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"Uncle Changsheng, why are you back?" Xia Yi asked.

"Yes." Xia Changsheng replied wistfully as he took the ladder from Xia Yi's hands.

Xia Yi turned and took the bamboo shoot and followed Xia Changsheng in.

"You went up the mountain?" When Xia Yi saw the bamboo shoot in Xia Yi's hands, she frowned and said: "Don't forget that the mountains are haunted. If something were to happen to you, what would happen to Xia Yang and Xia Yue?"

Xia Yi naturally knew that it was for her sake, but she did not have the means to tell Xia Changsheng the truth of the mountain. If she had simply told Xia Changsheng that there were no ghosts on the mountain, Xia Changsheng would definitely not believe her.

After all, in these two years, Xia Changsheng had already determined that there was a ghost "truth" in the mountain.

She did not retort, but lowered her head and listened.

When Granny Liu heard the noise outside the house, she immediately saw Xia Changsheng returning.

He then asked, "Why are you back now?"

Xia Changsheng looked up at Granny Liu and smiled: "It's been raining for the past two days, so the business in the shop is not good. I have to take the time to come back and accompany Mother for two days."

Granny Liu said: "It's about time for you to rest for two days."

Ever since Xia Changsheng started to sell his tofu, Xia Changsheng had not had a proper rest these two years.

Even on New Year's Eve, he would sell all the tofu in the restaurant before returning home to eat dumplings.

Granny Liu's heart naturally ached, but she knew that the reason Xia Changsheng worked so hard was only to let her wrap himself up with good days.

The couple had left early, and it would not be easy for her to pull Xia Changsheng up by herself, so she had been living a tight life.

When Xia Changsheng was young, the mother and son pair had received a lot of help from Xia Yi's parents.

It wasn't until Xia Changsheng was a little older that his days felt a little better, but it still wasn't easy.

When Xia Changsheng reached the age where he should have married, due to the hardships of life, plus the orphans and widows, the few marriages that he mentioned all went down the drain.

It was Xia Yi's father, Xia Dafu, who had suggested for Xia Changsheng to go do business, and took out a portion of the money to give to Xia Changsheng.

Only then did Xia Changsheng activate his Bean Curd Shop.

It was just that he did not expect that, just a few days after Xia Changsheng passed the money to Xia Dafu, something happened to him.

Only the third brother and sister were left with no one to rely on.

He originally thought that Xia Yi's third brother and sister would definitely not be hungry while living with her uncle and aunt.

Xia Erfu was an honest man with a good heart, he would definitely not mistreat the Third Sister and his brother.

But he never thought that Xia Erfu would go to the capital to become a gardener for the big families.

Once Xia Erfu left, Mao Cuilan's true appearance began to appear.

The third brother and sister had not eaten a full meal since then.

Granny Liu doted on Xia Yi and his two brothers, and gave them those things.

But he had to be careful not to let Mao Cuilan know, once Mao Cuilan found out, he would say that Xia Yi stole something from her.

Therefore, the Granny Liu did not dare to be too brazen, and could only secretly give it to him.

To the third brother and sister, it was just a drop in the bucket.

In the span of two years, the third brother and sister had visibly lost weight.

Fortunately, after going through Niu Dazhuang's matter, Xia Yi had finally thought it through and escaped from Mao Cuilan's house.

Relying on Xia Yi's skill in cooking, the three siblings' lives had improved greatly in a short period of time. Xia Yue and Xia Yang also had a bit of a fleshy look on their faces.

Not only that, Xia Yi even opened a restaurant.

Granny Liu was happy for Xia Yi.

Thinking about this, Granny Liu stuffed a hot sweet potato each into Xia Yi's and Xia Changsheng's hands, and said: "It just steamed out, eat it while it's hot."

When Xia Yi received the warm sweet potato, her heart was warm as well.

She naturally did not know what had happened previously, and only felt that the Granny Liu and Xia Changsheng were her true relatives.

Actually, even if there were those things from before, Granny Liu and Xia Changsheng had already done enough for the three siblings.

"Thank you, Granny Liu." Xia Yi's eyes flashed, there was something sour in her nose.

Granny Liu laughed, "What is there to thank Grandma for? Hurry up and eat, I will send some to Yang and Yue Yue."

Xia Yue nodded, holding the hot sweet potato in one hand and the bamboo shoot in the other, she brought it to Granny Liu's kitchen.

When she returned, she took the initiative to look for Xia Changsheng. Coincidentally, when the Granny Liu was not around, she asked Xia Changsheng what had happened.

"Uncle Changsheng, did something happen to Bean Curd Shop?"

At first, Xia Changsheng did not admit it, "It's nothing, I was just tired and wanted to come back to rest."

"I don't think so." Xia Yi said straightforwardly, "If you have anything to say, I can help you think of a solution. After all, three smelly smiths are like Zhuge Liang."

Xia Changsheng hesitated for a moment, then said softly: "You have already helped me more than enough, I am too embarrassed to tell you."

When Xia Yi opened her Ruyi Manor, all of the tofu she bought was from Xia Changsheng.

For this reason, Xia Yi specially added a few dishes related to tofu on the menu.

Xia Changsheng also earned money.

He knew that the tofu Xia Changsheng sold was specially made for his Ruyi Manor, and was fresh made every day.

As a result, Xia Changsheng made more tofu everyday than ever before.

However, he had never expected that half of the tofu that came out of the heavy rain yesterday would not be able to sell.

The tofu from the previous day, if sold again, would smash the store's signboard at regular intervals.

But if he did not sell it, Xia Changsheng would lose a sum of money due to his heartache.

After Xia Changsheng finished speaking, he turned to Xia Yi and said, "Today, I finished making the quantity that the restaurant needs, and closed the door before returning. The remaining tofu from yesterday is still in the shop, I am really not sure."

Although Xia Changsheng said that he could not make a decision, Xia Yi had already guessed his decision. Otherwise, he would not have closed the shop and returned.

Xia Yi said: "We can't sell the remaining tofu we had yesterday. We can't do anything to ruin our own reputation."

"But …" If he was thrown out, Xia Changsheng really wouldn't be able to harden his heart.

"Actually, we can change it to another method, the tofu cannot be sold, and we can make them into rotten milk. Coincidentally, I have recently planned to add a few new dishes to my Ruyi Manor, so the rotten milk meat is a pretty good choice."

"Rot milk meat?" Xia Changsheng's face revealed a puzzled expression.

Xia Yi suddenly realized a problem, so she asked Xia Changsheng: "Does Uncle Changsheng know anything about smelly milk?"

Xia Changsheng still shook his head, "I've never heard of it."

Xia Yi was a little puzzled. The place she lived in had a long history of rotting milk, which was more than a thousand years old.

After thinking for a long time, Xia Yi only obtained a reasonable explanation. West Liang did not exist in the history of her life, does that mean … The West Liang was in a parallel world.

As for what kind of reason it was, Xia Yi didn't want to further investigate it, because she discovered a business opportunity from it.