After three days of exposure to the sun and wind, the tiles are finally ready to be baked in the kiln. The fire must not be turned off during the baking process, and the high temperature must be maintained continuously, which requires a lot of firewood.
Qin and Xia Yunyun were in charge of watching the fire, while Xia Qianqian and Liu Bo pulled the flatbed cart into the mountains to look for firewood. The four of them were busy and looking forward to it.
Some people in the village knew that Xia Qianqian was burning tiles today, so they came to watch. The old Xia family sent the third daughter-in-law Yang to watch. Some hoped that Xia Qianqian would succeed, while others hoped that Xia Qianqian would fail. They all had their own thoughts.
Finally, when it was time to take the tiles out of the kiln, Uncle Liu said, "Qianqian, the tiles are ready to be taken out. You come and open the kiln door!"
"Okay!" Xia Qianqian was full of pride and subconsciously imitated the proud look on Gu Yanjing's face when he cut the ribbon at the opening of his company, and opened the kiln door.
The formed tiles stand in the kiln, waiting for their owner to move them.
"It seems to have worked!" Uncle Liu shouted in surprise.
"Is it really done?" Yang pushed through the crowd and came over. "Let me see, is it really done?"
Xia Qianqian is so proud!
Gu Yanjing, I can still support myself without you, hahaha!
"It's nice just looking at it like this. But for things like tiles, wait until you move them out and see them." Yang said sarcastically.
Everyone thought she was just sour grapes because she couldn't get them, and they laughed and joked, "Mrs. Xia, you hope your niece doesn't make tiles, right?"
"Oh, relying on her?" Yang snorted contemptuously.
"But now it's burning out."
"This is not the last step yet. What if the tiles are not durable?" Yang secretly prayed in her heart: Don't succeed! Don't succeed!
Xia Qianqian said: "Whether it will succeed or not depends on God's will."
In full view of everyone, she took a few tiles and placed them on the ground. They looked pretty good, indicating that the tiles were neatly made, but after they cooled completely, they were grayish white, unlike the green tiles of the Xia family.
"Look, the colors are all wrong, it definitely didn't work." Yang put one hand on her waist and held a handkerchief in the other. Her thin lips opened and closed constantly, chattering in the standard posture of a shrew scolding in the street.
Qin said unhappily, "Third sister-in-law, whether it succeeds or not is my family's business and has nothing to do with you. Can you please shut up?"
"Sister-in-law, do you still have the power to control what I say? The mouth is on my body, so why do you control what I say?" Yang was shrewd and Qin was speechless, and she was angry to herself.
Xia Yunyun tugged at her mother's hand obediently and gave her a smile.
In addition to Yang's hope that Xia Qianqian would fail, there was another person who showed it very clearly, that was the Jiang family who had been blackmailed for ten taels of silver. The new clothes Xia Yunyun was wearing now were bought with the money blackmailed from his family! Jiang's mother was so angry that her heart was bleeding: "That's right, is it illegal to speak? You are not the king of heaven."
"Maybe they have a backer and don't take our Yangliu Village seriously." After Yang said this, she whispered a few words to Jiang's mother.
Jiang's mother immediately exclaimed exaggeratedly: "Oh, so you found the landlord's stupid son as your backer? No wonder you are so arrogant!"
The villagers were all shocked when they heard this, and they began to discuss: "Didn't the Gu family's original plan to buy Xia Qianqian as a concubine fall through? Why is it brought up again?"
"Who knows how that little whore got involved with Master Gu again. I heard that when the Xia family asked them to return to their ancestral home, Master Gu sent a servant to calm the situation."
"Is this true? This girl is really capable..."
"What kind of ability is that? This is called despicable!"
"… "
The discussion became louder and louder, as if they were afraid that Xia Qianqian couldn't hear them. Xia Qianqian shouted impatiently: "Enough! If anyone talks nonsense again, I will tear her mouth apart!"
(End of this chapter)