Travel to the mountains and make a fortune in silence

Wang Qing'er said, "I got these seeds by chance. This is the first time I've planted them this year, so I don't know how they'll taste."

I've eaten all these vegetables and fruits in my past life, and I know what they taste like. I just don't know if they'll taste just as sweet when they're grown here.

Since the produce can be transported to the capital, could she perhaps talk to Shang Congjian about the business of vegetables and fruits today?

We can't possibly eat all the watermelons, tomatoes, and melons we grew this year, so we can sell some.

It certainly won't fetch a high price in town, but the price will definitely be different if it's sold in the capital!

If we find a market, we can save more seeds and expand the scale next year.

Wang Qing'er picked some of every edible vegetable, including chili peppers, cucumbers, loofah, amaranth, and water spinach.

Finally, I dug out some potatoes with a small hoe. The largest ones were bigger than goose eggs and were perfectly edible. So I dug out some more potatoes. It seems that in a while, I can dig them out and sell them.

Wang Qing'er later sent Mu Nan to that seed shop twice more, each time bringing back some of the same seeds, mostly potatoes, weighing several thousand kilograms. She kept only some for home consumption and planted the rest in the ground.

But when I went to the seed shop for the third time, I found that the shop had changed its business and the owner had changed.

Mu Nan made a special inquiry around the area, but no one knew where the owner had moved to!

Wang Qing'er was initially a little disappointed, but then she thought that she already had so many seeds and should be satisfied, so she stopped thinking about it.

The last batch included several varieties of vegetables, a bag of okra, over ten kilograms of peas, and many more seeds of other varieties. If all these seeds are planted next year, we will need to buy more land.

She dried and kept the seeds of the cantaloupe and lemons, and some of them sprouted after she tried planting them. However, she missed the planting season this year, so she plans to start planting them next year.

The three of them took the vegetables to the front yard to wash them. Fortunately, Yun Jing and Qin Miaomiao were not the kind of pampered young ladies who never lifted a finger, and they were actually able to help her pick and wash the vegetables.

"Sister-in-law, you work in the fields every day, exposed to the wind and sun, how come your skin is still so good?" Qin Miaomiao couldn't help but ask, looking at Wang Qing'er's smooth, porcelain-like skin.

"Yes! Sister-in-law, how do you maintain your beauty?" Yun Jing was also very curious, after all, women love beauty.

"I just use my own homemade hydrosol, skin-softening cream, and scented soap; I don't do any special skincare," Wang Qing'er said casually.

"You made this yourself?" the two asked in unison, their eyes wide.

"Yes, what's wrong?" Wang Qing'er thought to herself, "Is it really that surprising? It's not that difficult!"

"Sister-in-law, how come you can do everything?" Qin Miaomiao found it unbelievable that this person could do everything.

"No wonder my cousin's husband couldn't stand my older cousin. Even after we'd consummated our relationship, he was still so indifferent. Now that I think about it, only this woman in front of me is worthy of him!"

Yun Jing had this thought in mind: she was aware of her cousin's affair with her ex-brother-in-law.

"Yes, I've loved tending to these things since I was a child, and it took me a long time to research and make this. After dinner, I'll take you to see the scented soap I made. If you like, you can take some home."

Wang Qing'er wouldn't miss this great opportunity to promote her scented soap.

Although the shop is selling them, there are currently more than 20,000 units in stock. A small county town simply cannot consume so many, so they must be sold to the surrounding areas.

These two are from the capital. If they can be sold there, then there will be no need to worry about finding a market.

"Sister-in-law, what is research?" Qin Miaomiao asked, puzzled.

"Well, the research involved constantly making these scented soaps, and it took many attempts to succeed." I accidentally used a modern term, and I don't know if they would understand if I explained it this way.

Qin Miaomiao then asked, "Then, sister-in-law, how much did you make?"

No wonder my sister-in-law was able to make these things; it takes patience to do them again and again before you can succeed.

She could never do it; she was too impatient, so all she could do was eat.

Wang Qing'er said, "Yes, I have over ten thousand yuan now."

"So many?" Qin Miaomiao and Yun Jing stared wide-eyed.

Wang Qing'er said, "Well, we made more and more as we went along, but we didn't sell them at first."

Yun Jing asked, "Sister-in-law, why don't you take it out to sell? Scented soap is very expensive in the capital. The cheapest one costs two taels of silver, and the most expensive one costs more than ten taels. Sometimes you can't even buy it!"

Wang Qing'er was washing vegetables with her head down, but her heart was pounding with excitement. They were selling for more in the capital than in the county town. It seemed like she was really going to make a fortune.

At first, I thought I could just sell them for a few hundred coins each in town, but later I found out they sold for several taels of silver each in the county seat.

Now they're saying it sells for over ten taels a piece in the capital, looks like I can't help but get rich, haha...

Qin Miaomiao also said, "Yes, yes, my older sister was angry for several days last time because she couldn't buy a bar of scented soap."

Wang Qing'er said, "I only opened a shop in the county town a while ago, but the county town is only so big, so I can't sell much."

"I made these scented soaps when I was bored, just for my own use. Before I knew it, I made too many. I hadn't figured out how to sell them yet, so I ended up with a lot of inventory."

Qin Miaomiao said, "Sister-in-law, if you want to sell, you can find Shang Congjian. With his help, he can sell it for you immediately, not just tens of thousands of yuan, but even hundreds of thousands of yuan."

Yun Jing chimed in, "Sister-in-law, you can go to him."

Wang Qing'er asked tentatively, "Isn't your family in the restaurant business? How come you can sell these scented soaps?"

Qin Miaomiao said with a smile, "His family has too many business tricks, not just restaurants. Even if you sell him scented soap at the price in the capital, he has ways to sell it for even more."

Yun Jing laughed and said, "Sister Miao Miao, don't try to cheat the business by making things simple!"

"Oh, so you're protecting her now, huh?" Qin Miaomiao teased her friend.

Yun Jing rolled her eyes at Qin Miaomiao and said, "I can't be bothered with you."

While washing vegetables, the group chatted idly. Wang Qing'er found another way to sell scented soap during the conversation, a business that required no initial investment.

After calculating the current quantity of scented soap, I found that there are still tens of thousands of yuan worth left to sell in the shop.

If it were really true that they could sell each piece for more than ten taels of silver, as they said, wouldn't that amount to 100,000 taels of silver?