A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

Zhang Yunyue bowed and said, "Okay, I will treat Mr. Xiao well next time I come. Mr. Xiao, Manager Cao, please drive slowly and be careful."

Grandpa Zhang and Zhang Cheng clasped their fists in return and said, "Welcome Mr. Xiao to visit my humble abode again next time. Take care on your way, both of you. Goodbye."

After saying goodbye, Xiao Qi was the first to get on the carriage, and Cao Shiyang followed closely behind and got on a horse at the back. Xiao Qi's guards sat in the front of the carriage and drove the carriage towards the town, and the rest of the carriages followed closely behind and headed towards the town.

After seeing off the people from Tianxianglou, Grandpa Zhang saw that it was only noon and there was still half an hour before the workshop started, so he suggested going home to rest first before coming back to the workshop.

Grandpa Zhang and Zhang Cheng rested at home for three quarters of an hour, and then went back to the workshop to work.

Zhang Yunyue slept at home until 3 p.m. Grandma Zhang was drying peppers in the yard, while Zhu was sewing clothes for Zhang Yunxue. Zhang Xingyun, Zhang Xinghao, and Zhang Yunxue were not at home. They must have gone out to play.

Zhang Yunyue walked to Grandma Zhang and put her head close to her: "Grandma~, Grandma~, Grandma~."

Grandma Zhang laughed and said, "Oh, our Yueyue is still in a bad mood after waking up, and is acting like a spoiled brat with Grandma here!"

Zhu watched from the side and started laughing too.

"Oh, grandma, when I came back from the workshop today, I saw some families have already started harvesting rice. When will my family start harvesting?"

"I thought you were going to stay in the workshop for a long time. I didn't know you were going to harvest the rice! Your grandfather and your second uncle have discussed it. The family will go to harvest the rice tomorrow. We only have five acres of land, so we can finish harvesting it in one day."

"It's already mid-July, and there's still a month until the Mid-Autumn Festival."

"Yes, my family has been busy every day recently, and it feels like time has passed too quickly."

Zhang Yunyue suddenly remembered that she had received the monthly dividend from Tianxianglou mung bean jelly today. She had not been to the town during this period. She went to Jinxiulou in the town at the beginning of the month to hand in the patterns and sold some embroidered handkerchiefs of Zhang Xiaohua and others. She did not go to the town again.

Now that Tianxianglou has received the share of the entire Yuanqi Kingdom, Jinxiulou should have received almost the same. After the rice is harvested at home in the next two days, I will go to the town to deliver some of this year's new rice to my father and the others, and by the way, stop by Jinxiulou to check out the share of last month.

night.

Grandpa Zhang was sharpening the sickle for tomorrow's rice harvest. Zhang Cheng, Zhu, and Zhang Yunyue and their siblings were making mung bean jelly in the thatched shed.

By the time the mung bean jelly was ready, Grandpa Zhang's sickle had already been sharpened.

The mung bean jelly will be finished tonight. The workshop has now formed an assembly line. Moreover, over the past month, all the people working in the workshop have strictly abided by the terms of the original contract, and no one has leaked the secrets of the workshop.

Now we have to keep someone at home to make mung bean jelly every day. In the morning, three people must be at home to grind soy milk. Especially when the workshop is busy, we have to take out our break time to grind soy milk at home.

Zhang Yunyue thought about making the mung bean jelly in the workshop as well, and not making the chili oil at Youshi. After that, they would clean up, because there were many people coming later, so only some people would clean up while others would continue to work.

Moreover, there are 10 large kitchen stoves, which can cook 100 kilograms of mung beans at a time. Even if more than kilograms of mung beans are needed on market days, it only takes about fifteen minutes to prepare them all.

After thinking it over, Sister Zhang Yunyue decided to discuss it with everyone:

"Grandpa, grandma, second uncle, second aunt, I just thought about it, why don't we make the mung bean jelly in the workshop? Making it at home takes up a lot of time and effort.

It takes half a day to grind soy milk every time. If it is a market day, most of the day before will be wasted on grinding soy milk. Then two stone mills will be installed in the workshop and two donkeys will be bought to help grind the mill.

At most, we can add two more people to add mung beans to the stone mill, and then transfer two more people from the noodle pounding room.

After grinding the soy milk, you can go back to the noodle pounding room to continue pounding chili noodles.

Then, if you want to make mung bean jelly, you can start making it half an hour before work ends in the afternoon. With 10 stoves, it will be done in minutes at most. You can also ask your great grandfather and second grandfather to take it back and start from their homes the next day.

Our family can still have some free time, otherwise we have to make mung bean jelly for two hours every night and get up early in the morning.

No one in the family gets enough rest, so this way my uncle and aunt can save some labor."

Everyone thought that this was the case. There were now 60 people in the workshop, but the family was still busy until very late every day. For more than a month, the family had not had a good rest.

Grandpa Zhang: "I think Yueyue's idea is great, what do you think?"

Zhang Cheng has the most say, after all, he is the one who is responsible for grinding soy milk at home: "I agree with Yueyue. After all, at least three people have to watch over the stone mill every morning and can't do other work."

"Then Grandpa, move the mung beans from home to the workshop tomorrow, and then buy two stone mills from Old Sun at the village head. Don't move the stone mill at home now. It will be convenient for us to cook some food at home sometimes.

Let's just have someone come to pull the mill these two days, and when the rice is harvested, we can go to the town to buy some. Then tomorrow afternoon I'll go to the workshop and teach them how to make mung bean jelly.

Then talk to my great grandfather and the others and come to buy mung bean jelly when we get off work in the evening."

Zhang Cheng: "Okay, I'll soak the mung beans today, and transport them to the workshop tomorrow using a wheelbarrow. Once Old Sun installs the stone mill, we can grind them directly. This way, we won't delay the rice harvest tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

Grandpa Zhang: "Okay, I'll go to Old Sun's house early tomorrow morning."

After discussing the matter of mung bean jelly, Grandpa Zhang and Grandma Zhang looked at each other and Grandpa Zhang asked everyone to go to the main room. When Zhang Xingyun heard Grandpa say this, he went to light the oil lamp and placed it in the main room. Grandma Zhang took out the money the family had earned during this period from the house.

Grandpa Zhang: "I told your grandma before that I would give you monthly allowance. I was busy making pickled peppers some time ago, and now I am busy with the new orders from Tianxianglou.

Today, Tianxianglou has brought the dividends from the mung bean jelly, so we decided to talk to you about the monthly salary and dividends today."

Grandpa Zhang paused for a moment, then continued, "As for the share of Tianxianglou mung bean jelly, your grandma and I have decided that our family doesn't want it. Our family didn't help with this, so all the shares should belong to Yueyue. What do you think?"

Zhang Cheng: "Father, mother, I agree with you two. After all, it was Yueyue who first came up with the idea of mung bean jelly. Without Yueyue, there would be no business or workshop at home. I would be meaningless."