Now, the Xiao family had been sticking to one certain schedule, mostly only selling their drink in the afternoon. In the morning, they would be busy in the fields.

They sell soy milk in the morning only when they don’t need to go to the fields.

Most of their customers already knew they would open their stall almost at the same time every day. A few travelling merchants also had become their frequent customers.

A familiar person finally caught wind of this, the wife of the Zhou family’s eldest son, Liu Hua. She came over to their stall, wearing a displeased expression.

"Anran, you are selling things here and didn’t tell us," Liu Hua muttered, loud enough for everyone to hear.

Zhou Anran greeted her sister-in-law. Her children also begrudgingly followed their mother’s example.

"Sister‐in-law, do you want to try?" She asked.

"What is this? Give me one." Liu Hua pretended to be unaware. In the past few days, they had been talking a lot about a new drink from soybeans that was similar to milk but wasn’t milk.

The price was also affordable, so many people came over for a taste.

Liu Hua was quite disdainful of the news, but today, she didn’t expect that the one who had been selling this new variety of drink was Zhou Anran.

Xiao Yuxi handed one cup of soy milk to Liu Hua. The latter didn’t stand on ceremony and directly drank it. Once she finished, she commented rather viciously and began to make demands.

"The taste is barely passable," Liu Hua muttered, scrunching her nose. "But everyone has different tastes. Anran, pack one cup each for your eldest brother and Ruo’er. They might like it."

She used a tone as if she were commanding a servant.

Zhou Anran squeezed Xiao Yuxi’s hand to stop her from making any rash move, and Xiao Yuyan also nudged her brother slightly, reminding him to endure it.

Xiao Yuyan already guessed what her mother wanted to do. Zhou Anran packed one cup in a bamboo tube, while she did the other one.

They couldn’t wait to send this great Buddha away.

Once they finished, Liu Hua snatched the bamboo tubes arrogantly, not bothering to bid them any farewell before walking away in quick steps.

"Ugh," Xiao Yuxi muttered in annoyance.

Their family had sent six jin of soybeans to the eldest uncle and the main family. Considering that soy milk was easy to spoil and they usually made it in the afternoon, they didn’t send any to them, only the soybeans.

[Little Ya, your family should be able to harvest the paddy rice in a week.] The System’s words suddenly rang in their ears.

Xiao Qingya nodded seriously. [I will remind my mother in case she forgets, but I believe that she won’t.]

The System praised her a few times. Usually, unless Xiao Qingya called it, the System rarely appeared, but it was also a convenient reminder for them.

Zhou Anran indeed didn’t forget. After all, they often spent their time in the fields, and they definitely knew that the grain heads were going to be fully mature soon.

Still, it reminded her that they soon needed to focus on harvesting the crops and temporarily stopped selling soy milk. They would be able to make an arrangement by telling the frequent customers in advance about it—so that they wouldn’t be disappointed.

[Oh, right, Host. There is another important thing. We might have a new mission soon.]

The System didn’t know what the mission would be, but for something as simple as this, it still had the power to sense such a thing. It just didn’t know when the mission would start.

[Really?] Xiao Qingya was a little puzzled. The previous mission about the prospering harvest hadn’t been finished, and now, they were going to have another one. [Is this normal?]

[Don’t worry, Host. This is perfectly normal. We are inside a book with a lot of main characters, so don’t you think that many things can happen at the same time for each character?]

The System guessed that the improvement of its sense was related to the huge jump of points. It hadn’t sensed the previous mission because it was still absorbing the energy.

Every time Xiao Qingya gained points, it would also receive some energy as a benefit.

The figure of her plump aunt flashed in her mind. [Is it related to the bad woman earlier?]

As soon as Liu Hua appeared in front of them, the System could sense another mission. The System thought about it for a moment and found the little one’s hypothesis plausible.

It was the first time it finally acquired some power, so the System was still trying to figure things out.

Zhou Anran thought about the expression on Liu Hua before she went away earlier, and she became a little worried. Originally, she gave in so that her sister-in-law wouldn’t make trouble, but...

An hour later, the thing she least wanted to see really happened. Liu Hua came back. She directly came over to their stall and called out, "Anran."

Liu Hua put her hands on her hips, shaking her head and sighing. "Why have you become such an unfilial child? I understand that your business is doing well so you don’t want to share your good things with your eldest brother’s family, but..."

She made a deliberate pause, putting on a reproachful look on her face. "How come you don’t share it with your parents too? What kind of daughter are you?"

They were truly birds of the same feathers. Liu Hua’s loud and somewhat shrill voice almost resembled Chen Huayun’s, and soon, the small commotion attracted everyone’s attention.

The small family’s little success had attracted some jealousy from some people. In the past week, there was no lack of people who wanted to get the recipe from them. Unfortunately, Zhou Anran was tight-lipped. Even her son and daughters.

Since they couldn’t get anything from them, they became resentful. Seeing the chance to destroy Zhou Anran’s reputation and small business, they all joined Liu Hua’s scheme.

"I never knew you were such a person. How can you only think of yourself and not the parents who have raised you?"

Some people were openly condemning Zhou Anran while the rest were whispering about her in low voices, occasionally sending her a gaze filled with schadenfreude.