Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 1213 - 383: Shadow, Scalding

Chapter 1213: Chapter 383: Shadow, Scalding

The taste of one salted egg had just become apparent, but it was far from enough to satisfy the appetites of the two sisters. Xin Er couldn’t help but peel two more salted eggs and quickly gobbled them down.

Seeing Xin Er reaching for more, Mo Yan hastily stopped her, "These salted eggs are delicious indeed, but eating too many at once isn’t good. Hurry and peel them, separate the yolks from the whites, I need them over here!"

Xin Er looked at the half-peeled egg in her hand, hesitated, then suddenly opened her mouth wide and took a big bite, speaking with her mouth full, "A handful of grass won’t kill a cow, this is the last one."

Mo Yan was torn between laughter and tears as she poked her sister’s forehead with her flour-dusted finger and teased, "Glutton!"

Xin Er giggled, quickly peeled the remaining half of the egg, and then popped it into her mouth, "These salted eggs are so delicious, Sister, why don’t we make more and sell them at the rice shop? We’d surely earn more silver than by selling fresh eggs."

Mo Yan replied speechlessly, "When did you become such a money-grubber? Silver is endless, but if you keep yourself as busy as a dog all day and don’t even have time to spend it, what’s the point?"

"Ah, you can’t blame me for being greedy, it’s just that your salted eggs are too tasty to not sell. It would be such a waste," Xin Er sighed and placed the egg yolk she had just separated onto a clean plate.

Mo Yan shook her head and continued to work the dough, "Making salted eggs is meticulous work. If you want to learn, I’ll teach you, and you can do it yourself. If they turn out well, you can let Grandfather Li take them to the shop to sell. The silver you make is yours to keep, save it for the future to buy a shop and open an embroidery studio."

Xin Er’s eyes lit up as she hastily promised, "Sister, I’ll learn, I’ll learn! Teach me after we finish making the mooncakes!"

"Okay, I’ll teach you later, but don’t complain about it being troublesome and quit halfway," Mo Yan said with a smile, cautioning her just in case.

"Don’t worry, your little sister isn’t the type to give up halfway," Xin Er promised, patting her chest. Her mind was already completely occupied with making and selling salted eggs, saving silver, buying a shop, and opening an embroidery studio.

Just then, Shengsheng, taking tiny, careful steps, came over carrying another basin of freshly cooked salted eggs. For a child of only seven or eight, a whole basin of salted eggs was somewhat heavy.

During this time, Shengsheng seemed to have truly grown up. Previously, if Mo Yan and the others told her not to do chores, she would simply not do them. But now, she always tried to help out, even though she always seemed to encounter one kind of accident or another, always ending in failure.

"Shengsheng, put it down, let me get it," Xin Er quickly put down the salted egg she was handling and ran over anxiously to take the basin, "It’s so heavy, why didn’t you call for your sisters?"

Shengsheng smiled sheepishly and said softly, "I’ve grown up now, I can do the work."

Xin Er looked at Shengsheng, who was only as tall as her chest, put down the basin, measured with her hand, and laughed, "Look, you are still a child, this kind of heavy lifting should be done by us adults."

Shengsheng seemed unconvinced and wanted to argue but didn’t know how, so she came over with her head down, took a salted egg, and started to peel it against the edge of the basin, her little hands awkwardly working on the egg.

Mo Yan and Xin Er exchanged glances, seeing a hint of helplessness in each other’s eyes.

The little girl was growing bigger every day, and although her demeanor remained tender and cute, she was gradually forming her own opinions. Seeing everyone in the family always busy with chores, while she did nothing and knew how to do nothing, feeling useless, it wasn’t hard to imagine how low she must have felt.

"Oh no!"

While the sisters exchanged glances, Shengsheng suddenly exclaimed, hurriedly squatting down to pick up the half-peeled salted egg from the ground, lamenting, "It was in my hand just fine, how did it fall to the floor?"

As she spoke, her fingers delicately brushed the dust sticking to the salted egg, then she blew on it forcefully, but her rubbing only caused the dust to stick more firmly to the salted egg, deepening her sorrow.

Xin Er took the salted egg from Shengsheng’s hand and comforted her, "Practice makes perfect. Peel a few more and for sure they won’t fall to the ground again. Besides, it’s just the white that is a bit dirty, we can scoop out that part and it’s fine. Plus, the yolk inside is perfectly clean and can still be used for making mooncakes!"

"Yeah, you’re still small and don’t have the strength to hold onto salted eggs, why don’t you help me make mooncakes?" Mo Yan said as she distracted Xin Er and plucked a small piece of dough, flattening it slightly before adding lotus paste and an egg yolk, then kneaded it back into a ball, pressed it gently into the mold, and quickly formed the shape of a mooncake.

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