Hearing this, Shen Zhiyao guessed: "Yue Xiuyu helped you sell it?"
Pei Lingxuan nodded: "Yes."
She used a pseudonym when signing the storybooks. If she went to sell storybooks as a woman, the shopkeepers of those bookstores would not accept them. Moreover, if her parents knew that she had written these, they would probably be left with nothing to eat.
So she found Yue Xiuyu.
Fortunately, Yue Xiuyu did not object to her writing the storybook and readily agreed to help her sell it.
However, if he doesn't agree, huh, he won't have a fiancée immediately.
After Shen Zhiyao and Pei Lingxuan chatted for a while, Mao Dazhuang came to tell her that her rice had been processed and turned into white rice.
"Okay, I'll come over and collect it later." Shen Zhiyao said to Mao Dazhuang.
"Ah, yes, it's rice harvest time now." Pei Lingxuan suddenly thought of something.
Shen Zhiyao: "What's wrong?"
"A caravan of my father came back from Changling Prefecture a few days ago. I heard from them that it has not rained in Changling Prefecture for more than half a year. It has been as hot as a furnace all day long, and the food in the fields of the people has also disappeared. They are all withered and there is no harvest.”
Pei Lingxuan sighed with emotion, and then lowered her voice: "It is said that even now, the court has not allocated any money to provide disaster relief, and the people of Changling Prefecture have died because of this."
Speaking of this, Pei Lingxuan's thoughts about her real name faded a little.
Shen Zhiyao thought of a word - locusts plagued by extreme drought. Changling Prefecture has been in drought for so long, and there is a high chance that locust plagues will occur again.
However, Changling Prefecture is in the north and they are in the south, so they can't help much.
Shen Zhiyao got more than 3,000 kilograms of rice this year, plus last year's more than 1,500 kilograms, and some she usually buys, there are already more than 5,000 kilograms of rice in the space.
When she was thinking about selling a little bit, she heard Chen Hu say that the rice fields produced by the Chen family, Li Zheng, and the Shen clan leader's family raised crayfish this year, and they were all fuller. When new rice is cooked, it becomes sweeter and softer in the mouth.
Although the rice production is not much more than last year, raising crayfish in rice fields alone will not harm the rice. Every household in Lihua Village went to Li Zheng, eager to raise crayfish.
"If they didn't follow you, Sister Zhiyao, they would have missed a year in vain, haha."
Chen Hu was overjoyed when he thought of the regretful expressions on some villagers' faces.
Shen Zhiyao thought of another thing, "Huzi, the tomatoes grown by your family and Li Zheng and others should be ripe soon."
Chen Hu nodded: "It's a little redder."
"Okay, the part you want to sell is the same. Send it to Zhuangzi."
She bought another restaurant on the pier behind her, serving as Shen's No. 3 restaurant.
No. 3 store sells cold pot skewers. After the tomatoes arrive, you can add a tomato pot for those few who can't tolerate spicy food.
"Sister Zhiyao, don't worry, I will definitely deliver it when the time comes."
After saying that, Chen Hu went to find Chen Cuihua.
In Shen's Shiguang No. 3 store, Chen Hu called Chen Cuihua aside during a busy break and said, "Second sister, mother asked you to go back on the day you close."
Chen Cuihua: "Is there another matchmaker who wants to marry me?"
"Second sister, you can guess right."
Chen Cuihua frowned: "I don't want to get married yet."
She had only been transferred from the No. 1 store to the No. 3 store for a month, and now she had to go all out to sell Chuan Chuan in order to earn Zhiyao's trust.
Zhiyao handed over the No. 1 and No. 3 stores to her and Mrs. Wu. The monthly profits of the two stores were directly shared with them, so she wanted to sell more Chuan Chuan and make money.
"Then you can think of a way to delay it at my mother's place." Chen Hu scratched his head, not knowing how to reply to Aunt Chen when he got back.
Chen Cuihua sighed, it's not easy to spend time at my mother's place.
Otherwise, she might as well go back and wait until the day she meets the person introduced by the matchmaker to draw a big mole on her face to scare him away.
Thinking of this, Chen Cuihua felt a little relieved, nodded and said: "Okay, I understand."
After Chen Hu left, Chen Cuihua continued to get skewers.
In addition to her, she also hired two workers in the No. 3 store.
At this time, a young couple stood behind the queue of diners outside the No. 3 store.
The two of them were wearing relatively ordinary clothes. The woman introduced to her husband how delicious Shen Shiguang's dishes were and how long they had to wait in line every day.
The man coaxed her with a doting look on his face.
After the two of them queued for a long time and sat down in the restaurant, the man was stunned when he saw Chen Cuihua.
It wasn't until Chen Cuihua took the menu and asked them what they wanted that she regained her composure.
"Shopkeeper Chen, this is what I need." The woman was obviously a regular customer, and she finished her order skillfully in a long time.
"Okay, please wait a moment." Chen Cuihua put away the menu and went to prepare the dishes calmly.
"Madam, is she the shopkeeper of this restaurant?" A look of shock appeared on Wang Zibao's face again.
"Yes, Wang Lang, what's wrong?"
Wang Zibao put away his shock: "I just didn't expect that the manager of this restaurant is actually a woman."
Chen Cuihua turned out to be a shopkeeper!
Ever since his marriage to a young lady in town was ruined by Chen Cuihua's mother, it has become more difficult for him to get married.
Fortunately, later on, he relied on sweet talk to seduce a girl from the county, who was the wife he had just married.
Later, when he heard that Chen Cuihua's father had received a reward from the emperor, he felt sad for a while and thought that even so, Chen Cuihua was not a peasant girl, and he never regretted it.
Now, Chen Cuihua actually has a restaurant in the county?
And I heard from the lady that there are queues for this restaurant every day, so the business is so booming!
His father-in-law was a waiter in a restaurant, and he relied on his father-in-law's connections to get a job as a waiter.
But compared to Chen Cuihua, she is really far behind.
Thinking this, Wang Zibao's lowered eyes flashed with some calculation.
Chen Cuihua also didn't expect to meet Wang Zibao again.
The moment she saw the prince's bag, her mood was very calm, just like when she saw a cat or dog.
Sure enough, now that she has her own thing to do, all the things that could affect her mood in the past are just a cloud.
——
Shen Zhiyao received the tomatoes from Chen Hu and was about to take some tomatoes to Shen's Shiguang No. 3 store and teach Chen Cuihua how to make tomato pot. As soon as she walked out of the village, she was stopped by someone.
"Dr. Shen, what a coincidence."
A carriage stopped not far from her village.
Shen Zhiyao followed the voice and looked over. A bright and enchanting woman was lifting the curtain of the carriage and looking at her with a smile.
At first glance, it was obvious that he had been waiting here for some time.
"Unfortunately, this is the entrance of my village." Shen Zhiyao stopped the donkey cart.
"Who is the girl?"
"Dong Chen, just call me Xiangxiang." This woman is the oiran of Yihonglou.
