Chapter 9 Braised Pork
Pan Yingying used osmanthus sugar to pave the way and found out that to set up a stall here, one needed to go to the government to get a certificate and pay a rent of two cents of silver a month.

It's a bit expensive, but it's safe and there won't be any hooligans causing trouble.

Pan Yingying was quite satisfied. They were just looking for an excuse to find a source of money for their family, so they might as well take advantage of this time to do it.

Before going to find Old Man Yu, Pan Yingying specially bought five kilograms of pork from the mall and asked Yu Chaosheng to carry it through the city.

When Old Man Yu saw the red and white piece of meat from afar, his saliva immediately welled up.

That's a lot of meat! The last time he ate meat was during the Chinese New Year last year.

There's nothing I can do, my family is too poor.

This meat should weigh five or six pounds. The third son of the Yu family is truly a prodigal son!
Sitting on the ox cart, Pan Yingying took out a bag of osmanthus candy from the basket and said, "Second cousin, I want to discuss something with you."

Old man Yu refused to accept it. "Just talk about the matter. What's the point of this? No, no."

"Second cousin, these pieces of candy are not worth much. You can take them back and give them to the children to sweeten their mouths." Pan Yingying smiled and handed the oil-paper bag forward again, almost poking old man Yu in the face.

Old Man Yu had no choice but to accept the bag of candy and decided to take them to town for free next time.

Seeing that he accepted the candy, Pan Yingying started to talk about her own affairs.

"It's like this, Second Cousin, we are planning to set up a small stall at the dock to sell braised meat. We would like to hire your oxcart to transport our goods every day. How much would you charge for two trips a day?"

After a while, she got a bullock cart.

"What? Mrs. Chaosheng, you are not kidding, are you?" Old man Yu widened his eyes, thinking that there was something wrong with his ears.

Why would he think of setting up a stall at the dock out of nowhere? What was braised meat? He had never even heard of it.

Pan Yingying has curved eyebrows and looks like a well-behaved girl.

But which little girl is so bold and generous? She almost spent all the money in the family, right?

"Second cousin, we are not joking. Pan... Yingniang and I really want to set up a stall to sell things. Just give us a reasonable price and we will start with 10 days." Yu Chaosheng explained. He and Pan Yingying are now in the same boat.

Old Man Yu thought about it, then hesitantly held up two fingers and said, "20 cents a day, is that okay?"

Yu Chaosheng slapped his thigh and said, "Okay!"

After returning home, Pan Yingying took out the snacks she bought in town today from her space, divided them into three portions, kept one portion for herself, asked Yu Chaosheng to deliver half to Yu Laoer's house, and the remaining half would be sent to the Pan family when he had it free.

After resting for a while, Yu Chaosheng came back. Pan Yingying asked him to fetch water while she prepared braised meat at home.

As a result, when Yu Chaosheng went out, the water in the two buckets was less than half full when he came back. Pan Yingying was so angry that she wanted to curse.

What use is she having this second-generation rich kid! He can't even carry two buckets of water!
Yu Chaosheng himself was also quite embarrassed. His original body could run very fast but had little strength, and he couldn't do this kind of work. Fortunately, he thought quickly and immediately thought of a solution.

"Buy a big bucket in the mall, then we'll go to the river. I'll take a bucket and you'll collect one. We'll put them in the space and you can take them whenever you need them."

Pan Yingying rolled her eyes at him and asked, "Who's going to pay for the bucket?"

Yu Chaosheng cursed in his heart, "This woman is really stingy," but he put on a flattering smile on his face and massaged her shoulders and back attentively, "Of course it's me, why does Sister Pan need to spend money!"

"That's better." Pan Yingying muttered and started searching for a big bucket in the mall.

The system space was about 300 square meters, and it was filled with the things she had bought long ago, including rice, flour, vegetables, fruits, and meat. In order to hide her tracks, she also bought a lot of coarse grains, which were piled in the corner.

The space has a freshness-preserving function. Whatever you put in will remain the same when you take it out.

After searching for a long time in the mall, the largest bucket was only 1000 liters. After asking Yu Chaosheng, Pan Yingying directly bought ten. After a simple dinner, the two of them sneaked to the river with flashlights at night.

It took me a long time of hard work to fill the ten buckets.

When I got home, I was busy boiling water. I was busy until midnight. I used two big pots together and finally boiled half of it.

"I'm so tired!" Pan Yingying fell on the bed, her hands so tired that she couldn't even lift them.

Yu Chaosheng was also tired, but he still helped to massage Pan Yingying's arm. While doing so, he said, "I think we can save some water like we did today when we have time in the future."

Pan Yingying glared at him, "If you want to tire me to death, just say so!"

"No, haven't you heard? There is a severe drought in the north. Generally, during a drought, besides paying attention to the plague, do you know what else we need to pay attention to?" Yu Chaosheng lowered his voice.

Pan Yingying raised her eyes and met his dark eyes.

His expression was very serious, and he didn't seem to be joking at all.

"Pay attention to what?" She couldn't help but think along the lines of what he said.

He moved closer, "Military disaster."

"My body is idle and often hangs around in the town. I have also been to the county town and know a lot of news. I don't know that your body has been in the village all year round. The emperor is not doing well now. I heard that he is refining elixirs in the palace every day. The princes are not easy to deal with either. I suspect that if this continues, war will happen sooner or later."

Yu Chaosheng was right. As can be seen from the soaring food prices, the world is not peaceful.

Pan Yingying pursed her lips and grabbed his arm, "You pay and buy 20 more buckets."

Yu Chaosheng: …

He didn't dare to object and agreed reluctantly.

He knew that the world is unstable now, so after discovering that Pan Yingying had a golden finger, he immediately chose to bow down and hug her thigh.

Otherwise, would Pan Yingying dare to climb over his head? He would let her know why the pot was made of iron.

Neither of them slept well that night.

Because they didn't sleep well, they naturally got up early the next day. Yu Chaosheng carried the braised meat, while Pan Yingying carried a basket. The basket was covered with cloth, so you couldn't see what was inside.

When we arrived at the village entrance, Old Man Yu was already waiting, chewing a multi-grain steamed bun in his hand.

Seeing them coming, he stuffed the last bite of steamed bun into his mouth and helped Yu Chaosheng put the backpack on the cart.

"set off!"

Pan Yingying deliberately chose to set up her stall next to a stall selling steamed buns and steamed buns, not far from the pier, only about forty or fifty meters away.

I was lucky today. A ship arrived at the dock and many men were carrying bags and unloading goods.

There were two old benches on the stall. Pan Yingying took a walk in the alley and when she came out she had a clean old door panel in her hand.

Put the door panel on the bench, and then put out the braised meat and offal one by one. On the far right of the door panel is a chopping board and a brand new kitchen knife.

Yu Chaosheng carried a cloth bag across his shoulder and held a small scale in his hand. His main task today was to weigh the meat and collect money.

(End of this chapter)