After about a week, all the tofu was basically fermented. Sun Ruhua was not stingy this time. When Xie Jiaojiao asked for money to buy cooking oil, she gave it generously.

The villagers were all surprised to see Xie Jiaojiao buying cooking oil in the village grocery store.

"Ms. Xie, buy so much vegetable oil!"

"Yes, buy some to make some food!"

Xie Jiaojiao left with the cooking oil.

The villagers still didn't believe it: "How much weight does a jar of vegetable oil weigh? How can a few orphans and a widow buy so much vegetable oil?"

However, no one who came shopping with her answered her question.

This time they made a lot of tofu, more than ten jars! Xie Jiaojiao asked Sun Ruhua to clean up the jars of pickled cabbage at home.

The cowpeas that were used to soak in the sauerkraut jar in the summer are now all gone. Sun Ruhua was originally planning to use it to soak some cabbage, but when she saw that the tofu could not be fully filled, she had to use it to fill the tofu jar instead!

On the second day after it was made, Xie Jiaojiao delivered it to Shopkeeper Chen. As there were many jars, Xie Jiaojiao and Sun Ruhua went together and made an ox cart. Xie Zhiyi did not go. Every day when he had nothing to do, he would look after the rabbits, thinking that when the rabbits were fattened, he could sell them for money!

Seeing them carrying so many jars, the people on the oxcart couldn't help but ask curiously, "What kind of food did you make? And why put it in jars?"

As he said this, he was about to open the lid of the altar to see what was inside.

Xie Jiaojiao recognized this person. She was the daughter-in-law of the He family who had a very good relationship with Chen Hongju.

Xie Jiaojiao reached out and held down her hand that was about to open the lid, and said with a fake smile: "Whatever I did has nothing to do with you!"

The He family's wife didn't see it, but she couldn't help being curious, and said to the fellow villager next to her: "I was just taking a look, why are you so stingy!"

Xie Jiaojiao rolled her eyes at her and was about to retort, but Sun Ruhua spoke before her: "Why should we show it to you? You are just too curious!"

Xie Jiaojiao clapped her hands to Sun Ruhua: "Mom, well said!"

The He family's wife didn't dare to speak. Sun Ruhua grabbed Xie Jiaojiao's hand and said, "Anyone dares to bully us! What a jerk!"

The He family's daughter-in-law's face turned blue and white, the colors were so brilliant.

Xie Jiaojiao looked at Sun Ruhua in surprise, "My dear mother! You are so cute!"

When they arrived in the town, Sun Ruhua and Xie Jiaojiao delivered the things to the restaurant together. Shopkeeper Chen looked at so many fermented tofu, his face almost broke with laughter. He readily paid the remaining one or two taels of silver and ordered ten more jars.

Xie Jiaojiao was fine, but the happiest person was Sun Ruhua, as she had her own business again!

Turning around, he saw that Xie Jiaojiao was not very happy, so he asked with concern: "Girl, what's wrong?"

But Xie Jiaojiao replied, "Mom, I think this way of making money is too slow!"

"Is this still slow?" Sun Ruhua smiled bitterly.

Xie Jiaojiao nodded.

Sun Ruhua said, "My daughter, if we had two taels of silver, it would be enough for the three of us to live a good life for a year! Look, we have earned so much in just a few days! Mother is already very satisfied."

Xie Jiaojiao didn't say anything. She followed Sun Ruhua to the town to buy a lot of things before preparing to go back.

The He family's wife on the ox cart spoke in a sarcastic tone again. Seeing that Xie Jiaojiao and the others still had so many jars in their backpacks, she said sarcastically, "Oh, you haven't sold even one jar!"

Everyone in the car looked at Xie Jiaojiao and Sun Ruhua.

Xie Jiaojiao sneered: "Who said I didn't sell it?"

Then he opened a jar and said, "This is a new jar that another boss ordered from us. Take a good look. These are all empty jars from that boss!"

Everyone looked and saw that it was true. They even saw the meat under the basket! If it hadn't been sold out, who would buy the meat?

The He family laughed and said, "I don't know if the lid is closed."

Xie Jiaojiao rolled her eyes at her: "If you can't eat the grapes, you say they are sour."

"You..." The He family's daughter-in-law wanted to speak, but was stopped by the people around her.

Xie Jiaojiao didn't want to say more to her, so she leaned against the backpack on the ox cart and closed her eyes to rest.

After returning home, Sun Ruhua cooked, and Xie Jiaojiao took the opportunity to go to the mountain to pick up some firewood.

After lunch, Xie Jiaojiao said, "Mom, let's plant the sugarcane in the field this afternoon. If we keep it in the backyard, I'm afraid it will all go bad."

Sun Ruhua agreed.

In the afternoon, we started to plow the two acres of land where soybeans were planted.

During this period, the family also stored some wood ash, which was carried to the field in a backpack and scattered all over the field. Xie Jiaojiao also buried the previously squeezed sugarcane residue in the field, hoping that it could be used as fertilizer to make the field more fertile.

The next step is to dig holes in the ground row by row, and then plant the sugarcane tips in rows.

There were some artificial fertilizers at home. Xie Jiaojiao endured the cold, carried a load of fertilizer to the field, and fertilized the sugarcane one by one. After everything was done, several days passed.

The villagers saw them busy planting things in the fields, but they didn't recognize these things. Some people couldn't help but ask them what they were planting.

Xie Jiaojiao just said that it was grown for food.

Seeing that no one could get any results from the question, no one asked any more questions.

After the sugarcane was planted, some space became available in the backyard. Sun Ruhua wanted not to waste any land, so she immediately opened up the space again. She planned to buy some vegetable seeds and plant them when she went to the town to sell tofu in a few days!

And finish all this.

The latest batch of tofu is also ready.

The family started to get busy again.

Sun Ruhua covered the last jar of fermented bean curd and said with a smile, "I'll send this to town in a few days, get the money, and buy some new cotton for you two and a quilt. The weather is getting colder, and it will be too late if we don't do it now."

Xie Jiaojiao didn't say anything. Sun Ruhua would be the one to make the decision on these matters. Her only responsibility was to make money!

Just as he was saying this, he saw Chen Hongju walking in from outside the yard carrying a basket.

"Mother, aunt, are busy!"

Xie Jiaojiao frowned and looked at her: "What are you doing here!"

Chen Hongju smiled and handed over the basket: "Look, the last time it happened, it was my fault. I didn't understand the situation clearly, and I just listened to my sister-in-law's nonsense and misunderstood mother. It just so happened that my family made pancakes today, and I remember that mother loved to eat this the most, so I came here specially to apologize to her..."

Sun Ruhua didn't say anything.

Xie Jiaojiao looked at her and the basket she handed over. There were indeed two cakes in it: If someone is too attentive without any reason, he is either a traitor or a thief!

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