Transmigrated to Ancient Times with System

Chapter 7 New Crop

After telling He Xiaoya to properly preserve the stewing liquid, Li Yao headed into the mountains again with a cleaver.

This time, she prepared a long rope to make descending and ascending the mountain valley much easier, leaving her more time to gather spices and dig herbs.

With experience now, she directly skipped herbs of low value and focused on digging expensive ones.

After a whole day, she filled up a entire basket.

Before sleeping, she opened the farm interface from morning 6 am till evening 8pm, she harvested garlic 14 times.

When she sold 5,000 catties of garlic 🧄. the system was finally upgraded.

[Ding—Congratulations on upgrading your farm to level 1—]

[Ding—Congratulations on unlocking a new crop, Ginger 🫚—]

Now she has a lot of Garlic, so she planted whole land with ginger 🫚 . It takes two hours for the Ginger to ripen.

She had added four more chicken in her chicken shed. Now in her warehouse, she has 7 eggs 🥚 and 450 catties of garlic 🧄.

In Level 0, only streamed buns were available. Now she has unlocked Meat buns and sesame cake in department store.

Before system upgrade to Level 5, she is not allowed to enter into farm but she can place things.

After thinking for a while, she brought a book of ancient oil refining tools spending 500 coins in department store.

She began to concentrate on studying the book on oil refining.

In this era, there are peanuts 🥜 and sesame. She can make oil with two things.

Next day she went to town to sell the medicine materials.

When selling to the herb shop again, the shopkeeper was greatly surprised.

He had never seen anyone able to dig up so many quality, mature herbs in just two days, and was secretly delighted.

"The total this time is 2,500 wen," he said.

Li Yao frowned and picked up her basket to leave.

Did he think she was some village woman to be easily fooled?

"Hey, don't go!" The shopkeeper couldn't bear to lose so many premium herbs and hurried out from behind the counter. "The price is negotiable! Negotiable!"

"Five taels of silver. Otherwise I'll sell to someone else."

"I've never seen someone bargain so skillfully before!" Three taels of silver was the fair price, so the shopkeeper agreed without much hesitation. "You must sell your herbs to me in the future."

Five taels of silver was 5,000 wen.

An official laborer could only earn that much in a whole year, so it was quite a substantial amount of wealth.

But there were still many things to buy.

Ensuring adequate rice, flour, salt ...fulfilling the basic living needs of the family was the priority.

Pork offal, some spices, an iron pot, stove, table, bowls and chopsticks, steamer, and more rope. She also bought the best cleaver from town.

After another round of spending, only a few dozen copper coins were left, not enough for a cart for now.

With all the items purchased and the family working together to wash, stew, and steam buns...

By dusk, everything was ready except the rice, which had to be cooked early next morning.

Because it used the original stewing liquid, this batch came out even more flavorful, with more umami and stew fragrance and less bitterness and herbal taste from the spices.

As long as the stew liquid was preserved properly, it would only get more delicious over time.

"Mother," Da Zhuang suddenly remembered, "I have to go borrow a cart from Grandma."

Li Yao scooped a bowl of pork offal, ladled two spoonfuls of the stew sauce over it, and told He Xiaoya to pick ten steamed buns for Da Zhuang to bring as well.

One should not visit empty-handed when borrowing things from others.

...

It was almost dark.

Li Yao's mother-in-law, Wang Xue Shi, was making flatbreads with wild vegetables and buckwheat noodles.

"Grandma!" Da Zhuang walked into the yard. "I wanted to borrow..."

"We don't have any," Wang Xue Shi didn't even lift her head, rejecting him outright. "Go back and tell your mother to borrow from her own parents if she wants to borrow food. We have nothing to eat here either."

Da Zhuang quickly clarified, "It's not to borrow food, Grandma, but to borrow a cart."

Only then did Wang Xue Shi look up to see him holding a bunch of items, and asked, "What have you brought?"

"Oh," Da Zhuang set the things down on the table, "these are some food that Mother wanted me to bring for you."

"Her? Being so kind?"

Wang Xue Shi was skeptical, but when she uncovered the cloth over the basket, she was stunned.

Good heavens, so many steamed buns!

And they were so big and white, clearly made with pure refined flour!

There was also a bowl of meat!

She had never smelled anything like this aroma in her life!

"Where did this come from?"

"Mother went into the mountains to dig herbs and sold some these past two days..." Da Zhuang explained.

"Wasting money as soon as she earned some? Not even thinking of saving it for your Second Brother to get married? Acting like she's rich just because she birthed four sons, even daring to eat white flour buns!"

"It's not like that, Grandma. We're planning to sell food at the market in town."

"She can even run a business? Don't lose your pants gambling it all away!"

Da Zhuang didn't want to argue further with her. "So Grandma, about the cart..."

"Take it, take it."

Da Zhuang was overjoyed. Mother was right, bringing a little something made borrowing the cart much smoother.

"Alright, I'll take it away then."

After Da Zhuang left, Wang Xue Shi put away the steamed buns and stew.

That bowl of pork offal did smell appetizing, and she couldn't help salivating.

"Sister-in-Law even went to dig herbs and is thinking of doing business, borrowing things without showing up empty-handed," Da Zhuang's second sister-in-law Zhou said. "Looks like she also knows she should live properly now."

"Who knows what she's scheming?" The third sister-in-law immediately followed. "She probably really can't get by and wants to return to her maiden home. So she's buttering up to us in advance..."

"Shut up if you've got nothing to say!" Wang Xue Shi yelled when she heard this. "The eldest daughter-in-law sent over some food, and even that offends you? Go chop grass to feed the pigs!"

The third sister-in-law Shen pouted and quickly buried her head in chopping grass.

Mother-in-Law scolded harshly to their faces, but still spoke up for Eldest Sister-in-Law behind her back. Her heart was clearly biased toward the Li Family!

Just because Eldest Sister-in-Law had birthed four sons!

What's the big deal.

If it wasn't for Wang Laosan working year-round as a docker at the Yizhou pier, and was never home, she wouldn't have had eight!