A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

Grandpa Zhang and Grandma Zhang looked at Zhu again, and Zhu said calmly:

"Father, mother, I have the same idea as the head of the family. Without Yueyue, we wouldn't have the life we have now. And if it weren't for Yueyue, my mother's family would be even worse off.

Over the past month, my father and his family have saved a lot of money by running a business in the workshop. My family is very grateful to our family, and I am grateful too, especially Yueyue, so I have no complaints and I agree with what you two elders say. "

Zhang Cheng was actually a little scared when he looked at his wife Zhu, but he felt comforted in his heart when his wife said this. There was nothing wrong with helping and supporting relatives, but he was afraid of the kind of people who helped for a long time but still couldn't help them up, and then complained behind their backs that they didn't give us the money.

Zhang Cheng reached out and took Zhu's hand and held it in his own. Zhu immediately felt satisfied but a little shy, but she also held Zhang Cheng's hand tightly in her back.

Zhang Xingyun and the others had no objections and had no intention of interrupting at all.

Zhang Yunyue waved her hands hurriedly: "Grandpa, there is no need to be like this. We are all family, there is no distinction between you and me."

Grandpa Zhang: "Yueyue, you are the only one who can keep this share, because it should have been yours. Your family has a workshop and a food store in town, which is enough."

When Grandpa Zhang finished speaking, Grandma Zhang gave Zhang Yunyue the silver note for 5175 taels of Tianxianglou mung bean jelly and loose silver, and also gave Zhang Yunyue a box with a key.

"Yueyue, you can keep it yourself from now on. Grandpa and grandma believe that you can use the money and save money." Grandma Zhang joked.

Seeing that she couldn't refuse, Zhang Yunyue took the box and the banknotes, but she also knew in her heart that this money would be used for future needs of her family.

Grandpa Zhang: "Okay, now that we've talked about the division of the mung bean jelly, let's start talking about the profits from the workshop and the food store in town. I've discussed with your grandma and decided to divide this money into five parts.

Your grandma and I will get one share, Gongzhong will get one share, the eldest brother and his wife will get one share, the second brother and you two will get one share, Yueyue will get one share, and as for Xiaoyun and you, I will give you a monthly allowance from my grandma's and my share. We two can't use that much, so we will use ours to pay you a monthly allowance."

Grandma Zhang: "Let's talk about last month's income first. Last month, I had 721 taels left. This tael is counted as part of the public treasury, which is 720 taels. Each share is 144 taels, so the public treasury is 145 taels. Come, big brother, Yueyue, this is yours."

Grandma Zhang gave the silver that had been divided in advance to Zhang Cheng and Zhang Yunyue respectively.

He added, "I'll give the boss's money when they come back. Xiaoyun and Xiaohao also did a lot of work, 20 taels each. Xiaoxue also did a lot for me, 4 taels for Xiaoxue. Here, take it.

Xiaofeng's is not available for the time being. His tuition and writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstone will be paid for by the government in the future. I think everyone has no objection to this."

Everyone shook their heads. After all, if Zhang Xingfeng made some achievements in his studies in the future, it would be a glory for the whole family, so there was no objection to letting him be selected from the family.

After being busy for so long. Although we know that the family has saved a lot of money, we have not actually looked at how much money is earned every day. Every time Tianxianglou comes to pick up goods, the money is immediately given to Grandma Zhang, so everyone is still vague about making money.

Today, Grandpa Zhang and Grandma Zhang divided their money for the first time. Everyone was excited when the money was divided. After all, the Zhang family had never divided up the family, and all the money should be managed and kept by Grandma Zhang alone.

But now everyone can do work at home and have their own family income, just as the old saying goes: If you have money in your hands, you will not be worried.

Zhang Xinghao handed the silver in his hand to Zhu: "Mother, here is the money for you, use it as you wish."

Zhang Yunxue saw his second brother Zhang Xinghao handing money to A Niang, so he also walked over to Zhu and handed the money over: "A Niang, this is mine, I will spend it for you too."

Zhu shook her head, put the money back into their hands, and said to the brother and sister with a smile:

"No, you can keep the money that grandma gave you and buy whatever you want, but you can't use it for gambling or doing bad things."

Grandpa Zhang saw that everything that needed to be said tonight had been said. Thinking about having to deliver mung beans to the workshop tomorrow morning and going to the old village head's house to order two stone mills, and after doing all these, he would start harvesting rice, he asked everyone to disperse and go to bed early.

Early the next morning.

Zhang Cheng sent the mung beans that he had soaked last night to the workshop, and also sent the large basin used to precipitate starch at home to the workshop. Grandma Zhang was in charge of guarding the workshop today. When the stone mill arrives, Grandma Zhang will be there to guide how to operate it.

Grandpa Zhang went to Old Sun's house at the village head and bought two stone mills of the same size as the ones he had at home. He asked Old Sun to deliver them to the workshop as soon as possible, gave him the money, and left.

Zhang Yunyue is already fully armed at home and will go to the fields to harvest rice today. Zhang Yunxue will be responsible for staying at home and waiting for the rice to be harvested, and will also be responsible for turning the rice when drying it.

After Grandpa Zhang and Zhang Cheng came back, everyone took sickles, threshing buckets, and drinking water, and went to old Zhang's fields.

When they arrived at the field, Grandpa Zhang and Zhang Cheng were the first to clear a piece of space in the field to place the threshing bucket, and then they began to harvest the rice.

Fortunately, among the group of 6 people, only Zhang Yunyue and Zhang Xinghao were a little slower, while the others were cutting rice very quickly, so Zhang Yunyue put down his sickle and was responsible for moving the cut rice to the threshing barrel, while Zhang Cheng and Zhang Xinghao were responsible for threshing.

At the end of the Si hour, Zhang Yunyue put down the work in her hands, said goodbye to everyone, and went home to prepare lunch.

Thinking that he had done a whole morning of physical work and would have to continue working in the afternoon, Zhang Yunyue went to the workshop first and took out a piece of pork belly and some pork ribs, preparing to stew some loofah and pork ribs soup.

After taking the meat and ribs home, Zhang Yunyue first poured the flour that had been fermented before leaving in the morning onto the chopping board, released the air, and then kneaded it into buns and steamed them.

On the other side, light a fire in the straw shed, blanch the ribs and simmer them over low heat. Just check on them from time to time. As for the loofah, add it in and cook for half a minute before serving.

This time, Zhang Yunyue decided to pick some garlic sprouts in the backyard to make twice-cooked pork.

The pickled peppers at home are now edible. When making them before, Zhang Yunyue specially packed several ten-jin ceramic jars of pickled peppers and placed them under the eaves outside the house.

After a month, it has almost fermented.

Stir-fried pork belly with pickled peppers and garlic sprouts is a favorite dish of people in Yunnan and Guizhou today.

I also fried an egg with pickled peppers.

Thinking that the dishes were a bit insufficient, I mixed a smashed cucumber and stir-fried some cabbage.

The portion of each dish was quite large, and Zhang Yunyue saw that the dishes were almost done.

He went to the thatched shed in the backyard to take a look at the stewed ribs, took out a piece to try, and found that it was already boneless. He then put the chopped loofah in it, added a small piece of firewood to the stove, and cooked it for another half a quarter of an hour.

Back in the front yard, Zhang Cheng came back pushing the rice on a wheelbarrow. Zhang Yunyue then went to the utility room to take out the bamboo mat that Grandpa Zhang and his friends had woven before and spread it out to use to dry the rice.