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Although it was midsummer, but in the mountains at night, it was still a little cold. From time to time, a breeze would sweep past Wu Ya's face and from time to time, with the movements of his hands, it disturbed the moonlight that filled the stream.

Qin Wuya unconsciously stopped what she was doing. Looking at the hazy moonlight, the slightly cold stream reflected his gaunt face, Wu Ya raised her hand and held up the stream, hitting his own face. But no matter how she washed it, she was unable to wash the dark brown spots that were left on his face from long hours of hard work, as well as her burnt and ugly complexion.

It was just a face like this, but she was still repeatedly attacked by people. Probably only farmers who were too poor to marry their wives, or widows who were too old to care about their families, would think of her.

Not long after, Wu Ya had washed the whole basket of wild grapes and put it into a clean jar. Because wild grapes had a high nutritional value, they didn't need to be removed when making jam, which saved Wu Ya a lot of trouble.

Although he had made quite a few blackcurrant jam in his previous life and it was easy to operate, there were many things that were absolutely necessary, such as white sugar and fresh lemon juice.

If it was something similar to a clear soup, it couldn't be called jam. Secondly, although this wild grape was sweet, the sweetness of the fruit was not that high, and if one did not add white sugar, one could easily imagine how strong the taste was. If one was busy for half a day, no one would be willing to eat too much.

And this fresh lemon juice. This was something even harder to obtain than white sugar. Even if one had the money, it was unlikely that they would be able to find it, much less have money.

Lemon juice was not as important as white sugar in the making of jams. There was no other way to make it, but the taste was much worse.

Thinking about this, Wuya was suddenly at a loss of what to do. Let's not talk about other things first, he had to find some money to exchange for a small bag of white sugar. The sugar these days wasn't as common as it was in his previous life. It was the cheapest. Sugar was very precious in this age, even the poorest families would not dare to use it for the new year.

The wild grapes in his jar had already been plucked and washed, so naturally, he couldn't afford to put too much time aside. According to the mountain's coolness, even if he soaked in the mountain stream to cool them down, it would still last at most a day or two. It seemed that he had to find a way to earn some money in exchange for some white sugar as soon as possible.

Wu Ya slightly frowned as he thought about this. He found two vines and tied one end of the jar to a branch, and the other end was tied to a nearby branch, only then did he put the small wine jar containing wild grapes into the stream. Fortunately, the mountain stream was very shallow, and because the jar was already quite heavy, adding in the weight of the wild grapes, more than half of the jar was actually submerged in the water, leaving only a small part of the jar exposed on the water.

Wu Ya could not help but heave a sigh of relief. She had initially thought that this jar was too heavy and was afraid that the vines would be too thin. Now, it seemed that she did not need to worry at all.

After tidying this place up properly, Lin Zi took the basket and went to the place where he discovered the medicinal fruit the day before. Seeing Li Zheng's wife's reaction in the evening, he knew that the medicinal fruit was probably not something that could be found in this land, if he took more and sold it in the town, he might not even be able to get a few big pieces.

If you can't, you can keep it and eat it, but it won't be wasted. As long as you store the yam fruit properly, it won't spoil easily. Just now.

Putting away these yam fruits, Wu Ya suddenly remembered that when he came over, he saw some rotten wood from ancient pagoda trees with some black clusters on top. Wu Ya didn't pay much attention to them before but now thought that they looked a little familiar.

As he thought of this, Wu Ya carried the basket and walked towards that place in his memory. Sure enough, he saw from a distance that the rotten wood of those ancient locust trees had already been densely covered with black clumps of umbrella-like substance. As expected, Black Wood Ear had no intention.

Wu Ya hastily took a few steps forward, picked a few flowers and took a sniff from them. They tasted similar to the ones he bought in his previous life. Only then did he feel reassured, thinking that he didn't guess wrongly.

After all, Wu Ya was not born into a peasant family in his previous life, and this Black Wood Ear, Wu Ya, did not really love food. Wu Ya could not be blamed for being timid, after all, he was not born into a farmer family in his previous life, and this Black Wood Ear, Wu Ya, did not really love food.

Wuya knew that although there were a lot of treasures on the mountain, there were also a lot of harmful things, and many things that were very similar to each other, if one did not carefully distinguish them, it was really hard to guard against, for example, the wild mushrooms that could eat food, or those wild mushrooms that could not contain the poison, if one did not carefully distinguish between them, it was very difficult to find.

In his previous life, when he was at school, his teacher said that those with bright and beautiful colors couldn't be eaten, while those with grayish-white colors could be eaten, but that wasn't the case either. According to what Wu Ya knew, there was also a time when those unremarkable wild mushrooms could poison someone to death.

Lin Zi had seen these mushrooms before on the western mountain, and they were growing all over the ground, but Wu Ya didn't have the courage to pick them up and eat them. Although the good mushrooms were nutritious, but if someone died from poison, then they could teleport back in a few hours.

Qin Wuya was a bold person, but at times, she would also be a cautious person. Of course, this was in a nice way, but in a bad way, it would be a crude female man who was afraid of death.

As a result, Qin Wuya had been ridiculed by her classmates many times in her previous life, but Wu Ya did not care about it. Instead, she was amused by it. She was too far away from the people's hero.

However, what made Wuya happy was that there was no mistake with this black fungus, especially with the black fungus on the locust tree. This kind of black fungus had the highest nutritional value and had a low chance of being poisonous, almost non-existent.

Although the Black Wood Ear didn't taste like him, it had good nutrition. With his current malnourished appearance, it was always better to nourish it more.

In his previous life, Wu Ya vaguely remembered that he had read in the Chinese elective book: 'The beauties of taste surpasses the bacteria of beer.' Wu Ya remembered that this was a sentence recorded in . It was about this Black Wood Ear.

Thinking about it, in the history of China, eating fungus was an early event. If he were to pick some and sell them, he shouldn't be treated like a monster.

However, this Grand Dynasty was not as powerful as any dynasty in the history of China that he was familiar with. Wu Ya had initially suspected that this place was some remote and small country, but the knowledge he gained was not. Grand Dynasty was a huge country, and could be considered one of the overlords of this land. Not a small, remote country.

He did not know if the Black Wood Ear was well-known in the Grand Dynasty, but Wu Ya thought that he had already started eating the Wood Ear since the ancient times, so the current Grand Dynasty did not look like a sealed off place, even if no one knew about it, they would not treat it as a poison.

Whether he could succeed or not, his wild guesses would be useless here. Wu Ya shook his head with a bitter smile and sped up his pace. It seemed like he would have to go to town tomorrow to try and see if it was feasible.

Another two to four hours passed. Wu Ya then hid in his own little house, and wrapped himself in some old clothes before going to sleep against the old camphor tree.

It was probably because he had exhausted his spirit during the day, and he had to do a lot of work during the night, that he was exhausted. He did not have the mind to think about those random things in order to sleep so well.

Wu Ya originally thought that it wouldn't be a problem for him to get up late without cooking on the second day, but now that he wanted to get up early to go to the town for the market, he didn't dare to get up late either.

There was a bluestone path in the town, which had been specially used for the morning gathering of the people from the neighboring villages. It was just that this was a place under the control of the Shangguan Family.

Wu Ya naturally couldn't afford it, but on the way here, Wu Ya and the other women from the same village asked around and found out. Most of the women from the village wanted to buy some worthless things, but they were reluctant to give out those two copper coins, and most of them put their stalls in the small alley at the corner of the bluestone path.

The alley was narrow and short, with only a single row of stalls, perhaps four or five of them, the other half reserved for passers-by.

Although the women in the village did not come every day, even if they came every few days, there were still a lot of women in the village. Even if they took turns to come, there would still be a lot of people coming every day.

Fortunately, Wuya came early this time and found the alley. There were two more stalls there. Wuya picked a nice looking woman and squatted down to take out all the things on her body. When he saw that woman looking at him curiously, he smiled and greeted her:

"Sis, this is the first time I've come here to sell something small. I don't understand the rules here, so if there's anything that I'm doing wrongly, please kindly advise me."

The woman saw that Wu Ya was quick and generous. She had a good impression of him and the smile on her face became wider. "There's nothing wrong. It's just that I've never seen you come here for the first time, so I'm a bit curious." With that, the woman looked at Qin Wuya carefully, and said doubtfully: "Sister, you look young, your hair is combed in a bun, it doesn't look like a newlywed woman, could it be?"

Wuya blushed, and said with some embarrassment: "Sister-in-law, I really haven't married yet."

"Hey!" The sister-in-law looked surprised and lowered her voice. "What about your family?" How could the head of your family let your girl set up a stall in the town? If word of this gets out, then our reputation won't be good. "

Qin Wuya laughed bitterly in her heart, her reputation was still there after yesterday's incident, she was afraid that she had already thrown away all her reputation, would she care about the reputation of a 'unmarried woman coming out to set up a stall on her own'?