Chapter 310 Mysterious Man
"Three taels of silver."
Shen Yi pondered and said, “I’ll give you a little more increase.”
The brother and sister were shocked and shook their heads repeatedly, "No, no, no. Sister Su Tai has already raised our wages, and she has also helped our family a lot. If it weren't for you, our family would still be penniless and we wouldn't be able to live such a good life."
Shen Ergou nodded in agreement, “Sister Su Tai also collected so much strawberry jam, and she was also helping us. When Mr. Tang was here, she asked us to take time to sit in. My brother and I have learned a lot of words, and we are just doing some work, it’s nothing.”
Seeing that the brother and sister were sincere, Shen Yi stopped insisting.
It was already daybreak when Su Tai woke up.
The Han couple and their four children were all awake and making a fuss in the side room.
In the kitchen there was breakfast left for her by Han, a bowl of fresh goat milk and three vegetable and meat dumplings.
She quickly finished her meal, cleaned up the kitchen, and went to the side room.
When Han saw her wake up, she immediately said, "Since your son-in-law is back, your father and I should go back too. We have to go to the market to buy New Year's goods in a couple of days. When your family goes back on the second day of the New Year, I'll ask your father to make you a roasted whole lamb!"
Su Tai's eyes lit up instantly, "Okay!"
This year, Ke Dasong and his two sons drove a group of cattle and sheep here again, but this year many villagers raised sheep, so not many people actually bought sheep.
Su Tai took on as much as possible, and Dongmen Village also took on half, especially Su Chunlin and Su Chunsen.
What the Su family lacks the least now is mutton.
So many sheep need a lot of food and grass.
Su Chunlin had a terrible headache, and the best solution was to get rid of it quickly.
Su Tai gave him an idea and asked him to make a whole roasted lamb.
Roasting a whole lamb is time-consuming, laborious and arduous.
Su Tai herself didn't like to make it, but she didn't expect Su Chunlin to be able to make it, and it tasted so good that its reputation even spread to the surrounding area.
Now people often come here to order roasted whole lamb from him.
On average, I sell one or two a day.
Especially as the Chinese New Year is approaching, more families come to order roasted whole lamb, so Su Chunlin has to go back to work.
After seeing off Su Chunlin and his wife, Su Tai was not idle either. She had not yet made the sticky rice cake that she had promised to the villagers. The raw material for sticky rice cake is glutinous rice, which is not produced in Langya Kingdom. She only planted glutinous rice twice after planting rice in the Earth Time and Space. The family did not eat much, so they stored it all in the cellar.
There are many flavors of sticky cakes, and the methods of making them vary from place to place.
Their family’s financial resources are limited, so Su Tai plans to make the most original sticky cake.
Soak the glutinous rice overnight, steam it the next day, and then make it into sticky cake. Prepare red bean filling, mung bean filling, peanut sesame filling, brown sugar syrup filling, and add strawberry jam and original flavor.
That makes a total of six flavors.
The sticky cake with stuffing is coated with a layer of powdered sugar. It is sweet but not sticky, soft and glutinous, and looks tempting.
After the things were ready, Su Tai packed them in oil paper, with twelve in a package, two of each flavor, and delivered them door to door.
The villagers were all amazed after tasting it, and some even came to Su Tai and said they wanted to buy it.
Su Tai didn't want to do this business, but the three people, Xu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, were very idle, so they encouraged her to take the job and come to help.
In order to help them pass the time, Su Tai agreed.
So Shen Yi had one more thing to do every day, which was to beat glutinous rice non-stop.
Su Tai never thought that the snacks she made to kill time would be so popular. On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, when Xu came to settle the bill with her, she found that she had made seventy or eighty taels of silver.
This is the money obtained after giving half to Xu.
Shen Yi praised: "Wife, I find that you are a walking God of Wealth."
Su Tai laughed out loud.
The couple closed the door and planned to have a good reunion dinner tonight.
The same is true for other families, with only a few exceptions.
In the huge Bai Mansion, all of Mr. Bai's illegitimate sons came with their families, and Zhu sat beside them with the child who was adopted under her name.
Although she had lost her husband, the Zhu family was thriving, and none of the illegitimate children of the Bai family dared to look down on Zhu. They even respected her more than they did Master Bai.
Zhu was pleased with herself. She looked around and then slowly looked at Rulan, "Let's go to the main courtyard and see when mother will come."
Rulan went out immediately, walking quickly in small steps, and passed along the eaves of the corridor.
When she arrived at the main courtyard, she asked for instructions three times outside but no one responded from inside. Just when she was about to lose her temper, the door opened and Nanny Li came out like a ghost, "Madam is not feeling well, so I won't join in the fun."
"Yes," Rulan bowed respectfully. As soon as she retreated to the corner of the archway, she heard Mrs. Bai Liu's full-throated rebuke from inside the house, "My son is gone, and the master still has the mind to have a reunion dinner with those bastards! If it weren't for them, my son wouldn't have died! It's all their fault!"
Rulan shook her head and felt that Liu was crazy and had started talking nonsense.
Nanny Li became Liu's punching bag and was scolded and kicked out.
After Nanny Li left, a figure quietly sneaked into Liu's room.
Liu, who was lying on the bed, thought it was Nanny Li who had returned, and shouted angrily, "Get out! Get out! Useless things!"
"Do you want to know how your son died?"
Liu turned over suddenly, looking at the person in front of her who was covered in a black cloak and hood with horror, "Who are you? How did you get in?"
The man in black remained motionless, and said slowly in a low, hoarse voice: "I know how your son died. If you want to know the truth, don't make it public."
When Liu thought of her precious son, her heart ached. Her pale face was filled with pain and resentment. "Didn't my son die in the battle?"
The man in black laughed grimly, "He did die in battle, but he could have survived."
"Who? Who did it!" Liu rolled off the bed excitedly.
The man in black said as he retreated, "It was Zhu Yixuan. Bai Feng and Zhu Yixuan were inseparable. It's hard to guard against hidden arrows on the battlefield. The arrow was originally aimed at Zhu Yixuan, but Zhu Yixuan couldn't avoid it and used Bai Feng beside him to block the arrow. Bai Feng died on the spot, and Zhu Yixuan was promoted for meritorious service. What a wonderful fork in life! Look, don't they have two completely different lives?"
Liu's eyes were red with anger, and she stared at the man in the dark with hatred, "Who are you? Why should I believe you!"
The man in black said to himself, "Do you want to know how Bai Feng died? The arrow flew so fast that before he could react, Zhu Yixuan caught him in front of him. The arrow hit him right in the chest. It was so sharp that he died with his eyes open. Don't you love your son very much? The hatred of killing your son is irreconcilable!"
It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe me. Anyway, I have said what I should say, and I have a clear conscience! "
As soon as he finished speaking, the man in black opened the door and went out.
The cold wind whistled in through the crack in the door and into the room.
Liu's heart-wrenching cries were heard from the main courtyard.
Zhu and others who were having the reunion dinner heard it all, and their expressions changed at the same time.
Mr. Bai frowned unhappily, "What is Madam doing again?"
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