Ah? The ladies I stabbed have come true.

Chapter 40 The Difficult First Pot of Gold
[Under the cover of night, you weave a bamboo basket to hold tomorrow's herbs.]

[The next day, you woke up early, prepared food for Guo Lin, and then began searching the valley for the herbs you had found earlier.]

【Finally, you collected a basket full of herbs.】

[Among them are tricholoma, golden thread lotus, octagonal lotus, coptis root, chicken blood vine, Uncaria rhynchophylla, etc., all of which are very valuable medicinal herbs.]

After greeting Guo Lin, you headed towards Qinglin County. Because you were carrying so much stuff, it took you a full three hours, arriving at noon.

You found a pharmacy, and the owner was surprised that you had collected so many precious herbs.

[Since these herbs are quite old, the pharmacy owner also bought them at a price slightly higher than the market price.]

You received six ounces and three qian of silver.

You are grateful to the herbal medicine store owner for not cheating you.

[This is the first pot of gold you earned after escaping from the village.]

[You are determined to harvest all the medicinal herbs in the valley.]

When you passed by a jewelry store, you spent one or two taels of silver to buy a silver hairpin for Guo Lin. You also bought a piece of soap, which was the predecessor of soap and was used by almost everyone to clean their body and hair.

[I've been using clean water to clean it for a while now, but it's still not clean enough.]

【After doing all this, you are ready to return to the valley. 】

[As you pass through an alley, two beautiful prostitutes run over and want you to go to their place to play.]

[The price is claimed to be very cheap, one tael of silver can be used to order two beautiful and talented girls.]

What do you choose now?

[Option 1: Forget about returning to the valley for now and go inside the brothel with these two prostitutes to find out what's going on.]

[Option 2: Reject the solicitations of these two prostitutes with righteous words and leave without stopping.]

[Option 3: To show your loyalty to Guo Lin, burn down the brothel in the dark.]

……

When Su Mo saw that it was the brothel run by the thousand-year-old tree spirit, he chose the second option without any consideration or hesitation.

As for the third item, which asked me to set fire to the brothel at night, wasn’t that a joke?

If I really did that, wouldn’t I be eaten alive by that thousand-year-old tree spirit?

……

You righteously rejected the advances of the two prostitutes and, before the city gates closed, took the remaining five taels of silver and left Qinglin County.

[Two hours later, you returned to the valley.]

【Guo Lin is very happy to see you back.】

After you gave her the pancreas and the remaining silver, you personally put on the silver hairpin you bought for her. She was very pleased with it and was full of hope for your future life together.

[But at this moment, Guo Lin smelled the fragrance of your makeup and was shocked. She immediately began to question you.]

"Why do you smell like another woman?"

After hearing this, you immediately explained your previous experience in Qinglin County. After hearing your righteous refusal, Guo Lin smiled happily.

"You must be honest."

[But after saying this, Guo Lin's face turned sad again.]

"Although it's common for men to have three or four wives, will you treat me badly if you marry other women in the future?"

After hearing Guo Lin's concerns, you immediately and quietly held Guo Lin in your arms.

"How can other women compare to my wife?"

"The person I love most in this world is my wife."

Guo Lin was very happy to hear your sweet words. After dinner, you two stayed together until midnight.

In the picture, Guo Lin's eyes are slightly closed, her brows are furrowed, and her arches form a graceful arc...

[For the rest of your life, you continued to gather various medicinal herbs and sell them to Qinglin County. Occasionally, you would also bring a few animal skins to sell to the tailor shop.]

The pharmacy owner is also grateful that you are here, as he can get high-quality medicinal materials without having to purchase them in the store.

[If it were resold to Hangzhou Prefecture, the profit would be at least 50% higher.]

He didn't ask you where you collected these herbs, but you felt grateful that you had met a kind person.

But you also kept your eyes open.

If you sense someone is secretly following you, you will go somewhere else to shake them off and then walk away.

【But this never happened as you expected.】

[Silver accumulated more and more.] [By the time you had collected all the herbs in the valley, it would have been three months.]

[During this period, you received a minimum of one tael of silver and a maximum of ten taels of silver every day. After deducting expenses, the amount of silver you saved has reached over five hundred taels.]

[Whenever you save up a hundred taels, you'll go to the bank and exchange it for a silver note. The people of Qinglin County are simple and honest, so you'll save a lot of effort.]

【Since winter is just a few months away, you begin looking for a suitable location for your restaurant.】

Even if the restaurant is closed, you and Guo Lin cannot spend the winter in this valley.

[Finally, you spent 310 taels to buy a three-story building near the west gate of Qinglin County.]

This place is close to the West Market. Although it has less traffic than the other three city gates, there's only one restaurant called "Chun Ke Lai" and a few shoe shops nearby, so the competition is much less.

You firmly believe that with your cooking and winemaking skills, you won't have to worry about customers not coming to your restaurant.

[And here, it's quite far from the East City Gate where the brothel is located.]

You vaguely feel that the brothel isn't a good place, so this place near West Market suits your taste.

After the deed came into your hands, you spent another eighty taels to decorate the entire three-story building.

The front yard houses the main gate, screen wall, lobby, seating, cashier desk, and counter.

The backyard housed the winery and kitchen, with two large rooms for the men and women, two toilets, and an underground ice cellar.

[You also specifically requested a stove in the backyard for heating water for bathing.]

[There are nine private rooms on the second floor.]

[There are only six rooms on the top third floor. The best and largest room will be occupied by you and Guo Lin, and the remaining five will be used as guest rooms.]

【The guest rooms only have basic furniture such as beds, tables and chairs, wardrobes, etc., which can meet the needs of accommodation. 】

The room you and Guo Lin live in is exquisitely and luxuriously decorated, with a bed, wardrobe, dressing table, chairs, a bathtub with a screen, and various other decorations.

The most important thing is sound insulation.

You spent over ten taels of silver to make the room soundproof.

Finally, you named your restaurant "Yue Lai Lou" and spent three taels of silver to have the local scholar Li write it for you. Including the plaque, the total cost was four taels of silver.

When the plaque of "Yue Lai Tower" is hung up, it means that your three months of accumulation have not been in vain.

[The first step of the Long March also began at this moment.]

After bringing Guo Lin from the valley, she looked at the Yuelai Tower in front of her with some disbelief.

[This is the wealth her lover has accumulated over the past few months.]

[That night, Guo Lin took her first hot bath in months, and you two also enjoyed a bath together in the room.]

……

Su Mo kept remembering in his mind the things that he needed to pay attention to when opening a restaurant.

In some of these places, I also fell into the traps in the simulation.

Must be written down.

This can avoid a lot of trouble.

……

You didn't open your business right away, and the plaque of Yuelai Tower has been wrapped in a red cloth and never shown to the public.

[You want to brew the first batch of wine first, then hire a few waiters and a cook to take care of laundry and other chores, and then Yue Lai Lou can open for business.]

[But you know, a restaurant can't just have one kind of wine; it needs three different grades of wine to impress.]

[With your God of Cookery talent, you quickly deduced several wine brewing methods.]

The lowest-grade wine is brewed with brown rice and osmanthus flowers. It has a slightly sweet taste and a moderate alcohol content. You call it Osmanthus Wine. It takes about 20 days to brew and can be kept for less than a year. It's suitable for those with limited money to quench their thirst and cravings.

The mid-range version is a special brew made from barley and hops, which you call ale. It's amber-colored, clear and shiny, with foam like snow. It's mellow and has a lingering malt aroma.

Looking at himself in the picture researching various wine recipes, Su Mo felt a little incredible.

I didn’t expect that I would accidentally develop beer.

If it can be done.

You can put this beer in the restaurant that is about to open.

With its special taste and color.

It will definitely become a major feature!
It’s this high-end wine. The person in the picture has never really studied it well. After all, it’s the wine that will be the centerpiece.

From the naming, concept, taste, aftertaste, etc., they must all be top-notch!

(End of this chapter)