The few days before the Dragon Boat Festival are the busiest days that Meiberry has experienced since traveling through time.

The first two days were preparation work, such as cutting reed leaves, cooking bean paste, and steaming glutinous rice. These were all fine.

The main thing is to beat the glutinous rice in the stone mortar, which is really tiring to death.

The job of making glutinous rice falls on Mei Youqian.

According to her dad, her biceps have gotten bigger these days.

Naturally, it was Mei Bei's mother, Li Cuihua, and Miao who made rice dumplings and pastries together.

#Excuse me, how to liven up the atmosphere when working with two social workers? Waiting online!#

On weekdays, when I take Miao out to chat, there are other aunts who can talk to me, so I don't have to worry about the scene getting cold.

But now that her mother has to face two social fears alone, Mei Mei only feels that she has made more tea in the past two days.

Even when she woke up from her dream at midnight, her parents' dreams were heard all over her ears.

Either "I won't fight. If I don't fight, I won't fight again", or "You guys should just say something to me!"

Mei Qian cannot bear the pain of her parents.

Relying on the characteristics of both physical strength and handwork, Meiberry can only accompany her own stove these days, making fire every day.

At home, she cooks bean paste, rice dumpling leaves, and rice dumplings on the fire.

Occasionally, I would throw an egg into the rice dumpling pot, or fish out a fried rice dumpling, and the plum berry would taste delicious.

So, when Mei You found Mei Berry, she saw Mei Berry squatting behind the stove eating eggs like a little squirrel.

"I saw a bamboo cart in the yard. Was it your father who made it for your mule?"

Meiyou got straight to the point and mentioned the cart he saw at Meiberry's house today.

"Well, this way you won't have to hit other people's oxcarts when you go out on the street. Although mules are not as powerful as old oxen for the time being, they can still carry your own family or pull goods."

In the past two days, her father used bamboo to make a light cart suitable for a mule to pull based on the bullock cart he rode in before and the size of the mule.

When I thought about how they rode in an ox cart before, and the old ox pulled six or seven people in one cart, not to mention Mei Qian, even Mei Youqian felt heartbroken when he saw it.

You can't treat your own mule like this in the future.

Therefore, the mule cart is not too big, and can accommodate up to three or four people.

Mei Mei nodded. She came to Mei Mei this time because she actually had other things to do.

She wanted to make an appointment with Mei Berry to find time to go to the county together after the Dragon Boat Festival.

For the previous soaps, all the ratios have been calculated. After the Dragon Boat Festival, Meiyou will completely implement this matter.

Mei Bei agreed to Mei You without thinking.

This group of people was busy for several days. On the morning before the Dragon Boat Festival, Meiberry's family loaded the rice dumplings and pastries into the car before dawn.

In the morning, the family of three let the mule boy get used to pulling the cart. The three of them didn't even get on the cart, and only the mule boy was allowed to pull the goods.

When we arrived in the town, as soon as Lin Shoucai's store opened, he saw Mei Pei and his family bringing rice dumplings over.

"Zongzi with these kinds of fillings have different flavors, and the colors of the threads wrapped around them are also different. The corresponding fillings and colors are written on them."

After that, Mei Youqian handed Lin Shoucai the small yellow paper he usually used at home. What surprised Lin Shoucai was that the family in front of him actually knew how to read.

This piece of paper was also planned by Mayberry and the others at home.

People who can read these days are considered capable.

I have cooperated with Lin Shoucai twice, so I'm not sure if they will have any business dealings in the future.

With this incident, Lin Shoucai's small thoughts of looking down on their family or wanting to take advantage of them will be restrained.

Just as Mei Berry and the others thought, Boss Lin took the piece of paper and when he looked at Mei Berry and his family, the expression on his face changed slightly.

It doesn't seem like much has changed, but they definitely take their family's literacy to heart.

"Thanks for the reminder. I was originally thinking about how to distinguish them. This reminder really solved my urgent need."

With that said, Lin Shoucai neatly paid the remaining balance to Mei Youqian, no more and no less.

"Although these snacks are not as exquisite as those in restaurants, they are still our family's thoughts. Thank you Boss Lin for taking care of our family's small business these days."

After taking the money, Mei Youqian handed over the homemade Toutiao cake and sesame oil mung bean cake to the other party.

I didn’t make much this time, I made 40 pieces of each snack and kept them for sale in the town.

Because it was for Lin Shoucai, Mei Youqian specially made a small gift box of better quality to put the snacks in it.

"You're welcome."

Lin Shoucai took the delicate bamboo box and was even more surprised by the snacks inside.

“What a craft!”

"Just so so." Seeing that he accepted it, Mei You said a few words of humility and left.

Wei Meili took her mule cub to the downtown area to sell snacks.

Mei Youqian wanted to take advantage of the morning to go to the pier outside the town with her daughter to wait for the boat.

The pier outside Lihu Town was less than one kilometer away from the town, and the father and daughter arrived at the pier quickly.

The father and daughter asked people on the pier about the boat to the county. After paying the fare, the father and daughter boarded the boat.

However, because everything was so fresh, the father and daughter did not choose to enter the cabin. Instead, they stood on the deck outside and watched the scenery on the dock in the early morning.

Even early in the morning, the dock in Lihu Town is very lively.

Lihu is like a natural harbor, where many boats traveling from north to south are moored, and there are even inns outside the pier.

The inn looked a bit bigger than the ones in the town, and it was very grand.

There are several simple sheds next to the inn, but from a distance it is hard to see what is being cooked in them. Most of the people who eat in these sheds are workers working on the docks.

Mei Youqian's intuition tells him that most of these things are not very tasty.

"There are quite a few food businesses at this pier~"

Mayberry saw that her father hadn't been quiet for two seconds before he started chatting with the boatman who was resting on the deck.

"Hey, it's convenient after all."

"I think it tastes pretty good~"

"Where is it? It's just enough to eat. Although the price is affordable, other things..." The boatman shook his head and stopped talking, but he didn't say anything.

"There are quite a few boats coming to this pier to rest every day, so the business of the inn is probably very good."

"Yes, every year at the beginning of spring and before winter, there are so many boats here that it's amazing, and sometimes even boats can't get in."

After listening for a while, Mei Bei had no intention of listening to the chat between his father and the boatman. Mei Bei glanced around, but saw an acquaintance with sharp eyes——

Lin Shoucai, the grocery store owner.

He was not in the shop at this time, but instead he was accompanied by only a few people, carrying two baskets of rice dumplings that looked very familiar to Meiberry onto a big boat behind their house.

That ship... Meiberry took a second look. Compared to the other ships, where there were many people walking around, it seemed to be particularly deserted.

"Is that ship so weird?" Mayberry pretended to be innocent and intervened in the chat between her father and the boatman nearby, and even led them to take a look at the big ship that Mayberry mentioned.

"Hey, that ship... looks so ruthless, it should be parked here temporarily, right?"

The boatman had been on the river between Lihu and Jinbai County countless times. He had no impression of a boat like this. This was definitely his first time here.

"Oh, uncle, do people in the town usually take your boat to go to the county?"

"That's not necessarily the case. Some people go to the county to do business and transport goods, so they choose some large cargo ships. Here, they usually carry people. When the seats are full, they leave~" The uncle laughed and scanned the ship again.

He glanced at the cabin and said with a smile, "Look, isn't it time to go~"

After saying that, he shouted.

Upon seeing this, Mei Youqian took his daughter into the cabin, found a place to sit and sat down.

Although the boatman uncle said that his boat was only carrying people, it was rare that the father and daughter sitting in the cabin actually had nothing in their hands.

As the ship gradually sailed out of the pier, Mayberry watched the surrounding scenery constantly changing through the open window in the cabin. Finally, she couldn't sit still and left the cabin again.

She stood on the deck and looked at the wide river. The cool breeze on the river was blowing. Meiberry took a deep breath and whispered softly: "This is the Jinlan River."

Because it was early summer, the mountains on both sides of the river were very deep and beautiful, and there were villages and fields at the foot of the mountains. When looking carefully, Mei Mei even recognized her own village and the mountains behind.

"Wow!"

This kind of vision made Meiberry admire the magnificent scenery. At the same time, she suddenly discovered a problem——

"Dad, do you think the Jinlan River is higher than the ground?"

Meiberry stood on the boat and looked at the mountains on both sides of the river. She thought something was strange before and couldn't explain it.

Now when she looked at her village in the distance, Meiberry realized that her perspective was actually from top to bottom!

Before she crossed this kind of terrain, their mother river seemed to be in the same situation.

In history, countless people have been displaced and forced to leave their homes due to floods caused by diversions and embankment bursts in the mother river.
To be continued...