Good Sugar Requires Good Firewood to Boil (36 episodes)
On the first day of pressing, my cousin accused me of wasting firewood boiling sugar. He colluded with the firewood guild boss to smash my stove and invited…
On the first day of pressing, my cousin accused me of wasting firewood boiling sugar. He colluded with the firewood guild boss to smash my stove and invited the Sugar Guild Master to seal my ancestral iron pot. They openly mocked me, claiming that without me, the town could save three thousand cartloads of wood a year. Wiping the blood from my face, I left them with a warning: seal the pot if you wish, but do not kneel and beg me to reopen it in three months. Everyone treated it as a joke. In the blink of an eye, three months passed. All thirty-seven sugar mills in town ran into disaster, with over a hundred thousand pounds of sugar ruined into black sludge. I walked up to the sealed iron pot, and before the whole town, slowly tore off the first seal.