The White-Bone Demon of the Farm is as rich as a country

Chu Ning'an followed Ru Yue into the village. They did not walk side by side as they did in the past, but like young men and women of this era, they kept a little distance from each other to avoid suspicion. In the eyes of others, this seemed like they were being polite and courteous.

It was past noon when Ru Yue went straight to Meng Dagui's house, thinking she could take the custom bamboo tube and bamboo sticks home with her, saving her the trouble of returning later. As soon as she entered, Ru Yue immediately put on a smile, as if her previous unhappiness was just an illusion.

"Uncle Dagui, I'm here to get the bamboo tube."

Hearing the sound, Meng Dagui knocked on his pipe and walked out of the house slowly. "Everything is ready for you. Can you take a look?" Then he took Ru Yue to the west wing of the yard. A pile of bamboo tubes were piled on the ground. Ru Yue picked up one and looked at it carefully. The cut was careful and polished very smoothly. As for the number, there was no need to count it.

"These bamboo tubes are made so well. Thank you for your hard work, Uncle Dagui. With these bamboo tubes, I will sell better food than others tomorrow." Ru Yue spoke sweetly, saying nice things as if they were free, and Meng Dagui couldn't close his mouth after hearing them.

Ru Yue counted out fifty coins and handed them to Meng Dagui, saying solemnly, "Uncle Dagui, you're taking care of me and giving me a discount this time. If I do well at the market tomorrow, I'll do all my work here, and I'll pay you the normal price then."

"You are a sensible girl, and this young man is also good. You should work hard. Leaving the old Meng family may not be a bad thing for the three of you. Your father is honest and has been making money to support that family of ruthless people. You and your mother have suffered over the years. Now you can decide how to earn and spend a penny." Meng Dagui's words were sincere, which warmed Ru Yue's heart.

Chu Ning'an and Ru Yue worked together to bring the three hundred bamboo tubes back to the straw hut. Seeing the two little guys waiting for them eagerly like two puppies, they couldn't help but smile.

For ordinary people, the trivialities of making a living fill their entire lives, so where is the time for pretentious sentimentality? Ru Yue in her previous life knew this all too well. Having experienced life and death, she wouldn't waste time on such matters. She would talk about things when they arise and resolve them when they arise. Who would she be wallowing in self-pity for?

Ru Yue asked Chu Ning'an to clean the bamboo tubes together and put them into the pot, and asked Ru Xue to light a fire first to disinfect the bamboo tubes with high temperature. Eating is no different from other things, hygiene is the most important thing, especially in the hot summer, and you can't be careless.

Ru Yue asked Anping to go to the village to find Zhang Erqiang and Ma Xiaoliu. Ever since they built a straw hut for her and helped her take care of her younger siblings when she went into the mountains, Ru Yue had changed her mind about them a lot. She even gave them a month's worth of "antidote" when she went into the mountains for the second time. Now, they are rarely seen idle in the village.

After a while, Zhang Erqiang and Ma Xiaoliu came staggering over. Although they still looked a little weird, they were much better than before when they were nonchalant and played cats and dogs.

"Sister Ruyue, what do you want from us two brothers?" Ma Xiaoliu spoke as quickly as ever.

"Brother Erqiang, Brother Xiaoliu, please go to the pond east of the village and pick some lotus leaves for me. I want them intact, don't damage them. Also, cut some horseweed grass for me, as long as possible. I need it before tonight." Ru Yue didn't hesitate to greet them and ordered directly, "We'll settle the wages later. Don't worry, I will definitely not let you suffer any loss."

"With our relationship, it's unreasonable to talk about wages." Ma Xiaoliu laughed with a playful smile.

"Yeah, then let's not talk about money. Haha, I'll just trouble you two to work for me for free today." Ru Yue teased him jokingly.

"No, no, no, I just said that."

Several people burst into laughter at the same time.

The market is tomorrow and the whole family is very excited. They all want to know what the sauce Ru Yue mentioned is like. Ru Yue is not idle either. She sees that pounding half a bag of dried chilies into powder is a huge project. If she is not careful, her eyes and hands might get burning. So she simply drags Chu Ning'an to He Erkui's house to borrow the stone mill. It will probably take about an hour.

"What are you two doing? Why are you grinding these peppers?" After Erkui's wife heard what they said, she started grinding them without saying a word.

Several of them were very skillful and it didn't take long for them to grind half a bag of peppers into powder.

"Is there anything else you can help me with? I'm just sitting here with nothing to do." Ru Yue and Chu Ning'an took the chili powder back, and Erkui's wife asked hurriedly.

"Thank you for your concern, sister-in-law. I'm fine for now. If I need anything, I'll come and ask you for help." Ru Yue smiled and declined, and returned to the courtyard with Chu Ning'an.

Not long after, Zhang Erqiang and Ma Xiaoliu brought back a large bag of lotus leaves and a large bundle of water lily. Seeing how busy they were, he decided not to leave in a hurry and stayed to work with them.

Boiling lotus leaves and horseweed, drying bamboo tubes, frying peanuts, soaking fermented black beans, peeling garlic...all the trivial tasks were done while everyone was chatting and laughing.

The two children looked at Ru Yue expectantly, "Sister, are you going to make it? Can we taste it tonight?" Even Zhang Erqiang and Ma Xiaoliu were looking at her eagerly, so Ru Yue didn't waste any more time and immediately decided to start making her favorite "Laoganma" hot sauce in her previous life in this dynasty, so that these people could be her guinea pigs first.

Stir-frying chili sauce requires extremely strict temperature control. Ru Yue didn't trust others to do it, so she asked Chu Ning'an to light the fire for her. Then she poured half a pot of rapeseed oil into the pot. After the oil was hot, she asked Chu Ning'an to remove the fire from the stove before putting the dried chilies in.

As soon as the dried chilies were put into the pot, a spicy aroma soon wafted out, choking several people and making them cough, but they were reluctant to avoid it and not look.

"A-choo, this, this is too spicy."

"It smells so good! But, but it's too spicy."

"How can it not taste good with so much oil? A-choo, isn't it a waste to use so much oil in making a sauce?"

"The fire is good like this. It's spicy and hot here. Achoo, go hide away quickly." Ru Yue covered her mouth and nose with a cloth in advance, but she still cried because of the spiciness. However, she still reminded Chu Ning'an to hide away.

"It's okay, I'm here... Achoo, I'm here with you and I'll keep you warm anytime."

Worried that the chili peppers would burn, Ru Yue kept stirring them carefully. Fortunately, the stir-fry didn't take very long. She took out the fried chili peppers and set them aside to drain the oil. The spicy aroma slowly dissipated.

Next, she stir-fried the broad bean paste, sweet bean paste, minced garlic...which was not so exciting anymore, and everyone gathered around to watch Ru Yue stir-fry.

When Ru Yue added the large bowl of soaked black bean sauce to the pot, An Ping could no longer hold back. He tugged at her sleeve and asked cautiously, "Sister, are you sure you really want to add this? Will it ruin your sauce?"

"Believe me, sister. You will definitely love it." After saying that, a pot of fermented black beans was poured into the pot. In order to prevent the bottom from getting burnt, Ru Yue kept stirring it. Everyone looked at her using her thin arms to stir with a spatula and wanted to help her. However, when they thought about how it would be a disaster if they ruined the pot with so many old ingredients, no one really stepped forward to help.

The sauce in the pot began to boil and bubble. Ru Yue immediately asked Chu Ning'an to remove all the fire from the bottom of the pot, pour the previously fried and crushed chili oil into the sauce, and add chili powder, pepper powder (provided by A Ling), salt, sugar... Finally, pour the crispy and fragrant peanuts on it, continue to stir and stir-fry, the aroma overflowed, and everyone in the courtyard kept swallowing their saliva.

When Ru Yue stopped, everyone saw a big pot of sauce with red oil floating on it, emitting a rich aroma.

"Sister, are you done?" Xiao Ruxue asked softly with her big watery eyes like a deer. She didn't look like she was afraid of scaring anyone, but rather as if she was afraid of scaring the pot of sauce.

"Okay, do you want to try it?"

"Yeah, yeah." He nodded repeatedly.

Ru Yue served a large bowl and took out a few steamed buns from the bamboo basket and distributed them to the people. "This sauce is spicy. Eat these steamed buns and try it."

A few people stopped pretending to be polite and rushed to try it.

"Wow, so spicy. Sizzling, so spicy, so spicy!"

"But, ha, hiss, it smells good too, ha, hiss!"

......

Several people fought for a long time, and finally gathered around the water tank to drink the water.

Another half day passed before everyone recovered.

"This sauce is so delicious. If I have noodles with this sauce, I can eat two big bowls." Ma Xiaoliu praised effortlessly.

"I can eat it too," Anping interrupted, "Sister, those little black beans aren't smelly at all. They're chewy and the more you chew, the more fragrant they become. They're really delicious."

"This sauce is really delicious. It will definitely sell well at the market tomorrow just like our smoothies." Chu Ning'an also expressed his opinion with a smile.

That night, Ru Yue sent a bowl of chili sauce to the village head, Meng Dagui, He Erkui, Meng Qingshan, Zhang Erqiang and Ma Xiaoliu's families, asking them to try it. Without exception, they received unanimous praise from several families, which also gave Ru Yue's family greater confidence.

Early the next morning, Meng Qingshan's ox cart drove directly to Ru Yue's thatched hut to pick them up. The bamboo tubes, pottery jars, and four people took up half of the ox cart. When they arrived under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village, the trustworthy people in the village were very angry for a long time. However, thinking that the Meng family had paid thirty taels of silver twice, they were all honest and kept silent.

It has been almost two months since Ru Yue came to this world, and this is her first time going to the market. The town is usually bustling with people, but I heard from the villagers that on market days, there are huge crowds of people.

Fortunately, they left home early, and there weren't many people in the market. Meng Qingshan was a good driver, and after driving around in circles, he actually made it into the market street. There were many people coming into the city to sell things, so he didn't want to be too picky, so he chose an empty space and put his things down.

Meng Qingshan didn't dare to stay any longer, fearing that there were too many people and it would be difficult to get out. He put down his things and hurried out.

Seeing that more and more people were coming to the market, the four of them quickly set up their stall. The hot sauce was in a ceramic jar, which was inconvenient for passers-by to see, so Ru Yue filled a bowl and placed it on the stall for people to choose from. She shouted to the people passing by, "Hot sauce, fresh hot sauce, come and take a look, taste it, it's spicy and fragrant."

Many people were attracted by her voice, but when they saw the thing with a layer of red oil floating on it, they had never seen it before. They also heard that it was just a sauce. They thought that they could make it at home and it was not worth spending the money, so they left.

The sun rose higher in the sky, the weather became hotter, and more and more people came. The surrounding stalls and vendors opened one after another, but Ru Yue and her friends' sauce stall was the only one that had no customers.

"Sister, our sauce is so delicious, why don't they buy it?" Ruxue asked aggrievedly.

"Ruyue, this is not a solution. In an hour or so, people will slowly disperse." Chu Ning'an reminded Ruyue with some anxiety.

Ru Yue was also very angry. When the sauce was being made, the aroma was everywhere, but once the sauce cooled down, she couldn't smell the fragrance unless she was close by. At this time, she couldn't heat it up to release the fragrance. It was really infuriating.

This was the beginning of her own business venture in this world. Was it going to be aborted? Ru Yue was unwilling to accept this. These blind old antiques should be made to eat radish and cabbage dipped in salt water every day... Oh, that's right! Ru Yue came up with a plan.

"Have you brought out the bamboo sticks I ordered?" Ru Yue asked.

"Sister, I brought it out and put it in the bag under the bamboo tube." Anping replied quickly, "Do you want it?"

"Help my sister find it."

"Chu Ning'an, I'm going out for a while and will be back soon." Without waiting for anyone to ask, he ran away quickly.

After a while, she hurried back with a big paper bag.

She took out two trays, poured some of the chopped buns from the paper bag into them, and poured some hot sauce on the side. She took out a handful of bamboo sticks and poked them into the buns, then shouted to the crowd, "Try it! It's free!"

When the crowd heard that there was free food, they became excited and thought they couldn't miss such a good thing. Soon, a large crowd of people gathered to watch.

"Is there really a free sample?" Passerby A asked the question that was on everyone's mind.

"Auntie, please try it, it's free." Xiaoru Snowman was smart and immediately understood her elder sister's intention. She handed a steamed bun dipped in sauce to a kind-looking woman.

The woman was immediately impressed by the girl's neat clothes and lovely appearance. She took the bamboo stick and started eating. "Wow, this sauce is so delicious!" Ruxue took the opportunity to pass another piece to her. The woman chewed it more slowly and savored it. "It's delicious, so delicious. Is this the sauce you sell?"

"Well, auntie, that's my sister selling it. You can go over and take a look." Then he walked towards other people.

After hearing what the woman said, everyone rushed to taste it. Except for some people who really couldn't stand spicy food, most people were attracted by this unique hot sauce and asked about its price.

"One bamboo tube costs eight cents, two tubes cost fifteen cents. This chili sauce is delicious when mixed with noodles, rice, or steamed buns." Ru Yue shouted, "If you're away from home, it's very convenient to take a tube with you to eat with your meal."

It has been the same since ancient times. As long as there is a bargain to be taken, no matter how much, it will make people happy. Anyone who doesn't take advantage of a bargain is a fool!

A group of people began to scramble to buy, you one tube, he two tubes, and they divided the work together. Chu Ning installed the sauce, Ru Yue tied the mouth with lotus leaves and horseweed, An Ping collected the money, and Ru Xue stood by the stall with a tray for tasting, smiling and inviting people to taste. They were very busy, and after more than half an hour, the sauce in the two large ceramic jars was gone.

Time had almost passed and the number of people coming to the market gradually decreased, but there were still many people gathered in front of Ru Yue's stall.

"I'm sorry everyone, today's chili sauce is sold out. If you like it, you can come back to buy it next time." Ru Yue kept apologizing to these people, and did not forget to pave the way for her next business.

Everyone was disappointed when they couldn't buy it, but when they heard that it would be available again at the next market, they left in disappointment.

The four of them were exhausted, and they all smiled excitedly when they saw the empty pottery jar.

"Today's business was very successful. Everyone has worked hard. Let's buy some delicious food later and take it back to reward ourselves, okay?" Ru Yue could never forget the scene of celebrating with her colleagues in her previous life. She also hoped that in this world, she could celebrate success with those who worked hard with her.

"Will it cost a lot of money?" Anping asked in a low voice.

"But we made money. Shouldn't we reward ourselves? This way we will have the motivation to keep working hard!" She teased the two little ones.

"Isn't the purpose of making money to save it?" Ruxue asked in confusion.

"Making money is to make our lives better, which includes eating well, dressing well, and living comfortably..." She knew her two children had suffered hardships since childhood and didn't know how to enjoy life, so she spared no effort to enlighten them. "Only when our lives get better and better will we have the motivation to do more and make more money. Don't you agree?"

"Is that the case, brother-in-law?"

Xiao Ruxue couldn't figure out whether what her elder sister said was right or not. In her eyes, although her brother-in-law was never talkative, everything he said seemed to be right. Moreover, her brother-in-law was older than her elder sister and could read and write, so he must be very capable. It would not be wrong to ask him.

"Trust your sister, she won't lie to you." Chu Ning'an nodded seriously and answered her.

A few of them packed up their things and went to the big locust tree at the entrance of the town. They entrusted Anping and Ruxue to the villagers to help take care of them, while Ruyue and Chu Ningan hurried off to buy things. They wanted to buy food to celebrate today's success, they wanted to buy ingredients for selling fruit smoothies tomorrow, they wanted to buy things to make sauces when they went to the market next time... After being tired for a whole morning, neither of them wanted to walk back to the village, but fortunately there was still time.