Traveling through famine: The space peasant girl

The midday sun was shining, and it was just right for her to lie on a lounge chair, enjoying the sea breeze, holding a cup of herbal tea in her hand, and with two plates of light pastries beside her. This was a life that even gods wouldn't want to have. Yu Xiuming had his family prepare these pastries, and even when uploading them, he brought a chef and a pastry chef along, so that they could always have fresh pastries. These were Wang Shiyu's favorite pastries, which were not particularly sweet.

Just now, when Wang Shiyu went to the kitchen to ask if there were any pastries, the chef brought out two plates for her and asked her to eat them first, saying that the new ones would not be out for a while. As everyone was busy cleaning up the kitchen when they got on the boat, they had to arrange the things they brought so that it would be easier to take them, so the fire had not been started yet.

"Miss Wang, don't start the fire yet. These are the pastries I brought from home. They may be a little sweet. Please eat them first while I start cooking."

The two plates of pastries brought over now, one is mung bean cake, the other is lily and lotus seed cake. They are exquisite in style, but taste a little sweet. Maybe too much sugar was added when making them, or maybe it is the unique taste of people of this era. This does not suit her taste, but it is okay to eat a little occasionally. Moreover, there is actually something like granulated sugar here, which is even sweeter than modern white sugar. They are all handmade, and I don’t know how they are purified.

Wang Shiyu had specially inquired about it before, and heard that it was someone in the royal family who specially proposed to improve the formula. As for who in the royal family, no one knew, because when it was promoted at the time, it was only mentioned that someone in the royal family proposed to change it. There was only one white sugar in these formulas, and the rest did not change. In fact, Wang Shiyu was a little curious. Compared with the difficulty of white sugar, it is actually easier to refine refined salt. Why didn't he directly tell them the method of refining refined salt? If the method of refining refined salt was told, they would not have to eat slightly bitter large-grain salt, which is yellowish and unpalatable.

That's right, Wang Shiyu's family now eats coarse-grained salt that is slightly bitter. Even though Wang Shiyu has a way to purify it, she has never used it. She even kept the formula strictly secret and never revealed it at all. Salt is a strategic material, whether in modern times or ancient times.

It was not something a commoner like her could interfere with. She might have just purified the refined salt, but the next moment she would be buried in a foreign land, deader than dead. Her face would probably be scratched.

Otherwise, even if you refine it for your own consumption, you will still be guilty, and there will even be a system of collective responsibility. If others find out that one of your relatives is making salt and you don't report it, then your nine clans will start playing Candy Crush Saga directly, unless they are those nine clans that are relatively far away.

Make sure that there will be no communication between the two parties, so as to avoid the Nine Clans Candy Crush. The reason why Wang Shiyu wants to bring the old man and others to Jinling is also because of this. The old man has done too many tricks, and Wang Shiyu simply can't stand the old man's suicidal behavior.

That's why he tried every possible way to send the old man to Jinling. The old man in Jinling would definitely seek death and would be even more powerful. Anyway, they were far away in Jizhou City and would not be implicated at all. Besides, there was a stepmother in Jizhou City who wanted to kill them. Zhou Qingyun had already written to them to explain what the Princess Zheng wanted to do, and asked them to be careful when going out during this period of time and not to be taken advantage of by others.

During this period of time, Wang Shiyu had planned everything to get the old man away. She finally breathed a sigh of relief and went straight to the sea with Yu Xiuming and the others to have fun. Otherwise, if the old man was there, she would have no mood to go out and play. She just wanted to stare at the old man every day to see how he did things, so as not to let him get her into trouble.

Therefore, the salt they ate was coarse salt bought directly from the grocery store. Salt nowadays was actually quite expensive. After all, if you wanted to sell salt, you had to have merchant qualifications, and merchant qualifications required money to buy, so the salt they sold was not cheap at all. They even had to be exclusive agents. The emperor gave people distributor qualifications, and then the people below could sell it.

On the contrary, white sugar has become cheaper. I heard that some sugarcane forests were planted here. The sugar yield of the sugarcane forests is extremely high, which is why the price of white sugar has been slowly brought down. And through step-by-step purification, we have granulated white sugar, and even brown sugar has become popular.

Wang Shiyu heard all this from Aunt Niu and the others. If she hadn't suddenly remembered this matter while eating the cakes today, she probably wouldn't have taken it to heart. After all, she still had a lot of sugar, so she didn't care too much about it. But now that she remembered it, she suddenly realized that there seemed to be something wrong.

It’s the method of purifying white sugar. I guess it must be related to the time travel. I just don’t know who is so unlucky. He only did this one thing after the time travel and there was no follow-up. What’s the matter? Was the whole family directly wiped out?

Because Wang Shiyu specially sent people to check the food in various places and bought some various recipes to see if there are any customs and habits that are particularly similar to modern ones. Except for the granulated sugar, there is no difference in other aspects. There are even many snacks, and no one knows who developed them.

Moreover, there are many differences in the recipes Wang Shiyu came up with. In fact, they all exist, but the names are different, and the ingredients in them are also different, and the tools used are even more different. Therefore, the things in her dowry recipes are basically the original ingredients with improved taste. Many spices are even brought from overseas. The Yu family is a big maritime trade family, so this matter is very easy to handle. Even if they only sell seasonings in the future, it will also be a huge sum of money.

When Wang Shiyu was in the space, she specially selected a few seasonings and ground them into powder. She sprinkled them on the foods, and the taste instantly changed. Therefore, this recipe must be managed well.

While thinking about the formula, her eyes slowly looked towards the blue sky in the distance, coupled with the dark sea water, and she instantly felt a little relaxed. Since she didn't need to continue embroidering day and night, she spent more and more time in a daze. Sometimes, when she saw the good weather, her whole thoughts were taken away.

During these years, she had been on edge all the time, fearing that someone from the Wang family would suddenly depend on her. Now that she relaxed all of a sudden, she felt a little uncomfortable and even felt that she should find something to do to suit her current mood. She relaxed too thoroughly this time, so Wang Shiyu was not used to it. After they returned from the sea, they would probably have to keep themselves on edge again.

Blowing the warm and moist sea breeze, Wang Shiyu closed her eyes silently. She was a little sleepy, especially at noon. Although the weather was a little hot and humid, the wind from the sea told her that it didn't matter, it would reduce the noise and temperature for her. It would be even better if she could have some ice cream at this time, but unfortunately there was no such thing here, not even popsicles, so in the summer they used to have just an ice bowl to eat.

Wang Shiyu had just closed her eyes for a while and was still in a daze when she felt someone sitting next to her. Based on her feeling, she guessed it was Yu Xiuming. Because she was a little sleepy at this time, she did not open her eyes. The person sitting next to him was indeed Yu Xiuming.

Originally, when he was sitting in the room and looking at the account books that had been saved from the previous days, he felt a little annoyed, mainly because the false accounts made by the shop owners were too fake, which made him unable to bear it. He stood up and saw Wang Shiyu lying on the recliner in front of the window. He slowly picked out an account book that made him very annoyed and came to the recliner, and slowly lay down. He did not feel tired now, anyway, he was blowing in the sea breeze, and slowly opened the account book in his hand. This account book, most of which were false accounts, felt that such an account book was ridiculous. It was really looking at his own youth and bullying himself.

After all, it is normal for a shopkeeper to make some false accounts, but you can't make all the accounts false. It's too much even if the accounts are so false that others can see it at a glance. It's an antique shop, and you made some external accounts for iron ore. Isn't this funny? It's enough to make him angry to death.

But his originally irritable mood calmed down inexplicably when he saw the girl sleeping peacefully beside him. He no longer felt the urge to kill someone. Although his health has gradually improved over the years, he suddenly became irritable for some reason. He even went to see a doctor, but the doctor said it was just the sequelae of poisoning. They are still discussing the prescription.

He had really had enough and really wanted to go to Jinling to deliver another dose of the medicine to that person. Unfortunately, he was discovered several times when he tried to do so. Although he managed to escape safely in the end, several people were killed, which really made him angry.