After being noisy for a long time, they became even more hungry. Cheng Minglian and Cheng Mingxin saw Cheng Mingli's leisurely attitude and climbed up quickly.

"Little cousin, give me some land."

Cheng Mingli lay down to the side, just enough to make room for him to lie down.

Cheng Minglian had to lie down and wait for Cheng Mingxin to react and lose his place, "Third cousin, respect the old and love the young."

"I am the elder and you are the youngest." Cheng Minglian looked at him with a smile.

".I don't care about that. Third cousin, move over to my little cousin." Cheng Ming relied on his skin to press against him.

Cheng Minglian had no choice but to move half of his body, and the three brothers were lying on the floor. Seeing them chatting happily, Cheng Mingyi and Cheng Mingzhi looked at each other, shook their heads silently, and turned to take care of Cheng Dazhu.

Cheng Dazhu was sitting on a cart, with kind eyes and a big smile.

As soon as he was old and had children and grandchildren at his knees, his life was considered complete; when his little granddaughter grew up and got married, he had nothing to worry about.

The brothers are very close to the sons, and the friendship between the grandchildren is not low; no matter who succeeds first, they will not forget their brothers and sisters. As long as they are willing to reach out to help the brothers and sisters from weak families, their lives will be easier.

What's more, with their family's soap business, their life will only get better and better in the future.

"Mingyi, Mingzhi, you two should sit down for a while." Cheng Dazhu patted the empty seat next to him with a smile, "We have been busy for a long time, and we can have a good rest when we get home."

Cheng Mingyi stood beside him and said: "Grandpa, if my grandson is not tired, the journey is nothing. He is not tired on the way to escape. Don't worry about us. Just have a good rest."

Cheng Mingzhi nodded slightly and agreed.

"Okay, you can rest when you are tired. When your father and uncles come back, we will go home."

It took two-quarters of an hour for Cheng Yuandong and the other two people to come back with their things on their backs. There were three pairs of pig suet in the baskets behind them. However, Cheng Yuanxi's basket was not filled with pig suet. He was on his way to buy pork suet when he encountered Buwei who was going out. I followed Buwei to the grocery store in Prince Zhou's Mansion and bought twenty kilograms of saponins.

It's not ground soap powder, it's dried soap powder.

"How many did you buy?" Cheng Dazhu was most concerned about the quantity.

"Third mate." Cheng Yuandong and Cheng Yuannan took off the backpacks and hugged them sideways, then uncovered the black cloth covering them, revealing the white pig suet.

Cheng Yuandong carried two pairs in the basket on his back, while Cheng Yuannan carried only one pair in the basket on his back.

Cheng Dazhu nodded with satisfaction. They didn't have to eat the pork suet, but they still had to use it all to make soap.

"Let's go home early and make more soap." Immediately after getting off the cart, Cheng Dazhu looked at his youngest son's backpack again and saw that it was soap locust. He was confused, "Third brother, what are you doing with the soap locust? "

Cheng Yuanxi said calmly, "Dad, I bought this for Yiyi, she will use it."

"Yiyi asked you to buy it?"

"That's not true. My son heard Yiyi say once that soap locust is needed to improve soap."

Cheng Yuanxi said frankly that Cheng Dazhu understood, "If the child is interested, let her concentrate on it and ask for anything she needs; I made a lot of money this time, which should be enough to buy the materials Yiyi needs."

"Okay." Cheng Yuanxi nodded happily. Their family had some money, but not much; they had to save it for emergencies. The money earned from selling soap this time would be handed over to the public school. It happened to be money for the family, and money for the materials Mingyi needed. It is also normal to come out from the public.

"We've bought all the things. It's time for us to go home. You guys push the cart and let's go." Cheng Dazhu shouted. The three brothers of the Cheng family walked to their respective carts, put the baskets on their backs on the cart, rolled them with ropes, and then pushed them. Let's go out of the city together in the carriage. After the gatekeepers watched them go away, someone said, "Those people who just left looked familiar to me. They seem to be familiar with the people around Prince Zhou."

"The people around the prince?"

Someone with a flexible mind immediately grasped the key point, "So, they have a good relationship with the prince?"

"Maybe so, who knows."

"That has nothing to do with us. Just remember not to offend them; if you see them coming in the future, just turn a blind eye."

Rather than doing anything detrimental to the northwest, they were doing business at the city gate, so they just pretended they couldn't see it.

In fact, there are no clear regulations on whether business can be done at the city gate.

If the soldiers didn't want them to gather people at the city gate, they would open their mouths to drive them away; if the soldiers didn't open their mouths and pretended they couldn't see them, that's another story.

Driving on the road back to the village, the car followed the traces where it came from, so as not to be submerged in the snow.

Cheng Mingli was young, so Cheng Yuanxi didn't get out of the car if he wanted to be pushed; Cheng Minglian and Cheng Mingxin were the oldest, so naturally they had to go on their own.

They were very excited after making money on this trip; the money could be seen and calculated. As long as they calculated it carefully, they would know how much money they had.

Based on the price of three thousand yuan, that's thirty taels of silver.

In my hometown, how could I earn thirty taels so easily? The money my family spent on fleeing the famine was all accumulated bit by bit by the whole family, and we had never had such a large amount of money.

"Uncle Third, our soap is so profitable. We can make it for a long time in the future, and our family will have more and more money. Can we buy more meat to eat?" Cheng Mingxin followed Cheng Yuanxi, rubbing his stomach, still feeling hungry. Couldn't stop his excitement.

Cheng Minglian's eyes sparkled, "It would be great if I could eat meat every day."

"You brat, are you dreaming in broad daylight?" Cheng Yuandong glared at his youngest son. If he hadn't been pushing a cart, he would have raised his hand to help him. "You can have enough food and clothing at home, but you're not satisfied? How many people don't even have food? We don’t have enough to eat, let alone warm clothes; look at those families in our tribe, they live in thatched houses with mud walls, you don’t know how much better off they are, and yet you are still greedy and insufficient.”

Cheng Yuannan nodded in agreement and echoed: "Isn't that right! Our life is so easy now. We have food, clothing and shelter. We can occasionally go hunting in the mountains, and we can also have a tooth ceremony."

"Dad, second uncle." Cheng Minglian scratched his head in embarrassment.

Cheng Mingxin lowered his head. He was quite greedy; when he was escaping, he wanted to settle down and live a good life. After he settled down, he wanted to eat well and have meat every meal.

Greedy desires never seem to be satisfied.

Cheng Yuanxi didn't think there was anything wrong. He was a saint who didn't ask for anything in life. Only by asking for something in life can he be more motivated and strive for the goals he wants.

"If you want to live a good life, then work hard; earn more money and live a good life at home. Greed is not terrible, just keep your greed on the right path."

Cheng Yuanxi could see clearly because he had been there too.

When I was young, I had some talent, so I was arrogant after studying. I thought about studying to get ahead and give my family a good life.

In reality, he was not suitable for officialdom, and many of his ideas were very different from those of the officialdom at that time. He suffered a big setback in writing time essays, and only gained a reputation as a child, not even a scholar.


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