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After persuading Chen Liu'er to return home, Jiaoniang was still a little worried about how he could help the lotus, although there were many matters in the family, it was all part of his own family. Those prescriptions could not be helped by outsiders, and originally, he could invited the lotus flower to help make tofu at home, but now that the tofu business was outsourced, he did not need to specially invite people to make tofu.

Jiaoniang had told the owner of the inn that he could give the tofu recipe to him, but it was just like Qiao Ke's restaurant. Owner Qian and Qiao Ke had discussed with each other, if he took over the tofu recipe, then it would mean that he would monopolize the entire county's tofu business, with each family dominating the other, and other restaurants would also come to buy tofu, this being the case, if Jiaoniang wanted 20% of the profits, it would not be a big problem.

Other than that, Jiaoniang had also promised that if his tofu shop could grow, at that time, Jiaoniang would give him the other methods to use the tofu, as an explanation for his ancestors' businesses.

The son of the Old Liao had always been passionate about tofu ever since he tasted the milk. Previously, when he wanted to inherit his father's restaurant, it was purely the family pressure, but his interests were similar to his father's, so he could only eat a few mouthfuls of good food. His father did not tell him the reason behind closing the restaurant, but only told him how good it would be if he changed his job to make tofu. Other than the white and tender tofu, they could also study tofu to dry tofu and fermented milk.

The two of them signed an agreement, one for each other, with Qiao Ke as the notary. In this era, whoever betrayed their trust would naturally not be able to survive in this place, unless they had the courage to leave their home, there were still a few people who were willing to leave and run.

In the future, you can call me Uncle Qian the same as Xiao Ke. In the future, we will share both honor and disgrace together, and I will definitely complete the tofu workshop. If there is anything wrong, you can take care of it too. Uncle Liao raised his cup and finished it in one gulp. Jiaoniang also used tea in place of wine.

"Uncle Liao is an elder and the pillar of the family, so he knows more than the two little girls, Qiao Ke and I. Speaking of taking care of him, it's our trouble, Uncle Liao."

However, after coming into contact with Jiaoniang, he realized that Jiaoniang was not just a normal woman who knew how to cook two or three dishes. The gazes of normal women would always be focused on the small matters between their family members, but Jiaoniang's gaze would be able to reach such things with greater benefits in the long run.

Nothing else, at least Uncle Liao was more sensitive to some details. For example, the news of him closing the winery after autumn had been passed down for over a hundred years, and every time the imperial government ordered it to be closed, it would be related to politics. It was inconvenient for him to say that after hearing it from Qiao Ke and his father, he could only remember what his father had warned him that he had to stay calm and live a life of chaos the more he faced the storm.

First, she did not want to leave the Lin Family Village to live in a county city for the time being. Perhaps it was due to the regret of her previous life, but since she came to the ancient times, she had already made up her mind to make a fortune in agriculture long ago, why would she live her restricted life in the city? Second, she thought carefully about it, in this era, it was not only agriculture that made money, but also services.

No matter how she thought about it, she still felt that farming in Lin Family Village had a better future. Although this place was surrounded by mountains, the resources here were plentiful. Even if they encountered a disaster, they wouldn't starve to death. Other than the possibility of an earthquake, if it really happened, according to the current infrastructure, even the Emperor himself would be shaken to death by the earthquake, so where could he escape to?

These were all things that Jiaoniang had thought about when she could not sleep at night. Using Lin Family Village as her base and then expanding outwards step by step, even if she failed, she wouldn't have nowhere to go.

Currently, there were only six adults and three children in the family. There were too many people who were busy all day long. If he did not separate out the tofu business, Jiaoniang really did not know who he should send out to be the county's tofu chef.

Qiu Ju and Cheng Huanzhong definitely could not leave, as they could be said to be Jiaoniang's right-hand man. Jiaoniang had also asked Qiu Ju before, and Qiu Ju had also expressed his unwillingness to go to that faraway place. Needless to say, it would be too wasteful for Huang Yi to sell tofu, especially for technical and intellectual level talents.

Jiaoniang and Uncle Liao each took a copy of the agreement. Jiaoniang believed in Qiao Ke, hence he believed that Uncle Liao, who was a close friend of hers, had moved the tofu business out of the house.

When Jiaoniang was about to leave, Uncle Liao's son Qizong suddenly caught up with him. With a face full of shock, he asked, "Um, is your brother going to be enlightened?"

Jiaoniang did not understand and nodded with a smile.

"Cough," Qizong coughed twice, "Recently, our master has grown up and wants to return to his hometown. The new teacher still has a future, so we gave him a private vacation for a few days. If you don't mind, I'll go to your house tomorrow to enlighten your little brother. "

Jiaoniang was a little surprised. Although she did not know what the arrogant and pampered little boy was thinking, the son of a partner giving her brother supplementary lessons was something she would never reject.

"It is his fortune that little brother is able to obtain such an outstanding enlightenment like you. Tomorrow, I will prepare everything for you."

Qizong treated her with courtesy, but Qizong was a little embarrassed. He would never tell Jiaoniang that he found the Jiaoniang family to be so delicious that they looked like a lot, and that he found out that Jiaoniang wanted to send his little brother to the Enlightenment.

On the way back, Jiaoniang was still quite happy. Today was truly a good day, he had found the person to take over the tofu business that had always been shelved, and even found an enlightened master for Tieh Dan.

Tieh Dan should have been able to attend school at the age of six in his previous life, but in this era, even if a child from a poor family wanted to go to school, they would have to put in all their effort. Twenty taels of silver a year was not something that anyone could afford, not to mention the amount of money needed to test their name.

Jiaoniang had graduated from high school in her previous life so she could teach Tieh Dan, but those Ancient Runes were already too big for her. She could guess the meaning of most of the Traditional Chinese characters, but to teach Tieh Dan how to read and write was definitely not enough.

She also wanted to teach Tieh Dan how to write simple characters, but she was afraid that if Tieh Dan couldn't change it after school, it would harm him instead.

At home, there was still her previous husband's leftover paper, so she didn't need to buy any more paper. However, the brush and ink were all gone. Jiaoniang asked Cheng Huanzhong to take her to the bookstore first so he could buy some enlightened books and ink stones.