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

Chapter 48 A Visitor Arrives on a Snowy Night

Han was still a little confused, but Su Tai didn't give her a chance to ask further. She opened the package she had brought back and said, "Father and Mother, I bought everyone a new set of clothes. Brother Shen also got one."

Shen Yi, standing to the side, widened his eyes in shock and looked sharply at Su Tai, the shock still lingering in his eyes. "For me?"

Su Tai nodded as if it were the most natural thing in the world. "You've helped me so much, what's wrong with me buying you a new outfit?"

Shen Yi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly broke into a bright smile, looking expectantly at his package.

Su Chunlin had already opened it, took it out and held it up against Shen Yi, praising him endlessly, "My daughter has such good taste! It's just the right size, even a little extra, a perfect fit!"

As he spoke, he hurriedly handed Shen Yi's clothes to him, then excitedly went to unpack his own package, showing off the clothes to everyone and praising them incessantly, "Look how filial my daughter is, she even knows how to buy clothes for her parents!"

Han, who was standing to the side, laughed and turned to take out two packages from the side, saying, "I didn't buy any ready-made clothes, I just bought some fabric. I was originally thinking of making clothes for you when I got back, but now I've saved myself the trouble."

Everyone burst into laughter.

Su Ming was thinking only about meat buns.

Su Tai immediately opened the buns and gave one to each person, but Shen Yi still got one.

At that moment, the steamed bun in Shen Yi's mouth seemed to be the most delicious food in the world.

After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, Shen Yicai looked at Su Chunlin and said, "Uncle, I've bought the grain seeds, peanuts, and soybeans. I'll deliver them to your house later."

"Ah! So fast!" Su Chunlin suddenly stood up. "Let's go, let's go, Uncle will go help."

Su Tai quickly said, "Father, don't rush, we'll talk about it later."

The two exchanged a glance and left in tacit agreement.

After a while, Su Tai returned alone and told Su Chunlin and the others to go back.

The family gasped in surprise when they saw the cart full of sacks.

Shen Yi also drove over in a donkey cart to meet them; the cart was full of grain seeds.

The group struggled back to Dongmen Village, completely exhausted.

When Su Tai was helping to tidy up, she found out that Su Chunlin and his wife had left alone and bought more than ten kilograms of pork. No wonder the things were so heavy!

There was so much grain that it couldn't be transported all in one trip. Su Chunlin wanted to help, but Shen Yi took Su Tai away.

Su Tai sat on the donkey cart, looking at everything with curiosity. "You bought this?"

Shen Yi nodded. "Building a house requires a lot of stones and wood, which I can't carry all by myself. With this, things will be much simpler. Where do we go now?"

Su Tai thought for a moment and said, "Go to town, hire two oxcarts, and we can make another trip."

After discussing it, the two quickly brought all the seeds back to the Su family.

Before Shen Yi left, Su Tai left him quite a lot of food, which was prepared for his second aunt's family.

Shen Yi was deeply moved and couldn't bear to take his eyes off Su Tai even as he was leaving.

Su Chunlin and Han were busy moving things and didn't notice the subtle feelings between the two at all.

The next day, Su Chunlin delivered the seeds that the Han family wanted, and then went to Su Changxi to entrust him with the arrangements for the remaining grain seeds in his home.

Su Changxi did not show favoritism, but instead notified every household to exchange grain seeds for grain seeds. As for soybeans and peanuts, those who wanted to grow them could buy them with money.

Everyone had witnessed Su Chunlin's family make a fortune growing these seeds, so they all scrambled to buy them, willing to sell their possessions if necessary. Every household bought some, more or less, and on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, Su Changxi delivered the money from selling the seeds.

After collecting the money, Su Chunlin took a large bag of copper coins and silver fragments, which was so heavy he could barely lift it, to town, exchanged them for 115 taels of silver, and then hurriedly delivered them to Shenjiazhuang.

Shen Yi prepared some mountain goods for Su Chunlin to take away, and the silver was hidden inside. After going around in circles, it ended up back in Su Tai's hands.

She now has over a hundred taels of silver in her hands.

As the saying goes, "With money in hand, one feels at ease," and she could finally relax and be a freeloader.

On New Year's Eve, Han took Ruan Xiaoyu out early in the morning to make sticky rice cakes, while Su Tai took on the task of steaming buns.

After all, it was the New Year, and Han was unusually generous, preparing two catties of white flour for Su Tai.

Su Tai looked at it, gave a helpless bitter smile. Two pounds of white flour could only make two or three steamed buns per person at most. It was a rare occasion to steam them, and it was the dead of winter, so she could store them. She took out ten pounds of white flour directly from the Time-Space Gate Transfer Station.

She placed the flour in a basin to ferment, and to shorten the fermentation time, she specifically placed the wooden basin at the stove opening.

Before Han and Ruan Xiaoyu had finished making the sticky rice cake, the flour had already fermented.

Su Ming had been craving meat buns ever since she ate them last time. Since she had meat at home, she cut off two pounds and chopped it into minced meat. She also dug up two unripe bok choys from the soil in the Earth Dimension and steamed a pot of large bok choy and pork filling buns. She steamed the rest into steamed buns.

Before even entering the house, Han smelled the strong aroma of steamed buns. She exchanged a glance with Ruan Xiaoyu and hurriedly carried her wicker basket into the kitchen.

What are you doing?

Han's gaze fell on the steamed buns and mantou, her mouth forming an "O" shape, and her voice suddenly rose, "Girl! How much flour did you use?"

Su Tai turned her head and smiled sweetly at the two of them, "Mom, it's the New Year, so make more so that everyone can eat to their heart's content. Don't worry, I asked Brother Shen to buy it for me. We didn't use any grain from our storeroom."

"You keep talking about your Brother Shen, Shen Yi really spoils you!" Madam Han feigned anger and reproach, but in her heart she was secretly delighted. Her daughter was so bad at managing a household, only Shen Yi could indulge her. If it were a family with in-laws, they would probably drown her in spittle.

Because Han didn't hold it against her, Su Tai became much bolder. After noon, she started dragging Ruan Xiaoyu to the kitchen to make white flour noodles.

If steamed buns represent the pinnacle of food for poor families, then wheat flour noodles are something they wouldn't even dare to dream of. After all, steamed buns are fermented, allowing for a wider variety of dishes to be made, while a bowl of noodles requires a lot of flour and isn't even filling.

Ruan Xiaoyu watched in horror, wanting to speak but holding back, but never daring to utter a word of dissuasion.

By the time Han discovered it, the noodles were already cut and just needed to be cooked.

Thanks to Su Chunlin and the others' banter, Han didn't pursue the matter at all.

In the evening, the whole family sat together for New Year's Eve dinner. Each person had a large bowl of pork noodles in front of them, and in the middle was a large bowl of steamed buns and mantou.

Su Zhan and Su Ming were drooling as they watched, eagerly waiting for Su Chunlin to speak.

Even Su Chunlin himself couldn't resist, and with a wave of his hand, he shouted, "Eat!"

Everyone immediately picked up their chopsticks and began to eat heartily.

Just then, there was a knocking sound from inside the courtyard. "Chunlin, open the door!"

Su Chunlin craned his neck, put down his bowl and chopsticks, and ran outside. His exclamation came from outside: "Big brother! You're really back!"

Han went out to help carry the things into the main room.

Su Chunsen and Su Chuan looked around the new house, nodding repeatedly.