Ruyi turned around and looked at Su Chengyi with a look as if he was a lunatic.

It was the first time she had seen such a changeable person, even more inexplicable than a woman changing her mind.

"Get out!" Su Chengyi's veins popped out and he was so angry!

Now even Song Qing looked at Su Chengyi with some surprise. Could it be that Brother Yi had a brain injury?

After the two left, Su Chengyi asked someone to secretly watch Ruyi, and then he sat cross-legged in meditation.

When they got outside, Song Qing glared at Ruyi fiercely and left.

Ruyi deliberately walked around and found that no one was restricting her freedom, so she deliberately walked towards the village gate.

The only thing that surprised her was that most of the bandits in the village were old, weak, sick and disabled, and the patches on their clothes were comparable to those of beggars.

Recalling the original owner's memory, the refugees fleeing in the mountains seemed to be dressed better than them.

While looking around the village, he walked towards the village gate as if nothing had happened.

As expected, she was stopped and asked for instructions to go down the mountain.

God knows what the instruction is.

Ruyi walked back in frustration. Before she could change out of her wedding dress, those people stared at her curiously.

"This is the wife of the headmaster. She has no butt and no breasts. How can she give birth to a son?"

"Tsk tsk tsk, this ugly-looking guy belongs to someone from our village."

"She's not even as pretty as Erya. What were the boss and the others thinking? They wasted their money in vain."

The women in the village did not shy away from Ruyi at all, pointing fingers and talking about her in front of her.

Ruyi walked back in silence, when suddenly a child ran out and handed her a worm on a branch.

Ruyi screamed immediately, her scalp numb from fear.

The child was so frightened by her that he didn't know what to do, and looked at her, not knowing whether to cry or not.

Ruyi thought she had met a naughty kid and was about to teach him a lesson.

A woman with a leg problem ran over, took a look at the bug in the child's hand, and wondered what Ruyi was afraid of.

He smiled kindly at Ruyi and said, "Don't be afraid, Madam. Ergou is treating you to some bamboo worms. He spent the whole morning searching for two."

Ruyi ignored the words "Madam" and stared at the white insect on the branch in the child's hand. After a closer look, she found that it was indeed roasted.

"Sister, eat." The child stretched out his hand again and said, "Mom said that you are the wife of the boss, and we should treat you like the boss, like the wife..."

Ruyi felt a little warm in her heart and smiled, "Sister doesn't like it, so you eat it."

She is not worthy of it.

Ergou tilted his head and thought for a moment, wondering why his sister would not like to eat bamboo worms, which are so delicious.

After making sure Ruyi didn't want to eat it, Ergou gave the woman a roasted bamboo worm. The woman naturally didn't want to eat it, but he squinted his eyes and put it in his mouth with a look of enjoyment.

Ruyi didn't know what she felt, and felt a little sad when she saw this scene.

Will the bandits be very poor?

As far as the original owner knew, the refugees living in the mountains had no shortage of meat, and they secretly traded oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, cloth and other things with some villagers.

Thinking of Su Chengyi dressed neatly and well, Ruyi thought of the word "exploitation".

After asking some tentative questions about the situation in the village, Ruyi learned a lot about the situation in the village.

The old, weak, sick and disabled people in these villages are almost all refugees taken in by Su Chengyi. The young and middle-aged people follow him down the mountain from time to time to rob passing caravans to make a living.

What troubled her was that there were other large and small villages in the mountains.

If he was caught by other people from the village while escaping, his situation would be ten times worse than it is now.

She learned from her second brother's mother that at least Su Chengyi was not a person who killed innocent people indiscriminately, as cannibalism had happened in other villages.

As she walked back anxiously, a burly man ran over and told the boss Ruyi to come over for dinner.

Ruyi was so hungry that she realized she hadn't even had breakfast and was only thinking about running away.

My stomach growled and I followed.

When I entered the house, the food on the table was very simple, just a vegetarian dish and a few slices of meat.

Ruyi was so embarrassed that he didn't know what to say.

At the table, Su Chengyi stared at her with his starry eyes, giving people the illusion of deep affection.

Motioning her to sit down and eat, Su Chengyi picked up a piece of meat and put it in her bowl.

Ruyi was indeed hungry, so she didn't bother to be polite with him. She picked up the meat and put it in her mouth. She didn't feel anything the first time, but she smelled a strange taste the second time.

She endured the hunger.

How could she know that these pieces of meat were specially prepared by the kitchen for Su Chengyi to nourish his body, and there was no portion for her at all.

After eating a mouthful of rice, the vegetables seemed to be boiled in water. Ruyi picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and put it in her mouth, then immediately spit it out.

"Hmm, what kind of dish is this? Why is it bitter..." There was still a strange taste in my mouth that wouldn't go away.

Staring at the food that Ruyi had spit out, Su Chengyi frowned and said expressionlessly: "The food is bitter because of the salt."

Knowing that Ruyi was a soul from another world, he was no longer surprised that she couldn't taste bitter salt.

"Salt?"

Ruyi was silent for a moment, then immediately realized that this was something he had read in many novels. In ancient times, refining salt was simply a matter of boiling it. The salt produced in some salt mines was eaten in whole lumps, and it was cheap and was used by ordinary people.

Pah, this tastes so sour and refreshing.

It's not difficult to refine coarse salt into fine salt. First grind it into powder and pour it into water to settle, then filter it with charcoal gauze, and then...

After filtering it several times and the water becomes clear, put it in a pot and boil it dry, it will become fine salt.

Ruyi frowned and thought that this was the description in several novels she had read.

Su Chengyi, who was standing aside, held his breath and listened to Ruyi's inner thoughts, his peach blossom eyes becoming brighter.

When Ruyi came back to her senses, she saw Su Chengyi looking like he wanted to eat her, and she was stunned for a moment.

"Eat meat." Su Chengyi smiled at him gently and put a few slices of meat into her bowl.

Inexplicably, my brain...

Halfway through her complaints, Su Chengyi suddenly touched her head, and Ruyi glared at him and could no longer curse.

"Be good and eat." Su Chengyi smiled at her again.

Ruyi was confused and picked at the meat and rice in the bowl. She didn't touch the dishes at all. It was Su Chengyi who finished the dishes without changing his expression.

She didn't have to clean up, as a woman came in and took the bowls away, and soon brought in some wild fruits.

…

The second-in-command’s kitchen.

"Brother, this salt water has actually become clear after filtering it a few times, but can it really be boiled into salt?"

The third in command used his finger to dip the salt water into his mouth and tasted it. It was clearly a pure salty taste.

"Light the fire." Su Chengyi pointed at the stove. He knew the method of turning coarse salt into fine salt from Ruyi's mind. That afternoon, he and the second in command and three others secretly ground the salt blocks and let them settle overnight. Today, he couldn't wait to confirm it.

A full pot of water was poured into the pot, a big fire was burning in the stove, and smoke was coming out of the chimney.

After a long time, most of the water in the pot was boiled away, and some white powder stuck to the edge of the pot.

Su Chengyi took one look and was sure that Ruyi's secret recipe could really turn salt blocks worth a few coins per pound into refined salt worth hundreds of coins per pound!

"Don't let other brothers know about salt making for now. In the future, only core figures will know how to make salt." Su Chengyi said in a deep voice.

The second in command and the others nodded seriously, with uncontrollable excitement in their eyes.

I’m rich!