"Think about it, a girl is a person too and can also carve out her own piece of sky," Yang Ruxin said as she stood up. "A woman doesn’t necessarily have to revolve around a man..." She paused, "I know you can read, and I know at heart you’re not a bad person, which is why I’m willing to give you a hand... You can think about it slowly. You can think until you’re fully recovered. When you’ve made up your mind, come find me..." With that, she turned and left.
Guan Qingyue’s heart then began to churn like the overturning of rivers and seas.
Yang Ruxin didn’t care whether Guan Qingyue would agree or not, as the opportunity was given—it was up to her to seize it. Yang Ruxin started to become busy.
The pancake and fruit stall had been closed for many days, so it was time for the shop to open. It was now November, and the shop was set to open on the tenth day of the month.
Since the eighth day was the day Little Liuzi and Xiaoyu set their engagement, Yang Ruxin was in charge of organizing the banquet, and considering Xiaoyu was her close friend, even if she wasn’t running the play, she would attend the engagement. One day of rest in between was just perfect.
Of course, even though the stall had been closed these days, they hadn’t been idle. Before Qian Er went to the county town, he had Liang Zi help him with the publicity for the shop’s opening. Of course, they also created some less-than-stellar promotional flyers and informed everyone that if they brought the flyer into the shop on opening day, they could buy one item and get one free, but only on that day.
It was said that every day there were quite a few people coming by the shop to inquire about it.
Erni was now no longer holding her needle and thread but instead began to practice making pancakes and roujiamo, and she announced that for the days leading up to the opening, she would cover everyone’s meals. Consequently, the Yang Family and the Gu Family folks ate this every meal, and after two days, everyone was scared of it.
"Can the shop open earlier?" Sanni felt like she was turning into a roujiamo herself. "Erni has gone crazy with this..."
"Exactly, if I eat any more, I’m going to die, and you will no longer have a master..." Dao Xuzi was especially critical.
The rest nodded vigorously in agreement.
"There are only about five or six days left; just bear with it a little longer..." Yang Ruxin consoled everyone.
The others could only sigh and endure.
However, eventually, even Yang Ruxin herself could hardly stand it anymore, so she had Erni make the food and send it to the construction site for the workers there as a reward. Erni found this reasonable, so she dragged Gu Yao, pushing the cart to the site.
The family members were finally relieved.
Gu Yao had his own unspoken hardships. He too had had enough, but with his elder brother and Ruxin both telling him in unison to assist Erni, and with Erni’s hopeful gaze, he could only go gallantly forward, thinking about everyone else eating stir-fry at home while he could only continue to munch on pancakes. What kind of days were these?
Besides teaching Erni, Yang Ruxin was also teaching Sanni bookkeeping. She introduced everyone to Arabic numerals, which were simple and convenient, and she even adopted modern accounting methods. Such bookkeeping could truly be transparent at a glance.
Of course, she didn’t leave others out, and as a result, everyone was highly interested.
Yang Ruxin simply decided to teach everyone a mathematics class.
It was only then that the eldest realized what Ruxin had said about teaching them something even Gu Qingheng wouldn’t know, which turned out to be all these things, and to her surprise, they were indeed very interesting.
Gu Qingheng was even more shocked. His Ruxin was simply a treasure; you’d never know when she would bring a delightful surprise. Little did he know, if such arithmetic were to spread, it could cause a shockwave throughout the entire academic community.
While the Yang Family was busy with their various tasks, another incident occurred in the village.