Chapter 269: Increasing the Production of Braised Food
"Qiuli, you've worked hard in your studies. Drink some water to moisten your throat." Hua Xiali handed Hua Qiuli's teacup to Hua Qiuli.

Hua Qiuli reached out to take it embarrassedly, holding the teacup with both hands, drinking while keeping his eyes on the words in the book. He didn't know why, but his mind suddenly became extremely clear. The questions that he couldn't understand before, he could understand now. Hua Qiuli was very surprised. Could it be because he had read it too many times that he suddenly got it?

When Hua Xiali saw that Hua Qiuli's teacup was empty, he poured the spiritual spring water in his own teacup into Hua Qiuli's teacup. After watching Hua Qiuli finish drinking it, Hua Xiali turned around and went out, and then went home.

After drinking two cups of spiritual spring water, Hua Qiuli felt his mind was clearer and his learning efficiency was much higher, so he turned to the first page of the textbook and started reading again.

Hua Xiali returned home and had dinner with Huo Beixi. After dinner, Hua Xiali handed the pearl to Huo Beixi and said, "Huo Beixi, when you are free, go find that person and ask him to make another set of jewelry for me. Necklaces, bracelets, earrings, whatever you want. It will be fine as long as you have every kind. After he makes pearl jewelry for my family, you can sell pearls to that person when you find them in the future."

Huo Beixi nodded and took the pearl. Naturally, his wife's affairs were his business.

Although Hua Xiali no longer participates in the braised food business every day like he did before the New Year, he still goes to the town with them to sell braised food occasionally in the evening.

But her purpose was not to sell braised food. When she arrived in the town, after everyone took the braised food off the wooden cart, she pushed the cart away.

Although she had "rescued" most of the fish and freshwater clams in the reservoir, she still had to go to the reservoir to check if there were any fish that had escaped.

Hua Xiali held a flashlight and walked slowly on the riverbed, searching slowly. There were indeed some fish that had slipped through the net, but she didn't care how big or small they were, as long as she could find one, she would catch it.

After all, it would be better to let them realize the meaning of their existence in her hands than to let them dry up and die!
She continued her carpet search until the Lantern Festival, and she "saved" many fish and freshwater clams. However, she only searched for two hours every night, which was not that exaggerated, and it was impossible for her to stay in the reservoir all the time.

On the afternoon of the Lantern Festival, we had dinner early because Hua Qiuli had to attend classes as usual the next morning and had to return to school this afternoon to clean up the dormitory.

Seeing Hua Xiali hesitant to speak, Hua's mother asked in confusion, "Xia Li, do you have anything to say?"

"Mom, I have a plan in mind." Hua Xiali put down his chopsticks, "Mom, let's divide the house first, so that I can apply for a homestead for Qiuli and me, and then build a house. After all, this old house is left to my eldest sister and brother-in-law. If we build a house for Qiuli, she won't feel like she has no home and no place to go even if she gets married or something. To put it bluntly, with a house and land, she will have the courage and confidence to divorce if the man treats her badly in the future."

Hua Xiali mainly wanted to arrange homesteads and houses for his sisters, so that even if he encountered an accident like before, his sisters' future would be guaranteed.

Hua's mother was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "Okay, then I'll follow your instructions and divide the family! Yongfeng, go call a few village cadres, and we'll divide the family today."

Hua's mother didn't know what Hua Xiali's plan was, but since she mentioned it, it meant that she had a plan in mind. So let's do it. It won't affect everyone anyway. Everyone still has to live at home. After all, there is no money to build a house for the three girls now. When they save enough money, they want to build a house, which will take time. Zhang Yongfeng called a few village cadres, and then the Hua family split up, directly into four households, Hua Chunli and Zhang Yongfeng, Hua Xiali, Hua Qiuli, Hua's mother and Hua Tiefeng. As for the homestead, Hua Xiali has not applied for it yet. She thought that after a while, she would spend money to buy more square meters, just like in her previous life, 300 square meters for each of the three sisters, so that they can build a big house and leave a yard for activities.

Although Hua Xiali and Huo Beixi are married, they have not yet obtained a marriage certificate. Even if they get the certificate, there is no need for Hua Xiali to move her household registration. After all, they are in the same village, so she can naturally apply for a homestead.

After dividing the family’s belongings and having breakfast and dinner, Hua Qiuli returned to school with his things.

The news of the Hua family's division also spread in the village. For a family that owed so much money, no one took the division seriously, so everyone talked about it and the matter just passed.

It's spring, and it's time to plant the fields. At this time, we have to raise seedlings first, and then plow the land. We can transplant them when the seedlings grow tall. Actually, it's not that busy. After all, things can't be done at the same time, they have to be done one by one.

In the past, it was Hua Chunli and several other female comrades who planted the crops. Hua Xiali didn't want to be so tired anymore, so she found her third and fourth uncles and asked them to help her family after they finished their work. They were paid three yuan a day on days when they needed to work, and they could do whatever they wanted on days when they didn't need to work.

The family's land was entrusted to my third and fourth uncles.

Hua Xiali and her friends cleaned up the vegetable patch in the yard and the private plots allocated by the village, and then planted fruits and vegetables. Hua Xiali also asked Huo Beixi to clear the vacant land in his yard as she wanted to plant sugarcane. As for Hua's mother, she also left a few square meters of land as she also wanted to plant sugarcane.

Because sugarcane is really valuable, in the past, sugarcane cost several yuan per pound, and a piece of sugarcane cost dozens of dollars. Although it is still quite cheap in this era, the more you plant, the more income you can earn!

Hua Xiali grew the sugarcane by herself, because she didn't buy many bundles of sugarcane, just two bundles, and she could handle it all by herself.

Hua Chunli will take the college entrance examination in July and will need a large sum of tuition fees by the end of August. In order to exchange money earlier and save enough for tuition fees, Zhang Yongfeng decided to increase the production of braised food.

Zhang Yongfeng changed the original wholesale quantity of 600 kilograms to 2,000 kilograms. Due to the large quantity, he was given a discount, with pork offal costing only 20 cents per kilogram.

In the past, the quantity was small, so only a few people in their family could handle it. Now there is so much, and it is too late to handle it by themselves, so they called the third and fourth aunts to come and do the work. Hua's mother and the third and fourth aunts are responsible for cleaning. After the braised food is ready, it has to be packaged. Then Zhang Yongfeng, Hua Chunli and Hua Si Nian are responsible for selling the braised food.

Hua Xiali is responsible for preparing the secret recipe and cooking the braised food.

Hua Xiali didn't want to make Hua's mother so tired, nor did he want to delay Hua Chunli's studies, so he called two aunts with whom he had a good relationship to do the work, freeing up Hua's mother and Hua Chunli. The two of them were responsible for cooking the braised food and then packing it.