Chapter 34: Landslide
In order to ensure a good balance between meat and vegetables, Wu Yuetang casually fried some scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and ran towards the town team again with the two dishes.
Everyone who was resting around her along the way looked at the bowls in her hands, could smell the fragrance, and stared at them eagerly, looking in the direction she was heading, knowing that the two bowls of dishes had someone else.
The little fat boy stood under the carriage waiting until he saw the familiar figure and jumped up happily.
"Here she comes, Dad and Mom! She's brought the meat!"
Hearing this, the fat boy's parents also got out of the car. Seeing the two dishes brought by Wu Yuetang, they were a little stunned.
They have been doing business all over the country for many years, but have never seen such dishes.
"This is called sweet and sour pork, and this is scrambled eggs with tomatoes. The meat dish is what the young man ordered, and these vegetables are for you."
The middle-aged man was just about to call a servant to try the dish, after all, one must be on guard against others. But before he even opened his mouth, his son had already grabbed a piece with his bare hands and started eating.
"Delicious! So delicious! And it's fried! So delicious!"
Then he snatched the bowl from Wu Yuetang's hand and ate from it.
"Okay, I should go back to eat. Where's the balance?"
Wu Yuetang stretched out her hand. The middle-aged woman looked at Wu Yuetang, and seeing that her son liked the food she cooked so much, she walked up and said.
"Miss, we should be traveling together on the road to escape the famine. Can we order meals from you along the way? Money is not a problem, but my son has a very picky palate. He always says it's delicious. Your cooking skills are quite good. I'm wondering what you think about the price?"
"Meat dishes are two taels of silver per portion, semi-meat dishes are one tael of silver per portion, and seasonal vegetables are two hundred coins per portion. Don't worry, this price is for the three of you."
The woman took out a five-hundred-liang silver note from her sleeve and handed it over. "Here's five-hundred-liang silver note. I'm relying on you for your meals along the way."
Wu Yuetang took the banknote, her eyes sparkling. "Okay, leave it to me. I'll bring it to you when it's time for dinner."
Wu Yuetang left happily, and Wu Yongqiao was dumbfounded when he saw the banknotes his younger sister brought back.
"Little sister, for these two dishes, I gave you five hundred taels?"
"No, we took them along for meals along the way. This is the meal money they gave us."
The whole family was amazed. They thought money was hard to make, but the younger sister made five hundred taels in one go. Is this still the younger sister?
"Eh? Why aren't you eating? Come on, the sweet and sour pork won't taste good if it gets cold."
At her urging, the family of six or seven started to eat, and the villagers who were watching the fun around them swallowed their saliva greedily.
Finally, someone couldn't hold back any longer and squeezed out of the crowd.
"Cousin, can you sell us some of this dish? It smells so good. I'm so hungry I can't stand it anymore."
"Sure, ten cents a spoonful."
As he spoke, Wu Yuetang picked up the big iron spoon he used for cooking, meaning that one spoonful cost ten cents.
Although ten cents was a bit expensive, but thinking that this spoonful was full of meat and could be filled with a bowl, the villager immediately went home to get a bowl and put the ten cents in her hand.
"I want one!"
Then Wu Yuetang filled him a spoonful, and the villager couldn't help but eat a piece on the spot.
"What kind of divine meat is this! It's so delicious! Crispy on the outside and tender on the inside! So fragrant!"
Seeing his intoxicated expression, everyone went home to get bowls and came to buy meat. He sold twenty spoonfuls of meat from the whole bowl and earned another two hundred coins.
Wu Zhiyun's mouth dropped open. When had his little sister developed such a business acumen? Five hundred taels and two hundred coins in just one afternoon?
With this rate of making money, wouldn’t he become the richest man in Dayu?
However, this amount of money is still a small amount in Wu Yuetang's eyes, because she knows that she will need to spend more money when she arrives in the provincial capital later, so she has to work hard to save money now.
After eating and drinking my fill and packing up my things, I heard the village chief say that we had to set off. After asking my parents to get on the carriage, I followed the main group and set off.
What happened at noon quickly spread throughout the team, especially to the ears of the head of the Wu family in Maiduo Village.
"What? That girl Wu Yuetang sold vegetables for 200 coins at noon? What kind of vegetables can be sold for so much!"
Liu screamed in shock. She was already exhausted from the journey, and her straw sandals had holes in them and her feet were worn out. Now, when she heard that the girl could make money while fleeing from famine, she was furious.
"Yes, Mom, I heard it's a dish called sweet and sour pork, and it's fried in a lot of oil."
Wu Shouyi repeated everything he had just heard.
"Humph, the boss is also a loser. He has a good family and he lets a little girl take care of it! He knew we were in the team, but he didn't even come to visit us!"
Wu Houfu was so angry that he blew his beard and glared. They only drank some water during the lunch break and didn't even want to eat the dry food. After all, the dry food they brought was limited, and they didn't know how long they would have to walk on this journey, so they had to save food.
But the old man actually roasted meat and ate it while fleeing the famine! This is too much! He didn't even send the meat to his parents to taste!
Unfilial! So unfilial!
As they walked, the family was busy cursing the Wu family behind their backs, completely forgetting that they had separated a long time ago and that they had run to other people's homes to steal food last time.
"Mom, I have an idea. Do you think it's feasible?"
Wu Shouyi's wife, Liu, came over and whispered a few words in Liu's ear.
"Good idea! Let's do this. When you get to the next place, call Aunt Sun over! Humph! You little bitch, Wu Yuetang, wait until your reputation is completely ruined! I wonder how long you can still be so arrogant!"
We walked for an entire afternoon, and only stopped to find a place to stay when the sun was about to set.
As Liu said, Aunt Sun was called over by Liu from the team in Dayao Village.
At this time, the Wu family had already started setting up the tent. Wu Qingeng was on guard tonight, while Wu Yuetang was sitting in the carriage thinking about what to cook for the fat man's family in the evening.
The direction Wu Yuetang was facing was exactly the way they came. The dark yellow sunset shone on everything on earth, and the mountains in the distance were orange. Wu Yuetang, who was thinking and dazed, found that there seemed to be something wrong with the mountain.
As dusk deepened over the mountains, the once silent slopes suddenly revealed strange cracks. Spider-web-like radiating cracks tore through the rock formations like venomous snakes.
On the horizon, a few crows flew panicked over the mountain ridge, cawing shrilly. The once neatly arranged vegetation now swayed here and there, withered branches and fallen leaves swirling in the wind. From the distant rubble pile, scattered clods of earth occasionally rolled down, kicking up dust that shone a dark red like rust in the setting sun. The entire mountain seemed to be torn apart by an invisible force, every inch of the earth trembling before crumbling.
Oh no! There's a landslide! That mountain is the one behind Dayao Village! Even though we're 20 or 30 miles away, the falling rocks will still reach us due to inertia and speed. We have to evacuate further!
"Mom and Dad! Brother! Hurry up and pack up the tent! We have to leave here immediately! You guys pack first! I'll go find the village chief!"
Wu Yuetang immediately jumped off the carriage, forgetting all about dinner and money. Saving her life was the most important thing right now. Her business empire hadn't even started yet! How could she die here?
He ran again without stopping, and arrived in front of the village chief, exhausted.
"Grandpa Village Chief! We can't camp here, we have to hurry up! Otherwise, it will be over!"
Wu Yuetang said breathlessly.
The village chief was completely bewildered by her yelling, "What do you mean? Why can't we camp here? What's the point of dying here?"
"That mountain is the one behind our village. Look, it's already starting to crumble! And there's dust! This is a sign of a landslide. So if we camp here, a landslide at night and the falling rocks will hit us! If we want to survive, we have to evacuate at least another twenty miles to safety!"
Wu Yuetang pulled the village chief and pointed at the hilltop with a serious look on his face.
"Really, a natural disaster has really come!"
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