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Boss Mu found it funny and amusing.
What an ignorant country girl! She takes the acorn tofu business, which only makes a profit of three cents, seriously.
If someone who didn't know the inside story heard it, they would probably think it was a business worth three hundred taels of silver.
"I have my reasons for saying this. Making a few cents is not a big deal. I just want to know how sincere Boss Mu is."
The reason why Song Liyun is so concerned is not about money, but about attitude.
She wanted Boss Mu to keep nothing secret from each other in the transaction.
The chaos of the end of the world taught her the law of the jungle.
The strong can make rules at any time, and the weak can only follow them.
Since the original owner of Ji's house was missing, the guards were able to seize the property and rewrite the deed.
If you have the ability, you can do whatever you want.
There is no absolute pure land under the sun.
No matter when or where, power decides everything, and the so-called rule of law can only exist in peacetime.
Otherwise, there would not have been a destroyed world in the previous life, and there would not have been the suffering Song brothers and sisters in the Wu Dynasty.
When it comes to matters of interest to her, Song Liyun wants to have all the information.
Boss Mu didn't know this.
From his point of view, is it legal to intervene in something that has already been sold?
No matter what Song Liyun said, it was obviously untenable.
Song Liyun just said this and did this. The main purpose of the fight over a pot of acorn tofu was to test it.
Boss Mu's mouth twitched. In his heart, he really didn't take Song Liyun seriously. How could he buy and sell goods himself and then tell others about it?
It’s just a pot of acorn tofu, why don’t you sell it yourself?
Looking at Song Liyun's indifferent expression, Boss Mu raised his lips and said, "Ms. Song, you know that Suijin Town is so small that it's hard to sell a pot of acorn tofu every day. The one I delivered yesterday hasn't been sold out yet..."
Song Liyun stood up and said with a smile, "In that case, then there's nothing to say. Whenever Boss Mu wants something, just come to Baolinju outside the town and tell him."
Boss Mu was stunned. He was leaving without discussing business. And what was Baolinju? He had never heard of it.
"Baolinju?"
"Oh! Boss Mu doesn't know yet, but the house where my brother and I live is now called Baolinju."
Song Liyun explained with a smile, then bought the needle and thread she needed from Boss Mu's house and left without looking back.
Returning to Baolinju, Song Zhenping was still confused. His daily income of twenty cents was gone now?
Although there were still more than 300 coins in the family, the garrison had stopped repairing the house and it was impossible to find work there.
It seemed like no one was buying the firewood I chopped in the mountains, and Xiaoyun wouldn't agree anyway.
He used to work from dawn to dusk, and finally got used to making money. But suddenly his income stopped, and he felt empty and anxious.
"Brother, if you want to work these days, just grind some acorn flour and keep it there. You can make whatever you want later."
Seeing Song Zhenping's disappointment, Song Liyun began to arrange the work.
"oh!"
Song Zhenping did not object.
All his resistance was directed at the harm done to his younger brother and sister by others, and he was used to being oppressed and dominated.
Song Liyun was not worried. Even if her income was reduced by twenty cents a day, she was still a wealthy family with food, meat and firewood.
There are jewellery in the space that can be exchanged for money, and every month I can receive 500 coins from the garrison, so I don’t have to worry about anything.
As long as the courtyard gate is closed, the three brothers and sisters plus a monkey can live a leisurely life.
She felt relieved, but Boss Mu couldn't laugh.
A few cents is indeed not a lot of money, but the people in Suijin Town used to be picky eaters. Now that winter has arrived and there are no vegetables in the fields, they can only eat the cabbage, radishes and sauerkraut that have been stored in advance.
It would be nice to spend two cents every day to buy some acorn tofu to change the taste, but how come it suddenly disappeared?
Especially at Mrs. Cui's place.
She ran a small food stall, stewing minced meat and oil residue with sauerkraut, acorns and tofu. A big bowl cost five cents, and every day three or five soldiers from the garrison would come out to have a meal.
In this way, he could earn ten or twenty cents, enough for his brother-in-law and daughter to buy food, and also avoid further quarrels between his brother-in-law and daughter.
Standing in Shopkeeper Mu's shop, Mrs. Cui gritted her teeth and yelled, "Boss Mu, everything was fine yesterday, and now you're saying you don't have any acorn tofu to sell? I don't believe you. You must have sold it to Miss Song."
Shopkeeper Mu waved his hand and said, "You think I'm stupid if I don't make money? I said no, then no. Come back tomorrow!"
Mrs. Cui didn't believe it, so she searched around Manager Mu's shop and didn't see it, so she left in disappointment.
She just didn't believe that she couldn't make acorn powder without the bitter taste.
Instead of returning to Xue Zhuang's yard, Mrs. Cui went to her neighbor's house to buy a few pounds of acorn flour.
After some bargaining, Mrs. Cui took the acorn flour back home.
Xu Yan'er got married not long ago and is still a newlywed.
She didn't go out much and usually helped Mrs. Cui at the food stall.
Seeing that his mother had gone out without any acorn tofu and had only brought back a bag of acorn noodles, his face immediately fell: "Mom, are you still going to try it yourself?"
"What can we do if we don't try? Old Man Mu sold all the acorn tofu to Miss Song, so we have to make it ourselves. I don't believe that if others can make it, I can't." Mrs. Cui was very unconvinced.
Xu Yan'er threw her handkerchief down: "You can't have never tried it before. It's so bitter, how can you eat it!"
Hearing her talk about the past, Mrs. Cui's face suddenly darkened.
The story begins with Xu Yaner's wedding banquet.
At that time, Xu Yan'er was disgusted with the acorn tofu on her banquet table and cried and refused to eat it. Mrs. Cui also said that Xue Zhuang was mistreating her daughter and wanted to take the gift money as a betrothal gift.
As a result, Xue Zhuang was so angry that he overturned the table on the spot, and the mother and daughter were so scared that they hugged each other and cried bitterly.
Xue Zhuang turned his back on Xu Yan'er and no longer tried to please her as he did before their marriage.
It was supposed to be the wedding night, but the bride and her mother spent the whole night crying with an empty stomach.
The next day, seeing that Xue Zhuang ignored them, the mother and daughter finally couldn't bear it anymore and heated up the leftovers from the kitchen to eat.
Unexpectedly, the black acorn tofu, even though it had softened into a paste, looked quite disgusting.
Not only is it not bitter when you eat it, but it is also particularly delicious because it has absorbed all the flavors after being soaked overnight.
Being very hungry, the mother and daughter no longer felt disgusted and ate all the remaining acorn porridge in one go.
Xu Yan'er burped and said to Mrs. Cui, "Mom, this dish is really delicious! I can eat it every day from now on."
Seeing that my daughter didn’t realize the seriousness of the matter, she was just happy because the acorn tofu tasted good.
Mrs. Cui was in mixed feelings: she had just gotten married yesterday, and her son-in-law treated her like this, without a single soft word. He was blaming her for losing her job entirely.
What will happen to my daughter in the future?
Then he thought about how he took his daughter to perform labor service out of spite, which ended up causing his daughter to get married without knowing why, and he was too embarrassed to go back and see people.
Seeing that Xu Yan'er was ignorant and her son-in-law was alone in Suijin Town, Mrs. Cui decided not to go home and live with her daughter from then on.
Of course Xu Yan'er wanted her mother to stay. After she gently flattered Xue Zhuang in the evening, Xue Zhuang agreed to let his mother-in-law live with him.
But from now on, he must make the decisions on household matters, and the mother and daughter are not allowed to act on their own. If they do that again, Mrs. Cui will be driven away.
They did stay, but Xue Zhuang had no salary now, and they definitely couldn't just sit around and eat up all the money.
Xue Zhuang thought that the brothers in the camp would like to eat the roasted acorn tofu at the wedding banquet, so he asked Cui Po to make and sell it as well, and he was responsible for inviting the brothers from the guard post to come and eat.
Mrs. Cui is a good cook. She can make acorn flour porridge and acorn flour steamed buns.
Acorn tofu is also not a problem for Mrs. Cui.
After the first pot of acorn tofu was made, the family of three started eating it excitedly.
(End of this chapter)
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