This is the first time Ye Luoxin wants to explore Xiao Mu's true identity.
It would be impossible to practice such handwriting without a few years of hard work.
The Xiao family seemed to be accustomed to this, as if Xiao Mu should have been able to write.
However, now is not the time to explore, she still has important things to do.
If you want to improve the quality of the food box, just inscribing it is definitely not enough.
After all, the Xiao family is not a well-known family, so they can only rely on the words "name on the gold list" to get good luck.
Ye Luoxin also planned it from the beginning and wanted to make some small decorations on the basket.
Some of the rags I bought earlier were used to hold the soles of my shoes, and some were left there unused.
This time I can use these rags to decorate some preserved flowers.
No matter what color it is, as long as you pinch out the petals and add a few colors, you will have a beautiful flower.
She couldn't go out to play often before. When she had nothing to do at home, she would study some small crafts.
Preserved flowers were her favorite thing.
Yang Feng was stunned as she watched Ye Luoxin piece together rags and make a flower in just a few clicks.
She pointed at the vermilion, blue and yellow flowers in Ye Luoxin's hand and asked: "Brother, sister-in-law, how did you make it just now? I only saw you turn it over a few times before you made a flower."
Ye Luoxin picked up the other three colors of cloth and showed them to Yang Feng again, "Look, it's like this. Stack these three together and make a few pleats, then pull this one out and wrap it around..."
Yang Feng's eyes widened when he saw it. This thing seemed a bit simple, but if his eyes were good at it, his hands seemed not to be good at it?
She picked up three strips of cloth, pinched them, twisted them again, and the flowers immediately fell apart.
"No, what you just did should be like this..."
Ye Luoxin showed it again.
Yang Feng was still a little confused, so she asked again: "It's obviously like this, why is it wrong?"
"Aunt, it's not like that." A clear voice came over. It was Dahua from the Zhao family next door. I don't know how long she had been lying on the wall looking at it.
"You're a kid, didn't your mother teach you not to lean against the wall?" Xu Zhengxiang showed displeasure.
Dahua quickly explained, "Grandma Xiao, I didn't lie on the wall on purpose. I went up to pick up things and saw two aunties folding flowers with rags. I accidentally became fascinated."
"You just said it was wrong, do you understand?" Ye Luoxin became a little interested.
It took her a long time to learn this trick. How could this little girl understand it despite being so far away?
Dahua heard Ye Luoxin speaking to her and quickly responded: "Yes, I can understand!"
"Then you make one up for me to see." Ye Luoxin said and came to the wall and handed three strips of cloth to Dahua's hand.
Dahua thought for a moment, and then repeated all Ye Luoxin's actions according to the memory in his mind.
Although it's still a little bit different, it took shape after a few adjustments.
"You are so awesome." Ye Luoxin praised from the bottom of her heart: "Are you willing to come and help me?"
Dahua felt embarrassed at first when she heard the compliment. When she heard that she wanted to help, she nodded quickly and looked back at her house.
"It's okay. You go back and ask your mother to see if she agrees. Ye Luoxin said, just say that the aunt next door wants to hire you to help make tricks, and she will pay you 3 cents a day."
Although 3 cents is not much, it is still a lot of income for a little girl.
After hearing what Ye Luoxin said, she immediately jumped off the wall and ran home quickly.
After a while, she crawled back again and said to Ye Luoxin: "Aunt, my mother said that Dai Xiao will not let me go to your house until it has been forty-nine days, but I can sit here and help you. My mother also said that we don’t charge wages for working.”
After what happened last time, Xu Zhengxiang no longer hates Lady Zhao so much.
Her big flower has always been well-behaved and sensible. Ye Luoxin wanted her to help with the work, but Xu Zhengxiang decided to turn a blind eye.
"That's okay. I'll teach you the tricks. Once you learn it, take it home and make it. When it's done, hand it to me from the wall." Ye Luoxin finally decided.
Making immortal flowers is a delicate job. If she made fifty of them by herself, it would probably take two days.
With the help of Dahua, the progress can be much faster.
After dark, Dahua handed over the ten immortal flowers that she had made. Adding those made by Ye Luoxin herself, there were exactly twenty-five flowers.
The pot at home is not that big, and we cannot make fifty pairs of pig's trotters at one time. According to the number of food boxes, we will make twenty-five pairs tomorrow.
The next day, before dawn, the young couple in the West House got up.
Xiao Mu made a fire, Ye Luoxin fried sugar, put in the pig's trotters, and added seasonings.
When the sun rises high above the treetops, the pig's trotters are also out of the pot.
The Xiao family came together to help dress the pig's trotters, and Ye Luoxin took out a piece of pork from the pot and put it in a separate box.
After all the busy work, Xu Zhengxiang began to worry.
"With so many pig's trotters, can they be sold out at once? It's so hot, these pig's trotters won't last for two days."
"Mom, don't worry. If we can't sell it, we can eat it ourselves." Xiao Mu comforted her.
"Bah, bah, bah, there are so many pig's trotters. How many years will you have to eat them? You spent so much money. You can't waste this money like this."
The more Xu Zhengxiang talked, the more angry she became, and she couldn't help but let them go out quickly.
Liu Er, who had just made an appointment, drove the ox cart to the gate of the courtyard. Ye Luoxin, Xiao Mu, and Xiao Song set off together and rushed to Changting Academy.
There was a guard at the entrance to the academy and they couldn't get in.
Liu Er parked the bullock cart under the shade of a tree, and the Xiao brothers unloaded the goods and sent Liu Er back first. The three of them waited together for the time when the academy would finish school at noon.
During the lunch break, the scholars in the college walked out in twos and threes. When they saw the bullock carts pulling goods, they only glanced at them and passed by.
Ye Luoxin has never done business before, but she knows that to do business, you have to take the initiative to greet people.
She looked at the two brothers and saw that neither of them had any intention of greeting them, so she had no choice but to shout: "Pig's trotters, freshly cooked pig's trotters, they taste so good. If you eat them, you will be lucky enough to be named on the gold medal list."
At first no one looked here, but later, someone finally became interested and came up to ask: "Are the pig's trotters cooked? How are they made?"
Someone finally asked, and Ye Luoxin immediately became energetic and raised a food box to show to the students across from her: "Look, there are two pig's trotters in a food box, and the pig's trotters inside were just made in the morning."
After speaking, she opened the lid of the food box and showed the contents to the person opposite: "It's delicious and soft, with endless aftertaste."
The color of the pig's trotters is a very beautiful red sauce, and the person who asked was a little tempted.
Just as he was about to answer, a classmate came up and put his arm around his shoulders and said, "Xu Ji's sauced pork is so delicious, why should you buy it on the roadside? The taste is definitely not as good as Xu Ji's."
