The Journey Of The Peasant Mother-in-Law

This was still the case that the canal on the return journey was not frozen.
If it was frozen, they will have to take the official road which will make the journey longer.

Zhulan suddenly thought of the abundant beauties in the south of the Yangtze River and wondered if Zhou Shuren would be dazzled.
Hum, anyway, they were bound, so it was useless for Zhou Shuren to be dazzled.*

Zhulan felt a little emotional in her heart, she stood up and was unwilling to chat, “Boss, hurry up and clear the table, let’s all go back and rest.”

Li shi’s intuition was right, and she sensed that Mother was upset, “Okay Mother.”

As soon as Zhulan went out, Li shi complained to her husband, “You had to stir up trouble where there was none.
Mother and Father have never been apart for such a long time.
Now Mother is missing Father again because of this.”

Zhulan didn’t go far, almost slipped and fell.
Bah Ah, who missed Zhou Shuren! *

On the sailboat, Zhou Shuren touched the silver bills in his pocket.
His luck was truly remarkable.
Zhuo County, being a hub of the Grand Canal, was bustling with merchants and traders, but it also attracted its fair share of fraud and deception, especially in the counterfeit industry.
During his break from escorting, he happened to come across someone selling fake antiques during his stroll around town.

He was not foolish enough to directly go up and say it was fake.
But instead pretended to be a friend of the buyer and took the buyer away, avoiding being cheated and opening his eyes.
The merchant thanked him and gifted him two hundred silver taels.

Zhou Shuren couldn’t help but marvel at the shrewdness of merchants and traders.
He realized that receiving such a large sum of silver was indeed a stroke of good fortune.
With the establishment of the new dynasty, the status of merchants had declined, and they were more cautious about not offending scholars.
Zhou Shuren had taken advantage of this situation, benefiting from the favor of the scholarly class.

Li Shuan pushed the door open and came in, “Qìngjia, I enquired.
The journey is on schedule, and we’ll be there in two days.” (2)

Zhou Shuren was too weak to complain about the journey, well, he had eaten enough fish, “It’s almost time to arrive.”

Li Shuan nodded, “I feel like I’ve become dull from staying on the boat for so long.”

Zhou Shuren saw his in-laws take out the purse from his chest, read it, and then put it back carefully.
He was afraid that it would be stolen when he went out, and there were many people on board.

Li Shuan touched his purse and was satisfied.
With this money, even if he didn’t sell the recipe in Jiangnan, he could give his mother an explanation when he returned home.

Zhou Shuren laughed.
In Zhuo County, he took advantage of the opportunity and sold the recipes to merchants he knew.
The recipes didn’t have much technical content.
Fifty taels of silver bills were enough, and the in-laws earned a lot.

Zhou Shuren kept down the book.
He wondered if Zhulan was missing him or not!

The next morning, the sky was clear, and Zhulan was finally able to relax without worrying about the snow disaster.
Instead, it was a good sign of auspicious snow for a good year.

The weather was colder after the snowfall, the temperature was enough to freeze the meat, and the weather was good for slaughtering pigs.
After dinner, Zhulan ordered the boss to go to Butcher Li to kill the pigs.

The two pigs in Zhulan’s family are well-raised.
Each pig weighs about 250 catties.
In ancient times, 250 catties pig was considered a fat pig.
Zhulan stood at the entrance of the pigsty, her mind filled with thoughts of various dishes: blood sausages, steamed pig’s blood, stir-fried fatty intestines, braised pork, sweet and sour spareribs, marinated pig ears, soy-braised pork bones.
She couldn’t help but swallow her saliva.

Southern China In-laws

* T/N Awww our FL is slowly falling in love with our ML.
She is missing him and feeling jealous as well.