The mule cart moved slowly along the mountain road, and Lu Lin wrapped his clothes tighter around himself.
As they approached the city, Lu Lin also loaded the several jars of wine he had stored in the small shop into the mule cart.
Several jars of wine were crammed into the mule cart, making it much narrower, and Chen Xiaomi had to tuck her feet in.
Lu Lin and Manager Wang of Hongyun Restaurant were already old acquaintances. After the mule cart approached the restaurant, it went directly to the backyard.
Manager Wang was also somewhat interested in the new wine provided by Lu Lin, but he offered a lower price, only three hundred coins per jar.
Although it was much cheaper than beer, the profit was still quite substantial, so Lu Lin readily agreed.
After selling ten jars of beer and thirty jars of sweet potato wine to the other party, Lu Lin received seventeen taels of silver.
Chen Xiaomi was quite happy to receive the silver. Holding the silver, she felt a sense of unreality. Before Lu Lin entered the door, earning silver seemed very difficult, but after Lu Lin entered, earning a dozen taels at a time seemed to be no big deal.
In the beginning, when she started selling wine and making money, Chen Xiaomi would be excited for days, but now she has gradually become numb to it.
After selling the wine, Chen Xiaomi used the money to buy some fabric from the cloth shop.
Chen Xiaomi felt that she had been influenced by Lu Lin, that spendthrift son, and had become fond of buying things indiscriminately.
Chen Xiaomi looked at Lu Lin and said, "Why did you make me buy so much fabric?"
Lu Lin looked at the fabric and said, "This fabric is good stuff! If we buy it, we can have someone make a few new clothes for us." Lu Lin had essentially been kicked out of the Lu family, and when he was carried out of the Lu family, he didn't even have time to pack his clothes.
After Lu Lin entered Chen Xiaomi's house, he was dressed in thick clothes.
Given the current situation, it's impossible for him to go to the Lu family to get his old clothes, so he naturally has to have them all made new.
The original owner's clothes were all patched, which Lu Lin wouldn't have liked anyway.
Chen Xiaomi rolled her eyes. The young master is indeed the young master. New clothes for three years, old clothes for three years, patched and mended for another three years. Which farming family doesn't wear the same clothes for a long time? They're nothing like Lu Lin.
However, Lu Lin is good at making money, so it's okay for him to be a little extravagant.
"Spring is still early, there's no need to make clothes so early."
Lu Lin smiled and said, "Everyone's free right now, but it'll be busy again in the spring."
Chen Xiaomi blinked and said, "That's true!" Granny Shen's family also has several acres of land. When the busy spring season arrives, they probably won't have time to make clothes for them.
Winter days passed uneventfully.
Lu Lin had nothing to do, so he spent his days researching food.
Lu Lin cooked a dish of braised pork with bamboo shoots, which made the three Chen brothers very hungry.
Chen Xiaomi found Lu Lin, this young master, to be very strange. He only liked to eat lean meat and didn't like to eat fatty meat. When he went to town to buy meat, he also liked to pick out the lean cuts.
Chen Xiaomi's secret stash had unknowingly grown to one hundred and thirty taels.
Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi's transactions with the owner of Hongyun Restaurant have become more discreet. The villagers know that Chen Xiaomi is selling wine, but they don't know how much silver she's getting.
The three Chen brothers had a very comfortable winter, and their complexions had become much rosier.
The villagers here rarely get to eat meat throughout the year, and most of them look rather sallow. Lu Lin, who had just transmigrated here, also looked malnourished. After a winter, they all looked much healthier.
As the weather warms up a bit, many farmers start heading to the fields.
Chen Xiaomi and Lu Lin had no place to stay, so they stayed at home. Chen Xiaomi and Lu Lin brewed sweet potato wine together. Lu Lin was lazy in the winter and didn't brew sweet potato wine much. There were still a lot of sweet potatoes stored in the store.
Are we going hunting now?
Chen Xiaomi shook her head. "Hunters basically don't go hunting these days."
Lu Lin asked, somewhat puzzled, "Why?"
Chen Xiaomi glanced at Lu Lin and was suddenly surprised to find that even this scholar had things he didn't know. "It's spring, wild animals are going to have offspring, so hunting will have to wait a while."
Lu Lin suddenly realized, "Oh, I see!"
Chen Xiaomi looked at Lu Lin and thought to herself: Lu Lin, this scholar, can be quite ignorant at times!
Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi delivered sweet potato wine to the town several times. They sold more sweet potato wine on these trips, while the beer they sold was becoming increasingly scarce, which made Chen Xiaomi somewhat reluctant to part with it.
At first, the villagers found it a bit strange to see the two of them going to town, but they got used to it over time.
With more and more money around her, Chen Xiaomi would inquire about the farmland in the village. However, Lu Lin was more interested in the shops in the town. There was no farmland for sale in Dashi Village, but other villages did. However, the farmland in other villages was basically sold to the villagers themselves, and it was difficult for outsiders to get involved.
Seeing this situation, Chen Xiaomi could only continue saving money and wait for an opportunity.
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