After being jilted, the entire neighboring village was filled with deep regret.

Chapter 227 Current Status of the Time-Space Gate
Everyone subconsciously touched their armor. Since they started traveling, they had been wearing their armor close to their inner clothing, determined not to take it off.

Seeing everyone's solemn expressions, Shen Yi comforted them, saying, "The good news is that we will arrive at the border around the time of the New Year. According to the agreement, there will be a truce, and we will continue fighting after the spring harvest. So we have a few months to adjust."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good that we don't have to go to the battlefield right away!"

"I wonder what the situation is like at home now!" Ye An muttered, and everyone heard him.

Shen Yi couldn't help but think of his wife and children at home, his eyes filled with longing.

At that moment, Su Tai, whom he was thinking about, was sitting in the main room with Ke Yunyun and Xiao Xi, making clothes and shoes for the children.

In the dead of winter, the village was eerily quiet, with every household's doors tightly shut. Su Tai was no exception; her two doors were closed and secured with two large wooden bolts, making them rock solid.

Since no one was visiting, Ke Yunyun and her two companions didn't need to hide anything and could freely move around in the yard.

Su Tai set up a small, square platform in a corner of the main room, covered it with cushions and blankets, so the three children could run, jump, and play on it without fear of falling.

There were also some little gadgets that Shen Yi made for them, which could keep the children entertained for most of the day.

Ke Yunyun glanced at the children every now and then, her eyes full of contentment. "Cousin, what are our plans for the New Year?"

Su Tai pondered for a moment, then asked her in return, "How did you all live before?"

Ke Yunyun paused for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said, "My identity is something that can't be seen in the light of day, so I can only stay in the small courtyard. Before I had a child, I kept Xiao Xi company. It didn't matter whether I had a child or not. After I had a child, my uncle's family came to live with me, and it became much more lively."

Young Master Zhu also paid more attention to things. He had no worries about food and clothing, but he lived a restrained life, not daring to be too high-profile, and even less daring to cook strong-smelling food, for fear that the smell would drift to the neighbors' houses and attract people over.

Ah! It was better back when we were on the ice plains. Although we were poor and lacked this and that, we could laugh when we wanted to laugh and cry when we wanted to cry. Our parents, older brothers, and second brothers would try their best to satisfy us. But, you can't have everything. I'm much healthier now, and I have Kangcheng. I'm content.

Where's my cousin? How did she spend the New Year?

Su Tai hadn't really planned to have a lively celebration, but after hearing what Ke Yunyun said, she changed her mind. "I won't go into details about when I was at my parents' house, but ever since I married Shen Yi, every year during the Spring Festival, there's always fish, meat, vegetables, and lots of snacks at home. I just cook whatever I feel like, and your brother-in-law isn't picky about food, so he eats whatever I want."

See the stone mortar in the yard? We make rice cakes every year. There are only a few stone mortars in the village, and our family has one. We can make whatever we want. After the New Year's Eve dinner, we set off fireworks.

Given the situation this year, I don't know if anyone in the village will still be setting off fireworks. If they are, we'll set them off too; if not, we'll set off firecrackers and play with some small fireworks. What do you think?

Ke Yunyun nodded excitedly with a look of longing on her face.

Because of her changed mind, Su Tai will inevitably have to sneak into the portal again.

Previously, a large amount of armor and medicine were prepared for Shen Yi and his group, costing several million virtual coins. The Gold Dimension was successfully upgraded, unlocking the customization of non-powered vehicles (cars and boats). The Fire Dimension was upgraded, unlocking a snack street. The Wood Dimension was upgraded, unlocking a large tea wholesale market.

Customizing non-motorized vehicles (cars, boats) is currently a waste of her time and won't be of any use in the short term; she hasn't looked into it in detail yet.

The snack street is a great place to visit. Dozens of shops sell food, from all-you-can-eat hot pot and barbecue to breakfast bun and steamed bun shops. All kinds of delicacies from all over the country are available. There are also dozens of stalls on both sides of the road, doing small business and creating a strong sense of everyday life.

With this great place, she doesn't need to arrange the New Year's Eve dinner herself; she can just spend some virtual currency.

To upgrade Fire Space again, she needs to spend 200,000 virtual coins here, so she has to find ways to spend more money.

The large tea wholesale market in the Wood Dimension is even more remarkable. It not only includes all kinds of famous teas such as white tea, black tea, green tea, and dark tea, but also flower tea, fruit tea, health tea, and milk tea that surprised her! The milk tea is not a finished product, but rather they sell specially roasted tea leaves for milk tea. As long as you use those roasted tea leaves to boil milk, you will have a perfect milk tea. It is fragrant, rich, and authentic, and you can't stop drinking it once you start.

She had tried it secretly, but since no one had come to visit recently, Ke Yunyun and Xiao Xi had been staying in the main room for a long time, so she couldn't find an excuse to take the things out openly.

We'll have to wait until Chinese New Year.

In a few years, more people will come to borrow her family's stone mortar, and Ke Yunyun will have to hide in the courtyard by the cellar, and some food will be able to start moving out.

The next upgrade of Mu Shikong requires her to spend 200,000 virtual coins at the tea wholesale market, which is also a considerable sum.

Su Tai thought for a moment and decided to sell a few hundred catties of tea to take back, as it would be time to prepare New Year's gifts.

Besides her relatives on her maternal side, there were also her clansmen in Shenjiazhuang, as well as the clansmen who worked for her family and the tenants of the village—none of these could be overlooked.

Seeing that she bought so much, the tea shop owner grinned from ear to ear. "Miss, would you like some custom gift packaging?"

Su Tai shook her head, "No need for the special gift box. Just prepare some airtight oil paper for me, make it look antique, I want to give it as a gift."

The tea shop owner immediately brought over a few oil paper bags for her to see. "Will this be okay? It has a sealing strip. We also have more traditional packaging, but you have to seal it yourself with rice milk, otherwise the tea aroma will dissipate and it won't taste good."

Su Tai glanced at it and directly asked for the original oil paper bag.

She bought a large quantity of tea, and it was wholesale; one jin (500 grams) cost forty yuan, so five hundred jin would cost twenty thousand yuan.

The packaging bags and rice milk are provided free of charge by the merchant.

Su Tai took the things back, and when the first family came to borrow the stone mortar, she took Ke Yunyun and the others back to the cellar and asked them to help pack the tea, which was also a way to give them something to do.

She was busy outside by herself, delivering New Year's gifts to relatives and acquaintances in the village.

Each family had a packet of tea, a packet of brown sugar, and a sizable steamed egg and bread.

Families who received New Year's gifts also reciprocated with gifts.

One company sends eggs, another sends pork or wild game; they send all sorts of things.

Su Tai's house has visibly accumulated more belongings.

At this point, if she were to bring out the fresh seafood she had captured from the Water Dimension, Ke Yunyun and Xiao Xi would have absolutely no suspicion, and wouldn't even give it a second thought.

After Su Tai finished delivering New Year's gifts in the village, just as she was about to close the door, Huang Xinghua came over with Shen Tian, ​​carrying a large basket of things.

"Auntie, what are you doing?" Su Tai asked, somewhat bewildered.

Huang Xinghua chuckled and said, "I made some pickled vegetables at home. Xiaotian said you didn't have any, so I got some for you to try. I also got some eggs from the geese we raise at home. They're huge, so I brought you a few to try too. Oh, by the way! Today my husband went to Moshi Town and saw that the Ma family's grain shop was selling a kind of grain that I'd never heard of before, called rice. It looked really nice, all white, but it was extremely expensive."

It costs seventy coins per pound. They say it's from the Kingdom of Longxia. Anyway, we've never tried it before, so we bought a few pounds and brought some for you to try too.