Li Hehua entered the kitchen and found that the old woman was scooping white rice flour in the kitchen, apparently preparing to make lunch.
She didn't know who the old woman was, but she guessed that she should be Zhang Tieshan's mother. Wanting to test whether her guess was right, Li Hehua tentatively called out, "Mom."
Zhang Lin looked up at Li Hehua, then turned away the next second, saying in a very bad tone, "Don't call me mother, I don't deserve to be called mother by you."
Li Hehua knew that she had guessed correctly. This woman was Zhang Tieshan's mother. Although she said that she was not worthy of being called mother, she still had to call her mother, at least while she still lived here.
Li Hehua took a step forward and took the bowl from her hand, "Mom, let me do it, you go and take a rest."
Who knew that the hand that was stretched out would be slapped back with a "slap". "You don't need to pretend here. You are so awesome, but why are you pretending to be a good daughter-in-law? Our family doesn't dare to bother you."
Li Hehua looked at his hand that was slapped back and sighed deeply in his heart.
Another person who totally hates her.
Forget it, if she is not allowed to do it, then she won’t do it, so as not to annoy others.
It seemed that she couldn't stay in the kitchen anymore, so Li Hehua had to pick up the bucket and continue to fetch water. Otherwise, she would feel embarrassed if she just stayed there.
When she arrived at the well, she didn't meet anyone else drawing water this time. However, she stayed there for a while longer, staring at the mountains in the distance. When she thought it was about time, she picked up the bucket and went home.
When she got home, she saw the other four people in the family sitting around the table eating. When they saw her come back, they just glanced at them and continued to eat with their heads down.
Li Hehua curled the corners of his mouth and gave everyone a smile, then carried the water back to the kitchen and poured the water in the bucket into the water tank. Then he sat down on a small stool weakly to catch his breath.
After resting enough, I touched my starving stomach, stood up and went to the stove to get some rice, only to find that there was nothing left in the pot as it had been eaten up.
There really wasn't anything left for her.
Li Hehua felt a little aggrieved, but she had no right to complain to others. She was the one who insisted on staying here, and now she had to endure how others treated her without any objection, otherwise she would be kicked out.
Why did she have such a miserable life? Thinking about it, it was all because of the original owner. She was the one who took the blame.
After feeling sad for a while, Li Hehua regained her spirits and decided to make some brown rice porridge to fill her stomach. She wanted to make something with rice or flour, but it would be bad if she angered them and was kicked out, so she decided to just eat the brown rice porridge.
She had to find a way to earn money as quickly as possible, buy food for herself, and then find a place to live as soon as possible, so that she wouldn't have to live such a miserable life in the future.
Li Hehua took some brown rice and cooked porridge. After eating it directly in the kitchen, he washed his own dishes and then left the kitchen and went into the room.
However, the room she had just cleaned had already been filled with luggage and the bed was covered with sheets. It seemed that someone else outside was going to stay in this room.
This was the room she had cleaned for a long time, enduring the pain in her hands, but now it was occupied by someone else. She really wanted to go out and say that this was the room she had cleaned, but she couldn't say it, and she had no right to say it. Maybe the people outside just couldn't stand it and wanted to leave, but she had to persevere now until she found a place to live.
At this time, Zhang Lin walked in and saw Li Hehua. She said with disgust: "I will live in this room from now on. Don't show up in front of me." If her son had not asked her to let him stay for a while, she would have wanted to beat this evil woman out and would not have endured her anger and continued to tolerate this woman.
Li Hehua took a deep breath, said nothing, and went straight out of the room to check out other rooms.
There are three rooms in the house. This one is already occupied by Zhang Tieshan's mother. There are two rooms left. Li Hehua went to check them one by one and found that there was luggage in each room. Obviously, they had been booked, which means that there was no room for her.
Li Hehua was stunned. Where would she live if there was no room? Would she sleep in the yard?
Unable to tolerate this any longer, Li Hehua went straight to find Zhang Tieshan who was chopping firewood in the yard.
"Zhang Tieshan, there are only three rooms in the house. My mother has moved into my original room. I looked at the other two rooms and found that they were also filled with luggage. Do you want to stay there? Can you give me a room to stay in?"
After Li Hehua finished speaking, Zhang Tieshan acted as if he hadn't heard her and continued chopping the firewood in his hand. When he finished, he saw Li Hehua still standing beside him. He glanced at her coldly, then grabbed the axe and went into the house.
Li Hehua bit her lip and followed him and said, "Zhang Tieshan, I don't have a room to live in. Can you give me a room?"
Zhang Tieshan walked at the same pace, saying as he walked: "There are no extra rooms. If you don't want to stay, just leave. No one will stop you."
Li Hehua paused and looked at the tall figure in front of him. He was so angry that he wanted to go up and scratch him a few times.
This is really too much. Can you be a little more compassionate to a beautiful woman? Are you going to leave such a beautiful woman like a flower without a place to live? Uh... She looked down at her current appearance. Well, beautiful as a flower is no longer suitable to describe her. Being compassionate to a beautiful woman is not suitable for her now.
Forget it, now she has to bow her head under someone else's roof. Once she has a place to live, she will no longer care about this man and will no longer have to try to please others like this.
Li Hehua walked around the house and finally found a firewood room. It was very small and filled with a lot of firewood and some miscellaneous items.
Although this place is very poor, at least it can shelter her from the wind and rain. She has no choice but to live here. As long as she cleans it up properly, she can still get some sleep.
Li Hehua went straight into the woodshed and piled up the firewood that took up a lot of space. He moved all the messy things to a corner where they would not be in the way, leaving a space for sleeping. Then he stacked some flat firewood together to make a simple small bed that was slightly ten centimeters above the ground.
It took more than two hours to tidy up the woodshed. Li Hehua was so tired that she wanted to fall to the ground and not get up, but she gritted her teeth and stood to rest for a while, then left the woodshed and went to her original room to get a spare quilt.
Even though Zhang's mother glared at her for a long time, she still took it out. The sheets and pillowcases that were drying in the yard had happened to be dry, so she took them back to the woodshed.
The wooden bed was very uncomfortable and one could not sleep directly on it, so Li Hehua thought of the haystack outside. If he just laid some hay on it, it would not be so hard.
He ran to the haystack outside and pulled out grass desperately, then carried it back to the woodshed and spread it out, and then pulled out more grass. He was busy until dark before he finally set up his own little nest and could barely go to sleep.
Looking at his "new room", Li Hehua recited a passage to himself in a joyful way: When God is about to confer a great responsibility on a man, he must first test his mind and will, make his muscles and bones tired, starve his body, and deprive him of all poverty, and make his plans frustrated. This is to make his heart move and his nature endure, and increase his ability to do what he could not do before.
After reciting it, Li Hehua burst into laughter and felt that he was not so miserable anymore.
In the evening, Zhang Lin still didn't include Li Hehua in the dinner she prepared, but she didn't care. She made herself some brown rice porridge and drank it, thinking of it as losing weight. If she ate like this every day, coupled with her current amount of exercise, she would definitely lose a lot of weight in a month. If she only ate rice and white flour, she would definitely not lose weight.
After dinner, Li Hehua hid directly in the woodshed. He waited until everyone else had washed up before returning to the kitchen to boil hot water for washing up. Then he dragged his aching body to lie down on the bed he had made.
Although he was very tired, he couldn't fall asleep. Li Hehua stared at the dark space and began to think about how to make money.
What on earth should she do to make money as quickly as possible?
In her previous life, she studied foreign languages in college, but that was of no use here at all. The only thing that could be used was probably her cooking skills.
Her family is a veritable family of chefs, and all of their companies are related to food and catering. It can be said that they almost monopolize half of the domestic food industry. Her grandfather is a world-class gourmet master, and a meal from him costs a fortune. Her father is also a top chef who specializes in studying all kinds of food. As for the family business, it is managed by her mother.
In her generation, her brother was very gifted in management. He took over the group affairs at the age of 18 and took the Li Group to a higher level. However, because of this, her brother spent less time on cooking. So her grandfather simply spent all his attention on training her, teaching her everything he had learned throughout his life, in the hope that the Li family recipes could be passed on.
Grandpa once said that she was a genius with extremely high talent in cooking, and it was rare to see such a person in many years, so he spared no effort to train her. However, she was ignorant and felt constrained. She wanted freedom, so she rebelled and did not listen to grandpa's arrangements. She went to the university town and rented a store to sell delicious snacks. Grandpa was so angry that he ignored her for half a year, but grandpa loved her the most and supported her in the end.
Thinking about it now, she was so happy at that time. She was happy to be loved by her family, happy to be taught by her grandfather, and happy to have top-notch cooking skills, which made her not afraid no matter where she was.
Perhaps, here, she can still live the life she wants with her cooking skills.
However, if she wants to make money with her cooking skills, she needs to plan carefully. After all, she knows nothing about this place and doesn't know what to do to be successful. She still needs to learn more about this.
It seems that she has to go to the market to see the market conditions.
The next day, Li Hehua got up early, washed up and went out directly.
She didn't know where the market was, but she knew that there must be villagers going to the market at this time. She could find the market by just following other people. Sure enough, there were several women walking out of the village with various things in their hands and talking. They were obviously going to the market in town. Li Hehua hurriedly followed them secretly.
The village is not far from the town, and it only takes a little over an hour to walk there. There are all kinds of people selling things on the street, and the shouting sounds are endless, it is very lively.
Li Hehua walked along the street, looking mainly at the stalls selling food. After a round, he found that there were not many kinds of food sold in this town. The street stalls mostly sold noodles, steamed buns, and sesame cakes, but there were very few other food stalls.
Li Hehua looked carefully for a while and found that the business of the street stalls was quite good. Many people would buy some food. It seemed that the overall living standard of the people in this country was still good. At least the economic level of the place where she lived was good.
These are very beneficial to her. The common people have money, which means that the business can be done. The small variety of food makes it easier for her to sell food. As long as she can sell it well, with her skills, she will never have to worry about not having customers.
However, doing business requires capital, and pots, pans, tables, chairs and benches all need money, but she only found thirty or so copper coins on the original owner, which means that she only had thirty or so copper coins on her body. Even if she didn't know the prices of goods in that era, she could know that thirty or so copper coins were far from enough to open a snack stand.
As for borrowing money, that is impossible. With the original owner's popularity, it would be a miracle for someone to lend her money. So there is no need to consider borrowing money. She still has to rely on herself to find a way to earn money to open a snack stand.
But how can you make money without any capital?
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