Unlimited Resources: Raising a Minister with a Pocket Supermarket

Chapter 15: Life-Saving Skill

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

After Jiang Lin left, Madam Sun looked at the two wild animals and said, “It’s already been cleaned up. There’s no way to sell it. Let’s stew it all. It’s been a long time since our family tasted meat.”

Yu Changhe used a knife to chop the pheasant and rabbits into small pieces. Yu Xiaolian was in charge of starting the fire for Madam Sun. Madam Sun placed the meat into the pot and stir-fried it. She also added the seasonings she had bought in town. Soon, the fragrance of the meat began to spread.

A large basin of meat was brought to the table. The three of them started to give in to each other humbly. In the end, Madam Sun said, “The reason why they’re all stewed is because I know that we can’t keep them. Instead of letting others benefit, it’s better to eat it yourself and eat it freely.”

Although Madam Sun’s words were not directed at anyone, Yu Changhe couldn’t help but blush. In the past, his mother wouldn’t make a fuss over a little food. Perhaps everything had changed since he couldn’t earn money.

Madam Sun picked up a chicken drumstick and placed it in Yu Xiaolian’s bowl, but she didn’t say anything.

Yu Xiaolian took a bite of the drumstick and felt that her mouth was filled with oil and there was a fragrance in her teeth. This wild chicken was indeed different. Even without spices, it was still incomparably delicious. This taste was not something that modern chickens could compare to.

The family of three ate to their heart’s content, but there was still some left. Yu Xiaolian knew that Yu Changhe and Madam Sun didn’t eat freely at all, as they saved it for Yu Xiaolian’s next meal.

Yu Xiaolian watched as Madam Sun placed the remaining meat on the wooden box, covering it with a bamboo cover.

After tidying up, Madam Sun took out her embroidery work and started working while the sky was still bright. Yu Xiaolian also went over to help her.

“Mother, your embroidery is so beautiful!” The reason why Yu Xiaolian knew how to make string bags was because she liked to weave Chinese knots in her previous life.

But if she had to use the embroidery needle, she would be finished. After all, she only knew how to watch but did not actually know how to do it.

“Why are my clothes so dirty again? Did you dig wild vegetables or go into the wilderness? You still smell like grass.”

“The wild vegetables I dug today were thrown away by my grandmother to feed the chickens. Originally, when Yu Zishu and the others returned, my grandmother was about to ask my uncle to kill the chickens, but in the end, the feathers on the chickens’ necks were plucked and they were released again.

Mother, I’m going to wash up!”

Women were so meticulous that they could even smell the ash on her body. Yu Xiaolian came to the backyard and planned to scoop some water to wash up.

She had been here for so many days, but she had never brushed her teeth. She had never seen Yu Changhe and Madam Sun brush their teeth either. Did people in ancient times not brush their teeth?

She took a toothbrush from the space and squeezed the toothpaste on it. She brushed her teeth neatly, then threw the things back into the space.

She took out a facial cleanser, washed her face, and wiped her face with a new towel from the supermarket.

When she finished washing up and returned to the house, she saw Yu Zishu standing there talking to Madam Sun.

Seeing that she had returned, Yu Zishu went forward to hold her hand, but she avoided him.

Yu Zishu’s eyes darkened. “I have something to tell you. Come out for a while.”

When Yu Xiaolian and Yu Zishu stood in the backyard of the Yu Family, Yu Zishu suddenly said, “Sister Lian’er, I’m about to participate in the autumn examination. I need someone to take care of my food and daily needs. Grandmother has already agreed to let you go to town with me.”

“Grandma agreed?” Yu Xiaolian was quite surprised. How could Old Madam Yu agree to let her, the little unlucky star, follow her eldest grandson?

“Grandma… will agree. I’m trying to convince her. Tell me first, are you willing to come with me?”

Yu Xiaolian frowned. There was no such paragraph in the book, or had she forgotten it after reading it?

Ignoring that matter, Yu Xiaolian shook her head, “I don’t want to!”

That’s a nice way of putting it. You want me to go to town with you because you wanted me to be your free babysitter.

I can’t even be bothered to take care of myself. Who cares about you?

If she had been more diligent in her previous life, she would have gone to the hospital to be a doctor. It was all because of the medical school’s fees.

Yu Zishu opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but swallowed it. After a while, he said, “It’s fine if you don’t want to, it’s fine if you don’t…”

Crazy!

After Yu Zishu left, Yu Xiaolian finally reacted. In the book, Yu Xiaolian ruthlessly tortured Yu Zishu to death. Could it be because Yu Zishu was the person who betrayed her to Jun Mobai?

She thought about how Yu Zishu had spent most of his time in town and then taken the entrance examination of Clear Spring Academy in Zhongyang City. He should have been the first to see Jun Mobai’s bounty.

Sigh, she could only blame herself for skimming through the books back then. The details were all about the love between the male and female leads.

Even if she wanted to reread it now, she couldn’t. She tried to flip through the e-book she had seen on her phone. It seemed to be frozen there, not moving.

Now, not only did she miss the good books, looking at Yu Zishu’s hesitant expression just now, her guess was probably true.

Yu Xiaolian returned to her room with a heavy heart. Due to the darkness, an oil lamp had already been lit in the room. Madam Sun was embroidering next to the oil lamp, and Yu Changhe was persuading Madam Sun not to do it.

Yu Changhe first said that her eyes were tired, but Madam Sun ignored him. Then, he said that his heart ached because the oil lamp was costly. Only then did Madam Sun give up. After laying the bedding, Madam Sun blew out the oil lamp.

The curtain of the small floral cloth was pulled closed by Yu Changhe. Yu Xiaolian lay at the end of the bed, listing many possibilities in her heart and thinking of many life-saving tricks.

Hmph, she did not want to be the stepping stone for the love between the male and female leads.

Suddenly, she heard rustling sounds and Madam Sun’s delicate breathing. Yu Xiaolian immediately held her breath.

Damn it!

Thinking that no one would notice her absence, Yu Xiaolian immediately sank into the space.

After entering the space, Yu Xiaolian realized that the bag of Golden Monkey Milk Candy that she had eaten when she was digging wild vegetables yesterday was still on the shelf.

Could she have remembered wrongly?

Yu Xiaolian checked the number of bags of milk candy. There were five bags.

In order to confirm her guess, Yu Xiaolian tore open another bag of milk candy and sat on the ground to finish it in one go.

Then, he looked at the shelf with the milk candy. There were four bags. They had not changed.

Yu Xiaolian thought that her family didn’t have enough food to survive the winter, and she owed others a lot of money, so she wanted to share some of Madam Sun’s burden. She walked around the supermarket and finally chose some wolfberries, honeysuckle, ginseng slices, and chicken blood vine. These were all things that modern people used to make tea or wine.

Moreover, these things would not attract attention in ancient times. She planned to tear off the outer packaging and take these as medicinal herbs to the town’s pharmacy to see if they could be exchanged for money.

Yu Xiaolian checked the wolfberries. There were a total of six bags, which was too little. Moreover, each bag only contained 250 grams.

In that case, it was only three catties of wolfberries. This thing probably wouldn’t sell well.

There were more honeysuckles. There were twenty bags, but each bag only weighed 150 grams, which was also three catties.

There was not much ginseng either. There were only five boxes, and each small box only had 50 grams. In total, it was only half a catty.

There were the least number of chicken blood vines. There were only two bags, but each bag was packed in one catty, which meant there were two catties. Very few people used this to make tea. Most of them were used to make wine. There were also people who used it to soak their feet.

Yu Xiaolian looked at the price tag. The western ginseng slices were the most expensive. 99 yuan per box would mean nearly a thousand yuan per catty. This ginseng could probably be sold for a good price.

Yu Xiaolian found a preservation bag, tore off the small packaging one by one, and poured them all into the preservation bag. When she had the chance to go to town, she would wrap them up with cloth.