Episode 8 recap: "Chiyue attempted to make some appetizers for drinking.
Li Cui cooked a pot of chicken soup for Li Laotai. When Li Laotai saw the chicken head inside, she remembered how Chiyue used the chicken eye from her foot to make medicine for her. Feeling disgusted, she quickly told Li Cui to take the chicken soup away. Then she reminded Li Cui that when Zhang Dagui came back, he should spend more time moving around. That way, there would be a chance for him to receive Zhang Dagui's support and make a fortune together, just like Li Ping.
The game meat dishes cooked by Chiyue had already gone bad due to poor sales. Li Zichen analyzed that if things continued like this, the game meat business wouldn't last long. After all, the people in the village were not wealthy, and occasionally eating it was fine, but they couldn't afford to consume it every day. When Chiyue heard Li Zichen mentioning that inexpensive appetizers for drinking had no problem with sales, she immediately came up with an idea. She quickly busied herself in the kitchen, simmering the chicken necks without meat, but after tasting it, she felt that it lacked some flavor.
When Chiyue went to find Sister Niu, she saw Sister Niu wiping her tears in secret. She quickly asked what happened and learned that Sister Niu had been frugal to save money for the rent to give to her mother-in-law for her younger son. Chiyue immediately felt injustice for Sister Niu and reprimanded her mother-in-law. However, in Xikong Village, filial piety was highly valued, and Sister Niu wanted to protect her dowry bracelet but couldn't come up with the rent money. She would have to suffer next year. Chiyue quickly lent her own money to Sister Niu to help her through the difficult times. Sister Niu decided that she, too, would become strong like Chiyue and not let her mother-in-law bully her anymore.
Li Yi returned home to visit Li Laotai and heard that Chiyue was difficult to control. He decided to find a way to get rid of Chiyue."
The novel that left the deepest impression on me was when the female lead sold about three taels of wild boar meat and bought flour and refined rice, which only became popular during the Han Dynasty, but couldn't find Sichuan peppercorns that were available during the Western Zhou Dynasty.
It was also mentioned earlier that they couldn't buy oil, but suddenly the family ran out of oil and said they needed to go out and buy more. In our reality, we had to wait until rapeseed flowers came in for oil production to be scaled up.
Since it's already a fictional story, they should avoid emphasizing these details. If they do include them, at least get the historical timeline of the dynasties correct.
It would be difficult to broadcast without making these changes.