I traveled through time and space to hunt and support my family in ancient times

That night, Jiang Yue lit the lamp and bent over the table to write and draw until midnight.

There must be a reason for the sudden closure of the mountain. It must be related to the person she saved, or to the man in black.

The bandits the county magistrate described are very likely to be true.

But no matter what the situation, she didn't want to be implicated and had to be prepared.

She also had to make a living in the future. If there were bandits in the mountains, she would not go in even if the mountains were not closed. She had to find a new way to make money.

Jiang Yue stood behind the house and saw the guards patrolling the edge of the forest. Yesterday's plan to collect stones was ruined. The courtyard wall could not be built.

"Dad, let's get two dogs to guard the house first."

Jiang Youshan followed his daughter's gaze and saw several officers carrying knives in a serious manner. He felt uneasy at the sight of them. "Okay, Dad will listen to you."

Jiang Youshan and Jiang Yue entered the county town together.

Cai already had forty or fifty pairs of straw sandals woven, and she gave them to Jiang Youshan to take to the county town to sell.

The father and daughter took Old Wang's ox cart into the county town. Jiang Yue first took Jiang Youshan to West Street, where there were many small vendors and people who came to shop were all ordinary people. After helping Jiang Youshan set up the shoe stall, Jiang Yue went to Qin's hotel to sell the wild deer. After asking around on the way, they found out that the county magistrate had personally gone to Niutou Mountain to catch bandits.

Muchuan County is mountainous. Jiang Yue knew Niutou Mountain, which was not far from her current village. The deep mountain where she hunted was called Jizui Mountain, which was almost adjacent to Niutou Mountain, but the canyon between the two mountains was steep and there was no road.

However, what is incredible is that the location of Niutou Mountain is extremely special. It is located at the intersection of three counties and is not under the jurisdiction of Muchuan County. In ancient times, there was no internal circulation. How could they go to catch bandits and make the whole county know about it? There must be something strange!

Jiang Yue didn't investigate further and turned to go to the rouge shop.

Cosmetics in ancient times were not cheap. Jiang Yue picked out several types of powder and eyebrow pencils, and reluctantly spent another five taels of silver to buy a small bronze mirror.

She didn't even want to buy it when she moved into a new house, okay?

After turning into an empty alley, Jiang Yue began to put on makeup in front of the bronze mirror.

After a while, the originally pretty face of Jiang Yue in the bronze mirror turned into a person with small eyes, a flat nose and freckles. She removed her original hairstyle and gave herself two horns. With this dress, coupled with a set of men's clothes, she looked like a boy in his teens. Jiang Yue looked in the mirror with satisfaction and went to the blacksmith shop in the county town.

The first blacksmith shop was one she had been to before, and it clearly stated that it did not sell weapons.

Jiang Yue took out a blueprint, which was an iron bar about one foot long and one finger wide, "Excuse me, can you make an iron ruler like this?"

The blacksmith studied the blueprint for a moment and nodded, "Okay."

Considering that ancient iron was not pure enough, Jiang Yue specifically instructed that it must be hammered a hundred times to make steel.

The blacksmith readily agreed without asking her what kind of mold she wanted. Jiang Yue was quite satisfied with this, paid the deposit, and went to the second shop.

The blacksmith had a sharp face and looked calculating. Jiang Yue handed him another blueprint. The blacksmith stared at it again and again, but he couldn't figure out what it was used for, so he asked, "What is the mold for, young master?"

Jiang Yue's eyes narrowed. This blacksmith really had no professional ethics. He snatched the blueprint and left.

Privately manufacturing weapons is a serious crime. If the bandits hadn't appeared, she would never have secretly made a crossbow. That's why she deliberately separated the drawings and asked people to make them one by one.

Jiang Yue was cautious. In order to confuse the audience, she added a few small square boxes to the mold she made, as well as tools such as crochet needles and awls made for Cai. Although she did not know how to weave, she was familiar with the common tools such as crochet needles and awls of later generations.

She worked until the afternoon and finally distributed all the drawings in her hands to various blacksmith shops. Then she changed her clothes and went to West Street to find Jiang Youshan.

Jiang Youshan had been waiting for her for a long time. He only sold a pair of straw sandals for three cents, and the more than 40 pairs of straw sandals he brought were almost all snatched up. Many people who didn't get one even asked him when he would come next time.

Jiang Yue listened to his father's report and sighed in his heart. He was a rare honest man who would never raise the price. He used to sell it for 3 cents in the village, but now it still sells for cents in the county town. Of course he would be popular.

Let your dad raise the price?

"Dad, how about selling the sandals for 5 cents in the future? We paid the city tax when we entered the city."

"Yue'er, three cents is already a lot, why are you raising the price?"

Jiang Yue blinked, "Forget it, forget it, I won't raise the price."

This way the items will sell out quickly and she won’t have to wait.

Jiang Yue shook the strips of meat in her hand, which she bought when she passed by the butcher shop just now.

"Dad, go back and make lard."

"okay."

Her parents raising pigs and making straw sandals could not give her the standard of living she wanted. She could not go into the mountains to hunt, so she was forced to start her own business.

Her strength is physical training, so it would seem that she is suitable to be a coach in a martial arts school. But when she thinks about her own identity, she is just a 12-year-old peasant girl.

Forget it, forget it. If something goes wrong with this kind of public thing, no one will save her.

When she went to the rouge shop, she had already thought about what to do.

Perhaps due to insufficient productivity, the people in this world, ordinary people, do not value cleanliness. They prefer their hair to be as oily as possible and rarely wash it. They wash their hands and faces often, but usually only with water, and only occasionally with soapberry. They also bought bath beans once.

Soapberry, a natural cleanser, is not very effective in removing stains.

Bath beans are actually powdered beans with spices added, and it is said that pig pancreas is also added. They are very expensive, and a small jar costs one or two taels of silver. It is a small bottle, and no one in the family is willing to use it. She used it up after only a few times.

Let’s start our business with cleaning products. Take this piece of fat meat home and refine it into lard and try making soap.

The two of them first went to the livestock market and bought two puppies. They had a large space at home, so they kept two dogs to guard the house.

The two puppies, one spotted and one black, cost 30 cents in total. The father and daughter didn't bargain much, and took the puppies to find Old Man Wang to take a ride.

The gentle autumn breeze blew the golden wild grass on the roadside, and a ox cart that had just left the city ran into a group of soldiers.

"The county magistrate has caught the bandits. Everyone, please make way and don't block the road."

Passersby exclaimed. Old Man Wang quickly reined in the cow and stopped it far away on the roadside.

Jiang Yue squinted her eyes and looked at it, a look of surprise appeared in her dark eyes.

This group of officers and soldiers rode on horses, and in the sunlight, they were clearly seen wearing elegant blue brocade clothes, wearing black gauze on their heads, with black belts, and each holding a saber. The leader was dressed in crescent white, and he was the man Shan Lin had saved that day.

In order to avoid any complications, Jiang Yue lowered her head and covered her face, only looking at the group of people out of the corner of her eye.

This group of people were different from the village police. Their faces were full of indifference and sharpness, and wherever they went, there was silence.

In the middle of this group of people was a horse-drawn carriage and a prison van.

The carriage windows were tightly shut so that one could not see inside. There was only one prisoner in the prison van. The man had loose hair and his face could not be seen clearly, but what was clear was that his body was covered in blood.

After waiting for the group of people to pass, Old Man Wang drove the ox cart back, and the villagers on the cart began to talk about it.

"Tsk tsk, did our county magistrate really catch the bandits?"

"How could it be true? Our county magistrate is really not a bad guy!"

Jiang Youshan was a little petrified while holding the two puppies: Now that the bandits have been caught, can we go into the mountains when we go back?

Sure enough, someone thought of it and asked, "Youshan, does the stone collection we talked about yesterday still count?"

The topic suddenly turned to Jiang Youshan.

Several villagers in the car looked at him together. Jiang Youshan glanced at his daughter, and Jiang Yue looked back at him. What do you think?

Jiang Youshan was stunned, then nodded heavily and said, "Okay, as long as the mountain is unblocked, I'll pay the same price as we agreed on yesterday, three cents for a cart of stones."