Yao Zhi thought for a moment after she heard the price and said, "Uncle, I want all of the vinegar you have in your store."
As soon as she said this, both the store owner and Fu Chen’an were stunned. Pulling at his wife’s sleeve, he asked in a low voice, "Wife, why did you buy so much vinegar? We won’t be able to finish it for years."
"Husband, don’t worry. I plan to make something for sale, and we need a lot of vinegar," Yao Zhi whispered.
Thinking about the sausage they made at home, Fu Chen’an no longer doubted his wife’s decision. His wife unexpectedly knows a lot of secret recipes.
If she wanted to do some business to earn extra money, he would support her. Even if she failed, he was able to cover the cost. After all, they had more than 1,000 taels of silver.
After a moment, the store owner asked, "Young lady, are you sure you want all of my store’s vinegar?"
Yao Zhi nodded and said, "I want to try other seasonings too. If the taste is good, I will buy them."
This was the first time the store owner had met a customer like her. Facing big business, he became more respectful. He poured a cup of water for her before giving her a spoonful of millet wine.
While she was tasting the millet wine, the store owner explained, "Young lady, this millet wine is also my family’s secret recipe. Medicinal herbs were added, so it’s good for daily consumption."
Yao Zhi nodded and savored the taste. The wine was sweet with a low alcohol content. Besides the nutty taste ing from the millet, she could also taste a refreshing and savory note.
She nodded and asked, "Uncle, how do you sell this wine?"
"Young lady, this wine is only 50 wen per jar. One jar weighs around two jin."
Hearing this, Yao Zhi was surprised. One liter of this wine cost 50 wen, which was considered not cheap in this era. But, she already planned to sell the vinegar and wine in the system shop to earn more points, so she said generously, "Uncle, I want all the millet wine you have."
This time, the store owner didn’t ask any more questions and said, "Young lady, let me check the inventory."
Not long after, the store owner returned with a book and an abacus. "Young lady, my store currently has a total of 400 jin of vinegar. It’s equal to 5,000 taels of vinegar."
"As for the millet wine, I have a total of 2,000 jars. The total cost of the vinegar and wine is 190 taels of silver," the store owner added after calculating with his abacus.
Yao Zhi nodded and took out a pouch from her sleeve. Opening it, she handed a total of nineteen ten-tael silver ingots to the store owner.
After weighing the silver, the store owner smiled and asked, "Young lady, if you want, we can deliver the goods to your house."
Hearing this, Yao Zhi smiled and said, "Then, I’ll trouble you with this."
"It’s no trouble at all," the store owner replied immediately.
Yao Zhi borrowed paper and a brush before writing down the address of her house.
In this era, there were no street names, so she gave the store owner the name of the village and the rough location of her house. Added to her name, it wouldn’t be hard for them to find her house.
After they were done buying the wine and vinegar, Yao Zhi said, "Husband, it’s almost noon. Let’s eat something first before we go back."
Fu Chen’an didn’t object, and the two of them went to the roadside noodle stall.
At first, Fu Chen’an wanted to bring his wife to eat at a restaurant, but she refused and insisted on eating noodles.
The two of them sat on the benches and waited for a while. When the noodles were served, Yao Zhi looked at the clear broth and brownish noodles.
She tasted the broth first and found it bland. Except for some floating oil, there was no other taste. Then she took a bite of the noodles and almost choked.
The noodles were made from coarse flour and were hard to swallow. She had to chew for a long time before she was able to swallow them with the broth. She only finished half a bowl before her jaw became tired.
Noticing that his wife no longer wanted to eat, Fu Chen’an finished her leftovers without leaving a single drop of soup. Before leaving, Yao Zhi placed eight wen on the table.
After lunch, the two of them went to the horse market to retrieve their donkey cart. The fee for entrusting the cart was two wen.
They reached home at two o’clock in the afternoon. Not long after Fu Chen’an tied the donkey in the backyard, they heard the sound of people calling from the front yard.
"Anyone at home?"
Hearing the man’s voice, Fu Chen’an went to check while Yao Zhi stayed in the kitchen. After checking the seasonings in this era, she already had a plan for how to earn money.
Relying on her husband’s monthly stipend would be barely enough for them to survive. If she wanted to eat meat often, she had to find a way to earn money.
Although she was able to buy meat from the system shop, it would arouse suspicion if she didn’t have other sources of ine. People living in this era were mostly honest, but they were not fools.
So she planned to make homemade soy sauce and distilled wine. She would buy some ingredients from the system shop and some from the town market. Selling these items to the stores in the town would allow her to earn silver.
As for system points, she could earn them by selling the vinegar and millet wine bought from the store. This was the win-win method she came up with.
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