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

Li Yu deposited the banknotes in two old banks in the county. In fact, she could have deposited them in the town, but Huangmei Town was small, and if the people in the bank told others about this, it would be a hassle for her. She simply deposited them in the county, where people basically didn't know her. She deposited 1,000 taels in each bank, which would not attract any attention.

She didn't think much about the fact that Qin Ci gave her two thousand taels of silver notes. Qi Yue was a member of the Duke Dingguo's Mansion and was extremely important. It was normal for Qin Ci to give her so much as a thank-you gift.

After returning from the money shop, Li Yu counted the silver and money in his hand again.

At the moment, she still had more than 1,000 taels in her hand. More than 100 taels of it were earned from her business. After building the house, she still had more than 40 taels left. She had earned some more in the past few months, and the total amount was over 100 taels.

The remaining nine hundred taels were what was left of the one thousand taels that Qi's mother had asked Qi Yue to give her. Qi Yue spent part of it and left the rest to her.

*

Although he had a large deposit and enough money to last for a long time, Li Yu had no intention of stopping his business and just lying down.

In modern times, she had encountered too many things and knew that things were unpredictable and she never knew when she would need a lot of money. She couldn't live with this money until she died. Besides, if she had the chance in the future, she wanted to go out for a walk. It was a rare opportunity to travel through time, so she had to see the customs and practices of ancient times with her own eyes. By then, she would need money for everything.

Besides, she wanted to live a better life, and three thousand taels was not enough.

But for now, having so much money makes her feel at ease.

*

Li Yu was doing his business at a leisurely pace. In the blink of an eye, it was mid-May and the weather had become completely hot.

Seeing that customers preferred cold food, Li Yu stopped serving hot porridge and started selling sour plum soup instead.

The recipe for the soup was something she learned from an old Chinese doctor in her previous life. It contained several ingredients, and when boiled with sugar, it tasted sour and sweet and was extremely refreshing.

A bowl of sour plum soup cost only one penny and became popular as soon as it was launched. Almost every customer who came to the restaurant to buy meat would buy a bowl.

*

The business at the food store is as stable as ever, but as for the dim sum business, Aunt Wu and her friends have encountered a new problem: some villages no longer allow them to sell dim sum.

Since the dim sum business started, Aunt Wu and her five companions have been selling dim sum on the go. Each of them carries dim sum on their backs and goes to towns and villages to sell their dim sum every day, similar to itinerant merchants.

This method is very effective and almost all the snacks are sold out every day.

As a result, some villages now directly ban them from entering.

"They said we were shouting every day and disturbing their rest, so they wouldn't allow us to go there again unless we gave them half of our earnings every day," Li Xiangyun complained.

Liu Guilan said: "It was the same in Chenjia Village where I went, but they didn't want money, they wanted our glutinous rice and date cake recipe."

Aunt Wu: "There is no situation in the town right now, I don't know if there will be any in the future."

Zhou Qinghe: "The Huanggou Village I went to is still normal now, but just like what Aunt Wu said, there might be something tomorrow."

"Xiu Wen's wife, what should we do?" The village chief's wife said anxiously, "You have a lot of ideas, please help us think of a solution."

Li Yu pondered for a while and said, "Someone must be behind this. Otherwise, it wouldn't be such a coincidence that several villages banned you from entering the village on the same day. Don't worry, I'll go check what's going on first.

As for selling snacks, since they won't let you enter the village, don't go in to avoid conflicts with them. We will be at a disadvantage when there are fewer people."

Aunt Wu sighed, "This is the only way for now. Let's go a little further. I don't believe that other villages will refuse us entry. I don't believe them..."

"Aunt Wu, since they won't let us in, we'll just sell them in town for the next while." Li Yu interrupted her: "I have a dessert recipe that's easier to make than rice cakes. As long as we can make it, we can split into three teams and sell them in town."

Aunt Wu and the others immediately perked up, "Really?"

Li Yu nodded.

*

Aunt Wu and the others' dejection was swept away, and they then followed Li Yu with great energy to learn how to make a new dessert - jelly.

Li Yu didn’t think of making jelly at first, until a few days ago when she went for a stroll in the mountains and accidentally discovered jelly fruit.

This is a plant that grows widely in the southern region. After digging out the pulp from the fruit and drying it in the sun, soaking and rubbing it in cold water can wash out the pectin. When the pectin solidifies, it becomes jelly.

Li Yu didn't know what was going on in the prefecture and the county, but in Huangmei Town, no one had discovered that jelly fruit could be used to make jelly. So it was the perfect time.

There was some dried jelly fruit pulp at home, so Li Yu took it and demonstrated how to make it to the others.

She was very skilled in making the dish, and Aunt Wu and the other six were stunned. There were many small green fruits like this on the mountain, but they had never paid attention to them because they were not tasty. They never expected that they could make something delicious.

After Li Yu finished kneading, he put the wooden basin filled with pectin in a cool place and cooked the ingredients with a few people. While cooking, he explained the situation to them:

"Jelly jelly can be sold alone without any other ingredients. But it doesn't taste very good and it's hard to sell it at a good price. In order to sell it, we can add some ingredients, such as mung beans, red beans, brown sugar water, chopped sesame seeds, chopped peanuts, and even fruits. Of course, the fruits have to be cut into small pieces. In short, as long as the foods don't conflict with each other, they can be added."

"Xiu Wen wife, how do we know which foods cannot be eaten together? Do we need to go to the town to ask a doctor?" Zhou Qinghe asked proactively.

Li Yu: "I've asked Han Zheng to check this. I'll ask Xiaomei to bring it over and explain it to everyone. She can recognize some words and can explain it clearly."

*

After arranging the ice jelly matter, Li Yu visited several villages where problems had occurred.

Because her braised meat was famous, most people in several villages knew her. When they saw her, some women who had bought braised meat from her took the initiative to greet her: "Boss Li, why are you in our village?"

Seeing that there was no one else around, Li Yu whispered, "Didn't someone from our village sell snacks here? I don't know what happened today, but she said that your village wouldn't let her in. She knew that I knew a lot of people, so she asked me to come and ask what was going on. Is it because her snacks weren't tasty that your village wouldn't let her in?"

The woman didn't know that Li Yu was also involved in the dim sum business. After hearing the whole story, she looked around and said, "It's not that her food is not delicious, it's that she offended someone."

Li Yu: "Do you know who she offended?"

"I don't know about that either." The woman waved her hands. "The people who stopped her from entering the village were all hooligans. I don't talk to them on weekdays. But I heard one of them bragging the day before yesterday that a boss in town asked them for help."