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

Chapter 77 Money-grubbing
Xu thought for a moment, patted her thigh, gritted her teeth and said, "Peanut oil, please! I heard from the village chief's wife that peanut oil is more fragrant than soybean oil. I've never tried it. Anyway, it's one coin more expensive per ounce. Give me a pound."

Su Tai immediately asked Madam Xu to go to the main room to avoid the wind, while she took the oil bottle and ran to the backyard.

In no time, a full jug of oil was brought out for Xu.

Xu took it and weighed it a couple of times, then exclaimed in surprise, "Oh! This weight is wrong, you gave me too much!"

"Not much, not much, it doesn't matter anyway. Second Aunt, go back and try it out. If it's good, I'll have Shen Yi bring back more next time." Su Tai squinted, seemingly thinking of a new way to make money.

Xu's oil jug could hold a little over a pound of oil, and Su Tai couldn't possibly give her more, so she accepted her kindness and left a string of copper coins and sixty copper coins.

Su Tai's eyes lit up, and with a sudden inspiration, she stepped forward, picked up ten coins, and stuffed them back into Xu Shi's arms. "Second Aunt, we're all family, so of course we can't make money off you. Don't worry, we won't lose money."

Xu blushed, too moved to speak, and said in a trembling voice, "Wait here, I'll go and help you spread the word right now. Tell anyone who wants to buy oil to come to you."

After Xu left, Shen Yi immediately closed the courtyard gate, let out a long sigh, and explained, "I was carrying an oil jug into the village when my second aunt and a few villagers saw me. I had to bite the bullet and lie. I guess someone else will come to buy oil later."

"It's alright, it's alright! Isn't a pound of peanut oil 160 coins outside?" Su Tai asked.

Shen Yi nodded. "This year, the oil seller only started selling peanut oil because peanuts are expensive. Peanut oil is more fragrant than soybean oil, and it costs 160 coins per pound, which is 10 coins more expensive than soybean oil."

“That’s right. My second aunt gave me 160 coins, so I’ll charge her 10 coins less. If villagers come to buy oil, I’ll charge them 5 coins less, and I can make a lot of money!” Su Tai said with a smug look on her face.

The peanut oil she presses has an oil yield of 50%. Two catties of peanuts can produce one catty of oil. One catty of peanuts costs 35 coins, so two catties only cost 70 coins. With this operation, she can make a net profit of 85 coins, which is quite considerable.

However, soybean oil is not as profitable. It takes four catties of soybeans to produce one catty of oil, and the cost is 120 coins. One catty of soybean oil sells for 145 coins, so you can only make 25 coins in profit.

Seeing that she was happy, Shen Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

The two quickly carried the oil jug into the storeroom.

After Shen Yi left, Su Tai immediately carried the oil can into the transfer station.

These oil jugs come in different capacities: the largest weighs ten jin, the medium one weighs five jin, and the smallest one jin.

Even when they were all filled, there was still not enough room. Luckily, there were a few empty large wine jars at home.

Su Tai had to use three more large wine jars to get all the oil out of the transfer station.

She had just finished her work and sat down when there was a knock on the door.

They were a group of village women who came to buy oil together, and they all carried the same kind of oil jug.

Perhaps it was because Xu had praised the peanut oil so highly in front of them that these people asked to see it as soon as they entered the door.

Su Tai didn't want to miss such a good business opportunity, so she immediately led them to the kitchen and took out a five-pound jar of peanut oil. "Smell it and see if it's the same as the one you buy outside?"

The group had come with a critical eye, but when Su Tai opened the oil bottle, the irresistible aroma of the oil made them forget their carefully prepared words and only feel a frenzy of excitement.

A woman clutched her money bag and asked nervously, "Shen Yi's family, how much is this oil?"

Su Tai hurriedly smiled and said, "A pound of peanut oil costs 160 coins outside. We're all from the same village, so I'll give you a 5-coin discount per pound." Everyone looked at each other, and then rushed to let Su Tai be the first to fill the oil container.

Su Tai called Shen Yi over to help, and she was in charge of collecting the money.

As Su Tai instructed, Shen Yi bought an oil bottle and filled it with extra oil to ensure that there was no shortage of weight.

The women who came to buy oil all left satisfied, carrying their oil jugs.

After they spread the word, villagers kept coming to buy oil for the next few days, until it snowed and no one came anymore.

At this time, Su Tai only had 20 catties of peanut oil left, but she had a lot of soybean oil left, 35 catties. She earned nearly 50 taels just from selling the oil.

At the same time, she didn't forget to fish. When she was lucky, she would cast her net twice a day and catch a dozen or twenty fish, some big and some small. When she was unlucky, she might catch nothing and even break her net.

All the fish caught were transported by boat by Shen Yi to the restaurants on the Daxun River. Fish weighing less than a pound were sold for 50 coins per pound, fish weighing more than a pound were sold for 60 coins per pound, and fish weighing more than two pounds were sold for 70 coins per pound.

Fish weighing over three catties are considered large and are sold individually. A single fish can fetch three to five hundred coins, or even five to six hundred coins, making it a luxury dish in restaurants.

Shen Yi didn't have many big fish, so he delivered them every three days, which just barely met the restaurant's needs. During this period, he earned more than twenty taels of silver.

After a month of hard work, the couple finally had a chance to relax. Just then, Su Tai harvested the two acres of water chestnuts she had planted in the Earth Dimension and sold them for 18,000 coins. Her virtual currency balance suddenly became more than 30,000.

With this money, she could hire sixteen more ground squirrels to plant water chestnuts in the remaining eight acres of paddy fields, and getting rich would be just around the corner.

Shen Yi has recently found his wife to be acting strangely. She would occasionally giggle as if she was expecting something, but she wouldn't say anything. This made him spend all his time trying to figure out what his wife was thinking, and he couldn't pay attention to anything else.

When Su Tai appeared in front of Shen Yi again carrying a large bucket of fish, Shen Yi stopped her and asked, "Wife, the Daxun River will be frozen in half a month. Will we still be able to sell fish then?"

Su Tai paused, looking pained. "How could it be so fast! I haven't earned enough money yet!"

Shen Yi chuckled, "You can never earn all the money in the world. We've been busy all year, so we should take a good rest. Also, before the heavy snow closes the roads, how about we go back to Dongmen Village?"

Su Tai slapped her forehead in annoyance, "Luckily you reminded me that I should go back to my parents' home to bring them some oil. No, I should press more oil to take back; the villagers will definitely love it."

Shen Yi: "."

Is his wife obsessed with money? She never forgets to make money no matter where she goes! But he must have done a great deed in his past life to marry such a money-making wife, so he definitely has to help her.

The two finished their discussion.

Su Tai pressed another 500 jin of peanuts and 500 jin of soybeans, and asked Shen Yi to take them to Dongmen Village first.

On a snowy day, Su Chunlin's family stayed indoors to hibernate, and when they heard Shen Yi's voice, they thought they were hallucinating.

Han kicked him out of bed, yelling, "Go out and check right now!"

Su Chunlin shivered, quickly put on the cotton-padded jacket that Su Tai had made for him, and then went out.

A moment later, Su Chunlin called out to his family, excitedly shouting, "My son-in-law bought a batch of peanut oil and soybean oil, five coins cheaper than outside! You all hurry up and go to the village to ask who's buying oil, and call them all over here!"