Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

The young man climbed over the wall using a tree and jumped into the yard.

Ah Fu was lying at the door of the main room to rest. When he saw a stranger, he jumped up and barked.

The young man didn't expect there was a dog, so he went forward and wanted to kill Ah Fu, but when he thought of the man outside's instructions, he reluctantly withdrew his foot.

Then he found the rope in the corner and tied Ah Fu up.

After doing this, he went straight to the kitchen.

The kitchen door was locked. The young man looked at it for a while, then took out a piece of wire from his pocket and poked it into the keyhole.

There was a hair stuck to the lock, and it moved when the lock moved, making the person feel uncomfortable. The young man was disgusted and pulled the hair off neatly.

After a while, there was a click and the lock opened.

The young man was overjoyed and rushed into the house.

There were more than ten kinds of spices on the chopping board, and each one looked like it had been used. The young man looked at it for a while, but couldn't tell which one was used more, so he had to write down the names of all the spices. He drew a line under the spices that were used less frequently.

There were a few things he didn't recognize, so he took a little bit of each, wrapped them in paper and put them in his arms.

After doing all this, he closed and locked the door, untied Ah Fu, then climbed over the wall and jumped out.

Outside, the older man saw him coming back and heaved a sigh of relief, "Hurry up, they should be back soon, we can't let them see us."

*

Li Yu found a stone mortar in a grain store.

The stone mortar was used by the shop owner for pounding rice, with an outer diameter of about 40 centimeters. Last year, on the shop owner's birthday, someone gave him a new and more suitable mortar, and the old one was no longer used.

When the shopkeeper heard Li Yu say that he wanted to buy a mortar, he thought he had misheard. It was only after Li Yu repeatedly asked to buy it that he realized that there was really someone who wanted to buy it.

"I spent a lot of effort to get this stone mortar. If you want it, I can give it to you. So, for 800 coins, I will sell it to you."

It was worthwhile to spend eight hundred coins to buy a handy tool, but Li Yu didn't want to do what the shopkeeper said. After some bargaining, she bought the mortar for six hundred and fifty coins.

Fearing that his cart could not bear the weight of the mortar, Li Yu bought another 20 kilograms of flour from the store and asked the owner to deliver the mortar and flour to his door.

Earning several hundred coins at once, the shop owner agreed decisively.

*

Because buying the mortar took time, it was already late noon when Li Yu got home.

They had already had lunch in town, so they were not hungry now. After using a round stick to move the stone mortar to an open ground, Li Yu went back to the house to rest without looking back.

It was about a quarter of an hour later that she felt she had regained her strength.

Guessing that Aunt Wu and Li Xiangyun would be here soon, Li Yu found the kitchen key and prepared to move out the dishes she would need in the afternoon. However, the moment her hand touched the lock, she realized something was wrong.

The hair that she had deliberately stuck to her locks with porridge disappeared when she left in the morning.

*

There was a thief at home!

These five words flashed through Li Yu's mind, and then he quickly opened the kitchen door.

In the kitchen, all the items were placed unchanged. Li Yu looked at them for a while, then turned around and walked to the kitchen door to call Ah Fu.

Ah Fu came running over with his tail wagging.

Li Yu squatted down and looked down at Ah Fu's legs.

Sure enough, there were signs of Ah Fu's limbs having been tied up.

It seemed that someone had come to their house, and they probably didn't want her to know that someone had been there, so they didn't kill Ah Fu and didn't touch anything in the kitchen.

The man should be here to steal the recipe, Li Yu guessed, but he was not in a hurry.

Ever since she prepared to sell braised meat, she had gone over the possible dangers in her mind, especially the recipe. She took precautions at every step, from purchasing to using.

For example, the seasonings in the kitchen were just put out there to confuse people. Many of the ingredients that were actually needed were kept in Han Zheng's bedroom and were never put out there.

It can be said that as long as Han Xiaomei and Han Zheng don’t tell anyone, no one will know what she put in it, and no one will know the proportions and exact amounts of the various seasonings.

But who came to prepare the seasoning? Was it the boss Mei who had a grudge against her? Or someone else?

Li Yu looked at the wall and came up with a new plan.

No matter who it is, if she dares to come again, she will send her to the county government!

*

With the stone mortar, Han Sheng's efficiency increased dramatically.

He prepared ten pounds of pork hind leg meat in one and a half hours.

With more raw materials, Li Yu doubled the number of meatballs he made.

But the quantity did not affect sales. On the second, third, and fourth days, all the meatballs made by Li Yu were sold out.

By the eighth day after the pork meatballs were launched, the business of Li Ji Food Store had basically stabilized, with a minimum profit of one and a half taels of silver per day, and as high as two taels.

*

Days passed one by one, and on the day of the twelfth lunar month, Li Yu was cooking meatballs in the kitchen when Aunt Wu in the yard suddenly called out, "It's snowing!"

Li Yu hurried out to see, and sure enough, snowflakes were falling.

"Looking at this, the snow will probably continue until tomorrow. Xiuwen's wife, will you still open the stall tomorrow?"

Li Yu was about to answer when voices were suddenly heard outside the courtyard gate.

Following the sound, she saw two women standing at the door. One was about her age, with willow-shaped eyebrows and almond-shaped eyes, wearing a light red short jacket, and smiled before she spoke. The other was about the same age as Aunt Wu, and dressed more simply.

"Brother Sheng." The younger one nodded to Li Yu and then called Han Sheng.

Several people looked at Han Sheng together.

Han Sheng introduced shyly, "This is Liu Yan, from Liujia Village. Someone arranged a marriage for us a few days ago."

At this point, Li Yu understood.

The Han family used to be poor, and no one was willing to marry their daughter to Han Sheng. But recently, seeing that he had earned some money from working, they thought he was a good candidate and took the initiative to arrange a marriage for him.

This is a good thing, Li Yu is happy for Han Sheng.

After looking the two of them up and down, Li Yu decided to go back to the house and get out some braised meat, just to save face for Han Sheng.

However, before she moved, the older woman went into the kitchen on her own, staring at the meat in the pot and talking loudly: "There's so much meat, no wonder it smells so good. I was so greedy outside."

This behavior was really not nice. Han Sheng was a little embarrassed and asked Liu Yan: "Why did you come here at this time?"

Liu Yan glanced at Li Yu and said, "I came to see you. Auntie is looking for Sister Li."

Hearing this, the older woman finally remembered her intention, turned around, and grabbed Li Yu's hand: "You have a good relationship with Han Sheng's family."

Li Yu pulled his hand out and smiled faintly: "It's good."

The older woman seemed unaware of Li Yu's rejection and smiled widely: "Han Sheng is a good person. You have a good relationship with their family, so naturally you are also a good person."

Li Yu: "So..."

Older woman: "I have a son who is a little older than you. He doesn't mind you being a widow and is willing to marry you."

Li Yu: “…”