Rebirth: Regaining Joyful Moments
Chapter 26 - 026: Sending Meatballs

Chapter 26: Chapter 026: Sending Meatballs

In the evening, they stewed pork bones with flat beans, and the aroma was so enticing it could almost make your mouth water.

Even the ordinary green beans tasted more delicious because of the meat added to it.

Having earned money from selling Mung Bean Jelly, everyone did not have to suffer after the separation. Around the dining table, framed by smiling faces, was the anticipation for a better life in the future.

Night.

Ji Ying quietly spoke to Xu Qinghe, "Dad, what do you think? We’re keeping all this money, but the children..."

"We’ll save this money for them, keep it for their future schooling," Xu Qinghe replied with a rare smile on his face. He had only expected to make good sales for one day, but to his surprise, they had sold about twenty yuan worth in just three days.

You must understand that the eldest son only made thirty yuan a month at the brick factory, and occasionally forty yuan on busier months. However, earning that forty yuan was ten times harder than making twenty yuan from the Mung Bean Jelly.

If only they could keep selling the Mung Bean Jelly like this.

Xu Qinghe harbored such hopes, but he was also well aware that Mung Bean Jelly was only profitable during the hot weather. Once the weather cooled, there would be few buyers.

However, the money from selling the Mung Bean Jelly greatly improved their living conditions at home.

The next day, Xu Nianhua and Xu Nian’an got busy early in the morning. After making the Mung Bean Jelly, they chilled it in the well. Xu Nian’an went up the mountain to gather firewood, and Xu Nianhua began to make meatballs.

After much thought, Xu Nianhua finally decided to add corn kernels to the meatballs because it would make them tastier and appear more plentiful.

Out of one jin of meat, aside from the portion sliced for cooking yesterday, Xu Nianhua used the rest to make meatballs. In the end, she made thirty slightly larger than usual meatballs.

The meatballs were braised in the most common way.

She wanted to fry the meatballs in oil to enhance the flavor, but there wasn’t much oil left in the tank to sustain such an endeavor.

Out of the thirty meatballs, she kept eight and reserved the other twenty-two for her elder brother Xu Nian’an to eat.

To ensure the meatballs reached her brother before lunchtime, Xu Nianhua and Xu Nian’an set off without even eating their own lunch.

Each carried two sweet potatoes and two meatballs, just enough to fill their stomachs.

"Second brother, you deliver the Mung Bean Jelly to Granny Cai’s house first, so it gets nice and cold. I’ll go deliver the food to big brother," Xu Nianhua said, choosing a time-saving method out of concern that the meatballs might spoil.

"Are you sure you can find your way to the brick factory?" Xu Nian’an was not convinced. It was still a distance away from the factory, and he glanced at the time before saying, "We still have time. If we hurry, we can definitely make it before mealtime."

The siblings hustled to the brick factory, and, as luck would have it, arrived just as Xu Nianji and his team had finished preparing their meal and were about to eat.

"Big brother."

Xu Nian’an waved excitedly towards Xu Nianji.

"How did you two get here?"

Xu Nianji was somewhat surprised to see his younger sister and brother, as he was holding a bowl of rice topped with cooked spinach and winter melon.

Not to mention meat, not even a speck of oil could be seen.

"Big brother, look what delicious food we’ve brought for you," Xu Nian’an winked at Xu Nianji while pulling him towards the cool shade of a large tree.

Xu Nianji followed his brother and sister to the big tree, a distance away from the brick factory, which spared them the embarrassment of being seen by others.

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