Traveling through ancient times, I led my family to prosperity

"Dad, no news is the best news." Xiao Lan comforted.

That's right. The lack of news means that the person is living a comfortable life and doesn't miss these relatives. If he were living in poverty, he would have found a way to inform Xiaolan's family long ago.

The days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye it was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. After the fifteenth day, although the first lunar month has not yet ended, for farmers, even if this year is over, it also means that the new year will begin to be busy again.

Because Xiaolan made a lot of money during this trip to Xingyuan Prefecture, she wants to build her own food shop this year.

This was not something she came up with out of nowhere. She had done some research. Now her family has a tofu workshop, a weaving workshop, and a soap workshop, which are already in use and have seen a return on investment. Last year, her family also dug a fish pond, bought land and built a rabbit shed. This year she plans to do a big job. If all these can be implemented, Shengjia Village will probably attract a large number of merchants.

Xiaolan's family is very democratic. Although Xiaolan really wants to build a food shop, she also knows that impatient people cannot eat hot tofu. So the whole family sat together to discuss the matter of building the shop.

Although it would not be too late to build a shop after spring plowing, after some discussion the family decided that they should build the house earlier, lest the unexpected incidents occur later and delay the construction process.

The family had never run a food store business. At the beginning, Sheng Xuan was a little hesitant, but when he heard Zhang say that our family business was all earned by our daughter, not to mention how much profit she brought back from Xingyuan Prefecture this time, even if she didn't make money from this trip to Xingyuan Prefecture, I would support her with both hands. Don't you think about it, which industry in our family doesn't make money? Now that we have separated, we can stand up so quickly and stand up straight in the village. Who brought this to our family?

Sheng Xuan felt a little ashamed after hearing what Zhang said. After all, it was his responsibility to make money to support the family, and now his daughter took on this responsibility for him. Now Xiao Lan wanted to open a food shop, but he was hesitant. Isn't this the same as the person who eats with a bowl in hand and curses his mother when he puts the bowl down?

Soon, the family passed a resolution to build a grocery store, and it had to be built before the spring plowing.

The project of building a food shop is not comparable to the previous tofu workshops, weaving workshops, and handicraft workshops. It requires a huge investment of money and manpower.

Xiao Lan originally wanted to draw the blueprints and build her ideal food store. But she thought that the food store was to be built in Shengjia Village. If the store was too unique, she was afraid that the villagers would not accept it. If it was in the capital, she would definitely design it herself. After all, the target customers were different, and the amount of money in their pockets was also different. The people in the capital were more curious than the people in the village, and were more willing to accept new things.

Building a house requires laborers. Ordinary tasks such as hauling sand and stones can be done by finding people in the village to help, but building walls does require skills. It is okay for ordinary farmers to build their own houses, but it is probably impossible to build a food shop.

Sheng Xuan still asked Sheng Yugui for help and asked him to invite famous bricklayers from the surrounding villages to build the food shop.

There are rules to make everything perfect. Xiaolan's family also made a simple division of labor. Shengxuan was the chief foreman of the building, and Xiaolan was the financial director. All the expenses for the food and the food shop had to be managed and distributed by her.

For this purpose, Xiao Lan specially made an account book, in which she remembered clearly the amount and purpose of every sum of money her father received every day.

In the early stage of building a house, you need to buy stones first, and to buy stones, you need to find a cart to pull the stones. Although Xiaolan's family has horses and cows, the cows need to pull the mill in the tofu workshop. Although the cart is empty, everyone in the family has their own things to do, and there is no one to pull the stones.

"I've handed this over to Chunzhu. Chunzhu said that loading and unloading are his responsibilities. He volunteered to help us and doesn't ask for extra wages from us." Shengxuan was discussing with Zhang and Xiaolan. "But I think he can't handle it alone. I want to find someone else in our village to help him move the stones."

"I think this is a good idea. After all, we live in the same village and know each other well. Chunzhu and his wife are both honest people." Zhang said. Chunzhu and Zhang knew each other when they were girls. Later, they married into Shengjia Village one after another, so they became even better friends.

"I see Chunzhu and his father have been helping our family these days. They are both willing to work hard and are down-to-earth people. I am willing to give him the job of running the cars." Sheng Xuan said with a smile.

Xiao Lan listened to the couple talking while she moved the beads on the abacus and kept account.

"Money is being spent like crazy day by day." Zhang sighed as she looked at the account book which was already quite thick.

If you want to build a food shop, you have to make it durable, beautiful and sturdy, which costs money.

When Sheng Xuan and Zhang had almost finished discussing, Xiao Lan had also almost finished calculating the account book, so she put away the account book and the silver box. The reason was that the sun was setting and it was time to cook.

Because the food store was built, not only did they hire people from the village, they also hired masons and bricklayers. Xiaolan's family had to provide these people with meals every day. Because the food store was right next to the village, close to the official road, these people ate there and did not come to Xiaolan's house.

What Xiaolan's family needed to do was to bring the cooked meals to the food shop's construction site and serve them to the people who were helping.

After the meal was ready, Zhang, Xiaolan, Xiaoting and Xiaoyan carried it, and Xiaoye followed behind to help.

When I walked out of the house and looked to the side, I could see Sheng Xuanzheng and a dozen people working from afar.

"Second sister, wait for me, I'll go with you." Xiaowen came out of the study, ran to Xiaolan, and said to her with a smile.

"Have you finished all the homework assigned by the teacher?" Xiao Lan touched Xiao Wen's head and said with a smile, "Don't let this matter affect the Tongsheng's exam. After all, the exam will be held soon."

"I've finished my homework." Xiao Wen said immediately, "Although it is said that one should read thousands of books, Mr. Huang also told me that I need to read more."

Xiao Lan nodded. This made sense. Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. Only by experiencing it personally can you integrate the knowledge you have learned.

The brother and sister walked around the construction site.