The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man - Chapter 454
Chapter 454: 454 smart brain
“A total of twenty should be enough to borrow.”
“It should be fine. There are more than a hundred households in the village.”
She stood up to say goodbye, “Thank you, Old Zhang and Aunt Zhang.”
“Don’t worry.”
Su Qingyue returned to the Xiao Family, thinking that she needed to express her gratitude to Aunt Zhang’s family later.
That night, she went to the edge of the village and collected weeds that the villagers had pulled out and piled by the roadside. She took the useless weeds back home, burned them into ashes in the kitchen, and then ground some common herbs into a green juice for use the next day.
The next day, everything went smoothly according to plan.
Aunt Zhang was a famous good person in the village, and her family was in good condition. Many people wanted to do her a favor, so the workers she called were men and women who were hard -working.
In the backyard of Xiao’s house, they put ten old jars and ten old large wooden basins they had “borrowed” but technically rented.
These wooden basins were not for bathing, but for making large quantities of food for feasts, like water jars.
She asked someone to clean the jars and basins and placed them in the backyard, half a meter apart in two horizontal rows.
She then found a strong man in the village, gave him ten cents, and asked him to fetch water from the river, filling the twenty jars and basins to about two-thirds full.
Afterward, she sprinkled an appropriate amount of the plant ash from the night before into each jar, making a 1% solution of plant ash water. She also added a bit of the green medicine water she had prepared the night before to each jar to confuse people’s eyes and ears.
Since she had earned fifty taels in one go, the villagers thought she had a way to make money. With her large-scale preparations, she had already attracted the attention of some clever people in the village and couldn’t prevent others from imitating her.
Because the jars contained green medicine water, people couldn’t figure out how she had prepared it.
She had the workers who had come to help put the cleaned ferns in the jars and large wooden basins filled with correctly proportioned plant ash water to soak for about three hours.
The ferns in the village had been sold out, but many people had gone deep into the mountains to find more ferns today.
People from neighboring villages continually came to sell their ferns.
Su Qingyue did not refuse any, buying however many they had.
The newly purchased ferns were continuously piled in the secondary bedroom. There was still plenty of space there.
The windows of the master bedroom of the Xiao Family were open, and the three men inside could see their wife constantly busy.
Taking advantage of a break, Su Qingyue used a firewood stick to draw several long lines on the hard mud ground in the yard.
“What are you doing, wife?” Xiao Yuchuan asked, puzzled by her actions.
“I’m dividing the space into sections. When the ferns are soaked, I’ll have the workers spread banana leaves in the yard, at the positions I designated, to put the soaked ferns on and dry them. This way, the guys’ walking paths are not affected. A lot of space is needed to dry so many ferns, drawing lines can save space. ”
“My dear, how is your brain so brilliant?” Xiao Yuchuan looked at her with a sparkling gaze.
Just as Su Qingyue was about to feel proud, a faint male voice annoyed her,
“Because Qingyue is a fool.”
When she looked at the source of the voice, she saw that it was the fourth brother who had spoken.
She was furious!
She was trembling with anger.
Looking at fourth brother’s innocent expression, his pale, handsome face was very sincere, apparently truly praising her..
