Chapter 55: Cute Kids Soliciting Business
The next day, Jiang Meilan and Jiang Meihua came to help as expected.

At this time, Liu Xihua's fermented rice wine had just been made and it would take another three days to produce the wine.

Since Jiang Meilan and Jiang Meihua couldn't help sell food, they helped Liu Xihua with some housework.

One does the laundry and the other sweeps the floor.

When the villagers saw them helping Liu Xihua, they praised them for their hard work.

But behind her back, they talked about Aunt Jiang, "The adopted daughter doesn't help the family but helps her sister-in-law, which shows that her sister-in-law is better than her own mother."

"That's right. The old woman from the Jiang family is so partial to the sun that she thinks the other children are not her children. Only the eldest daughter is her child. How can a parent be like this?"

The news reached Aunt Jiang's ears.

The two sisters would inevitably be scolded.

But Jiang Meilan was stubborn and ignored all the scolding no matter how much it went in one ear and out the other.

The scolding was so harsh that Jiang Meilan simply ran away.

Jiang Meihua remained silent.

Scolding Jiang Meihua feels like scolding the air.

Aunt Jiang was so angry that she fell backwards.
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Three days later, it happened to be Sunday and Jiang Meilan had a day off.

Early in the morning, she followed Jiang Meihua to Liu Xihua.

The rice wine brewed by Liu Xihua has produced good wine.

She rolled some small glutinous rice balls, cooked them together, added sugar, stirred them evenly, and put them in a large jar.

The two sisters found some bowls and spoons and put them in another small wooden basin.

Jiang Meihua carried the pole, with rice wine on one end and bowls and chopsticks on the other, and carried them to the street.

Jiang Meilan followed behind.

Liu Xihua was worried about them, so she put Jiang Xiaoxiao in the cart, pushed her behind, and followed them to the street.

Because it was Sunday, the streets were crowded with people selling and buying things early in the morning, and it was very lively with people coming and going.

Jiang Xiaoxiao's eyesight improved and she could no longer see clearly.

Liu Xihua and her two sisters-in-law stopped beside a stall selling steamed buns.

Because the business of this bun shop is very good, many people are buying buns.

The three men stopped their load and looked at the people walking on the street, hoping that someone would come to buy rice wine.

But the bun shop next door had business with more than ten people, and no one came to ask about their rice wine.

The three of them couldn't help but become anxious.

"Sister-in-law, no one came to ask." Jiang Meilan sighed.

"Meilan, why are you in such a hurry? Wait a moment." Jiang Meihua said. Although her tone was not anxious, her expression was not much better than Jiang Meilan's, and her brows were almost twisted into a frown.

"Let's wait and see." Liu Xihua was also anxious.

But what can I do if I am in a hurry? No one comes to ask.

The most anxious person should be Jiang Xiaoxiao. It was her first time doing business, how could she just stand there? She was worried about the three of them.

But she is a child, she is only eleven months old and can't speak yet.

[Mom, I have to shout, sell rice wine, sweet and fragrant rice wine]

[If we don’t shout, no one will know that we sell rice wine]

Liu Xihua looked at Jiang Xiaoxiao's wrinkled face and suddenly realized, yes, she had to shout to let people know what they were selling.

She cleared her throat and called out to passers-by, "Selling rice wine, freshly brewed rice wine, fragrant and sweet rice wine."

Bang bang bang bang——

Jiang Xiaoxiao grabbed the rattle in her hand and knocked her baby stroller hard.

Liu Xihua shouted in a clear voice and Jiang Xiaoxiao tapped rhythmically, which soon attracted many people to turn around and look.

Liu Xihua was happy, "Auntie, brother, come and buy some fermented rice wine?"

But everyone didn't look at her fermented rice, they all went to look at Jiang Xiaoxiao. Jiang Xiaoxiao, "..." I'm not selling her, you got it wrong!

"How many months old is this girl?" A lady in her fifties smiled and touched Jiang Xiaoxiao's head.

Jiang Xiaoxiao was wearing a sweater knitted with colorful wool and her shiny black hair was tied into two little pigtails.

He has delicate features and big eyes like black grapes.

As pretty as the dolls in New Year pictures.

Jiang Xiaoxiao blinked her big eyes and looked at the woman.

Liu Xihua smiled and said, "She is eleven months old."

"So good, you have such a beautiful smile."

Jiang Xiaoxiao was touched again, and she thought to herself, if you buy my fermented rice wine, I will smile for you again and I will be better behaved.

She tapped the cart again with the rattle.

The old lady smiled and patted Jiang Xiaoxiao's head and said, "Hey, I don't buy your fermented rice wine, are you angry?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao thought to herself, of course.

"Give me a bowl to try. I'm hungry." The old lady nodded at Liu Xihua.

"Six cents a bowl." said Liu Xihua.

"Okay, I'll give you ten cents and you give me two cents." The old lady took out ten cents and handed it to Liu Xihua.

Liu Xihua gave back four cents.

Jiang Meihua immediately took a bowl, scooped a bowl of fermented rice balls and handed it to the old lady.

The old lady took the bowl and drank it on the roadside.

"Well, the glutinous rice balls are very sticky, the fermented rice is not sour, but sweet and fragrant." She praised it highly.

When the middle-aged man saw that it tasted good, he asked for a bowl too.

Liu Xihua was delighted and started shouting again, "Wine-fermented meatballs—, six cents a bowl."

Jiang Meilan took two used bowls and spoons and walked to the small river behind the bun shop to wash them.

When the three sisters-in-law were busy, a shy young man came over and asked, "How many fermented rice balls do you have?"

Jiang Meihua found that the person who came was a young man in his early twenties, and her face suddenly turned red, "Quite...quite a lot."

She opened the lid of the jar and showed it to the man.

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at him, a gentle young man wearing glasses, with a small black mole on the side of his left eyebrow.

Isn’t this the young veterinarian who had a crush on Jiang Meihua, but was separated from her by Aunt Jiang?

[Second aunt, this young man fell in love with you at first sight, you must seize the opportunity]

[Don’t agree to marry the blacksmith from the neighboring village. He will beat you to death. You must marry this young veterinarian.]

Jiang Xiaoxiao didn't want Jiang Meihua and the young veterinarian to miss each other, so she kicked her feet anxiously.

Jiang Meihua was shocked. She would be married to a blacksmith? And she would be beaten to death?

The man in front of her likes her?
Jiang Meihua raised her head and looked at the man again.

When the young man saw Jiang Meihua looking at him, his heart started beating wildly. "I...I think I've seen you before. Are you from the Fifth Squadron of the Forward Brigade? You've released cattle and tamed mad bulls. Your last name is Jiang, right?"

Jiang Meihua looked embarrassed and blinked in surprise, "You...you know me?"

"This is my sister-in-law, her name is Jiang Meihua. Young man, do you know our family?" Liu Xihua said with a smile when she saw the young man staring at Jiang Meihua.

She is an experienced person, how could she not understand the look in a young man's eyes?

The second sister-in-law is nineteen years old this year. She is tall and graceful with a gentle personality. She is the most beautiful girl among the teams, even prettier than the eldest sister-in-law Jiang Meizhi.

However, the mother-in-law didn't like Hua Jiang Meihua and she either beat or scolded her all day long.

But Liu Xihua felt that Jiang Meihua was the best looking of the three sisters-in-law.

(End of this chapter)