A Super Salt-Making Machine

Old Man Zhou looked at her impatiently and said:

"I've already done it, what am I supposed to do now?"

Moreover, men are bound to be confused when they're drunk.

Old Madam Zhou was so angry she felt dizzy. "You old hag, I'll beat you to death!"

Old Man Zhou was beaten and howled in pain.

Qian Huihui sat on the stool looking at Zhou Fuyu, Zhou Fuyu immediately knelt down on the ground:

"Honey, I really had no choice this time. I originally wanted to stay out of it, but as soon as I was about to leave, they grabbed me."

It was my fault this time, please forgive me!

Qian Huihui looked at him calmly and said:

Forgive me? How can I forgive you?

You want a woman? We can buy one, but you insist on doing something like this.

Now look what's happened, you've got this filthy disease, how could you possibly face me like this? Waaaaah...

Zhou Fuyu quickly comforted him:

"It's all my fault. I never expected things to turn out this way."

It's all Zhou Wanwan's fault. Every time that brat comes back, something terrible is bound to happen to our family.

Qian Huihui cried bitterly, "Our Zhou Mei is also a victim of misfortune. I saw that she was covered in bruises from being beaten. My poor daughter!"

Zhou Qingzhou was also kicked to the ground by Fang Ting Fang Ting shouted loudly:

"Get out of here right now! Come over here and change all the bedding."

"How could you let such a filthy man in? It disgusts me."

Zhou Qingzhou glared at her and said, "Fang Ting, don't go too far!"

Fang Ting rolled her eyes and said, "Guards, beat him! Throw him out!"

Zhou Qingzhou was quickly thrown out of the courtyard. Zhou Wanwan chuckled and said, "Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. Uncle Scholar Tree, let's go back!"

The next few days were filled with chaos and disorder.

Zhou Wanwan spent her days at home endlessly gossiping, hearing about his family's gossip one day and yours the next, making her laugh from ear to ear every day.

The Cui Family is living a very comfortable life, with no one to supervise them.

Just as she finished eating the watermelon, Grand Tutor Zhao Muyuan walked in through the back door. He looked at Zhou Wanwan and said, "Greetings, Your Majesty."

Zhou Wanwan:...

Zhao Muyuan looked at her and said:

"Your Majesty has an important matter to report: famine has recently begun to occur in several counties."

Many people are now displaced, and there is widespread suffering. Your Majesty, what should we do?

Zhou Wanwan frowned and asked, "Isn't anyone going to open the granaries and distribute grain?"

Zhao Muyuan shook his head and said, "The price of grain keeps rising, and nobody cares. Before, a dou (a unit of dry measure) of rice cost 30 wen, but now it costs 200 wen."

Zhou Wanwan frowned and said, "200 wen for a dou of rice? Heh! These profiteers."

"And the price of salt changes every day; ordinary people can't even afford coarse salt anymore."

Zhou Wanwan chuckled, "Our grain shop's price for rice is 100 wen per dou (a unit of dry measure), one dou per person. The price of salt remains the same, half a jin per person."

Zhao Muyuan frowned and said, "Then I'm afraid we won't have enough food and salt at all."

Zhou Wanwan smiled and said, "It's enough for now. We'll see if it's not enough. Let's do it this way for now."

To everyone's surprise, grain prices in the four major grain shops in Yunxi County, Anyi County, Huaiyuan County, and Chengping County suddenly dropped.

A peck of rice costs only 100 coins, and you can also buy half a pound of salt.

The news spread like wildfire, and people from almost every other county rushed into these four grain shops.

The shopkeeper of Yunxi Grain Shop was startled. "Good heavens, this line is incredibly long! One dou of rice costs 100 wen, that's not cheap! Why are there so many people?"

"Think about that salt! Which grain shop still sells cheap salt? Half a pound only costs 20 coins, it's incredibly cheap."

Manager Yunxi shouted loudly:

"Line up in a queue, one at a time, don't push."

Those who have already bought from us should not buy from us again. If we find out, you'll have to give back all the food you bought before.

These four major grain shops were doing booming business, leaving the other grain shops dumbfounded.

They originally thought they could make a fortune, but now there's not a single sign of it happening.

Zhou Wanwan's grain was being delivered steadily, and late at night, the trees on the mountain were all moving.

Zhou Wanwan now has more than 70 granaries, and she is still expanding them.

As for salt, our Old Ancestor have been staying by the sea recently, Zhou Wanwan recently discovered that all those colorful minerals can store energy.

Moreover, the effects of several kinds of minerals are actually better than those of jade.

Zhou Wanwan stored the energy in these ores and took it all with her Old Ancestor.

That's why our Old Ancestor produced salt at an incredibly fast rate.

It's practically a super salt-making machine.

They produce more than thirty barrels of salt a day, and this salt is refined salt, even better than refined salt.

It has a faint fragrance, and it makes stir-fries especially delicious.

The Old Scholar Tree sighed, "I think we're still missing a lot of Earth Ranking experts."

He had barely finished speaking when Long Aotian rushed over and said, "Master, our shop has been blocked by Zhao Lili."

Zhou Wanwan's eyes lit up. "Zhao Lili? That's great, let's go check on her right away!"

Isn't this an old friend? It's been so long!

Zhou Wanwan followed the Old Scholar Tree toward the Jianghu Alliance.

Long Aotian looked at the Old Scholar Tree, his scalp tingling. To be honest, he was somewhat afraid of the Old Scholar Tree.

The Old Scholar Tree looked at him and asked, "Long Aotian, did Zhao Lili bring any experts with her this time?"

Long Aotian nodded and said:

"They brought six Earth Ranking experts, saying... they absolutely need our manager to come out and give them an explanation."

They said we stole their things.

Zhou Wanwan frowned and said, "Have we been exposed? No way? I feel like we always manage to do things without anyone noticing."

Long Aotian shook his head and said, "I don't think it's that we've been exposed, but rather that we've been too high-profile lately, making too much money. The bigger the tree, the more the wind will blow against it."

Zhou Wanwan has indeed been making a lot of money lately because the food at their restaurant is so delicious and the prices aren't particularly expensive.

So everyone who comes to the Jianghu Alliance likes to eat and drink at her place, especially since her wine is exceptionally good.

Some people who drank the wine said it could replenish their energy and improve their health, and now their wine is in high demand.

Ever since Zhao Lili was demoted, she has been trying every means to make money, and seeing the success of Zhou Wanwan's restaurant, she was naturally extremely envious.

When Zhou Wanwan arrived at the restaurant, she saw that Zhao Lili had sent several Earth Ranking martial arts experts to surround the restaurant.

She sat calmly in the main hall of the restaurant, sipping her tea with an air of nonchalance.

Zhou Wanwan walked in and looked at her, saying, "Sister, isn't it inappropriate of you to have made such a mess of my restaurant?"

Zhao Lili laughed heartily:

"Who did I think it was? It's you! How dare you talk to me like that? You really don't know your place."

Is this your restaurant?

Zhou Wanwan Zhou Wanwan, Long Aotian stood respectfully beside her.

Zhao Lili looked at her and said:

"Little girl, I've taken a liking to your restaurant. How much do you want?"

"I'll give you ten thousand taels of silver; how about you sell this restaurant to me?"

Zhou Wanwan chuckled inwardly. The shop's renovation alone cost over 20,000 taels of silver. This Zhao Lili was truly greedy.

Zhou Wanwan shook her head and said, "Too little."

Zhao Lili sneered:

"You little rascal, you're quite greedy! How many do you want?"

Let me tell you, there are six Earth Ranking experts outside the restaurant today. If you don't know what's good for you, I'll have them cripple you.

What a waste of my energy! I thought the experts from the Earth Ranking who came today would be incredibly powerful!

"It made me bring so many people."