Divorce her scumbag husband, marry the war king, and the hot wife gets rich through her spatial abil
Chapter 12 Money Should Be Spent Wisely
The shopkeeper rubbed his hands together, looking at the shopkeeper like a big bad wolf eyeing a little white rabbit.
“Deal. You draw down your name, age, gender, and the exact location of your grandmother’s house. Ten days later, you bring the medicine, and I will bring the household registration and land deed, and we will complete the transaction.”
"Let's talk about the prices of Dendrobium, Gastrodia elata, and Panax notoginseng first,"
"Are they all like this?"
"right"
"Dendrobium, ten taels of silver per catty; Gastrodia elata, one tael per catty; Panax notoginseng, one tael per catty."
"so little?"
"That's quite a lot, brother. Just ask around at other places and you'll find out."
"Alright, what about the ginseng?"
"Fifty-year-old ones, one hundred taels; if you can get a hundred-year-old one, I'll offer one thousand taels of silver."
"Alright, let's see how it goes. I'll go back up the mountain to take another look later."
The shopkeeper chuckled and said, "If you keep selling me such good medicinal herbs, I'll take care of you in Zhengde Town, and no one will dare to bully you."
"We'll see. I'm not planning to move to town right now."
"Indeed, it's a time of war and chaos, but things will soon be calmed down. I've heard that the Yan Kingdom in the south and the Meng Kingdom in the north are planning to negotiate peace with our Dragon Kingdom."
Xiao Nan snorted: "Whether they get along or not, we ordinary people can only let it be."
"Oh, you've been to school?"
"Knows a few words."
"Quickly, write down your name and the location of your grandma's house."
The shopkeeper took out paper and pen. Xiao Nan couldn't write calligraphy, so his writing was crooked and messy, but his drawings were quite good.
"I will come in ten days."
"Okay, see you there, haha."
After Xiao Nan left, the shopkeeper looked down and was stunned when he saw the gender listed. Why was it a girl? After thinking about it, he realized that it was convenient for him to dress as a man when he was traveling alone.
No wonder he's so petite; you'd think he was a boy who hadn't grown up.
After leaving the pharmacy, she went to the blacksmith's shop and bought a smaller iron pot before heading back.
When he arrived home, the Wang family had just left. Xiao Nan was at the back of the house, putting the things into a basket.
Granny Wang helped her unload the basket and complained.
"You don't have much money left, yet you're still spending it recklessly."
She smiled at the old woman and said, "I saved someone in town today, and they gave me five taels of silver, so I bought all these things. If you have money, you should spend it quickly so that those people don't benefit from it."
After saying that, Wang Po glanced at the courtyard gate and pointed to the courtyard.
“Look, it’s all been demolished and so many bricks have been laid. Feng’er said that we can start digging the foundation tomorrow.”
Xiao Nan thought for a moment and said, "How about we build three main rooms in the main building and two rooms on the east and west sides?"
Granny Wang smacked her lips and said, "Isn't there too many rooms?"
"Not much. Building it like this saves on the need for a wall, and the central courtyard is much larger and brighter. If we fix the gate, it will be even better than their houses."
"Oh, you've made me really itchy to try it."
The two men burst into laughter, unaware that several pairs of malicious eyes from the Zhang family were watching them.
After drinking the medicine brewed by Granny Wang, Xiao Nan quickly started a fire and steamed two large bowls of egg custard.
A few drops of sesame oil, soy sauce, and vinegar were added to it. Wang Po smelled the sesame oil and sighed.
“I haven’t tasted such good food in years. When my husband was alive, he would feel sorry for me and occasionally steam a bowl for me.”
"From now on, we can steam it whenever we want, instead of only occasionally."
"No, we don't have any business to make a living, so we have to be careful with our money. If we could buy a piece of land, we wouldn't have to keep buying grain."
"We'll talk about that later; let's focus on the present."
After dinner, it got dark. The bright moon shone down, so there was no need to light a lamp. She took the things out of the basket one by one.
The old woman hid everything she could put away together with what she had stored before.
Xiao Nan "bought" dozens of eggs, tofu, a handful of dried green beans, and a piece of fatty meat weighing about two pounds.
The old woman looked at the meat, swallowed hard, and asked.
“Girl, this piece of meat is so big, it will go bad if we leave it until tomorrow, and we don’t have a well.”
"You tend the fire, and I'll render it into lard. Then I'll fry this piece of tofu, marinate it, and we'll have spiced tofu for lunch tomorrow."
The old woman bluntly said, "Frying it in oil is such a waste!"
"We both need to improve our health. Only when we are healthy can we have the strength to work and avoid getting sick. You don't need to worry about it."
"Oh, then I'll go start the fire."
Xiao Nan cut the meat into long strips and put them into the pot. Soon, the aroma of lard wafted out, and Wang Po kept swallowing her saliva.
"Grandma, you stir it with the shovel, and I'll go arrange the other things in the basket."
"What else did you buy?"
"I bought you two coarse cloth coats, and I bought two for myself, as well as two combs and two wooden hairpins. When I have more money, I'll buy you silver ones."
"Okay, Grandma is waiting for this day, haha."
She didn't take out the pig's feet and other items, not because she was stingy, but because she had bought too much and was afraid that her grandmother would feel bad about the expense.
Even so, the aroma wafting from the rendering of lard still reached the village.
The villagers who were eating and relaxing in the courtyard sniffed hard, and one of them stood up and looked in Xiao Nan's direction.
"Is Granny Wang making meat?"
"How can her family afford meat? They must be rendering lard. Didn't they just receive some money recently? Now that they've hired people to build a house, they must have some meat, right?"
"Yes, stir-frying vegetables with lard is very fragrant."
"Tch, we slaughter pigs for the New Year and get to eat meat. Her family ate meat now, so they'll have nothing left for the New Year."
"Pah, I searched her yard and found nothing. She really hid the stuff well."
The villagers had all sorts of opinions, and some, not wanting to be left out, went straight to the Zhang family and mentioned that there was a smell of meat at Wang Po's house.
Zhang Qianshi rolled her eyes in anger: "Why don't we eat them to death? They dare to extort money from their old mother. We'll make them spit it out sooner or later."
Zhang Dashan glanced at his wife but didn't say anything. He waited until all the villagers had left before speaking.
"Don't you think this is suspicious?"
"What's wrong?"
"You set fire to her house, and the houses in our village were all on fire shortly afterward."
Qian's hand trembled, and she asked in a low voice, "Old man, are you saying that God is punishing us?"
"Hmph, if God had opened his eyes, all the bad people in the world would have died long ago."
"Then what do you mean?"
"It might have been that girl who did it."
Madam Qian snorted: "How could she have that ability? Besides, when Wang Po's house caught fire, the two of them were putting out the fire. Everyone saw it."
Zhang Dashan glared at her: "I mean, that girl is strange. Think about what she was like before and what she is like now. It's like she's become a completely different person, or rather, the one in front of you is not that little slut at all."
"This, how is this possible?"
After Zhao put the child to sleep, she came over and said, "Mother, Father is right. Is she possessed by something evil?"
Madam Qian blinked and thought for a moment: "You all know what happened that day. How could a ghost possess her in broad daylight?"
Zhang Dashan also tilted his head and glanced at Wang Po's house, his sinister gaze filled with murderous intent.
"Once the house is fixed, go and invite a Taoist priest back to take a look. If it's good, great; if not, then make it so. Remember, don't let her know it was our family who did it."
Madam Qian nodded fiercely: "Don't worry, if they dare to mess with our Zhang family, I'll make sure they die a horrible death."
Zhao, meanwhile, smiled and nodded repeatedly, saying that the idea was good.
Xiao Nan quickly rendered the lard, put it into a jar, and left it to cool by the stove. She then gave Wang Po a small bowl of the remaining golden-brown cracklings.
"Grandma, it's late, you can't eat too much. Just have a taste, I'll use this to make something delicious tomorrow."
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