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

Chapter 310 Mysterious Man

Three taels of silver.

Shen Yi pondered for a moment and said, "I'll raise the price a little more for you."

The brother and sister were startled and shook their heads repeatedly, "No, no, no. Sister Su Tai has already raised our wages, and she has also helped our family a lot. If it weren't for you, our family would still be destitute and we wouldn't be living such a good life."

Shen Ergou nodded in agreement, "Sister Su Tai accepted so much strawberry jam, which is also to help us. When Mr. Tang was here, she asked us to listen in on his lectures whenever we had time. My siblings and I have all learned quite a few characters. We are just doing some work, it's nothing."

Seeing that the brother and sister were sincere, Shen Yi stopped insisting.

When Su Tai woke up, it was already broad daylight.

The Han couple and their four children were all awake and making a ruckus in the side room.

There was breakfast left for her by Han in the kitchen: a bowl of fresh goat milk and three meat and vegetable dumplings.

She quickly finished her meal, tidied up the kitchen, and then went to the side room.

When Han saw that she had woken up, she immediately said, "Now that your son-in-law is back, your father and I should go back too. We still need to go to the market to buy New Year's goods in a couple of days. Your family can go back on the second day of the Lunar New Year. I'll have your father make you a whole roasted lamb!"

Su Tai's eyes lit up instantly, "Great!"

This year, Ke Dasong and his two sons brought a bunch of cattle and sheep, just like before. However, many villagers started raising sheep this year, and not many actually bought them.

Su Tai took on as much as possible on her side, and also took on half of the work on Dongmen Village, especially Su Chunlin and Su Chunsen.

The Su family has no shortage of mutton now.

So many sheep need to eat a lot of fodder.

Su Chunlin had a terrible headache, and the best solution was to get rid of it as soon as possible.

Su Tai gave him an idea: to make roast whole lamb.

Roasting a whole lamb is time-consuming, laborious, and strenuous.

Su Tai herself didn't like to make it, but unexpectedly Su Chunlin actually made it work, and it tasted excellent, and its reputation even spread to the surrounding villages.

Now, people often come from far and wide to order whole roasted lambs from him.

On average, we can sell one or two a day.

Especially with the Lunar New Year approaching, more families are ordering whole roasted lambs, so Su Chunlin has to go back to work.

After seeing off Su Chunlin and his wife, Su Tai didn't rest. She hadn't made the sticky rice cake she had promised the villagers. The sticky rice cake was made from glutinous rice, but Langya Kingdom didn't produce glutinous rice. She had only planted glutinous rice twice after planting rice in the Earth Time and Space. Her family didn't eat much of it and stored it all in the cellar.

There are many flavors of sticky rice cake, and the methods of making it vary from place to place.

Their family had limited resources, so Su Tai decided to make the most traditional sticky rice cake.

Soak glutinous rice overnight, steam it the next day, then pound it into sticky rice cakes. Prepare red bean paste, mung bean paste, peanut and sesame paste, and brown sugar syrup paste, as well as strawberry jam and plain flavor.

That makes a total of six flavors.

The sticky rice cake, filled with filling, is coated with powdered sugar. It's sweet but not sticky, soft and chewy, and looks incredibly tempting.

After the food was made, Su Tai was packaged in oil paper, with twelve pieces in each package, two of each flavor, and delivered to each household.

The villagers were amazed after tasting it, and some even came to Su Tai's door, saying they wanted to buy it.

Su Tai had no intention of doing this business, but the three women from the Xu family, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, were very free and encouraged her to take on the job so they could come and help.

Su Tai agreed so they could pass the time. So Shen Yi had one more thing to do every day: to keep pounding glutinous rice.

Su Tai never expected that the snacks she made to pass the time would be so popular. On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, when Madam Xu came to settle the bill with her, she discovered that she had actually earned seventy or eighty taels.

This was the money he received after giving half to the Xu family.

Shen Yi praised, "Wife, I've discovered that you're a walking god of wealth."

Su Tai burst into laughter.

The couple closed the door and planned to have a nice family reunion dinner tonight.

The same applies to other households, with only a few exceptions.

In the vast Bai mansion, all of Master Bai's illegitimate sons brought their families, while Madam Zhu sat to the side with the children adopted under her name.

Although she lost her husband, the Zhu family prospered, and none of the Bai family's illegitimate sons dared to look down on Zhu. They respected her even more than they respected Master Bai.

Madam Zhu was secretly pleased. She looked around and then slowly turned to Rulan, saying, "Go to the main courtyard and see when Mother will arrive."

Rulan immediately went out, walking quickly with small steps, and strolled along the eaves.

Upon arriving at the main courtyard, she asked for permission three times from outside, but received no response from inside. Just as she was about to lose her patience, the door opened, and Granny Li emerged like a ghost, saying, "Madam is not feeling well and will not join in the fun."

"Yes," Rulan bowed respectfully. Just as she retreated to the corner of the archway, she heard Madam Bai and Madam Liu's powerful rebuke coming from inside the house, "My son is gone, and Master still has the mind to have a reunion dinner with those bastards! If it weren't for them, my son wouldn't have died! It's all their fault!"

Rulan shook her head, increasingly convinced that Liu had gone mad and was starting to talk nonsense.

Granny Li became Liu's scapegoat, and was scolded and kicked out.

After Granny Li left, a figure quietly slipped into Madam Liu's room.

Lying on the bed, Madam Liu thought it was Granny Li returning, and shouted angrily, "Get out! All of you get out! You useless things!"

Do you want to know how your son died?

Liu suddenly rolled over, staring in horror at the person shrouded in a black cloak and hood. "Who...who are you? How did you get in?"

The man in black remained motionless, and slowly said in a low, hoarse voice, "I know how your son died. If you want to know the truth, don't make a fuss."

Thinking of her beloved son, Liu felt a pang of heartache, her pale face filled with pain and resentment. "Wasn't my son killed in battle?"

The man in black let out a chilling laugh. "He did indeed die in battle, but he could have survived."

"Who? Who did this?!" Liu rolled off the bed in agitation.

The man in black retreated as he said, "It was Zhu Yixuan. Bai Feng and Zhu Yixuan were inseparable. On the battlefield, it's hard to guard against a hidden arrow. Originally, that arrow was aimed at Zhu Yixuan. Zhu Yixuan couldn't dodge it in time and used Bai Feng next to him as a shield. Bai Feng died on the spot, and Zhu Yixuan was promoted for his merit. How wonderful are the forks in the road in life! Look at them, aren't they two completely different lives?"

Liu's eyes were bloodshot, her gaze filled with venom as she stared at the dark figure before her. "Who are you? Why should I believe you!"

The man in black continued, "Do you want to know how Bai Feng died? That arrow flew so fast that he didn't even have time to react before Zhu Yixuan grabbed him and pierced his chest. It was a clean and swift death. He died with his eyes wide open. Don't you love your son very much? The hatred for killing your son is irreconcilable!"
It's okay if you don't believe me. I've said what I needed to say, and I have a clear conscience!

As soon as he finished speaking, the man in black nimbly opened the door and slipped out.

The cold wind howled in through the cracks in the door and entered the room.

From the main courtyard came Liu's heart-wrenching cries.

Zhu and the others, who were having their reunion dinner, all heard it, and their expressions changed simultaneously.

Master Bai frowned in displeasure, "What is Madam causing trouble again?"