"Just leave a chicken leg for your mother later, and I won't feel tired at all."
Su Qiao wanted to roll her eyes.
No matter what she did, it always came back to food. So that was how she had gotten so fat.
Although Su Qiao wanted to complain a little, she held it back to encourage her to work.
She agreed readily. "Fine. If there is one, I'll leave you one."
Zhou Lihua beamed, laughing so hard that her double chin showed. She waved her large hand. "Then hurry back to your room. By the time you wake up, Mother will definitely have washed everything spotless for you."
Su Qiao nodded and obediently headed toward the west room.
She had to figure out how to make coarse paper, then think over what other little ideas she could use to make money.
However, before she even entered her own room, she heard her mother shouting behind her.
"Ernie! Ernie!"
"That dead girl, where did she run off to play?"
Madam Liu walked out of the kitchen, holding several dripping sweet potatoes. "Sister-in-law, Ernie went to the backyard to help me clean the chicken intestines. Did you need her for something?"
"I..."
Zhou Lihua had just been about to say that Ernie should stop cleaning chicken intestines and come help her wash the clothes when Su Qiao's voice came from the west room.
"Mother, remember our agreement. You can't slack off and have someone else do it for you."
"And my clothes have to be washed with soapberry pods. That's the only way they'll be clean and smell nice, too."
"..."
A breath caught in Zhou Lihua's throat, and she nearly choked to death.
It took her quite a while before she reluctantly went to get the soapberry pods from the