Travel to the mountains and make a fortune in silence

"Zihao, you have to listen to your sister-in-law on this matter." Mu Nan was also helpless with this cousin. He usually didn't say a word, so why did he have to speak up when he shouldn't be speaking?

"Muxia, I think we can introduce them. This child is honest, and I wasn't lying when I said their families are similar."

Zihao looked up at his cousin's wife and thought to himself, "Sister-in-law, you're only called sister-in-law because you married my cousin. You're not even a few months older than me, so why am I a child? And you say it so naturally."

But when he heard what his cousin-in-law said next, he was so moved that his eyes welled up with tears.

“My aunt has a share in this scented soap business. Many of the raw materials were sourced by Mu Xiao, Zi Hao, and Zi Xuan. Several girls also work with me to make the scented soap.”

Wang Qing'er had no idea that Zihao was internally criticizing her; she was still explaining to Mu Xia.

“Okay, I’ll talk to Jingyi. If she agrees, I’ll bring her to the shop tomorrow so they can meet first. Oh, actually, they should have met me on my wedding day.”

Mu Xia suddenly remembered that Jingyi had also attended her wedding. The two must have met, but they didn't know each other, and since Mu Xia hadn't introduced them, they had no interaction.

"Okay, after we eat, I'll take Zihao to buy some clothes and dress him up nicely."

When Wang Qing'er heard that the two of them were to meet the next day, her first thought was to tell him to buy some clothes and dress up nicely.

Wu Zihao interjected, "I have clothes, I don't need to buy any."

Mu Nan glared at him and said, "Listen to your sister-in-law."

Wu Zihao: "..."

Okay, even though you're not very old, as the eldest sister-in-law, I'll listen to you.

Wang Qing'er asked, "Zihao, do you know where I can buy seafood? And do you sell wonton wrappers?"

Zihao replied, "Sister-in-law, you can buy seafood at the dock, but I've never seen wonton wrappers for sale."

“Sister-in-law, the dock is in the north of the city. If you go out here and walk straight to the left, you will reach the dock. There are only one or two families selling there,” Zitong added to her brother.

"Hurry up and eat. After you finish, we'll go shopping. I'll buy you new clothes and some seafood. We'll cook something delicious for dinner."

Wang Qing'er was eager to eat seafood when she heard that it was available for sale, as she hadn't had seafood in a long time.

Well, the wontons I just ate also counted as seafood, so it must have been a long time since I'd had a proper seafood feast.

"You guys eat first, I'll go pay the bill." Mu Nan got up and walked towards the counter.

"Boss, check out."

"Alright, that's a total of one hundred and five coins."

"Boss, do you sell wonton wrappers?" Mu Nan handed the counted money to the boss and then asked.

"Selling, fifteen coins a pound," the shopkeeper agreed, also stating the price.

"Okay, if my wife wants it, I'll buy it from you."

"well."

Mu Nan returned to her seat and sat down again. "Qing'er, I just asked the owner, and they sell wonton wrappers for fifteen yuan a pound. Shall we buy some now?"

"Uh, Brother Mu Nan, if we don't buy it now, we can buy some when we want to eat it someday. But without starch, the taste will probably be a bit worse."

"Starch is easy to make. I'll buy some sweet potatoes and make some. I just saw a stone mill in that yard."

"Uh, this is too much trouble. When we get home, we'll buy some seafood and some wonton wrappers to make some for Grandma and the others to try."

"Sister-in-law, is that starch you keep talking about made from sweet potatoes?" Mu Xia had heard them mention starch, but she didn't know what it was, so she was a little curious.

“Yes, I made a lot at home. When I came out, I thought I didn’t need to cook since I was staying at an inn, so I didn’t bring anything,” Wang Qing’er said.

"It's okay if you don't want to cook. I'll have Fuxianglou deliver some food. It's not far anyway." Mu Nan thought his wife didn't want to cook, so he suggested that Fuxianglou deliver some food to the yard.

"No need, we'll make it ourselves. We'll go buy the ingredients later. Oh, I brought a jar of mushroom sauce, and a big bag of chili powder with sesame seeds too, so we can make some chili oil."

When Wang Qing'er left home, she thought that she would be away for several days. Even if she ate out, she couldn't do without chili peppers, and since she couldn't buy them outside, she brought a bag of chili powder with her.

The mushroom sauce is the same; she makes a spicy flavor, which is perfect for both noodles and steamed buns. A jar contains two or three pounds, enough to last for several days, which is sufficient for my trip.

Wang Qing'er suddenly realized that she was still too lazy. She just thought making mushroom sauce was too troublesome and didn't want to make much of it. Later, her mother-in-law made it, and a total of more than a dozen jars were placed in the well and cellar.

The whole family loves to eat it. Wang Cuiying said that she would make more while there are still mushrooms. She added a lot of oil and cooked off all the moisture so that it wouldn't spoil.

Wang Cuiying originally intended to make them and sell them, but she had too many things to do at home and was simply too busy to manage them, so she gave up on the idea.

"Sister-in-law, you're so kind of you, you even brought chili powder."

"If these wontons were dipped in some chili oil today, I could eat ten more."

Muqin and Zitong, like Wang Qing'er, both love spicy food, and they immediately got excited when they heard there was chili powder.

Even if you do have some, you can't eat too much.

Upon hearing her sister-in-law's words, the two girls immediately deflated like punctured balloons, their heads drooping.

Wang Qing'er was worried that eating too much chili would be bad for their health, so she always kept them from eating too much. She would even ask them about their bowel movements, just in case they ate too much and got constipated.

"Sister-in-law, I've never heard of any of these things you're talking about. What is chili powder? What is sesame? And what is chili oil?"

Mu Xia listened from the side, feeling somewhat confused. She didn't know anything about what her sister-in-law's family was talking about, and she had never heard of it before.

"Uh, Muxia, you've had braised pork and that leaf-shaped tofu before, right?"

"You ate them. Did those two dishes contain what you mentioned?"

"Yes, the spicy flavor of the braised pork comes from adding this chili pepper, and the tofu is mixed with chili oil. The little grains inside are sesame seeds."

"Sister-in-law, where did you get these things?" Mu Xia asked curiously.

“I bought them from a seed shop in town. They were left there by the caravan to sell on consignment. I bought them all when I saw them. There are also many seeds that we don’t have here.”

"Oh? Sister-in-law, you're so lucky! How did you end up buying such a great item?"

"Uh, it's not that I was lucky, it's just that others didn't recognize them, but I happened to have seen them before, so I bought them. The other seeds were sold or given away by the owner, so I bought them all. Only after planting them did I realize that they were all good stuff," Wang Qing'er said, half-jokingly.

Anyway, the villagers will find out about these things in the house sooner or later, so it's okay to talk to Muxia about it.

"You're lucky, sister-in-law. No wonder the braised meat tastes so good; it's because of that chili pepper."