The white and tender tofu looks delicious.
People in this area didn't eat much tofu, and at most they drank soy milk. Food was scarce in this era, and some things hadn't been invented yet, which meant there were also some opportunities.
The original heroine, Su Qiuya, loves to study food. She had already discovered a lot before she got married. After being exiled, she thought about selling food. Su Qiuya is indeed talented in this area and can do a good job in the food business.
Liu Yulian had given it to all the other neighbors, and since she had also given it to the families of her three half-brothers, it was just a piece of tofu, not worth much. It was mainly for show, something that people in ancient times attached great importance to. Liu Yulian certainly didn't like these people, but she wanted to keep them from complaining later.
Besides, these people were born out of wedlock and are different from others.
Liu Yulian knew that in ancient times, fighting was not necessarily the best thing to do. Sometimes, using one's reputation to suppress others so that they could not speak was the most disgusting way.
Su Qiuya happened to be at home. When she saw the tofu sent by Liu Yulian, she thought it was good. She had never seen this tofu in the capital, and she didn't know how the eldest wife made it.
"How is this made?" Su Qiuya asked. She knew it might be a secret recipe, and others might not know it. "This kind of thing is hard to carry around, but I can buy a few pieces of tofu and sell them. If they're good, you'll have a source of income."
Su Qiuya thought that if they could make money and later learn how to make tofu, then they wouldn't need the first wife. Even if they had to find someone, it would be better to find other concubines' wives than the first wife. The first wife was the legitimate daughter, and she might be arrogant towards them.
"Not for sale." Liu Yulian said bluntly. Is business the only thing on Su Qiuya's mind?
"Do you have a recipe?" Su Qiuya asked again, "If you don't sell it, wouldn't it be a waste? If you give it to your family, you can still make some money, and you can also provide pension for your father-in-law and mother-in-law in the future."
Su Qiuya said that on purpose. When Liu Yulian heard it, it sounded like she was threatening someone with her pension money.
Liu Yulian looked up at Su Qiuya. Su Qiuya was dressed neatly and looked like a capable person. If she were a reader, she might think Su Qiuya was quite smart and that what she did was a way out for the eldest wife.
But Liu Yulian had read the original novel and experienced it herself, so it was impossible for her to have such a good impression of Su Qiuya.
You know, if the family had not split up, if those people were willing to treat Liu Yanjing better, and if they were willing to take out some of the hidden money to treat Liu Yanjing, Liu Yanjing would not have been disabled in the original book.
But those people did not treat Liu Yanjing well. They all treated him as a vampire. They all thought that they had not lived as well as the legitimate children. The concubines thought that they did not live as well as the legitimate children, and the illegitimate sons and wives thought that they had no blood relationship with the legitimate children.
In short, those people all had their own plans and were not really united.
Liu Yulian knew she had no right to criticize them. Human nature was selfish, and she shouldn't force them to be nice to anyone. But she could also choose how to treat these people. After this incident of tofu today, she didn't necessarily have to give them anything in the future.
Brothers should settle accounts clearly.
It was just because other neighbors had them that Liu Yulian gave them to these people.
"If you don't want to give pension money, you can choose not to give it." Liu Yulian said, "The mouth is on other people's body, you don't have to worry about whether they will say you are unfilial."
After Liu Yulian finished speaking, she took the empty bowl back and left.
"What are you so proud of?" Su Qiuya was unhappy. She thought that Liu Yulian was now down and out, no longer the daughter of a marquis, and she still dared to act like that. She thought she was so great just because she could make tofu, haha.
Liu Yulian didn't plan to sell tofu, but rather the method of making tofu, as well as mapo tofu, dried tofu, etc. She didn't open a gourmet shop, nor did she compete with the heroine for the gourmet route. She directly sold the recipe and made money quickly.
Since Liu Yanjing was still injured, Liu Yulian did not make spicy tofu, but only made lighter dishes.
Just when Liu Yulian was cooking, there was a knock on the door. It turned out that it was the maid who used to serve Liu's mother.
Xie Pozi never married. After the incident at the Marquis' Mansion, her nephew tried to get her out. But she still decided to come to find Liu Mu, mainly because Liu Mu had saved her life and she was grateful for her kindness. However, despite her relatives' opposition, she came anyway.
Because Mrs. Xie did not come with the officials but with a caravan, the time of her arrival was different.
"Why are you here?" When Liu's mother saw Mrs. Xie coming, she was very shocked.
"Come and serve the Madam." Mrs. Xie said, "Master, where is the young lady? Is she cooking? I'll do it. How can I let her do the rough work?"
As Xie Pozi spoke, she went to the kitchen. She was not afraid of the poor conditions here. It was not like she had never suffered before, but it was only after she followed her wife that she lived a good life, and she was able to help her parents' family a little.
Another reason she didn't stay at her parents' home was that if she stayed with them for too long, they might start to dislike her. After all, her nephew already had a wife, and Mrs. Xie knew she shouldn't stay there forever. She didn't have the money, and if she stayed for a few more days, her nephew's wife wouldn't be happy, even though her family relied heavily on her support to make ends meet.
It was impossible for Xie Pozi's brothers and nephews to keep watching her all the time, and there was no guarantee that Xie Pozi would not be looked down upon. For the sake of harmony among her family, Xie Pozi should also leave. She just thought that the lady was still good to her.
Mrs. Xie went straight into the kitchen and looked at you Liu Yulian who was holding a spatula. "Hey, young lady, you are so young. Leave it alone and let this servant do it."
"There are no more servants." Liu Yulian originally wanted to buy a maid, but who would have thought that Mrs. Xie would come.
"In my heart, you will always be my masters." Mother Xie said, "Here, leave it there, and go and rest."
At the kitchen door, Liu's mother waved to Liu Yulian. She certainly didn't want her daughter to stay in a place with heavy smoke. Liu's mother didn't expect Xie Pozi to come, but it was a good thing that someone would do some housework.
But they couldn't treat Mrs. Xie too badly. Mother Liu knew that their status was different from before.
After the other three families received the tofu sent by Liu Yulian, they all had other ideas.
"Are you trying to please us?"
"Be careful, don't let this little thing go to your head."
"It's not just for us, the villagers all have it."
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Some people were quite disgusted. They thought that the big house was not really given to them at all, but was clearly given to the neighbors, and they didn't want to be left out, so it was given to them.
"The people in the first house are very smart. They think that Liu Yanjing is useless, so they do this." These illegitimate sons, illegitimate sons' wives, and concubines basically all have the same idea, that the first house has other plans.
Liu Yulian didn't care what they were thinking. These people were so tight-fisted with money that it was impossible for them to give it to the eldest wife. She didn't need their money either. She had the ability to earn it herself.
Tofu is fragile and difficult to carry.
Liu Yulian thought of putting more dry straw to prevent earthquakes, and when she got to the county town, she sold the method of making tofu and related dishes.
There was a restaurant called Haoyunlai in the county town, but business wasn't very good. The dishes were the same every day, with no new twists, and people weren't very fond of them.
The owner of this restaurant is a pretty good person with good character. He often shares leftovers with beggars outside and is well-known as a kind person in this area.
Liu Yulian couldn't just give money to a kind person when selling things. Her family was short of money, and money was what mattered most. So she went with her father to sell the recipe, and they got two hundred taels of silver.
It went back and forth very quickly, but no one else knew about it.
When Su Qiuya discovered that there was tofu in the county town, her face looked extremely ugly.
Su Qiuya thought that the people in the eldest wife's house were too disgusting. They were all relatives, such close relatives, but the eldest wife didn't tell her how to make tofu, but turned around and sold the recipe.
"Your eldest brother and the others don't have our best interests at heart." Su Qiuya said, "They're too selfish."
"They've been like this for a long time," Liu Yanbo said. "Now that the family has split up, it's even more impossible for them to give us those things."
"Yeah, it's okay." Su Qiuya didn't care. "They can't endure hardship. They just sell these things and wait for the mountain to run out of money. Who knows what will happen in the future."
Su Qiuya thought that if she had such a good thing, she must find a way to make money from it in the long run instead of just selling the recipe casually.
"I don't know whether they want to build a house." Su Qiuya was confused. She didn't know how much money the eldest wife had earned or how much money she had in hand.
"Brother's health hasn't recovered yet." Liu Yanbo said, "Just wait."
After a while, they will know whether the big house has been built.
Of course, what Liu's mother meant was not to prescribe any medicine first, but to let Liu Yanjing recover his health first.
Since yesterday, the Liu family has asked the villagers to help plow the land, which will take two or three days. Some of the land still has a lot of stones, so it doesn't look like good land.
The food at home is not bad, and money is needed for everything. Liu Yulian also plans to send her nephew to school, so all this needs to be considered.
However, Liu Yulian's concept of money is really unstable, and it is mainly controlled by her mother.
After Liu Yanjing used the ointment for half a month, the injury on his leg was really healed, and he no longer looked like he had ever been seriously injured.
Liu Yulian was in a good mood when she saw her brother had recovered so well. Now that her brother's legs and feet were healed, he didn't have to be as decadent as in the original novel, nor did he have to be accused of being a vampire. He could also do more.
"How is this ointment made? Do you have any more?" Liu Yanjing thought about doing something else and not staying at home all the time. This kind of wound medicine is good. There are many soldiers and their wives in the area. Maybe they can try to sell ointment.
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