Chapter 17: Selling Snacks
Their staple food here is either white rice or white noodles, their meals either have meat or fish, and the meals made by the husband will be cooked with a lot of oil, and Zhou Yuan is not allowed to cook, because he is reluctant to put oil, and the dishes are not as delicious, so Wei Cheng refuses to let him cook and asks him to just help out.
However, the food made by his husband was indeed delicious, and he was full every time.
After two days of raising the other, the face of the raised one turned rosy.
The suburban houses of the city are distributed in the south and east, and Wei Cheng’s home is in the eastern periphery, the peripheral houses are not concentrated, so each family has a yard and a place to grow vegetables.
His vegetable patch is at the door, and not far from the doorstep is a wasteland and many rolling hills.
Because there was no firewood at home and it costs money to buy it, Zhou Yuan wanted to chop firewood, he has to be diligent and thrifty. There is a lot of firewood to cut on the side of the mountain so why waste money to buy some, Wei Cheng can’t help but accompany him.
The suburbs are also very safe on the side of the mountains, and it is safe as long as one does not go deep into the mountains. At the edge of the mountain, there is also a village, this village is very poor, and there is a lot of wasteland that cannot be cultivated, if it were not for the county being near, he was afraid it will be difficult for them to survive. Later, the county area expanded, and the villagers in the poor villages also became the current residents of the suburbs.
There are still many poor families living in the suburbs, and they also go to the mountains to collect firewood and hunt for wild food.
Wei Cheng and Zhou Yuan walked along the road toward the mountain, and Zhou Yuan was thinking with a frown as he walked.
“Why are you frowning?” Wei Cheng looked at him amusedly, with a slight expression of distress as he had been frowning for a while.
“Didn’t you say you wanted to do business? You’ve stayed at home for two days and I didn’t see you preparing anything?”
“That’s it? That’s what got you thinking for so long?”
“What else?”
Wei Cheng said, “We are newly married, so you don’t want me to accompany you for two more days.”
Zhou Yuan: ……
He wanted to, but according to the husband’s extravagant spending, the family’s money will be spent quickly.
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Wei Cheng smiled after hearing this.
Is it that his wife has some wrong perception of the family’s savings, as far as he knows, an ordinary family spends less than five taels of silver a year, and a poor family spends even less, about two taels a year. He had more than twenty taels of silver in his hand, and he could not make money for several years and still won’t have to worry about food and clothing.
The wife said that there was no money at home!
Letting his wife mistakenly think that there is no money at home is also his dereliction of duty.
“When I go back, I’ll tell you how much money we have at home.”
At the foot of the mountain, Wei Cheng was responsible for chopping firewood and Zhou Yuan was responsible for picking up dry branches on the ground, when suddenly, Wei Cheng was attracted by the fruit of a tree.
Isn’t that jelly?
He was worried about what to sell in the summer, although there were many in the market he feels that is too monotonous, now there is this fruit, and there are many foods he can make to eat.
Wei Cheng stopped chopping wood and turned around to pick some of the fruits.
Zhou Yuan stopped picking up the branches, and he asked curiously, “Why are you picking wild fruits, no one eats this wild fruit, what are you picking this for?”
“This fruit can be eaten.” Wei Cheng put the picked fruit into the back basket.
“Can this fruit really be eaten?” Zhou Yuan helped pick some, “There are many such fruits in the mountains in my village, and I didn’t know that this fruit could be used for food. As a child, I like to pick this fruit and play with it.”
Wei Cheng was pleasantly surprised, there were only a few trees in the forest here and he was worried it would be easily depleted once he used it.
“How many of these fruit trees are there in the mountains of Qinghe Village?”
“A lot, all over there on the mountain road, they cover such a large area.” Zhou Yuan gestured.
“What can this do?”
“This fruit can be used to make some cold food and it is best for relieving the heat in summer.”
As soon as Zhou Yuan heard this, he picked the fruits faster, Wei Cheng asked him to slow him down, the fruit would not run away from the tree, and Zhou Yuan slowed down.
The two picked a whole basket of fruits, Wei Cheng was responsible for carrying it, and without chopping firewood, he picked up the branches and went home.
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The money in the family was supposed to be handed over, so Wei Cheng would not hide it from Zhou Yuan, they went home and put things away, then he pulled the person back to the room, took out the money bag from the closet, and put it directly in his hand.
It was a heavy bag, Zhou Yuan opened it and was stunned, it was full of silver.
“Twenty-four taels, all the savings in our family.”
“So much!” Zhou Yuan was shocked.
“Yes, it’s more than enough to raise you, I’m not afraid that my husband won’t be fat now.” Wei Cheng said with a smile.
Zhou Yuan, “……..”
He doesn’t need so much to be fattened.
Wei Cheng sat beside him, put his arm around the person, and explained, “I will go to the county to sell food tomorrow, and I have already bought the things I need to make food in the morning.”
“You’re going to sell food, are you not gonna sell things?” He saw that there was a small cart at home, and he had also heard his husband talk about being a merchant.
“Well, I’ll start by selling food.” He thought about selling small goods, but then he thought about when he just graduated from college and could not find a job, and then changed to the food business, and made his first pot of gold.
The goods can be sold later, not now, he has to earn capital first, after having the capital, he’ll personally make some handicrafts that did not exist in ancient times, and buy mountain goods, and then form a large-scale sale.
“What kind of food?”
“You’ll know when I make it tomorrow.”
“I’ll help tomorrow too.” Zhou Yuan requested.
“……. Okay!” Tomorrow’s things will be done tomorrow, “Let’s go and process the flour and the freshly picked fruit.”
The flour should be soaked, and the powder from the fruit should be made first.
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Wei Cheng got up early in the morning and was about to start work.
When Wei Cheng woke up, Zhou Yuan noticed the movement and opened his eyes. He seemed to wake up with a start, not at all the bleary-eyed state he had before waking up. He looked at Wei Cheng with bright eyes and made up his mind to get up and help.
Wei Cheng was planning to secretly get up and let him sleep for an extra hour before calling him. Yesterday, he promised to let him help, but he thought that if his wife was still sleeping, then it was not his problem. Now that he had woken up, he couldn’t resist his wife’s stubborn nature, so he had to agree.
The food to be made by Wei Cheng is cold noodles and jelly, these two foods are the most suitable in summer.
Cold noodles need to be steamed, need to cut their side dishes, sauce mixed, and chili oil was made earlier, their breakfast is also the cold noodles and jelly prepared last night, in the morning, they could be eaten directly.
Zhou Yuan is not heavy on spicy food, Wei Cheng mixed some with slight spice for him, Zhou Yuan said it was delicious as soon as he ate cold noodles, cool and very refreshing, the sauce is also very delicious, and the taste is fresh and spicy. The jelly is creamy, crystal clear, tender, and refreshing, and you can eat a bite of it to cool off the heat.
The jelly was sweet and cold, and Zhou Yuan liked it as soon as he ate it.
Wei Cheng didn’t let him eat much, the jelly was cold, and he was afraid that he would eat too much and hurt his stomach.
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Thanks for the chapter! They make this type of food in a lot of novels. Maybe I should try it one of these days, lol
Thanks for the chapter!
I read the next chapter first by mistake lol
Same
Thank You for the new chapter (｡’▽’｡)♡