Traveling through ancient times, I led my family to prosperity

The next day, Xiaolan's family got busy right after breakfast. Xin pointed to the bag of grain and said, "I'm going to grow some bean sprouts. I'll water them once a day. In this weather, we'll have them ready to eat in three or four days."

Zhang learned the skill of growing bean sprouts from Xin. The bean sprouts she grew were so juicy. Xin and Xiaoyan started to work.

Xiaolan and her family didn't have any food for the two meals after moving to the new house. Shengxuan said he wanted to go out and get familiar with the terrain. Zhang also agreed. They were in the dark about this new place and wanted to live here for a while. They felt uneasy. Zhang told him to look for a vegetable market, and he led Xiaolan and Xiaowen out of the house.

Zhang and Xiaoting were sorting out the miscellaneous things at home. They had only done a rough tidying up yesterday, just enough to make the house habitable, so they had to continue tidying up today.

Xiao Lan has been thinking about ways to make money since last night. After giving the money for buying the house to Manager Zhao, her family will probably be stretched to the limit again. Living in the capital city, you have to spend money everywhere. Now the family can only spend money without any income. It is not sure whether the soap business can be done or not, because of the chaos, everyone's life is not easy, and it is not known whether there is a market for such a precious thing. Now that she heard that Xin wanted to grow bean sprouts, she began to think about the feasibility of selling bean sprouts.

But thinking about the sky-high price of food now, she hesitated again. Selling bean sprouts would inevitably cost her some beans. In such an unstable world, storing food is the most important thing, not selling it for money. The price of food changes every day. It is estimated that if she sells bean sprouts today, she will not even be able to get back the cost of beans tomorrow.

Sheng Xuan took Xiaolan and Xiaowen around the city for several days to familiarize them with the environment. Zhang, Fu, and Liu also bought some daily necessities, such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, etc. The oil was naturally lard, which was needed to make animal oil when they returned. Now that they lived in the city, they even had to buy firewood. They spent thirty taels of silver just to buy these things, which made her heartbroken. The rice was millet, which was used to replenish Xiaolan's body. Since the fight with the Hu people, Xiaolan's injuries had not healed completely, which made Zhang heartbroken. At first, she thought it was just a minor injury. When Xiaolan changed her clothes, Xiaoting saw blood on her inner clothes. Zhang only then realized how much pain Xiaolan had endured in the past two days.

But the world is so chaotic nowadays, and it is not easy for anyone to survive. As long as you can still breathe, you have to get up and live desperately. Xiaolan has never been a hypocritical person. After a simple bandage, she followed Shengxuan out. Zhang didn't want her child to go out in her heart, but although it seemed that she and Shengxuan were the ones in charge of the family, in fact, it was Xiaolan who really supported the family. She and the child's father were both honest farmers. If Shengxuan went out alone, she was worried that he would encounter some danger. At the moment she hesitated, the father and daughter went out.

Before dinner time, Sheng Xuan and Xiao Lan came back and told everyone that they had found a forest. The family was overjoyed. Zhang asked quickly, "Is it wild?"

Sheng Xuan smiled and nodded, "Yes, I asked others, that forest is a wild forest, densely covered with saplings as thick as wrists, just right for burning as firewood."

Xin, Fu and Liu were also delighted when they heard this. If you don't manage a household, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are. They just bought some firewood a few days ago and spent three taels of silver. Their family was hiding in the capital, and every day when they opened their eyes, they saw money flowing out. It would be a lie to say that they were not nervous.

Now that they heard that Sheng Xuan had found such a place with free wood to cut, everyone was very happy. Cutting some wood can supplement the family expenses and keep oneself busy. Living in the capital city, firewood needs to be purchased with money. In order to save firewood these days, my mother and I are reluctant to use more for cooking at home. After all, we just moved from the countryside to the city, and we are extremely uncomfortable with having to spend money to buy everything. In addition, there is no income at home, and we spend our own savings every day, which makes the family even more reluctant.

After lunch, Sheng Xuan, Zhang Shanfeng, Zhang Qingfeng and Zhang Qingnian loaded their family's four ox carts and took Xiaolan, Xiaoyan, Xiaowen, Xiaohu, Xiaocheng and Xiaoqiang to the wild woods.

Several adults carried bows and arrows. The world is unstable now, and they are driving a ox cart. They are afraid of being robbed. Carrying bows and arrows can not only defend themselves but also protect the safety of the children.

After exiting the west city gate and heading west, the ox cart stopped at the edge of a mixed wood. The wood was a beach. After taking a look at it, Zhang Shanfeng felt that the place was so desolate that it did not seem to be owned by anyone.

It was a time of war, and it was said that the job in the government office was not easy. Shen Liu was watching over him every day to appease the refugees, and he could not get any benefits. But the prefect had to listen to Shen Liu's words. Xiao Lan felt that he might not be without resentment in his heart. If their family was the first to be shot because of a little firewood, they would probably lose money.

They worked hard for the whole afternoon, and in the evening, they chopped four carts of firewood and stacked them neatly to rush to the city. To be on the safe side, they walked separately. When they passed through the city gate, the soldiers guarding the gate thought they were selling firewood, so they collected the entrance fee as usual and let them in. Xiao Lan was relieved at this time.

After returning home and unloading the firewood, the family was very happy because the place Shengxuan found could really solve the family's firewood problem for a period of time. They decided to continue chopping wood tomorrow. The capital city is different from the village. The family is idle at home every day and does not have to do any work. They are not used to this kind of life.

The situation has become increasingly tense in the past few days, and Xiaolan's family has begun to become uneasy.

This is what happened. First, a beggar knocked on the door of Xiaolan's house. Zhang Shanfeng lived in the front yard. He knocked through the crack of the door, but when he saw it was not someone he knew, he ignored it. But that day, beggars kept knocking on the door, so he realized something was wrong.

Later, Zhang Shanfeng told the whole family about this matter. Xin said worriedly, "Did many people see the food we brought in during the day we stayed in the refugee camp? Did they have bad intentions?"

Xiao Lan felt that Xin's analysis made sense. Although the city had begun to provide relief to the victims, food was limited after all, and not every refugee could eat their fill. There were all kinds of refugees, and some of them probably heard that their family had been taken away and that they had food, so they probably had bad intentions.