Traveling through ancient times to farm and raise cubs with a golden finger

Chapter 23 Life
Taking out the crossbow now is completely adding strength to oneself, not a burden.

Yu Xiaoxiao told the two children that she was going to take them to the town to play tomorrow, and she happily went to prepare the things to bring tomorrow.

The next day, at dusk, Yu Xiaoxiao woke up.

After tidying up myself, I went to wake up the two children, and then made breakfast by myself, and the three of them ate first to fill their stomachs.

When they set off, Chuyang had already come out.

In the morning light, the three of them pushed the wooden cart to the town without haste.

After more than an hour, the three of them entered the city.

Not in a hurry to buy food, the three of them strolled all over the street together, and found everything to be good. The main reason may be that they have been bored at home for a long time.

After shopping all morning, the three of them felt hungry. Yu Xiaoxiao looked at the food stalls, planning to spend a little extravagantly, and ordered three bowls of lean meat dumplings with her two children.

After a full meal, the high spirits of the three were satisfied, and only then did they purchase the food they needed for this visit.

After buying food, Yu Xiaoxiao was going to call back home, but suddenly heard the voice of the eldest son Shen Ye: "Mother, didn't you say that you want me to copy books to make money to support the family?"

Yu Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, then remembered that she had indeed said that, seeing the serious and firm look in the eldest son's eyes, Yu Xiaoxiao couldn't say that teasing sentence out of her mouth.

I had no choice but to take someone to the bookstore to ask if there was any book copying work I could take.

The result of the final question was that there was some work to copy the book, but it depended on whether Shen Ye's handwriting was good, and only if it was good could he take it.

Shen Ye didn't disappoint, the calligraphy at such a young age already had its own style and charm, and the shopkeeper of the bookstore agreed to let Shen Ye take over the job of copying books.

It’s just that the price is not that high. A thin booklet costs 120 cash, a medium-sized book costs 250 cash, and a particularly thick book costs 500 cash.

While Shen Ye was chatting with the shopkeeper, Yu Xiaoxiao looked through it specially, and found that there were not many words in a book, but they were all in traditional Chinese characters, so there were more strokes, and it was not easy to copy a book.

Finally, when the deal was reached, Yu Xiaoxiao knew that her eldest son had taken over the job of copying three books, each with three thicknesses.

It was also at this time that Yu Xiaoxiao realized that what she earned from copying books was not pure profit, it also included money for paper and pens and inks, and other bookstores did not provide pens, inks and paper.

If the money for the pen, ink and paper is deducted, the rest is all hard work, and there is no profit at all.

Yu Xiaoxiao really wanted to say don't bother, but looking at her eldest son, Yu Xiaoxiao finally kept her thoughts in her stomach.

Yu Xiaoxiao spent a total of two taels on buying pens, ink, paper and inkstones for Shen Ye, and now Yu Xiaoxiao's family is about to be emptied again.

There are dozens of articles left, which is not enough to do anything.

I have to find a way to make money again, it's really not enough to spend!

Although I sighed in my heart, the days still had to go on, and the three of them returned home with the spoils.

Because of the sense of urgency of lack of money, not only Shen Ye is working hard to copy books to earn money to subsidize the family, but Yu Xiaoxiao's weaving work is once again on the agenda.

This time Yu Xiaoxiao used cotton to weave cotton cloth, because it was more cost-effective to weave cotton cloth at the same time.

Cotton cloth can be sold for one cent more per foot than linen cloth, that is, a bolt of cotton gray cloth can be sold for 400 yuan.

Yu Xiaoxiao can weave two pieces a month, which is 800 wen, which is more than enough for the family to eat for a month, and he can save one or two hundred wen.

After Shen Ye came back from the town, he began to copy the books. It took Shen Ye two days to copy the thin booklet, five days to finish the medium-thick book, and Shen Ye finished the thickest book. It took 19 days to barely finish copying the three books, and it took 870 days to earn 200 wen for the three books. After deducting the cost of paper of 19 wen, not counting the consumption of pen and ink, that is to say, Shen Ye earned 670 wen in days.

If it was in a family with a large population, apart from drinking enough water every meal, it would not be enough for chewing at all. If it was placed in Yu Xiaoxiao's family of three, it would only be enough for chewing for a month.

Fortunately, the two of Yu Xiaoxiao's family can make money, otherwise they would have to be like most other families in the village, struggling to survive every day, but they still couldn't solve the problem of food and clothing.

With experience in copying books, Shen Ye followed Yu Xiaoxiao into the city again at the end of this month. First, he went to the cloth shop with Yu Xiaoxiao to sell two bolts of cotton cloth, and then went to the bookstore to hand in the copied books. The shopkeeper After checking it, I felt that it was okay before I settled the wages.

Shen Ye took two of the thickest books and one thicker book to copy. The result of this was that the 870 Wen that he had just received had not been warmed up, so he spent 250 Wen to buy paper.

After leaving the bookstore, Shen Ye handed over the remaining money to Yu Xiaoxiao.

Back home, Yu Xiaoxiao calculated this month's income, Shen Ye earned 620 wen, and he earned 800 wen, a total of 1420 wen.

Yu Xiaoxiao opened my details to view:

【Personal attributes】

Strength: 21
Agility: 23
Constitution: 20
Spirit: 25
Status: Very healthy and strong.

(Reminder: 1. The average four-dimensional attribute of the ancients is 15, and the upper limit of the four-dimensional attribute of an adult strong man is 20.

2.力量、敏捷低于5会导致体质下降；体质低于5会导致身体出现疾病，不能维持健康；精神低于5会导致迷糊甚至昏迷；建议四维高于5，维持正常。)
【assets】

Technology point: 1247.5
Silver money: 0 gold 0 silver 1463 copper

(Hint: In ancient times, gold, silver, and copper coins were the main currencies)
Assets: 1 thatched yard

Originally, Yu Xiaoxiao thought that her attributes would not go up any further when she reached the upper limit mentioned in the notification, but she didn't think that this upper limit didn't seem to restrict herself.

But thinking about it, Yu Xiaoxiao felt that this was beneficial to her, so she didn't get too entangled.

There is nothing else to see, just where can I see how much money I have.

During the three months of the summer, Yu Xiaoxiao and Shen Ye maintained the rhythm of two bolts of cotton cloth and three books a month, earning 1800 wen a month.

At the end of summer, Yu Xiaoxiao had 5663 pennies in her hands, among which, besides three months of weaving and book copying, there were also two bolts of linen bought by the villagers one after another.

However, life didn't give Yu Xiaoxiao the slightest chance to breathe. Looking at the empty grain tank at home, she sighed silently, it was time to buy grain again.

This time when buying grain, miscellaneous grains accounted for the bulk of the purchase. I bought 500 catties, 200 catties of rice noodles, and it cost 3200 Wen. Salt, vinegar and soy sauce cost a total of 200 Wen. I didn’t dare to buy other things. Yu Xiaoxiao only had The following text.

As for the remaining money, Yu Xiaoxiao intends to keep it just in case, in case someone in the family suddenly gets sick or something, and she will have some foundation.

In less than a year, Yu Xiaoxiao was forced by life to grow up completely, and fully understood the saying that if you are not in charge of your family, you don't know the price of daily necessities.

The novels are full of lies. You can pick Ganoderma lucidum and ginseng at every turn, earn tens or hundreds of taels of silver at every turn, build a big house within a few months of crossing, and bring your family to make a fortune...

It's all fucking bullshit!
(End of this chapter)