After being jilted, the entire neighboring village was filled with deep regret.

Chapter 228 Su Tai's Top Entrance

Huang Xinghua was so generous because Su Tai had really helped their family a lot. Now that Shen Xiang had become Su Tai's sister-in-law, she became even more generous.

Su Tai opened the rice container and immediately recognized it as aged japonica rice. Its color was yellowish, the grains were not plump, and the quality was poor. However, this kind of rice was indeed precious to them, since Langya Kingdom did not have rice, and it was not easy to transport rice from Longxia Kingdom, which was thousands of miles away.

She feigned delight and said with a smile, "It looks quite nice, thank you so much, Auntie."

With this rice, she could consider growing some rice in the Earth Dimension, so that she would have an excuse to take it out and no one would suspect her.

Huang Xinghua was happy to see that she liked it.

Shen Tian, ​​standing to the side, asked somewhat shyly, "Sister Su Tai, are we going to start making guokui tomorrow evening?"

Su Tai nodded quickly, "Yes! There are more worshippers at the temples and Buddhist halls at the end of the year. The temples will be closed on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month. The idea is to increase the supply, especially the sweet ones, the cabbage and carrot ones, and the pickled ones. These three kinds need to be supplied more than 3,000 a day. We need to add two more ovens."

"Wow! Can you handle all this? Why don't I come and help? There's not much work to do at home anyway," Huang Xinghua said hurriedly.

Su Tai hesitated for a moment, "Auntie, Er Ya is quite pregnant, and I'm afraid she won't be able to take care of the housework. Can you manage?"

Huang Xinghua laughed without taking it to heart, "It's the dead of winter, and the child's father is idle. Let him do the housework, and Xiaotian's younger brothers can help too. That's enough. I just come over every day after noon to help you wash vegetables and cook firewood. I can't make those flatbreads either, but I can help out."

Su Tai agreed, and then added, "Auntie, if Uncle Mu has time, could you please take me to Dongmen Village? I'd like to send some New Year's gifts to my family."

Hearing this, Huang Xinghua felt a little sad. Looking at Su Tai's belly, she sighed, "If Shen Yi were here, you wouldn't have to work so hard. Just wait, I'll go back and talk to my husband about when you plan to leave."

"We'll leave before dawn tomorrow, using my family's donkey cart. It'll be faster, and we'll be back by evening. When I'm not home, Auntie can ask Second Aunt to open the door next door so she can go in and do chores anytime."

Su Tai arranged things in an orderly manner.

Huang Xinghua felt somewhat relieved.

Su Tai got up before dawn the next day to prepare.

Before Shen Yi left, he had already installed the carriage of the donkey cart so that Su Tai would be more comfortable when she went out.

With the carriage as cover, Su Tai could more easily deceive people.

When Shen Mu was driving the donkey cart almost to Dongmen Village, Su Tai took out the items from the Time-Space Gate transfer station.

The donkey cart was moving very fast, and Shen Mu couldn't quickly notice the changes in the back of the cart, nor could he feel the donkey slowing down. Even if he did, he wouldn't think much of it, at most just wondering if the road was difficult to travel.

The two arrived at the Su family's house.

When Madam Han saw Su Tai, heavily pregnant, return to deliver New Year's gifts, she felt extremely distressed and kept nagging, "What kind of time is this and you're still so concerned about saving face! What's wrong with not sending New Year's gifts for a year? I really don't know what to say to you!"

Su Tai picked at her ear and begged for mercy, "Alright, Mother, I was just worried that you wouldn't be able to buy some things here, so I eagerly brought them over to you."

With Su Chunlin and Shen Yi absent this year, everyone seems to have lost their enthusiasm for doing business. In previous years, the Han family would send people over early to collect fish, but this year there has been no word from them.

When Han opened the bucket, she saw six large fish, each weighing five or six pounds, lying inside, and felt sorry for Su Tai. Su Tai didn't waste any words with her and pushed the tea leaves, sugar, bread, cakes, clothes, shoes, socks, and a large pot of cooked food out, asking Su Zhan and his brother to help put them in.

"I won't go into detail about the other things. There are several kinds of tea. You can brew tea or serve it to guests when you're free. This kind of tea can also be boiled with goat milk to make milk tea, which is very fragrant. This big pot is a mutton hot pot that I made. The ingredients are all the freshest. Oh, right, there are also some dishes. You can arrange them as you see fit."

If you have time before the Lunar New Year, come visit me again, and I'll prepare some more delicious food for you.

Madam Han couldn't stand it anymore and scolded her sternly, "You can't just move things back to your parents' house like this while your son-in-law is away! People will curse you to death if word gets out!"

Su Tai said helplessly, "Mother, I've been incredibly busy with work lately. A-Zhan, A-Ming, and A-Xiang often go back to help me. I'm generous to everyone else who does the work, so how could I be stingy with my younger brother and sister-in-law?"
Everyone in the village knows my ways, so who would say anything about me? Besides, my family makes money selling guokui (a type of flatbread). How could such a small business bankrupt the Shen family? You're just worrying unnecessarily!

Okay, I won't say anymore. The two kids are still locked up at home. I'm going back now. Can I have Ah Zhan and the others come over to help me for a few days this evening?

Upon hearing this, Madam Han's expression finally softened considerably. "Alright! Let Zhan and Ming and their husband go over there. Xiaoyu and I will be fine at home."

If it weren't for the baby at home who needed breastfeeding, Mrs. Han would have wanted Ruan Xiaoyu to come and help as well.

Su Tai smiled and immediately turned around to call Shen Mu to hurry back.

That evening, the neighboring workshop had been silent since it started operating. Shen Ergou and Shen Tian came over early to help, and didn't go back to rest until it was almost dark, waiting to come back at the hour of Chou (1-3 AM) to take over the shift.

Su Zhan and Su Ming worked from dusk until midnight, and then they took over.

Since they were there to help, Su Tai had already cleaned up the side rooms in the workshop, and they were ready for people to stay in at any time without affecting Su Tai's situation.

After two busy days, Su Tai was relieved to see that everything in the workshop was running smoothly. She then asked Shen Mu to make a trip to the estate outside Dahe Town to inform Fang Wei to bring a few tenant farmers over to help with the New Year's gifts.

Fang was pleasantly surprised to receive the message.

Last year they also received some New Year's gifts, which included grain and meat. Those things helped them get through the winter, and everyone remembered them well. This year, knowing that their master was going to serve in the military, no one dared to even think about New Year's gifts. Unexpectedly, the master's wife had already made preparations.

Yan Yong asked excitedly, "Brother Fangwei, should we get a few oxcarts to go over there?"

There are ten oxen on the estate, which the owner bought at the beginning of spring this year. They also built their own cart to make it easier to deliver grain.

Fang Wei thought about it carefully for a while before saying, "Let's be conservative and all go, but don't go into the village together. Just the three of us. If there's not much stuff, we can take it all at once. If there's a lot of stuff, we can call people from outside to come into the village to help."

Yan Yongkuang nodded, "Big brother is the most thoughtful. Let's do it this way."

The group arrived at Shenjiazhuang.

Fang Wei, Yan Yong, and another strong tenant farmer entered the village together.

When Su Tai saw them, she nodded to them and let them into the yard to move their things.

"You should have enough grain this year!"