Reborn with a Space: Building a Fortune Amidst Famine

Chapter 79: 79 Prepare in Advance

The ram is really hardworking, but after about an hour, Su Yuanyuan would definitely let it rest for a while, and give it some water to drink.

Hu Chunhua came over in the evening. She saw Su Yuanyuan grinding flour. The ram is now very proficient at grinding.

”Girl, how did it go in the county today?”

”Aunt, it’s confirmed that it can be replaced. Now I’m just waiting.”

”Why did those two shameless people come back? They’re really harmful.”

”Aunt, I’m going to the market the day after tomorrow, are you coming? I want to buy more burlap sacks.”

”Sure, I’ll go with you. I don’t have many burlap sacks at home either.”

In the evening, Hu Chunhua talked to Yang Minggang about this matter.

Everyone was worried about Su Yuanyuan, but she thought they probably wouldn’t come back this year, after all, it was still early. If they wanted to come back, it wouldn’t be possible without scheming.

The next day, Yang Peilin’s family was slaughtering pigs, she didn’t join in the fun, and in the afternoon, Wang Qiuju sent over twenty pounds of lean meat, as well as pig intestines.

Right now, Su Yuanyuan was busy grinding flour, so she just stored it in her space. She would deal with it in a few days.

On the day of the big market, there were many people at the market.

Su Yuanyuan arrived at the market and bought two hundred burlap sacks and one hundred hemp bags.

This was just to be prepared, buying more to keep.

The women went to the market, and Su Yuanyuan wandered around by herself. In the end, she also bought two rolls of cotton cloth, and gave up on anything else.

In the following days, Su Yuanyuan just stayed home grinding flour, and she also had sieves, large baskets—the cornmeal was cleaned up well.

Sweet potato strips were crushed several times, looking quite fine.

By now, it’s already late December. Tomorrow is the eighth day of December, which is her birthday.

But Su Yuanyuan didn’t plan to celebrate her birthday.

She was going to start making sausages today, she had oranges in her space, ate the meat, and used the orange peel for seasoning.

Soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt, pepper powder, sugar, white wine, orange peel, ginger.

She used twenty pounds of lean meat, and took out another ten pounds of meat from her space.

The meat was marinated all morning. In the afternoon, she started cleaning the small intestines. Wang Qiuju probably helped clean them, but Su Yuanyuan wasn’t satisfied, so she added vinegar and flour to start scrubbing.

Cleaned it five or six times, then felt it was clean.

She also had a funnel in her space, it was too cold outside, so Su Yuanyuan took these prepared materials into her space.

After two hours she got booted out, immediately went back in, didn’t wait to be booted out a second time, and the sausages were already stuffed.

She hung a rope in the west room and hung all the sausages.

There were still some small intestines left, Su Yuanyuan decided to make some blood sausage to eat.

But the starch wasn’t enough. She decided to do it tomorrow.

She didn’t go out, and didn’t know that Zhao Tian’s house was slaughtering pigs today as well.

She thought of asking Hu Chunhua where to buy sweet potato starch, and just then saw someone carrying meat.

Su Yuanyuan followed that direction and saw several people carrying meat.

”Yuanyuan, Yuanyuan, are you here to buy meat too?” Zhao Yanli asked cheerfully.

Su Yuanyuan approached her, ”If there’s any leftover, send it to me.”

Zhao Yanli gave Su Yuanyuan a look and then nodded.

After saying a few words, she went to Hu Chunhua’s house.

”Girl. Why are you here? What’s up?”

”Auntie, I want to buy some sweet potato starch.”

”There’s really no one in our village grinding sweet potato starch, you’d better wait for the big market to buy it.”

”I guess that’s the only option.”

There were still two days until the big market, no rush.

Back home, she didn’t want to do anything today, looking at the sausages hanging in the west room, Su Yuanyuan felt really satisfied.

She specifically asked Old Yang about Jiangbei, which is a low area, with a large area, sparse population, and low temperatures.

If she were to really go there, she’d have to be prepared for everything.

The day after tomorrow she’ll go to the market again, she’ll also need to prepare cotton, who knows when she’ll be able to leave once there. At least she needs to prepare all basic living supplies.

As she was making a fire, Zhao Yanli came over.

”Yuanyuan, here’s ten pounds of meat, all lean meat, my dad said you can have it for forty cents a pound.”

Su Yuanyuan smiled and handed Zhao Yanli four bucks. ”Is there anyone who wants the small intestines from your house?”

”What do you have in mind?”

”These are too skinny, I was thinking of making sausage.”

”What is sausage?” Zhao Yanli asked.

”It’s like you chop the meat up. Put spices in it, then add sweet potato starch, stuff it into the small intestines, and steam it until cooked.”

”Wow, sounds delicious. Wait, I’ll go get some. I need to keep some, I want to try it too. You explain it carefully to me later.”

”Sure, no problem.” The young girl ran off with a bowl, not long after she brought back the small intestines.

Su Yuanyuan gave her another twenty cents and then detailed on how to do it.

”Got it, once I get home, I’ll do it.”

”You have to wash the small intestines thoroughly. Or else the taste will be off, you’d better wash them with vinegar.”

”Got it, I only kept two for myself, easy to handle, if it’s tasty, I’ll ask for small intestines next time someone slaughters a pig.”

In the evening, with hot water and idle time, Su Yuanyuan washed the small intestines and stored them in her space.

Early the next morning, Zhao Yanli came running again. ”Yuanyuan, this blood sausage is delicious, my dad asked me to make more. Did you make some last night?”

Su Yuanyuan shook her head, ”Nope. I don’t have any sweet potato starch, I’ll buy some at the big market.”

”Me too, I don’t have enough sweet potato starch. Let’s go together the day after tomorrow.”

Su Yuanyuan nodded, she didn’t mind.

After seeing off the young girl, Su Yuanyuan started collecting firewood, storing all the dead trees in her space. This winter she’d just burn corn stalks and branches.

After making a round, there was nothing else to store in her space.

Sitting on the kang bed making shoes, she’d worn out two pairs of shoes this year. As she was growing, her feet grew too, she’d have to make new ones.

On the day of the big market, she took a break, fed the sheep well, added sweet potato vines to their feed, shouldered a basket, and headed out.

From afar, she saw Zhao Yanli and three young girls coming this way. She quickly locked the door.

She walked behind them, listening to their chatter. She felt that was nice. She couldn’t enjoy that simple happiness herself anymore.

At the market, the young girls went to buy food, Su Yuanyuan said a word and left.

She saw people selling dried chili peppers, bought two pounds, as well as walnuts and dates.

She saw someone selling cotton, ”Uncle, how much is cotton per pound?”

”This is top-grade cotton, if you buy some, one pound is six bucks.”

”Uncle, if I buy it all, how much per pound?”

”I have more than a hundred pounds here? You want to buy it all?”

”Yes. But this cotton must be of the same quality as the one outside.”

”Of course, you can rest assured about that.”