Chapter 95 The storm is rising
"Are you sure that I put some powerful medicine in the fish and pig's trotters?"

Xu Qiuyue thought Lu Yuan was bragging.

Warriors require more energy and blood than ordinary people, so they eat more than ordinary people.

Lu Yuan paused. No wonder he felt full so quickly. Normally, he could never feel full no matter how much he ate.

If you have taken strong medicine, you must not miss it and should take more.

Rice can no longer be eaten, it takes up space.

Originally, Lu Yuan was planning to get another bowl of rice.

Lu Yuan now has no plan to eat.

This rice was bought by Lu Yuan because he felt that the rice bought by Xu Qiuyue was a bit inferior.

This rice is fine rice, costing ten taels of silver per pound.

The fish and pork trotters were bought by Xu Qiuyue.

In Xu Qiuyue's space, she has never grown rice or other such things in her life.

Most of the plants planted in Xu Qiuyue's space are medicinal herbs, and the rest are fruit trees.

There is also a small piece of land where vegetables are grown.

It takes many years for medicinal materials to mature.

The fruit trees can survive for a long time year after year, so Xu Qiuyue doesn't have to take care of them.

As for raising fish, there was too little spiritual spring water in the space, not even enough for Xu Qiuyue to drink.

Just add more spices. When cooking fish, marinate it with spices to make it taste more delicious.

And it is easier to conceal it this way.

Take these spices out of space and no one will notice.

Then Xu Qiuyue basically put all the silver and gold in the space.

She would never go to the money shop to exchange those gold and silver notes.

If you go to a bank to exchange money, a record will be left.

Moreover, if you offend those big shots, you may not be able to withdraw the money.

Although this situation is extremely rare, there is still a certain probability that it will happen.

Now Lu Yuan gives her five hundred taels of gold every month, and he still buys the rice, so Xu Qiuyue is guaranteed to make a profit.

This refined rice is a bit special. You will know it after you have tasted it. The cultivation method is different. It is said that it is planted according to Feng Shui.

Xu Qiuyue felt that the refined rice was a bit like the rice grown in her space in her previous life.

It contains a very weak trace of energy and tastes better than ordinary rice.

I have to say, Lu Yuan still knows how to eat.

She would never be willing to eat such expensive rice.

Xu Qiuyue suddenly realized that Xuan Jiuqing had asked her to grow rice in her previous life.

Then he said that if he sold it, he could get one penny of silver per pound. At that time, Xu Qiuyue felt that he had earned too much and thought Xuan Jiuqing was a pretty good person.

Thinking about it now, it was a huge loss.

Later, when Xu Qiuyue wanted to grow medicinal herbs and didn't want to grow rice, Xuan Jiuqing had a big fight with Xu Qiuyue.

Xu Qiuyue’s business was in the medicinal materials business, and since she knew medicine, she had room for improvement.

You can earn more by growing medicinal herbs.

This is also how Xu Qiuyue accumulated her wealth.

Later, Xu Qiuyue started selling rouge, and after becoming friends with Liu Ping, she began selling clothes and jewelry.

After all, there are only a limited number of things that can be grown in space.

At that time, Xu Qiuyue's knowledge was limited, and she did not use the space more reasonably.

For example, refining medicinal materials into pills is both safe and will not let others know that you have space.

At that time, Xu Qiuyue was afraid of hunger and just wanted to have enough food, so she planted a lot of rice.

Ordinary landlords don’t dare to think about eating white rice every meal and having meat on the table every time.

In the final analysis, they were still poor. But in the capital, the firewood used by these wealthy families for burning firewood had to be carefully carved.

There was always a lot of fish and meat at every meal that couldn’t be finished and had to be thrown away.

Ordinary families in the capital are much better off than the small landlords outside.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just look at this vegetable market, the fish here are particularly big.

Fish from other places are generally not easy to sell.

Because the fish is cooked without seasoning and oil, it tastes very bad.

It doesn't have any fat, unlike pork which is fragrant and tender and can be used to extract oil. The white lard tastes even better when mixed with rice.

It is said that the pork in the previous dynasty was not so delicious, and for some reason the imperial court ordered that pigs must be castrated.

Later, people discovered that pigs raised in this way were particularly fat and the meat tasted excellent.

There is no need for supervision from the court, everyone does it spontaneously.

Pork also became the most popular meat in Shengguo.

But unfortunately, the imperial court is now somewhat weak, and there are constant bandits in various places. Except for the capital and a few wealthy cities, the rest of the place is in chaos.

Emperor Sheng wanted to build a prayer tower for his favorite concubine, which was thirty-three stories high.

It is currently the tallest building in Shengguo. Because of its high location, standing on it, one can overlook the entire capital city.

This required a large amount of silver and conscripted labor, so Emperor Sheng had no choice but to increase taxes.

The wealthy cities have money, but the poor people in those poor areas have a hard time even having enough food to eat.

As a result of this, countless families were broken up and countless people were killed.

But Xu Qiuyue knew very well that building the prayer tower would not satisfy Emperor Sheng.

Because Emperor Sheng's health was already not good at this time, and it would be even worse in two years.

Without her spiritual spring water to nourish him, Emperor Sheng would become even more crazy.

Emperor Sheng was very wise and powerful in his early years. He ordered countless attacks on the surrounding barbarians.

Even now, those barbarians still dare not attack Sheng Dynasty easily.

Otherwise, the border army will wipe them out again.

Those barbarians had no fixed place to live, they wandered around and made a living by grazing. When they had eaten up one piece of grassland, they would move to another.

It is extremely difficult to manage, and precisely because of this, the imperial court has never been able to completely take over these barbarian lands.

Because they have no value, sending officials there will not be any way to manage them, and it will be a waste of money. All we need to do is prevent them from attacking Sheng State.

Many people have longed for life outside the Great Wall, but unless there is really no place for them to stay in Shengguo, they generally would not go outside the Great Wall.

Because life there was hard and supplies were scarce, ordinary people were not willing to eat beef or mutton.

But if it were Xu Qiuyue, she would probably be able to live well outside the Great Wall, because she has a space where she can grow some vegetables and buy a batch of supplies in advance.

But these things cannot be kept for too long. If they are left for too long, they will rot and go bad just like they were left outside.

There are many people in Beijing who specifically buy old rice that has been stored for a long time.

The price of Chen rice is very cheap.

Although the taste is a bit worse, it might make you upset.

But the money for one pound of new rice can buy three pounds of old rice.

Most people are reluctant to wash rice more than once.

Most of the people living near the courtyard where Xu Qiuyue lives are doing business.

Everybody is wealthy, so the quality of the vegetables sold on the streets here is very high.

Normally, Xu Qiuyue goes shopping for groceries herself.

If I tell the servants to buy things, it would be easy to figure out which items were taken out by her, but it would be different if I bought them myself.

At this time, Xu Qiuyue finished her meal leisurely, and the mansion was peaceful.

But the Prince's Mansion was in turmoil at this moment.

(End of this chapter)