Because the letter had come in advance to inform everyone, they all knew about the nineteen people going to high school. As soon as they arrived in the village, someone saw them and shouted, and soon everyone in the workshop ran out.
At the very front was Village Chief Lin. Perhaps because of his short legs, he ran fast and quickly reached the front. However, seeing that everyone was still on the carriage, he had to stop. Wenming, the driver of the carriage, stopped the carriage, and the people inside jumped off.
As the village chief Lin looked at the people coming down, he happily went over and hugged them, shouting, "May our ancestors bless us!" The other men in the village did the same, some even secretly wiping away tears. Only the women went up to them and asked if they were tired and if they wanted to eat now.
An Shuyi glanced at the time; it was already past noon. It seemed impossible to hold a grand banquet today. "Wood, make the arrangements. A grand banquet will be held in Peach Blossom Village tomorrow."
As for the three-day continuous feast, forget about it. The food in Peach Blossom Village is too good. Besides, their village has added nineteen officials this time, so there will definitely be a lot of people coming. No matter how rich a place is, it can't keep up with the food if there are too many people.
The workshop receives goods every day; if they are busy entertaining guests for three days straight, they won't have enough stock.
"Sister-in-law, shouldn't we be having a three-day banquet?" Village Chief Lin came over and asked in a low voice. In the past, wealthy families would be particularly extravagant if they had any happy occasions. They would hold a three-day banquet, and as long as someone came, the dishes would be served.
An Shuyi looked at him speechlessly. She had just been thinking about not doing it when the old man came over and asked, "You're going to set up shop for three days? What, the workshop doesn't need to work?"
"We'll only set up the stall for one day. We can't be careless when we revise the menu later. The workshop will be closed for one day tomorrow. Make sure all the doors are locked so no one can sneak in."
"Understood, sister-in-law, I'll go arrange it right away." After saying that, Village Chief Lin went to inform the customers outside the workshop. These customers were regulars from Taoyuan Village, who would come every few days. Of course, they were invited to participate in this opportunity.
Xia Hua also instructed Chang Wen to go to Jinnan City in the afternoon to inform Prefect Xiao. Although she knew he would definitely come, sending someone to invite him herself would be more sincere. She also invited the headmaster of the academy, the teachers, and all the people in the village with whom she had business dealings.
Lin Changwen nodded, then went to prepare the carriage, called two people, and set off.
"Changwu, go to Jinnan City and buy meat, chickens, ducks, and geese. Buy as much as you can." Although that's what she said, she knew he couldn't buy much.
After everything was arranged, the women from the workshop cooked a bowl of noodles for each of them at the canteen. After they finished eating, everyone carried their things back to their houses, including An Shuyi and Xia Hua.
After putting their things away and changing into more practical clothes, the two set off for the mountain behind the village. They hadn't been there for two years because they were too busy to come.
I came up the mountain now because I wanted to bring some meat back for a banquet tomorrow. Besides the fact that I can't buy much meat in Changwu, the meat I buy is too ordinary. I need to get some better meat.
The two were in a hurry and headed straight into the depths of the jungle. On the way, they killed several wild boars. Perhaps because they hadn't hunted in the jungle for two years, the number of animals had increased significantly. Soon, they spotted a herd of deer.
They took out their bows and arrows and began shooting at the sika deer. In order to kill more, the two of them even fired three arrows at once. Although one or two arrows might miss, they still managed to kill a sika deer.
Although they were fast, there were too many sika deer to kill them all at once. After confirming that there were no animals nearby, the two went to collect arrows and sika deer.
"Huahua, I have eleven here, how many do you have?" But it must be about the same as hers. She has shot two sika deer with three arrows several times. She is still too old. If she were only in her twenties, she could probably kill three at once.
“I have ten here, that’s enough for sika deer. Let’s go see if we can find any other prey.” Xia Hua said, then threw the bow and arrows in her hand into the warehouse.
An Shuyi nodded, and the two continued to search for other animals. They soon found roe deer, lions, and black bears. They were ruthless and attacked whatever they saw, even pheasants and rabbits.
Seeing that it was almost time, the two prepared to return to the village. They had originally planned to use the wild boar to catch some prey, but there were so many that they didn't need to fish for them, so they left the wild boar behind.
The two walked to the outer edge of the mountain, and killed all the pheasants and rabbits they saw along the way, storing them in the warehouse.
"Huahua, these animals reproduce so fast. It's a pity that their prey isn't worth much money, otherwise we could sell it." She had tried using tiger meat before. Although it could be sold, the price wasn't high. It seemed that the trading system preferred flowers and plants and wasn't interested in meat.
She currently has a balance of 370,000 in the trading system, which she and Hua Hua earned by selling the flowers and plants they found all over the world. This amount is enough to buy two time travel passes, but she didn't.
She had more balance in the trading system before, but she used it all up. Later, although she sold more items, the trading system seemed to malfunction, and none of the items that could be bought were activated.
She only sells one item if she specifically wants it and thinks about it before selling flowers and plants. So over time, the trading system has only added twenty items, including ten types of patterned silk fabrics: white, black, red, and yellow. But the emperor wears yellow, so until now, no yellow fabric has been purchased.
Green, blue, purple, cyan, pink, brown—besides these ten fabrics, there are five military treatises, one recipe for lotus flower pastries, and four other recipes: three for weapons and one for iron.
She also bought the weapon recipes and gave them to Hua Hua, who is producing them in large quantities. Hua Hua has also trained a thousand iron cavalrymen, and the location is outside the capital.
Now they are just waiting for the emperor to die. Although they could make the emperor die sooner, neither of them did so. Instead, they are waiting for the right opportunity.
“If we can’t buy it, then we’ll eat it ourselves. You wait here, I’ll go down the mountain to get someone.” After Xia Hua finished speaking, she took the things out of her warehouse and put them on the ground, then headed down the mountain.
By the time she brought her men up, it was already dark. Because there was so much prey, she had called all the men in the village. When they saw the game scattered all over the ground, they were beyond surprised.
Lin Changwu rubbed his stiff chin. "Sister-in-law, I was thinking that we bought too little meat today, so I would go to Jinnan City to buy more tomorrow morning. I didn't expect you to go up the mountain and hunt so much game. I admire you."
He had never seen anyone in this world more powerful than his two sisters-in-law; if there were, they wouldn't be human.
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