After wearing it: I traded a pig for a man.

Chapter 20: One beating, one candy

Xie Shengan nodded: "Don't worry."

Even if Jiang Yun Ning didn't say anything, he wouldn't tell anyone. This was a money god, after all; it wouldn't be good if someone else found out.

After seeing Xie Shengan off, the family sat around the table, staring at the two hundred taels of silver notes on it, not daring to blink.

"This is...ours?" Jiang Laosan rubbed his eyes.

Wang Cuihua's eyes reddened with emotion: "Dad, our daughter has made something of herself!"

Jiang Yun Ning smiled, even though after deducting costs, the profit from those two hundred taels was only about forty or fifty taels.

In the past, Jiang Laosan's entire family would have to work hard for two and a half years without eating or drinking.

"Anhe, once the ties are severed, your aunt will send you to school."

Jiang Anhe happily jumped into her arms: "Anhe can also go to school with Uncle. Aunt is saving money for her and Uncle's wedding."

He often heard Liu Yuzhi mention that Jiang Yuning hadn't held a wedding banquet yet. At such a young age, he didn't understand how much a wedding cost; he only remembered the adults saying, "We'll hold the banquet once we've saved enough."

"Yes," Jiang Laosan said, "Daughter, now that we're rich, Anhe can go to school, and you and Jiang Che can have a banquet together."

Jiang Yun Ning shook her head: "Father, two hundred taels seems like a lot, but after deducting the cost, there won't be much left. Let's send An He to school first. Besides, doing so many big things at once will easily make people envious."

Jiang Laosan suddenly sighed with emotion: "You've become sensible. You think things through more thoroughly than your father does. We'll listen to you. Whenever you say when to do it, we'll do it."

Anyway, now that I have money, I'm not worried.

Jiang Che remained quiet and silent, not uttering a single word.

He felt he had been through too much today. Jiang Yun Ning looked like just a peasant girl, rough and unrefined. Yet, she had so many business ideas in her head.

Her proposed customer segmentation and limited-quantity sales surprised even Xie Shengan, who had grown up in a merchant family.

Just how much intelligence does Jiang Yun Ning still possess that he hasn't yet revealed?

"Father, Mother, Elder Brother, Elder Sister-in-law, tonight our whole family will go look for cicada nymphs. Tomorrow I'll go to town to buy things for making soap, and I'll sell all the cicada nymphs while I'm at it."

"Okay. I'll do whatever you say." Jiang Laosan was so happy he couldn't stop grinning.

He never imagined that after a lifetime of toiling in the fields, he would be able to do business with his daughter.

In the afternoon, Jiang Yuning took the drawn wooden box design and went with Jiang Laosan to a neighboring village to find a carpenter. Jiang Yuning ordered more than five hundred small wooden boxes in the shape of flowers, spending twenty-five taels of silver.

Although it's a bit expensive, it can be reused repeatedly, so it's still acceptable.

"Uncle, just leave it there when it's done. I'll come and get it myself later," Jiang Yun Ning instructed.

The carpenter nodded: "Okay."

At the Jiang family home, Jiang Yuntian and Jiang Che were busy making large wooden boxes. These were relatively simple; they were made from a single board with four sides, and even someone not very skilled in woodworking could make them.

Liu Yuzhi and Wang Cuihua were not idle either; they helped out from the sidelines, and the whole family worked together.

Jiang Anhe looked left and right, then picked up the small basket and said, "Mom, can I go find some food for the rabbits? Okay, okay."

His self-questioning manner made Liu Yuzhi unable to suppress her laughter.

"Okay, okay, don't go too far, okay?" she instructed.

Jiang Anhe nodded: "Okay, I'll ask Douzi from Grandma Hua's family to come with me."

Wang Cuihua smiled: "Go quickly, and remember to come back early."

After ordering the wooden boxes, Jiang Yuning secretly collected a few peach saplings along the way and put them into her spatial storage.

As soon as I entered the village, I heard the sound of children crying.

"Waaah, you're not allowed to take my candy! My aunt bought it for me." Jiang Anhe sat on the ground, her little hands tightly covering her pockets.

Jiang Yun Ning, with her sharp ears, immediately recognized Jiang An He's voice: "Dad, hurry, An He is crying."

"Hmph! Great-Grandma said that everything in your family belongs to me!" Jiang Zheng'an said, hands on his hips, his face covered in snot.

These were words that Jiang Liushi had been repeating to him since he was a child.

Jiang Yun Ning saw Jiang An He sitting on the ground, with a few small footprints on her trouser legs: "An He."

She rushed over and lifted Jiang Anhe's trouser leg: "Does it hurt? Can you move?"

Jiang Anhe cried even louder when she saw Jiang Yunning and Jiang Laosan: "Waaah, my brother bullied me and tried to take my candy. I gave him one piece."

Jiang Zheng'an wasn't afraid at all; he was already used to taking things from Jiang Anhe.

"Don't cry, don't cry." Jiang Yun Ning felt a pang of heartache and quickly wiped her tears with her sleeve. "It's okay, Auntie's here."

"Zheng'an!" Jiang Laosan cried out in alarm, "How could you hit someone?"

Jiang Anhe is only five years old, and he is thin and small. Jiang Zheng'an is already nine years old and is chubby.

"So what! I'll hit him! Who told him not to give me candy?" Jiang Zheng'an didn't think he was wrong at all.

Just then, Xiaodouzi returned from going back to fetch help. Behind him were Wang Cuihua and several others, as well as Jiang Liushi.

"What are you doing! What are you yelling about while the kids are fighting!" Jiang Liushi immediately launched into a tirade, shielding Jiang Zheng'an behind her.

Xiao Douzi had already told the others what had happened on the way. Wang Cuihua felt heartbroken when she saw Jiang Anhe crying so hard.

"Mother. Anhe is still young, and Zheng'an is strong. What if she gets hurt?" She frowned, hugging Jiang Anhe and coaxing her, "Anhe, be good, don't cry."

Jiang Liu rolled her eyes: "It's just kids fighting, what's the big deal? Which kid doesn't fight when they're young? It's his own fault for being young and losing. He deserves it."

Seeing that someone was backing him up, Jiang Zheng'an became even more self-righteous: "That's right! It's because he can't beat me."

Jiang Laosan was about to say something when Jiang Yun Ning stopped him: "Grandma, are you saying that if kids fight, whether they win or lose, they deserve it?"

Jiang Liu raised her chin: "That's right."

Anyway, Jiang Zheng'an is old, so he definitely won't lose.

"Grandma is right." Jiang Yun Ning smiled and turned to look at Jiang An He: "An He, give the candy to your aunt, she can have some."

Jiang Anhe, with tears still clinging to her eyelashes, nodded with a pitiful expression and obediently took out the candy from her pocket.

Jiang Liu thought the candy was for Jiang Zheng'an and was about to reach out when she heard Jiang Yun Ning say, "Children, from now on, you can beat up Jiang Zheng'an every day, and then come to me for candy, okay?"

There were many children around, some much older than Jiang Zheng'an, and some about the same age.

"good!"

The children's eyes were bright.

They were all children from poor families, so this one piece of candy was quite tempting.

"Hey, hey, hey? You wretched girl, what nonsense are you spouting?" Jiang Liushi hurriedly pulled Jiang Zheng'an into her arms. "Zheng'an is your own nephew!"

Jiang Yun Ning rolled her eyes: "An He is closer to him than him."

Jiang Zheng'an was a little scared. He huddled in Jiang Liu's arms and said, "Great-Grandma, let's go home. They're going to beat me up. Let's go home."

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