Traveling through ancient times, I led my family to prosperity

The shopkeeper came over quickly, not caring about Xiaolan and Shengxuan's filthiness. After looking at the game in their baskets, he kept all the pheasants, picked out the big rabbits, left the three small ones, and took ten fish. The rabbits and pheasants were sold by the piece, 30 copper coins each for a pheasant, 80 copper coins each for a rabbit, and 23 catties in total for ten copper coins per catty, totaling 128,100 wen. Xiaolan and Shengxuan thanked him quickly, and then went to the counter to pay.

Selling game in a restaurant is much less troublesome than selling it at the market. If you set up a stall at the market, you may not be able to sell all of it, nor may you be able to sell it at such a good price.

This is nearly two taels of silver. Sheng Xuan has never touched so much money in his hands. Even when the Sheng family was doing well, this was considered a huge sum of money. Besides, at that time, Cui was the housekeeper, and the silver and money were just numbers to him, and he would never pass them through his hands. Sheng Xuan put the silver and money in his pocket, put on his backpack, and led Xiao Lan back.

"Dad, food is cheap now. Let's go buy some before it's dark so the villagers can't see us." Xiao Lan tugged at Sheng Xuan's sleeve and said.

"Okay." Sheng Xuan thought that their family had a big food gap, and he couldn't carry too much at one time. He could make up for it later.

The two went to the grain store again. The father and daughter compared the price of husked grain and ground grain. There was a difference of two cents per catty. Sheng Xuan decisively chose to buy primary agricultural products and grind them into flour when he was ready to eat. It was much cheaper. Beans cost eight cents per catty, wheat cost fifteen cents per catty, and millet cost twenty-five cents per catty. The two weighed fifty catties of beans, thirty catties of wheat, and twenty catties of millet, spending a total of one or two hundred and fifty cents.

Xiao Lan carried 25 kilograms of millet, and the rest was carried by her father. Sheng Xuan walked very fast on the way back to the city. Although he had spent most of the money he earned, he was very satisfied to carry so much food on his back. This was the food for their family of five, which meant that the whole family would not have to go hungry in the future.

When they arrived at the village, it was already past midnight and the villagers had already gone to rest. Sheng Xuan gently pushed the door and it opened.

Zhang was sitting in the main room with a sewing basket. There was a pile of firewood in the stove, and she was mending clothes by the light of the firewood.

As soon as Sheng Xuan put down the backpack, he hurriedly took out money from the cloth bag, and Xiao Lan hurriedly closed the door.

Xiaoting and Xiaowen were not asleep either, so they hurried to the main room.

"Mother, we also bought some food." After Sheng Xuan handed the copper coin to Zhang, he took out bags of food from the backpack.

"How come you bought so much? We still have a lot." Zhang was also a little excited. "There is so much silver and money." Zhang counted it and found that there were 460 coins. This was the first income for her family since the separation. The remaining 12 coins from last time were all given to Xiaolan.

"Mom, let's make steamed buns with Sanhe flour in the future. Don't always eat wowotou. Don't be reluctant to eat millet. I'm too thin. I need to eat something nutritious. We also need to replenish ourselves." Xiaolan suggested.

"Okay, you brought back so many things, enough for our family to have a good winter, and we can eat better in the future." Zhang's eyes were a little moist, and she wiped her tears with her hands. She knew that the children in her family were growing up, and the three siblings were all skinny and small. Before the family was separated, Cui was in charge of the food, and the children could not eat any oily food.

"Mom, these are the fish that haven't been sold yet. Let's stew them and eat them fresh." Xiao Lan took out the fish and handed them to Zhang. Then she called Xiao Ting and Xiao Wen, "Big sister, Xiao Wen, come and see."

"Little rabbit! Second sister, is this for us?" Xiaowen said with surprise.

"Well, you will be responsible for feeding them from now on."

"Okay, I will pick grass for them every day from now on." After saying that, Xiao Wen placed the rabbits in the kang pit and scooped a bucket of water from the yard to feed them.

"Xiao Lan, stop working for now. Go back to your room, change your clothes and come out for dinner." Xiao Ting knew how hard her sister worked. Seeing the mess on her body, she hurriedly urged her to change her clothes.

"Wait," Zhang stopped her, went into the house, took out a jacket and handed it to her.

"Mom, is this made for me?" Xiao Lan happily held the new clothes and saw that the material was made of the cloth brought by her grandma and grandpa.

Xiaolan happily took the clothes and went into the house, and Xiaoting followed in. "Xiaolan, what's wrong with your shoulder?"

Xiao Lan looked back at her shoulders. There were five or six brown-purple bloodstains on both sides of the backpack. They were probably caused by moving back and forth when carrying heavy objects because she was afraid of the pain. "It's okay. I carried too much game this time. It will be fine in two days. Big sister, please keep your voice down so that our parents don't hear it."

Xiaoting nodded with red eyes.

Zhang came over a while later. It turned out that Sheng Xuan also had blood marks on his body. On the way out of the mountain, the father and daughter didn't say a word. In addition, they were carrying food back home, so their shoulders were tired. Looking at the marks on Xiao Lan's shoulders, Zhang choked up a little, "Come out to eat after you change your clothes."

After Sheng Xuan swallowed a few mouthfuls of the boiling hot fish soup, he whispered to Xiao Lan, "Girl, does your shoulder hurt?"

Xiao Lan shook her head, "It doesn't hurt, what about you, Dad?"

"It didn't hurt at first, but it hurts a little now." Sheng Xuan smiled, stopped talking, and started eating.

When leaving the mountains, Sheng Xuan carried most of the game on his own, and when returning from the town, he carried most of the food on his own. He must have been more seriously injured than himself.

After the father and daughter finished their meal, Sheng Xuan went to rest. Xiao Lan was a little worried. She and her father would need to take care of their health for a few days. "Mom, buy some ginger slices tomorrow and make some ginger soup. Let's make some delicious food for the next few days."

Zhang nodded, "Okay, I'll do it tomorrow morning. You and your father can keep it for a few more days."

Xiao Lan looked at the red eyes of Zhang, Xiao Ting and Xiao Wen and knew how worried they were. "Then Mom, I'm going to sleep." Then she took Xiao Ting and Xiao Wen away.

Lying on the kang, Xiao Lan closed her heavy eyelids and fell asleep. She was so tired from the journey that her body couldn't hold on any longer.

She slept until noon the next day and looked at the wooden beams in her house. She hesitated for a long time before she realized that she had traveled through time.

"Xiao Lan, you're awake." Xiao Ting walked to the kang. "My mother cooked the brown sugar ginger soup for you and warmed it up in the pot. You slept too deeply this morning, so I didn't wake you up."

Xiao Lan smiled and said, "Well, where's Xiao Wen?"

"He's busy in the yard." Xiaoting replied.

After she changed her clothes, she got a bowl of ginger soup from the pot and walked to the yard. She saw that the dirty clothes she and her father had taken off yesterday had been washed and hung on the iron bars.

At this time, her father and Xiaowen were busy in the yard. They were making nests for the rabbits in the chicken coop. The chicken coop was surrounded by a fence, so they were not afraid of the rabbits running out.

Seeing that Sheng Xuan was in good spirits, she felt relieved. It seemed that her father was holding up well. She didn't plan to go into the mountains for the time being. The two of them would stay at home and recuperate. She knew that Sheng Xuan was a person who only knew how to work hard. He would not say anything even if he felt unwell.

"Sister, come and see the rabbit hive we made." Xiaowen saw Xiaolan get up and hurriedly greeted her.

The rabbit nest was covered with thick grass, and three rabbits lay obediently in the nest.

Xiao Lan put down the bowl and said to Xiao Wen with a smile, "Take good care of it. We will have rabbit meat for the New Year."

"Well, I pull grass to feed them every day. I guarantee they will be fat." Xiao Wen patted his chest to make the promise.

Zhang and Xiaoting were busy collecting dried fish, mushrooms and chestnuts. When they heard the conversation between the siblings, they smiled and said, "Xiaowen, take good care of them. We are counting on you to have meat for the New Year."