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    The bullock cart that Chen Nianguan used to go back to the county was still from Qingfeng Nunnery.

    Master Jingchen was going to the city to preach to a family's female relatives, and also to buy supplies for the nunnery, so he happened to bring Qingshuang down the mountain with Chen Nianguan.

    As the ox cart slowly walked into Funing County, Chen Nianguan's heart ached.

    She remembered that the alley where she lived with her mother was called Stone Alley, but she didn't know how to find this alley. Fortunately, Master Jingchen and Qingshuang saw that Chen Nianguan had too many things, so they drove the ox cart all the way to the gate of the courtyard.

    As soon as their ox cart stopped, someone inside responded to open the door, and was startled when they saw Chen Nianguan: "Oh, Miss Chen Si, are you really all right?"

    The person who spoke was a woman who lived in a family with the surname Hua in the courtyard. She was called Aunt Hua on weekdays.

    Chen Nianguan jumped down from the bullock cart, nodded, pushed open the door, and moved the contents of the bullock cart into it. Aunt Hua's eyes sparkled when she saw so many things on the bullock cart: "Oh, it's not Miss Chen SiAre you injured and recuperating in the nunnery? How did you heal your wounds and grow so many things? Could it be that you earned it by doing something inappropriate?"

    "This benefactor, please be careful, our Qingfeng nunnery is a pure place of Buddhism, not a dirty place." Master Jingchen was helping Qingshuang to move things in, and after hearing Aunt Hua's guess with ulterior motives, he said seriously:"These are gifts from Master Ming Hai of Dafeng Temple, don't misunderstand them."

    Aunt Hua is a market lady, where has she ever heard of Master Ming Hai's reputation?Turned over Byakugan, do not believe it.

    After all, Qingfeng Nunnery is also well-known in the county. On weekdays, many women would go to offer incense on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the 15th day of the Lunar New Year and festivals, so Aunt Hua did not dare to make a mistake, but just silently watched them move things in., counting secretly, went back to the wing room on the west side of the main house rented by the Hua family, and went to call his wife: "Hey, Yulan, you didn't take a look, the fourth girl of the Chen family came back, and brought back many things.", there are two bags of rice alone, and two barrels of live fish."

    "It's also from the Chen family, mother, don't worry about it." Li Yulan was embroidering a purse facing the window, glanced at her mother-in-law, continued her work without moving her buttocks.

    "Who is troublesome? I went to open the door for them and took a second look. I have a good memory and accidentally remembered it. Can you blame me?" Aunt Hua said, and pushed Li Bailan again, "Didn't Mrs. Chen say that Mrs. ChenDid the girl accidentally fall into the river and hurt her brain seriously? How can she please the master and give her so many things when she is recuperating in the nunnery?"

    Speaking of which, Aunt Hua went to the window again, looking at Chen Nianguan who was coming in and out, her eyes were hot: "Hey, how do you think Chen Si will be blessed by misfortune?"

    "Auntie!" Li Yulan called Aunt Hua dissatisfied, and ignored her.

    Aunt Hua got bored, snorted coldly and walked out of the door again, leaning on the lintel and staring until Chen Nianguan said goodbye to the two masters and entered one of the wing rooms in the west wing.

    Chen Nianguan moved all his things into the rented wing, only to find that there was not even room for these things in the wing.

    The wing room is divided into two parts, the inner part has a larger space, and there are two bed boards, one big and one small, which are the beds for the mother and daughter. The outer room is separated by a thread and an old curtain, and only the bedA table, the other is the lame little scorpion, and a large cage for storing clothes, and nothing else.

    "Sister, there are so many fish!"

    The mother was not in the courtyard, she probably went to do some work, originally the younger sister was left at the house of Mrs. Wang in the next room. When she heard that Chen Nianguan had returned, Mrs. Wang took Xuan Xuan out and hurriedly unlocked her.

    At this moment, Xuan Xuan was curiously playing with the fish in the bucket with her hands, while Chen Nianguan made room in the room, put the things back after finally putting them away, wiped off his sweat, and then took them out.The fish curd was fried early in the morning, and found a large bowl in the public kitchen, filled half of the bamboo basket, and sent it to Mrs. Wang's house.

    "Sister-in-law, these are some snacks I fried when I was still in the nunnery, would you like to try them?"

    "Hey, Miss Si, don't be so polite. You can save it for your mother and Xuan Xuan to eat." Sister-in-law Wang rents a wing room of the same size as her husband, and the two families are neighbors.Most clearly, seeing that Chen Nianguan brought back a lot of food today, but he still refused.

    "I'm not being polite. I've reserved it for Auntie and Xuan Xuan. Sister-in-law Wang, you can take it!" Chen Nianguan said, bowing his head and pulling his younger sister: "Xuan Xuan, ask my sister-in-law to accept the fish curd, and then weGo and eat your share, okay?"

    Xiao Xuan Xuan, who had been sucking her fingers longingly, nodded, her big eyes were shining black on her skinny face, she looked at Sister Wang, "Sister-in-law, take it quickly, I will go back to eat delicious food with my sister."

    Sister-in-law Wang wanted to say something, but Aunt Hua came up one step earlier and smiled, "Hey, what is so delicious? Can you let me taste it too?"

    "Aunt Hua, Miss Si specially left this for my family. I can't waste Miss Si's kindness. I'm sorry." Seeing Aunt Hua approaching to take advantage, Sister-in-law Wang immediately put away the bowl of fish curd.Then she smiled at Sister Chen Nianguan: "Xuan Xuan and sister, go home quickly! Sister-in-law won't keep you here."

    Chen Nianguan immediately took his sister back to his own room, and closed the door after entering.

    The self-defeating Aunt Hua spat: "Who cares about those things, maybe they got them in exchange for being prostitutes in a nunnery! Shameless!"

    In the wing room, Chen Nianguan heard Aunt Hua's scolding, his face darkened, he was worried that there was a little sister beside him, so he didn't have an attack.

    After taking the fish curd for Xuan Xuan to make snacks and eating, Chen Nianwan lay down on the couch, thinking about the way out in the future.

    The first thing is naturally to move out of this messy courtyard. Even considering the earning livelihood in the future, there must be enough space.

    In the past few days in Qingfeng Nunnery, she has figured it out. She doesn't know how to farm, and she doesn't have other powerful skills that can make money immediately. If she wants to make a living with fast income and fixed income, she still has to start from a small business.To start, such as selling breakfast or snacks at a stall.

    Chen Nianguan got up, pried loose a brick in the corner on the right side of the wing room, and took out the purse hidden inside.

    This is the last bit of wealth that the original body has stored for more than ten years.

    The purse looked bulging, and when counted it out, it was only about 100 Wen.

    According to Yuanbang's memory, once he moved into a small house that was a bit dilapidated outside, the annual rent would cost three or four taels of silver.

    If you want to start a stall, it seems that you still have to make money first.

    Chen Nianguan stuffed the purse back, put the bricks away, opened the curtain and saw that half of the fish curd in the bamboo basket had been eaten by Xuan Xuan.

    "Xuan Xuan, is it delicious?"

    The six-year-old girl was thin and frail, like bean sprouts, which made Chen Nianguan, who had never been an older sister, feel sad for no reason, but could not help pity her.

    Didn't expect her to have a younger sister!

    Xuan Xuan, who was licking her fingers, nodded, "Sister, can we eat it every day?"

    Chen Nianguan laughed, "Okay, my sister will make fish curd for Xuan Xuan to eat every day."

    After not thinking about it, Chen Nianguan went to check the two barrels of fish he brought back, thinking that the live fish should be disposed of as soon as possible, otherwise the live fish will become dead and the fish will not be fresh.

    It's just that Funing County is a small town by the sea, and there is an inland wharf 40 kilometers away from the bay. There are many fishermen who make a living by fishing and selling fish.Not a few dollars.

    But it is different if it is selling fish curd.

    First of all, this fish was sent by Master Ming Hai, and it didn’t cost a single penny, and the oil for frying the fish curd was also brought back without paying any money, even the eggs and spices are ready-made, and the rest needs to be paid, that is, coolies and firewood.

    Coolies are not counted as money, that is two or three pennies for firewood.

    Although fish rot made in modern times is sold by the catty, the scarcity increases value.

    In this era, there is no delicacy such as fish rot, and no one knows how the fish rot is made. Moreover, each of the fish rot is fried to the size of a small egg, and the eggs cost a penny each. She is a profiteer and sells them directly to restaurants.Probably, it can also be sold for a penny?

    If she can sell at least one hundred pieces of fish curd a day, she will have a net income of one hundred coins.

    The dace in these two barrels are used to make fish rot, and if there are more than ten, this kind of no-cost business can earn one hundred coins a day, so it can be sold for ten days, and after ten days, there will be a consistent amount of money.

    Afterwards, you can use this usual money as a basis to buy one dace and two eggs every day. Even if you add firewood, oil and salt, and deduct the cost of about 40 yuan, you can earn at least 60 yuan a day. After a monthIt's almost always more than 800 Wen, nearly two taels of silver!

    The money can save in a month is more than the copper coins saved in the past few years, so can find a house and move out after staying in the courtyard for another two months!

    Chen Nianguan was slightly excited, looking at the fish in the bucket was like looking at silver ingots.

    When finally came back to senses, remembered that the first priority was how to feed these two buckets of more than ten fish.

    Of course, Chen Nianguan has some experience in this point.

    She took out the old purse again, and immediately went out to buy oil paper, and also went to the carpenter to buy two large wooden basins for three Wen each, and then asked Mrs. Wang to help, and put five or six fish in one wooden basin into two wing rooms.Under the bed in the house, some fresh well water was installed and replaced. In order to feed the initial ingredients, the water had to be changed every day for at least five days.

    After finishing all this, Mrs. Liu also came back. She was also happy to see her eldest daughter come back, and her originally gloomy face finally showed a little anger. Seeing how much rations she brought back, she was amazed but also afraid of where she came from.Unknown, when Chen Nianguan said that it was a gift from Master Ming Hai, the savior, he was obviously relieved.

    "By the way, Auntie, during the few days when I was convalescing in the nunnery, Master Ming Hai couldn't find a cook, so he asked me to help out temporarily, and found that I was quite talented in this area, so he taught me to cook some dishes that ordinary people can't eat., let me cook for you tonight, okay?"

    The original body was raised by Liu's single-handedly, and she knew exactly what she knew, how many catties and taels, if she said that she could cook, maybe Liu would be surprised, but if it was taught by Master Minghai, she wouldReally lived in Qingfeng Nunnery for so many days, using this excuse taught by Master Ming Hai as a cover, Liu's family should not be suspicious of her daughter's sudden culinary skills.

    Sure enough, Mrs. Liu tasted a wrinkled gauze fish curd, nodded, and sighed: "Master Ming Hai not only saved your life, but is also willing to teach you cooking skills. You are truly a bodhisattva."

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