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

A little after the hour of Yin on the first day of August, Ru Yue's chili sauce workshop was brightly lit and bustling with people.

In the sauce frying area, twenty large pots were arranged in an orderly manner, but only ten pots were on fire today. Seeing this, everyone knew that there would be more than ten people from the village coming to pick up the goods to sell today, and there must be other people coming to pick up the goods. These were ten pots, and once the fire was lit, they would definitely not only fry one pot.

Ruyue took Mother Li along the ten pots and patiently explained to her the heat, the order and quantity of adding ingredients, and repeatedly reminded her to do it according to what she said. Mother Li nodded continuously, and was afraid that she would not remember, so she kept repeating it to Ruyue several times, until Ruyue nodded, then she continued.

The ten women from the village were uniformly dressed in dark brown aprons with sleeves. Each of them had their hair and faces covered with cloth. Their nails had been trimmed short and smooth before entering the venue, and they looked very clean and hygienic. They were assigned to a large pot, next to which were large buckets of chili powder, black bean curd, rapeseed oil, soybean paste, sweet bean paste... and a small bucket of an unnamed, slightly pungent powder.

Seeing that the heat was almost right, Ru Yue asked Mother Li to pour the ingredients into the pot one by one according to the order and heat, and directed the women to start stir-frying. Ru Yue was worried that the taste of the food cooked by different people would be different, and even strictly controlled the number of times they stirred with the spatula.

The first time she started working, Ru Yue did not hire anyone to light the fire. She taught her family in advance the importance of the fire, when to use a high fire, and how long to switch to medium or low fire to simmer slowly. Today she can control it herself on the spot, but if it takes a long time, Mother Li will have to bring people to do it. She is still a little worried about this. If these women accidentally burn the sauce, then the whole pot of ingredients will be almost ruined, or at least it can't be put into jars to sell.

After half an hour, the first pot of sauce was ready. Ru Yue handed a cloth bag to Mother Li and told her how much to add to each pot. She smelled and tasted each pot one by one, and when she saw that the taste was no different from what she had sold before, she asked them to stir it slowly and let it cool down before putting it into the jar.

The group of people worked like this from before dawn until bright daylight, and they only loaded sixty or seventy vats. Fortunately, after a few pots of cooking, everyone got used to it and was no longer in a rush. Ru Yue was glad that not a single pot was ruined.

After mid-morning, the ten "salesmen" from the village also arrived. What they didn't expect was that several respected elders and the head of the village were also waiting at the door of the workshop.

The gate was built exceptionally wide, seemingly large enough for two or three carriages to pass side by side. The gatehouse was covered with red cloth, which I guessed was the name of the workshop. Two strings of long, bright red firecrackers hung on either side of the gate.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Ru Yue asked the old clan leader and the old uncle, the two most respected elders in the village, to unveil her workshop. The red silk fell down, and the plaque was inscribed with three large characters "Ming Yue Dang" in a flamboyant style. It was written by Mr. Wu specially for the workshop at the request of Chu Ning'an, and it looked very imposing.

At this time, Chu Ning'an and his men lit firecrackers, and the deafening sound marked the beginning of Ru Yue's business empire.

The villagers got up early and gathered around after hearing the noise. Looking at the situation, they all knew one thing: if they wanted to get rich and live a good life, they had to curry favor with Meng Ruyue.

Ru Yue led the people into the workshop. She first asked the ten people to come to the warehouse in the frying area. Uncle Wei gave each of them a steamed bun and asked them to taste their two jars of sauce. After a quarter of an hour, there was no problem. Uncle Wei asked them to sign and repeatedly warned them that they would be responsible for the sauce once it left the workshop. Only after getting a positive response did he let them carry their two jars of sauce and leave the workshop.

A little after 9:00 PM, six or seven horse-drawn carriages drove over from the village entrance. They were people from the Tianxianglou branch and the Fucheng store who came to pick up their goods.

Uncle Wei also let them taste the sauce with the steamed buns, and only let them go after they signed and sealed the agreement.

The workshop opened today, and Ru Yue naturally invited Mr. Lou Erye, Mr. Wu, Manager Tao, the Zhou brothers and others, as well as the respected uncles and elders in the village. Since someone at home was in charge of preparing the banquet, the male guests were naturally entertained by Chu Ning'an and Anping, while the female guests were received by Ru Yue and Ruxue.

"'Ming Yue Dian', what a great name! Mr. Chu, congratulations on the prosperous business of your 'Ming Yue Dian'!" Mr. Lou Er was completely impressed by Ru Yue's ingenious thinking. How could she have so many ideas for 'Ming Yue Dian'?

"Thank you sir for taking the time to come and support us. Ru Yue and I are very grateful." Chu Ning'an hurriedly returned the greeting.

"If I'm not mistaken, these three characters 'Ming Yue Dian' should be Mr. Wu's handwriting, right? The name is great, and the calligraphy is even better!" Shopkeeper Tao was also busy praising, "Congratulations, your business is really taking off now."

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She was busy shipping goods early in the morning, and then there was the banquet. Fortunately, she had servants at home, so Ru Yue no longer had to do everything by herself, which really made things a lot easier for her.