Exiled to Lingnan, the Crown Prince's wife raises children, cultivates the land, and leads the

"Madam Cheng, there's only a little sweetness left in the sauce. Everyone can take some home to drink as a dessert. The rest will have to be thrown away."

Leng Dao explained, "Third Master has already brought you all a big bucket!"

"Didn't you think about selling the juice from the tail end?"

Cheng Qiqi asked.

"This can actually be sold for money?"

Leng Dao was stunned. As far back as he could remember, he had always taken the last bit of sauce from the last course home to drink.

Either throw it away directly.

He has drunk countless amounts of sugarcane juice with a slightly sweet taste since he was a child.

"Why can't it be sold?"

Cheng Qiqi took another bite: "It has a light sweetness. We can add a little brown sugar, and boil some radish in water. It will definitely taste good and replenish our energy!"

Especially for dockworkers, replenishing sugar is extremely necessary.

"Let's try it today. If it works, we can arrange for someone to sell it at the county's dock tomorrow."

Cheng Qiqi had just finished speaking.

Granny Leng had already arranged for someone to fetch the radishes, and at the same time, she led her to the large pot next door—not the three-in-one pot, but the one belonging to the Leng family next door.

"Can sugarcane and radish juice really taste good?"

The old woman was a little curious; her mind was only focused on one thing: making money from it!

"You'll know once you try."

As Cheng Qiqi spoke, she directly chopped the radish, added a small piece of brown sugar, and put it into the sugarcane tail juice. Soon, a pot of brown sugar sugarcane tail juice radish water was ready.

A big pot of sugarcane and radish juice, with a light sweet taste, is very delicious!

"Everyone should try it. If it costs one penny a bowl, would anyone drink it?"

Cheng Qiqi asked.

Since the sugar shop belongs to everyone, everyone takes it very seriously.

Just in time, everyone had been busy all day and was tired. A sip of sweet soup seemed to wipe away most of the day's fatigue!

Everyone was busy taking the dessert home for their families to try. If it was good, they would arrange for someone to go to the county to sell it tomorrow afternoon.

"Third brother, what did you pick out?"

When Marquis Zhongyong returned from the training ground, he saw Third Master Jin carrying a bucket of water back.

"Second brother, this is sugarcane and radish juice. Qiqi said it can be sold for money."

Master Jin was all smiles. Now that his daughter-in-law was pregnant, he was hoping to earn more money.

"Everyone in the sugar shop got a lot; everyone should try some."

In the evening, the Jin family all drank sugarcane and white radish water. It had a light sweetness, with the aroma of sugarcane mixed with the sweetness of white radish. It tasted better than ordinary sugar water!

The next day, the people at the sugar mill unanimously decided to cook a large pot of the tail sauce and send it to the county to sell.

A large vat can hold one or two hundred bowls. If it were sold for one penny a serving, wouldn't that be like making money out of thin air?

That huge vat of tail liquid is free; the cost is just a little radish and a few small pieces of brown sugar, which is practically free.

The village head was very cautious and arranged for three people: his son, Zhuang Haichao, Leng Jiao, and Jin Cizhi from the eldest branch of the family.

He was becoming increasingly unable to cut camphor wood, so Grandpa Jin came up with a plan to get Jin Cizhi a job at the sugar mill.

Who knew that on my very first day there, I would be assigned to sell sweet soup.

Jin Cizhi thought to himself, "My elder brother Jin Lizhi sells pickled vegetables every day. It's not that difficult, is it?"

So soon they were pushing a large vat of sugarcane and white radish juice to the dock in the county town!

The sugar shop gave this sweet soup a very nice name: White Sweet Soup.

In the candy shop, Granny Leng watched as more and more amber candies were packed into bags, stacked neatly, and then placed into woven bamboo baskets, carefully wrapped in large oil-proof paper.

As the amount of brown sugar in the warehouse increased day by day, Granny Leng looked forward to Chongshan's return!

At the same time, they were also worried about what would happen if Chongshan couldn't sell a single piece of candy.

The old woman wished she could urge Cheng Qiqi every single day.

"Grandma Leng, it's just a waste of a little firewood, and it doesn't matter if the sweet soup doesn't sell."

Cheng Qiqi comforted her.

"Chongshan, hasn't he returned yet?"

The old woman looked at Cheng Qiqi with a complicated expression. How could she be worried about the leftover sauce?

What she was worried about was Chongshan, who went out to sell brown sugar!

"All things considered, Chongshan has been gone for less than ten days."

Cheng Qiqi counted on her fingers: Chongshan went out after the Lunar New Year, and it's only the fifth day of the Lunar New Year now!

"I was just asking."

The old woman gave the village head a wink.

Zhuang Lizheng said cheerfully, "Don't worry, Sister-in-law Leng. The Jin family members are all capable."

Which exiled prisoner could still help the village make money?

The sugar mill was vandalized because of the Kong family's affair. If the Jin family hadn't intervened, the sugar mill would be gone now. Their village lost the sugar mill, which meant fewer opportunities to make money!

He was right to cast a wide net; look, he caught the Jin family.

The village headman, with his hands behind his back, hummed a little tune as he went out. He wouldn't tolerate the village heads of the neighboring villages mistreating exiled prisoners!

Not all exiled prisoners were vicious; some were wrongly accused!

They used to be big shots; even a starved camel is bigger than a horse.

Cold Old Woman: "..."

Good, the Jin family is capable.

She's the one who's in a hurry.

Old Woman Leng glared at the departing figure of Zhuang Lizheng, then turned and went to work at the sugar shop.

Cheng Qiqi was particularly curious: would sweet soup sell well?

An'an really loved drinking it yesterday.

Busy times pass quickly. When Jin Cizhi, Leng Jiao, and Zhuang Haichao returned, they brought back an empty jar, along with... a heavy load of copper coins!

Now Jin Cizhi understood why his elder brother always grinned foolishly after returning from selling sauerkraut in the county!

With a heavy purse hanging from his waist, filled with copper coins, he felt an indescribable sense of happiness; he was truly overjoyed.

It's addictive.

Jin Cizhi was literate, so the task of bookkeeping fell to him. He kept a clear record of how many cups of sweet soup were sold each day and how much money was made.

When the village head and Granny Leng saw them return, they immediately welcomed them with New Year's greetings. Looking at the empty jar and the copper coins handed to them, they started counting them right away…

"The sauce was free; I added five small pieces of brown sugar, which cost about ten coins, and the radish cost about ten coins..."

The old woman did a rough calculation and was immediately shocked. "This...this is equivalent to earning two hundred coins for free!"

"Two hundred coins a day, two thousand coins in ten days, and six thousand coins a month."

The village head was also stunned. Wasn't this the tail juice that was supposed to be discarded?

Zhuang Li was looking at Granny Leng with an expression that seemed to say: The Leng family is really generous. They throw away the unwanted tail juice every day. How much money have they wasted?

The old woman was filled with regret. She never expected that the seemingly most useless tail juice could actually make a lot of money.

How many years' worth of juice has the Leng family poured out...?