Chen Xingling secretly suppressed his laughter and asked, "Then can you wait until the next Chinese New Year to eat the candy man?"
"No!" Little Tiger replied with tears in his eyes: "I want to eat it now! There are people selling it outside! I want to eat it!"
Gu Qi leaned against the wall, looking at him with a smile in his eyes.
"You've spent all your money. Are you going to make a scene to get money to buy candy?"
The little guy wanted to cry, and had the bad idea of "If you don't give me money and buy me candy figures, I will cry." However, he was ruthlessly exposed by his father before he even started crying. Now he didn't know whether to cry or not to cry, and he froze where he was.
He tilted his head and thought for a while, then asked, "Mom, then...then how can I get money?"
"To make money!" Chen Xingling replied with a smile, "You can either work for others or do legal business. During the New Year, you can sell small candies and sugar figures on the street, and no one will stop you, just like at a temple fair. People who sell candies and small balls make money by selling things. For example, it only costs five cents to make a sugar figure, and you can sell it for one yuan, so he makes five cents."
When little Huzi heard this, his eyes lit up and he twisted his chubby body anxiously.
"Mom, then I-I want to sell sugar figures too, so that I can eat lots of them!"
Chen Xingling and Gu Qi looked at each other and were amused by the little guy's "simple" wish.
When Xiao Hu saw that his parents were smiling, he thought they were satisfied and immediately shouted that he wanted to go to the street to sell candy figures.
Chen Xingling got out of bed, put on his shoes, opened the closet and took out the basket.
"Here! This is the hawthorn candy that mom made. Go and sell it for money."
Little Tiger Tuqi glared and ran over quickly.
Gu Qi raised his eyebrows and moved forward.
"Xing'er, this is--you did it?"
These past few days, whenever she had free time, she would hold a basket and fiddle with something, making rustling sounds from time to time. She didn't say anything, so he didn't ask curiously - he didn't expect that it was the candy she made!
Chen Xingling did not explain that he moved out of the supermarket space, he just made up an excuse.
"Ayi brought back a lot of hawthorn fruits from the mountains before, but they were too sour and no one could eat them. I thought it was a waste, so I pickled the fruits and sealed them in a corner. I've had a little more money recently, so I bought some sugar, boiled the pickled hawthorn fruits with sugar, dried them, and cut them into small pieces. I've been wrapping them separately with plastic wrap when I have time these days."
Gu Qi took a few glances and found that he could see clearly through the film paper that each piece of hawthorn candy was cut neatly and straight, obviously with a lot of effort put into it.
When little tiger heard that it was "candy", he immediately grabbed a piece with his chubby hands, quickly tore off the plastic wrapper, and stuffed it into his mouth without saying a word.
"Hmm~~Eat it! Eat it! It's sour and sweet!"
Gu Qi glanced at his son, and remembered his bold words of "selling candy and eating candy", and couldn't help laughing.
"Luckily you made so much, otherwise it wouldn't be enough for him."
Chen Xingling held the basket in his arms and said, "Little Tiger, there are about three jin of rice in each basket. After you're full, you and your uncle can go to the street to sell them and make some money, do you want to?"
"Yes!" Little Tiger immediately raised his hand: "Uncle said there will be a temple fair the day after tomorrow, so he can only eat and sleep these two days. I want to make money, and I want to make money with uncle!"
After saying this, he ran out.
A moment later, the little guy came with Gu Yi, who was disheveled and sleepy.
"Hawthorn candy? No way? Sister-in-law, at that time-didn't the hawthorns all get thrown away?"
Chen Xingling lied: "I couldn't bear to waste it, so I quietly picked it up, washed it, and hung it in the sun on the back window, and pickled it in an old jar and placed it in a cool corner."
Little Huzi opened the package enthusiastically and stuffed one into Gu Yi's mouth with his chubby little hands.
"Uncle! Mom made this - eat it!"
Gu Yi glanced at his hands with disdain and muttered, "I haven't brushed my teeth yet! Have you washed your hands? Oh! You're really edible!"
He looked at Chen Xingling with shining eyes, chewing a few more times in disbelief.
"Sister-in-law, you are amazing. The hawthorn fruit was so sour that my teeth ache when I think about it now! You can make it so delicious! It's sour and sweet, and it tastes very appetizing! It's really delicious! It's not easy to make such a sour fruit so delicious!"
Chen Xingling felt a little ashamed and laughed.
"If you're willing to put in more sugar, it'll be hard not to eat it. You just need to boil it and cut it into small slices. It's a job that doesn't require much technical skills."
If I wasn't afraid of being exposed, I would just pick up a bag of snacks from the snack section. They are all rare and precious things in this era!
She searched for a long time in the snack section full of variety and finally found these bags of hawthorn candies made with simple ingredients and simple methods.
——It’s really not easy!
The little tiger raised his chubby chin with pride and shouted proudly: "My mother is the most awesome mother in the world!"
Gu Yi flicked his fat chin and laughed.
"Look at how proud you are of yourself!"
"Hahaha!"
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After breakfast, Gu Yi went out happily, holding the basket in one hand and holding the little tiger in the other.
After eating a hawthorn candy, Gu Miao quickly became addicted and followed them out happily.
Li Ying put on a new cotton-padded jacket and a new headscarf, and happily went out to pay New Year's greetings.
Gu Qi hadn't been back to his hometown for the New Year for several years. All his schoolmates were eagerly waiting to get together with him. However, right after he had finished his meal, he was dragged away by the old schoolmate Liu Shancong, who said he would be allowed to come back in the evening.
Gu Xuan was hiding in her room reading a book, but unexpectedly several female classmates came and asked her to go shopping in the shopping mall. She had no choice but to put on her new shoes and go out.
Thus, Chen Xingling was the only one left in the huge Gu family.
Having lived in the capital for several years, she did housework and took care of the children every day. She hardly ever left the house and had no friends and no place to go.
However, she has many choices now!
She closed the door and went back to her room, hiding in the supermarket, drinking nourishing soup, watching TV and listening to music, applying a facial mask and sitting in a massage chair, eating snacks and nibbling on salt-baked chicken feet, slowly and happily enjoying a happy New Year that belongs to her alone.
At noon, Gu Yi came back with Xiao Huzi.
"Mom! I'm rich! I'm rich!"
Gu Yi laughed and explained, "Sister-in-law, the hawthorn candies you made are really delicious! They have been sold non-stop since they started selling, with lots of kids rushing to buy them! They are two cents each, and if you buy more, you get an extra one for free. It seems like they sold for more than five yuan."
Little Tiger replied proudly: "Five dollars, four cents and two cents."
Gu Yi was a little bit unbelievable: "This kid stayed by my side for a while and quickly learned how to help find money - I was shocked!"
Chen Xingling hugged his excited son and said with a smile, "He looks like your brother. He seems to have a talent for mathematics."
Xiao Huzi hurriedly took out a large amount of money from his pocket.
"Mom, this is for you! All for you!"
Chen Xingling asked with a smile: "Why? You didn't go to buy the candy man?"
"No more sugar figures." Xiao Jia said seriously, "Sugar figures are not as good as the hawthorn candies my mother makes, and I have to spend money to buy them. I have hawthorn candies to eat, so I can't buy sugar figures anymore."
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