet potatoes go bad. I've seen people coming and going from the shop these past few days. They certainly won't just watch the sweet potatoes spoil."
Another man chimed in, "What do you think they're going to do with all these sweet potatoes?"
The woman being asked rolled her eyes and said, "How would I know? If you're curious, go ask her."
The person who was rebuked scoffed, "Your plan is completely botched, why don't you go ask me?"
"Didn't you ask me? I'm not curious."
Seeing that the two were about to start arguing, the people around them quickly advised, "Alright, alright, you two should say less! If you ask me, even if we go and ask, do you really think they'll tell us?"
"If we want to know what they're doing, we just have to wait and see. They've harvested so many sweet potatoes; they'll eventually sell them."
Of course, Xu Han was unaware of all this. However, the ever-vigilant Lu Chuan and Han Qi noticed that in the past few days, someone had been watching their shop.
Unfortunately, the shop was too well-sealed, and since they were cooking sweet potatoes and doing other things in the courtyard, they naturally had no idea what was going on inside.
Of course, Xu Han never really intended to hide the fact that she was brewing wine from sweet potatoes.
Even if they knew that sweet potatoes could be used to make wine, they certainly wouldn't know how. Even if they figured out how to make wine, they wouldn't know how to purify and distill it.
The workers in the workshop all had signed indentures, and of course, no one was foolish enough to risk their life by telling anyone.
That's why Xu Han dared to use this large shop as a temporary sweet potato wine workshop; otherwise, she wouldn't have dared to do it so openly.
However, this also made Xu Han feel that brewing wine directly in the county town was indeed a bit risky.
Putting everything else aside, there are many people around, so they can definitely guess what the raw materials are. Whether they can guess the rest is another matter, but it's still too tempting for people to covet.
It seems we'll have to build a workshop outside the county town next year. Brewing wine in the county town for a short time is fine, but it will definitely cause problems in the long run.
Returning to the topic, on the fourth day, the long-awaited sun finally appeared in the sky.
Xu Han got up very early that day, ate breakfast early, and came to the temporary workshop with Lu Chuan.
However, the servants arrived earlier than the two of them. When they got there, the servants were washing the tools they had used in the past few days, and the floor and everything else needed to be thoroughly cleaned.
Otherwise, if the juice from cooked sweet potatoes drips onto the floor, it will be sticky and difficult to clean over time, and it may also damage the floor.
The sweet potatoes were cooked the day before yesterday, and after cooling, they were all packed into jars yesterday morning.
Yesterday afternoon, everyone had been cleaning all afternoon, but there was still a little bit left to do, so we started again early this morning.
When Juxiang saw the two of them come in, she quickly said, "Greetings, sir and madam. The cleaning here is almost finished. There's just a little bit left. Sister-in-law Li is leading the team to do the final finishing touches."
Xu Han nodded, and Ju Xiang continued, "After these past few days of rain, the sky has finally cleared up today. I wonder if anyone will come to sell sweet potatoes."
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