My domineering ex-husband is living off his wife in ancient times.

Chapter 136: An Endless Expanse of Golden Wheat Waves

Neither of them were people who would sit around doing nothing. Once they decided to stay at the Cheng residence, they quickly started helping Cheng Ruoan with the chores.

Cheng Ruoan asked Dapeng to take Si Silang to the cellar to get the lard, wash it clean, and set it aside. Then he took Lin to the pharmacy to get the medicine and brew it.

In this weather, the cellar can only preserve freshness, not freeze frozen meat.

Therefore, after taking out the lard, there is no need to thaw it. You can simply wash it with salt water and then you can cut it.

The cellar entrance was located next to the side room at the far end of the backyard. The original owner of the house had never used it. Seeing that it was deep and large, Cheng Ruoan had a carpenter build a wooden ladder and put it inside, so that a boy like Dapeng could go up and down to get things by himself.

"Fourth Master, please lend me a hand up here, and I'll go down and hand it to you."

Si Silang was not used to being called "Master" for the first time. "Just call me Fourth Brother. Go get it. I'll catch it for you upstairs."

"Alright, Fourth Brother."

Not long after Dapeng went down, he brought up jar after jar of pork fat.

Si Silang was completely dumbfounded. "This, so much! How much hand cream is your second young lady going to make?"

Nine jars were moved up in total.

The jars were neither too big nor too small; each jar contained about 70 jin (approximately 35 kg) of pork fat.

Da Peng wiped his sweat and said, "More than 600 catties of pork fat can make more than 1,800 jars of hand cream."

"Wow, so many! Will we be able to sell them all?"

"Yes, Second Miss does business with Master Zhao. Master Zhao owns many inns and embroidery workshops. Even if we make two thousand jars a month, it might not be enough."

Si Shilang's eyes widened like saucers. "Then this must be very expensive, right?"

"It's not cheap. My mother said a jar costs two and a half ounces at the inn."

Cheng Ruoan had instructed that the hand cream should not be kept secret from those who could enter their backyard, so Dapeng answered all his questions.

One can is two and a half ounces, that's 1,800 cans...

Si Shiro hadn't read many books, and he struggled with arithmetic up to 1,000. At this moment, his mind was completely blank.

He shook his head, his resolve to cling to his third brother and sister-in-law's coattails strengthened.

Therefore, we must seize every opportunity to appear in front of our third brother and sister-in-law and work hard.

Si Silang, as if injected with adrenaline, immediately hoisted two jars of lard onto his shoulder, his eyes resolute: "Dapeng, where are you taking these? Just tell me!"

"Uh, Fourth Brother, be careful not to strain your back."

"Two more jars won't hurt, let's go!"

Dapeng led Sisilang to move all the lard jars to the production workshop for unloading. After the lard was taken out, the jars were washed clean and left to dry in the yard.

After Shaoyang collects the pork fat again, it is stored in jars and kept in the cellar for later use.

But Cheng Ruoan felt that the lard he had collected in the past few days probably wouldn't have a chance to be stored.

Madam Guo's family owned merchant caravans that operated in both the north and south of China. The three of them discussed and decided to first transport 5,000 jars to Jiangnan to sell.

Although their cloud-shaped hand cream doesn't have the refined feel that people from Jiangnan prefer, it's incredibly cheap compared to other hand creams.

Cheng Ruoan also instilled in them the idea that "the purchasing power of the lower-tier market should not be underestimated."

Cloud Cream aims to capture the lower-tier market in the Jiangnan region.

The pork fat is placed in a water tank in the production workshop, rinsed, and then cut into pieces on a nearby workbench.

Finally, it was poured into a large pot, where Aunt Zhang controlled the heat and Si Silang stirred and rendered the oil. Only after it had all melted would Aunt Zhang call Cheng Ruoan to add alum to remove the odor.

Currently, only Cheng Ruoan knows what the deodorizing additive is.

When Cheng Ruoan arrived, he brought Lin Shi with him. "Fourth sister-in-law, come with me and slowly pour the medicine into the pot along the edge. Fourth brother, don't stop, keep stirring slowly."

"Okay."

The couple followed Cheng Ruoan's instructions without daring to make the slightest mistake.

"After pouring in the medicine, it needs to be simmered over low heat for the time it takes to brew a cup of tea. Fourth brother, keep stirring."

The following batches followed the same steps, and today we'll have to trouble my fourth brother and sister-in-law to help us.

I'll pay you the wages you get working for my master, so you won't be left without food and income if you stay at home.

The Si family did not split up; the fourth son and his wife had to hand over 80% of their earnings to Zhonggong.

But these past two days, Zhao and Si Erlang have been unaware that they are still working and receiving wages at Cheng Ruoan's place, so they have been able to save on their wages.

Lin was thrilled; she and her husband could save up two hundred coins today.

If I can stay here to work tomorrow, I can save up four hundred coins!

We can get some new cloth and cotton to make a new jacket for Si Niu.

Lin became more and more excited as she thought about it, full of energy. "Third sister-in-law, what are you saying? It's not hard work at all. Fourth Brother and I have plenty of strength, so please feel free to use us."

Si Silang naturally dared not neglect his duties and assured everyone that he could render all the hundreds of pounds of lard himself.

Aunt Zhang smiled so hard her eyes were almost closed: "With Fourth Master here, I can save myself a lot of effort."

Cheng Ruoan smiled faintly, "Aunt Zhang can't rest. Have you prepared all the small porcelain jars?"

"They've all been washed with boiling water and wiped with strong liquor. They're all stored properly in the storeroom. I'll go get them now." Aunt Zhang called Da Peng and they went out together.

Lin was wholeheartedly thinking of Cheng Ruoan; after the person left, she whispered to her:

"Third Sister-in-law, I've collected all the dregs from the medicine. Where are we going to bury them? We can't just throw them away like that."

Hand cream is key to removing odor, but the concentrated medicinal juice is even more important.

Cheng Ruoan felt quite comforted and gently patted her hand, saying, "Just give it to me, I'll take care of it."

She used to take the dregs of her medicine into her spatial storage and bury them in the land behind the villa.

hiss.

Speaking of land...

Cheng Ruoan had completely forgotten about the batch of wheat she had planted just two days ago!

"Fourth sister-in-law, you continue decocting the medicine. I feel a little dizzy right now, so I need to rest for a while. Keep the dregs; I'll come back for them when I've rested."

"Okay, Third Sister-in-law."

Cheng Ruoan hurriedly returned to her courtyard and saw Xiao Mian'er coming to collect the two little ones' vests.

"Aren't you studying under Doctor Hu? Why are you wearing a vest indoors?"

Cheng Ruoan asked casually, but her hands were actually reaching for the wardrobe to get clothes for the two little darlings.

Little Mian'er: "Dr. Hu said he would take them to the street to buy two books, because it's windy outside and they might catch a cold."

"Ah, my master is so good." Cheng Ruoan's gratitude towards her master deepened even more.

She took better care of the child than the kindergarten teacher could.

Moving.

After Xiao Mian'er took the clothes and left, Cheng Ruo'an locked the door and went into his spatial dimension.

Once inside the courtyard, past the artificial hill and pond, you'll see a golden expanse in the courtyard.

Cheng Ruoan's eyes lit up.

She ran to the electronic butler to check the time flow of the courtyard land and found that it had been adjusted back to the normal flow rate.

Cheng Ruoan breathed a sigh of relief and patted her chest: "Thank goodness, it must be that Si Shaoheng changed the time flow once it was mature..."

Otherwise, if the fastest flow rate is maintained, this batch of seeds will be wasted.

Cheng Ruoan then went to look at the large plot of land behind the villa, where there were endless golden waves of wheat.

She couldn't suppress the smile anymore.

He was jumping and skipping along the edge of the paddy field like a primary school student who got perfect scores on his final exams.

"My God, my God! It really is a cloned product! Even if the entire Great Xia Dynasty suffers a famine, we won't be afraid!"