The small table was filled with snacks like nuts, sunflower seeds, peanuts, walnuts, and dried fruits all mixed together, with a pile of sunflower seed shells next to those nuts, looking surprisingly abundant for this room.
Hui Niang placed a small basket on the ground, uncovered the cloth, revealing sweet potatoes inside.
"Sister, the price of cornmeal has gone up again, and I didn't bring enough money, so I could only buy sweet potatoes," Hui Niang said a little embarrassed, "Now the girl's school is on vacation, they don't need us odd-job workers. If I had known earlier, I would have looked for a maid's job; during the New Year, I could earn some extra money and buy some offal at the Second Meat Shop at the alley's entrance."
Chen Huihong calmly cracked sunflower seeds and said, "Being a maid is easy to get beaten to death."
