I have been farming since I crossed over.

Chapter 175 Leaving Changshan Village

When Yang Mingxi returned home, she saw Wu packing her things for the engagement ceremony tomorrow.

Since arriving here, Yang Mingxi hadn't seen what preparations were needed for the engagement. She came forward, looked at them, and asked, "Mom, what have you prepared?"

Mrs. Wu looked at Yang Mingxi and said, "It's just the usual stuff! I've thought about it, and I'll give her three taels and eight hundred coins as a betrothal gift!"

Yang Mingxi nodded and said, "It's up to you, Mom. 800 more coins is nothing. Our family has money now!"

Wu looked up at Yang Mingxi and said, "Where is the money? Why don't I see any money?"

Yang Mingxi was embarrassed for a moment, and then Lu Jintang said that he was getting something for nothing, and his mother was also trying to hold him back. However, Yang Mingxi still smiled and said, "How can it be gone? Didn't we distribute all the money from the snack street and workshop after they stopped operating? Don't you have any left? I'll give it to you. I still have some here." Then he stood up and prepared to take out the money.

Mrs. Wu grabbed her and said, "What are you doing? I'm just saying, how can we still take your money? You paid for the land and the house. Your parents didn't have the ability to earn a fortune for your brothers. You are their sister and you can afford to buy them so much land and houses, so we will keep them. We definitely can't take your money later."

Yang Mingxi was shocked several times today, and now she was even more shocked by Wu's words.

Yang Mingxi looked at Wu and said, "Mom, is that what you think? Then what do you think of me?"

Wu's originally angry face suddenly turned into a smile. "How can I look at you? Look with my eyes! You are our daughter, how else can I look at you?"

Yang Mingxi also laughed. She had thought... Fortunately, she was overthinking it. She pulled Wu aside and said, "Mom, I'm only managing our family's money and assets now. All the fields, houses, workshops, and even the snack street belong to us. I won't take them away. I'll leave them to my brothers and sisters, so they can be passed down from generation to generation."

"No, you don't want anything. What about your dowry?" Wu said angrily.

"Dowry, what kind of dowry should a girl from Changshan Village get married with? Mother, won't you prepare it for me?" Yang Mingxi blinked her big eyes and looked at Wu.

Wu was speechless for a moment, then reached out and patted Yang Mingxi, saying, "Don't confuse me. We are talking about different things. I will prepare to give you what other girls should have, but you earn more than other girls, so you should have more than others. I just said that your father and I have taken over the land and house. We owe you that, but we will not interfere in business matters. We can help you with some work."

Yang Mingxi said, "Mom, the Lu family won't stay here forever, and neither will our family. No, the entire Yang family, and even the Wu family. So the property here is just a stepping stone for us. I won't want it in the future, and I don't have the time to manage it. But for our Yang family, this is the old house, and someone must stay, so don't feel embarrassed. I said no, and I mean no."

Wu was so shocked that her mouth opened wide. This... this...

Yang Mingxi waited for Wu to calm down for a while before saying, "Mom, why did I let all my brothers and sisters go for intensive training? Because I wanted them to have a good body so that they can go further in the future. Even if Lu Jintang hadn't been here, our family wouldn't have stayed in Changshan Village. We would have gone out too, it's just that the process would have been slower."

Wu clenched her hands, then nodded vigorously and said, "Okay, Mom understands. We won't hold you back! But, Xier, don't get too tired, okay? Take your time."

Yang Mingxi smiled and said, "Well, I know, mother, with you behind me, I will have infinite strength."

The mother and daughter smiled at each other, then began to pack their things for the engagement tomorrow.

Mrs. Wu prepared 188 pairs of wedding cakes, packed in a pair of brand new baskets, along with five pounds of white sugar, five pounds of brown sugar, ten pounds of white rice, and ten pounds of white flour, also packed in a pair of brand new baskets.

Two loads of coarse linen, two loads of fine linen, and two loads of cheesecloth. They would be carried by hand by the accompanying people.

Two boxes of Ruyi cakes, two boxes of Jixiang cakes, and two boxes of rice cakes. All packaged and ready to go.

Two 50-jin jars of liquor, with a red "囍" character on each.

A pair of pig hind legs were bought by Yang Laowu in the county this morning, and he just hung them on a shoulder pole and carried them on his shoulder.

A pair of ducks, two carps weighing seven or eight kilograms, a rooster and a hen.

Yang Mingxi felt it was a good idea. Although Wan Daya only asked for three taels of silver as a betrothal gift, the entire engagement preparation should still cost five taels of silver!

Yang Mingxi looked at Wu and said, "Mother, how many gifts did you give to my sister-in-law at that time?"

Mrs. Wu smiled and said, "Your eldest sister-in-law's betrothal gift was five taels at that time. She did take other things, but the amount was not as much as this. This was your second brother's request. Besides, our family always gives a betrothal gift of five taels. Since your second sister-in-law's betrothal gift was less, it doesn't matter if the other things are a little more."

Yang Mingxi nodded and said, "What about other families? Apart from the betrothal gifts, what are the other things?"

"It's just wedding cakes, chicken, duck, fish, meat, rice, flour, wine, and candy. I don't care about anything else. It depends on the situation of each family."

As they talked, they packed up their things and talked about the people who would be getting engaged tomorrow. There were seven people from the Yang family, plus the matchmaker, making a total of eight people. There were five brothers from the Yang family, plus Uncle Wu and Uncle Wu.

After things were sorted out, everyone went to bed early.

Lying in bed, Yang Mingxi was thinking about tomorrow's menu. The snacks were almost finalized, but she still needed to think carefully about the restaurant's dishes. Then she would teach the chef how to make them the day after tomorrow so that they would be perfect when the restaurant opened.

The main ingredients are chickens, ducks, rabbits, bison, and fish raised in-house. A hotel should have at least ten signature dishes. Most chefs know how to make the other dishes, so putting them together will be enough to make a good meal.

Yang Mingxi thought about it and decided to make chicken and poached chicken! The weather is hot here, so cold dishes are more popular.

People here don’t eat much fish, so pickled fish or boiled fish will be fine.

Rabbit is mainly eaten cold.

Whole beef dry pot beef, stir-fried beef, beef meatball soup.

The duck is still the same, roast duck, braised duck, or salted duck.

Yang Mingxi, who had thought it through, was about to fall asleep. He dragged his heavy body into the space to tidy up before falling into a deep sleep.

The next morning, Yang Mingxi was awakened by Lu Jintang's voice. It wasn't even time for morning exercise yet, but Lu Jintang and his men arrived with three large roast duck buckets, identical to those used in modern times. Yang Mingxi was so delighted that she thought she had returned to the modern era.