It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 369

The difficult nature of the lady in charge must have caused many victims, and Thirteen was obviously one of them.

Seeing his hesitation, Jiang Yan offered him an irresistible bait. "While you were away for a few days, I suddenly thought of an immature method that might be able to purify rock honey into snow-white sugar."

"Sand sugar?" Thirteen had seen this thing with his own eyes in the residence of an official in the imperial capital. It was indeed the same size and color as mud and sand. If it could really turn into snow-white, it could definitely be presented as a tribute.

However, thinking about the intention behind Jiang Yan's mention, he asked suspiciously, "Are you playing tricks and hiding it?"

"No, I've only been thinking about it for the past two days. Otherwise, I would have told you a lot earlier and asked you for more silver."

"You mean, if I tell you now, I won't ask for the reward, right?"

What are you asking for? Jiang Yan pursed her lips slightly and said, "This is a transaction, not a one-sided offering. I should pay."

"Then you put it behind your autumn and winter clothes?"

Jiang Yan sat up straight: "To show my sincerity."

Thirteen:……

Jiang Yan had only been back to the small courtyard where he was staying for half an hour when Chunying was called out.

When he came back a moment later, he saw Jiang Yan's eyes were filled with admiration. "How did you deal with those two?"

She ran back and forth several times, and the manager here pushed it to Thirteen, and Thirteen pushed it back to the manager.

The two of them kept making excuses to each other and refused to agree. She was ready to admit defeat this time and use some money from her own funds to buy clothes.

Jiang Yan froze the smile on his face and sighed deeply: "Benefits move people's hearts——"

After learning that Jiang Yan used the method of making snow-white sugar as bait just to change a few sets of clothes, Chunying couldn't believe it and beat her chest and stamped her feet.

She couldn't smile at all, and only urged: "Change your mind now while there's still time. Those clothes are not worth buying at all. We can buy them ourselves."

Although she had not seen many treasures, she knew that ordinary sugar was expensive, snow-white sugar was even more expensive, and the skill of making snow-white sand sugar could be a family heirloom.

When Chunying heard Jiang Yan say that the recipe was sold for ten taels of silver, her excitement instantly plummeted to despair.

Holding onto a last glimmer of hope, she continued, "Don't you understand the value of this method?"

Jiang Yan honestly... shook her head. She would never admit that she was the fool who sold it at a low price.

"Ten taels of silver seems scant. Wouldn't it sound much better if it were two taels of gold?"

After receiving Chunying's angry glare, Jiang Yan stopped trying to be clever.

It's hard to explain how the deal was made, but "what I gave you was actually just a semi-finished product that can't be used directly. Exchanging a semi-finished product for two taels of gold is not a loss."

Jiang Yan only recalled the yellow mud water leaching method for decolorization, but he had no idea how to do it specifically or what the ratio of yellow mud to water was.

Try it yourself? Looking at the stubbornly high sugar prices, she couldn't afford the manpower and resources required to conduct the experiment even if she wanted to.

Moving to the South would be putting the cart before the horse and not worth it.

"What if one day you are not short of money, won't you regret it?" Chunying is quite optimistic about Jiang Yan's ability to make money. Although she spends money quickly, she has many ways to make money, such as selling mountain products, news, and houses. As long as it has value and can be sold at a price, and it is not within her obligations, she will try her best to get some money back.

"Why would I regret it?" Jiang Yan knew her own limitations. She had no military or political skills, and with a secret plan for returning home, she didn't dare risk her life. She could only rely on this kind of trade to save some money.

The most important thing is, "Some money is not my turn to earn first."